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Jun 01 2020
News
Tucker Carlson: No One In Authority Is Keeping Order, This Is How Nations Collapse
Tucker Carlson delivered a 20-minute plus monologue on the ongoing national riots inspired by the police-involved death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Monday night on his FOX News program Carlson denounced national and local leaders for not keeping the order and openly siding with "the destroyers."
TUCKER CARLSON, FOX NEWS: When the mobs came, they abandoned us. Good evening and
Tucker CarlsonJul 16 2019
News
What makes Trump's tweets racist? A historian explains
When President Trump tweeted on Sunday that "'Progressive' Democratic Congresswomen" — an apparent reference to Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar and Ayanna Pressley, who are all women of color — should "go back" to their countries, the backlash was swift. It also sparked another conversation: What makes something racist?
Ibram Kendi, a professor and director
CBS News (Online)Apr 20 2015
News
Bernie Sanders jabs Hillary Clinton on trade: 'Are you on the side of working people?'
Vermont Senator and potential presidential contender Bernie Sanders is calling on Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton "to be clear" on President Barack Obama's trade policy.
At a protest just outside the U.S. Trade Representative's Office near the White House on Monday, Sanders blasted Obama's proposals for fast-track trade promotional authority and the Trans-Pacific Partnership
CNN DigitalDec 03 2019
News
Tariffs
On Monday, “U.S. President Donald Trump [announced] tariffs on U.S. steel and aluminum imports from [Brazil and Argentina]… In an early morning tweet, Trump said the tariffs, ‘effective immediately,’ were necessary because ‘Brazil and Argentina have been presiding over a massive devaluation of their currencies. which is not good for our farmers.’” (Reuters)
The left is critical of the
The Flip SideDec 03 2019
Opinion
Trump’s Foreign Policy: The Popping Point of Maximum Pressure
We’re gaining momentum in our standoffs with China, Iran, and North Korea. So expect dangerous provocations.
Donald Trump promised to shake up U.S. foreign policy. He has certainly done that from the Middle East to Asia. The U.S. is currently engaged in a three-front, maximum-pressure standoff with China, Iran, and North Korea — involving everything from tariffs to possible military
Victor HansonDec 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
PoliticoSep 04 2013
Opinion
The Least Bad Option in Syria
There are many good reasons not to intervene in Syria. First, contrary to what President Obama has said, the atrocities there present no security threat to the United States.
Second, U.S. intervention seems unlikely to do much good – if by “good” one means a reduction in the suffering of innocents. Unless, of course, the U.S. decides to launch a full-scale invasion followed by lengthy
ReasonDec 14 2012
Opinion
Building A Better Medicare Program: Lessons from the Private Sector
For years, it has been conventional wisdom in health-policy circles that government-run, Fee-for-Service Medicare is more efficient than private insurance. It is said that Medicare, America's single-payer health-insurance system for the elderly, has lower administrative costs than private insurers do. Single-payer advocates argue, therefore, that the United States would have a more cost-
Manhattan InstituteJul 12 2019
News
As U.S. debt, deficits mount, presidential candidates sweep them under the rug
In four hours of debate among Democratic contenders for the U.S. presidency, the word “deficit” was never uttered and the government’s debt was mentioned only once.
The reality is that Democrats are reluctant to make a campaign issue out of one of America’s most vexing problems — the ballooning annual budget deficits and overall debt under President Donald Trump.
That’s because
ReutersApr 26 2021
Analysis
D.C. statehood: Advancing the cause of Democrats? Or democracy?
Eleanor Holmes Norton’s family has been fighting for equality since the 1800s, when her great-grandfather escaped slavery to come work in Washington, D.C., but – as she puts it – “didn’t quite find his freedom.”
She grew up in segregated neighborhoods, went on to Yale Law School, and has represented the District of Columbia in Congress for 30 years. Yet as a delegate, she has never
Christian Science Monitor