Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is leading a stalling session resembling a filibuster against Obama's tax proposal on the Senate floor Friday, after earlier promising "to take as long as I can to explain to the American people the fact that we have got t ...
Posted Friday, December 10th 2010 at 10:38PM
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DEMOCRATS HAVE BEEN SO FOCUSED ON DETAILS OF POLICY THEY HAVE SURRENDERED PUBLIC POLITICAL DISCOURSE TO CONSERVATIVES. IT MATTERS HOW AMERICANS UNDERSTAND THESE COMPLEX ISSUES.
The differences between Democratic progressives and the president ...
Posted Friday, December 10th 2010 at 10:17AM
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THE LAME-DUCK SENATE HAS BEEN EXTREMELY BUSY NOT PASSING LEGISLATION. VOTES ON TWO DEMOCRATIC PROPOSALS TO EXTEND BUSH TAX CUTS FOR EVERYBODY BUT THE RICH WENT LIKE THIS: 53 TO 37 AND 53 TO 36. SO, OF COURSE THIS MEANS THEY FAILED MISERABLY.
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Posted Thursday, December 9th 2010 at 5:58PM
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WASHINGTON — With 42 NO votes to the Democrats’ 57 YES votes, Republican senators blocked legislation to provide medical care to rescue workers and residents of New York City who became ill as a result of breathing in toxic fumes, dust and smoke from ...
Posted Thursday, December 9th 2010 at 5:41PM
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GENEVA (The Borowitz Report) - President Obama’s deal to extend the Bush tax cuts for the rich drew rave reviews today from the wealthiest .0000001% of Americans, who pronounced the deal “a total home run.”
“When we first heard about the deal, we ...
Posted Wednesday, December 8th 2010 at 11:15AM
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NEW EXHIBIT SHOWS INNOVATIONS IN SURGERY AROUND 1000 A.D. BY AN ARAB PHYSICIAN, NINTH CENTURY ATTEMPTS AT FLIGHT, TENTH CENTURY DISCOVERIES OF HOW VISION WORKS. IN THE WEST, THOSE CENTURIES WERE CONSIDERED THE DARK AGES.
In David Lean ...
Posted Tuesday, December 7th 2010 at 10:51PM
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PRESIDENT OBAMA: “BUT I’M NOT WILLING TO LET WORKING FAMILIES ACROSS THIS COUNTRY BECOME COLLATERAL DAMAGE FOR POLITICAL WARFARE HERE IN WASHINGTON. THIS ISN’T AN ABSTRACT DEBATE. THIS IS REAL MONEY FOR REAL PEOPLE.”
WASHINGTON--At his pres ...
Posted Tuesday, December 7th 2010 at 3:51PM
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These days, everyone has advice for President Barack Obama. Some urge compromise with the Republicans. Others demand he fight back. Actually, both camps are right -- and wrong.
To survive, revive and even prevail, Obama must do two things at onc ...
Posted Monday, December 6th 2010 at 10:49PM
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This weekend's "Saturday Night Live" continued to nail its politically-minded cold openings this season with a swipe at WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. In a spot-on parody of popular celebrity gossip show "TMZ," host Harvey Levin is replaced with A ...
Posted Monday, December 6th 2010 at 8:38PM
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NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report) -- WikilLeaks has finally met its match.
That's the bombshell from fugitive founder Julian Assange, who said that after months of hacking former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's brain, WikiLeaks has come up empty.
"I ...
Posted Sunday, December 5th 2010 at 10:51PM
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THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE HAS BEEN ABOVE 7 PERCENT ONLY FOUR TIMES IN A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION YEAR—AND THREE OF THE FOUR INCUMBENTS LOST. REAGAN WON IN 1984 BUT THE RATE OF 7.2 PERCENT WAS FALLING FROM A HIGH OF 10.8. PREDICTIONS ARE IT WILL STILL BE O ...
Posted Sunday, December 5th 2010 at 6:04PM
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has indicated that, this coming week, he will bring a 9/11 first responders bill up for a vote. The bill, which has been passed by the House, would provide $7.4 billion in medical treatment and lost wages for ...
