Copy, Paste Legislate a collaboration between USA Today, The Arizona Republic and The Center for Public Integrity The front lines in a bitter debate between Israel’s defenders and critics lie in an unexpected place: state capitals across America. Palestinian...
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This Week in Congress: Hearing Edition
While there may not be that much excitement on the floor, the House of Representatives will hold a number of significant hearings this week. The House Intelligence Committee will hold its first hearing of the year, but you won’t find out much about it because the...
Texas Bill Would Create Process to Review and Reject Unconstitutional Federal Acts
AUSTIN, Texas (March 1, 2017) – A bill introduced in the Texas House would create a mechanism to review federal laws and end state cooperation with enforcement of those determined to violate the U.S. Constitution. This process would set the stage to effectively block...
News Roundup 2/10/17
Trump signs three executive orders dealing with public safety. [Link] The first order creates a task force to look into crimes and police deficiencies. [Link] The second executive order directs his staff to develop new laws to protect all law enforcement from crimes....
Sorry, Judge Napolitano: Immigration Isn’t ‘Foreign Policy’
By the time you read this, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit may have handed down a ruling for or against president Donald Trump’s executive order banning travel and immigration from seven countries. Two states (Washington and Minnesota) are suing to kill...
Trump questions lawmakers’ efforts to curb asset seizures by police
President Donald Trump said on Tuesday there was "no reason" to curb law enforcement agencies that seize cash, vehicles and other assets of people suspected of crimes, a practice that some lawmakers and activists have criticized for denying legal rights. The issue of...
2/1/17 Alex Nowrasteh on whether Trump’s temporary ban of immigrants from certain countries really helps US national security
Alex Nowrasteh, an immigration policy analyst at the Cato Institute's Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, discusses his guide to Trump's executive order limiting migration for people from a list of countries supposedly at risk of exporting terrorists to the US;...
Economics Links 1/27/17
Top economics links for 1/27/17 Federal Reserve Bankers Mocked Unemployed Americans Behind Closed Doors - The Intercept Executive Orders Pave Way for Some Savings, but Also More Spending - National Taxpayers Union Asset-Price Inflation Heating Up with Nothing to Show...
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Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine
Over and over, U.S. government officials and their mainstream media allies called Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine an “unprovoked attack.” The slogan became so overused that people began to ask the obvious question: Why do they protest so much? In Provoked: How...
