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HUFFINGTON POST, August 30, 2012 -- Paul Ryan pledged Wednesday that if he and his running mate Mitt Romney were elected president, they would usher in an ethic of responsibility. The Wisconsin congre

MEDIA MATTERS, August 29, 2012 -- ROLAND MARTIN (CNN contributor): Just curious -- how do you deal with folks who lie? So, for instance, I heard one of the women say, "Oh my God, taxes have gone up."

HARDBALL, August 29, 2012 -- Hours after Hurricane Isaac hammered its way through New Orleans on the seven-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Melissa Harris-Perry tweeted that her new home had bee

THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW, August 27, 2012 -- Unpopular with minorities, Romney targets the white vote. Rachel talks with columnist Bob Herbert about how Romney's path to victory means he has to increas

HARDBALL, August 27, 2012 -- Chris Matthews discusses GOP playing the race card to stir up old racial resentments among white voters with former GOP chairman MIchael Steele and analyst Howard Fineman

HUFFINGTON POST, August 27, 2012 -- As the Republican convention gets underway today in Tampa, we can expect to hear the politicians and delegates gathered there--including GOP nominee Mitt Romney--ra

HUFFINGTON POST, August 27, 2012 -- Chris Matthews exploded at Reince Priebus on Monday's "Morning Joe," tearing into the Republican National Committee chairman and accusing his party of playing the r

HUFFINGTON POST, April 25, 2012 -- As President Barack Obama was celebrating his inauguration at various balls, top Republican lawmakers and strategists were conjuring up ways to submarine his preside

SLATE, August 24, 2012 -- Larry Wilmore is most recognizable these days as a “senior black correspondent” on The Daily Show. He was also a writer, producer, and occasional guest star on The Office—and

POLITICO, August 22, 2012 -- President Barack Obama continues to beat Mitt Romney among African American voters with a staggering 94 percent to 0 percent lead, according to a poll released Tuesday.

THINK PROGRESS, August 19, 2012 -- Earlier today, Missouri U.S. Senate candidate Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO) claimed that “legitimate rape” does not often lead to pregnancy because “the female body has ways

THINK PROGRESS, August 20, 2012 -- Yesterday, ThinkProgress reported that Rep. Todd “Legitimate Rape” Akin (R-MO) and GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan both cosponsored the bill that introduc

HARDBALL, MSNBC, August 21, 2012 – Chris Matthews talks to Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter on what can be done about recent voter suppression laws that would disenfranchise thousands in November.

By Benjamin Todd Jealous, HUFFINGTON POST, August 22, 2012 -- "To him, your celebration is a sham; ... your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery...." In 1852, Frederick Douglas spoke these

By Harold Meyerson, WASHINGTON P OST, July 24, 2012 -- Suppose Mitt Romney ekes out a victory in November by a margin smaller than the number of young and minority voters who couldn’t cast ballots bec

HUFFINGTON POST, August 21, 2012 -- Gabby Douglas' historic Olympic performance has turned her into America's new golden girl. She's on cereal boxes, murals are being painted in her honor and she's pr

HUFFINGTON POST, August 18, 2012 -- When Congressman Paul Ryan has been asked the past few years about the value of stimulus to the sagging economy and the nation's jobless, the Wisconsin Republican h

CNN, August 15, 2012 -- Soledad O'Brien got into a heated shouting match with Romney surrogate John Sununu on Tuesday, and she's slapping back his claims about Medicare. The CNN host and Sununu, th

POLITIFACT, December 10, 2011 -- Medicare, the health insurance program for seniors and the disabled, constitutes a massive and growing share of federal spending. Yet Republican presidential candidate

SALON, August 14, 2012 -- As Democrats go on the Medicare offensive after Mitt Romney picked Rep. Paul Ryan, the author of the GOP’s Medicare-transforming budget, to be his vice-presidential nominee,

HUFFINGTON POST, August 13, 2012 — Gabby Douglas admitted indulging in post-Olympics fast food to the wrong person: First lady and healthy eating advocate Michelle Obama, who teased the gymnastics cha

THINK PROGRESS, August 13, 2012 -- Now that Mitt Romney has picked Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) as his running mate, Ryan’s radical budget constitutes Romney’s economic platform. The Ryan-Romney budget is ba

HUFFINGTON POST, August 12, 2012 -- As Mitt Romney stood before the USS Wisconsin Saturday morning, months of speculation about how far the presumptive Republican presidential nominee might go to cour

THINK PROGRESS, August 11, 2012 -- Mitt Romney has picked as his running mate 42 year-old Republican Congressman Paul Ryan (R-WI), the architect of the GOP budget, which the New York Times has describ