Showing posts with label Bill Clinton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bill Clinton. Show all posts
Monday, March 6, 2023

30 years later, Waco siege still resonates – especially among anti-government extremists

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  Feb. 28, 2023 marked 30 years since the beginning of the Waco siege, the confrontation at a Texas compound that killed around 80 members o...
Saturday, February 19, 2022

The Jan. 6 Capitol attacks offer a reminder – distrust in government has long been part of Republicans’ playbook

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  The Republican National Committee has legitimized the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol attacks. The RNC declared on Feb. 4, 2022 that the insurrection...
Monday, September 21, 2020

Ruth Bader Ginsburg helped shape the modern era of women’s rights – even before she went on the Supreme Court

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  Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on Friday, the Supreme Court announced.   Chief Justice John Roberts said in a statement that “Our nation...
Thursday, September 17, 2020

Trump’s law-and-order campaign relies on a historic American tradition of racist and anti-immigrant politics

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  The Republican Party made it clear in its national convention that it intends to make restoring “law and order” central to this fall’s pr...
Wednesday, January 15, 2020

Senate impeachment trial must include all important evidence

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  In impeaching President Donald Trump, the U.S. House of Representatives uncovered overwhelming evidence that Trump extorted a foreign gove...
Monday, October 21, 2019

If impeachment comes to the Senate – 5 questions answered

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Editor’s note: If the House of Representatives concludes its impeachment inquiry by passing articles of impeachment of President Donald Tru...
Tuesday, June 11, 2019

Hank Sanders: Sketches #1669 - To impeach or not to impeach

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  To impeach or not to impeach? That is the question. Every time we view or read or listen to our televisions, radios, newspapers, internet,...
Monday, February 11, 2019

Hank Sanders: Sketches #1652 - The Jubilee is coming!

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  The Jubilee is coming! The Jubilee is upon us! The 27th Annual Bridge Crossing Jubilee is coming to Selma, Alabama. It is less than a mon...
Monday, September 24, 2018

Kavanaugh’s credibility chasm

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  Amid a crisis in Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination process, new reports suggest that President Trump’s nominee may have bee...
Tuesday, June 26, 2018

Obstructing justice through pardons is an impeachable offense

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  As the investigation into the Trump campaign’s collusion with Russia, led by special counsel Robert Mueller, continues to close in on Pres...
Tuesday, October 3, 2017

The Little Rock Nine – and America – 60 years later

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  Sixty years before Colin Kaepernick took a knee, nine black teenagers in Little Rock, Arkansas, took a stand.   The pictures have since ...
Sunday, May 21, 2017

Miscarriage of justice

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  In rural Alabama, the men were told they were being treated for rheumatism, bad stomachs, or “bad blood.” They were promised free meals an...
Friday, March 3, 2017

Hank Sanders: Senate Sketches #1551: Standing on history is never a party

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  I could not believe my eyes. I just could not be seeing what I saw. It was a Facebook message posted by the Mayor of Selma and forwarded t...
Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Steve Flowers: Inside the Statehouse: Looking back and looking forward

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  Historically speaking, Alabamians have been more interested in the governor’s race than presidential politics.   From 1876 to 1964, we w...
Saturday, September 17, 2016

Jacob G. Hornberger: 9/11 evil did not cancel pre-9/11 evil

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  Immediately after the 9/11 attacks, President Bush and other U.S. officials declared that the attackers were motivated by hatred for Ameri...
Saturday, August 6, 2016

Hank Sanders: Senate Sketches #1521: It was an unforgettable week!

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  It was a series of unforgettable moments. The moments were cast over four days. Each day had multiple unforgettable moments. Each day was ...
Friday, February 27, 2015

Sheldon Richman: Domestic fear is the price of empire

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  If you find no other argument against American intervention abroad persuasive, how about this one? When the U.S. government invades and oc...
Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Tom Kenworthy: For President Obama, it is all about veto power now

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  Similar to former President Bill Clinton before him, President Barack Obama now faces a Republican-controlled Congress, one that will almo...
Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Steve Flowers: Inside the Statehouse: Life after the White House

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  This week our 39th President, Jimmy Carter, turns 90 years old. In my lifetime, he is the most ethical, moral and Christ-like president to...
Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Charles C. Haynes: Gay marriage, religious freedom and the need for civil dialogue

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  In recent months, legislators in more than a dozen states — from Hawaii to Georgia — have attempted to enact laws they describe as necessa...