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Nov 22 2019
News
Lindsey Graham Is Now Investigating the Bidens Anyway, Cementing Ukraine’s Role as Hapless Fall Guy
Sen. Lindsey Graham sent a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Thursday to request documents on former vice president Joe Biden and his communications with Ukrainian officials, the Washington Post reports, marking a new phase of the GOP impeachment defense. The effort by the Republican chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee comes at the end of two weeks of public impeachment hearings
SlateJun 07 2019
News
Biden reverses stance on abortion funding amid Democratic backlash
Former US Vice-President Joe Biden has reversed his stance on abortion funding amid mounting criticism from his fellow 2020 Democratic rivals.
At a Democratic gala on Thursday, Mr Biden denounced a law which restricts federal abortion funding, saying he believed all healthcare was a right.
The party's current front-runner added that he made "no apologies" for having backed it
BBC NewsJun 07 2019
News
AOC and Cruz to Work Together on Anti-Lobbying Bill
“Sen. Ted Cruz and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez set aside their Twitter bickering [last] Thursday to strike an unusual bargain: an agreement to work together on a bill to ban former members of Congress from lobbying for life.” (Politico)
The left is supportive of lobbying restrictions but does not see this proposal as the best option.
“Is this a sign that bipartisanship has not
The Flip SideMar 11 2020
Analysis
Michigan Romp Shows Biden Could Rebuild Democrats' ‘Blue Wall’ vs. Trump
Maybe you’ve never heard of Livingston County, Michigan. It’s not Oakland County, the vote-rich behemoth located next door; nor is it Macomb County, the much-mythologized home of the culturally conservative “Reagan Democrats” who began defecting to the Republican Party decades ago. It’s a lot less populated, and a little too far from Detroit, to attract much notice from journalists and pundits
PoliticoMar 20 2019
News
World leaders tell Biden: We need you
The former vice president would bring deep relationships and heavyweight credentials to a 2020 Democratic field lacking in national security experience.
When Joe Biden attended the annual Munich Security Conference last month, the wonky foreign policy confab promised an escape from the nonstop speculation back home about the former vice president’s political plans.
Instead, Biden
PoliticoOct 03 2019
News
Trump Expected to Expand Private Medicare Advantage Program
President Trump is expected to unveil a new executive order on Thursday afternoon that expands the private-sector version of Medicare, framing the decision as the responsible alternative to the Medicare-for-All policies supported by some of his Democratic political opponents.
Seniors “like what they have, so the president is going to protect it,” Alex M. Azar II, the secretary of health
New York Times (News)Oct 01 2019
Opinion
In Today's America, Everybody Who Disagrees with You is a Traitor
Throwing the word "treason" around, unmoored from its actual meaning, is a weapon for delegitimizing political opposition and dissent.
With a little over a year to go before the next presidential election, politicians, pundits, and political players have grown comfortable yelling "treason" in each other's faces. That's a problem. Except in those rare circumstances when the charge is
ReasonSep 30 2019
News
Whistleblower's Attorneys Worry For Client's Safety
Lawyers for the whistleblower behind the complaint related to President Donald Trump’s call with the leader of Ukraine said this weekend that they have “serious concerns” regarding their client’s safety.
In a letter addressed to acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire, the lead attorney for the whistleblower, Andrew Bakaj, alluded that the whistleblower is currently
Yahoo NewsSep 30 2019
News
Rudy Giuliani: Biden aides say TV news must stop booking Trump lawyer
Senior aides to Joe Biden, who is the target of Donald Trump’s efforts to dig up dirt in Ukraine that could help his re-election bid next year, have written to TV news channels asking them to keep the president’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, off air.
The extraordinary letter, disclosed by the Daily Beast, comes from two top Biden campaign advisers. They ask the editorial chiefs of
The GuardianOct 07 2020
Perspectives Blog
When the President’s Options Start to Shrink
Mark Twain told a story about the cat who sat on a hot stove.
“That cat won’t ever sit on a hot stove again,” Twain said. “But he’ll never sit on a cold stove again either.”
For the cat writing this column, the 2020 election is the political version of a cold stove.
Four years ago, everyone knew that Hillary Clinton would be elected president. Every conventional polling
Dan Schnur