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Steyer Group launches a $3.1 million ad blitz targeting four of the most vulnerable Republican senators
On Thursday, Need to Impeach, a group funded mainly by billionaire activist and Democratic presidential candidate Tom Steyer, will launch a $3.1 million ad blitz targeting four of the most vulnerable Republican senators up for reelection in...
One Other Reason Speaker Pelosi May Not Open Impeachment Proceedings with a U.S. House Floor Vote
There has been much written about Speaker Pelosi’s tying Republican’s legal hands by not having a vote on the House floor to officially open impeachment proceedings against President Trump. There may be a simpler...
Resist the Temptation to Believe the Impeachment Process Means More Legislation Passes in Washington, D.C.
In the best of possible circumstances, passing any legislation in today’s political environment is exceedingly difficult. The steady decline of the percentage of bills passed of those introduced, from the 15% range during the...
Impeaching Trump On Russia Was Unpopular. Will Ukraine Be Different?
The same poll, however, found independent voters mostly against impeachment — 62 percent opposed it to 28 percent in favor. That’s despite Trump having only a 35 percent approval rating among independents in the poll. So...
Millennials Continue to Leave Big Cities
https://www.wsj.com/articles/millennials-continue-to-leave-big-cities-11569470460
Ukrainian President Zelensky: “Nobody Pushed Me” To Investigate Biden
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/09/25/ukrainian_president_to_trump_at_un_nobody_pushed_me.html
Speaker Pelosi Announces “Formal Impeachment Inquiry” To “Preserve Our Republic”
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/09/24/watch_live_house_speaker_nancy_pelosi_to_announce_formal_impeachment_inquiry.html
Warren rides chants of ‘2 cents’ at rallies as polls show majority of voters now back wealth tax
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/sep/23/elizabeth-warren-2-cents-wealth-tax-among-liberal-/
Cillizza: Warren “has almost tripled her support” in Iowa since Dec. 2018, Biden “has lost support in each of the four DMR/CNN polls since Dec. 2018”
* Warren gained 7 points from the June DMR/CNN poll and has almost tripled her support in the state from a December 2018 poll. Biden, meanwhile, has lost support in each of the four...
Media have only themselves to blame for disbelief in Ukraine scandal
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/sep/23/ukraine-scandal-disbelief-caused-media-anti-trump-/
More Dems back impeachment action amid reports Trump ordered Ukraine aid frozen
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/growing-list-150-house-members-backing-some-action-trump-impeachment-n1057986
NASA and Others Peer Review Google Claim of ‘Quantum Supremacy’
“While our processor takes about 200 seconds to sample one instance of the quantum circuit 1 million times, a state-of-the-art supercomputer would require approximately 10,000 years to perform the equivalent task,” the researchers said....
‘The era of economic surrender is over,’ says Mike Pence on trade with China
“The era of economic surrender is over,” Pence told CNBC’s Joe Kernen at the CNBC Institutional Investor’s Delivering Alpha Conference. Pence said that not only does the U.S. run ”$500 billion trade deficits” with China,...
Common Dreams: 25 Ways the Canadian Health Care System is Better than Obamacare for the 2020 Elections
“Everybody in, nobody out, free choice of doctor and hospital. It will produce far less anxiety, dread, and fear. Can you hear that, Congress and the White House?”