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Nov 23 2013
News
Obama Personally Lobbied Senators to Curb Filibuster
President Barack Obama personally lobbied three Democratic senators who were unsure about a proposed ban on filibusters of presidential nominees, an 11th-hour effort earlier this week that reflected how much the White House expects to rely on executive actions to press its second-term agenda.
A Senate Democratic aide said Mr. Obama called senators who were on the fence and told them "
Wall Street Journal (News)Mar 07 2015
News
Feds to charge Robert Menendez with corruption
Embattled Sen. Robert Menendez is unlikely to resign his Senate seat amid looming criminal corruption charges that he allegedly used his office to benefit a well-heeled donor, according to sources familiar with the matter. Instead, Menendez, who has survived past scrutiny by federal prosecutors over his actions for years, plans to fight the Justice Department and clear his name, sources said.
PoliticoOct 13 2014
News
Susan Rice: No Evidence Kim Jong Un Has Been Deposed
There's "no indication" that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is no longer in power, National Security Adviser Susan Rice said Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press."
"Obviously, we are watching very carefully what's happening in North Korea. It's a country that we monitor with great attention," Rice said in response to a question from host Chuck Todd on whether she was convinced that Kim Jong
HuffPostMay 07 2019
News
Trump's New Donors Confirm His Populist Politics Were a Charade
You know Donald Trump has lost that anti-establishment new car smell when his campaign is asking Karl Rove for advice. The famous architect of George W. Bush’s campaign and founder of the $100 million super PAC American Crossroads is now reportedly helping Brad Parscale build a high-value fund-raising network to raise money from wealthy Republican donors—including lobbyists, billionaires, and
Vanity FairSep 26 2018
Perspectives Blog
Tech Companies May Be Stifling Conservative Speech. Can They Change?
Differences in the way liberals and conservatives view appropriate speech affects what we see online — and can lead to silencing.
The Department of Justice and state attorneys general met Tuesday to discuss whether social media companies are “intentionally stifling the free exchange of ideas.” The meeting ended without a decision on whether to investigate.
The move came
John Gable, AllSides Co-founderOct 05 2014
News
Judge orders release of Guantanamo videotapes
A federal judge on Friday ordered the public release of 28 videotapes of a hunger-striking Guantanamo Bay prisoner strike being forcibly removed from his cell and force-fed.
Lawyers for the prisoner, Abu Wa'el Dhiab, have challenged his treatment as abusive.
Numerous news media outlets, including The Associated Press, had asked the court on June 20 to unseal the videotapes, which
Fox News DigitalJan 09 2021
Analysis
After Capitol attack, GOP grapples with its future
The Republican Party of Abraham Lincoln, Dwight Eisenhower, and Ronald Reagan is no more. In its place, a new GOP is emerging.
But the journey has only just begun, following the extraordinary events of this week – and the preceding weeks that set the stage – which have cleaved the party in ways rarely seen in its 167-year history.
In retrospect, the violent mob that overtook
Christian Science MonitorJun 28 2019
Opinion
OPINION: Woke Fascism
How do you know if you're living in a free society? Here's a quick test: Are you allowed to say obviously true things in public? Or are you forced to lie? As George Orwell put it in "1984": "Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows." But what if that freedom isn't granted? What if you're required to repeat things that you know aren't true
Guest Writer - RightFeb 21 2021
Analysis
Shoring up the grid: What El Paso can teach the rest of Texas
On Valentine’s Day, every county in Texas went under a winter storm warning. The next day, the lights began to go out. In the days since, millions of Texans have been without power in freezing temperatures. Millions are now boiling water, and impassable roads and food scarcity are also a worry across the state.
But for a select few on the fringes of the Lone Star State, the winter storm
Christian Science MonitorJul 02 2019
News
Democrats are learning the wrong lesson from Donald Trump
He ran as a moderate — and it worked.
Many progressives have what they believe to be a knock-down answer to nervous Nellies who fret that talking about desegregation busing, decriminalizing illegal entry into the United States, banning assault weapons, and replacing private health insurance will kill them at the polls in 2020: Donald Trump is president.
If Trump is president, the
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