Tag: Democrats

Leftists, Democrats causing chaos

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Sam Stroud Opinion Editor Over the summer, Oregon’s 3rd Congressional District Rep. Earl Blumenauer gave a speech directed at the President where he chastised Conservatives and the Republican Party at large for fear mongering and insisted there was no need for federal troops to be deployed in Portland where a federal courthouse was attacked repeatedly by rioters.  Recently, Democrats have shifted from ignoring the chaos and violence in their cities to blaming their issues and mistakes on Donald Trump. On Monday, Congressional Rep. Adam Schiff stated Trump was “willfully fanning…

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Democrats must prioritize progressive legislation over impeaching president

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Scott Shelton Staff Writer Democrats have taken control of the U.S. House of Representatives. They now need to find the right balance of passing progressive legislation and keeping the executive branch in check.  Since the 2016 elections, Republicans have controlled both chambers of Congress and the presidency.  The GOP needed minimal to no Democratic support to push its agenda through Congress, but they still did not have much success with legislating. The only significant legislation passed was a highly unpopular tax reform bill.  Now, Democrats have a chance to show…

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Democrats finally make the right call by eliminating superdelegate voting in presidential primary

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Sam Stroud Staff Writer Last week the Democratic National Committee (DNC) declared that superdelegates will no longer be able to vote in the party’s presidential nomination cycle. The nomination process includes candidates within each party competing against each other to get the most delegates from each state in primaries or caucuses. At the end of the nomination season, the candidate with the most delegates supporting him or her at the party convention wins. If you are Republican, the only way to win the nomination is to gain the support of…

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Fighting media bias requires that we educate ourselves

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Matt Firpo Contributor The news, which was confined to radio and television broadcasts several decades ago, now inhabits our social feeds and notifications on our phones.                 The jump-start of technology in the 21st century goes hand-in-hand with the rapid evolution of journalism, creating an information overload that confronts the average citizen with a single issue. The growing ocean of news sources seems to drown out any coherency to be found in a whirlpool of biased, twisted statements that all seem to draw…

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