NINA SIMONE STRODE TO THE STAGE AND ANNOUNCED THAT SHE WAS GOING TO SING “MISSISSIPPI GODDAM” AND AS SHE OFTEN SAID, “I MEAN EVERY WORD OF IT.” EVERY GUARDSMAN’S FINGER TIGHTENED ON THE TRIGGER OF THE RIFLE HE WAS HOLDING.
NEW YORK TIMES, March ...
Posted Monday, March 22nd 2010 at 11:51AM
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“I WOULD RATHER DIE OF A CURABLE DISEASE WHILE HOMELESS THAN BE FORCED TO LIVE HEALTHILY IN THE POST-FREEDOM HELLSCAPE ENVISIONED IN THIS BILL FASHIONED BY BARACK O’STALIN.”
With the health care debate heading toward its final vote, Jon Stewart re ...
Posted Monday, March 22nd 2010 at 10:44AM
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IF STUPAK WERE TRULY PRO-LIFE THEN HE’D VOTE FOR THIS BILL. IF YOU REALLY WANT TO REDUCE ABORTIONS YOU SHOULD ASK YOURSELF THIS QUESTION: WHY DOES FRANCE, WHERE ABORTION IS NEARLY FREE, HAVE 20% FEWER ABORTIONS THAN WE DO?
I live in Michigan, i ...
Posted Sunday, March 21st 2010 at 7:36PM
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“THIS IS THE LARGEST TAX BILL IN HISTORY,” THE REPUBLICAN LEADER FUMED. “UNJUST, UNWORKABLE, A CRUEL HOAX. WE MUST REPEAL. THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS PLEDGED TO DO THIS,” FAILED PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE ALF LANDON SAID IN 1936.
By Dana Milbank
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Posted Sunday, March 21st 2010 at 10:27AM
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THE BOROWITZ REPORT, March 20, 2010
WASHINGTON - With just hours until the historic vote on health care reform, the Tea Party movement has taken up a new battle cry, protesting what they believe is a "government takeover of Congress."
Thousands ...
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PRESIDENT OBAMA BEGAN BY QUOTING LINCOLN: “I AM NOT BOUND TO WIN BUT I’M BOUND TO BE TRUE. I’M NOT BOUND TO SUCCEED BUT I’M BOUND TO LIVE UP TO WHAT LIGHT I HAVE.”
WASHINGTON -- Victory within reach, President Barack Obama rallied House Democra ...
Posted Saturday, March 20th 2010 at 7:58PM
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“MOLECULAR GENETICS DROVE THE LONGEST NAIL INTO THE THEORY OF RACE. EACH PERSON, IT TURNS OUT, SHARES 99.99 PERCENT OF THE GENETIC MATERIAL OF EVERY OTHER HUMAN BEING. INCESSANT HUMAN MIGRATION HAS MADE US ALL MULTIRACIAL.”
Review by Glenn C. ...
Posted Thursday, March 18th 2010 at 3:35PM
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The History of White People" author Nell Irvin Painter was on "The Colbert Report" last night, and gave few answers about the nature of race, though she did raise a number of interesting questions. Painter, a black woman, suggested that she herself c ...
Posted Thursday, March 18th 2010 at 3:34PM
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MALCOM LITTLE TOOK THE LAST NAME OF “X” BECAUSE HE SAID IT SIGNIFIED OUR LOST LAST NAMES. FOR ME, ST. PATRICK’S DAY IS THE DAY I SPEND CONTEMPLATING ANOTHER “X”—THE NAME OF MY WHITE GREAT-GREAT GRANDFATHER, THE MAN WHO FATHERED ONE BLACK WOMAN’S FIV ...
Posted Wednesday, March 17th 2010 at 10:46AM
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“I AM HERE BECAUSE OF MY MOM. MY MOM WAS DIAGNOSED WITH PULMONARY HYPERTENSION IN 2006. SHE MISSED SO MUCH WORK SHE LOST HER JOB AND WHEN MY MOM LOST HER JOB, SHE LOST HER HEALTH CARE. IT ENDED UP COSTING HER LIFE.”
From MSNBC “COUNTDOWN”, Marc ...
Posted Tuesday, March 16th 2010 at 9:42PM
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“I DON’T KNOW IF HE’S A FULL-UP GEEK—THOSE FOLKS CAN CITE DIGITS OF PI AND SOLVE THE RUBIK’S CUBE AND ALL OF THIS. BUT WE’LL CERTAINLY TAKE HIM AS A GEEK SYMPATHIZER,” DR. TYSON SAID.
President Obama, who's been described as our first 'nerd p ...
