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Dec 20 2012
News
With Nation's Eyes On Newtown, Washington Distracted By Fiscal Cliff
Anyone hoping that the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre might change dynamics in the nation's capital when it comes to the issue of guns met some level of Washington reality on Wednesday.
President Obama held a news conference to announce his response to the Connecticut killings of 26 grade-schoolers and educators, including his naming of Vice President Joe Biden to head a team
NPR (Online News)Apr 01 2024
Headline Roundup
Biden's Transgender Day of Visibility Proclamation Sparks Reflection, Backlash
President Joe Biden proclaimed March 31 as Transgender Day of Visibility. This decision sparked both reflection on the experience of transgender Americans and backlash due to the day coinciding this year with Easter.
Transgender Understanding: A writer in USA Today (Lean Left bias) reflected on his own experiences as a transgender man, voicing fear that “the visibility of transgender
USA TODAY Newsweek Fact Check New York Post (Opinion)Jun 11 2023
Headline Roundup
Trump Speaks to Crowds in North Carolina and Georgia Following Indictment
Former President Donald Trump spoke to crowds in North Carolina and Georgia on Saturday in his first appearances since his indictment on Friday.
The Details: Trump spoke at Republican state conventions to crowds of supporters where he called the recent indictment a “political hit job.” Trump commented on several other issues as well. He criticized CNN’s (Lean Left bias) firing of CEO
Newsweek National Review (News) NBC News (Online)Sep 17 2019
News
Why the debate over the legality of Andrew Yang’s $120,000 UBI pilot doesn’t really matter
Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang promised to spice up September’s primary debate by doing “something no presidential candidate has ever done before in history” live on television.
He kept that promise by announcing in his opening statement that he would give away $1,000 a month — $120,000 a year — to 10 randomly selected people as part of a pilot program for his universal
VoxDec 06 2012
News
Obama to GOP: Don’t You Dare Give Me What I Asked For
"That is a bad strategy for America, it's bad strategy for businesses. It's not a game I will play."
-- President Obama talking to the CEO members of The Business Roundtable about the possibility that Congress might not grant him an unconditional increase to the debt limit. President Obama will be campaigning in Northern Virginia today, explaining to voters, er, constituents that it is
Fox News (Online News)Dec 03 2012
News
Republicans 'flabbergasted' by call for more spending as part of fiscal deal
Republicans say they are "flabbergasted" by the Obama administration's latest proposal for averting a fiscal meltdown -- a plan that they call a "joke" and which has only further divided the two sides with the clock ticking. Rather than offering a round of spending cuts to soothe Republican concerns about the debt, the Obama plan calls for a new wave of stimulus spending on top of $1.6
Fox News (Online News)Aug 29 2016
Opinion
How the Machine That Created Barack Obama Keeps Power in Illinois
Draw the legislative map to favor Democratic incumbents — to the point where most seats are uncontested. The Illinois Constitution is meant to prevent tyranny, not to enshrine it,” so said Justice Robert Thomas of the Illinois Supreme Court in his dissent from the courts’ decision last Thursday to void a ballot initiative to take away the power of the state legislature to draw its own
John FundAug 27 2016
Opinion
Experts Who Got Brexit Wrong Now Say Trump Can’t Win
Is elite overconfidence surfacing again? Donald Trump says that the same experts and pollsters who incorrectly predicted that British voters would vote to stay in the European Union are now dismissing his chances to win the White House.
That’s mostly true. Before the Brexit vote, PredictWise, a website that aggregates data on the likelihood of events, found that there was a 21 percent
John FundNov 12 2012
News
Obama's Approval Highest Since 2009
The approval rating for President Barack Obama is at its highest level since July 2009, a new Rasmussen tracking poll released Monday reveals.
According to Rasmussen, Obama has an approval rating 54 percent, with just 45 percent of potential voters disapproving of his job performance in the White House.
The last time Obamas numbers were that high was in July 2009, according to
Newsmax (News)Aug 21 2016
News
George Soros, Other Democratic Megadonors Plowing Millions Into Clinton, Senate Election Bids
Democratic megadonors, including George Soros and Tom Steyer, are putting millions of dollars into efforts to put Hillary Clinton in the White House and win control of the Senate. Their investment comes as Republicans worry about not only their nominee Donald Trump’s chances, but also his effect on down-ballot races.
Yet few of the GOP’s biggest donors have put major money into Trump
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