It was an abduction that made headlines and stunned the authorities: A 3-week-old infant, taken to a Manhattan hospital in August 1987 for treatment of a fever, was snatched by a woman dressed in nurse’s clothes and never heard from again.
Two dec ...
Posted Thursday, January 20th 2011 at 4:07PM
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Washington (CNN) -- OK, you've got Palin fatigue. Not to worry. So does much of the country: The latest CNN poll shows that 56 percent of Americans view her unfavorably.
More damaging, though, is this: Sarah Palin's unfavorable rating among women ha ...
Posted Thursday, January 20th 2011 at 4:06PM
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Like all topical comedy outlets this week, "Saturday Night Live" was faced with the difficult task of commenting on the tragic events in Tucson. In last night's cold opening, "SNL" addressed it by mocking Fox News for their attempt at a toned-down rh ...
Posted Sunday, January 16th 2011 at 6:29PM
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Dr. Martin Luther King, February 4, 1968:
Every now and then I guess we all think realistically (Yes, sir) about that day when we will be victimized with what is life's final common denominator—that something that we call death. We all think about ...
Posted Sunday, January 16th 2011 at 12:07PM
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Rep. Trent Franks (R-Arizona): “You know, I wish there had been one more gun there that day in the hands of a responsible person. That’s all I have to say.”
Rachel: In fact, there was a man on the scene at the shooting in Tucson, a witness to th ...
Posted Friday, January 14th 2011 at 7:20PM
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WASHINGTON — President Obama is not known for showing a surplus of emotion in public, but toward the end of his speech at the University of Arizona, he paused for 51 seconds and appeared to gather himself.
The audience was on its feet. Mr. Obama h ...
Posted Friday, January 14th 2011 at 9:57AM
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In the span of a single news cycle, Republicans got a jarring reminder of two forces that could prevent them from retaking the presidency next year.
At sunrise in the east on Wednesday, Sarah Palin demonstrated that she has little interest—or capa ...
Posted Thursday, January 13th 2011 at 8:12AM
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On New Year’s Day, a devastating terrorist bombing at a Coptic church in Egypt killed 21 people and injured 79 others. Although the identity of the culprits was not known, it was assumed that they were Muslim extremists, intent on targeting those the ...
Posted Saturday, January 8th 2011 at 4:18PM
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This morning, the Labor Department released its employment data for December, showing that the U.S. economy ended the year by adding 113,000 private sector jobs, knocking the unemployment rate down sharply from 9.8 percent to 9.4 percent — its lowest ...
Posted Friday, January 7th 2011 at 7:21PM
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Call it a stumble out of the gate. Or a failure to find the gate entirely. Veteran Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX) and freshman Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick (R-PA) failed to make the official swearing in ceremony yesterday, a violation of the Constitution that ha ...
Posted Thursday, January 6th 2011 at 11:50PM
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Members of the House of Representatives, led by their new Republican majority, kicked off the 112th Congress this morning with a reading of the U.S. Constitution. The reading is largely a political maneuver, so it's no real surprise that the Constitu ...
Posted Thursday, January 6th 2011 at 12:03PM
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When the Republicans mandate the reading of the U.S. Constitution on Thursday, they will read it like they wrote it and own it. Progressives relish the opportunity to show how wrong they are.
Professor Akhil Reed Amar: “The American revolutiona ...
Posted Thursday, January 6th 2011 at 12:02PM
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by Elizabeth Wydra, HUFFINGTON POST, Jan. 5, 2010.
With the start of the 112th Congress, Tea Party activists are brimming with pride over the fact that the new House GOP leadership will kick off the legislative session with a reading of the Consti ...
Posted Thursday, January 6th 2011 at 11:59AM
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WASHINGTON -- If the incoming Republican leadership in the House of Representatives is serious about trying to repeal health care reform, there's only one appropriate Democratic response: "Make my day."
Just to be clear, there's no earthly chance ...
Posted Tuesday, January 4th 2011 at 11:07AM
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WASHINGTON -- The equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution does not protect against discrimination on the basis of gender or sexual orientation, according to Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
In a newly-publishe ...
Posted Monday, January 3rd 2011 at 6:37PM
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In the epilogue to the new paperback version of his book on President Obama, "The Promise," Jonathan Alter notes that one of the president's major challenges for 2012 will be combating the "Obama Hate Machine." That's an appropriate name for the righ ...
Posted Saturday, January 1st 2011 at 12:28PM
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Starting Saturday, two of the new health care law's most significant reforms take effect -- or at least begin to take effect.
The first will dramatically clamp down on insurance industry waste, abuse, and excesses. Starting on New Year's Day, insu ...
Posted Friday, December 31st 2010 at 12:34PM
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One of the major rallying cries of the Republican Party and the wider conservative movement has been to repeal the recently passed health care law. To justify this demand, these conservatives claim that Americans want the law to be repealed and that ...
Posted Thursday, December 30th 2010 at 10:45AM
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Village People a "one-man band"? In this case it's a perfect match.
Here is a one-man Village People group (complete with four puppets/mannequins attached to him at the joints) performing the classic song "Y.M.C.A." with surprising ease.
Th ...
Posted Tuesday, December 28th 2010 at 8:27PM
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The good news is that the right-wing isn't talking about President Obama being a secret Muslim right now. The bad news is that they're now concerned that he's going to use his honorary status as a Crow Tribe Indian to return the United States to Nati ...
Posted Tuesday, December 28th 2010 at 5:19PM
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WASHINGTON — This month's early, under-the-radar campaigning by potential Republican challengers to President Barack Obama is a reminder of something too easily forgotten: Running for president is harder than it looks, and Obama ultimately will stand ...
Posted Tuesday, December 28th 2010 at 10:32AM
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Americans say they most admired President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2010, according to an annual USA Today/Gallup survey released Monday.
Obama is Americans’ most admired man for the third consecutive year, getting 22 ...
Posted Monday, December 27th 2010 at 1:38PM
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Unearthed in a college archive, the grainy black-and-white dramatization, made in 1958, tells the story of a bungled purchase order and a boss who wanted the guilty party’s scalp. The company’s managers faced a glaring choice: fire an inept clerk who ...
Posted Monday, December 27th 2010 at 11:10AM
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