Posted Tuesday, March 16th 2010 at 9:24PM
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SO WHAT’S THE REALITY OF THE PROPOSED REFORM? IT WOULDN’T TRANSFORM OUR HEALTH CARE SYSTEM. BUT IT WOULD MAKE A HUGE DIFFERENCE TO THE LESS FORTUNATE EVEN AS IT WOULD DO MORE TO CONTROL COSTS THAN ANYTHING WE’VE DONE BEFORE. THIS IS A REASONABLE, ...
Posted Monday, March 15th 2010 at 8:20PM
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TWO HUNDRED YEARS OF WORDS. I WILL NEED TO DESCRIBE THE DESTRUCTION MY EYES HAVE SEEN/ IT WAS LIKE A DREAM OR ONE OF THOSE MOVIES THAT SHOW THE AFTER WORLD/ TWO HUNDRED YEARS OF MEMORY TO HEAL THE SCARS...”
By John Lundberg. John has been writin ...
Posted Monday, March 15th 2010 at 10:33AM
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As a young minister and head of the South African Council of Churches in the 1970s and 80s, Desmond Tutu fought to end Apartheid's legacy of discrimination and human rights abuses. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984, and two years later became ...
Posted Sunday, March 14th 2010 at 11:36AM
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ONE OF THE MANY MYTHS ABOUT HEALTH CARE REFORM IS THAT REFUSAL TO BUY HEALTH INSURANCE WILL RESULT IN MASSIVE RESISTANCE, SEVERE FINANCIAL PENALTIES, EVEN JAIL. WRONG!
By Timothy Noah, SLATE, March 11, 2010,
The state of Virginia has a nutt ...
Posted Friday, March 12th 2010 at 11:22AM
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ANOTHER OF THE MANY MYTHS SURROUNDING HEALTH CARE REFORM IS THAT IT IS A MASSIVE SPENDING BILL THAT WOULD BANKRUPT THE COUNTRY. WRONG!
WASHINGTON -- Congressional budget referees say Senate legislation that's now the foundation for Presiden ...
Posted Friday, March 12th 2010 at 11:20AM
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ON WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1O, MSNBC’S ED SHULTZ MADE AN INFORMED AND PASSIONATE APPEAL FOR US TO PROD OUR CONGRESSMEN TO VOTE FOR THE HEALTH CARE BILL. HERE HE TALKS TO TWO WOMEN WHO
TESTIFIED BEFORE CONGRESS ABOUT HOW THEIR SUFFERING AT THE HANDS OF TH ...
Posted Thursday, March 11th 2010 at 4:32PM
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“EACH OBJECT IN THIS COLLECTION HUMBLED US, EXCITED US AND MOVED US TO TEARS,” SAID MUSEUM DIRECTOR LONNIE BUNCH. “AND THEN HE UNCOVERED HARRIET TUBMAN’S PERSONAL HYMNAL AND I THINK MANY OF US LOST IT.”
Washington Post, March 11. 2010
On a b ...
Posted Thursday, March 11th 2010 at 8:11AM
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Although they said they have no secrets to their long term marriage success, Herbert and Zelmyra Fisher gave free marriage advice on Twitter on Valentine's Day 2010.
Due to their long marriage, Herbert and Zelmyra have been in the news for some t ...
Posted Wednesday, March 10th 2010 at 9:30PM
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HE WAS 19 YEARS OLD AND SHE WAS JUST 18 WHEN THEY MARRIED ON MAY 14, 1924. “WE ATTENDED THE SAME ELEMENTARY SCHOOL,” ZELMYRA, 98, TELLS JET. “THAT’S WHERE WE MET.”
by Marti Parham
Countless songs have been written and sung throughout time a ...
Posted Wednesday, March 10th 2010 at 9:27PM
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FOR THOSE WHO HAVE VENTED ABOUT PRESIDENT OBAMA’S HEALTH REFORM DRIVE, IT IS YOUR PERFECT RIGHT TO OPPOSE IT. THERE ARE LEGITIMATE REASONS TO DO SO. BUT SOME OF THE CLAIMS ARE BOGUS. HERE THEY ARE:
Greetings to my conservative readers, who ...
Posted Wednesday, March 10th 2010 at 2:37PM
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GALLUP’S POLL IS EVIDENCE, FIRST, THAT THE PUBLIC IS CLOSELY DIVIDED ON HEALTH-CARE REFORM AND SECOND, THAT MANY OF THOSE IN OPPOSITION DO NOT KNOW THAT MUCH ABOUT THE BILL.
By Ezra Klein
Last night, Stephen Colbert asked me if "everybody" ha ...
Posted Tuesday, March 9th 2010 at 10:45PM
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Things were going swimmingly well during this typical, uneventful newscast (ANYBODY KNOW WHAT LANGUAGE THEY ARE SPEAKING?) when the two producers in the background got into some sort of disagreement. Clearly, it was something important to them becau ...
Posted Saturday, March 6th 2010 at 5:53PM
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