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Dec 04 2014
News
Obama Says He Will Continue Work to Improve Police, Community Relations
President Barack Obama renewed his vow to help improve police and community relations in the aftermath of a New York grand jury’s Wednesday decision not to indict a police officer in the death of a Staten Island man.
Wednesday’s decision by the jury “speaks to the larger issues that we’ve been talking about now for the last week, the last month, the last year and sadly, for decades,”
Wall Street Journal (News)
Dec 03 2014
Opinion
When Whites Just Don’t Get It, Part 5
WE Americans are a nation divided.
We feud about the fires in Ferguson, Mo., and we can agree only that racial divisions remain raw. So let’s borrow a page from South Africa and impanel a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to examine race in America.
The model should be the 9/11 commission or the Warren Commission on President Kennedy’s assassination, and it should hold
New York Times (News)
Mar 26 2019
News
Donald Trump, GOP look to settle score with Democrats, media over Mueller investigation
Emboldened by special counsel Robert Mueller's finding that there was no collusion with Russia in the 2016 election, President Donald Trump and his Republican allies are going on offense over the issue as he heads into next year's campaign.
After Attorney General William Barr's summary of Mueller's conclusions exonerated Trump on the question of collusion, White House aides and Trump
USA TODAY
Mar 26 2019
News
Consequences of the Mueller Investigation
Following Attorney General William Barr’s summary of the Mueller report on Sunday, both sides weigh in on its effect going forward.
The left focused on larger questions stemming from the Mueller inquiry and report, while simultaneously noting that Dem 2020 candidates are focused on policy issues.
“The rampant criminality [the inquiry] revealed suggests the desperate need to
The Flip Side
Nov 13 2019
News
Supreme Court Hears DACA Case
“The Supreme Court’s conservative majority signaled support on Tuesday for President Donald Trump’s bid to kill a program that protects hundreds of thousands of immigrants - dubbed ‘Dreamers’ - who entered the United States illegally as children… The court’s ideological divisions were on full display as it heard the administration’s appeal of lower court rulings that blocked the Republican
The Flip Side
Nov 23 2014
News
GOP senator says executive action will make further immigration reform difficult
Sen. Jeff Flake, Arizona Republican, said Sunday that he approved of the actions in the president’s immigration executive order — it’s the way the president issued the changes that could make compromise more difficult in Washington.
“We did much of what the president did, in fact went even further, in the Senate bill,” he said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “The problem is the way he did it
Washington Times
Jul 16 2012
News
Romney firm on tax returns
Mitt Romney remained steadfast in his pledge to release only two years of his personal income tax returns Monday following a weekend of increased pressure from Democrats and some Republicans to disclose more of his financial information.
Romney, appearing on Fox News, said his rivals wanted to "make a mountain" out of an issue he regards as inconsequential compared to problems facing
CNN (Online News)
Apr 04 2015
News
Utah, 14 states urge Supreme Court to let citizens decide same-sex marriage question
Utah has joined 14 other states in urging the U.S. Supreme Court to let states decide whether to legalize same-sex marriage.
"The Constitution takes no sides on same-sex marriage, and therefore leaves the issue up to the free deliberations of state citizens," according to a friend-of-the-court brief the 15 states filed.
The court this year consolidated cases from Kentucky,
Deseret News
Apr 03 2015
News
Fights Over 'Religious Freedom' And Gay Rights Are Costing Republicans
Following a firestorm of criticism, Republican governors in Indiana and Arkansas signed revised versions of their states' Religious Freedom Restoration bills Thursday night. In Indiana the language was adjusted, and in Arkansas it was significantly scaled back to more closely align with the federal law.
National Republicans, especially the ones running for president, have to hope it's
NPR (Online News)
May 22 2019
News
Probe Inconclusive on VA Governor Northam's Racist Yearbook Pic
An investigation ordered up by a Virginia medical school failed to determine whether Gov. Ralph Northam is in a 1984 yearbook photo of a man in blackface next to someone in a Ku Klux Klan hood.
Investigators with a law firm hired by Eastern Virginia Medical School said Wednesday they couldn't "conclusively determine" the identities of either person in the 35-year-old photo.
They
CBN