TALKING POINTS MEMO, October 5, 2011 -- Herman Cain had some tough words for the Occupy Wall Street protests, in an interview with Wall Street Journal: Don’t blame the banks for your financial problems — blame yourself.
“I don’t have facts ...
Posted Thursday, October 6th 2011 at 10:42AM
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THINK PROGRESS, September 30, 2011--On Wednesday, Judge Sharon Lovelace Blackburn issued an opinion that struck down parts of Alabama’s radical new anti-immigrant laws, but left in place a provision requiring public schools to “systematically det ...
Posted Saturday, October 1st 2011 at 10:28AM
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HUFFINGTON POST, September 30, 2011 -- Hispanic students have started vanishing from Alabama public schools in the wake of a court ruling that upheld the state's tough new law cracking down on illegal immigration.
Education officials say scores of ...
Posted Saturday, October 1st 2011 at 10:13AM
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HUFFINGTON POST, September 30, 2011-- "Dismal."
Likely not a word ever preferred in an educational setting, but the description the Southern Poverty Law Center found appropriate to assess the state of education about the civil rights movement in t ...
Posted Saturday, October 1st 2011 at 10:07AM
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THE GUARDIAN, UK, September 29, 2011--4What's it like being a Saudi woman? A common question I've come to expect from outsiders – even fellow Arabs. The restrictiveness of the guardianship system, gender segregation and a persistently sexist cultur ...
Posted Friday, September 30th 2011 at 10:09PM
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NEW YORK TIMES, September 28, 2011--When Julian Bond, the former Georgia lawmaker and civil rights activist, turned to teaching two decades ago, he often quizzed his college students to gauge their awareness of the civil rights movement. He did not w ...
Posted Thursday, September 29th 2011 at 10:46AM
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NEW YORK TIMES, September 29, 2011 — Saudi King Abdullah has overturned a court ruling sentencing a Saudi woman to be lashed 10 times for defying the kingdom's ban on female drivers, a government official said Wednesday.
The official declined to ...
Posted Thursday, September 29th 2011 at 10:43AM
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COMEDY CENTRAL, September 26, 2011--Jon Stewart has a message for Republican primary voters: Make up your mind, already.
First, Michele Bachmann was the frontrunner, then Rick Perry and now all eyes are suddenly on New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.
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Posted Tuesday, September 27th 2011 at 10:57PM
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Saturday Night Live is back, and they commemorated it by covering "the 7th or 8th" GOP debate. Bill Hader's  Shep Smith hosted this debate, which was between Mitt Romney, Rick Perry and "six other people who'll never be president!"
Hader had so ...
Posted Monday, September 26th 2011 at 7:42PM
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NEW YORK TIMES, September 24, 2011—Like many teachers, Jamie Fidler does not end her workday when her students go home, mainly because she cannot afford to, she says.
At 3:30 p.m., when the last class ends, Ms. Fidler, a first-grade teacher at P ...
Posted Saturday, September 24th 2011 at 8:23PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, September 24, 2011--MSNBC anchor Thomas Roberts condemned some members of the audience at the recent Republican debate for booing an openly gay soldier.
The crowd at Thursday's debate provided yet another controversial moment when ...
Posted Saturday, September 24th 2011 at 5:06PM
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THINK PROGRESS, September 23, 2011--This afternoon, Gov. Rick Scott (R-FL) took to the stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Florida to talk about “successes” in his state, including decreasing the state’s unemployment ...
Posted Saturday, September 24th 2011 at 11:08AM
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THINK PROGRESS, SEptember 24, 2011--At an event the Congressional Black Caucus put together to honor the Tuskegee Airmen and to promote George Lucas’s new movie about them, Red Tails, the movie’s stars, Terrence Howard and Cuba Gooding, Jr., had ...
Posted Saturday, September 24th 2011 at 11:01AM
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Rachel Maddow began the show by celebrating the drama of the increasingly iron-clad rule that all Western delegations must walk out on Mahmoud Ahmedinejad when he speaks at the United Nations.
"Everybody sort of pensively packs up their briefcase ...
Posted Friday, September 23rd 2011 at 11:18AM
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Last year, Islamophobic activists, allied with a number of right-wing politicians, attacked the construction of the Park 51 Islamic community center, maligning the project as a “Ground Zero Mosque” being built blocks away from the site of the 9/1 ...
Posted Thursday, September 22nd 2011 at 4:57PM
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THE DAILY SHOW, September 22, 2011--America's vulnerable millionaires are at risk, with nowhere to turn if President Obama raises their taxes.
"Every day, America loses more and more millionaires to abusive individual and corporate tax rates," Jon ...
Posted Thursday, September 22nd 2011 at 12:38PM
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TALKING POINTS MEMO, September 21, 2011--Ron Paul told TPM on Wednesday that even if there’s a “case or two” that makes Americans uncomfortable, the government should stay out of the health care business. Even if one of the cases in question is ...
Posted Thursday, September 22nd 2011 at 12:03PM
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NEWSWEEK, September 18, 2011—TO A SUDANESE WOMAN:
Some months ago, I watched a video of punishment meted out to you—a lawfully mandated public whipping that I understand is not uncommon in your country. I have seen many instances of human br ...
Posted Thursday, September 22nd 2011 at 10:12AM
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HUFFINGTON POST, September 19, 2011 — After years of expanding when and how people can vote, state legislatures now under new Republican control are moving to trim early voting days, beef up identification requirements and put new restrictions on h ...
Posted Monday, September 19th 2011 at 3:50PM
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By Jonathan Cohn, NEW REPUBLIC, September 16, 2011—The big drama of this week’s Republican debate was over whether front-runner Rick Perry would stumble. But the most interesting moment turned out to involve a man nobody thinks can win the presid ...
Posted Saturday, September 17th 2011 at 10:32AM
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Donald Trump had dinner with Rick Perry on Wednesday. Or at least that’s who he thought it was: the New York billionaire referred to him as “Jim” in an interview the very next day.
But was it a flub, or an odd formality? Perry’s full name ...
Posted Friday, September 16th 2011 at 3:57PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, September 16, 2011--There was no stopping Glen Rice during the 1989 NCAA men's basketball tournament. The sweet-shooting 6-foot-7 senior scored a staggering 184 points in the Michigan Wolverines' six games, including 31 in the champi ...
Posted Friday, September 16th 2011 at 1:40PM
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HARDBALL, September 14, 2011--Olympic chammion Carl Lewis (9 Olympic Medals) has won the right to run for State Senate in New Jersey. Why does he want to run for office?
Mr. Lewis is driven by two powerful initiatives--education and service.
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Posted Friday, September 16th 2011 at 11:55AM
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THINK PROGRESS, September 15, 2011--Yesterday, ThinkProgress brought you the tragic story of Kent Snyder, the campaign manager for Rep. Ron Paul’s (R-TX) 2008 presidential bid, who died at 49 from pneumonia because he lacked health insurance. Snyde ...
Posted Friday, September 16th 2011 at 11:42AM
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