Ted Cruz, Wendy Davis and media bias

Here's an article from Dylan Byers of Politico.com saying that the mainstream media negatively covered United States Senator Ted Cruz's filibuster on Obamacare while the media covered Texas state Senator Wendy Davis' filibuster on abortion restrictions favorably.  Ted Cruz is currently a Republican Senator from Texas, while Texas state senator Wendy Davis is a Democrat. http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2013/09/ted-cruz-wendy-davis-and-media-bias-173483.html Sen. Ted Cruz has been speaking on the Senate floor for almost 19 hours, as of...

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5 Reasons the Media Is Covering Ted Cruz's 'Filibuster' Differently Than Wendy Davis's or Rand Paul's

Here is an article from David Graham of the Atlantic illustrating the reasons why he feels the media is covering Ted Cruz's filibuster different from Rand Paul's and Wendy Davis' filibusters: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/09/5-reasons-the-media-is-covering-ted-cruzs-filibuster-differently-than-wendy-davis-and-rand-paul/279981/ America seems to be in a golden age of the filibuster. First, there was Rand Paul's March attempt to derail John Brennan's nomination as CIA director. Then there was Texas state Senator Wendy Davis's...

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Hillary, don't run for president

Here is an article from James Moore, co-author of "Bush's Brain: How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush Presidential" and TV political analyst, from CNN.com stating that Hillary should not run for president not due to the fact that she is not qualified, but the fact that America needs a new generation of American leaders rather than have another Clinton presidency: http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/24/opinion/moore-hillary-clinton/index.html?hpt=hp_bn7 Don't run, Hillary. Nobody is saying the former secretary of state, New York senator, U.S. and Arkansas...

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The harm that casinos do

Here is an article from David Frum of CNN.com stating that casinos damage a state's economy more than help it: http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/24/opinion/frum-casinos-harm/index.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+Top+Stories%29 What harm does it do? That's the challenge the casino industry puts to its critics. A new report by the Institute for American Values presents the answer. Until the late 1980s, casino gambling was illegal almost everywhere in the country. Today, casinos...

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The Embarrassment of Senator Ted Cruz

Here is an article from The New York Times saying that Ted Cruz's filibuster on Obamacare is merely for attention and countless donations from Tea Party supporters.  Ultimately, the article states that he is only embarrassing himself and that the Tea Party movement will eventually fail. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/25/opinion/the-embarrassment-of-senator-ted-cruz.html?ref=opinion Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, the public face of the aimless and self-destructive Tea Party strategy to stop health care reform, began an endless floor speech...

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Aiming at the wrong target: Some Republicans want to fight other Republicans

Here is an article from the Washington Times that suggests Republicans should not fight amongst each other and work together to take on Barack Obama and the Democrats.  Recently, some Republican senators have not been supportive of the ideas of Texas Republican senator Ted Cruz in regards to Obamacare: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/sep/24/editorial-aiming-at-the-wrong-target/ With Republican friends like these, Ted Cruz needs no Democratic enemies. Once word leaked that the maverick Republican senator from Texas would appear...

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Crazier Than Liberals

Here is an article from Ann Coulter from Townhall.com stating that liberals and gun-rights advocates do not acknowledge the possibility of institutionalizing the mentally ill as being the problem for gun violence: http://townhall.com/columnists/anncoulter/2013/09/18/crazier-than-liberals-n1704041 There's been another mass shooting by a crazy person, and liberals still refuse to consider institutionalizing the dangerous mentally ill. The man who shot up the Washington Navy Yard on Monday, Aaron Alexis, heard voices speaking to him through...

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Keep guns out of dangerous hands

Here is an article by Daniel Webster, professor and director of the Center for Gun Policy and Research at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, from CNN.com that states there should be stricter gun ownership policies in wake of the Washington Navy Yard shooting on Monday: http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/18/opinion/webster-navy-yard-shooting/index.html?hpt=hp_bn7 We are still learning key details about Aaron Alexis, the man named as the shooter in this week's horrific mass killing at the Washington Navy Yard. So far there is a record...

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Fighting marijuana ... or reality?

Here is an article from CNN.com by David Nathan, Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and clinical associate professor at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, stating that the dangers of marijuana are largely embellished and that marijuana should be legalized: http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/12/opinion/nathan-pot-legalization/index.html?hpt=hp_t4 David Frum's recent op-ed on CNN.com exemplifies why Americans are becoming deaf to the critics of pot legalization. Their hyperbolic claims about the dangers of pot -- along with the...

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The Obama Doctrine has officially collapsed -- Putin is now in charge

Here is an article from FoxNews.com by James Jay Carafano, vice president of foreign and defense policy studies at the Heritage Foundation, saying that Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, is dictating the United States military actions in regards to Syria: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/09/11/obama-doctrine-has-officially-collapsed-putin-is-now-in-charge/?intcmp=HPBucket There were numerous oddball characters in “M.A.S.H.,” the old TV show about a surgical hospital in the battlefront in Korea. One of them, Major Winchester, considered...

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Obama's speech a model of persuasion

Here's an article from CNN.com by David Kusnet, President Clinton's speechwriter from 1992 to 1994 and senior writer and principal at the Podesta Group, saying that President Obama's speech on a potential military strike was convincing and changed the minds of many Americans: http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/11/opinion/kusnet-syria-obama-speech/index.html?hpt=hp_bn7 Sixty-one percent of Americans polled, who watched President Obama's prime-time speech, told CNN that they support his policy towards Syria. Since some surveys showed as much as two-thirds...

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Congress, support Obama on Syria

Here is an article from CNN.com by Anne-Marie Slaughter, president and CEO of the New America Foundation and director of policy planning in the U.S. State Department from 2009 to 2011, stating that Obama made the right decision to let Congress decide whether or not to strike Syria for their use of chemical weapons on their own people: http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/04/opinion/slaughter-syria-obama/index.html?hpt=hp_bn7 President Barack Obama has done the right thing by asking Congress to authorize the use of force against Syria to punish President...

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Mr. Obama, you've already lost the Syrian War -- here's how to win the big one

Here is an article from K.T. McFarland of FoxNews.com stating that President Obama is wrong to allow Congress to make the decision on whether to use force against Syria to punish Syrian president Bashar al-Assad for using chemical weapons on his own people and that Obama has "lost the Syrian war:" http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/09/05/mr-obama-youve-already-lost-syrian-war-here-how-to-win-big-one/?intcmp=HPBucket President Obama – face it, you’ve already lost the Syrian war. You probably lost it a year ago when you laid down that "red line"...

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