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Mar 02 2020
News
Jack Welch, Legendary CEO of General Electric, Dies at Age 84
Jack Welch led General Electric Co. through two decades of unparalleled growth and transformation, with a brash style that single-handedly remade the conglomerate and changed the landscape of America corporations. He died Sunday at age 84.
Mr. Welch’s success, driven by a hard-nosed strategy to slash less profitable businesses and unproductive employees, made him an international
Wall Street Journal (News)Nov 08 2012
News
Back to Work, Obama Is Greeted by Looming Crisis
Newly re-elected, President Obama moved quickly on Wednesday to open negotiations with Congressional Republican leaders over the main unfinished business of his term  a major deficit-reduction deal to avert a looming fiscal crisis  as he began preparing for a second term that will include significant cabinet changes.
New York Times (News)May 28 2021
Perspectives Blog
When Joe Biden Stops Talking
For most of his career in Washington, Joe Biden was known as… voluble. In other words, he talked a lot. A LOT. During his years in the Senate, he was renowned for his long-windedness, and during his time as Vice President frequently veered from the Obama Administration’s prescribed messaging during his verbal meanderings. So by the time he announced his campaign for president in 2019, it was
Dan SchnurDec 27 2014
News
GOP Readies Immigration Measures
Republicans in Congress are preparing a variety of bills that would make substantial changes to the immigration system, suggesting that the embers of interest in addressing immigration law, once thought to be extinguished, remain alive.
GOP leaders in both the House and Senate had said President Barack Obama had “poisoned the well’’ when he acted without congressional approval last
Wall Street Journal (News)Jun 18 2021
Perspectives Blog
When Joe Manchin Starts To Think About Switching Parties
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A Senate that’s split evenly between 50 members of each party can be a recipe for either compromise or chaos. It’s inevitable that a moderate Senator who doesn’t always vote with his colleagues is going to attract an immense amount of anger and criticism from party loyalists. And tensions run especially high in the
Dan SchnurJun 11 2014
News
House Democrat: Let's Pass Amnesty Now While We Can
Timing is everything in politics. And House Democrats know time is running out.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s (R-VA) shocking loss last night has changed the calculus in Washington. For starters, vulnerable congressional Republicans once considering backing some form of immigration reform might want to pump the brakes on that idea – at least for now. Cantor lost a crimson district
TownhallJan 07 2013
News
Study: Immigration dominates federal law enforcement
The federal government spends more on immigration enforcement than on all other national law enforcement combined, according to a new report from the Migration Policy Institute on Monday. The findings come as Congress prepares for a major battle over immigration legislation this year, and the report indicates that the government already has taken many of the steps to build internal enforcement
Washington TimesJan 20 2018
Opinion
Trump Has Divided the Country. Some Americans Are Trying to Bring Us Back Together
Between 2011 and 2016, I ventured across America’s political divide. I live in Berkeley, California, a liberal town in a liberal state, and in those years, I tried to step into the shoes of those living in a deeply conservative town, a center of the petrochemical industry: Lake Charles, in a conservative state, Louisiana. It’s a story I tell in my 2016 book, Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger
Time MagazineJun 07 2015
News
NY Times: Hillary Embraces Obama's Strategy Over Bill's
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is using President Barack Obama's campaign strategy rather than the one that got her husband, Bill Clinton, twice elected to the White House, The New York Times reports.
That's because the electorate has changed, former Clinton strategist James Carville told the Times.
"The highest-premium voter in '92 was a voter who would vote
Newsmax (News)Feb 28 2020
Opinion
Bernie Sanders Can Beat Trump. Here’s the Math.
Most available evidence points in the direction of a popular vote and Electoral College victory.
Whatever you think about Bernie Sanders as a potential president, it is wrong to dismiss his chances of winning the office. Not only does most of the available empirical evidence show Mr. Sanders defeating President Trump in the national popular vote and in the critical Midwestern states
New York Times (Opinion)