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Jan 05 2019
News
Democrats to honor sad anniversary in introducing gun background checks bill on Tuesday
Tuesday is January 8, the eighth anniversary of the shooting that nearly killed then-Rep. Gabby Giffords and did kill six people. And on Tuesday, House Democrats are introducing H.R. 8, a bill to require universal background checks for gun sales.
Giffords will join Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Mike Thompson,, the head of the House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, in introducing the
Daily KosJun 03 2020
News
Obama Townhall Viewership Surpasses Trump’s Newsmax Interview
President Barack Obama’s townhall Wdnesday on police reform drew hundreds of thousands of concurrent viewers on YouTube, while President Donald Trump’s interview on Newsmax — happening at the same time — didn’t even break one thousand.
Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer interviewed Trump for Newsmax regarding the state of the country amid widespread protests over the death
The Daily CallerSep 24 2020
Analysis
How Louisville Can Still Get Justice For Breonna Taylor
Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron announced Wednesday that a grand jury decided against murder charges for three Louisville Metro Police Department officers who shot and killed Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old Black woman, in her home.
After more than 100 days of protests since the March killing in Kentucky’s largest city, and calls from demonstrators, lawmakers and even celebrities
HuffPostOct 05 2017
News
Some in GOP open to discussing Democrats’ proposal to ban device used in Las Vegas attack
It didn’t work after mass shootings at a nightclub in Orlando, college campuses in Virginia and Oregon, a church in Charleston, or at a movie theater and high school in Colorado. Or after two lawmakers survived assassination attempts. But after a gunman killed 58 people and wounded more than 500 at a Las Vegas concert, Democrats are going to try again to revamp the nation’s gun laws.
Washington PostAug 03 2020
Opinion
Putting stock market reform at the center of reform conservatism
The FT reports that the “FBI has joined securities regulators to tackle the potential threat of market manipulation posed by sophisticated computer trading strategies that have taken markets beyond the scope of traditional policing.”
So more law enforcement and more regulation. But if this is indeed a problem, would not some sort of transaction tax be the more efficient and market
American Enterprise InstituteJun 11 2020
Opinion
Does Trump know he's the president?
For most of his presidency, President Trump's approval rating has seemed very sturdy — since 2018, only a few times has he dipped below 40 percent approval in the FiveThirtyEight poll average. But the ongoing combination of economic collapse, an uncontrolled pandemic that has killed 114,000 people and counting, and now a nationwide outbreak of protest against police brutality has finally
Ryan CooperAug 03 2020
Humor
Illegal Immigration Stopped As Trump Kidnaps Wall Of Moms, Deploys On Southern Border
Illegal immigration has come to a screeching halt thanks to a wall of screeching moms. President Trump saw videos of the Portland moms on Twitter and quickly got an idea: kidnap them and dump them on the Southern border to deter illegal immigrants.
As soon as illegal immigrants see the wall of screaming moms, they stop in their tracks and turn the other direction, realizing America isn'
Babylon Bee (Humor)Mar 26 2021
News
Dominion Voting sues Fox for $1.6B over 2020 election claims
Dominion Voting Systems on Friday filed a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News, arguing the cable news giant falsely claimed in an effort to boost faltering ratings that the voting company had rigged the 2020 election.
It’s the first defamation suit filed against a media outlet by the voting company, which was a target of misleading, false and bizarre claims spread by
Associated PressDec 07 2020
Opinion
Not Voting For The Republican Senate Candidates In Georgia Is Stupid
Let’s not beat around the bush – the idea that somehow it’s a genius, 5-D chess strategy to punish the Democrats for cheating in the last election by handing them the next election (and the Senate) by boycotting the Georgia run-offs is so transcendently dumb that it’s awe-inspiring. It’s really remarkable not only in how absolutely idiotic it is, but how it also manages to combine substantive
TownhallJun 13 2016
News
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton: Contrasts in Orlando response
For Donald Trump, Sunday’s mass shooting in Florida was a moment to redouble his call for tougher action against terrorism and to take credit for “being right” about the threat. For Hillary Clinton, it was a time to choose words carefully and reiterate her call for keeping “weapons of war” off America’s streets.
Washington Times