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Jun 03 2013
News
Obama proclaims June as LGBT Pride Month
President Obama on Friday officially proclaimed June as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month, while still recognizing that “more needs to be done. “My Administration is a proud partner in the journey toward LGBT equality, the president wrote in his proclamation. “We extended hate crimes protections to include attacks based on sexual orientation or gender identity and repealed Ã
Washington TimesApr 25 2019
News
Joe Biden uses Charlottesville as motivation for 2020 run: 'We are in the battle for the soul of this nation'
Joe Biden is officially in the race for president.
His long-awaited answer to the biggest political question in the country the past few months ended on Thursday, making him one of 20 Democrats vying to become the party's 2020 presidential nominee.
"The core values of this nation, our standing in the world, our very democracy, everything that has made America America is at stake
USA TODAYApr 24 2019
News
Kamala Harris says she 'absolutely' supports a third gender option on federal IDs
Sen. Kamala Harris said Tuesday she likes the idea of a third gender option on federal identifications.
"Sure, absolutely," the Democratic presidential candidate said when asked about the possibility by one audience member at a Keene State College town hall in New Hampshire.
"I see the issue of LGBTQ rights as a fundamental civil rights and human rights issue. Period," Harris
USA TODAYAug 27 2019
News
Nervous Republicans focus energy on protecting Senate 'firewall'
The GOP majority in the Senate is shaping up as a firewall for Republicans who are worried that President Trump might falter and lose the White House next year.
Republicans see winning back the House majority as a tough climb in 2020, and head-to-head matchups between Trump and various Democratic presidential contenders show the president behind his potential challengers.
Though
The HillNov 12 2016
Opinion
Democrats Have No One to Blame but Themselves for Trump
The Democrats veered to the left, even as they nominated an unlikable candidate from the party’s establishment. Though in many ways the 2016 presidential contest was an uprising against the establishment, let’s face it; Republicans weren’t punished. And that’s not a new development. Twenty-sixteen is the fourth consecutive election in which the GOP has won the Senate and House. Nearly every
Washington TimesFeb 27 2020
Opinion
Punishing Assange's Free Speech
In the oral argument of the famous U.S. Supreme Court cases known collectively as the Pentagon Papers Case, the late Justice William O. Douglas asked a government lawyer if the Department of Justice views the "no law" language in the First Amendment to mean literally no law. The setting was an appeal of the Nixon administration's temporarily successful efforts to bar The New York Times and The
Andrew NapolitanoDec 05 2019
Analysis
Our incredibly angry political moment
Washington (CNN)There were two big moments in politics on Thursday.
1) Speaker Nancy Pelosi brusquely shut down a conservative reporter's question as to whether she hated President Donald Trump.
2) Former Vice President Joe Biden got into a heated back-and-forth with an Iowa voter at a town hall in which the man said Biden was too old to be president and Biden challenged the man
CNN (Opinion)Dec 03 2019
Opinion
No, Trump Isn’t Threatening Our Constitutional System
Recently, Tom Nichols, a leading anti-Trump voice (and a former colleague), informed me that “Trump has already changed our constitutional system in ways that will outlast us both. You think it’s worth it. I don’t.”
I hear this claim all the time. Trump’s antagonists keep telling me that conservatives, unable to win through democratic institutions, have adopted extreme policies that are
National Review (News)Dec 02 2019
News
Lisa Page breaks silence, saying Trump's 'fake orgasm' forced her to speak out
“Honestly, his demeaning fake orgasm was really the straw that broke the camel’s back."
With those striking words in an interview published late Sunday, Lisa Page, the ex-FBI lawyer who carried on an extramarital affair with former FBI head of counterintelligence Peter Strzok as the two exchanged anti-Trump text messages, said she was breaking her silence.
The 39-year-old Page
Fox News DigitalApr 01 2019
News
Did the media botch the Russia story? A conversation with Matt Taibbi.
“In purely journalistic terms, this is an epic disaster.”
That’s how Rolling Stone columnist Matt Taibbi described the media’s coverage of the Trump-Russia story to me in a wide-ranging interview this week. I reached out to him shortly after he published an excerpt from his forthcoming book, Hate Inc., which excoriated the press for the way it handled allegations that Trump was
Vox