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Jan 11 2021
News
The Capitol mob: a raging collection of grievances and disillusionment
The 36-year-old West Texas florist and self-described “conservative die hard patriot” always took to Facebook when she had something to say. So just hours after Jenny Cudd and scores of fellow Trump supporters swarmed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday during a violent insurrection, she launched a live stream with a Trump flag draped over her shoulders and boasted, “We did break down … Nancy Pelosi
Washington Post
Nov 22 2021
Perspectives Blog
When Kyle Rittenhouse Drives Us Even Further Apart
From the CenterYou may think of Kyle Rittenhouse as a villain, or as a hero. You might regard him as a vengeful vigilante out to wreak havoc, or a courageous citizen looking to protect a besieged community. I see a frightened and confused teenager who got himself involved in something much bigger and more dangerous than he could have possibly understood, with fatal and tragic consequences
Dan Schnur
Jun 22 2016
News
The GOP Obamacare ‘Replacement’ Has Arrived. Sort Of.
Speaker Paul Ryan wants to replace 20 million people’s health insurance with 37 pages of talking points.
HuffPost
Dec 02 2020
News
Trump Threatens to Veto Defense Bill if Tech Liability Shield Stands
President Trump threatened to veto an annual defense-policy bill if it doesn’t include language revoking a provision that gives social-media companies broad immunity for the content they publish from users on their sites.
Mr. Trump demanded on Tuesday night that Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act be repealed.
“[I]f the very dangerous & unfair Section 230 is
Wall Street Journal (News)
May 22 2019
News
Trump Calls on Democrats to Put Trade Pact Before Infrastructure Package
President Trump on Tuesday told Democratic congressional leaders that Congress should approve his trade deal with Canada and Mexico before taking up infrastructure legislation.
Mr. Trump sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer the day before a White House meeting scheduled with them to discuss a potential infrastructure package.
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Wall Street Journal (News)
Apr 08 2020
News
Congress is finally wising up to the scale of the coronavirus disaster — with 1 big exception
Since late February, Congress and President Trump have passed three bills in response to the coronavirus pandemic: A modest $8.3 billion investment in the public health response, then about $100 billion to beef up food stamps, state Medicaid budgets, unemployment benefits, and provide some limited paid leave. The third package, the CARES Act, was a whopping $2.2 trillion in aid that threw gobs
The Week - News
Mar 30 2018
News
Wife Of Orlando Nightclub Shooter Cleared Of All Charges
Noor Salman, widow of the gunman who opened fire on an Orlando nightclub in 2016, has been found not guilty on both the counts she faced. U.S. District Judge Paul Byron announced the verdict Friday, roughly one month after the trial opened.
NPR (Online News)
Oct 09 2019
News
Two Weeks In, Impeachment Is Becoming More Popular
It’s been a little over two weeks since Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced an impeachment inquiry into President Trump and two damning documents were released that highlight Trump’s efforts to get Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden.
In response to this, we launched an impeachment polling tracker to track how much support impeaching the president had among the public —
FiveThirtyEight
Jul 20 2020
News
Should there be more limits on presidential pardon power?
What’s happening: President Trump has issued a number of controversial pardons during his time in office, but none sparked the level of criticism as his decision late last week to commute the sentence of his longtime friend and adviser Roger Stone. The commutation allowed Stone to avoid a 40-month prison sentence after he was convicted for lying to Congress, witness tampering and obstructing
Yahoo! The 360
Mar 10 2020
Opinion
Media discover ‘Wuhan virus’ and 'Chinese coronavirus’ are racist dog whistles just in time to attack Republicans
The same news media that spent the entire new year referring to COVID-19 as the “Wuhan virus,” the "Wuhan coronavirus," or the “Chinese coronavirus” have decided this week that those terms are racist now that Republicans are using them with greater frequency.
I guess we are supposed to forget about all those times that newsgroups referred to the virus by the name of the county and city
Washington Examiner