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Jan 18 2015
News
Will the Supreme Court cement Obama's gay rights legacy?
The Supreme Court’s new move toward a definitive ruling on same-sex marriage could cement President Barack Obama’s claim to having presided over the most significant advances in gay rights in United States history. Obama’s term has already seen the enactment of a federal law protecting gays and lesbians against hate crimes, an end to the ban on openly gay members of the U.S military and the
PoliticoJun 01 2021
Headline Roundup
Perspectives: Pride Month 2021
President Joe Biden formally declared Pride Month on Tuesday, saying, "we recognize the resilience and determination of the many individuals who are fighting to live freely and authentically." This marked a departure from former President Donald Trump, who never acknowledged the celebration outside of a 2019 tweet thread. Pride Month received its first official declaration from former
CBC News Washington Post TownhallJan 13 2015
News
McCain: Romney Called Me to Discuss ’16 White House Run
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney called Sen. John McCain on Tuesday to discuss his interest in running for the presidency, the Arizona Republican said Tuesday.
“He told me that he’s seriously considering it, and we discussed issues and friendships and things like that,” Mr. McCain, the Republican Party’s 2008 presidential nominee, told reporters. “We had a long conversation. We’re
Wall Street Journal (News)Jan 10 2016
News
Trump escalates attacks on Ted Cruz's eligibility to run
Donald Trump taunted fellow Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz over his eligibility to be president on Saturday, offering the following response to Cruz's instance that he's a natural born citizen: "You're not."
"You can't have a person running for office, even though Ted is very glib and he goes out and he says, 'Oh, well, I'm a natural born citizen.' The point is, you're not
TownhallApr 25 2019
Opinion
OPINION: No, Convicted Felons Shouldn't Be Allowed to Vote From Behind Bars
Earlier in the week, Bernie Sanders endorsed allowing convicted felons to vote -- not after they've paid their debt to society, mind you, but while they're still behind bars. He framed this stance as an matter of principle on voting rights, implying that opposing arguments are effective endorsements of GOP-backed voter "suppression" efforts. It's a "slippery slope" he intoned, ignoring the
Guest Writer - RightJul 10 2019
News
Fact Check: Actually, the Trump Economy is Benefitting the Very People Democrats Claim It Isn't
One of the trickier bits of political positioning facing Democrats this cycle is how to talk about the American economy. By nearly every metric, it's performing quite well. Unemployment is low, growth is pretty strong, wages are rising, the stock market is up -- and we're in the midst of the longest overall US economic expansion in recorded history. Roughly 70 percent of voters are
TownhallJan 06 2015
Opinion
It’s Time to Endanger the Endangered Species Act
The Endangered Species Act has become a gold mine for liberal activists and a barrier to our nation’s infrastructure. It is time for it to go. The Heartland Institute's Taylor Smith reports for the January issue of Townhall Magazine.
“The real wealth of the Nation,” Rachel Carson wrote in a letter to the editor of the Washington Post, “lies in the resources of the earth—soil, water,
TownhallJan 05 2015
News
D.C. Activists Urge Obama to Back Statehood in State of the Union
Activists for Washington D.C. statehood are pushing President Barack Obama to advocate for the issue in his 2015 State of the Union address, describing the federal district’s subordinate status as a “moral cause.”
Josh Burch, founder of the grassroots group Neighbors United for DC Statehood, has launched a petition through a White House outreach website urging Mr. Obama to mention
Wall Street Journal (News)May 08 2014
News
Feds: Schools can't shut out undocumented immigrants
The Obama administration delivered an unequivocally clear message — again — on Thursday: All children have a right to enroll in public schools regardless of their citizenship or immigration status. Three years after clarifying to schools that they cannot turn away children, the Education and Justice Departments issued another set of guidance documents that provide in painstaking detail what
PoliticoAug 26 2012
Perspectives Blog
AllSides Goes Live Today
We finally go live today! Yippee!
This is our 4th release (or 24th depending on how you count), but the first one we are releasing to the public.
We have been working on this for sometime getting the technology right, improving the user experience, throwing away brilliant ideas that turned out to be really stupid - you know the drill.
So why are we doing this? Here is the
John Gable, AllSides Co-founder