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POLITIFACT, May 16, 2012 -- The Obama campaign aired this ad in several battleground states in May 2012. Months after Newt Gingrich raised Mitt Romney’s record at the private equity firm Bain Capital

HUFFINGOTN POST, May 20, 2012 -- The private equity firm co-founded by presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney “fired a lot of people” to get “prosperity for the rich,” CNBC analyst Jim Cram

HUFFINGTON POST, May 20, 2012 -- The latest episode of "Saturday Night Live" took on Al Sharpton, portraying the MSNBC host as someone who just doesn't understand the news. The show has mocked Shar

HUFFINGTON POST, May 19, 2012 -- Less than two weeks after President Barack Obama announced his public support for gay marriage, a prominent African-American civil rights organization is following sui

HOLD ON, HELP IS ON THE WAY by Whitney Houston -- When you're down and in despair Don't be uneasy because he'll be there Say don't you worry, no don't you fret The Lord has never, never fail

THINK PROGRESS, May 17, 2012 -- While African Americans are generally less supportive of marriage equality as a whole, a growing number of black leaders and community members have come to embrace the

I LOOK TO YOU by Whitney Houston As I lay me down Heaven hear me now I’m lost without a cause After giving it my all Winter storms have come And darkened my sun After all that I’ve been

HUFFINGTON POST, May 11, 2012 -- Sybrina Fulton, the mother of Trayvon Martin, released a Mother's Day video urging viewers to press lawmakers to reconsider their support for controversial stand your

HUFFINGTON POST, May 11, 2012 -- MSNBC's Tamron Hall handily shut down guest Tim Carney on Friday, in an exchange so fiery that she immediately began trending on Twitter. Hall asked Carney about Mi

HUFFINGTON POST, May 11, 2012 -- Stephen Colbert on Thursday was still “reeling” from President Obama’s announcement this week that “he is gay.” “I have to assume that’s the reason he supports gay

WASHINGTON POST, May 10, 2012 — Mitt Romney returned from a three-week spring break in 1965 to resume his studies as a high school senior at the prestigious Cranbrook School. Back on the handsome camp

THE LAST WORD, May 9, 2012 -- Lawrence O'Donnell discusses President Obama's historic statement affirming support for marriage equality with author Toure, Wshing Post columnist Jonathan Capeheart and

POLITICS NATION, May 9, 2012 -- Melissa Harris-Perry reminds us that May 10, 1866 is a date to remember in Civil Rights history. On that day the House of Representatives passed the 14th Amendment to

by Sarah Burris, HUFFINGTON POST, May 6, 2012 -- I can break treaties with myself all the time. You see, I’m one of many Oklahomans — probably like Elizabeth Warren — who grew up hearing stories of

NEW YORK TIMES, May 5, 2012 -- Next week is National Teacher Appreciation Week, and, as far as I’m concerned, they don’t get nearly enough. On Tuesday, the United States Department of Education is

TALKING POINTS MEMO, May 5, 2012 — The thousands of Obama supporters who gathered here Saturday for the second of two campaign kickoff addresses by the president ticked off a litany of fears when aske

POLITICO, May 6, 2012 -- At a private fundraising reception in Palm Beach recently, Mitt Romney was overheard acknowledging his weakness among Hispanic voters. If it’s not turned around, he said, “It

THE GREATEST LOVE OF ALL by Whitney Houston I believe the children are our future Teach them well and let them lead the way Show them all the beauty they possess inside Give them a sense of prid

CNN, May 2, 2012 -- Eric LeGrand's football coach at Rutgers helped him emotionally in the months after his on-field paralysis. Now the coach is symbolically helping him realize his dream of making it

HUFFINGTON POST, May 2, 2012 — To put it mildly, Rutgers' Eric LeGrand was surprised when his former coach called to let him know the Tampa Bay Buccaneers were interested in signing the paralyzed defe

CNN, May 3, 2012 – (Peter Bergen, CNN National Security Analyst, and author of "Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for bin Laden, From 9/11 to Abbottabad” is the only journalist to visit the place where Bin

NEW YORK TIMES, May 4, 2012 — This is the land of die-hard Democrats — mill workers, coal miners and union members. They have voted party line for generations, forming a reliable constituency for just

POLITICS NATION, May 2, 2012 -- Republicans have been pushing Voter ID laws across the country to suppress the vote. 92 year old Philadephia resident vivan Applewhite shares her story of being denied

CNN, April 30, 2012 -- The One World Trade Center building will have three top-floor observation decks. Its first 90 floors will be designated for office space, and the following 10 floors will be res