POLITICIANS AND PRESIDENTS HAVE TRIED AND FIALED FOR DECADES TO ENACT UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE. THIS TIME THEY SUCCEEDED. THEY WEREN’T GOING TO GET ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY FOR A VERY LONG TIME. IT COST THEM A MAJORITY—BUT IT WAS WORTH IT.
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Posted Saturday, November 6th 2010 at 10:53AM
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On Thursday's "AC360," Anderson Cooper debunked the false story about the supposedly enormous price tag for President Obama's ten-day tour of Asia, and slammed conservative politicians and pundits for spreading the myth.
Cooper opened his show by ...
Posted Friday, November 5th 2010 at 2:10PM
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Like any team that loses, even dethroned champions, they pick themselves up, dust themselves off and get right back into it. There is another vote in two years.
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Posted Friday, November 5th 2010 at 11:18AM
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Rachel Maddow and historian Michael Beschloss take a long look back at the historic accomplishments of the Democratic Congress. They showed they valued policy over politics.
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Posted Tuesday, November 2nd 2010 at 4:01PM
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WASHINGTON, October 29, 2010 -- There may be something rotten at McDonald's -- and it's not a year-old Happy Meal.
The owner of a franchise in Canton, Ohio enclosed a handbill in employees' paychecks that threatened lower wages and benefits if R ...
Posted Friday, October 29th 2010 at 7:46PM
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“MR. PROFITT: YOU HAVE ASKED THAT I APOLOGIZE TO YOU. THIS IS NOT THE APOLOGY YOU ARE LOOKING FOR BUT I DO HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY. YOU AND I ARE BOTH HUMAN BEINGS AND AMERICAN CITIZENS. THESE TWO FACTS, TO ME, ARE FAR MORE MEANINGFUL THAN THE LABEL ...
Posted Friday, October 29th 2010 at 7:42PM
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Midterm elections are an embarrassment of riches for fact-checkers — this year more than others. With Democrats fighting desperately to keep control of the House and Senate, and a torrent of money from corporations and other undisclosed, unaccountabl ...
Posted Thursday, October 28th 2010 at 11:39AM
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I confess, I find it dispiriting to read the polls and see candidates, mostly Republicans, leading in various midterm races while promoting many of the very same ideas that got us into this mess. Am I hearing right?
Let’s have more tax cuts, unlin ...
Posted Thursday, October 28th 2010 at 11:34AM
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An off-duty police officer who got into a shootout with an armed robber as the officer was getting her hair done in a beauty salon in Brooklyn on Saturday night shot the gunman’s revolver out of his hands, police officials said on Monday.
A suspec ...
Posted Tuesday, October 26th 2010 at 10:36PM
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Jon Stewart and his news team talked about the controversy surrounding Juan Williams' firing from NPR over his comments about Muslims. Samantha Bee explained that the comments were "direct violations of NPRs 'never say anything interesting' policy."
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Posted Tuesday, October 26th 2010 at 10:28PM
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A TROUBLING SIGN FOR DEMOCRATS HEADING INTO THE ELECTION IS THE TAX CUTS THEY PASSED HAVE LARGELY GONE UNNOTICED. IN A RECENT POLL FEWER THAN 1 IN 10 KNEW THAT THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION HAD LOWERED TAXES FOR MOST AMERICANS.
HUNTERSVILLE, N.C. — ...
Posted Monday, October 25th 2010 at 9:57PM
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RACHEL MADDOW: One of the unusual, unexplained things about this year's election is the absence of "Macaca' moments. There have been a lot of times when candidates say extreme things about race. But this year they really haven't suffered any negati ...
Posted Friday, October 22nd 2010 at 12:59PM
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NPR’s decision on Wednesday to fire Juan Williams and Fox News Channel’s decision on Thursday to give him a new contract put into sharp relief the two forms of journalism that compete every day for Americans’ attention.
Mr. Williams’s NPR contract ...
Posted Friday, October 22nd 2010 at 12:40PM
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Rachel Maddow: "In looking at how extremism is functioning electorally this year, today our staff was researching a potential story about the consequences and repercussions for candidates who say bigoted things."
She continued: "As we researched ...
Posted Thursday, October 21st 2010 at 1:50PM
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In the Presidential election of 1964 Republican Barry Goldwater got clobbered. It was total destruction for the Republicans.
Goldwater managed to win only his own state plus five in the Deep South.
But...something important had changed.
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Posted Thursday, October 21st 2010 at 9:09AM
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Stephen Colbert followed Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar's lead Tuesday morning, storming off set of "The View" in dramatic fashion.
Unlike the show's two co-hosts — who walked off the set Thursday in protest of Bill O'Reilly's comments about Muslim ...
Posted Thursday, October 21st 2010 at 8:45AM
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The Erie Canal. Hoover Dam. The Interstate Highway System. Visionary public projects are part of the American tradition, and have been a major driver of our economic development.
And right now, by any rational calculation, would be an especially g ...
Posted Sunday, October 17th 2010 at 11:40AM
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A RECENT REPORT STATES THE FACT THAT BLACK VOTERS ARE “STRATEGICALLY SITUATED IN 2010 TO HAVE A MAJOR IMPACT.” SAID REV. JOSEPH LOWERY: “IN 2008 WE CHANGED THE GUARD. NOW WE MUST GUARD THE CHANGE.”
The president and fellow Democrats have t ...
Posted Saturday, October 16th 2010 at 11:24AM
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"Obama! A Modern U.S. President."
From Ron Butler comes this seriously funny music video where the President responds to those who say he's not living up to the country's expectations. Not only is it a pretty convincing argument (as well as an en ...
Posted Friday, October 15th 2010 at 1:28PM
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Last night on "The Daily Show," Jon Stewart was paid a surprise visit by Stephen Colbert who convinced him to combine the "Rally To Restore Sanity" with his "March To Keep Fear Alive" into one epic event now dubbed "The Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or ...
Posted Friday, October 15th 2010 at 12:22PM
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Condoleezza Rice stopped by the "Daily Show" with Jon Stewart on Wednesday to discuss her new book, "Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family."
While the pair may not agree about politics, Stewart said he had been "charmed" by Rice when ...
Posted Thursday, October 14th 2010 at 1:04PM
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Stephen Colbert's satirical "March to Keep Fear Alive" is a timely illustration of a larger point: humans evolved to be fearful -- since that helped keep our ancestors alive -- so we are very vulnerable to being frightened and even intimidated by thr ...
Posted Monday, October 11th 2010 at 10:14PM
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