POLITICO, October 23, 2011 -- President Barack Obama marked the end of the Iraq War last week, but he left it to Hillary Rodham Clinton — whose support for the unpopular war in 2003 ultimately helped lift Obama to the White House — to answer tough po ...
Posted Sunday, October 23rd 2011 at 9:17PM
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TALKING POINTS MEMO, October 23, 2011 -- Speaking with Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday,” U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton defended the timing of the Obama administration’s effort to withdraw American troops from Iraq by the end of 2011.
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Posted Sunday, October 23rd 2011 at 4:46PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, October 21, 2011 -- Lawerence O'Donnell interviews retired Marine Sgt. Shamar Thomas who shamed police officers at Occupy Wall Street protests.
After the violent clashes between police and protesters at Saturday's massive Occupy ...
Posted Saturday, October 22nd 2011 at 9:15PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, October 21, 2011 -- Jon Stewart and "The Daily Show" writers worked quickly Thursday to put together a show around the death of Libyan dictator Moammar Gaddafi. As with most major events, the media's reaction was a prime target for S ...
Posted Friday, October 21st 2011 at 12:18PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, October 21, 2011 -- Rachel Maddow appeared on "Ellen" Thursday. Among other things, she talked about the representation of women in the media.
Maddow is appearing in a new documentary about women in media, "Miss Representation." ...
Posted Friday, October 21st 2011 at 12:12PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, October 21, 2011 -- Beer, birth control, baby-making - oh my! Rachel Maddow tore into Governor Mitt Romney last night and took her criticism of the GOP candidate (and, really, all men in politics who have debated issues relating to u ...
Posted Friday, October 21st 2011 at 11:54AM
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HUFFINGTON POST, October 20, 2011 -- Al Sharpton talked Occupy Wall Street and Herman Cain with Jon Stewart on "The Daily Show". While the conversation was far more tame than Sharpton's candid discussion on the "Wendy Williams Show", Sharpton and Ste ...
Posted Thursday, October 20th 2011 at 10:29AM
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HUFFINGTON POST, October 17, 2011 -- Conservative rhetoric is by no means a new subject on "The Daily Show," but on Tuesday night's episode, Jon Stewart began the show with a lengthy segment on just that -- and what it means in the wake of Occupy Wal ...
Posted Wednesday, October 19th 2011 at 2:56PM
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Speaking at the dedication ceremony for a new monument to her father, the Rev. Bernice King said Martin Luther King Jr. would have been heartened by the Occupy Wall Street protests and larger 99 Percent Movement. “I hear my father saying what we are ...
Posted Monday, October 17th 2011 at 4:19PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, October 17, 2011 -- Say what you want about his tax plan, but Herman Cain sure can belt it out.
The Omaha World-Herald dug up this gem last week of the presidential contender covering John Lennon's classic, "Imagine," with his own ...
Posted Monday, October 17th 2011 at 3:56PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, October 15, 2011 -- We're not sure if the Occupy Wall Street protesters would consider it a milestone, but when you're the focus of the SNL cold open, it generally means you're the most important story in the country at the time.
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Posted Sunday, October 16th 2011 at 9:46PM
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WASHINGTON POST, October 7, 2011 – Are new photo ID laws in Alabama, Kansas, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin really necessary to stop widespread fraud? Or are photo ID laws just another conservative scheme to oppress young people and ...
Posted Sunday, October 16th 2011 at 9:00PM
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THINK PROGRESS, October 16, 2011 -- 2012 GOP presidential hopeful Herman Cain has risen in the polls recently, and his 999 tax plan was the star of the GOP primary debate last week (with the number nine warranting 85 different mentions). But more and ...
Posted Sunday, October 16th 2011 at 12:00PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, October 15, 2011 — President Barack Obama followed through Friday night on his longtime plan to take his two daughters to see the new monument to Martin Luther King Jr. on the National Mall.
Two days before Obama is to speak at th ...
Posted Saturday, October 15th 2011 at 6:57PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, October 12, 2011 -- Bill O'Reilly welcomed radio host Tavis Smiley and Prof. Cornel West onto his Tuesday show. The resulting dust-up was nothing short of a cable news classic.
Smiley and West have become a bona fide double act, r ...
Posted Wednesday, October 12th 2011 at 10:03PM
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NEW YORK TIMES, October10, 2011 -- It has been a record year for new legislation designed to make it harder for Democrats to vote — 19 laws and two executive actions in 14 states dominated by Republicans, according to a new study by the Brennan Cente ...
Posted Monday, October 10th 2011 at 11:41AM
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HUFFINGTON POST, October 9, 2011 -- For once it was not Steve Doocy, Gretchen Carlson or Brian Kilmeade who made contentious remarks about President Obama on "Fox And Friends" this week. Instead, country music star and face of "Monday Night Football ...
Posted Sunday, October 9th 2011 at 1:46PM
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THINK PROGRESS, October 9, 2011 -- The centerpiece of former pizza czar Herman Cain¡¯s presidential campaign is his ¡°999¡å plan, which would slash taxes on the wealthy, drive up deficits to the worst point since World War II, and force low-income Am ...
Posted Sunday, October 9th 2011 at 12:00PM
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THINK PROGRESS, october 8, 2011 -- At least one utility company in Alabama posted a sign informing its customers that a section of Alabama’s extreme anti-immigrant law prohibits them from providing water service to undocumented immigrants.
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Posted Saturday, October 8th 2011 at 10:15PM
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THINK PROGRESS, October 6, 2011 -- Swept up in the craze of preventing widespread voter fraud that doesn’t actually exist, Tennessee Republicans passed a voter identification law this year that they claimed would put an end to fraud and ensure fair e ...
Posted Saturday, October 8th 2011 at 10:58AM
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MSNBC, October 7, 2011 -- THE LAST WORD'S Lawrence O'Donnell continues his discussion of his contentious interview with G.O.P. Presidential candidate Herman Cain about Cain's stated position regarding his non-participation in the Civil Rights struggl ...
Posted Saturday, October 8th 2011 at 10:45AM
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HUFFINGTON POST, October 8, 2011 -- Leymah Roberta Gbowee was awarded the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, Oct. 7. She is an African peace activist responsible for organizing a women's movement that brought an end to the Second Liberian Civil War in ...
Posted Saturday, October 8th 2011 at 10:14AM
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HUFFINGTON POST, October 7, 2011 -- Republican presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) proposed a bill on Thursday that would force women in the early stages of pregnancy to have a physically invasive and medically unnecessary ultrasou ...
Posted Friday, October 7th 2011 at 7:00PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, October 6, 2011 -- Lawrence O'Donnell and GOP presidential contender Herman Cain got into a tense argument about an unexpected topic on O'Donnell's Thursday show: Cain's participation in the Civil Rights movement.
The two also dis ...
Posted Friday, October 7th 2011 at 11:09AM
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