Politics
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Myrtle Beach Mayor Slams Recent Outbreak of Violence
Myrtle Beach, S.C., has seen five shootings in the past few days, and the mayor of the popular coastal destination, John Rhodes, is sick of it. He lashed out about the most recent shooting, which left three people, all in their 20s, dead, WMBF News reports. “I’m fed up with it; I’m mad as hell about it,” the…
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14 Moral Mondays Protesters Arrested at NC Republican House Speaker’s Office
If North Carolina House Speaker Thom Tillis was under the impression that implementing new rules in the state Capitol for public demonstrations would be enough to silence the Moral Mondays protesters who made Raleigh, N.C., a focal point in progressive politics during last year’s legislative session, he might want to rethink. After all, as the…
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For Memorial Day, Obama Should Stand Up for All Who’ve Served and Sacrificed
On Monday I had an appointment at the Manhattan campus of the Veterans Affairs New York Harbor Healthcare System. I arrived a half-hour early for my late-afternoon appointment and hoped by some rare chance I might be seen ahead of schedule. Maybe earlier in the day someone had canceled. I was wrong. In this waiting…
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Watch: Ben Carson Slams Administration Over Veterans Scandal
The widening scandal at the Department of Veterans Affairs signals that the government is incapable of managing the nation’s vast health care system, retired neurosurgeon-turned-GOP icon Ben Carson told Fox News Saturday. Carson, a Fox News contributor, joins a growing chorus of critics of the Obama administration over recently surfaced problems at veterans hospitals, including…
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Obama: US Must Work Harder for Veterans
During his weekly radio and Internet address Saturday, President Barack Obama said that Memorial Day is a time to remember military heroes whose sacrifices helped build the country. He also made a link between the holiday and the bubbling scandal over charges of misconduct at Veterans Affairs hospitals. He said the nation must do more…
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Court Puts Conyers Back on Michigan Ballot
Rep. John Conyers’ reelection campaign got a boost Friday when U.S. Circuit Judge Matthew Leitman ordered Michigan officials to put his name back on the ballot, the Washington Post reports. Conyers was first elected to office 1964. The order came just hours after state election officials upheld an earlier decision to remove Conyers’ name from…
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US Deploys Troops to Help Find Abducted Nigerian Schoolgirls
U.S. troops have been sent to the Republic of Chad in an increased effort to locate the more than 200 missing Nigerian schoolgirls who were abducted in the middle of April, the White House announced Wednesday, according to the Washington Post. According to the report, 80 troops have been dispatched, displaying bolstered U.S efforts to…
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Obama ‘Will Not Stand’ for Veterans Affairs Scandal
President Barack Obama slammed the alleged misconduct at the Department of Veterans Affairs in a White House press briefing on Wednesday, saying that the situation would be taken seriously, ABC News reports. The president said that if claims of a cover-up of gross delays in treatment for returning members of the military turned out to…
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NY Legislator Asked to Resign Over Alleged Racially Charged Comments
One Long Island, N.Y., Democrat is battling calls for her resignation over alleged racially charged comments about a black community, WCBS 880 reports. Nassau County Legislator Ellen Birnbaum, who represents Great Neck, N.Y., was stripped of her committee assignments by her Democratic Party leaders as a result of the allegation, the news station reports. Nassau…
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Bipartisan Backlash Against Police Commissioner’s N-Bomb Shows There’s Still Hope for America
On Monday, Robert Copeland—the Wolfeboro, N.H., police commissioner who admitted to calling President Barack Obama the n-word and refusing to apologize—resigned. And while it’s unlikely that he’ll be missed, I, for one, am actually somewhat relieved that our nation endured the Copeland saga. Here’s why: Throughout much of Obama’s tenure in office, we have been…