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1 month ago | 
thedailyreview.com | Amy Goodman |Denis Moynihan
Words matter. When wielded maliciously by the powerful, words can harm, even kill. That’s why Texas Republican Congressman Keith Self’s words chairing a recent House subcommittee hearing deserve special condemnation. Near the hearing’s end, Self recognized the committee’s newest, most junior member, Delaware Democratic Congresswoman Sarah McBride, the first transgender person elected to Congress.
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1 month ago | 
arcamax.com | Amy Goodman |Denis Moynihan
Words matter. When wielded maliciously by the powerful, words can harm, even kill. That's why Texas Republican Congressman Keith Self's words chairing a recent House subcommittee hearing deserve special condemnation. Near the hearing's end, Self recognized the committee's newest, most junior member, Delaware Democratic Congresswoman Sarah McBride, the first transgender person elected to Congress.
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2 months ago | 
arcamax.com | Amy Goodman |Armstrong Williams |Austin Bay |Ben Shapiro
Kathryn Barger's mother used to tell her that "trees do make a community."But given the flammability of Southern California, which will soon be rebuilding and replanting after massive destruction from the recent fires, what kind of trees are safest? I have some answers, because tree-loving readers have been responding to my column in which Barger, a member of the L.A. County Board of Supervisors, said treeless neighborhoods can be sterile, and I said better sterile than reduced to ash.
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2 months ago | 
arcamax.com | Amy Goodman |Armstrong Williams |Austin Bay |Ben Shapiro
Immigrant children are facing a new form of playground bullying: The Trump administration and its allies are trying to scare them away from school. One of the Trump Department of Homeland Security’s first actions was to discard a core restraint on immigration enforcement. For decades, Democratic and Republican administrations have abided by policies, formalized in memoranda, that limited immigration enforcement in so-called sensitive locations: churches, hospitals, daycares and schools.
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2 months ago | 
arcamax.com | Amy Goodman |Armstrong Williams |Austin Bay |Ben Shapiro
President Donald Trump suggested that Elon Musk’s government efficiency team has found irregularities while examining data at the U.S. Treasury Department, and intimated that may lead the U.S. to disregard some payments. “There could be a problem, we’ve been reading about that, with Treasuries,” Trump told reporters Sunday on Air Force One en route to the Super Bowl.
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2 months ago | 
arcamax.com | Amy Goodman |Armstrong Williams |Austin Bay |Ben Shapiro
The Trump administration’s many attempts over the past couple of weeks to halt federal spending have met mostly with approval from Republicans on Capitol Hill and outrage from Democrats. That’s sort of what one would expect given that Trump is a Republican, but also kind of weird in that states and congressional districts that vote for Republicans are as a rule much bigger net beneficiaries of federal spending than those that vote for Democrats.
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2 months ago | 
arcamax.com | Amy Goodman |Armstrong Williams |Austin Bay |Ben Shapiro
Civil service is another term for “professional workforce” and we want this in government, right? And yet, as I write this, our government is being taken over by the opposite kind of worker. The uncredentialed Elon Musk is running a massive government operation. His team of similarly-unaccredited private-sector tech wonks have taken control of the vast Treasury database of our personal information as well as the federal payment database.
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2 months ago | 
arcamax.com | Amy Goodman |Armstrong Williams |Austin Bay |Ben Shapiro
The sudden fall of Syria’s Assad regime in early December has raised an important question: Can the 6 million who became refugees during the 14-year civil war now go home? Officials in Turkey, Austria, Denmark and Bulgaria have started publicly discussing plans to repatriate the Syrian refugees in those countries. Others — including France, Germany, Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden and Greece — have frozen asylum applications from Syria.
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2 months ago | 
arcamax.com | Amy Goodman |Armstrong Williams |Austin Bay |Ben Shapiro
President Donald Trump’s trade war with Canada is on hold for now but, if it resumes, it could deliver a fatal blow to one iconic American industry: Florida orange juice. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau urged Canadians to forgo “Florida orange juice altogether” as he slapped a (now-paused) 25% tariff on American exports from “red states.” It’s a potent threat: 30% of all Florida fruit juice is exported to Canada. And the industry is in trouble already.
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2 months ago | 
arcamax.com | Amy Goodman |Armstrong Williams |Austin Bay |Ben Shapiro
President Donald Trump on Sunday became the first sitting president to attend a Super Bowl when arrived at the Caesars Superdome roughly an hour before the Kansas City Chiefs were set to face the Philadelphia Eagles. President Trump went down to the field as the teams were going through pregame workouts. He shook hands with some people on the sideline and waved to others in the stands. He also posed for photos with members of law enforcement.
