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Feb 13 2013
Opinion
This time, a president in full
It is sometimes said of a great actor that he could hold an audience spellbound while reading a laundry list. This is essentially what President Obama tried to do on Tuesday night. As State of the Union addresses go, his was artless. It lacked inspired phrases or compelling narrative. Save for the energy he gave it at key moments, it was pedestrian.
CNN (Online News)
Sep 28 2015
News
Nancy Pelosi Says Planned Parenthood Videos Should be Investigated: ‘You Can Create Any Reality That You Want’
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said during an interview Sunday that doesn’t believe the undercover videos that purport to show the sale of fetal tissue by Planned Parenthood officials are real, and they should be investigated.
Appearing on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday morning, the Minority Leader said the videos led her to want an investigation. But while social conservatives have
The Blaze
Feb 11 2013
News
Obama to Renew Drive for Cuts in Nuclear Arms
President Obama will use his State of the Union speech on Tuesday to reinvigorate one of his signature national security objectives  drastically reducing nuclear arsenals around the world  after securing agreement in recent months with the United States military that the American nuclear force can be cut in size by roughly a third.
New York Times (News)
Sep 27 2015
News
Will Nancy Pelosi miss John Boehner? Depends.
When asked if she'll miss resigning House Speaker John Boehner, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said it depends.
"It depends on what comes next," Pelosi told CNN's Jake Tapper in an interview set to air in full Sunday on "State of the Union."
Pelosi, who has been the top House Democrat opposite Boehner at the negotiating table since Boehner took the helm of the House GOP
CNN (Online News)
Jan 25 2016
Opinion
Obama regrets polarized rancor. He should.
One of the “few regrets” of his presidency, President Obama said dolefully in his State of the Union speech, was “that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better.” Were he endowed with “the gifts of Lincoln or Roosevelt,” he remarked, he could have done more to bridge the partisan divide. But he pledged to “keep trying to be better so long as I hold this
Jeff Jacoby
Jan 24 2016
News
Bush: Rubio, Cruz are followers, not leaders on Syria
Jeb Bush blasted both Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz as all talk in their approach to Syria on Sunday.
In an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union," Bush hit the two for opposing President Barack Obama's request for authorization to use military force after Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was accused of using chemical weapons against his own people
CNN (Online News)
May 04 2015
News
"America has a simple ideology": how one of Russia's top US experts tries to explain America
The United States comes up constantly when you talk to Russians about their country's place in the world. But the conversations tend to go a lot differently than many Americans might expect.
In the US, the common view is that Russians feel aggrieved by the loss of the Soviet Union and all the respect that came with being a global superpower. Russia's acts of aggression in Europe, in
Vox
Sep 13 2022
Headline Roundup
Possible Railroad Strike Threatens Supply Chains as Friday Deadline Approaches
Unless a deal is reached, about 60,000 freight railroad workers will go on strike starting Friday — pulling the brakes on U.S. supply chains and initiating the first national rail strike in decades.
Labor organizers are calling for changes to rail companies’ attendance policies, which they say keep rail workers from taking time off for things like medical appointments; they also raised
USA TODAY


Nov 14 2019
Opinion
Impeachment and the Broken Truce
The cultural tug-o’-war over the presidency is the great American tribal competition in its most concentrated form.
The contradiction at the center of American politics in Anno Domini 2019 is this: The ruling class does not rule.
The impeachment dog-and-pony show in Washington this week is not about how Donald Trump has comported himself as president (grotesquely) any more than
National Review
Apr 26 2015
News
In Iowa, GOP field stresses opposition to same-sex marriage
Leading Republican presidential candidates came to Iowa Saturday to assure social conservatives that they still oppose gay marriage, despite shifting public attitudes and the recent backlash against religious liberty laws. Speaking to some 1,000 evangelicals at the Point of Grace Church in this suburb of Des Moines, a procession of presidential candidates expressed support for a constitutional
Politico