POLITIFACT, March 26, 2012 -- As Supreme Court justices embarked on three days of oral arguments in the historic lawsuit over the health care law, Gov. Rick Scott went on a national TV media blitz and said one of the most regurgitated falsehoods of t ...
Posted Monday, July 23rd 2012 at 10:06AM
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MSNBC, July 21, 2012 -- Melissa Harris-Perry dedicated a large portion of her Saturday MSNBC show to the tragic mass shooting that took place early Friday morning at a midnight premiere of "The Dark Knight Rises" in Aurora, Colorado.
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Posted Sunday, July 22nd 2012 at 12:17PM
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TALKING POINTS MEMO, July 21, 2012 -- Everyone knows that New York is a solidly Democratic state. And no one expects Mitt Romney to contest let alone win it. But I noticed something kind of odd when I was looking at the PollTracker averages this even ...
Posted Sunday, July 22nd 2012 at 11:56AM
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THINKPROGRESS, July 20, 2012 -- One of the principal weapons used by James Eagan Holmes in the horrific Dark Knight Rises shooting would have been subject to a series of sharp restrictions under the now-expired federal Assault Weapons ban. The AR-15 ...
Posted Saturday, July 21st 2012 at 11:32AM
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THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW, July 18, 2012 -- Rachel talks with Michael Waldman, President of Brennan Center for Justice about the new challenges facing poor, elderly and minority voters in this election and why new Voter ID laws are more about placing ba ...
Posted Friday, July 20th 2012 at 11:24AM
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HUFFINGTON POST, July 18, 2012 -- The city council of Freeport, Ill., approved a resolution Monday evening that will call on presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney to step in and save roughly 170 local jobs being outsourced by a comp ...
Posted Wednesday, July 18th 2012 at 11:56AM
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JOHANNESBURG, July 18, 2012 -- Nearly 12 million children across South Africa kicked off celebrations Wednesday for the 94th birthday of Nelson Mandela, the country's deeply loved anti-apartheid icon, with resounding choruses of Happy Birthday.
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Posted Wednesday, July 18th 2012 at 11:29AM
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POLITIFACT, June 28, 2012 -- Following the Supreme Court’s decision upholding President Barack Obama’s health care law, Mitt Romney claimed in a speech that "Obamacare … means that for up to 20 million Americans, they will lose the insurance they cur ...
Posted Wednesday, July 18th 2012 at 11:16AM
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WASHINGTON POST, July 16, 2012 -- In trying to fend off demands — from both Democrats and even some Republicans — that presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney release more than two years of tax returns, his campaign has sought to claim that ...
Posted Tuesday, July 17th 2012 at 12:04PM
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July 16, 2012, by Bill Keller, NEW YORK TIMES -- ON the subject of the Affordable Care Act — Obamacare, to reclaim the name critics have made into a slur — a number of fallacies seem to be congealing into accepted wisdom. Much of this is the result o ...
Posted Tuesday, July 17th 2012 at 12:00PM
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THINKPROGRESS, July 6, 2012 -- The economy may be struggling to create enough jobs to keep up with population growth, but Republicans are busy drafting legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act — a law which the Supreme Court upheld last week an ...
Posted Sunday, July 8th 2012 at 10:03AM
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THINKPROGRESS, July 7, 2012 -- After Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital bought the office supply maker SCM, laid off workers, gutted pay and benefits, and ultimately shut down the entire plant, former SCM employee Valerie Bruton was left with no choice but t ...
Posted Saturday, July 7th 2012 at 9:26PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, July 7, 2012 -- For Serena Williams, the low point came in early 2011, when she spent hours laying around her home, overwhelmed by a depressing series of health scares that sent her to the hospital repeatedly and kept her away from t ...
Posted Saturday, July 7th 2012 at 9:24PM
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THINK PROGRESS, July 6, 2012 -- When Mitt Romney criticizes the job creation record of the Obama administration, he contributes job losses to Obama that took place in January 2009, immediately after the President was inaugurated. As the New York Time ...
Posted Friday, July 6th 2012 at 7:18PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, July 6, 2012 -- Chris Christie's temper strikes again.
While on vacation with his family in Seaside Heights, N.J. on Thursday, the Republican governor lashed out at a passerby who, according to TMZ, made a derisive comment about h ...
Posted Friday, July 6th 2012 at 6:48PM
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ALTERNET, July 4, 2012 -- There are two Affordable Care Acts. There's the legislation passed by Congress in 2009, and then there's the mythical Affordable Care Act – the perfidious “government takeover” decried and demagogued by so many conservatives ...
Posted Thursday, July 5th 2012 at 11:27AM
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THE GRIO, July 2, 2012 -- As soon as the words escaped my lips, live on national television, I suspected I might have a problem. I’d used the phrase trying to explain why Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney spent so much time chatting with ...
Posted Wednesday, July 4th 2012 at 2:43PM
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THINK PROGRESS, July 3, 2012 -- A Republican running for Congress in one of the nation’s most competitive districts claimed that Americans “don’t die from prostate cancer, breast cancer” in order to justify his opposition to health care reform.
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Posted Wednesday, July 4th 2012 at 12:12PM
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THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW, July 3, 2012 -- Guest host Ezra Klein shows how GOP Senate MInority Leader Mitch McConnell is the most honest politician in Washington.
When FOX NEWS Chris Wallace asked him--three times!!!--what plans the GOP has for impro ...
Posted Wednesday, July 4th 2012 at 12:10PM
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TO ALL AT BIA:
As you all know, the election season is heating up.
As is proper in a democratic government, our future will be decided by the people. The party, philosophy, platform, policies, programs that receives the most votes gains t ...
Posted Tuesday, July 3rd 2012 at 4:23PM
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POLITICO, July 3, 2012 -- Voters haven't split clearly in one direction or another on last week's Supreme Court ruling on health care, according to a Pew Research Center poll. In fact, it doesn't look like voters even fully understand what the Court ...
Posted Tuesday, July 3rd 2012 at 4:21PM
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POLITIFACT, March 21, 2012 -- The Affordable Care Act, the Democrats' health care law, has often been defined more by falsehoods than truths.
Claims that the law is a "government takeover of health care," that it contains "death panels" and that ...
Posted Tuesday, July 3rd 2012 at 4:18PM
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TO ALL AT BIA:
As you all know, the election season is heating up.
As is proper in a democratic government, our future will be decided by the people. The party, philosophy, platform, policies, programs that receives the most votes gains t ...
Posted Monday, July 2nd 2012 at 10:41AM
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TALKING POINTS MEMO, July 2, 2012 -- In the wake of the Supreme Court decision to uphold the ‘Obamacare’ mandate under Congress’s taxing power, Democrats are unifying behind a message to refute the GOP contention that they raised taxes on the middle ...
Posted Monday, July 2nd 2012 at 10:40AM
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POLITICO, June 28, 2012 -- The individual mandate, the centerpiece of the health care law, is contentious, unpopular — and misunderstood.
So confusing in fact, that all sorts of myths have cropped up around it.
Here are five common misconceptio ...
Posted Saturday, June 30th 2012 at 11:36AM
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