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May 16 2019
News
College Board Introduces ‘Adversity Score’ to Control for Privilege in Admissions
The College Board plans to introduce an “adversity score” that will accompany an applicant’s SAT score in order to give college-admissions officers greater insight into how the applicant’s social and economic privilege may have contributed to their academic performance.
The adversity score, which will be made available to colleges but not the students themselves, will reflect 15
National Review (News)Feb 03 2014
News
Gun debate: Is price of an armed America a more dangerous America? (+video)
The number of Americans asserting their right to carry concealed guns has exploded from less than a million a few decades ago to as many as 11 million now. There's evidence that gun prevalence can deter crime but preventable tragedies perturb.
Christian Science MonitorNov 15 2020
News
Trump Urges Judge to Preserve Suit Over Pennsylvania Ballots
The Trump campaign urged a judge to preserve its bid to block Pennsylvania from certifying President-elect Joe Biden as the winner, claiming there’s evidence that voters in Democratic-leaning counties were improperly allowed to fix errors with their ballots.
In a filing Sunday in federal court, the campaign said a half-dozen Pennsylvania counties named in the suit illegally allowed
Newsmax (News)Apr 19 2013
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Boston Marathon Bombing Suspect Killed; Another At Large
A violent crime spree across Greater Boston that took the lives of a campus police officer and one of the suspects in the Marathon bombings morphed into a desperate door-to-door search for a man believed to be the second bomber in Mondays dual blasts.
HuffPostJun 22 2020
Opinion
Trump Is Promising Four More Years of Strife
He can’t run on accomplishments. So he’s running on violence and fear.
On Saturday night in Tulsa, Oklahoma, President Donald Trump tried to relaunch his reelection campaign. This was his chance, after the onslaught of the novel coronavirus and three months without a campaign rally, to tell Americans what he would do in a second term. The election, he argued, was about defeating an
SlateAug 11 2020
Opinion
The Revolt of the Republican Strategists
What the Trump era has revealed about the people who used to run Republican campaigns.
Last week I found myself reading “It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump,” the new book by Stuart Stevens, the longtime Republican operative and chief strategist for Mitt Romney’s losing 2012 campaign for the presidency. Stevens belongs to one of the notable sects in the church
New York Post (Opinion)Jul 29 2019
News
Which Democratic Presidential Candidate Was Mentioned Most In The News Last Week?
New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker was the only candidate who was mentioned in a larger share of both cable news clips and online news stories last week than the week before, according to data from the TV News Archive1 and Media Cloud.2 That’s in part because of his latest dustup with former Vice President Joe Biden. Last week, Booker called Biden “the proud architect of a failed system,” referring
538 (ABC News)Jan 05 2021
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Rep. Boebert Defends Right to Keep Her Gun With Her in DC
New Rep. Lauren Boebert Tuesday defended her right to keep her Glock handgun with her on the streets on Washington, D.C., and to bring it to work with her at the Capitol, saying she has the Second Amendment right to carry a weapon and defend herself.
"I'm 5 foot zero, 100 pounds, and I'm now in one of the most dangerous cities in America," the Colorado Republican said on Fox News' "Fox
Newsmax (News)Jun 10 2020
News
'Defund the police' calls grow amid protests. Reallocations could fund minority entrepreneurship instead
My millennial daughters were tear-gassed this week and I couldn’t be prouder.
My wife and I, while both at high risk of COVID-19, also joined a march in our town, but in a less confrontational, safer way.
So, while my family is, like so many millions of us are, sympathetic and supportive of the history we see unfolding before our eyes, and outraged at the murder of yet another
USA TODAYJul 26 2019
News
AG Barr Reinstates Federal Death Penalty after 16-Year Hiatus
Attorney General William Barr has reinstated the death penalty for federal crimes following a 16-year moratorium, the Department of Justice announced Thursday.
Barr’s order includes instructions to schedule the executions of five inmates currently incarcerated on death row for murder.
“Congress has expressly authorized the death penalty through legislation adopted by the people’s
National Review (News)