Jon Stewart sparred with Fox News' Bret Baier about the position of the network as a news organization during Baier's appearance on Thursday's "Daily Show."
It's not often that Fox News personalities enter the relative bear pit that is "The Daily ...
Posted Friday, March 25th 2011 at 6:03PM
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"And if all others accepted the lie which the party imposed -- if all records told the same tale -- then the lie passed into history and became the truth." ~ George Orwell, 1984 (published in 1949)
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor was in town ...
Posted Thursday, March 24th 2011 at 1:59PM
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On Wednesday the Republicans on the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee are holding a "public" hearingabout the Affordable Care Act (ACA) at the state capitol in Harrisburg, Penn. Except they're not there to listen to the public and people l ...
Posted Wednesday, March 23rd 2011 at 3:29PM
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Over the past year, I have traveled the nation speaking to nearly 100,000 educators, parents, and school-board members. No matter the city, state, or region, those who know schools best are frightened for the future of public education. They see no o ...
Posted Wednesday, March 23rd 2011 at 10:23AM
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"Death panels" are back in the news, and Congress is turning its attention to them once again. The problem is, lawmakers are looking in all the wrong places.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee, now headed by Republicans, sent a letter to Heal ...
Posted Tuesday, March 22nd 2011 at 10:49AM
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Police estimated up to 100,000 people turned out in Madison, WI yesterday to protest Gov. Scott Walker’s (R) assault on unions, making it bigger than any protests the city has witnessed, even those during the Vietnam War.
The Madison rally is par ...
Posted Sunday, March 13th 2011 at 4:19PM
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Rep. Michele Bachmann got her Revolutionary War history a bit screwed up at an event in New Hampshire today, telling the crowd: "What I love about New Hampshire and what we have in common is our extreme love for liberty. You're the state where the sh ...
Posted Sunday, March 13th 2011 at 12:57PM
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Despite the dubious credentials of Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., as an opponent of terrorism, owing to his years fronting for the Irish Republican Army, his controversial hearings on the “Extent of Radicalization in the American Muslim Community and That ...
Posted Friday, March 11th 2011 at 12:23PM
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“There is nothing radical or un-American in holding these hearings,” Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., claimed Thursday as he launched his McCarthyite probe of American Muslims. He could not have been more wrong. If King is looking for threats to our freedom ...
Posted Friday, March 11th 2011 at 12:22PM
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Today, Rep. Peter King (R-NY) is holding hearings in the House Homeland Security Committee singling out the Muslim American community for supposedly aiding and abetting terrorism. Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), Congress’s first elected Muslim, rebuked Ki ...
Posted Thursday, March 10th 2011 at 5:17PM
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Rep. Peter King (R-NY), chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, is holding hearings singling out the Muslim American community for supposedly aiding and abetting domestic radicalization and terrorism.
When asked why he is singling out t ...
Posted Thursday, March 10th 2011 at 5:15PM
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On Thursday, House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Pete King (R-NY) will begin his hearings on “the Extent of Radicalization in the American Muslim Community.” Clinging to his McCarthy-esque paranoia in the face of backlash, King continues to lo ...
Posted Wednesday, March 9th 2011 at 9:02PM
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I like teachers. My three sisters are teachers in the public schools. They are all very good teachers; Teri won teacher of the year in her district. Two of my wonderful brother-in-laws are, or have been, teachers. One of my nephews just got accepted ...
Posted Saturday, March 5th 2011 at 11:09AM
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The jabs Erin Parker has heard about her job have stunned her. Oh you pathetic teachers, read the online comments and placards of counterdemonstrators. You are glorified baby sitters who leave work at 3 p.m. You deserve minimum wage.
“You feel pun ...
Posted Friday, March 4th 2011 at 8:23PM
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Serena Williams' absence from tennis could stretch to almost a year after two new health scares -- a blood clot in her lungs followed by a hematoma -- have added to her injury woes.
Her agents confirmed Wednesday that Williams was diagnosed with a ...
Posted Wednesday, March 2nd 2011 at 9:52PM
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Chris Bosh shot 1-for-18 in Miami's 93-89 loss to Chicago on Thursday night, but he may have won an award for his acting performance in the second quarter.
Bulls forward Carlos Boozer got the ball down low with his back to the basket and Bosh defe ...
Posted Friday, February 25th 2011 at 11:01PM
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So, do you remember that time that the House passed a symbolic repeal of the Affordable Care Act, that didn't go anywhere, because Harry Reid is still the Senate Majority Leader and Barack Obama is still the President of the United States? Good times ...
Posted Friday, February 25th 2011 at 10:57AM
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(CNN) -- Thousands of teachers, nurses, firefighters and other public sector workers have camped out at the Wisconsin Capitol, protesting Republican Gov. Scott Walker's efforts to reduce their take-home pay -- by increasing their contribution to thei ...
Posted Wednesday, February 23rd 2011 at 10:33PM
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A federal judge on Tuesday upheld the health care reform law signed last year by President Barack Obama and found that Congress had the clear authority to regulate health insurance under the Commerce Clause of the Constitution.
U.S. District Judge ...
Posted Tuesday, February 22nd 2011 at 10:21PM
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The last time Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) went after public sector unions it had “disastrous results” for him and for taxpayers. As Milwaukee County Executive in 2009, Walker tried to get rid of the unionized security guards at the county courtho ...
Posted Tuesday, February 22nd 2011 at 10:45AM
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It’s time for us to stop lying to ourselves about this country.
America is great in many ways, but on a whole host of measures — some of which are shown in the accompanying chart — we have become the laggards of the industrialized world. Not only ...
Posted Monday, February 21st 2011 at 5:57PM
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WHERE: Laughlin Hall, CHURCH OF ST. LUKE IN THE FIELDS, 487 Hudson Street, NYC.
WHEN: 7-9 PM, Friday, February 25, 2011
ON THE WINGS OF THE WIND (SynergEbooks 2010) by Richard Kigel tells the improbable story of history’s first successful att ...
Posted Sunday, February 20th 2011 at 7:20PM
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In the half century since Wisconsin became the first state to give its public workers the right to bargain collectively, government employee unions have mushroomed in size and power — so much so that they now account for more than half of the nation’ ...
Posted Saturday, February 19th 2011 at 11:57AM
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