POLITICO, June 17, 2911—A federal judge has approved a request by prosecutors to officially dismiss all criminal charges against Osama bin Laden. Such requests are procedural and routine in case where defendants named in indictment die.
The order ...
Posted Saturday, June 18th 2011 at 10:36AM
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HUFFINGTON POST, June 17, 2011--Saudi Arabian “freedom drivers” plan to take to the streets Friday -- in their cars. It’s the official start of theWomen2Drive campaign, in which some Saudi women intend to ignore threats of arrest and reactionary civi ...
Posted Friday, June 17th 2011 at 11:10AM
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NEW YORK TIMES, June 15, 2011--She was born in a mud hut in an isolated hamlet in Africa with no electricity or running water, a 10-minute hike to the nearest road. Unschooled, she was married off to a distant cousin as a teenager, had a daughter and ...
Posted Wednesday, June 15th 2011 at 8:19AM
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By DAVID S. REYNOLDS, NEW YORK TIMES, June 14, 2011—The novelist Harriet Beecher Stowe, born 200 years ago today, was an unlikely fomenter of wars. Diminutive and dreamy-eyed, she was a harried housewife with six children, who suffered from various o ...
Posted Tuesday, June 14th 2011 at 9:58PM
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CNN's Don Lemon asked Republican presidential candidate if he has any gay friends on Monday.
Lemon, who publicly revealed he is gay in May, was speaking to Santorum in New Hampshire ahead of CNN's GOP debate on Monday night. Santorum is well known ...
Posted Tuesday, June 14th 2011 at 2:30PM
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NEW YORK TIMES, June 13, 2011--The Arab Spring is inching its way into Saudi Arabia — in the cars of fully veiled drivers.
On the surface, when a group of Saudi women used Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to organize a mass mobile protest defying the ...
Posted Monday, June 13th 2011 at 10:06PM
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NEW YORK TIMES, June 12, 2011—Author of GROWING UP BIN LADEN: OSAMA’S WIFE AND SON TAKE US INSIDE THEIR SECRET WORLD by Najwa bin Laden, Omar bin Laden, Jean Sasson, answers questions.
Q: Why did Omar bin Laden, Osama’s fourth son, choose y ...
Posted Sunday, June 12th 2011 at 11:57AM
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HUFFINGTON POST, June 11, 2011— Since his retirement as archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa, Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu has become one of the world's most prominent figures pleading for a change in the attitudes of religious i ...
Posted Saturday, June 11th 2011 at 9:47PM
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POLITIFACT, June 3, 2011—The Democrats’ massive stimulus program passed two years ago was a dud, according to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor.
"They (Democrats) passed a nearly $1 trillion stimulus bill which failed to get people back to work, ...
Posted Monday, June 6th 2011 at 10:25PM
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THINK PROGRESS, June 5, 2011--As ThinkProgress reported, during a June 2 stop in Boston on her “One Nation” bus tour, Sarah Palin managed to spectacularly flub the historical account of Paul Revere’s famed “Midnight Ride.”
Describing Revere as wa ...
Posted Sunday, June 5th 2011 at 7:53PM
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TALKING POINTS MEMO, June 3, 2011--In what is somehow “not a publicity seeking tour,” Tea Party maven Sarah Palin is traipsing around the nation’s historic landmarks in her “One Nation” bus to “take Americans back to their roots.”
Yesterday, Pali ...
Posted Sunday, June 5th 2011 at 7:49PM
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POLITICO, June 5, 2011—The push to rig the 2012 presidential election is under way.
There’s nothing illegal about it: Across the country, state legislatures are embroiled in partisan battles over election-law changes that, by design or effect, cou ...
Posted Sunday, June 5th 2011 at 11:05AM
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"One is reminded of Patrick Henry's courageous cry, 'Give me liberty and I don't want liberty.'"
The thing that makes a story like Anthony Weiner's alleged, uh, johnson, so captivating is that it's very easy to understand. Say the phrase "debt cei ...
Posted Saturday, June 4th 2011 at 11:15AM
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NEW YORK TIMES, June 3, 2011—Theologians and clergy members of every religious stripe may debate the existence of God until the cows come home. But as demonstrated by “Rejoice and Shout,” Don McGlynn’s documentary history of African-American gospel m ...
Posted Saturday, June 4th 2011 at 11:02AM
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MSNBC, June 2, 2011--For a second, it seemed like our TV might have to be adjusted, but that really was Al Sharpton filling in for Ed Schultz on Thursday night.
Sharpton has been an increasingly frequent guest on Schultz's show, but it was still s ...
Posted Friday, June 3rd 2011 at 10:30AM
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NEW YORK TIMES, June 2, 2011—Woe to the politician who claims to be fiscally responsible, in touch with regular folk, and turns out to have some pricey habits. Think Newt Gingrich and Tiffany, John Edwards and haircuts, Sarah Palin and clothes — and ...
Posted Thursday, June 2nd 2011 at 1:25PM
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For all the inexplicable things Donald Trump has done in the past, none sent Jon Stewart over the edge quite like the way he ate pizza alongside Sarah Palin.
On The Daily Show Wednesday night, Stewart became apoplectic while reacting to Trump and ...
Posted Thursday, June 2nd 2011 at 1:12PM
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By Gabriel Sherman, THE NEW YORKER, May 22, 2011—On Monday afternoon, March 28, Fox News chairman Roger Ailes summoned Glenn Beck to a meeting in his office on the second floor of News Corp.’s midtown headquarters to discuss his future at the network ...
Posted Sunday, May 29th 2011 at 7:02PM
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As we honor Teacher Appreciation Month, here are 20 musicians who have also worked on the other side of the desk.
Sheryl Crow
After studying theory and voice at the University of Missouri -- where she also fronted a rock band named Kashmir ...
Posted Sunday, May 29th 2011 at 12:12PM
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There's nothing us regular folk love more than seeing a ridiculously wealthy guy who thinks the rules don't apply to him have a bad time. 'SNL' took aim at Dominque Strauss-Kahn, the disgraced IMF chief who was until Friday being held without bail a ...
Posted Wednesday, May 25th 2011 at 11:49AM
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BERNARD LAFAYETTE, NEW YORK TIMES, May 20, 2011—Fifty years ago today I arrived in Montgomery, Ala., on a Greyhound bus. I was 20 years old and was there as one of the Freedom Riders, a racially mixed group, mostly college students, who were riding b ...
Posted Friday, May 20th 2011 at 11:11AM
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NEWSWEEK, May 15, 2011—Earvin “Magic” Johnson isn’t the reflective type. He tends not to dwell on the past or even second-guess the decision he made 10 minutes ago. So when asked if he often thinks about that chilly November morning in 1991 when he s ...
Posted Wednesday, May 18th 2011 at 9:59PM
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CBS, May 15, 2011—The news that Osama bin Laden had been hiding in plain sight in a Pakistani military town surprised many Americans, but it came as no surprise to the man you'll hear from. His name is Amrullah Saleh and four years ago he told Pakist ...
Posted Monday, May 16th 2011 at 10:43PM
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THINK PROGRESS, May 16, 2011--As of today, the United States has officially hit its legal borrowing limit, bumping into the statutory debt ceiling. The Treasury Department has some options at its disposal for delaying default, but those will be exhau ...
Posted Monday, May 16th 2011 at 2:42PM
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