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Apr 03 2019
News
The Pete Buttigieg boom
How the mayor of South Bend became a surprisingly serious contender in the 2020 Democratic primary race.
As strange as it may sound, the mayor of a medium-size city in the Midwest is now a real contender for the Democratic nomination for the presidency.
A late March Quinnipiac poll had Pete Buttigieg, the 37-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana, tied with Sen. Elizabeth Warren (
VoxJan 15 2015
News
Life under ISIS: Medieval occupiers force children to donate blood for fighters
For Syrians still stuck in the once-thriving city of Raqqa, life under the thumb of the black-clad Islamic State thugs who patrol the caliphate’s unofficial capital has become a bleak tableau of misery and deprivation.
The 2,300-year-old city on the bank of the Euphrates has been ruled by Greeks, Romans, Bedouins and Ottomans, but the Islamist marauders who currently hold power have
Fox News DigitalJan 12 2022
Perspectives Blog
Media Bias Alert: AP and Reuters’ Fact Checks on “Mass Formation Psychosis”
From the Right
Two recent fact checks by the Associated Press Fact Check (Lean Left) and Reuters Fact Check (Center) recently drew a lot of attention on Twitter. The outlets quoted psychologists who said “mass formation psychosis,” a concept that rose to prominence when cited by Dr. Robert Malone in a recent interview with podcaster Joe Rogan, is an unfounded theory. The fact checks
Julie MastrineDec 20 2014
News
Obama's Republican ally on Cuba
It all started when Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake found himself in a dark park in Havana trying to score some ice cream. Flake, a devout Mormon, doesn’t drink or smoke, so instead of puffing a cigar or sipping some rum, he paid a man a peso in Coppelia Park to indulge in a bit of gelato on one of the first of nine trips he’s taken to the communist country since he first became fascinated with the
PoliticoJul 15 2021
Perspectives Blog
In the Biden Era, Fact Checkers are Falling Short
From the CenterThe mainstream media’s haters get a lot wrong. Contrary to their never-ending cries, I’d bet that most journalists don’t hate America, and most of their time isn’t spent on anti-Trump message boards or at Democrat-funded dinner parties.
But if the haters are complaining about the media’s weak fact-checking during the Biden administration, they’ve got a solid case.
Henry A. BrechterJul 06 2020
News
Chicago Gun Violence Spikes and Increasingly Finds the Youngest Victims
As Yasmin Miller drove home from a laundromat in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood last weekend, a gunman in another car peppered her red Hyundai sedan with bullets, grazing her head and striking her son, Sincere Gaston, in the chest. Sincere died in his car seat. He was 20 months old.
On June 20, a man fired gunshots through the back of a dark blue SUV, wounding the 27-year-old man
New York Times (News)Oct 25 2014
News
Darrell Issa: What We Don't Know Could Kill Us
At a Congressional hearing to evaluate America's response to the Ebola outbreak, House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) eschewed the calm approach, suggesting U.S. medical officials are flailing in the dark and that their ignorance could prove deadly.
Issa started by pointing out the flaws of the response so far, which has seen two nurses become infected in Texas
HuffPostAug 24 2020
Opinion
The Party of No Content
Republicans are remarkably quiet on how they would govern and what they seek to accomplish in the coming years.
What does the Republican Party want? Although Donald Trump’s reelection campaign has shifted into full, strange force with an empty 2020 convention, it is a hard question to answer.
In June, the Fox News host Sean Hannity asked Trump to name his top-priority agenda
The AtlanticSep 20 2014
News
Voter registration fraud probe looms over tight Georgia Senate race
As the pastor of Atlanta's famed Ebenezer Baptist Church, Rev. Raphael Warnock knows how to deliver a line for maximum effect. He employed that skill Wednesday, decrying a fraud probe the state has launched into a minority voter registration drive.
"You don't have to wear a hood -- you don't have to be a member of the Ku Klux Klan to be engaged in voter suppression. We know voter
Fox News DigitalApr 23 2020
Opinion
The Democrats Totally Want A Depression
If the Malevolent Donkey Party was actively seeking to plunge the country into an economic tailspin, while still maintaining some level of deniability to the credulous suckers out there, exactly what would it be doing differently? It would be pretty much doing exactly what it is doing right now – shilling for the bat-gobbling ChiComs, delaying needed assistance to keep America working, and
Townhall