NY TIMES, April 30--The next stop for New Jersey in its debt collection fight with the federal government may be federal court.
On Friday, the Transportation Department flatly rejected the state’s arguments for refusing to repay $271 million that ...
Posted Saturday, April 30th 2011 at 11:28AM
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NY TIMES, April 21, 2011—For Lynn Nottage, the aha moment that led to “By the Way, Meet Vera Stark,” her new play about race, sex, fame and the dream — and crushing reality — of Hollywood, was unexpected. She was watching “Baby Face,” a delectably so ...
Posted Saturday, April 30th 2011 at 11:24AM
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Boston-Miami: this is the second round match-up we all wanted. Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said it "wouldn't be right if we didn't play them." LeBron echoed his coach, saying, "We have to play Boston to get where we want to get. It's here now."
Be c ...
Posted Friday, April 29th 2011 at 10:23PM
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WASHINGTON -- Well, that was weird.
Let's see: The Arab world is in tumult, with worrying signs that a Libya-style descent into civil war may be happening in Syria, where the stakes are unimaginably higher. Nearby, the warring Palestinian factions ...
Posted Friday, April 29th 2011 at 3:21PM
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I think we will all remember where we were when we learned the news that the President of the United States is the President of the United States. Now we can put to rest the crazy fringe idea that this will end the controversy.
Stephen Colbert is ...
Posted Thursday, April 28th 2011 at 2:43PM
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After being proven completely wrong on President Obama’s birth certificate, Donald Trump emphasizes another line of attack. This time, he is going after the President’s academic record and his intellectual accomplishments.
Lawrence O’Donnell d ...
Posted Thursday, April 28th 2011 at 2:42PM
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HARDBALL, MSNBC, April 27, 2011. Chris Matthews and his Hardball analysts Eugene Robinson and Howard Fineman explain the reasons behind the Obama decision to release his birth certificate NOW. It was a politically astute move. What Obama has done ...
Posted Thursday, April 28th 2011 at 9:13AM
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"I accomplished something really important," says Donald Trump.
If he thinks wasting the nation's time and helping us gain information that we already knew are important.
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Posted Thursday, April 28th 2011 at 9:03AM
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WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) – In a stunning announcement that took even political insiders by surprise, President Barack Obama revealed today that he ran for President of Kenya in 2005 but was disqualified when a birth certificate surfaced showi ...
Posted Wednesday, April 27th 2011 at 2:58PM
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Anderson Cooper called out Sean Hannity for editing a clip of him in a misleading way.
Speaking on his Monday show, Cooper stressed that he didn't want to start a "cheesy cable news feud," but simply wanted to correct a clip Hannity had shown in a ...
Posted Tuesday, April 26th 2011 at 10:16PM
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On Monday night, Stephen Colbert announced that he was ready to endorse Donald Trump's potential presidential candidacy, in part because he said he'd finally been convinced that Trump's big publicity stunt could actually vault him into the White Hous ...
Posted Tuesday, April 26th 2011 at 4:31PM
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I told myself that I wouldn’t be dragged into Donald Trump’s “birther” cesspool, yet here I am.
It became too much to ignore when he climbed to the top of the Republicans’ admittedly weak field of presidential contenders and serious minds began to ...
Posted Monday, April 25th 2011 at 10:46PM
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The impoverished former industrial town of Benton Harbor has become a flashpoint in the controversy over the new law that allows the governor to appoint Emergency Managers with virtually unlimited authority over local governments.
On Thursday the ...
Posted Monday, April 25th 2011 at 12:54PM
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DETROIT –Ashley Matthews, 17, described the heroic student-led occupation of her school, Catherine Ferguson Academy on April 15. She spoke of the wholehearted support the young mothers received from the community, as well as the vicious physical and ...
Posted Saturday, April 23rd 2011 at 5:31PM
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Rachel Maddow reports on why the state of Michigan and the city of Detroit should be Ground Zero in the fight to preserve Democracy.
With support from hundreds of Detroiters, students at the Catherine Ferguson Academy occupied their school ...
Posted Saturday, April 23rd 2011 at 9:49AM
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A roving journalist with a camera recently went to a Tea Party rally in New Hampshire, one of the six states to legalize Same-Sex Marriage.
When the reporter asked what changes they noticed since Gay folks had the right to marry in New Hampshire ...
Posted Friday, April 22nd 2011 at 4:42PM
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MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell once again blasts Trump's ridiculous, fact-free charge on President Obama's birthplace, denouncing him as "The racists greatest hero."
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Posted Friday, April 22nd 2011 at 10:35AM
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ATLANTA — Each of the 90 federal historic sites in the United States has its appeal. But for all their cultural value, the sites don’t change much. A studious tour given by a park ranger. A plaque to read. Another note in a travel journal.
But thi ...
Posted Friday, April 22nd 2011 at 10:12AM
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Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) has been raising the ire of Michiganders across his state recently as he has rammed through his radical agenda. This agenda first consisted of advocating for and passing giant corporate tax cuts, continued with stripping ...
Posted Wednesday, April 20th 2011 at 5:40PM
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The election is eons away, but Ed Schultz jumped into the race for the 2012 GOP nomination on Monday to deliver his (most likely not at all) coveted endorsement. The lucky candidate--and the one who will most likely receive the highly-sought-after "S ...
Posted Wednesday, April 20th 2011 at 9:42AM
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Once Robin Williams gets going, it can be tough to slow him down. Such was the case today, when he stopped by 'The View' (weekdays, syndicated on ABC) and Joy Behar promptly asked him about Donald Trump. Williams took over from there, joking about wh ...
Posted Wednesday, April 20th 2011 at 9:20AM
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On his April 13, 2011, speech on his vision for America’s fiscal future, President Barack Obama quickly went on the offensive against the Republican deficit-cutting budget proposal championed by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., a pl ...
Posted Tuesday, April 19th 2011 at 10:44AM
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Obama’s speech yesterday was as 2012-focused as any we’ve heard him give. This was not a speech about dollars and cents as much as it was an appeal for Americans to think about what kind of country they want and how they define shared sacrifice.
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Posted Tuesday, April 19th 2011 at 10:43AM
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Corporations are roaring. Wall Street is rolling in cash. C.E.O. bonuses are going gangbusters. It’s a really good time to be rich!
If you’re poor, not so much. The pall of the recession is suffocating. The unemployment rate is still unbearably hi ...
Posted Saturday, April 16th 2011 at 3:18PM
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