THINK PROGRESS, December 19, 2011 -- No one has benefited more from wealthy donors seeking to influence the 2012 presidential race than Mitt Romney. As of last August, Romney received more lobbyist contributions than the rest of the GOP field combine ...
Posted Monday, December 19th 2011 at 6:17PM
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THINK PROGRESS, December 17, 2011 -- The Florida Family Association has managed to do a lot of damage with its All-American Muslim boycott over the last week and a half, whether by convincing companies like Lowe’s and Kayak to absolutely humiliate th ...
Posted Saturday, December 17th 2011 at 9:13PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, December 15, 2011 -- Education policies that affect millions of students have long been tied to test scores, but a new paper suggests those scores are regularly misinterpreted.
According to the new research out of Mathematica, a s ...
Posted Saturday, December 17th 2011 at 2:57PM
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POLITIFACT, December 16, 2011 -- During the Dec. 15, 2011, Republican presidential debate in Sioux City, Iowa, Rep. Michele Bachmann made a claim that jolted us out of our seats.
"After the debates that we had last week, PolitiFact came out and sa ...
Posted Friday, December 16th 2011 at 9:52PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, December 16, 2011 -- Famed musician, composer and Pulitzer Prize winner Wynton Marsalis was named CBS News cultural correspondent on Thursday.
The network announced that Marsalis will contribute reports to "CBS This Morning" and " ...
Posted Friday, December 16th 2011 at 9:28PM
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NEW YORK TIMES, December 14, 2011 — Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on Tuesday entered the turbulent political waters of voting rights, signaling that the Justice Department would be aggressive in reviewing new voting laws that civil rights advoc ...
Posted Wednesday, December 14th 2011 at 9:22PM
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THINK PROGRESS, December 14, 2011 -- The backlash against the home improvement giant Lowe’s is intensifying after the company pulled its ads from TLC’s show All-American Muslim at the behest of the right-wing group Florida Family Association. The mov ...
Posted Wednesday, December 14th 2011 at 9:12PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, December 14, 2011 -- On Tuesday night's "Daily Show," Jon Stewart took a break from his Indecision 2012 coverage to come to the defense of one of TLC's most controversial new shows, "All-American Muslim." The controversy? That a real ...
Posted Wednesday, December 14th 2011 at 1:46PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, December 13, 2011 -- Al Sharpton responded to "Saturday Night Live's" epic parody of his MSNBC show "PoliticsNation," on Monday.
Sharpton seemed to take the spoof in stride, by replaying highlights of Kenan Thompson's impersonatio ...
Posted Tuesday, December 13th 2011 at 10:55PM
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NEW YORK TIMES, December 12, 2011 — The results are now public from the 2011 federal testing program known as NAEP, the National Assessment of Educational Progress. And once again, schools on the nation’s military bases have outperformed public schoo ...
Posted Monday, December 12th 2011 at 10:32PM
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December 12, 2011 -- Michelle Obama is now a world record holder. The first lady announced in an email Monday that her October bid to break the record for the most people doing jumping jacks in a 24-hour period succeeded. Mrs. Obama says 300,265 peop ...
Posted Monday, December 12th 2011 at 7:58PM
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THINK PROGRESS December 9, 2011 -- Yesterday, Republicans again shot down an extension of a payroll tax break for middle-class families due to their objection to a 1.9 percent tax increase on the top 0.2 percent of income earners. Naturally, Republic ...
Posted Friday, December 9th 2011 at 7:08PM
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THINK PROGRESS, December 7, 2011 -- Yesterday, Senate Republicans voted nearly unanimously to block Caitlan Halligan’s nomination to the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Only Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) broke party lines to join th ...
Posted Friday, December 9th 2011 at 12:16PM
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TALKING POINTS MEMO, December 9, 2011 -- As the U.S. government and governments in Europe respond to the global economic slump with conservative austerity measures, it’s easy to forget that the overwhelming professional economic consensus is that dep ...
Posted Friday, December 9th 2011 at 12:03PM
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Rainn Wilson's SoulPancake project has grown from a Web site dedicated to making people think and ask life's big questions, to a book and now a series of vignettes on the Oprah Winfrey Network's "Super Soul Sunday."
SoulPancake's mission is to "en ...
Posted Friday, December 9th 2011 at 11:47AM
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POLITIFACT, December 9, 2011 -- Billions of dollars began pumping through the American economy in 2009 as part of the stimulus program started by President Barack Obama, but somehow Gov. Chris Christie missed that.
While campaigning on Nov. 9 in N ...
Posted Thursday, December 8th 2011 at 1:33PM
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THINK PROGRESS, December 7, 2011 -- When Wisconsin citizens go to the polls next year, they will be asked to provide photo identification for the first time in the state’s history. If they don’t have an acceptable form of photo ID, they will not be a ...
Posted Thursday, December 8th 2011 at 10:18AM
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LA TIMES, December 3, 2011 -- Shortly after Mitt Romney resigned from Bain Capital in 1999 to run the Olympics in Salt Lake City, potential investors received a prospectus touting the extraordinary profits earned by the private equity firm that Romne ...
Posted Sunday, December 4th 2011 at 7:17PM
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SNL, December 3, 2011 -- While Herman Cain has suspended his campaign for president amidst continued allegations of sexual misconduct and embarrassing gaffes, we hope that doesn't mean the last of Kenan Thompson's appearances as Cain on SNL.
This ...
Posted Sunday, December 4th 2011 at 12:22PM
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THINK PROGRESS, December 4, 2011 -- 2012 GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has been pinning his campaign to his economic record, claiming that his time as an investment executive gives him the necessary experience to boost the nation’s moribund jo ...
Posted Sunday, December 4th 2011 at 11:56AM
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POLITICS NATION, December 2, 2011 -- Rev. Al Sharpton nails Newt gingerich for his incendiary and false comments on poor children--that they have no habits of working because they do not see people around them working--and that poor children shoudl w ...
Posted Saturday, December 3rd 2011 at 9:04PM
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POLITIFACT, October 13, 2011 -- As President Barack Obama toured Virginia last week touting his jobs plan, Republicans countered that his previous effort -- the stimulus -- did not create a single job. We disagree.
The National Republican Sen ...
Posted Friday, December 2nd 2011 at 9:13PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, December 2, 2011 -- As Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain was fighting off allegations of a 13-year affair this week, fellow candidate Mitt Romney found himself defending his own past actions. On Thursday night's "Daily Show ...
Posted Friday, December 2nd 2011 at 1:30PM
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THINK PROGRESS, December 2, 2011 -- The lead pastor at the Kentucky church that banned interracial couples from becoming members or participating in certain worship activities now expects that ban to be overturned. Gulnare Free Will Baptist Church, a ...
Posted Friday, December 2nd 2011 at 1:26PM
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