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Aug 18 2017
Opinion
What Identity Politics Hath Wrought
There's a whiff of Weimar in the air. During the years of the Weimar Republic (1919-33), Germany was threatened by Communist revolutionaries and Nazi uprisings. Foreign Minister Walter Rathenau was assassinated, and violent street fighting was commonplace. Then Adolf Hitler took power in 1933.
Michael BaroneDec 22 2021
Perspectives Blog
What is the Meaning of Christmas? It’s a Season of Generosity.
Every major religion in the world has a tenet around being generous. In Islam, it is zakat; in Judaism is tzedakah; in Hinduism and Buddhism, it is called dana. In Christianity, it is charity. And our nation seems to highlight charity from Thanksgiving to New Years Day, since 31 percent of all charitable donations are made in the month of December. It’s hard to mistake “the Christmas season
Multiple Writers - MixedMay 21 2020
News
FBI director stuck in the middle with 'Obamagate'
FBI Director Christopher Wray is sitting in an increasingly hot seat as Republicans and the White House press forward with investigations into what President Trump is calling “Obamagate.”
Congressional Republicans are pressing Wray to provide more information after recently released FBI field notes showed officials debating how to handle the case against former national security adviser
The HillDec 09 2019
News
DOJ inspector general finds 17 'significant errors or omissions' in Carter Page FISA applications
The Justice Department watchdog excoriated the FBI for relying upon British ex-spy Christopher Steele's dossier in obtaining Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants to monitor onetime Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
Inspector General Michael Horowitz, who released a report on Monday showing his findings regarding allegations of surveillance abuses, also found the FISA process
Washington ExaminerAug 20 2014
News
Holder to Missouri in bid to ease tensions over Brown shooting
After years of causing angst for White House political aides by delving into issues of race, Attorney General Eric Holder is heading to Ferguson, Missouri, as President Barack Obama's top emissary. The trip on Wednesday to the St. Louis suburb now in the spotlight represents the latest effort by the Obama administration to find a way to calm racial tensions following the police shooting of
CNN (Online News)May 18 2020
News
Trump Wants A Fight With Obama. Here's Why He Might 'Be Careful' What He Wishes For
With Joe Biden on the ballot, so is the legacy of Barack Obama, and it appears we're about to see a throwdown between the last president and the current one — and their polar opposite worldviews.
Amid criticism of his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, President Trump has been falsely laying blame on Obama for leaving the "cupboard bare" when it comes to the national stockpile of
NPR (Online News)Mar 22 2019
News
Making a Case for Free-Range Childhood
Helicopter and now “snowplow” parenting. Enough. Here’s a case for free-range childhood.
The New York Times informs us that the “helicopter parent” — the hovering, nervous ball of anxiety — is out. Constant surveillance of children is not enough. Now we have “snowplow parents,” who rush ahead of their children and clear out all obstacles in their paths. It’s an article of the “How We
Michael Brendan DoughertyMar 04 2020
News
Bloomberg On Track To Have Spent Roughly $5 Million Per Delegate. Here’s How Much Biden Spent
Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is on track to have spent nearly $5 million of his vast fortune on each delegate he won on Super Tuesday, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation analysis.
Bloomberg is projected to collect 104 delegates from Super Tuesday victories, according to The New York Times, meaning he will have spent millions of dollars on each delegate after
The Daily CallerMar 02 2020
News
Biden and Sanders Offer a Choice: Unite or Fight?
It isn’t hard to imagine a Joe Biden administration in which Kamala Harris is vice president, Michael Bloomberg is treasury secretary, Pete Buttigieg is homeland security secretary, Tom Steyer is climate-change czar and Andrew Yang is commerce secretary—or, well, maybe special envoy for math and numbers and stuff like that.
It is, on the other hand, almost impossible to imagine a Bernie
Wall Street Journal (News)Nov 25 2014
Opinion
OPINION: Ferguson message: Justice system unfair to minorities
A little over two days. That's how long the grand jury deliberated before deciding not to bring an indictment against Darren Wilson, the police officer who shot and killed Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri on August 9. St. Louis County Prosecutor Robert McCulloch announced the grand jury had heard more than 70 hours of testimony from 60 witnesses before reaching its decision, which he said
CNN (Online News)