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Mar 25 2015
News
Unhappy With a Moderate Jeb Bush, Conservatives Aim to Unite Behind an Alternative
Fearing that Republicans will ultimately nominate an establishment presidential candidate like Jeb Bush, leaders of the nation’s Christian right have mounted an ambitious effort to coalesce their support behind a single social-conservative contender months before the first primary votes are cast.
In secret straw polls and exclusive meetings from Iowa to California, the leaders are
New York Times (News)Jul 29 2019
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Nadler: Trump 'Richly Deserves' Impeachment
President Donald Trump "richly deserves impeachment," House Judiciary Committee chairman Jerry Nadler told CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday, but the New York Democrat did not call for his fellow Democrats to begin a formal inquiry.
"He has done many impeachable offenses," Nadler said. "He's violated the law six ways from Sunday."
Nadler added, however, "That’s not the
Newsmax (News)Dec 31 2014
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Guess Who Spent The Most Money in the 2014 Midterms? Liberal Billionaires
With as many times as outgoing Majority Leader Harry Reid mentioned the Koch brothers in Senate floor speeches this year, you'd think that they were the ones who spent the most money during the 2014 midterm elections. Think again. Out of all the billionaires who donated money to causes or campaigns for the midterms, the top two were Democrats and they outspent everyone else on the list,
TownhallAug 09 2015
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Bernie Sanders: Criticism of Hillary Clinton is 'sexist'
Bernie Sanders is battling Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination -- but he's defending her trustworthiness, saying the former secretary of state is facing "sexist" criticism.
"I think for a variety of reasons, Hillary Clinton has been under all kinds of attack for many, many years. In fact, I can't think of many personalities who have been attacked for more reasons
CNN (Online News)Dec 15 2013
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Gun control battle moves to Main Street
President Barack Obama responded to last December’s Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre by calling for the nation to end its indifference toward gun violence, but one year and one failed Senate vote later, Washington’s major players in the gun control push have beat a public retreat. The fight has moved from Capitol Hill to Main Street.
PoliticoMar 15 2015
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John Kerry Says GOP Letter to Iran Was ‘Wrong’
Secretary of State John Kerry, a day ahead of new nuclear negotiations with Iran, stressed to Tehran’s leadership that President Barack Obama has the power to implement any agreement reached with the country, despite intense opposition from Republican lawmakers in Congress.
Iran’s most powerful political figure, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, expressed reservations this week about
Wall Street Journal (News)Dec 10 2013
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Bipartisan Negotiators Unveil Budget To Avoid January Shutdown
Congressional negotiators announced Tuesday that they'd reached a budget proposal to restore about $65 billion worth of sequestration cuts in exchange for cuts elsewhere and additional fees.
If approved by both the House and Senate, the plan — hammered out by Republican Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin and Democratic Sen. Patty Murray of Washington — would avoid another government shutdown
NPR (Online News)Oct 21 2020
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These groups try to hack the vote – so that real criminals can’t
Maggie MacAlpine is full of ideas about how to cause chaos on Election Day.
Sitting in a suit jacket and T-shirt against a red background with skulls and her team’s moniker, K-OS, she ticks off possibilities from sending armed gun-rights activists to polling places, to spreading rumors that minority voters are being turned away, to a “deep fake” concession speech by a candidate.
Christian Science MonitorMar 10 2015
News
Republicans are crossing a dangerous new line: sabotaging US foreign policy
Throughout Barack Obama's presidency, Republicans in Congress have deployed a strategy that has worked remarkably well for them: oppose, obstruct, and sabotage the Obama administration at every turn.
"The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president," Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell, then the Senate minority leader, said in 2010.
VoxMar 25 2021
Perspectives Blog
When A Border Challenge Becomes a Border Crisis
From the CenterThis viewpoint is from a writer rated Center.
For some reason, Joe Biden and his advisors have determined that referring to the rapidly deteriorating state of affairs at the U.S.-Mexico border as a “crisis” is to their political disadvantage. So White House staffers have been tearing apart the political thesaurus looking for less alarming synonyms to describe
Dan Schnur