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Jan 15 2014
Opinion
Supreme Court to decide if abortion buffer zones violate pro-life free speech
Members of American Civil Liberties Union like to bill themselves as the ultimate protectors of the First Amendment, defending hard-core pornography as free speech, and even the possession of child pornography.
Washington TimesMar 22 2016
News
Blasts leave ‘scores’ dead at Brussels airport and metro station
Three deadly terrorist blasts rocked the Belgian capital Tuesday, leaving more than 30 dead at the Brussels airport and a metro station and striking fear in the heart of the European Union just days after a manhunt captured a key suspect in last year’s Paris massacres.
Washington PostApr 15 2021
News
U.S. imposes wide array of sanctions on Russia for 'malign' actions
The United States on Thursday imposed a broad array of sanctions on Russia to punish it for alleged interference in the U.S. election, cyber-hacking, bullying Ukraine and other “malign” acts.
The measures blacklisted Russian companies, expelled Russian diplomats and placed limits on the Russian sovereign debt market. More penalties could come, although Washington did not want to
ReutersMar 06 2015
News
Wisconsin's 'right to work' vote: A blow to income equality nationwide?
With a pending vote by the state legislature, Wisconsin is poised to become the nation’s 25th “right to work” state, in which labor unions can’t impose fees on private-sector workers who don’t want to join.
Christian Science MonitorOct 02 2016
News
BORIS JOHNSON’S LATEST MOVE WOULD MAKE TRUMP BLUSH
When it comes to barefaced untruth and witless inconsistency, there is perhaps only one politician in the Western world who approaches the level of Donald Trump: Boris Johnson, the former Conservative mayor of London who became British foreign secretary in the wake of the United Kingdom’s narrow vote to leave the European Union this June.
Vanity FairNov 13 2016
News
Ryan: 'We are not planning on erecting a deportation force'
House Speaker Paul Ryan said Sunday despite Donald Trump's campaign rhetoric, lawmakers are not prepared to form a deportation force to round-up and deport undocumented immigrants.
"We are not planning on erecting a deportation force. Donald Trump's not planning on that," Ryan told CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union."
CNN DigitalOct 20 2020
News
'Where Would the Black Lives Matter Movement Be Without the Right To Free Speech?'
"Where would the Black Lives Matter movement be without the right to free speech?" asks Ira Glasser, the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) from 1978 to 2001. "There is no social justice movement in America that has ever not needed the First Amendment to initiate its movement for justice, to sustain its movement to justice, to help its movement survive."
ReasonJun 22 2016
News
Brexit: The UK's Donald Trump moment
England is having a Donald Trump moment.
A toxic political brew is percolating ahead of the UK's referendum Thursday on whether to leave the European Union, a fateful vote with consequences not just for America's closest historical ally but for Western stability that could trigger economic and political reverberations in the United States.
CNN DigitalMar 12 2017
News
John McCain predicts ‘there’s a lot more shoes to drop’ on Trump-Russia connection
Sen. John McCain predicted Sunday that “there’s a lot more shoes to drop” regarding President Trump’s connections to Russia, and said he believes top Trump associates should be called before Congress to testify. Appearing on CNN’s “State of the Union,” the Arizona Republican said the American people need more information and need it quickly.
Washington TimesFeb 10 2015
News
Judicial defiance in Alabama: Same-sex marriages begin, but most counties refuse
On the day that same-sex unions became legal in Alabama, local officials in dozens of counties on Monday defied a federal judge’s decision and refused to issue marriage licenses to gay couples, casting the state into judicial chaos.
Washington Post