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THINK PROGRESS, November 22, 2011 -- Mitt Romney released his first campaign ad, which quotes President Obama saying “if we keep talking about the economy, we’re going to lose.” But those weren’t Oba

POLITIFACT, November 23, 2011 -- On the eve of a presidential trip to New Hampshire on Nov. 22, 2011, Mitt Romney’s campaign released an ad targeting President Barack Obama. In the ad, the Romney camp

THE LAST WORD, November 22, 2011 — Lawrence O'Donnell piled on Mitt Romney during his Tuesday show, saying the GOP presidential candidate had told a flat-out lie in his first television ad of the 2012

NEW YORK TIMES, November 23, 2011 — Democrats reacted ferociously on Tuesday to Mitt Romney’s first campaign commercial, which they said distorted comments by Barack Obama to make it look as if he was

HUFFINGTON POST, November 20, 2011 -- Although it seems extremely unlikely that Will Smith's "Just The Two Of Us" was written to score this brief video of Robinho, a forward for A.C. Milan, playing so

POLITICO, November 19, 2011 -- Newt Gingrich tonight said at an address at Harvard that child work laws "entrap" poor children into poverty - and suggested that a better way to handle failing schools

HUFFINGTON POST, November 18, 2011 -- When you're a president running for reelection, it apparently helps to be a hoops junky, especially when the National Basketball Association is on hiatus. With

November 17, 2011 -- Republican presidential candidates Rick Perry and Mitt Romney both claim President Barack Obama said that “Americans are lazy.” He didn’t. To the contrary, Obama has consistently

If it feels like the 2012 Presidential election has been going on for years by now, the opening segment on Thursday night's "Daily Show" will remind you why. In another round of Indecision 2012 covera

THINK PROGRESS, November 17, 2011 -- The right-wing Daily Caller website has been anything but kind to Occupy Wall Street, even going so far as to condemn the protest movement as generating riots, mur

Joyce Evans may currently be an anchor and reporter for Philadelphia's Fox 29, but back in the 80's she was working at Miami's Channel 6 News and covering a story outside of a police building. This

THE DAILY SHOW, November 16, 2011 -- Super committee deficit negotiations aren’t going well. At all. And guess who’s not surprised? Jon Stewart, who rattled off the deficit-reduction groups of yore

NEW YORK TIMES, November 15, 2011 -- The Republican presidential candidates have served comedians a full platter of laughs this year — a steady diet of gaffes, misstatements, puzzled looks and long, a

HUFFINGTON POST, November 17, 2011 -- Jonathan Gruber, an M.I.T. economist hired by Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney to help craft health care reform, sharply criticized the Republican presidential cand

POLITICO, November 15, 2011 -- President Barack Obama is so confident of the constitutionality of his health care law — and so happy to cast Mitt Romney as his human shield against the law’s critics —

THINK PROGRESS, November 14, 2011 -- In most states, ex-convicts have to wait years after their release to have their voting rights restored, and many are disenfranchised for life. Yet they often have

THINK PROGRESS, November 14, 2011 -- Former pizza executive Herman Cain has struggled with foreign policy throughout his campaign to be commander in chief, but never more so than an in an interview wi

THINK PROGRESS, November 14, 2011 -- Late last month, a national backlash forced Bank of America to abandon its plan to charge customers $5 a month to use their debit cards. But Huffington Post repor

MSNBC, November 11, 2011 -- Rachel Maddow proclaimed herself to be "shocked" by a recent, threatening comment made by Herman Cain's lawyer to any potential victims of sexual harassment -- so shocked t

This video might be the coolest part of your weekend. Made with NASA photos taken 240 miles above Earth at the International Space Station, the gorgeous time-lapse documents some of the world's mos

THINK PROGRESS, Nov. 10, 2011 -- Across the country, police have used undercover and/or plainclothed police officers to monitor occupations and protests that are a part of the 99 Percent Movement.

POLITICO, October 23, 2011 -- President Barack Obama marked the end of the Iraq War last week, but he left it to Hillary Rodham Clinton — whose support for the unpopular war in 2003 ultimately helped

TALKING POINTS MEMO, October 23, 2011 -- Speaking with Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday,” U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton defended the timing of the Obama administration’s effort to withdraw