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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 j

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

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, polic

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

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 heal

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, polic

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 GO

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

ABC NEWS, June 29, 2012 -- In what is now a well-known exchange from ABC News’ January 2008 Republican presidential debate at St. Anselm College in New Hampshire, Mitt Romney declared “I like mandates

By Jonathan Chait, NEW YORK MAGAZINE, June 25, 2012 -- As we wait for a Supreme Court ruling on the Affordable Care Act this week, there is one urgent, overriding moral question at the heart of the he

THE DAILY BEAST, June 27, 2012 -- With the epochal Supreme Court decision on the Affordable Care Act coming this week, pundits and prognosticators have been working themselves into a tizzy trying to

CNN, June 25, 2012 -- With three places up for grabs on the U.S. Olympic track team, two women tied for third place in the women's 100 meters on Sunday -- crossing the line at exactly the same time --

BLOOMBERG NEWS, June 22, 2012 -- The U.S. Supreme Court should uphold a law requiring most Americans to have health insurance if the justices follow legal precedent, according to 19 of 21 constitution

"I'm Every Woman" is a hit song recorded by Chaka Khan in 1978. Written by successful songwriting team Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson, the soul/disco song reached number twenty-one on the U.S. Bil

"State of Independence" is a song written by Jon Anderson and Vangelis, which has been recorded by several artists and has been a hit single on three occasions. The song is written in a reggae/calypso

MITT’S NO POLICY PROBLEM: HOW LONG CAN HE GO WITH “VAGUE, GENERAL OR DOWNRIGHT EVASIVENESS? POLITICO. June 24, 2012 -- Mitt Romney’s aides suggested that when the Republican appeared before a Hispa

NEW YORK TIMES, June 23, 2012 — The tumor grew like a thick vine up the back of Eric Richter’s leg, reminding him every time he sat down that he was a man without insurance. In April, when it was clos

NEW YORK TIMES, June 23, 2012 -- Late on Tuesday, March 27, halfway around the world, President Obama began one of the most suspenseful waits in recent presidential history. After a blur of nuclear

REAL CLEAR POLITICS, June 22, 2012 -- President Obama does not currently have enough white support to win re-election even if he retains his minority base from 2008. At the same time, electoral data i

SUMMER MADNESS by Kool and the Gang

SUMMERTIME by George and Ira Gershwin sung by Billie Holliday Summertime, And the livin' is easy Fish are jumpin' And the cotton is high Your daddy's rich And your mamma's good lookin

HUFFINGTON POST, June 18, 2012 -- If Mitt Romney is elected president, the U.S. will experience an economic disaster the likes of which have been recently seen in Ireland, according to Paul Krugman.

NEW YORK TIMES, June 17, 2012 — Joan Tribble held tightly to her cane as she ventured into the overgrown cemetery where her people were buried. There lay the pioneers who once populated north Georgia’

HUFFINGTON POST, June 18, 2012 -- This is a video of a magician named Rahat pranking drive thru workers with his floating cup trick, but their reactions never get old. This time around he's even accus

by James Atlas, NEW YORK TIMES, June 17, 2012 -- WHY was I in a tent in northern Vermont? Much less a tent in the woods at a Buddhist meditation center, reading Sakyong Mipham’s “Turning the Mind Into