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Jan 13 2021
News
Why corporations are rethinking political donations
Big banks, big tech, and other major companies are pausing political contributions, primarily to Republicans, after election results were challenged. But Sen. Rick Scott has special reason for concern.
Dear reader:
My first inkling of trouble for Republicans came Sunday with this headline: “Marriott suspends donations to senators who opposed vote result.”
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Ralph Benko
Ralph Benko is a national conservative thought leader, former junior Reagan White House official, columnist, formerly Editor and Advisor for The Lehrman Institute's The Gold Standard Now, Senior Advisor in Economics for The American Principles Project, editor-in-chief
May 23 2020
News
The FEC is back, but challenges await the divided commission
The U.S. Senate confirmed Republican lawyer Trey Trainor to the Federal Election Commission over the objections of campaign finance watchdogs, giving the agency the fourth member it needs to enforce election laws.
The Republican-led Senate confirmed Trainor on a party-line vote Tuesday. Democrats and prominent good government groups opposed Trainor’s nomination, concerned by his
OpenSecrets.orgMay 28 2020
Opinion
Nationalism Will Come Back from Trumpian Lows
Democracies have a way of bringing problems back to the political process until a suitable settlement is found.
Jonah Goldberg writes with some astonishment — and maybe a wry grin — about how nationalists and their sympathizers blew their chance. A favorable wind was about to lift up the sails of national conservatism in the United States, but the crew and captain seem to have dropped
Michael Brendan DoughertyMay 08 2019
News
Schiff Introduces Constitutional Amendment to Overturn Citizens United
Schiff Introduces Constitutional Amendment to Overturn Citizens United © Greg Nash Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) on Wednesday introduced a constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United ruling, which eliminated restrictions on corporate campaign spending.
The amendment would allow Congress and states to put forth limits on campaign contributions, according
The HillAug 16 2019
News
Maryland's top court rules that police can't search a person based on marijuana smell alone
Maryland's top court rules that police can't search a person based on marijuana smell alone © Getty Images The Court of Appeals of Maryland, the highest-ranking court in the state, said in a ruling this week — which opened by quoting Bob Dylan singing “the times they are a-changin'" — that police are not justified in searching a person based solely off of the smell of marijuana.
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The HillDec 21 2017
Perspectives Blog
CNN Media Bias Update
CNN is, without a doubt, our most highly contested source. Based on past data, the current CNN media bias rating is Center, but many users argue that it should be labeled Lean Left, if not altogether Left. (Reminder: We only rate the media bias of sources as they appear on the Web and use those ratings to provide online articles that present diverse perspectives. We don't currently
Lucy PintoMar 19 2020
News
America Needed Coronavirus Tests. The Government Failed.
When cases of the new coronavirus began emerging several weeks ago in California, Washington state and other pockets of the country, U.S. public-health officials worried this might be The Big One, emails and interviews show.
The testing program they rolled out to combat it, though, was a small one.
Limited testing has blinded Americans to the scale of the outbreak so far,
Wall Street Journal (News)Dec 12 2018
Headline Roundup
Michael Cohen, Trump's Former Attorney, Sentenced to Three Years in Prison
President Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen has been sentenced to three years in prison for arranging secret payments to women who claimed to have affairs with Trump, neglecting to report millions of dollars in income, and lying to Congress about Trump's business dealings with Russia. Cohen told the judge that his loyalty to the president caused him to "choose darkness over light" and that
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