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May 08 2013
News
Line Went Dead as Ambassador Said, ‘We’re Under Attack’
A State Department official presented a minute-by-minute account on Wednesday of what happened during the seige of the diplomatic compound in Benghazi last Sept. 11, offering the first public testimony from an American official who was on the ground in Libya that night.
New York Times (News)
Sep 04 2014
News
Robert McDonnell guilty of 11 corruption counts
A federal jury Thursday found former Virginia governor Robert F. McDonnell and his wife, Maureen, guilty of public corruption — sending a message that they believed the couple sold the office once occupied by Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson to a free spending Richmond businessman for golf outings, lavish vacations and $120,000 in sweetheart loans.
Washington Post
May 03 2013
Opinion
Twinkie insanity hits the House
Rep. Aaron Schock (R-Ill.) argued in POLITICO April 17 that it should be illegal for the U.S. government's "public health guardian," the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to point out to children and their parents that Twinkies and sugar-laced sodas are bad for health.
Politico
Nov 21 2015
News
House Passes Bill to Halt, Overhaul Syrian Refugee Process
Nearly four dozen Democrats joined House Republicans to pass legislation Thursday that would halt the resettlement of Syrian and Iraqi refugees in the U.S. and overhaul the screening process, delivering a rebuke to the White House in response to public anxiety sparked by last Friday’s Islamic State attacks in Paris.
President Barack Obama, who threatened to veto the legislation, and
Wall Street Journal (News)
Oct 18 2019
News
Impeachment is too important to leave to Congress — it’s going to take mass mobilization
Watergate is the ur-text for how Americans imagine the defeat of a sitting president, but it shouldn’t be how to think about the impeachment of Donald Trump.
Watergate was a formative political experience for many of the older Democrats who run the House of Representatives these days. And the semi-fictionalized version of the scandal portrayed on film in All the President’s Men is an
Vox
Oct 05 2012
News
Unemployment Rate Drops To 7.8 Percent; 114,000 Jobs Added To Payrolls
The nation's unemployment rate fell to 7.8 percent in September from 8.1 percent in August even though just 114,000 jobs were added to private and public payrolls, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports.
NPR (Online News)
Aug 31 2013
News
John Kerry's moment
Meet John Kerry, chief prosecutor for President Barack Obama. Both in public and behind the scenes, the secretary of State has emerged as the most forceful advocate for the administration’s case that Bashar Assad’s regime used chemical weapons in Syria’s civil war.
Politico
Dec 02 2019
News
Trump team positions Pence as the antidote to anti-Trump animus
The president’s campaign aides recognize Trump’s personality is a liability with the voters he needs to win over. That’s where Mike Pence comes in.
When Donald Trump’s reelection team shamelessly acknowledged during a World Series campaign commercial that America’s 45th president is “no Mr. Nice Guy,” it was doing more than shock-and-awe advertising.
Noticeably absent from the 30
Politico
Oct 04 2012
Opinion
Defending targets of discrimmination - LGBT relationships
Since the first marriage lawsuit for same-sex couples in 1971, the ACLU has been at the forefront of both legal and public education efforts to secure marriage for same-sex couples and win legal recognition for LGBT relationships.
ACLU
Nov 19 2020
Perspectives Blog
Current Depolarization Activities Ask People to Work Too Hard, are Unlikely to Reach Enough Americans
The election is now over. Yet the work to depolarize the country must continue. Having some new leaders can help, but they cannot fully reverse forces that have led to increasing political division.
At the heart of efforts to reduce political polarization – especially improving the emotions and attitudes we have toward those across political divides – is a nascent movement of groups
James Coan