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Jan 20 2020
Opinion
MLK Day 2020: Defining the Next Narrative for Black America
It’s time for black leaders to end our Stepin Fetchit approach to racial equity. Overemphasizing our failings has unified friend and foe in defining black people by poverty, pathology, and problems. While we’ll never ignore those conditions, they have never defined us.
The next narrative for black America must more accurately define us by our aspirations and contributions before noting
The Root
Feb 26 2021
Opinion
Biden’s COVID relief bill is chock full of anti-white reverse racism
Polls show most Americans support the federal COVID-19 relief bill. But if they knew what’s in it, they might feel differently. The bill is an affront to the American ideal of equal treatment under law — and a slap in the face for people who want everyone helped fairly.
Section 1005 of the bill offers “socially disadvantaged” farm owners total debt forgiveness of up to hundreds of
New York Post (Opinion)
Jun 02 2019
News
Mulvaney: 'Russia did attempt to interfere in our election'
Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said on Sunday that Russia did attempt to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. "Yes, Russia did attempt to interfere in our election. There is no question. Let's not lose sight of the fact that it was the previous administration that let that happen," Mulvaney said when asked by Chuck Todd on NBC's "Meet the Press" if President Trump
The Hill
Oct 16 2020
Fact Check
FactChecking Biden’s Town Hall
At a televised town hall in Philadelphia, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden made false and misleading claims on COVID-19, health insurance, the 1994 crime bill and more:
Biden falsely claimed all members of a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention team in China “came home” before the coronavirus pandemic. The staff was cut, but not eliminated.
He claimed the Trump
FactCheck.org
Mar 11 2020
Analysis
Why Joe Biden's confrontation with an auto worker in Detroit is probably a good thing for him
On Tuesday, while sneaking in some last-minute campaigning in Detroit on the day of the critical Michigan primary, Joe Biden got into an extended confrontation with an autoworker who took issue with the former vice president's stance on guns.
Here's the key section of the back-and-forth, in which Biden seems to shush someone else in the crowd in order to speak directly to the autoworker
CNN Digital
Jul 19 2019
Opinion
Trump, the Squad, and the “Standard Definition” of Racism
It’s useful, always, to consult the stylebook. Earlier this year, the Associated Press belatedly revised its entry on race, which now reads, “Do not use racially charged or similar terms as euphemisms for racist or racism when the latter terms are truly applicable.” The recommendation is a concession to clarity, not to passion or politics. The regulators of news language recognize that to
Guest Writer - Left
Feb 25 2021
News
Tanden Poised to Ask Her OMB Nomination Be Withdrawn
Sources close to President Biden have told Newsmax that his highly controversial nominee to be director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) will soon ask that her nomination be withdrawn.
As the latest signs grew that Neera Tanden’s nomination was doomed in the Senate, new names were being speculated upon as the Biden budget chief. One of those heard most frequently was that of
Newsmax (News)
May 11 2021
Opinion
Are We to Be the World's Greatest Force for Good or Not?
America is going through convulsions that may destroy it as the country we and the world have known for more than two centuries.
For all its flaws -- virtually all of which were not unique to America but universal throughout human civilization -- America has been regarded more than any other nation in modern times as a force for good in the world.
When a country is hit with a
Dennis Prager
Oct 08 2020
News
The FBI Said It Busted A Domestic Terror Plot To Kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer
The FBI announced Thursday that investigators had thwarted a plot by a right-wing militant group to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer at her vacation home, before the Nov. 3 election.
The affidavit, filed under seal in federal court on Tuesday but unsealed on Thursday, names six men — Adam Fox, Barry Croft, Ty Garbin, Kaleb Franks, Daniel Harris, and Brandon Caserta — to be charged
BuzzFeed News
Jul 18 2019
News
Donald Trump blames supporters for 'send her back' taunts against black lawmaker
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump blamed his supporters Thursday for a chant of "send her back" that erupted at his North Carolina rally, even though he did nothing to stop the taunts against a black lawmaker.
"I disagree with it,” the president told reporters a day later in the Oval Office. "I wasn't happy with that message."
Pressed further, Trump suggested that reporters
USA TODAY