Wisconsin's new Republican governor has framed his assault on public worker's collective bargaining rights as a needed measure of fiscal austerity during tough times.
The reality is radically different. Unlike true austerity measures -- service ro ...
Posted Friday, February 18th 2011 at 8:51PM
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Watch Rachel Maddow dissect the core of this issue and the reason it is so crucial for the 2012 election. The single greatest source of support for Democrats has been the Unions. If Republicans are successful in breaking the Unions, the Democrats w ...
Posted Friday, February 18th 2011 at 8:48PM
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Could a lovable Muslim sit-com family change America's perception of Muslims? Perhaps, but probably not the one you're about to see.
On Thursday night's "Daily Show," Aasif Mandvi followed Katie Couric's advice and created a pilot for a Muslim ver ...
Posted Friday, February 18th 2011 at 11:00AM
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Will it take the Republican Party as long to accept modern science as it took the Roman Catholic Church? The church waited 359 years to admit Galileo was right — the earth does move around the sun. Not until 1992 did the Vatican officially withdraw ...
Posted Thursday, February 17th 2011 at 10:53AM
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In Wisconsin, about 1,000 teachers called in sick Wednesday to protest Gov. Scott Walker’s attempt to strip their union bargaining rights.
In Washington, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie recounted his battle with his state’s teachers unions Wednes ...
Posted Thursday, February 17th 2011 at 10:50AM
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Three weeks ago, Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) — the second-highest ranking Republican in the House of Representatives — repeatedly refused to call theories that President Obama was not born in America “crazy.” He told Meet the Press’s David Gregory that “ ...
Posted Sunday, February 13th 2011 at 5:39PM
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Bill O'Reilly clearly had so many questions for President Obama that there was another part to the interview that we haven't gotten to see until now.
In this segment, Bill asks the president his toughest questions yet—the Culture Quiz—grilling t ...
Posted Sunday, February 13th 2011 at 4:46PM
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A Republican focus group is CONVINCED that President Obama is a Muslim. Why do they think this? 40% of Iowa focus group believe something that is false. Watch a clip of the focus group in action. See Lawrence O'Donnell challenge Iowa Rep. Steve K ...
Posted Thursday, February 10th 2011 at 10:12AM
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CNN. Feb. 8, 2011—When Dr. Lynne Holden was 8 years old, she didn't want a bicycle, a doll, or even a pony. She wanted a copy of the popular medical reference manual,Gray's Anatomy.
"Well, I always wanted to be a physician, since I can remember. ...
Posted Thursday, February 10th 2011 at 9:16AM
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THE ONION, FEBRUARY 2, 2011.
WASHINGTON—In a strong rebuke of President Obama and his domestic agenda, all 242 House Republicans voted Wednesday to repeal the Asteroid Destruction and American Preservation Act, which was signed into law last ...
Posted Saturday, February 5th 2011 at 6:40PM
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Tomorrow will mark the 100th anniversary of President Reagan’s birth, and all week, conservatives have been trying to outdo each others’ remembrances of the great conservative icon. Senate Republicans spent much of Thursday singing Reagan’s praise fr ...
Posted Saturday, February 5th 2011 at 3:47PM
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CAIRO—Inside Tahrir Square on Thursday, I met a carpenter named Mahmood whose left arm was in a sling, whose leg was in a cast and whose head was being bandaged in a small field hospital set up by the democracy movement. This was the seventh time in ...
Posted Saturday, February 5th 2011 at 12:23PM
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Journalists attempting to cover unprecedented unrest in Egypt reported being beaten, arrested and harassed by security forces and police for a second day Thursday, leading to sharply limited television coverage of the protests.
Various news outlet ...
Posted Friday, February 4th 2011 at 10:53PM
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Worldwide attention has turned to the Peru-Brazil border where uncontacted Indians live, and the South American countries are finally feeling the pressure to protect them.
Survival International's campaign with newly released photos of the tribe, ...
Posted Friday, February 4th 2011 at 12:08PM
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Last week's State Of The Union address provided more than enough fodder for comedians, but "Saturday Night Live" had to wait until yesterday to give us their take. Like "Conan," "The Daily Show," and some of our other favorite comedians, "SNL" chose ...
Posted Monday, January 31st 2011 at 10:04PM
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NAIROBI, Kenya — It was late at night and totally dark when I first met David Kato. He had been described to me as “the most out” gay Ugandan and the country’s leading gay rights crusader, reviled by many, revered by a small few — but definitely well ...
Posted Monday, January 31st 2011 at 9:43PM
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African-American athletes may have been blessed with "hops" and "handle"--but here is the little known secret to how clunky earthbound white athletes can compete--great court sense (he knew exactly where his opponent would be standing), great anticip ...
Posted Saturday, January 29th 2011 at 10:12AM
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The National Catholic Reporter newspaper put it best: “Just days before Christians celebrated Christmas, Jesus got evicted.”
Yet the person giving Jesus the heave-ho in this case was not a Bethlehem innkeeper. Nor was it an overzealous mayor anger ...
Posted Friday, January 28th 2011 at 2:33PM
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On Monday night's "Colbert Report," Stephen Colbert took a moment to react to Keith Olbermann's abrupt exit from MSNBC. As is his custom whenever a pundit relinquishes his post, Colbert attempted to absorb the "Countdown" host's essence, opinions and ...
Posted Thursday, January 27th 2011 at 12:01PM
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On his daily radio and television shows, Glenn Beck has elevated once-obscure conservative thinkers onto best-seller lists. Recently, he has elevated a 78-year-old liberal academic to celebrity of a different sort, in a way that some say is endangeri ...
Posted Saturday, January 22nd 2011 at 4:20PM
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WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT ABOUT? by Josh Marshall, Talking Points Memo
I was just on in the opening segment of Olbermann tonight. And I get home and get this press release from NBC saying this was the last episode of Countdown. At first I figured it ...
Posted Friday, January 21st 2011 at 11:15PM
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Anderson Cooper, the master of the TV match-up, had on both terrorism "expert" and sharia alarmist Frank Gaffney and Suhail Khan, a board member of the Amercian Conservative Union whom Gaffney has accused of being an operative of Muslim jihadists.
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Posted Friday, January 21st 2011 at 12:11PM
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In reclaiming the House last November, Republicans framed their victory as a clear mandate from the American people to scrap 'Obamacare.' A cursory scan of the polling data suggests they were right, with some polls pegging support for repeal as high ...
Posted Friday, January 21st 2011 at 12:07PM
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