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Jul 05 2019
Opinion
OPINION: Open Borders Mean Closed Opportunities for National Prosperity
Go to the right Washington, D.C., neighborhood and a front yard is not just a front yard. It’s an opportunity to display your moral superiority and allegiance to social justice.
“We Believe No Human is Illegal.” “Black Lives Matter.” “No matter where you are from, we’re glad you’re our neighbor.” One in my ultra-liberal neighborhood speaks to me more than the others, however, as it
Guest Writer - Right
Jul 10 2016
News
Obama urges Americans to be positive about race relations, saying 'We've got a foundation’
President Obama on Saturday urged Americans to remain optimistic about race relations in the immediate aftermath of two black males being fatally shot by police officers, then a gunman apparently retaliating by killing five Dallas law-enforcement officials, saying, “We cannot let the actions of a few define all of us.”
Fox News (Online News)
Apr 30 2014
News
Americans Want to Pull Back From World Stage, Poll Finds
Americans in large numbers want the U.S. to reduce its role in world affairs even as a showdown with Russia over Ukraine preoccupies Washington, a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll finds. In a marked change from past decades, nearly half of those surveyed want the U.S. to be less active on the global stage, with fewer than one-fifth calling for more active engagement—an anti-interventionist Wall Street Journal (News)
Jul 02 2015
News
BP To Pay $18.7 Billion To Settle Gulf Coast Oil Spill Claims
The agreement with the U.S. government five Gulf Coast states and more than 400 local governments comes nearly five years after the Deepwater Horizon spill.
NPR (Online News)
May 06 2015
Opinion
OPINION: 2016 race: Why a Tea Party president is a real possibility
When the Tea Party began in 2009, even those of us at the heart of the movement couldn't have predicted how it would permanently alter America's political landscape.
Fox News (Online News)
Jun 03 2015
Opinion
OPINION: Hillary Clinton troubled by declining economy
Two of Hillary Clintons rivals for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination tell us everything we need to know about her party's terminal political illness.
Washington Times
Jul 04 2019
News
Happiness Depends on Freedom, and Freedom Depends on Courage
The Currency of American Freedom is Blood. We Would Do Well to Remember it.
The absence of signage made finding it a challenge. It was a steamy-hot summer day on Okinawa. Leaving the comfortable air conditioning of the taxi, my sunglasses immediately fogged-up. As a native of the American South, I am used to heat and humidity, but this was something different. Half an hour later, my son
The American Spectator
Nov 18 2019
News
Would a Wealth Tax Work?
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
2020 Democratic presidential candidates Sen. Bernie Sanders and Sen. Elizabeth Warren have called for a wealth tax on ultra-wealthy Americans.According to their campaign websites, Warren's "Ultra-Millionaire Tax Abridge News
Jun 02 2014
News
Democrats On Benghazi Panel See Role As Defensive
The five Democrats on the House Select Committee on Benghazi are being counted on to defend the Obama administration's record as November's elections creep closer. All five voted against the special investigation and most have described it as a political stunt and waste of time.
Each now says it's important to participate in the GOP-led probe of how a U.S. ambassador and three other
HuffPost
Sep 03 2017
News
The most powerful nuclear blasts ever
The apparent hydrogen bomb that North Korea is believed to have detonated underground on Sunday was a massive explosion.
Some estimates put it at 100 kilotons, which would be five times more powerful than Fat Man, the bomb dropped on Nagasaki by the US in 1945 and which killed 70,000 people instantly.
But it still pales in comparison to the largest man-made explosion ever on
BBC News