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May 27 2020
Opinion
Banning Trump from Twitter would be a disservice to the public
Twitter is not a public utility, despite the push in recent years to have certain tech companies declared part of the public commons.
While the social media giant remains a private entity that makes its own rules, some of the content it hosts falls squarely in the public interest. This would include elected officials' Twitter accounts.
The power and influence wielded by elected
Business InsiderNov 30 2012
News
Fiscal Cliff Talks: Behind Obama's Opening Bid
Republicans in Congress reacted angrily to an Obama administration proposal delivered Thursday by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner that offered to avert the fiscal cliff by raising $1.6 trillion in new taxes, in exchange for some $400 billion in cuts to entitlement programs to be negotiated next year.
HuffPostOct 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 PressApr 05 2013
News
Obama proposing Social Security change in exchange for taxes, drawing liberal ire
President Obama will propose modest cuts to Social Security and other benefit programs in his 2014 budget -- a gesture that is meant to soften Republicans to the idea of tax hikes but has already drawn the ire of liberal Democrats who want the entitlement shielded from cuts.
Fox News (Online News)Mar 17 2013
News
Sen. Bob Corker: Grand bargain fiscal deal possible
Sen. Bob Corker Tennessee Republican said Sunday that his GOP colleagues would support a grand bargain a long-term deal addressing the countrys fiscal problems that includes additional tax revenue if President Obama and the Democrats will back substantive reform in entitlement programs.
Washington TimesMar 12 2013
News
House Republican plan aims to balance budget in 10 years, without tax hikes
House Republicans unveiled an ambitious cost-cutting plan Tuesday that would balance the budget in 10 years without raising taxes, while repealing ObamaCare and overhauling entitlements -- a document Democrats are sure to reject but could be used as a negotiating tool in talks with President Obama.
Fox News (Online News)Sep 28 2012
Candidate Stances
Social Security
Democrats view preservation of entitlements – including Social Security and Medicare -- as a key issue with their base. Republicans, conservatives and the tea party movement see these programs – large chunks of the federal budget -- as potential places to make cuts.
CNN (Online News)Sep 28 2012
Candidate Stances
Medicare
Democrats view preservation of entitlements – including Social Security and Medicare -- as a key issue with their base. Republicans, conservatives and the tea party movement see these programs – large chunks of the federal budget -- as potential places to make cuts.
CNN (Online News)Nov 18 2016
Opinion
OPINION: Higher education is awash with hysteria. That might have helped elect Trump.
Many undergraduates, their fawn-like eyes wide with astonishment, are wondering: Why didn’t the dean of students prevent the election from disrupting the serenity to which my school has taught me that I am entitled? Campuses create “safe spaces” where students can shelter from discombobulating thoughts and receive spiritual balm for the trauma of microaggressions. Yet the presidential election
George WillDec 05 2019
News
'Bible-Believing' TX Justice of the Peace in Trouble for Declining to Perform Same-Sex Marriages
McLennan County Justice of the Peace Dianne Hensley, a devout Christian, has received a public warning by Texas' State Commission on Judicial Conduct for refusing to perform same-sex marriages.
The Waco Tribune-Herald reports Hensley, who has been in office for the last five years, has said that, as a "Bible-believing" Christian, her conscience prohibited her from doing same-sex
CBN