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Apr 07 2020
Analysis
Trump Has ‘Small,’ ‘Distant Link’ To Sanofi, French Drugmaker Of Hydroxychloroquine
Topline: President Trump—increasingly a booster of hydroxychloroquine as a potential treatment for coronavirus—has a “small personal financial interest” in Sanofi, a French drugmaker that produces a brand-name version of the drug—though it’s a tiny investment for the billionaire.
Sanofi produces Plaquenil, the brand-name form of hydroxychloroquine, the New York Times reported; the drug
ForbesFeb 14 2022
Perspectives Blog
When A Little Bipartisanship Goes a Short Way
From the CenterWe spend a lot of time talking about the hyper-polarization and knee-jerk partisanship that is poisoning our politics – and for good reason. Both major parties have been struggling for years to keep their most fervent ideological zealots under control, with mixed success at best. Joe Biden has spent his first year in office trying to navigate between the demands of the
Dan SchnurMay 19 2020
News
Missouri Woman Dies, Goes to Heaven, and Comes Back with Mission to 'Bring Home as Many as We Can'
Charlotte Holmes is on a mission to tell everyone she knows about what she experienced the day she died and went to Heaven.
It was an experience that changed her life forever.
Last September, she was admitted to Cox South Hospital in Springfield, Missouri after going in for a routine checkup with her cardiologist.
While in the hospital, Charlotte suffered a stroke and
CBNFeb 07 2022
Perspectives Blog
When “Defund The Police” Goes Away
The “Defund The Police Movement” died last week after a lingering illness. It was less than two years old. In the summer of 2020, the public revulsion to the tragic deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor led to a highly-charged political debate about policing in America. On the far-left fringe of that debate, a number of activists for “defunding” police departments and repurposing that
Dan SchnurNov 28 2021
News
Trump Jr. Blasts Americans As 'Sheep' For Not Protesting COVID Restrictions
Donald Trump Jr. lauded European protests against COVID-19 restrictions — and trashed Americans as “sheep” for not doing the same.
In comments to Fox News host Dan Bongino, Trump Jr. said “Europe is pushing back.”
But America, he continued, "is sitting there like sheep. 'Oh, this is great. We'll just go along with what these guys who've gotten nothing right in the last two years
Newsmax (News)Jan 30 2022
Perspectives Blog
When a Supreme Court Justice Throws Biden a Life Preserver
From the CenterJustice Stephen Breyer’s retirement from the Supreme Court will not change the Court’s ideological balance one iota. Before Breyer’s announcement last week, the Court was split 5-3-1, with Chief Justice John Roberts struggling to hold down his lonely place on the center-right. There were five solidly conservative votes (although Roberts can occasionally bring Amy Coney
Dan SchnurAug 04 2021
Analysis
A timely lesson from a tiny town long ago
Recently, a friend gave me the book “A Stronger Kinship” by historian Anna-Lisa Cox. It tells of Covert, Michigan, a small town 30 miles from my friend’s childhood home.
His nearly all-white high school had played them in sports, yet only now was he learning that more than a century ago, Black and white residents of Covert had “lived as equal citizens,” as the book puts it.
As
Christian Science MonitorJan 24 2022
Perspectives Blog
When Bipartisanship is A Long Way Away
From the CenterAs Joe Biden begins his second year in office, it’s worth remembering his campaign pledge to rebuild a spirit of bipartisanship in our national politics. Fifty-three weeks after he was sworn into office, even the president’s biggest fans would admit that is not even close to happening.
Biden’s recent voting rights speech in Georgia seemed to mark a turning point in his
Dan SchnurSep 15 2020
News
Bipartisan Senate Push To Extend Census Begins Weeks Before Count Is Set To End
A bipartisan group of senators is offering a potential solution to a scheduling conundrum plaguing the 2020 census, with just over two weeks before counting is set to end.
Their bill — introduced Tuesday by Sen. Brian Schatz, a Democrat from Hawaii, and Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, both Republicans from Alaska — would require the Census Bureau to continue tallying the country'
NPR (Online News)Jan 16 2020
News
ICE Is Force-Feeding Hunger Strikers, in Violation of Medical Ethics
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is subjecting asylum seekers to forced feeding and hydration, despite widespread agreement among medical professionals that the practice is unethical and never justified.
Three men at ICE’s LaSalle detention center, a facility in Louisiana run by the for-profit prison company GEO Group, have been on a hunger strike since November 1, according to
Mother Jones