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Jan 22 2013
News
GOP To Raise the Debt Ceiling Wednesday
Despite talking for months about using the debt ceiling as leverage to get Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to pass a budget, spending cuts and entitlement reform, House Republicans are expected to vote on a temporary debt ceiling increase on Wednesday.
TownhallOct 07 2015
Background
What Does Free Speech Mean?
Among other cherished values, the First Amendment protects freedom of speech. The U.S. Supreme Court often has struggled to determine what exactly constitutes protected speech. The following are examples of speech, both direct (words) and symbolic (actions), that the Court has decided are either entitled to First Amendment protections, or not.
United States CourtsNov 23 2020
Opinion
Will Trump’s Accusers Finally Get Their Day in Court?
One chilly afternoon in November 2019, a process server stepped through the gold-rimmed doors of Trump Tower on New York’s Fifth Avenue to deliver a copy of an explosive lawsuit and a court summons to President Donald Trump.
In those papers, E. Jean Carroll declared that Trump had raped her in a department store dressing room in late 1995 or early 1996. Carroll, a veteran advice
Mother JonesDec 02 2012
News
Republicans urged to call Democrats’ bluff
Grover Norquist says Republicans will emerge victorious from the “fiscal cliff fight if they put television cameras in the negotiating room and smoke out Democrats over their reluctance to cut entitlement programs  the biggest drivers of federal spending and the national debt.
Washington TimesMar 25 2019
Opinion
There IS a Left-Leaning Media Bias—So Where Do We Go From There?
At Politicon last year, I attended a panel nebulously entitled “Fake News vs. The World.” In a contentious moment, a panelist going by the name “The Roaming Millennial” (né Lauren Chen) badgered reporter Annie Linskey about an article Ms. Linskey had just published entitled “Elizabeth Warren Releases Results of DNA Test.” The brouhaha was over a math error in the first version of the article
Braver AngelsJun 17 2020
News
John Bolton: Trump sought Xi's help with re-election
US President Donald Trump tried to get China's Xi Jinping to help him secure re-election, ex-National Security Adviser John Bolton's new book says.
In details of the forthcoming book in US media, Mr Bolton says Mr Trump wanted China to buy agricultural produce from US farmers.
Correspondents say the episode is reminiscent of actions that led to Mr Trump's impeachment.
The
BBC NewsDec 31 2012
News
GOP backs off Social Security income change
Republicans on Sunday conceded on their demand that any “fiscal cliff deal trim Social Security cost-of-living increases, signaling the end  for now  of their push to reform entitlements in exchange for higher tax rates. Proponents said they might try to revisit the issue next year, but senators from both parties said they were playing a losing hand when they appeared to be
Washington TimesSep 10 2015
News
Huma Abedin, top Clinton aide, formally investigated by feds for embezzlement
Federal investigators formally investigated top Hillary Rodham Clinton aide Huma Abedin for the crime of embezzlement after confirming she took a Babymoon vacation and maternity time at the State Department without expending her formal leave, resulting in thousands of dollars of pay she wasn't entitled to receive, The Washington Times has learned.
Washington TimesOct 07 2021
News
Judge orders Texas to suspend new law banning most abortions
A federal judge ordered Texas to suspend the most restrictive abortion law in the U.S., calling it an “offensive deprivation” of a constitutional right by banning most abortions in the nation’s second-most populous state since September.
The order Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman is the first legal blow to the Texas law known as Senate Bill 8, which until now had withstood
Associated PressDec 29 2015
News
Point-counterpoint: Is political polarization really such a bad thing?
Americans love to complain about their polarized politics. And why not? It’s the root of congressional stalemates that keep us from dealing with all the important issues of our time, from illegal immigration to bankrupt entitlement programs and government debt — not to mention the waves of hot air that blow over us from cable news talk programs.
The Dallas Morning News