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Feb 07 2017
Opinion
Steve Bannon Is Not the Imaginary Hobgoblin Portrayed by the Media Elite
The elite media is currently awash with fascinated hogwash about Steve Bannon, President Trump’s White House strategist. Time magazine devotes its current cover to an intentionally unflattering cover photo of and snarky cover headline about him. Time is joining the elite media lynch mob.
The one thing this tsunami of media infamy doesn’t get is… Steve Bannon. A Honey Badger, he don’t
Ralph BenkoJun 15 2020
News
What Defunding Police Departments Really Means For Black Communities
For Valerie Castile, the heart-wrenching video of George Floyd’s life being extinguished by a Minneapolis police officer, stirred painful emotions. Back in 2016, the Minnesota mother lost her son in what’s become a national crisis: police killing Black people across America.
“I’ve been crying for other people, and I cried for my own child,” said Castile in an exclusive interview with
BETMay 02 2021
Analysis
How Biden could actually deliver on his climate goals
It’s possible to imagine the United States in 2030, if the country pulls off President Joe Biden’s climate ambitions.
Every last one of the nation’s 191 coal power plants is closed or on its way out, and natural gas in the power sector is rapidly declining. Renewables power more than half of our electricity needs, and offshore wind turbines and large utility-scale solar installations
VoxMar 29 2021
News
Georgia NAACP and voting rights groups challenge sweeping Georgia voting law
The Georgia NAACP and voting rights organizations on Monday filed a lawsuit to block a sweeping new law in Georgia that imposes new restrictions on voting, the latest in a slew of legal battles expected to take aim at the measure.
The suit was filed in the federal district court in Atlanta just days after Georgia Governor Brian Kemp, a Republican, signed the GOP-backed measure into law
CBS News (Online)Apr 07 2021
News
Biden warns Georgia to 'smarten up' and 'stop it' or risk losing more woke businesses over voting law
President Joe Biden sided with woke businesses like Coca-Cola and Delta Air Lines in their criticism of Georgia's new voting law on Tuesday, telling the Peach State it needs to "smarten up" and "stop it" or else risk losing more business.
The president — who was caught last week telling an outright whopper of a lie about the new election reform measure — continued to pillory the law
The BlazeNov 06 2021
Analysis
Vaccine or Bust: Biden Orders 84M Americans to Take the Jab - Will a Third of US Workers Quit?
The jab or your job? That's what 84-million Americans are facing after the Biden administration has finally, officially, released the President's vaccine mandate against private businesses. More than two dozen states are pushing back, and millions of employees say they'll lose their jobs rather than take the shot.
But the message from the Biden Administration is vaccine or bust. The
CBNDec 15 2021
News
Republicans Who Assailed Biden’s Stimulus Bill Are Embracing the Money
At her annual budget address this month, Gov. Kristi Noem, Republican of South Dakota, blamed President Biden’s economic policies for rising prices, derided the “giant handout” of federal stimulus funds and suggested that she had considered refusing the money over ideological objections.
But like many Republican officials, Ms. Noem has found it hard to say no to her state’s share of the
New York Times (News)Nov 06 2019
News
Why the media shouldn’t bow to Rand Paul on the whistleblower
Rand Paul left no doubt where he stands on the mystery surrounding the whistleblower, with President Trump looking on approvingly.
At a rally Monday night in Lexington, the Kentucky senator thundered: “I say tonight to the media, do your job and print his name!”
Senator, that’s not our job.
It’s not the responsibility of the press to out a federal official who followed all
Fox News DigitalOct 27 2021
Analysis
Democrats' billionaires tax explained
There is now legislative language behind the push to tax American billionaires on unrealized capital gains, as Sen. Ron Wyden last night released his 107-page plan.
Why it matters: This would be a sea change in U.S. tax policy, which has only applied to realized gains (otherwise known as income).
Wyden's proposal would apply to those with more than $1 billion in assets or more
AxiosNov 15 2021
News
US journalist jailed in Myanmar for nearly 6 months is freed
American journalist Danny Fenster, who was recently sentenced to 11 years of hard labor after spending nearly six months in jail in military-ruled Myanmar, was freed and on his way home Monday, a former U.S. diplomat who helped negotiate the release said.
Fenster, the managing editor of the online magazine Frontier Myanmar, was convicted Friday of spreading false or inflammatory
Associated Press