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Jul 16 2020
Opinion
Biden’s Unfair Housing Proposal for Suburbs and Low-Income Residents
President Trump’s Rose Garden speech July 14 included a small aside about reversing the Orwellian-named “Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing” (AFFH) regulation put in place by Obama that would be expanded should Joe Biden win the presidency. This small regulation will result in some big consequences.
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The American Spectator
Aug 20 2017
News
Romney says Trump must 'apologize' for remarks that caused 'racists to rejoice'
Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is calling on President Donald Trump to apologize and address the fallout from his statements about the violence in Charlottesville, warning that a failure to act could lead to "an unraveling of our national fabric."
ABC News (Online)
Oct 30 2020
Analysis
Don’t Sweat the Polls
“I want to feel hopeful about Joe Biden’s chances this year, but I just can’t,” my neighbor confessed to me, as we stood in line outside a coffee shop. What had begun as pleasant conversation—dogs, the temperature, clouds—had been pulled, through the vortex known as Late October in an Election Year, into an airing of political anxieties. “I’m still so afraid that 2016 is going to happen again
The Atlantic
Jul 16 2020
Analysis
Can an accuracy ‘nudge’ help prevent people from sharing misinformation?
A couple weeks ago, the United Nations announced a new initiative called “Pause,” aimed at getting people to stop and think about what they’re sharing about COVID-19 on social media. The campaign is accompanied by the hashtag #takecarebeforeyoushare.
It’s hard to know how effective such campaigns will be in stemming the spread of the worldwide “infodemic” of fake cures and other
Poynter
Jan 03 2016
News
Cruz copying me on border wall, Trump says
Donald Trump threw a few punches in Ted Cruz's direction in an interview aired Sunday, hitting the Texas senator for copying his call to build a wall on the Mexican border and billing himself as being on the vanguard of the national immigration discussion in the presidential campaign. "Ted Cruz is trying to step up his whole game on amnesty and on illegal immigration because it was actually
Politico
Jun 09 2020
News
More than half of states may be undercounting coronavirus cases by not following CDC guidelines
At least 28 states are not following US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines on reporting new Covid-19 cases -- half of which saw the trend of new cases increasing in the last week.
Those states are not reporting probable cases, according to the daily case count listed on the CDC's website. Probable cases include those that show evidence of an infection without the
CNN Digital
Jul 16 2020
News
Public health groups denounce new Trump move sidelining CDC
A new Trump administration policy that bypasses the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for control of key coronavirus information is provoking outrage among public health experts.
Under the policy, quietly announced late last week, hospitals are now required to report directly to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on the number of COVID-19 patients each
The Hill
Jan 28 2017
News
Trump Slams New York Times, Washington Post on Twitter
President Donald Trump took to Twitter early Saturday morning launching an attack on two of the nations most prominent news organizations, The New York Times and The Washington Post.
Newsmax (News)
May 12 2015
News
Former CIA Chief: The Obama Administration Really Blew It on Al Qaeda, Terrorism and Benghazi
As Vespa reported yesterday, the House Select Committee on Benghazi released a report showing the Obama administration is the number one obstacle to investigation.
Shortly before the report was released, former CIA-Director Mike Morell sat down for an interview with Fox News' Bret Baier about the 9/11 Benghazi attack, among other topics, and essentially said the administration blew it
Townhall
Apr 02 2020
Fact Check
5 facts about partisan reactions to COVID-19 in the U.S.
The coronavirus outbreak has upended life in the United States, with large shares of the public saying the outbreak presents major threats to the nation’s economy and public health. Most also have experienced personal impacts, with majorities saying the coronavirus outbreak has led to changes in their own daily lives. While partisanship is a fact of American life, Republicans and Democrats
Pew Research Center