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Jun 05 2020
News
The Story Behind Bill Barr’s Unmarked Federal Agents
Few sights from the nation’s protests in recent days have seemed more dystopian than the appearance of rows of heavily armed riot police around Washington, D.C., in drab military-style uniforms with no insignia, identifying emblems or names badges. Many of the apparently federal agents have refused to identify which agency they work for. “Tell us who you are, identify yourselves!” protesters
Politico
Jan 06 2021
News
US Capitol secured, woman dead after rioters stormed the halls of Congress to block Biden's win
The US Capitol is once again secured but a woman is dead after supporters of President Donald Trump breached one of the most iconic American buildings, engulfing the nation's capital in chaos after Trump urged his supporters to fight against the ceremonial counting of the electoral votes that will confirm President-elect Joe Biden's win.
Shortly after 1 p.m. ET Wednesday hundreds of pro
CNN Digital
Apr 20 2021
Analysis
The Republican Establishment Still Doesn’t Get It on Immigration
George W. Bush is sincere, earnest, but still wrong on ‘comprehensive immigration reform.’
It’s not 2007 again. But apparently no one has told George W. Bush.
To coincide with the release of a book of his paintings of immigrants, Out of Many, One, the former Republican president wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post plugging the sort of immigration package that went down to
Rich Lowry
May 03 2021
News
Liz Cheney refuses to back down on Trump criticism
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), the No. 3 Republican on the House, tweeted Monday that anyone promoting "THE BIG LIE" that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump is "turning their back on the rule of law" and "poisoning our democratic system."
Why it matters: Top Republicans are now openly suggesting that Cheney could be removed from her leadership position because of her criticism of
Axios
Nov 12 2021
News
Obama, Bush and Clinton ask for support to build museum for Medal of Honor recipients
Three living former presidents — Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama — have recorded a video urging Americans to support the construction of a museum to recognize the bravery of U.S. troops awarded the nation's highest military award, the Medal of Honor.
"Let's all come together to build a museum in their honor," Mr. Obama says in the video, about the National Museum for Medal
CBS News (Online)
Feb 20 2014
News
Kiev’s Brief Truce Shatters in Bursts of Gunfire
Ukraine’s descent into a spiral of violence accelerated on Thursday as protesters and riot police officers used firearms in a clash apparently intended to reclaim areas of Independence Square, the symbolic central plaza in the capital that had been retaken by police two days before.
New York Times (News)
Mar 19 2019
News
Trump won't let McCain feud rest in peace
For Donald Trump, feuding comes as easily as breathing. His latest shots at the late John McCain and his escalating social media altercation with George Conway, the husband of White House
CNN Digital
Mar 03 2021
News
Parler drops Amazon web-hosting legal challenge
Parler has withdrawn its antitrust action against Amazon, two months after filing the case against the tech giant.
The website was removed from Amazon’s Web Services (AWS) hosting platform in January for violating its rules.
Parler brands itself as a “free speech” social network and the platform is popular with far-right supporters.
It has now dropped the case, without
BBC News
Apr 27 2021
Opinion
American Scapegoat
The “mimetic” theory of Rene Girard, I suggest, offers us our best way to understand the extraordinary events of recent American politics, especially the extremes of love and hatred different Americans feel for Donald Trump, and the background passions leading to the Capitol Hill riot. To explain why this is so, I will offer an introduction to Girard’s thought, interleaved, where appropriate,
The American Conservative
Mar 19 2017
Opinion
Questions for Judge Gorsuch
This week, the Senate Judiciary Committee will question Neil Gorsuch about the judiciary’s role. Herewith some pertinent questions: – Lincoln’s greatness began with his recoil from the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act, which empowered residents of those territories to decide whether to have slavery. The act’s premise was that “popular sovereignty” — majorities’ rights — is the essence of the
George Will