Jim Acosta violated one of the oldest rules of journalism - Opinion

Via: 1stwarrior  •  Op/Ed  •  92 Comments  •  8 years ago

By producing a split decision, the election that was supposed to end all elections turned out to be fairly predictable. But it’s the day after that was unlike any other. The Republican president, the likely speaker of the Democrat-controlled House and the Senate’s Republican majority leader...

Presidential Proclamation on National Native American Heritage Month, 2018

Via: 1stwarrior  •  News & Politics  •  34 Comments  •  8 years ago  •  LOCKED

During National Native American Heritage Month, we celebrate the legacy of the first people to call this land home.  America’s Native Americans have fortified our country with their traditions and values, making tremendous contributions to every aspect of our national life.  We remain committed...

Exclusive: Trump targeting birthright citizenship with executive order

Via: 1stwarrior  •  News & Politics  •  305 Comments  •  8 years ago  •  LOCKED

“Trump immigration executive order: President to terminate birthright citizenship”

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is making another hardline immigration play in the final days before midterm elections, declaring that he wants to order an end to the constitutional right to citizenship for babies born in the United States to non-citizens. Most scholars think he can’t...

Changing Elizabeth Warren's story to one about Native America

Via: 1stwarrior  •  News & Politics  •  41 Comments  •  8 years ago

“The majority of Americans know little to nothing about Native Americans, our issues, or our contributions”

Crystal Echo Hawk The invisibility of Native people is the biggest crisis we face today. We are invisible within government, Hollywood, the news media, and in our schools. It’s the reason that the president, lawmakers, and the media use derogatory racial stereotypical language about Native...

After Stunning Democratic Win, North Dakota Republicans Suppressed the Native American Vote

Via: 1stwarrior  •  News & Politics  •  21 Comments  •  8 years ago

Richard Brakebill voted in nearly every election of his adult life, a point of pride that began with his return from the Navy more than three decades ago. But in November 2014, when Brakebill drove through the open farmland of the North Dakota countryside to the Rolla City Hall, a poll worker...

Federal judge in Texas strikes down Indian Child Welfare Act

Via: 1stwarrior  •  News & Politics  •  14 Comments  •  8 years ago

A federal judge in Texas has struck down the Indian Child Welfare Act, a decades-old federal law aimed at keeping Native American families together. Backed by the state of Texas, Chad and Jennifer Brackeen — a non-Native American couple with two biological children — sued last October for the...

Study: Economic Boom Largely Ignored as TV's Trump Coverage Hits 92% Negative

Via: 1stwarrior  •  News & Politics  •  29 Comments  •  8 years ago  •  LOCKED

In four weeks, Americans go to the polls for the midterm elections that the news media are casting as a referendum on the Trump presidency. Over the summer, the broadcast networks have continued to pound Donald Trump and his team with the most hostile coverage of a President in TV news history —...

How Feinstein is conspiring to destroy Kavanaugh

Via: 1stwarrior  •  News & Politics  •  11 Comments  •  8 years ago

Democrat leaders and their liberal aides, along with professional agitators, are all intermingled and conspiring together to achieve the same objective — in this case, to spike the confirmation of President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh. Hill Republicans claim Democratic Sen....

Blasey Ford's Female Classmate, Her Last Alleged Witness, Doesn't Recall Ever Attending Party With Kavanaugh

Via: 1stwarrior  •  News & Politics  •  216 Comments  •  8 years ago

Christine Blasey Ford has claimed that four other people attended a small gathering at which she was allegedly assaulted by Brett Kavanaugh. Three of those people, PJ Smyth, Mark Judge, and Kavanaugh, have already denied any recollection of attending such a party. On Saturday night, Leland...

Third Named Witness Rejects Kavanaugh’s Accuser’s Allegations

Via: 1stwarrior  •  News & Politics  •  9 Comments  •  8 years ago

In written testimony sent to the Senate Judiciary Committee, a third named witness has rejected the allegations made by Judge Kavanaugh’s accuser. Having been asked by a Senate staffer to comment on the charges advanced against the nominee, a lawyer for Leland Ingham Keyser wrote: Simply put,...