CNN, August 7, 2012 -- Partisan legal showdowns in battleground states over a spate of new voting laws could turn the 2012 elections into a repeat of the 2000 presidential vote recount saga, political experts say.
"Whenever you change the rules by ...
Posted Tuesday, August 7th 2012 at 5:27PM
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CNN, August 3, 2012 -- A horse is a horse, of course, of course. That is, of course, unless that dancing horse belongs to the famous Romney family.
Rafalca, the dressage horse co-owned by Ann Romney, the wife of GOP presidential candidate Mitt Rom ...
Posted Monday, August 6th 2012 at 12:29AM
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CNN, August 4, 2012 --In the end, Gabby Douglas' massive gamble paid off.
Like many young girls, she sat glued to the TV during the 2008 Beijing Olympics, mesmerized by the dazzling gymnasts flipping their way to glory.
But instead of living vica ...
Posted Saturday, August 4th 2012 at 4:31PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, August 4, 2012 -- As Serena Williams stood atop the medal podium, her career Golden Slam complete thanks to an Olympic rout, the gusty wind on Centre Court blew the U.S. flag off its pole midway through the national anthem.
Old G ...
Posted Saturday, August 4th 2012 at 3:02PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, August 4, 2012 -- Sixteen year old Gabby Douglas, won the gold medal in today's women's gymnastics individual all-around. Like many of the parents we've watched during these Olympic games, her mother, Natalie Hawkins, has been by Gab ...
Posted Saturday, August 4th 2012 at 2:56PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, August 3, 2012 -- Before this week's gold-winning performance by the U.S. women's team, only one African-American female had ever earned an Olympic gold medal in gymnastics -- Dominique Dawes.
It's a fact that Dawes tearfully reca ...
Posted Friday, August 3rd 2012 at 1:44PM
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NEW YORK TIMES, August 3, 2012 — To become the Olympic champion in the individual all-around event, Gabby Douglas first had to leave everything she knew best.
She had to pack up her bedroom in Virginia Beach, where she lived with her mother, two s ...
Posted Friday, August 3rd 2012 at 1:35PM
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NEW YORK TIMES, August 2, 2012 — At the Olympics, there have been doping scandals, bribery scandals and officiating scandals, many of them fully emerging only years after the fact.
The latest Olympic scandal — involving shuttlecocks and dumped ba ...
Posted Thursday, August 2nd 2012 at 9:57AM
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HARDBALL, July 31, 2012 -- Mitt Romney's overseas diplomacy became butt of jokes.
Jon Stewart: "Our own Mitt Romney headed for London and the Olympics. Mr. Romney is Mr. Olympics, having saved the Salt Lake City games in 2002. And England is ...
Posted Wednesday, August 1st 2012 at 10:28AM
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THE GRIO, July 31, 2012 — The Americans lived up to their considerable hype Tuesday, routing Russia and everybody else on the way to their first Olympic women’s team gymnastics title since 1996.
Their score of 183.596 was a whopping five points ah ...
Posted Wednesday, August 1st 2012 at 10:04AM
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TALKING POINTS MEMO, July 31, 2012 -- Stephen Colbert has been a “lifelong” fan of dressage, or “horse ballet,” since about a month ago when he learned that Ann Romney has a horse competing in the London Olympics.
And Mitt Romney couldn’t be more ...
Posted Tuesday, July 31st 2012 at 11:32AM
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NEW YORK TIMES, July 31, 2012 — For decades many African-Americans have voiced conflicted feelings about Disney.
Many fault this entertainment colossus for being slow to introduce a black princess as a peer to Cinderella and Snow White. (There is ...
Posted Tuesday, July 31st 2012 at 11:11AM
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NEW YORK TIMES, July 31, 2012 — After doctors removed three tumors from her abdomen, Seimone Augustus watched as they placed the largest on a table, next to a ruler, which looked tiny in comparison. The tumor reminded her of a bowling ball. They told ...
Posted Tuesday, July 31st 2012 at 11:05AM
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CNN, July 26, 2012 -- Paulette Beale shakes her head at the suggestion, then flashes a contagious smile.
"It's still history," she says, to rebut the notion there could be less intensity for President Barack Obama in the African-American community ...
Posted Monday, July 30th 2012 at 9:49AM
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NEW YORK TIMES, July 30, 2012 — President Obama’s biography — son of a black father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas — has long suggested that unlike most African-Americans, his roots did not include slavery.
Now a team of genealogists is ...
Posted Monday, July 30th 2012 at 9:49AM
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HUFFINGTON POST, July 26, 2012 -- Kameron Slade-- the Queens fifth grader initially prohibited from delivering a pro-gay marriage speech at his school before the INTERNET heard about it-- adorably redelivered his speech in front of New York City Coun ...
Posted Friday, July 27th 2012 at 6:59PM
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POLITIFACT, July 21, 2012 -- In the wake of the mass shooting in Aurora, Colo., Americans took to social media to express their views on guns and violence.
A reader sent us one Facebook post about the extent of gun violence in the United States. ...
Posted Thursday, July 26th 2012 at 11:30AM
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POLITICO, July 25, 2012 – HINT: HE WAS THEIR GOVERNOR FOR FOUR YEARS AND THEY DON’T LIKE HIM.
The Obama campaign has had some success in attacking one of Mitt Romney’s two key claims for being able to fix the economy and help middle-class Americ ...
Posted Thursday, July 26th 2012 at 11:25AM
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Wondering how health care reform works, and why it's so important? In this animated video, Jonathan Gruber, MIT economist and former special advisor to Governor Romney for Romneycare and to President Obama for Obamacare, explains the benefits of refo ...
Posted Wednesday, July 25th 2012 at 5:10PM
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BOSTON GLOBE, July 24, 2012 — Mitt Romney promised “complete transparency” when he took charge of the scandal-plagued Salt Lake City Olympics, a pledge that included access to his own correspondence and plans for an extensive public archive of docum ...
Posted Wednesday, July 25th 2012 at 3:18PM
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THINK PROGRESS, July 23, 2012 -- After the conservative blogosphere used as selectively edited Obama campaign speech to suggest that the president belittled the achievements of small business owners, the Romney campaign released an attack ad featurin ...
Posted Tuesday, July 24th 2012 at 5:02PM
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WASHINGTON POST, July 20, 2012 -- There are few original ideas in politics, just old arguments.
We were reminded of this as we considered the ruckus over comments by President Obama that his GOP rival, former governor Mitt Romney, criticized as an ...
Posted Tuesday, July 24th 2012 at 4:51PM
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THINK PROGRESS, July 23, 2012 -- New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg doubled down on his call for stronger gun regulation in the aftermath of the tragedy in Aurora, Colorado, telling MSNBC Monday morning that both presidential candidates must expla ...
Posted Monday, July 23rd 2012 at 12:51PM
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POLTIFACT, June 28, 2012 -- How is it that a law can raise taxes and cut spending, but also add trillions to the deficit?
That was Mitt Romney’s claim after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the core of the health care law on June 28, 2012.
"Ob ...
Posted Monday, July 23rd 2012 at 10:10AM
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