Jackie Robinson Day 2011 commemorates the 64th anniversary of his historic debut in Major League Baseball with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
The anniversary simultaneously commemorates the breaking of the color barrier in baseball, as Jackie Robinson was ...
Posted Friday, April 15th 2011 at 10:32PM
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This morning, the House debated the budget proposal put forth by the Congressional Progressive Caucus, a response to the budget drafted by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI). During the debate, CPC member Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) asked Rep. Todd Rokita (R-IN) wh ...
Posted Friday, April 15th 2011 at 6:58PM
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WASHINGTON -- House Democrats showed Friday that they, too, have it in them to pull the kinds of parliamentary tricks on the House floor that Republicans mastered when they were the minority.
During a series of votes on alternative budget proposal ...
Posted Friday, April 15th 2011 at 6:47PM
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Pennsylvania's former senator Rick Santorum lifted his new campaign slogan from a famous American poem that he obviously never read. Given his political stances, Santorum could have found a better match in a Pat Boone song. MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell ...
Posted Friday, April 15th 2011 at 9:19AM
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama says Republicans who are sowing doubts about whether he is American-born may gain politically in the short term by playing to their constituencies but will have trouble when the general election rolls around. ...
Posted Friday, April 15th 2011 at 9:01AM
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MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell dissects President Obama's speech yesterday on the deficit reduction. He offers some historical background on Republican strategy to eviscerate government and shows how the President stood up for our nation's core values.
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Posted Thursday, April 14th 2011 at 11:19AM
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HuffPost's Howard Fineman appeared on MSNBC's 'The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell' Wednesday night to discuss President Obama's budget speech.
"I think more generally you're seeing a more combative, populist president here who's clearly in pres ...
Posted Thursday, April 14th 2011 at 11:15AM
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On Monday night's "Daily Show," Jon Stewart picked up where he left off last Thursday: the (narrowly avoided) government shutdown over budget cuts.
One of the biggest points of contention, federal funding for Planned Parenthood, was the item that ...
Posted Tuesday, April 12th 2011 at 11:06PM
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Track and field legend Carl Lewis officially announced on Monday that he’s entering a race — a political race, that is.
The AP reported that Lewis, now 49, announced his bid to represent his hometown of Willingboro, N.J., in the state Senate. He w ...
Posted Monday, April 11th 2011 at 6:54PM
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What will 'Fox & Friends' Monday-morning coverage of the near government shutdown look like? According to the show's tagline, it will involve "coffee, smiles, fear and terror."
When you set out to mock a show that already mocks itself so well, the ...
Posted Sunday, April 10th 2011 at 10:23PM
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WASHINGTON — President Obama opened the week by calling on Democrats to embrace his re-election campaign. He closed it by praising Republicans for forging a compromise to cut spending this year and avert a government shutdown.
The juxtaposition ma ...
Posted Sunday, April 10th 2011 at 5:57PM
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WASHINGTON — At one crucial moment in the game of chicken over a looming shutdown of the United States government, President Obama and the House speaker, John A. Boehner, faced off in the Oval Office. Mr. Boehner, a Republican heavily outnumbered in ...
Posted Sunday, April 10th 2011 at 5:55PM
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So, “The One” wants a Round Two.
This week President Obama made it official that he’s seeking a second turn. Make no mistake, that’s going to be hard.
In the prologue to “The Audacity of Hope,” Obama wrote: “I serve as a blank screen on which p ...
Posted Saturday, April 9th 2011 at 11:29AM
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Rachel Maddow issued a warning to some of her viewers on her Tuesday show, telling them that, just by watching her, they could wind up the target of conservative groups.
Maddow was reacting to a statement by the Mackinac Center, a right-wing think ...
Posted Friday, April 8th 2011 at 4:56PM
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It's early, but Donald Trump is emerging as a significant player in the Republican race for president. The latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal survey found that among people planning to vote in the Republican primary, Trump placed second, tied with M ...
Posted Friday, April 8th 2011 at 4:46PM
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The federal government is on the verge of shutting down as Republican and Democratic Party negotiators have failed to reach a compromise on a bill to continue to fund the government. Progressives are resisting deeper cuts to programs Main Street Amer ...
Posted Friday, April 8th 2011 at 7:05AM
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How would Moses handle EXODUS, the ten plagues and the flight from Egypt if he had access to the Internet? Check this out. ...
Posted Thursday, April 7th 2011 at 4:45PM
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“THE FIRST INDICATOR THAT YOUR CHILD IS HAVING PROBLEMS IS THE DRESS CODE,” SAID SEN. ADAMS, A FORMER POLCIE CAPTAIN. “PRIOR TO THE SAGGING PANTS IT WAS SHOESTRINGS OUT OF SNEAKERS. ALL THIS COMES FROM PRISON. WE TAKE THE SHOESTRINGS AND BELTS FRO ...
Posted Thursday, April 7th 2011 at 4:29PM
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April 5, 2011 DAYTON, OH - Sister Cora-Ann, a Catholic nun from the Our Lady of Grace Monastery in Dayton, Ohio got the surprise of her life yesterday, when she was asked to leave the plane she had just boarded at the Omaha International Airport.
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Posted Thursday, April 7th 2011 at 10:20AM
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This week marks the anniversary of my father's death. Many Americans observe this occasion by looking back at the ideals he fought for and gave his life to advance. I believe we should mark it by looking forward to how much further we can advance tho ...
Posted Thursday, April 7th 2011 at 10:19AM
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Al-Jazeera's Abderrahim Fochara and Professor Irshad Manji analyze recent violence in Afghanistan sparked by Koran burning U.S. Pastor in Florida with HARDBALL'S Chris Matthews ...
Posted Tuesday, April 5th 2011 at 4:27PM
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On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire in New York City which killed 146 and prompted labor reform in the United States, HBO presents its heralded documentary “TRIANGLE: REMEMBERING THE FIRE”.
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Posted Sunday, March 27th 2011 at 11:59AM
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Republicans have slashed benefits for workers, the poor, single moms and children while also slashing taxes for corporations. This year America's biggest corporation, General Electric paid nothing in income Tax. Zero. Zilch. Nada. MSNBC's Lawrence O' ...
Posted Saturday, March 26th 2011 at 5:03PM
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In the summer of 1937, with the Dodgers holding down their familiar spot near the bottom of the National League, the cartoonist Willard Mullin drew the unforgettable image of the “Brooklyn Bum” — a potbellied, cigar-chomping hobo who combined the che ...
Posted Saturday, March 26th 2011 at 10:33AM
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This is a bizarre, ugly turn of events.
William Cronon is a Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin. A few days ago he wrote an oped in the Times critical of Gov. Walker and his push to abolish collective bargaining rights for public ...
Posted Friday, March 25th 2011 at 9:53PM
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