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Mar 09 2016
Perspectives Blog
Trump and Sanders- More Alike than Different
Few people believe Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump have much in common. But while Sanders and Trump may be polar opposites in some respects, they’re alike in some very fundamental ways. And their popularity is driven by some of the very same reasons.
Congress' job approval rating is 16%. Dysfunctional government was the single most important problem Americans mentioned in Gallup polls
Beth Ballentine
Mar 06 2020
Perspectives Blog
Boos Toward a Republican at a Mindfulness Conference — Good Humor or Hateful?
Last year, Joan Blades and I spoke at the Wisdom 2.0 conference in San Francisco, an inspiring event that merges mindfulness and ageless wisdom with modern technology and society. It was an extraordinary event and going on again right now. I highly recommend it.
Being the lone Republican on the main stage at a very progressive event, at one point I got booed. It seemed (at least mostly
John Gable, AllSides Co-founder
Feb 09 2022
Headline Roundup
Pelosi Joins Growing Bipartisan Support for Ban on Stock Trading in Congress
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Wednesday that she would support a ban on members of Congress trading stocks so long as the ban was “government-wide.”
Pelosi’s public position on the issue has changed in recent months, shifting from direct opposition in December to apparent openness in January. Pelosi singled out the judiciary branch in her "government-wide" stipulation,
Washington Post
New York Post (News)
Business Insider
Sep 13 2022
Headline Roundup
Lindsey Graham Proposes National 15-Week Abortion Ban
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) introduced a bill Tuesday to establish a national ban on most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy.
The ban makes exceptions for situations involving rape, incest or risks to the life and physical health of the mother. In announcing the bill, called the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, Graham said it would "get America in a position at the federal
Axios
Politico
The Daily Caller 
Nov 15 2015
News
Democrats Debate in Iowa Day After Paris Terror Attacks
The three Democrats left stranding—frontrunner Hillary Clinton, former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley, and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT)16% —debate tonight in Iowa the day after a series of horrific Islamic terror attacks rocked Paris and left 129 dead and hundreds more injured.
In Iowa, viewers may be more interested in their undefeated Iowa Hawkeyes (Iowa ate nearly ten minutes off
Breitbart News
Jan 06 2021
Headline Roundup
Biden, Trump React to Capitol Hill Breach
President-elect Joe Biden, President Donald Trump and other lawmakers addressed the breach of the Capitol building Wednesday. From a Delaware theater Wednesday afternoon, Biden called on the "mob to pull back and allow democracy to go forward," adding that there was "an assault on the rule of law" that “borders on sedition.” Biden also called for Trump to go on national television "to fulfill
Washington Examiner
Associated Press Fact Check
NPR (Online News)
Dec 02 2020
Perspectives Blog
When Two Parties Aren’t Enough For Some People
It is deeply frustrating for many Democrats that Dianne Feinstein and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are members of the same political party. Most Republicans are equally unhappy that they are forced to count both Mitt Romney and Donald Trump, Jr. within their ranks. Such is life in a two-party system, where both sides must deal with internal tensions in order to win elections — that's the point of
Dan Schnur
Apr 04 2022
Headline Roundup
Jackson Nomination Moves Forward After Committee Hits Partisan Deadlock
The Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday reached a party-line 11-11 vote on Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination to the Supreme Court.
Jackson’s confirmation is still expected later this week, however. While the Judiciary Committee will not formally recommend her nomination, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) called a vote to discharge Jackson’s nomination from the committee.
Reuters
USA TODAY
The Daily Wire
Sep 23 2020
Perspectives Blog
When a Supreme Court Battle is Just the Undercard
In a column last week about California’s wildfires, I referenced a recent poll from the respected Pew Research Center that found that climate change policy ranked eleventh of twelve issues in importance to voters in this campaign. The only thing that was less of a priority to respondents in that survey was abortion, which came in twelfth and last.
That is about to change.
After
Dan Schnur
Oct 09 2019
Opinion
What Hunter Biden Did Was Legal — And That’s the Problem
We need a Washington Corrupt Practices Act to stop political families from self-dealing.
In 2016, JPMorgan Chase agreed to pay $264 million as part of a settlement with the federal government. The reason? An Asian subsidiary of the company had hired the children of Chinese government officials in the hopes of currying favor with their powerful parents — a violation of the Foreign
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