Posted Sunday, December 5th 2010 at 11:54AM
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O.K. I admit it. I enjoy reading other people’s mail as much as the next guy, so going through the WikiLeaks cables has made for some fascinating reading. What’s between the lines in those cables, though, is another matter. It is a rather sobering me ...
Posted Sunday, December 5th 2010 at 11:50AM
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THE STORY GOES THAT ON NOVEMBER 5, 1781, JOHN HANSON OF MARYLAND, A MAN OF AFRICAN DESCENT, WAS ELECTED AS FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS UNDER THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION, MAKING HIM THE FIRST U.S. PRESIDENT.
Some historical inq ...
Posted Saturday, November 27th 2010 at 2:57PM
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Washington (CNN) -- President Obama wished the nation a happy Thanksgiving on Thursday and also used his weekly address to renew his call for bipartisan cooperation on addressing major issues facing the nation.
In the remarks usually delivered on ...
Posted Thursday, November 25th 2010 at 11:39AM
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Last night's "Saturday Night Live" was full of great impressions, starting right away with the cold opening. Abby Elliot broke out her spot-on Rachel Maddow in a sketch where she interviews John Boehner, Nancy Pelosi and embattled Rep. Charles Rangel ...
Posted Sunday, November 21st 2010 at 10:03PM
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Last night's "Saturday Night Live" did one of the best parodies of the controversial TSA pat-downs yet, turning flyers' fears of unwanted touch into a commercial for a sensual experience. What starts out looking like a sex hotline or escort service a ...
Posted Sunday, November 21st 2010 at 9:51PM
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POPE BENEDICT XVI: “IT IS THE MORAL RESPONSIBILITY OF NATIONS TO GUARANTEE ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE FOR ALL OF THEIR CITIZENS REGARDLESS OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC STATUS OR THEIR ABILITY TO PAY.”
At an international papal conference on health care yest ...
Posted Saturday, November 20th 2010 at 10:59AM
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MADISON, Wis. — A rural Wisconsin man apparently enraged by Bristol Palin's "Dancing with the Stars" routine blasted his television with a shotgun, leading to an all-night standoff with a SWAT team, investigators said.
Steven Cowan, 67, was arrest ...
Posted Thursday, November 18th 2010 at 10:11PM
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Democrats still searching for a silver lining to the waxing they took last Tuesday can cheer up a bit. According to a new poll, the public may already be experiencing a bit of buyer’s remorse about the choices they’ve made, and Republicans seem to ha ...
Posted Saturday, November 13th 2010 at 12:27PM
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IN ONE INSTANCE, BUSH RELATES THE POIGNANT DETAILS OF A MEETING BETWEEN AFGHAN PRESIDENT KARZAI AND A TAJIK WARLORD ON KARZAI’S INAUGURATION DAY. EXCEPT BUSH DIDN’T WITNESS IT BECAUSE HE WASN’T THERE.
When Crown Publishing inked a deal with Geo ...
Posted Friday, November 12th 2010 at 9:34PM
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Middle School football in Texas. One team performs this amazing trick play and scores. What do you think? Fair or foul? ...
Posted Friday, November 12th 2010 at 11:16AM
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LEGENDARY MUSIC ICON QUINCY JONES VISITED THE COLBERT REPORT AND SHARED HIS WONDERFUL STORIES ABOUT WORKING WITH MUSIC GIANTS LIKE RAY CHARLES AND SINATRA AND HIS GRAND NIGHT ON THE TOWN WITH LUCILLE BALL ON ONE ARM AND LORETTA YOUNG ON THE OTHER. ...
Posted Friday, November 12th 2010 at 9:35AM
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Rachel Maddow, Nov. 9, 2010—IT WAS CALLED THE “SAVE OUR STATE” AMENDMENT TO THE OKLAHMOMA CONSTITUTION. SAVE OUR STATE FROM WHAT? FROM SHARIA LAW.
Munir Awad, council of American-Islamic Relations, talks with Rachel about the lawsuit challenging ...
Posted Thursday, November 11th 2010 at 9:53AM
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The votes are (mostly) counted. The Republicans have clearly and decisively won. But did the Democrats actually lose?
They lost the election, certainly. And many of them lost their jobs. But the point of legislating isn’t job security. It’s legisl ...
Posted Saturday, November 6th 2010 at 11:11AM
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