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Apr 13 2018
Headline Roundup
Trump Attacks Comey Amid Book Drama
President Trump on Friday blasted James Comey as a “liar and leaker” and an "untruthful slime ball" after the former FBI director’s book portrayed Trump as a power-hungry man unfit for the presidency.
Washington Post The Hill Fox News DigitalMar 06 2021
Perspectives Blog
Reducing Polarization: Research Says Typical Republicans and Democrats are Moderate, Only Talk Politics Occasionally
Animosity towards members of an opposing political party has substantially worsened in recent years. But much of what we know about polarization and citizens’ attitudes to their political opponents may be wrong.
\When Democrats and Republicans say they reflexively dislike each other, they appear to be imagining a member of the other party more politically extreme and more interested in
Sukhayl NiyazovNov 06 2014
News
Forecast for new Congress: Gridlock, partisan warfare
Voters who are fed up with endless gridlock might be disappointed if they expect a Senate now controlled by Republicans to change things. One congressional expert put it bluntly: "The basic factors causing [gridlock] are not gone," said James Thurberfrom, a professor at American University. "So it is likely that we will have a lot of delay and stalemate in the Senate." The stark reality is
CNN (Online News)Jan 16 2020
News
Sanders Campaign Organizer: Free Education, Gulags Needed To "Re-Educate" You To Not Be A "F*cking Nazi"
A campaign organizer for Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders warned about mass violence and advocated for the use of gulags for "re-education" in a conversation caught on tape by James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas. In the undercover video, Kyle Jurek, an Iowa field organizer for the Sanders campaign, said the country will have to "spend billions" on re-education for people that are "
RealClearPoliticsMay 27 2020
Opinion
Gregg Jarrett: Trump attorney accuses Mueller of 'monstrous lie and scheme to defraud'
John Dowd, one of the lead lawyers who represented President Trump during Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian collusion, said Tuesday that the special counsel engineered a perjury trap for Trump in the exact same way that James Comey’s FBI invented a trap for former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn.
“Mueller’s scheme was the same one captured in the (newly released) FBI
Fox News (Opinion)Aug 22 2014
Opinion
OPINION: Should we call ISIS 'evil'?
When most people look at ISIS, they see the incarnation of evil. Among its many horrific acts, the Islamic militant group beheaded American journalist James Foley and posted the video this week in retaliation for U.S. airstrikes in Iraq. The Pope typically protests violence, but he implied that he supports the use of military force to combat ISIS. Even al Qaeda says ISIS is too violent. Across
CNN (Online News)Aug 19 2014
News
Ferguson mayor: No 'racial divide'
Ferguson Mayor James Knowles on Tuesday stood by his comments about racial tensions in his city, saying that none of the city’s residents believe there is a racial divide in the community. During a contentious interview with MSNBC’s Tamron Hall, Knowles — who has previously downplayed racial tensions in Ferguson’s history — was asked whether he had changed his opinions after seeing outcries
PoliticoJul 15 2020
News
Beyond defunding the police: Democratic leaders condone crime
Democrats are moving a step beyond national debate over defunding the police, questioning whether crime is a bad thing at all. During the past month, three leading Democrats have all issued statements blessing criminal acts.
As some Seattle residents illegally seized several city blocks in June and christened the area the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, the Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan did
Washington ExaminerJul 13 2021
Perspectives Blog
How Maslow’s “Hierarchy of Needs” Can Help Us Find Common Ground
Imagine that the economy has imploded and you have just been let go from your job. After months of tirelessly searching for a new job, your savings have been depleted and you are forced to foreclose on your home. As you sit, stressfully contemplating your plans for the future, what are your priorities going to be? Will you be concerned with America’s foreign policy agenda (Should the number
Jackson LanzerNov 12 2020
News
ACA at the Supreme Court
“After roughly two hours of oral argument in the Supreme Court on Tuesday, it appeared likely that the Affordable Care Act will survive.” In 2012, the Supreme Court upheld the law by adopting the argument that the individual mandate was a tax rather than a command (which would have been unconstitutional). However, in 2017 Congress reduced the penalty to $0; Texas and several other states sued
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