By Judge H. Lee Sarokin, HUFFINGTON POST, March 23, 2012 -- Imagine this scenario: a man shoots and kills someone. He tells the police he was temporarily insane at the time. So they say "OK you can go home and take your gun with you," because they ca ...
Posted Saturday, March 24th 2012 at 10:50AM
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HUFFINGTON POST, March 22, 2012 -- Current TV's Jennifer Granholm choked up while discussing the murder of Trayvon Martin on her show on Wednesday night.
Martin, an unarmed Florida teenager, was shot to death by a self-appointed neighborhood watch ...
Posted Thursday, March 22nd 2012 at 11:53AM
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By BILL MAHER, NEW YORK TIMES, March 22, 2012 -- THIS week, Robert De Niro made a joke about first ladies, and Newt Gingrich said it was “inexcusable and the president should apologize for him.” Of course, if something is “inexcusable,” an apology do ...
Posted Thursday, March 22nd 2012 at 11:02AM
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THINK PROGRESS, March 21, 2012 — Nearly one month after shooting and killing Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman remains a free man. The Sanford Police maintain that Zimmerman’s conduct was legally justified under Florida’s controversial “Stand Your Gro ...
Posted Wednesday, March 21st 2012 at 11:44PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, March 21, 2012 -- Lawrence O'Donnell forcefully criticized the police handling of the Trayvon Martin case during his Tuesday show.
The killing of Martin — an unarmed teenager who was shot dead by a neighborhood watch volunteer in ...
Posted Wednesday, March 21st 2012 at 12:36PM
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TALKING POINTS MEMO, March 21, 2012 -- When the Supreme Court hears arguments on the Affordable Care Act next week, the central question the justices will consider is whether the federal government has the authority to require Americans to buy healt ...
Posted Wednesday, March 21st 2012 at 12:04PM
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MEDIA MATTERS, March 20, 2012 -- Fox News anchor Bret Baier responded to a new book reporting that in 2010, President Obama criticized the network for pushing the myth that Obama "is a Muslim" by saying: "For the record, we found no examples of a hos ...
Posted Tuesday, March 20th 2012 at 11:33AM
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THINK PROGRESS, March 19, 2012 -- Since his tragic death on February 26, Trayvon Martin — an unarmed 17-year-old African-American shot by “neighborhood watch volunteer” George Zimmerman — has become national news. Martin, a good student with no crimi ...
Posted Monday, March 19th 2012 at 5:32PM
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NEW YORK TIMES, March 19, 2012 — Ana Verdugo is a fan of Matt de la Peńa’s young adult novels; she read his “Mexican WhiteBoy” in two days.
Like the lead character, Danny, Ana is a Mexican-American whose family does not have much, is being raised ...
Posted Monday, March 19th 2012 at 12:09PM
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THINK PROGRESS, March 19, 2012 -- On February 26, 2012, a 17-year-old African-American named Trayvon Martin was shot and killed in Sanford, Florida. The shooter was George Zimmerman, a 28-year-old white man. Zimmerman admits killing Martin, but claim ...
Posted Monday, March 19th 2012 at 11:25AM
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"When I say the name Trayvon Martin, does it mean anything to you?" Melissa Harris-Perry asked her MSNBC audience on Saturday. "If it doesn't, it should."
Harris-Perry then took some time to explain who Trayvon Martin is: a 17-year-old, unarmed bl ...
Posted Sunday, March 18th 2012 at 4:37PM
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NEW YORK TIMES, March 18, 2012 -- SPEAKING two languages rather than just one has obvious practical benefits in an increasingly globalized world. But in recent years, scientists have begun to show that the advantages of bilingualism are even more fun ...
Posted Sunday, March 18th 2012 at 4:31PM
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MSNBC, March 14, 2012 -- The government has been very busy performing nips and tucks on the reproductive rights of women, and Nina Turner, an Ohio State Senator, is sick of it. In a move that some assumed was just meant to jam up the system with sar ...
Posted Thursday, March 15th 2012 at 11:14PM
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THINK PROGRESS, March 11, 2012 -- An Ohio State Senator is turning the tables on men seeking to regualate women’s access to reproductive health. Sen. Nina Turner (D-Cleveland) has introduced legislation regulating men’s access to erectile dysfunction ...
Posted Sunday, March 11th 2012 at 9:48PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, March 11, 2012, by Earl Martin Phalen, CEO Reach Out and Read -- Melissa Harris-Perry is a brilliant political science professor at Tulane University, dynamic commentator, and national advocate for social justice and education equi ...
Posted Sunday, March 11th 2012 at 2:21PM
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Huffington post, March 10, 2012 -- MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry took some time on her Saturday show to discuss what she called a "manufactured controversy" that erupted around President Barack Obama and former Harvard Law professor, Derrick Bell.
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Posted Saturday, March 10th 2012 at 9:25PM
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THE DAILY SHOW, March 9, 2012 -- Jon Stewart has the real truth about that newly discvoered video that Sean Hannity says Obama supporters have kept "under lock and key"--the one broadcast on PBS during the 2008 election--where a young radical sociali ...
Posted Friday, March 9th 2012 at 9:55AM
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THINK PROGRESS, March 8, 2012 -- Breitbart.com and Fox News believe that President Obama’s affiliation with the late Harvard professor Derrick Bell, as evidenced from a hug they share in a video from 1990, is some kind of “smoking gun” for his perspe ...
Posted Friday, March 9th 2012 at 9:41AM
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POLITICO, March 8, 2012 -- Consider the hatchet buried.
Four years after their campaign trail troubles, first lady Michelle Obama said Thursday that she considers Hillary Clinton “a role model” to whom she owes a debt.
“She has been an outstand ...
Posted Thursday, March 8th 2012 at 11:29PM
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THE LAST WORD, March 7, 2012 -- Lawrence O'Donnell and guest Harvard Law classmate of Barack Obama discuss that newly discovered 1990 video of the future President speaking at a protest rally.
Keith Boykin was there that day as one of the organize ...
Posted Thursday, March 8th 2012 at 11:46AM
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HUFFINGTON POST, March 7, 2012 -- Before Andrew Breitbart's unexpected death, the conservative blogger and journalist had promised to release video footage of President Barack Obama that he said would change the election. Now, BuzzFeed has unearthed ...
Posted Wednesday, March 7th 2012 at 10:02PM
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CNN, March 4, 2012 -– When reading Zora Neale Hurston’s seminal literary work,"Their Eyes Were Watching God"– the coming of age love story that chronicles Janie Crawford's search for self– the musicality of the language tickles the ear.
In this ...
Posted Sunday, March 4th 2012 at 11:02PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, March 4, 2012 -- After beating Rick Santorum by just three percentage points in his home state of Michigan, GOP candidate Mitt Romney really needs to inject some life into his candidacy if he plans on standing a chance against Obama. ...
Posted Sunday, March 4th 2012 at 9:55PM
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THINK PROGRESS, March 4, 2012 -- On Fox News Sunday this morning, Chris Wallace challenged Rick Santorum on why he’s given such a small percentage of his salary to charity (1.76 percent) compared to Mitt Romney (13.8 percent) and President Obama (14. ...
Posted Sunday, March 4th 2012 at 12:31PM
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