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May 14 2016
News
The #NeverTrump Movement Is Not Ready To Surrender
So, that happened. With his primary opponents dispatched and establishment Republicans being wooed in earnest, Donald Trump believes himself to be on the glide path to unifying the Republican Party. But not so fast: the rebel movement of distressed and despairing Republicans who have emerged under the hashtag-cum-banner #NeverTrump has not given up the fight to keep the ranting rawhide chew
HuffPost
Nov 29 2012
News
Mortgage-interest deduction could be on the table in ‘fiscal cliff’ debate
Of all the deductions woven into the sprawling U.S. tax code, few have been more fiercely guarded than the enormous tax break that lets homeowners deduct the interest they pay on their mortgages.
Washington Post
Aug 14 2013
News
Hillary's Questionable Handling of Benghazi a Passing Thought for CBS
John Blackstone promoted Hillary Clinton's potential 2016 presidential run on Tuesday's CBS This Morning and minimized the ongoing questions about her leadership before during and after the September 11, 2012 Islamist attack on the U.S. compound in Benghazi.
May 20 2015
News
Secrets of the bin Laden treasure-trove
(CNN)In his final years hiding in a compound in Pakistan, Osama bin Laden was a man who at once showed great love and interest in his own family while he coldly drew up quixotic plans for mass casualty attacks on Americans, according to documents seized by Navy SEALs the night he was killed.
On Wednesday morning, the U.S. Office of t
CNN (Online News)
Jul 15 2019
News
Obamacare in Jeopardy
Last Tuesday, a federal appeals court heard arguments “in a 2018 lawsuit [against the ACA, also known as Obamacare] by 18 Republican-leaning states claiming that the absence of a tax converts the law into an unconstitutional directive to U.S. citizens to buy a product. A lower court judge ruled in December that it did, and that the entire law must fall as a result… [the judges] seemed inclined
The Flip Side
Jan 25 2015
Opinion
OPINION: America's Tolerance Problem
For the next two years, the chances are good that the U.S. government will be almost completely paralyzed. After the midterm elections, power is more perfectly divided between a president and Congress that detest each other. Each sees its main job as blocking the other's ambitions. The Republican majorities on Capitol Hill will pass bills to make a point; the Democratic president will veto
Bloomberg
Jun 14 2019
News
How the Trump administration is using 9/11 to build a case for war with Iran
The Trump administration keeps saying that it doesn’t want to go to war with Iran. The problem is that some top officials continue to make statements that could pave a dubiously legal and factually challenged pathway to war.
If that’s the intention, a major flare-up between Washington and Tehran could lead the administration to say it has the right to launch what would be one of the
Vox
May 06 2013
News
Lawmakers divided over arming rebels in Syria
Lawmakers had varying opinions Sunday on whether the United States should supply Syrian rebel forces with weapons now that the situation has escalated with Syria, accusing Israel, a close U.S. ally, of launching rockets into the country.
CNN (Online News)
May 12 2016
News
Twitter Is Seriously Warping Perceptions of the Presidential Race
We can’t control what irrationally annoys us any more than we can control our taste in food or music — it’s the result of a thousand invisible factors working in complicated ways. In my case, for the last couple months, I’ve been weirdly, unfortunately fixated on the dumb, bad-faith, please-jam-sporks-into-my-eyes-right-now arguments between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton supporters
New York Magazine