HUFFINGTON POST, April 5, 2012 -- Last year Simone (Lisa Simone Kelly), the daughter of singer Nina Simone paid homage to her iconic mother on Mother's Day with the re-launch of NinaSimone.com.
Serving as the executor of her mother's estate, Simo ...
Posted Friday, April 6th 2012 at 9:04AM
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POLITICO, April 5, 2012 -- After accusing a federal appellate court panel of throwing a “hissy fit” about President Barack Obama, outspoken CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin said Thursday that the order requiring the president to explain his belie ...
Posted Thursday, April 5th 2012 at 12:15PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, April 5, 2012 -- Comedy Central announced Wednesday that First Lady Michelle Obama will appear as the guest on "The Colbert Report" on Wednesday, April 11. The appearance will mark Mrs. Obama's second appearance on the show, and her ...
Posted Thursday, April 5th 2012 at 12:06PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, March 31, 2012 -- Before George Zimmerman shot Trayvon Martin on February 26, a 911 call recorded the voice of someone screaming. Whether that person was Martin or Zimmerman -- who police say claimed he was attacked by Martin before ...
Posted Sunday, April 1st 2012 at 11:57AM
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HUFFINGTON POST, March 30, 2012 -- Barack Obama: good first dater, bad... hairstylist?
We're always tickled to hear the first couple dish about the early stages of their romance. The Obamas, who've been married for over 19 years now, sat for a mea ...
Posted Saturday, March 31st 2012 at 5:36PM
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THINK PROGRESS, March 30, 2012 -- The story of Trayvon Martin’s death has gripped the nation’s attention for much of the last two weeks. While questions abound in Sanford, Florida as details slowly trickle out, Trayvon’s death has also prompted ...
Posted Friday, March 30th 2012 at 11:16PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, March 29, 2012 -- Rachel Maddow appeared on Jon Stewart's "The Daily Show" on Thursday night to discuss her new book about war, "Drift: The Unmooring Of The American Military."
Maddow's book, which has been a labor of love for the ...
Posted Friday, March 30th 2012 at 12:42PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, March 29, 2012 -- If you haven't been keeping up with this week's health care reform hearings in Washington, let Jon Stewart sum it up for you. On Thursday night's "Daily Show," he mocked the three-day argument of "freedom vs. social ...
Posted Friday, March 30th 2012 at 12:27PM
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THINK PROGRESS, March 28, 2012 -- Rep. Gwen Moore (D-WI) shared today her powerful story of being sexually abused and raped as a child. In a speech on the floor of the House of Representatives, Rep. Moore told her colleagues about being date raped an ...
Posted Wednesday, March 28th 2012 at 11:22PM
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THINK PROGRESS, march 28, 2012 -- Joe Oliver has inserted himself into the debate surrounding the murder of Trayvon Martin, making himself the public face of the defense of shooter George Zimmerman. Oliver, a former TV news anchor, has made dozens of ...
Posted Wednesday, March 28th 2012 at 11:18PM
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THINK PROGRESS, March 28, 2012 -- It’s been more than a month since Trayvon Martin was shot dead by George Zimmerman.
Tonight, ABC News release video footage of Zimmerman arriving at the police station. The video depicts a cleanly-shaven man wh ...
Posted Wednesday, March 28th 2012 at 11:15PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, March 26, 2012 -- In a bizarre turn of events, MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell interviewed an empty chair on his program Monday night, after scheduled guest Craig Sonner reportedly fled from an MSNBC studio in Orlando just moments before ...
Posted Tuesday, March 27th 2012 at 10:33AM
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THE DAILY SHOW, March 8, 2012 -- Is Barack Obama a Socialist? Daily Show correspondent Jessica Williams gets to the bottom of this crucial issue by putting the question to actual Socialists.
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Posted Monday, March 26th 2012 at 2:10PM
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THE HILL, March 26, 2012 -- Former Supreme Court clerks and lawyers who have argued before the court mostly expect the justices to uphold President Obama's healthcare law, according to a new poll.
The poll surveyed nearly 400 former clerks and r ...
Posted Monday, March 26th 2012 at 12:10PM
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By Juan Williams, THE HILL, March 26, 2012 -- Just in time for the two-year anniversary of the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on the law’s constitutionality this week.
This ...
Posted Monday, March 26th 2012 at 12:08PM
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CNN, March 25, 2012 -- With the Supreme Court set to hear oral arguments about the constitutionality of the President Obama's health care law, more patients than ever have been asking for my thoughts about health reform.
I practice primary care in ...
Posted Sunday, March 25th 2012 at 11:18PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, March 25, 2012 -- MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry mocked Geraldo Rivera's incendiary comments about slain teenager Trayvon Martin with biting sarcasm on Saturday.
Martin was unarmed when he was shot to death by a self-appointed neigh ...
Posted Sunday, March 25th 2012 at 11:05PM
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By John Timoney, NEW YORK TIMES, March 24, 2012 -- THE very public controversy surrounding the killing on Feb. 26 of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed 17-year-old, by a crime watch volunteer, George Zimmerman, was predictable.
In fact, I, along with ot ...
Posted Saturday, March 24th 2012 at 11:24AM
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By Judge H. Lee Sarokin, HUFFINGTON POST, March 23, 2012 -- Imagine this scenario: a man shoots and kills someone. He tells the police he was temporarily insane at the time. So they say "OK you can go home and take your gun with you," because they ca ...
Posted Saturday, March 24th 2012 at 10:50AM
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HUFFINGTON POST, March 22, 2012 -- Current TV's Jennifer Granholm choked up while discussing the murder of Trayvon Martin on her show on Wednesday night.
Martin, an unarmed Florida teenager, was shot to death by a self-appointed neighborhood watch ...
Posted Thursday, March 22nd 2012 at 11:53AM
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By BILL MAHER, NEW YORK TIMES, March 22, 2012 -- THIS week, Robert De Niro made a joke about first ladies, and Newt Gingrich said it was “inexcusable and the president should apologize for him.” Of course, if something is “inexcusable,” an ap ...
Posted Thursday, March 22nd 2012 at 11:02AM
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NEW YORK TIMES, March 21, 2012 — Seven years after Florida adopted its sweeping self-defense law, the shooting of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager, has put that law at the center of an increasingly angry debate over how he was killed and w ...
Posted Wednesday, March 21st 2012 at 11:45PM
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THINK PROGRESS, March 21, 2012 — Nearly one month after shooting and killing Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman remains a free man. The Sanford Police maintain that Zimmerman’s conduct was legally justified under Florida’s controversial “Stand ...
Posted Wednesday, March 21st 2012 at 11:44PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, March 21, 2012 -- Lawrence O'Donnell forcefully criticized the police handling of the Trayvon Martin case during his Tuesday show.
The killing of Martin — an unarmed teenager who was shot dead by a neighborhood watch volunteer i ...
Posted Wednesday, March 21st 2012 at 12:36PM
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TALKING POINTS MEMO, March 21, 2012 -- When the Supreme Court hears arguments on the Affordable Care Act next week, the central question the justices will consider is whether the federal government has the authority to require Americans to buy healt ...
Posted Wednesday, March 21st 2012 at 12:04PM
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