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Aug 20 2012
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Fact Check: Obama running against outdated version of Ryan Medicare plan
The Obama campaign would like voters to believe that Paul Ryan's Medicare plan would "end Medicare as we know it" -- privatizing the whole system and costing seniors more than $6,000 extra a year. But the campaign, even before Ryan was selected as Mitt Romney's running mate, has effectively been running against the wrong Ryan plan. The president's accusations largely refer to Ryan's 2011 plan
Fox News DigitalJul 01 2021
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Supreme Court Says Arizona Voting Laws are Legal
The Supreme Court said Thursday that Arizona laws banning ballot harvesting and out-of-precinct voting are legal and do not violate the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA). The vote was 6-3 along ideological lines; Justice Samuel Alito wrote the majority opinion, saying the requirements "don't exceed the 'usual burdens of voting.'" Justice Elena Kagan wrote the dissent, saying the Voting Rights
The Epoch Times Wall Street Journal (News) CNN DigitalJun 28 2021
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Supreme Court Declines to Hear Transgender Bathroom Case
On Monday, the Supreme Court declined to hear a case regarding a Virginia school board's policy on transgender students' bathroom use. In 2015, transgender student Gavin Grimm sued the Gloucester County school board after it banned Grimm from using the boys' restroom. The board attempted to appeal last year's ruling by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals; the ruling said transgender students
Associated Press Washington Post National Review (News)Jan 02 2024
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Xi Says China Reunification Inevitable Ahead of Taiwan Elections
Chinese President Xi Jinping said Taiwan “will surely be reunified” with mainland China in a New Year’s speech, once again raising concerns of potential conflict over the democratic island.
Key Quote: “China will surely be reunified, and all Chinese on both sides of the Taiwan Strait should be bound by a common sense of purpose and share in the glory of the rejuvenation of the Chinese
Axios Fox News Digital ReutersMar 05 2013
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Tax Revenues Projected to Hit All-Time High in 2013
The Congressional Budget Office anticipates that federal tax receipts will hit an all-time high of $2.7 trillion this fiscal year, yet the annual deficit will still clock in between $800 and $900 billion. We have a spending problem:
An impasse over the shape of the federal budget keeps boiling down to this basic plotline: Democrats say the solution to high deficits must include more
TownhallSep 17 2020
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Bill Barr's Comments at Hillsdale College Draw Differences in Coverage
On Wednesday, Attorney General Bill Barr addressed a largely conservative audience at Hillsdale College to celebrate Constitution Day.
His remarks drew differences in coverage. Some left- and center-rated media outlets focused on his comments criticizing the "permanent bureaucracy" at DOJ and decrying of calls for a nationwide lockdown to fight the COVID-19 coronavirus. Some reports
NPR (Online News) CNN Digital Fox News DigitalJun 21 2023
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US-Funded Scientist Fell Ill in Wuhan Shortly Before COVID Outbreak
A Chinese scientist partially funded by United States grants was one of three scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China to fall ill with COVID-19-like symptoms in November 2019, prior to the outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan that sparked the COVID-19 global pandemic.
Details: A report co-authored by Matt Taibbi (Center bias) identified Ben Hu as one of the researchers who fell
Fox News Digital Wall Street Journal (News) The InterceptJan 19 2024
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Thousands Protest Abortion at March For Life Rally in DC
Thousands attended the 51st National March for Life in Washington, D.C., on Friday in protest of legalized abortion.
Details: The annual march marks the anniversary of the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that enshrined abortion access as a constitutional right. This court decision was overturned in the summer of 2022. The organization’s website states the annual march continues
Associated Press The Hill Washington TimesMay 03 2021
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Perspectives: James Carville and the Language of 'Wokeness'
In an interview with Vox's Sean Illing published on April 27, Democratic strategist James Carville said the language of "wokeness" was a bad political strategy for Democrats. "We should talk about racial injustice. What I’m saying is, we need to do it without using jargon-y language that’s unrecognizable to most people — including most Black people, by the way — because it signals that you’re
New York Magazine Bloomberg New York Times (Opinion)Apr 01 2024
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Biden's Transgender Day of Visibility Proclamation Sparks Reflection, Backlash
President Joe Biden proclaimed March 31 as Transgender Day of Visibility. This decision sparked both reflection on the experience of transgender Americans and backlash due to the day coinciding this year with Easter.
Transgender Understanding: A writer in USA Today (Lean Left bias) reflected on his own experiences as a transgender man, voicing fear that “the visibility of transgender
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