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Mar 06 2024
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell Endorses Donald Trump's 2024 Campaign
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) endorsed Republican frontrunner and former President Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential race on Wednesday.
Key Quotes: “It is abundantly clear that former President Trump has earned the requisite support of Republican voters to be our nominee for President of the United States,” McConnell said in a statement, adding, “It should come as no
New York Times (News) The Hill Fox News (Online News)May 29 2012
News
Texas Senate Hopefuls Woo Republicans Of All Stripes
It's high noon in Texas at the Stephenville Community Center out on Highway 67, and the Cross Timbers Republican Women's Club Candidates Forum is about to begin.
Time has run out on this Republican Senate primary. This is a last chance for the candidates to make an impression before Tuesday's vote. They're vying to replace Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, who is retiring after serving for
NPR (Online News)Sep 13 2019
News
Dems Debate
The left focused foremost on Joe Biden and gave mixed reviews.
“Former vice president Joe Biden, still the front-runner, needed to show that his shaky debate performance in June was a fluke and that he has the stamina to go for three hours. He started strongly, ably defending the public option and indignantly insisting his plan would protect anyone with cancer… His weakest moment
The Flip SideNov 06 2019
Opinion
Impeaching America’s Future
What does the future have in store for us if Congress succeeds in impeaching President Donald Trump, the president who presides over the best economy America has had in the last 50 years? I think you can look to South America for a glimpse of the Great Republic that will be vouchsafed us by the congressgirls from what is called “the Squad” and from the most foul-mouthed field of Democratic
The American SpectatorDec 22 2019
Opinion
We’ve just had the best decade in human history. Seriously
Little of this made the news, because good news is no news.
Let nobody tell you that the second decade of the 21st century has been a bad time. We are living through the greatest improvement in human living standards in history. Extreme poverty has fallen below 10 percent of the world’s population for the first time. It was 60 percent when I was born. Global inequality has been plunging
The American SpectatorSep 10 2019
News
Joe Biden Drifts to Wherever the Center of the Democratic Party Is
McClatchy News Service takes a deep look at the policy proposals of Joe Biden and concludes, “From health care to climate change to criminal justice, Biden has proposed ideas more ambitious and liberal than policies supported by Hillary Clinton in the 2016 campaign.” They accurately observe, “Biden is labeled a moderate. But his agenda is far more liberal than Hillary Clinton’s.”
(This
National Review (News)Sep 10 2019
News
6 in 10 call a recession likely; Trump approval drops by 6 points: POLL
Six in 10 Americans say a recession is likely in the next year and as many are concerned about higher prices because of the trade war with China, helping to knock 6 points off President Donald Trump’s job approval rating in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll.
Trump fell from a career-high 44% approval in July to 38% now, a point off his career average, with 56% disapproving. His
ABC News (Online)Dec 20 2019
News
After a Transphobic Tweet, J.K. Rowling Can No Longer Be Considered an LGBTQ Ally
J.K. Rowling spent Thursday once again demonstrating a perplexing inability to pipe down and enjoy her millions. This time, the Harry Potter author wasn’t retconning diversity into the series she finished writing over 12 years ago or disclosing that before indoor plumbing, the wizards of her universe used to just poop themselves and magically vanish the evidence away. Instead, Rowling tweeted
SlateJul 07 2019
News
How to save politically ‘mixed marriages’ in Trump era
Learning to respect someone for who they are, not trying to remake them in your likeness, is something most people have to learn about love. It applies to politics, too, author Jeanne Safer says.
For years, Jeanne Safer has received letters from people whose personal relationships have been upended by political differences. She’s heard of engagements being called off, siblings who are
Christian Science MonitorJan 03 2013
News
NDAA Signed Into Law By Obama Despite Guantanamo Veto Threat, Indefinite Detention Provisions
President Barack Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act of 2013 on Wednesday, despite his own threat to veto it over prohibitions on closing the Guantanamo Bay prison camp.
Civil liberties advocates had roundly criticized the bill over Guantanamo and a separate section that could allow the military to indefinitely detain American citizens on suspicions of supporting
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