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Aug 27 2021
News
Horror in Kabul is political disaster for Biden
President Biden promised the United States would not suffer a “Saigon moment” as it withdrew from Afghanistan.
The reality has proven even bleaker.
The attacks committed around Kabul’s airport on Thursday are a human tragedy. They are also a political catastrophe for the president.
At least 13 U.S. personnel have been killed and 15 wounded. The death toll among Afghans
The Hill
Apr 22 2015
News
Gowdy, GOP Likely to Release of Benghazi Report on Hillary Just Before Election
The findings of a Republican-led committee investigating Hillary Clinton’s response to the deadly 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya, likely will not be released until next year, just months before the 2016 presidential election.
Representative Trey Gowdy of South Carolina, chairman of the U.S. House Select Committee on Benghazi, has been emphasizing a desire for the panel to finish
Newsmax (News)
Sep 17 2020
News
Pelosi Doubles Down On $2.2 Trillion Stimulus Compromise: ‘It’s Hard To See How We Can Go Any Lower’
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday doubled down on her insistence on a comprehensive stimulus package worth at least $2.2 trillion, telling reporters that “it’s hard to see how we can go any lower.”
Her comments came the day after her first conversation with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, who has been leading stimulus negotiations on behalf of the White House, in
Forbes
Dec 21 2020
News
Members of Congress Bristle over Being Given 6 Hours to Read 5,593-Page Spending Bill
Several members of Congress are taking to social media to complain about the handful of hours they have to read the 5,593-page spending bill.
Early Monday afternoon, the behemoth piece of legislation was uploaded, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi scheduled a vote for the evening.
Breitbart News
Mar 03 2021
Analysis
2020 was the worst year for democracy in recent history
The health of American democracy is in rapid decline, India is no longer a free country, and at most 20 percent of the world’s population lives in a liberal democracy.
These are a few of the sobering conclusions in the 2021 Freedom in the World report, an annual quantitative measurement of the state of democracy globally. The latest findings, released today, show a nearly unprecedented
Vox
Jun 27 2021
News
Democrats cite Ku Klux Klan Act in suits over ‘Trump Train’ Texas bus incident
A convoy of Trump supporters that swarmed a Biden-Harris campaign bus on a Texas highway last October violated the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, which prohibits violent election intimidation, two new lawsuits allege.
One suit targets drivers in the self-described “Trump Train”, saying they conspired to intimidate and harass Biden-Harris campaigners.
The other suit names as defendants
The Guardian
Mar 03 2021
News
Biden says Texas and Mississippi over lifting COVID restrictions, guilty of ‘Neanderthal thinking’
President Biden took a swipe at Republican governors in Texas and Mississippi Wednesday, accusing them of "Neanderthal thinking" following their decision to reverse COVID safety policies, including mask mandates.
"We've been able to move that all the way up to the end of May to have enough [vaccines] for every American, to get every adult American to get a shot," Biden told reporters
Fox News (Online News)
Mar 08 2021
Opinion
It’s past time for Biden to hold a news conference
White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Friday that President Biden would hold a news conference “before the end of the month.” Last month would have been better, and this week would be better than next. Avoiding news conferences must not become a regular habit for Mr. Biden. He is the president, and Americans have every right to expect that he will regularly submit himself to substantial
Washington Post
Jan 06 2021
News
5 takeaways from Georgia Senate runoffs
With Democrats projected to win at least one of the two Georgia Senate runoff races, they are inching closer to keeping Republicans from holding on to control of the upper body of Congress.
Democrat Raphael Warnock is projected to defeat Sen. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., according to Fox News' Decision Desk early Wednesday.
The focus now shifts to the second race between Sen. David
Fox News (Online News)
Jul 06 2021
News
Biden Sets Out Plan To Go ‘Door To Door’ To Urge Americans To Take COVID-19 Vaccine Shots
President Joe Biden on Tuesday laid out his administration’s plan to urge more Americans to get vaccinated against COVID-19, including “door-to-door outreach” in some communities.
Biden also announced new efforts to get more vaccines to primary-care doctors and pediatricians.
“We are continuing to wind down the mass vaccination sites that did so much in the spring. … Now, we
The Daily Wire