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Oct 30 2014
News
What Can $3.7 Billion Buy? How About 2,969,370 Campaign Ads
Two new reports find that the House and Senate elections will cost about $3.7 billion — up just slightly from the past two election cycles — with outside groups buying their largest share yet of the television advertising.
The nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics, in Washington, says candidates and political parties are spending less this cycle, while outside groups are spending
NPR (Online News)Dec 02 2020
News
Trump Has One Major Condition For Signing Defense Bill
President Trump said Tuesday he will veto the National Defense Authorization Act unless Congress terminates Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act, which offers legal protections to social media giants.
“Section 230, which is a liability shielding gift from the U.S. to “Big Tech” (the only companies in America that have it—corporate welfare!), is a serious threat to our
TownhallNov 21 2015
News
Rand Paul’s Hard Line On Refugees Rankles Libertarians
Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-Ky.) tough proposals aimed at limiting the admission of refugees in the wake of the Paris terror attacks are disappointing libertarian opinion leaders, days after a presidential debate performance in which he appeared to return to his independent roots.
Paul said on Saturday that the United States and Europe "have to be very careful about bringing refugees to our
HuffPostJan 22 2020
News
Republican state lawmakers push bills to restrict medical treatments for transgender youths
Republican state lawmakers have filed a wave of bills that would ban medical professionals from treating transgender teens with hormones and sex reassignment surgery, reigniting a polarizing national debate over the rights of transgender youths and the government’s reach into doctors’ offices.
More than half a dozen statehouses are considering bills that would penalize medical
Washington PostJul 22 2013
News
Military Sexual Assault Bill Would Reassign Authority
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., is fighting for her bill to curb sexual assaults in the military. Her measure would give independent military prosecutors, rather than commanders, the power to decide which cases should be tried in military court.
Military leaders fiercely oppose moving that authority outside the chain of command, arguing that commanders are responsible for the health
NPR (Online News)Jun 29 2020
News
U.S. Coronavirus Cases Surge Amid Strains on Hospitals
Around the world, some places that have brought the number of infections under control continue to combat outbreaks.
Cases of the new coronavirus continued to surge over the weekend in the U.S., while parts of the country pulled back reopenings and some faced strains on hospital and testing capacity.
Nearly 39,000 cases were recorded nationwide on Sunday, according to data from
Wall Street Journal (News)Apr 01 2020
Analysis
How the coronavirus fight might end up at the Supreme Court
Though it may now be difficult to imagine, at some point this crisis will end. Whether when a vaccine for the novel coronavirus is released or — heaven help us — well before then, new infections will slow and life will move back toward normal. Then it will be time to sue each other.
Salus populi suprema lex esto, wrote the Roman jurist Cicero: "The health [or welfare or common good] of
The Week - NewsAug 18 2020
Opinion
Michelle Obama Showed Us Why These Democrats Are Our Last Best Hope
I think I’m supposed to question whether the Democratic Party can really stretch far enough in opposite directions to accommodate a democratic socialist like Bernie Sanders and an estranged Republican like John Kasich, transcendently strange bedfellows who spoke and served as ideological poles on the opening night of whatever we’re calling this shrunken, not-in-Milwaukee, pandemic-warped
Frank BruniNov 25 2019
News
Documents reveal massive 'dark-money' group boosted Democrats in 2018
The “green wave” of campaign cash that boosted Democrats and liberal causes in 2018 included an unprecedented gusher of secret money, new documents obtained by POLITICO show.
The Sixteen Thirty Fund, a little-known nonprofit headquartered in Washington, spent $141 million on more than 100 left-leaning causes during the midterm election year, according to a new tax filing from the group
PoliticoFeb 27 2020
News
3 in 4 Democrats would support a socialist for president: poll
As the Democratic Party primary field lurches to the left on a number of policy issues, it is being reflected among Democratic voters -- with three in four Democrats saying they would back a socialist for president, according to a new poll released this month.
The Gallup poll found that 76 percent of Democratic voters would vote for a socialist. Only 17 percent of Republicans say they
Fox News (Online News)