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Tag: Candy Crowley

Debate moderators can learn from pastor in Flint about shutting down Trump

September 15, 2016 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Campaigns, Democracy, Hillary Clinton Leave a comment

Do you remember back in 2012 when debate moderator Candy Crowley interrupted Mitt Romney for having his facts mixed up? There was a big

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Kudos to Pelosi for urging Obama to run against Congress

January 23, 2012 Arthur Lieber Congress, Government, Health care, Obama, Voting/Elections Leave a comment

Progressives are all too familiar with Barack Obama’s desire, upon assuming the presidency, to want to work collaboratively with Congress. Indeed, he did have

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Donald Trump is making us sick—and I mean that literally. Some food

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Banned

Seven words now banned at the Centers for Disease Control

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Apps for refugees: merging technology and humanitarianism

These days, there’s an app for just about everything—even for being a

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Deleting science from EPA’s Office of Science and Technology

The EPA’s Office of Science and Technology [OST] no longer includes the

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