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May 05 2015
News
Why Carly Fiorina Won't Survive The GOP Presidential Primary
Carly Fiorina is presenting herself as the anti-Hillary Clinton, a Republican businesswoman ideally positioned to take on the Democratic front-runner on women's issues in the general election. But the former Hewlett-Packard CEO, who announced her campaign for president on Monday, has in the past held a series of liberal-to-moderate positions that could threaten to derail her bid for the White
HuffPost
Oct 27 2020
Perspectives Blog
When Covid Doesn’t Go Away Before an Election
You have likely never heard of Danny Vanden Boom. But the 22-year-old college junior, who just a few weeks ago was the 4th-string quarterback for the University of Wisconsin football team, could have an outsized impact on the outcome of next week’s presidential election.
Many of us know the critical role that Wisconsin played in electing President Donald Trump four years ago, and the
Dan Schnur
Oct 06 2013
News
Rove: Obama Wants to 'Break the Republicans'
Republican strategist Karl Rove on Sunday described President Barack Obama's behavior throughout the budget showdown as "stubborn obstructionism" whose goal is to "get more money and break the Republicans."
"The stubborn obstructionism of the president … has a purpose, which is to try and get the Congress to agree to the Senate Democrats' spending number, which is $91 billion bigger
Newsmax (News)
Jan 03 2015
News
GOP focus for Congress: Cut deficit, don't stumble
In the first Republican-dominated Congress to confront President Barack Obama, GOP leaders will focus on bolstering the economy and cutting the budget — and oh yes, avoiding self-inflicted calamities that make voters wonder if the party can govern competently.
When the new Congress raises the curtain Tuesday, Republicans will run both the House and Senate for the first time in eight
Townhall
May 01 2019
Opinion
OPINION: When Should Punishment End?
The push to allow felons to vote is more about gaining Democratic voters than rehabilitating people.
Bernie Sanders, the Brooklyn socialist who represents Vermont in the Senate, has called for extending voting rights to prisoners currently incarcerated — all of them, he says, meaning: Terry Nichols, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Nidal Hasan, sundry Aryan Brotherhood bosses, a blanket immunity that
Guest Writer - Right
Jun 20 2019
News
The 2020 Nevada caucuses — and growing political power of the West — explained
The diverse, working-class state of Nevada is a key 2020 battleground.
Las Vegas, a town known for its glitzy casinos and 24-hour parties, is becoming a top destination for a deluge of Democratic presidential candidates. Already, Nevadans have received 68 visits from a flock of 2020 Democrats.
In past presidential cycles, Nevada has traditionally been an afterthought, sandwiched
Vox
Jun 20 2019
News
Joe Biden refuses to apologize, getting in his own way on race
Joe Biden can't seem to get out of his own way.
His campaign started the day by defending his nostalgia for a more civil Washington -- when getting things done meant working with segregationists on occasion.
His comments at a campaign fundraiser in New York Tuesday night drew swift rebukes from his Democratic rivals for president, drawing the controversy into the next news cycle
CNN (Online News)
Jun 20 2019
Opinion
OPINION: Joe Biden’s Segregationist Problem
His rivals, beginning with Cory Booker and Bill de Blasio, have already started to pounce.
By any standard, Joe Biden is the Democratic presidential front-runner. The poll averages at RealClearPolitics, for example, show Biden with a commanding 32–15 lead over Bernie Sanders in national polls and leading Sanders by 27 percentage points in South Carolina, 13 in New Hampshire, 13 in
Guest Writer - Right
Apr 30 2019
News
Democrats Push for Expansive Infrastructure Package
Ahead of meeting with Trump on potential bipartisan deal, Pelosi and Schumer call for inclusion of environmental, revenue provisions.
Congressional Democratic leaders laid down a marker ahead of a meeting with President Trump to discuss a bipartisan compromise on infrastructure, calling for a package that also would address climate change and include new revenue. But they didn’t discuss
Wall Street Journal (News)
Dec 31 2020
Opinion
The family gap
n a speech to the Federalist Society in November, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito reiterated his concern that ‘in certain quarters, religious liberty is fast becoming a disfavored right’. Small wonder that the subject was on his mind. A week earlier, the Court had heard oral arguments in the latest religious-liberty case, Fulton v. City of Philadelphia. In it, Catholic Social Services — one
The American Spectator