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Nov 12 2020
Perspectives Blog
Story of the Week: Biden Projected to Win Presidency as Trump Alleges Fraud
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As a Biden-Harris Administration slowly begins to take shape, current President Donald Trump is arguing that the 2020 presidential election was manipulated in Joe Biden's favor. Most major news outlets projected Biden as the election's winner last weekend; some, particularly right-rated sources, did not.
AllSides StaffMay 29 2012
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Senate Hopefuls Spar in Texas
Raphael "Ted" Cruz wants voters to see him as a warrior for conservative causes. In an hour's conversation, he uses the word "fight" 24 times. Propping his black cowboy boots on an ottoman, he lays out how he would represent Texas in the Senate: "If I don't have arrows up and down my torso, I won't be doing my job."
Most candidates say they will fight for their values, but Mr. Cruz's
Wall Street Journal (News)May 25 2012
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Romney Takes School Message to West Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA–Mitt Romney ventured to an urban charter school Thursday in a rare inner-city campaign stop, where he met with a handful of educators who challenged the presidential candidate on his education policies.
Mr. Romneys visit to the Universal Bluford Charter School was one of the few campaign events where the message wasnt quite so scripted and the audience not entirely
Wall Street Journal (News)May 23 2013
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John Boehner On IRS Scandal: 'Looks To Me Like' They've 'Got Something To Hide'
Hours after IRS official Lois Lerner invoked her 5th Amendment right to avoid testimony at a House Oversight & Government Reform Committee hearing, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) failed to buy her claim of "I did nothing wrong."
In an interview aired on Wednesday's edition of Fox News' "On The Record with Greta Van Susteren," Boehner continued to hammer at the IRS' targeting of
HuffPostMay 22 2013
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IRS hearing: Lois Lerner pleads the Fifth
Lois Lerner, the director of the scandal-plagued IRS division that oversees nonprofit groups, struck a defiant tone in her first public appearance since the agency acknowledged that it wrongly targeted conservative groups applying for a tax exemption. “I have not done anything wrong, she told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today. “I have not broken any laws. I have not
NPR (Online News)Nov 03 2014
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Millennial Voters Skewing Republican in Midterm Poll
The midterm-election polls are looking good for Republicans, and among millennials the numbers are, you might say, reddening, too. But there’s little in the picture that’s rosy, and even less that comes across as enthused. A national poll released Wednesday morning by the Institute of Politics at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, based on interviews with 2,029 Americans between
BloombergNov 29 2012
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Lawsuit seeks to overturn Ariz. Gov. Brewer’s immigration order
A coalition of immigrant rights advocates filed a lawsuit Thursday seeking to overturn an order by Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer that denies drivers licenses for illegal immigrants who have received work permits but avoided deportation under a new Obama administration policy. The class-action lawsuit seeks to block an Aug. 15 executive order issued by the governor after the federal government
Washington TimesMay 20 2013
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Tea Party Looks To Gain Momentum In IRS Scandal Aftermath
Is the tea party getting its groove back? Shouts of vindication from around the country suggest the movement's leaders certainly think so.
They say the IRS acknowledgement that it had targeted their groups for extra scrutiny – a claim that tea party activists had made for years – is helping pump new energy into the coalition. And they are trying to use that development, along with the
HuffPostMay 16 2013
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Republicans press for more documents on Benghazi, Dems say case closed
House Republicans continue to demand more documents out of the Obama administration on the Benghazi terror attack, praising the release of 100 pages of internal deliberations as an encouraging step but claiming the government should do more to clear up questions. "While these hundred are good and they shed light on what happened, we have nearly 25,000 that they haven't released," Rep. Jason
Fox News DigitalMay 15 2013
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House at Impasse on Immigration Reform
Immigration reform efforts by a bipartisan group of House lawmakers have come to a standstill as members struggle to come to a compromise on a number of key issues. The biggest disagreement between the parties is centered on whether there should be a so-called "trigger" in place before the path to citizenship for the nation's estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants can begin, Politico
Newsmax (News)