WASHINGTON - People who play basketball with Barack Obama say he's more dogged than flashy, more determined than skillful, more adaptable than unique. He'll trash talk on a dribble-drive with Reggie Love, but in the old days he was a studious, unself ...
Posted Wednesday, December 22nd 2010 at 6:56PM
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(CNN) -- Voters who flocked to the Republican banner seven weeks ago are probably scratching their heads, wondering, "Who really won in November?" After handing the president and Congressional Democrats the worst drubbing in more than half a century, ...
Posted Wednesday, December 22nd 2010 at 6:49PM
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In a rare moment of ebullience, President Barack Obama marked what is likely to be the final day of public events in the first half of his term with the repeal of the 17-year old “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy barring gays from serving openly in the ...
Posted Wednesday, December 22nd 2010 at 2:56PM
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A group of 9/11 first responders attempted to storm Tom Coburn's office Tuesday to personally lobby the GOP senator to lift a block that he had vowed to place on legislation meant to help cover their mounting health care costs.
John Feal, head of ...
Posted Wednesday, December 22nd 2010 at 1:03PM
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With just hours left in the 111th Congress, Republican lawmakers find themselves the target of ire and scorn from the most unlikely of adversaries: the firefighters and police officers who rushed into the burning twin towers on Sept. 11 nearly a deca ...
Posted Wednesday, December 22nd 2010 at 12:46PM
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President Barack Obama may be staging a comeback in the eyes of the American people, a new poll suggests.
In a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll released Monday, 48 percent of Americans say they approve of how Obama is handling his job, while 48 pe ...
Posted Monday, December 20th 2010 at 11:06PM
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The Islamophobia gripping the U.S. grows more entrenched by the day. Once confined to the far right, more and more pundits, power-brokers, and politicians are bringing it into mainstream. Apparently unsatisfied with dragging Muslims through the mud, ...
Posted Monday, December 20th 2010 at 10:39PM
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Committed to the obstruction of any Democratic priority, Senate Republicans successfully blocked the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act that gives desperately-needed compensation to first responders who contracted serious illnesses while ...
Posted Monday, December 20th 2010 at 9:54AM
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When historians look back at 2008-10, what will puzzle them most, I believe, is the strange triumph of failed ideas. Free-market fundamentalists have been wrong about everything — yet they now dominate the political scene more thoroughly than ever.
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Posted Monday, December 20th 2010 at 9:53AM
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Love it or hate it, Fox News has shaken up the media establishment and achieved financial success by airing the views of strident conservative pundits. Yet while the network has never made any bones about the political slant of opinion shows hosted b ...
Posted Sunday, December 19th 2010 at 11:24AM
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ThinkProgress reported yesterday on a study conducted by World Public Opinion — a project managed by the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland — which found that that “greater exposure” to Fox News during the run-up ...
Posted Saturday, December 18th 2010 at 10:47PM
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Hardball's Chris Matthews and guests former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown and Ron Reagan share their expert analysis over POLITICO's 5 biggest lies of the year. Watch the hilarity grow as they can't suppress their amusement at the immense idiocy ...
Posted Saturday, December 18th 2010 at 11:19AM
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Jon Stewart last night continued his impassioned efforts to draw attention to the 9/11 first responders bill that was filibustered by Senate Republicans, criticizing the major television networks for not mentioning the bill in their evening broadcast ...
Posted Saturday, December 18th 2010 at 11:00AM
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Anne Hathaway is hosting the Academy Awards this year -- and she's got way more than just one date.
The 'Love and Other Drugs' star, who is hosting the Oscars this year alongside James Franco,visited Staten Island’s PS 22 in New York City on Thurs ...
Posted Friday, December 17th 2010 at 6:18PM
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The PS22 Chorus is an elementary school chorus from Public School 22 in Graniteville, Staten Island (New York). It is composed of 60-70 fifth-graders, and is directed by Gregg Breinberg.
Students are assigned to the chorus after an annual audit ...
Posted Friday, December 17th 2010 at 6:17PM
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To perhaps nobody's surprise, a study released this week finds that Fox News viewers are the most misinformed of any news consumers.
The University of Maryland study, called "Misinformation and the 2010 Election," looked at "variations in misinfor ...
Posted Friday, December 17th 2010 at 11:37AM
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“THOSE WHO HAD GREATER EXPOSURE TO NEWS SOURCES WERE BETTER INFORMED. HOWEVER, THERE WAS ONE EXCEPTION. THOSE WHO WATCHED FOX NEWS DAILY WERE MORE LIKELY TO BELIEVE IN FALSE INFORMATION.”
Last week, World Public Opinion (WPO) released a poll ...
Posted Friday, December 17th 2010 at 11:26AM
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Whatever you think about using grating words, at the end of the day it's actually better not to say whatever, if you know what I mean.
For the second consecutive year "whatever' topped a Marist poll as the most annoying word o ...
Posted Thursday, December 16th 2010 at 11:00AM
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THE GREATEST RELIGIOUS BATTLES ARE OFTEN NOT BETWEEN FAITHS BUT WITHIN FAITHS. THE WIDEST GULFS IN RELIGION ARE BETWEEN EXTREMISTS AND PROGRESSIVES WITHIN A SINGLE RELIGION.
By NICHOLAS KRISTOF
What’s the ugliest side of Islam? Mayb ...
Posted Thursday, December 16th 2010 at 10:59AM
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Which statement will win the coveted “LIE OF THE YEAR” award?
Later this month, politifact.com will announce PolitiFact's “LIE OF THE YEAR” -- the most significant falsehood of 2010, as chosen by our editors and reporters. We're examining claims ...
Posted Tuesday, December 14th 2010 at 10:22PM
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DARRYL DAWKINS: "THE FIRST THING I WAS THINKING WAS...'OH MAN, I GOTTA GET OUTTA HERE! THIS GLASS IS COMIN DOWN! FEETS DON'T FAIL ME NOW!'"
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Posted Tuesday, December 14th 2010 at 3:27PM
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WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) – In his latest effort to find common ground with Republicans in Congress, President Barack Obama said today that he was willing to agree that he is a Muslim.
Differences over his religious orientation have been a ...
Posted Sunday, December 12th 2010 at 8:25PM
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RIYADH - When a US satirist joked that President Barack Obama will admit to Congress that he is Muslim in his latest compromise with Republicans, Saudi media took it seriously.
On Friday the online version of Al-Hayat newspaper and the prominent n ...
Posted Sunday, December 12th 2010 at 8:24PM
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WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) – It seemed like a good idea at the time.
But twenty-four hours after former President Bill Clinton appeared at the White House to endorse President Obama's tax plan, Mr. Obama is “still looking for the right way t ...
Posted Saturday, December 11th 2010 at 5:27PM
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