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Apr 11 2016
Background
Do Electronic Voting Machines Improve the Voting Process?
Originally developed in the 1970s, direct recording electronic (DRE) voting machines have become increasingly used nationwide. After the 2000 US presidential election's troubles with "pregnant” and "hanging” chads and the subsequent passage of the 2002 Help America Vote Act which swelled use of DREs, electronic voting technology became widely debated.
Proponents argue that electronic
ProCon.org
May 24 2019
News
Theresa May to Step Down as U.K. Prime Minister
Theresa May said she would quit as British prime minister once her Conservative Party chooses a successor, potentially paving the way for a new leader who would put a no-deal departure from the European Union back on the agenda.
The prospect of leaving with EU without an agreement to ease economic disruption faded earlier this year, as lawmakers made plain their opposition to a so-
Wall Street Journal (News)
Jun 21 2019
Opinion
OPINION: A Complete Clownshow — With a Few Notable Exceptions
There are actually things Congress could be doing, you know.
Things which are of more value than putting on demagogic expositions like allowing Sheila Jackson-Lee, the utterly moronic Democrat congresswoman from the slums of Houston, to stage a hearing on the urgent necessity of paying reparations to the black community for slavery.
This wasn’t a hearing to discuss a true
Guest Writer - Right
Mar 28 2014
News
Martin Luther King, Jr., and the American Dream
Martin Luther King, Jr., was a champion of great principles, laboring mightily and in the end sacrificing his life to advance the cause of equal rights for all. At the level of first principles—in his commitments to natural rights, democratic government, and the irrelevance of race to moral personhood and just social deserts—King’s political thought might properly claim a consensus among
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American Thinker
American Thinker is a conservative daily online magazine dealing with American politics, foreign policy, national security, Israel, economics, diplomacy, culture and military strategy.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Thinker
Feb 19 2020
News
Trump Announces Pardons & Commutations
This Abridge News topic aggregates four unique arguments on different sides of the debate. Here are the quick facts to get you started:
THE QUICK FACTS
On Tuesday, President Trump issued seven pardons and commuted the sentences of four individuals. While some were released from prison, others had served their sentences years ago, but had their remaining fines Abridge News
Jul 16 2019
News
Inside Trump’s Feud With Paul Ryan
It was barely two o'clock in the afternoon and Paul Ryan was offering me a beer.
We stood in a cramped break room — microwave, sink, refrigerator stocked with Miller Lite — on the third floor of a brick building in Janesville, Wisconsin, making small talk before sitting down in his adjacent office for a lengthy interview. Ryan was relieved to be home. A few weeks earlier, he had packed
Politico
Oct 27 2013
News
NSA 'Stop Watching Us' Protest Draws Thousands In Washington
Thousands rallied against the National Security Agency's domestic and international surveillance programs Saturday, marching from Union Station to the Capitol to call for an end to mass surveillance.
"We are witnessing an American moment, in which ordinary people -- from high schools to high office -- stand up to oppose a dangerous trend in government," said a statement from Edward
HuffPost
Aug 21 2014
News
Voice, Image Give Clues in Hunt for Foley's Killer
The Islamic militant in a video showing the death of American journalist James Foley took great care to disguise his identity, dressing head-to-toe in black, with a mask leaving only his eyes visible.
But police and intelligence services in Britain and the United States have a plethora of clues as they scramble to identify him, from image analysis and voice-recognition software to
ABC News (Online)
May 06 2015
News
With Eight Candidates In, Hillary Clinton Dominates Facebook Conversation
How a candidate chooses to announce can vary from a post on a social media to an auditorium-filled rally, but one thing is clear: They want to be heard. And if a candidate’s success can be measured by whose announcement was the loudest on Facebook FB +0.70%, there is a clear winner: Hillary Clinton.
With eight official candidates in the 2016 presidential race, the campaign is well
Wall Street Journal (News)