THINK PROGRESS, September 15, 2011--Yesterday, ThinkProgress brought you the tragic story of Kent Snyder, the campaign manager for Rep. Ron Paul’s (R-TX) 2008 presidential bid, who died at 49 from pneumonia because he lacked health insurance. Snyder ...
Posted Friday, September 16th 2011 at 11:42AM
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HUFFINGTON POST, September 14, 2011--Rachel Maddow said she knew who the "clear loser" of Monday's GOP presidential debate was: a 30-year-old sick man with no health insurance.
As Maddow put it, the audience at the debate "wants him dead." She was ...
Posted Thursday, September 15th 2011 at 1:31PM
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THINK PROGRESS, September 14, 2011—The heartbreaking story of Kent Snyder, the brains behind Ron Paul’s innovative online strategy during the 2008 presidential campaign has new significance in light of the congressman’s recent comments endorsing the ...
Posted Thursday, September 15th 2011 at 1:28PM
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THINK PROGRESS, September 14, 2011 — President Obama won Pennsylvania by more than 10 percentage points in 2008, and Democrats have won the state in every single presidential election for the last two decades. In a close election, it is difficult to ...
Posted Thursday, September 15th 2011 at 10:26AM
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RACHEL MADDOW SHOW, September 14, 2011-- In 2008, President Obama won Pennsylvania by more than 10 points. That gave him 21 electoral votes out of the 270 needed to win the presidency.
Republicans in Pennsylvania plan to change the way electora ...
Posted Thursday, September 15th 2011 at 10:25AM
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NEW YORK TIMES, September 14, 2011—Laughter is regularly promoted as a source of health and well being, but it has been hard to pin down exactly why laughing until it hurts feels so good.
The answer, reports Robin Dunbar, an evolutionary psycholog ...
Posted Wednesday, September 14th 2011 at 7:50PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, September 14, 2011 -- When CNN's Wolf Blitzer pressed Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) over what he would do if a 30-year-old uninsured man suddenly slipped into a coma and needed care, he did so, in all likelihood, not knowing just how perso ...
Posted Wednesday, September 14th 2011 at 4:30PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, September 12, 2011--A bit of a startling moment happened near the end of Monday night's CNN debate when a hypothetical question was posed to Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas).
"What do you tell a guy who is sick, goes into a coma and doesn' ...
Posted Tuesday, September 13th 2011 at 4:37PM
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Perfect song by visionary director Spike Lee in tribute to the heroism of the FDNY, "our bravest" and to all New York.
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Posted Sunday, September 11th 2011 at 11:02PM
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POLITICO, September 11, 2011--In 1972, Barbara Jordan became the first African-American woman elected to Congress from the South. This week, 15 years after her death, she will become the first African-American congresswoman to appear on a U.S. postag ...
Posted Sunday, September 11th 2011 at 3:08PM
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THE DAILY SHOW, September 8, 2011--"The Daily Show" schedule prevented Jon Stewart from commenting on Wednesday night's GOP Presidential debate, but he was still ready with some material on frontrunners Mitt Romney and Rick Perry.
We look forward ...
Posted Friday, September 9th 2011 at 8:04AM
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AUGUST 24, 2011--Farrah Gray got his start selling hand-painted rocks. Growing up in inner-city Chicago in the 1980s, Gray grew accustomed to days "when the only thing in our refrigerator was the light that came on when you opened the door," he write ...
Posted Friday, September 9th 2011 at 7:56AM
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HUFFINGTON POST, September 6, 2011 -– And so here we go: a gloomy campaign for a gloomy era, a political war framed by the combatants as an Armageddon-style struggle between the Ungodly and the Irrational.
Nearly three years ago, in a brief burst ...
Posted Tuesday, September 6th 2011 at 1:51PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, September 6, 2011 -- Inspiring leaders in America come in all shapes, sizes, colors and creeds, and in all walks of life and public endeavor.
Harry E. Johnson Sr. -- a big man (6'2") with a big, beaming smile -- is one of these le ...
Posted Tuesday, September 6th 2011 at 12:59PM
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CNN, September 3, 2011--Celebrated poet and author Maya Angelou continued her criticism of the inscription etched on the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial, saying an edit of the civil rights leader's statement makes him appear arrogant.
The ...
Posted Saturday, September 3rd 2011 at 1:45PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, September 1, 2011--A fired up Al Sharpton angrily criticized John Boehner for rejecting President Obama's request to address Congress next Wednesday.
Sharpton spent two segments of his Tuesday show on the controversy. (Obama and B ...
Posted Saturday, September 3rd 2011 at 9:51AM
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NEW YORK TIMES, September 2, 2011—Venus Williams wore a lacy white short-sleeve top, blue jeans and sandals. Her hair fell in soft curls past her shoulders, her dangly silver-dollar-size earrings shimmered in the light. In the restaurant of the Upper ...
Posted Friday, September 2nd 2011 at 10:29AM
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NEW YORK TIMES, September 2, 2011—It often starts out as an uncomfortable feeling in the eyes and mouth. Patients say their eyes are dry and red, even though they are using eye drops. Often too, they say, their mouths are dry. Food is becoming tastel ...
Posted Friday, September 2nd 2011 at 10:28AM
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THINK PROGRESS, September 1, 2011--Thousands of unmarried couples who are living together in Florida may be surprised to learn that they are actually breaking the law. Under outdated and rarely enforced state laws that have been on the books since th ...
Posted Thursday, September 1st 2011 at 11:26PM
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WASHINGTON, August 30, 2011 -- The Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture is planning an exhibit with Thomas Jefferson's Monticello to explore the third president's history with slavery.
Museum officials say "Jeffers ...
Posted Thursday, September 1st 2011 at 11:13PM
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NEW YORK TIMES, August 31, 2011--Rachel Figueroa-Levin has a dog, three cats, five fish, a snake, a turtle, a parakeet, a gecko (“like the Geico lizard,” she explained) and two sugar gliders (picture little flying opossums). The gliders’ cage sits be ...
Posted Thursday, September 1st 2011 at 9:33AM
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THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW, August 30, 2011--MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry marked the sixth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina with a searing monologue about what she saw as the country's failure to learn from the disaster on Monday's "Rachel Maddow Show."
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Posted Tuesday, August 30th 2011 at 7:08PM
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The National September 11 Memorial at Ground Zero will open this September 11th, the tenth anniversary of the attacks.
Architect Michael Arad and landscape architect Peter Walker's design for the memorial, "Reflecting Absence" was selected from a ...
Posted Sunday, August 28th 2011 at 10:56AM
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THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW, August 26, 2011--Rachel Maddow shows how wealthy Texans have been able to manipulate the system for their own gain against the interests of ordinary Texas residents.
Say you're a Texan. and you have the misfortune of toxi ...
Posted Saturday, August 27th 2011 at 8:56PM
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By JOHN LEWIS, NEW YORK TIMES, August 27, 2011—As we celebrate the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, we reflect on the life and legacy of this great man. But recent legislation on voting reminds us that there is still work to do. Since January, a majo ...
Posted Saturday, August 27th 2011 at 7:37PM
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