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Jul 09 2015
News
S.C. House Approves Bill To Remove Confederate Flag From Statehouse
More than 50 years after South Carolina raised a Confederate flag at its Statehouse to protest the civil rights movement, the state is getting ready to remove the rebel banner.
HuffPostApr 13 2021
News
Surging Virus Has Michigan’s Democratic Governor at Loggerheads With Biden
As Gov. Gretchen Whitmer pleads for more coronavirus vaccine, the Biden administration on Monday urged her to shut Michigan down, something she wants to avoid.
The Biden administration and Michigan’s Democratic governor are locked in an increasingly tense standoff over the state’s worst-in-the-nation coronavirus outbreak, with a top federal health official on Monday urging the governor
New York Times (News)May 19 2021
Opinion
The Absurdity of a January 6 Commission
Usually, the creation of another sweeping, lumbering government commission is no worse than a new chapter in the history of Washington overreach. But this fetish for a commission to wallow into the mire of the January 6 Capitol uprising is far worse: it is a planned exercise in malicious political theater designed to create heat while shedding no new light.
Is there anyone
TownhallJul 16 2021
Analysis
Why Communism Should Be Tried For Its Crimes Against Humanity
It’s tragic that the free world has never held the lethal ideology of communism accountable for its crimes against humanity. Worse, the ideology is making a comeback.
Cubans have been marching in the streets for freedom, chanting “Libertad!” and demonstrating by the thousands that they’ve had enough of the sham called communism. They know economic disaster and political repression come
The FederalistMar 14 2013
News
Democrats slow to back Obama on Medicare and Social Security cuts
While the president offers reductions to try to get a grand bargain on the budget some in his party protest.
Washington PostJan 08 2021
News
Pence Not Planning to Invoke 25th Amendment
Vice President Mike Pence is planning to reject calls from lawmakers to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove President Donald Trump from office.
Fox News noted it confirmed the information with sources inside Pence’s office.
Under the 25th Amendment, a president can be removed if the vice president and a majority of Cabinet members agree he is no longer fit.
Rep. Adam
Newsmax (News)Oct 01 2020
Fact Check
Fact Check: Chris Wallace Falsely Implies Trump Never Condemned White Supremacists
CLAIM: Debate moderator Chris Wallace implied that President Donald Trump never condemned white supremacists.
VERDICT: FALSE. President Trump has done so repeatedly, despite what Wallace — and Joe Biden — have suggested.
During the first presidential debate, Wallace challenged President Trump to condemn white supremacists. It was an astonishingly ill-informed — and inflammatory
Breitbart NewsMar 15 2015
News
Arrest Made In Connection To Ferguson Police Shooting
St. Louis County Police announced on Sunday that they had made an arrest related to the two officers who were shot during a protest on Thursday in Ferguson, Missouri.
Robert McCulloch and St. Louis County Chief of Police Jon Belmar announced that they would hold a press conference Sunday afternoon to discuss the arrest.
The shooting came during protests after Ferguson Police
HuffPostAug 16 2017
News
Fact check: President Trump's press conference, in context
President Trump held a contentious press conference in which he answered critics who said he waited too long to condemn the white nationalists who staged a protest in Charlottesville, Va., on Aug. 12 that turned violent. Here we put into context some of the statements that the president made in his defense:
USA TODAYJun 09 2020
Fact Check
The Continuing ‘Tear Gas’ Debate
The national semantics exercise over “pepper balls” and “tear gas” has continued.
On CBS’ “Face the Nation,” Attorney General William Barr was asked if it was appropriate for the U.S. Park Police “to use smoke bombs, tear gas, pepper balls, projectiles at what appeared to be peaceful protesters” outside the White House on June 1. Barr objected to the description of “pepper spray” as a “
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