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GOP Group Blocks Surveillance Law Update In House
11Apr By adminNo Comments
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GOP Group Blocks Surveillance Law Update In House

Rebellious House Republicans on Wednesday turned back an effort to renew an anti-terror surveillance law that’s been used in the past to spy on Americans, leaving its fate up in the air less than 10 days before it’s set to expire.The fight over the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act — and particularly the post-9/11-era spying provision Section 702 — has pitted both Republicans and Democrats worried about civil liberties against a similarly bipartisan group that sees the law as a crucial tool in the country’s national security toolbox.Nineteen Republicans bucked party leaders and voted against allowing the renewal bill and amendments to be debated on the House floor, stalling its progress with a 193-228 vote.“The constitutional liberties of Americans have to come first. We don’t bend th...
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Harvard Bans ‘Cisheterosexism’ but Shrugs at Antisemitism
8Dec By adminNo Comments
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Harvard Bans ‘Cisheterosexism’ but Shrugs at Antisemitism

What constitutes bullying and harassment at Harvard? A mandatory Title IX training last year warned all undergraduate students that “cisheterosexism,” “fatphobia” and “using the wrong pronouns” qualified as “abuse” and perpetuated “violence” on campus. But when I asked Harvard President Claudine Gay at a congressional hearing whether calls for the genocide of Jews violated the university’s rules on bullying and harassment, she answered: “It depends on the context.” Pressed further, she said it would qualify “when it crosses into conduct.” I received similar answers from the presidents of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Pennsylvania.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8 ...
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So You Think You Want a Political Fighter?
19Nov By adminNo Comments
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So You Think You Want a Political Fighter?

Peggy Noonan is an opinion columnist at the Wall Street Journal where her column, "Declarations," has run since 2000. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 2017.  A political analyst for NBC News, she is the author of nine books on American politics, history and culture, from her most recent, “The Time of Our Lives,” to her first, “What I Saw at the Revolution.” She is one of ten historians and writers who contributed essays on the American presidency for the book, “Character Above All.” Noonan was a special assistant and speechwriter for President Ronald Reagan. In 2010 she was given the Award for Media Excellence by the living recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor; the following year she was chosen as Columnist of the Year by The Week. She has been a fellow a...
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Trump Allies Are Already Working Against The New Front-Runner For House Speaker
22Oct By adminNo Comments
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Trump Allies Are Already Working Against The New Front-Runner For House Speaker

House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) is the natural front-runner to be the next man up in the GOP’s three-week-long search for a new speaker, except for one glaring problem: former President Donald Trump.Trump allies in the media started blitzing Emmer with attacks Friday, hoping to derail his House speakership bid before it can truly begin, all while boasting that the ex-president agrees with them. “Tom Emmer is Nancy Pelosi in a Suit,” one far-right news outlet declared, referring to the former Democratic speaker.After the ouster of Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) from the House’s top job and the subsequent failures of Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) to unite the bickering GOP conference, Emmer is the only Republican left who has previously won an internal part...
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Jim Jordan Admits An Election Loss
22Oct By adminNo Comments
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Jim Jordan Admits An Election Loss

WASHINGTON — After failing to win the speaker’s gavel in a House floor vote for the third time, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) on Friday asked his GOP colleagues if he should keep trying.Voting by secret ballot in the Capitol basement, Republicans told Jordan no by a vote of 112 to 86. And that was that.“Rep. Jordan stated before the vote that he would accept the will of the conference and so he was gracious, as we expected him to be, in accepting the results,” Rep. Kat Cammack (R-Fla.) told reporters.Admitting defeat is not easy for Jordan. His speaker bid failed by increasingly wide margins across the three House votes this week, but he was poised to keep trying, with his allies at one point suggesting a marathon of votes designed to break the will of his opponents over the course of the week...
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House GOP ‘Back To The Drawing Board’ After Jim Jordan’s Exit From Speaker Race
21Oct By adminNo Comments
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House GOP ‘Back To The Drawing Board’ After Jim Jordan’s Exit From Speaker Race

WASHINGTON ― House Republicans hit the reset button on their search for a new House speaker and will try again next week to find a leader, after Rep. Jim Jordan’s (R-Ohio) bid came to a whimpering end Friday.Republicans voted against keeping Jordan as their speaker-designee by a margin of 86 to 112, lawmakers told reporters after their meeting in the Capitol basement. Jordan then accepted the result. “We put the question to them. They made a different decision. I told the conference that I appreciated getting to work with everyone, talking to everyone,” Jordan told reporters after the vote.“Unfortunately, Jim is no longer going to be the nominee,” Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters. “We will have to go back to the drawing board.”The clean slate brought out a plethora of announc...
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