THE LAST WORD, MSNBC, July 18, 2011--Lawrence O'Donnell explains government debt ceiling crisis. He shows a fascinating clip of President Obama talking to a group of college students about his philosophy of government. Here is an in-depth look at ...
Posted Tuesday, July 19th 2011 at 10:27AM
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SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, July 18, 2011—Before Jabari Parker takes the floor to play a basketball game, he sits by himself in the locker room for a couple of minutes of prayer and reflection. "I pray that God keeps me safe on the floor, and that I'm able ...
Posted Tuesday, July 19th 2011 at 10:05AM
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NEWSWEEK, JULY 9, 2011—The hacking scandal currently shaking Rupert Murdoch’s empire will surprise only those who have willfully blinded themselves to that empire’s pernicious influence on journalism in the English-speaking world. Too many of u ...
Posted Monday, July 18th 2011 at 6:53PM
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By MICHAEL WINERIP, NEW YORK TIMES, July 18, 2011—There had long been suspicions that cheating on state tests was widespread in the Atlanta public schools, but the superintendent, Beverly L. Hall, was feared by teachers and principals, and few dare ...
Posted Monday, July 18th 2011 at 3:14PM
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WNBA.com: For the past two years you have organized your Christmas with Y.O.U. initiative, but what else have you done in the community?
Charde Houston: I run a weekly focus group here in Minnesota with Perspectives Inc. and basically just teach g ...
Posted Sunday, July 17th 2011 at 9:13PM
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COMEDY CENTRAL, July 15, 2011--Stephen Colbert tackled Rupert Murdoch's phone hacking scandal on Thursday's show, and taking a cue from an editor at the now-defunct News of the World who believes that illegally tapping phones is the best way to get t ...
Posted Sunday, July 17th 2011 at 11:33AM
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July 13, 2011--Reps. Steve King (R-IA), Michele Bachmann (R-MN), and Louie Gohmert (R-TX) introduced a bill today that they claim would help manage a government default if the debt limit is not raised by Aug. 2. The legislation is motivated by the ri ...
Posted Wednesday, July 13th 2011 at 11:06PM
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By DIANE McWHORTER, NY Times, July 10, 2011--Chris McNair, symbol of the civil rights struggle in Birmingham, Ala., reported to federal prison last month, bereft of the media respect that has been his companion for most of his 85 years. In 1963, Mr. ...
Posted Sunday, July 10th 2011 at 9:31PM
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By ROB HOERBURGER--Aretha Franklin sat alone with a Coke. It was the night of her 69th birthday, and all around, guests were filing into the Park Room at the Helmsley Park Lane Hotel on Central Park South, bobbing to live music from the vibraphonist ...
Posted Sunday, July 10th 2011 at 9:26PM
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WASHINGTON POST, July 2, 2011—Tomorrrow, July 3, 2011, my wife, Gwen, and I will reach the big “50.” That’s right: our 50th wedding anniversary, a milestone some friends believed would never be reached, not with the saintly Gwendolyn marrying ...
Posted Sunday, July 3rd 2011 at 11:27AM
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THE DAILY SHOW, July 1, 2011--Jon Stewart spent the first part of Thursday night's "Daily Show" addressing the week's second-biggest media story (after Glenn Beck's last hurrah, of course): Mark Halperin calling the President of the United States "a ...
Posted Saturday, July 2nd 2011 at 10:42AM
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THE DAILY SHOW, June 30, 2011--Jon Stewart reports that Republicans look like they are taking Mitt Romney to the Big Dance--but with the same enthusiasm as someone taking his cousin to the prom.
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MSNBC, THE LAST WORD, June 29, 2011--A newspaper op-ed from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch mourned the loss of the Republican party as we once knew it. Lawrence O'Donnell debunks the ring-wing concept of "Real America" in the Rewrite.
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Posted Thursday, June 30th 2011 at 10:58AM
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THE ED SHOW, MSNBC, June 28, 2011--Jon Stewart's ongoing debate with Fox News since his interview with Chris Wallace now has another layer: Herman Cain. On Wednesday night's "Ed Show," Reverend Al Sharpton made clear how he feels about the GOP Presid ...
Posted Wednesday, June 29th 2011 at 8:54PM
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TALKING POINTS MEMO, June 29, 2011--For the first time, a Republican appointed federal judge -- part of a three-judge circuit court panel -- has ruled that the individual insurance mandate in President Obama's health care law is constitutional.
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Posted Wednesday, June 29th 2011 at 3:58PM
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THINK PROGRESS, June 28, 2011--Since last year, low-income Arizonans have been feeling the impact of a series of brutal Medicaid cuts that officials predict will kick at least 135,000 people off the state’s health care rolls by next year. Now, than ...
Posted Tuesday, June 28th 2011 at 10:22PM
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THE ED SHOW, June 27, 2011--Reverend Al Sharpton debates National Organization for Marriage supported Brian Brown on NY's recent Marriage Equality Law. Follow the arguments. See which man sweats.
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Posted Tuesday, June 28th 2011 at 10:01AM
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POLITIFACT, June 27, 2011—On “Face the Nation” last Sunday, Bob Schieffer asked GOP Presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann about her PolitiFact report card.
SCHIEFFER: I want to ask you about something else. A lot of your critics sa ...
Posted Tuesday, June 28th 2011 at 9:52AM
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HUFFINGTON POST, June 27, 2011--When notable President Obama impersonator Reggie Brown began his gig at the Republican Leadership Conference earlier this month, it appeared that things were going well. He started out with some jabs the the Democratic ...
Posted Monday, June 27th 2011 at 4:05PM
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N.Y. DAILY NEWS, June 21, 2011—This fall, Autum Ashante will be like any other giddy freshman starting college, with one notable exception - she's 13 years old.
The Pelham Parkway teen has been accepted at the University of Connecticut, where sh ...
Posted Monday, June 27th 2011 at 1:13PM
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POLITICO, June 27, 2011--Hours before arriving back in the United States from a weeklong trip to Africa, first lady Michelle Obama on Sunday told ABC’s “This Week” of a “surreal” meeting with statesman Nelson Mandela and the trip’s effect ...
Posted Monday, June 27th 2011 at 12:58PM
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REVIEWED BY DAVID REYNOLDS, N. Y. TIMES, June 26, 2011—No less an authority than Leo Tolstoy included “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” on his short list of “examples of the highest art flowing from love of God and man.” Fifty years later, James Baldwi ...
Posted Sunday, June 26th 2011 at 12:59PM
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By REV. DR. JACQUELINE J. LEWIS, JUNE 25, 2011—I am old enough to remember drinking at the colored only water fountain in Ruleville, Mississippi, my mom's hometown when I was five years old in 1964. My mom grew up in Sunflower County, a place that ...
Posted Saturday, June 25th 2011 at 12:41PM
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REUTERS, June 25, 2011—When New York became the sixth and by far the largest state to legalize same-sex marriage, following a grueling overtime session in the state Legislature Friday, it immediately transformed the national debate over the issue, ...
Posted Saturday, June 25th 2011 at 12:38PM
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POLTIFACT, June 23, 2011--As many of our readers already know, a certain late-night comic aired a five-minute-plus segment last night featuring our work. We thought our readers might appreciate a one-stop-shopping source for all the Fox News-related ...
Posted Thursday, June 23rd 2011 at 11:02AM
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