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Jan 05 2015
News
Why Republicans Are Ready for Hillary
For conservatives, the dawn of a presidential cycle is always the best time of the political season. It’s that glorious springtime when every Republican candidate promises to be the next Ronald Reagan. Of course, over time they slowly dissolve into Gerald Ford. It’s also the time of year when the dons of the Washington establishment tell the rest of us who the conservative grassroots will
PoliticoSep 20 2014
News
NBC says it was wrong on Chris Christie report
NBC says a report by Brian Williams on the network's Nightly News program that federal charges have been ruled out for Gov. Chris Christie in the George Washington Bridge scandal was incorrect.
Federal prosecutors say the investigation is ongoing and haven't made any announcement on Christie's status.
"The investigation is continuing,'' said Rebekah Carmichael, a spokeswoman for
USA TODAYMay 31 2014
News
WAPO: GOP In "Retreat" on Obamacare Repeal
The Washington Post, desperate to split the GOP as the fortunes of the GOP in 2014 look ever rosier, has a piece asserting that GOP candidates are backing off from repealing Obamacare. The implicit goal of the Post, of course, is to alienate the conservative base from members of the GOP so that Democrats can sneak through and hold on to what seats in Congress they can. The Pos
Breitbart NewsMay 13 2019
News
China to impose tariffs on U.S. goods despite Trump warning
China said on Monday it would impose higher tariffs on a range of U.S. goods, striking back in its trade war with Washington shortly after U.S. President Donald Trump warned it not to retaliate.
China’s finance ministry said it plans to set import tariffs ranging from 5 percent to 25 percent on 5,140 U.S. products on a target list worth about $60 billion. It said the tariffs will take
ReutersMay 12 2020
News
Supreme Court to Consider Whether Investigators Can Obtain Trump’s Financial Records
Decision, expected this summer, could have an impact on the 2020 presidential election.
President Trump’s personal lawyers, backed by the Justice Department, will ask the Supreme Court on Tuesday to quash subpoenas seeking documents he has guarded fiercely for years: his financial records including income-tax returns.
In one case, House committees overseeing federal ethics, bank
Wall Street Journal (News)Jun 23 2020
Opinion
The Triumph of the Country Mouse
Cities lose their charms when they’re engulfed in chaos, crime, and mobs — and run by virtue-signaling appeasers.
In Aesop’s Fables and Horace’s Satires a common classical allegory is variously retold about the country mouse and his sophisticated urban cousin.
The city-slicker mouse first visits his rustic cousin’s simple rural hole and is quickly bored and unimpressed by both
Victor HansonSep 01 2020
News
Trump Payroll-Tax Deferral Leaves Employers Wary as Plan Starts
UPS says it won’t stop withholding Social Security taxes; federal government workers will get deferral until 2021.
President Trump’s payroll-tax deferral plan started Tuesday, but many employers seem unlikely to adopt the policy, which would effectively give their workers a short-term interest-free loan.
Employers participating in the president’s plan would stop withholding some
Wall Street Journal (News)Jan 23 2020
News
Everyday Americans are distressed by the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump. If they care at all.
While politicians and pundits natter about President Donald Trump's impeachment trial, everyday Americans mostly seem to have a sideways view of the historic mess, using a lot of words that begin with “dis.”
Disappointment. Disinterest. Disgust. Dismay.
From a California taco truck known as Kiko's Place to the Cocoa Cinnamon coffee shop in North Carolina, grassroots perspectives
USA TODAYJun 22 2020
News
John Bolton says Trump's White House was 'like living inside a pinball machine'
If he had been a senator during President Donald Trump's impeachment trial earlier this year, John Bolton says he probably would have voted for a conviction.
There's a certain irony in that, given that Trump's former national security adviser, out Tuesday with an explosive new book about his former boss, refused to testify in the House impeachment hearings and then offered to testify in
USA TODAYNov 14 2019
News
Impeachment Hearings Begin
“Lawmakers and lawyers questioned a bow tie-wearing George Kent, the deputy secretary of state for European and Eurasian Affairs, and bespectacled Ambassador Bill Taylor, charge d’affaires at the U.S. embassy in Ukraine. Both linked the president directly to a pressure campaign on Ukraine to conduct investigations that would benefit him politically.” (Reuters)
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