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Sep 05 2014
Opinion
OPINION: In Afghanistan, Time for Compromise
Having spent several weeks auditing ballots in Afghanistan’s fraud-plagued presidential vote, election officials there are expected to declare a winner within days. If the two candidates vying for the post fail to reach a power-sharing deal beforehand, the announcement could easily kick off a wave of unrest that would all but guarantee a catastrophic wind-down to America’s longest war.
New York Times (News)
Dec 08 2014
News
Democratic Mayors Back Obama's Immigration Plan, Citing Economic Benefits
Short on the heels of a nonbinding House vote to block President Obama's executive action on immigration, some 20 Democratic U.S. mayors are meeting today in New York City to send a different message:
They want to help implement the president's plan.
The meeting, hosted by New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, is significant because cities, in association with their networ
NPR (Online News)
Apr 18 2013
News
ICE union claims immigration bill 'does nothing' to resolve enforcement concerns
While the authors of the newly released Senate immigration bill touted its multibillion dollar investment in border security critics are seizing on what they describe as a major loophole -- giving the government discretion to choose when to enforce immigration laws.
Fox News Digital
Feb 11 2020
News
Bernie Sanders wins New Hampshire Democratic primary; Buttigieg, Klobuchar are top moderate candidates
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) claimed unchallenged control of the Democratic Party's left wing with a victory in the New Hampshire presidential primary Tuesday as two moderates, Pete Buttigieg and a newly surging Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), vied for the opposition mantle in a campaign that has been remade over the past eight days.
Sanders and Buttigieg, a former mayor of South Bend,
Washington Post
Nov 06 2013
News
AP News - Tweaking Perry, Obama pitches health care in Texas
Beset by hard-to-keep promises and a massive website failure, President Barack Obama is promoting his embattled health care law in the state with the highest rate of uninsured Americans, which has also been politically hostile to the signature initiative of his presidency.
Townhall
Jun 25 2013
News
Russia, China defend their conduct in Snowden saga
Russia and China on Tuesday rejected U.S. criticism of their roles in the legal drama surrounding Edward Snowden, saying their governments complied with the law and did not illegally assist the former government contractor charged with revealing classified information about secret U.S. surveillance programs.
Washington Post
May 02 2016
News
Jeb Bush breaks his silence, calls for a contested convention
A reflective Jeb Bush said he had no regrets Thursday about his failed presidential bid, saying in his first interview since leaving the race that Donald Trump could still lose the nomination fight.
"There's a possibility that he won't get 50% on the first ballot," Bush told CNN's Jamie Gangel, giving his first television interview exclusively to CNN after dropping out of the
CNN Digital
Jul 15 2021
Perspectives Blog
In the Biden Era, Fact Checkers are Falling Short
From the CenterThe mainstream media’s haters get a lot wrong. Contrary to their never-ending cries, I’d bet that most journalists don’t hate America, and most of their time isn’t spent on anti-Trump message boards or at Democrat-funded dinner parties.
But if the haters are complaining about the media’s weak fact-checking during the Biden administration, they’ve got a solid case.
Henry A. Brechter
May 23 2013
News
Are background checks the wedge issue of 2014?
The Senates rejection of a popular expansion of background checks for firearms last month marked an abrupt end to the campaign for gun restrictions after the Newtown shootings. But the “no votes of 46 senators also represented a political gamble: that voters would not punish them for going against public will.
Washington Post
Apr 12 2013
News
Obama's budget a blow to immigrant enforcers; funding cut for detentions, states
President Obamas budget would rewrite the federal governments interior immigration enforcement priorities cutting funding for states that try to help enforce immigration laws and scaling back the number of immigrants the federal government will detain while they await deportation.
Washington Times