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Feb 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 MonitorJun 21 2019
Opinion
OPINION: Trump Doesn't Need to Attack Iran: He’s Winning Already
What we’re seeing unfold in the Persian Gulf is a confrontation between a U.S. president who doesn’t know when he’s winning, and a Supreme Leader who doesn’t know when he’s losing. If Donald Trump changes his mind again and orders an attack on Iranian targets, he will have played into Ali Khamenei’s hands.
It’s too early to exhale after Trump’s decision to cancel a military strike last
Guest WriterJul 24 2015
News
Tennessee Is the Capital of American Jihad
The road to jihad began here, where Highway 40 bisects the state Abraham Lincoln once called the “keystone of the southern arch,” heading southwest out of Nashville and Jackson and through endless miles of rich Mississippi delta before riding the steel scaffolding of the Hernando de Soto Bridge across the wide lazy waters. Memphis is where the call-and-response songs of the cotton fields and
PoliticoJun 19 2019
News
Immigration Crackdown
On Monday, President Donald Trump tweeted, “Next week ICE will begin the process of removing the millions of illegal aliens who have illicitly found their way into the United States. They will be removed as fast as they come in.” (Twitter)
The left opposes increased deportations but does not believe ICE is capable of carrying them out, and argues that the outrage against Ocasio-Cortez
The Flip SideDec 05 2019
Analysis
Facepalm: This Law Professor Summed up the Seriousness of the Democrats' Trump Impeachment Push
Well, yesterday’s impeachment hearing before the House Judiciary Committee went as expected with regards to the hyperbole. House Democrats want President Trump out. They’re not using a shoddy quid pro quo allegation from a July phone call with Ukraine as their basis. Trump supposedly tried to shakedown the Ukrainians into opening a corruption probe into Hunter Biden or risk having military aid
TownhallJun 18 2016
News
The Heartfelt, 'Good-Luck' Note Bush 41 Wrote to Bill Clinton
George H.W. Bush penned an emotional, inspirational letter to incoming President Bill Clinton during his last hours in the White House.
Dated Jan. 20, 1993, Bush's note — handwritten at his desk in the Oval Office— reads:
"When I walked into this office just now I felt the same sense of wonder and respect that I felt four years ago. I know you will feel that, too. I wish you
Newsmax (News)Nov 30 2020
Perspectives Blog
A Conservative Who Liberals Often Enjoyed and Respected: Justice Antonin Scalia
Former Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia (1936-2016) was deeply conservative. Yet many liberals admired his intellect and his way with words. He was gregarious, and many liberals even considered him a great friend. Even with his biting opinions, he could make liberals think more deeply about their own positions and how to argue them more persuasively.
It was not so much what Justice
Bella JasperSep 28 2014
News
The many challenges of replacing Eric Holder
While Attorney General Eric Holder had made clear that he wanted to leave the post before the end of Obama's second term, the announcement of his departure just before midterm elections took many by surprise and the timing could complicate the effort to replace him. Choosing a new attorney general and getting approval in a Senate confirmation hearing will be difficult for the White House.
CNN (Online News)Jan 25 2021
Analysis
‘A too-powerful presidency’: Will US ever rein in executive branch?
Joe Biden made his first public speech as president last week with his inaugural address. He will be expected to make many more.
George Washington made just nine public speeches in his first term. Through Andrew Jackson, the president averaged about three per year – just one indicator of how the presidency of today is a less humble office than in the country’s early years.
From
Christian Science MonitorMay 27 2019
News
Representative Phil Roe (R-TN): "This Memorial Day, I challenge everyone to find a way to honor our nation's fallen"
I remember the moment well. It was 1971. I was 26 and living in Memphis, Tenn. I went to get the mail, like I did every day. But, this day was different because there was a letter notifying me that I had been drafted. That is why when people ask me if I volunteered to join the Army, I always say, “Yes, I volunteered. I volunteered to get the mail.”
Originally, I was ordered to go to
The Hill