“A LIE CAN TRAVEL HALFWAY AROUND THE WORLD BEFORE THE TRUTH PUTS ON ITS PANTS.”—WINSTON CHURCHILL.
This is how it works: take a statement or assertion that confirms what you already believe and publicize it, without offering a source o ...
Posted Thursday, May 5th 2011 at 9:35AM
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POLITICO, May 4, 2011--The White House will not release the photos of Osama bin Laden taken after he was killed, President Barack Obama said Wednesday.
“It is important for us to make sure that very graphic photos of somebody who was shot in the ...
Posted Wednesday, May 4th 2011 at 4:23PM
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – A senior Pakistani intelligence official said one of Osama bin Laden's daughters had seen her father being shot dead by U.S. forces, and was one of about 10 relatives of the al Qaeda leader in custody pending interrogation.
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Posted Tuesday, May 3rd 2011 at 4:41PM
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Although Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin) has been making mention of his ex-girlfriend since season one, it wasn't until Thursday night that former Secretary Of State Condoleezza Rice finally made an appearance on "30 Rock."
With his current love Av ...
Posted Monday, May 2nd 2011 at 10:20PM
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'Saturday Night Live' Weekend Update host Seth Meyers delivered a fiery speech Saturday at the White House Correspondents' dinner, ripping everyone from Washington players like President Barack Obama and members of Congress to media mavens like Katie ...
Posted Sunday, May 1st 2011 at 12:00PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, April 29, 2011—The next time you're gritting your teeth as you fill your tank with $4 gas, here's something to consider: Your pain is their gain.
The last of the Big Five oil companies announced first-quarter earnings Friday, ...
Posted Sunday, May 1st 2011 at 10:59AM
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In the late 1930s the world's first and only black singing-movie cowboy, Herb Jeffries, launched an acting career and starred in five Westerns and numerous stage, movie and television roles. Known as The Bronze Buckaroo, Jeffries will be inducted int ...
Posted Saturday, April 30th 2011 at 7:56PM
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NY TIMES, April 30--The next stop for New Jersey in its debt collection fight with the federal government may be federal court.
On Friday, the Transportation Department flatly rejected the state’s arguments for refusing to repay $271 million tha ...
Posted Saturday, April 30th 2011 at 11:28AM
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NY TIMES, April 21, 2011—For Lynn Nottage, the aha moment that led to “By the Way, Meet Vera Stark,” her new play about race, sex, fame and the dream — and crushing reality — of Hollywood, was unexpected. She was watching “Baby Face,” a ...
Posted Saturday, April 30th 2011 at 11:24AM
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Boston-Miami: this is the second round match-up we all wanted. Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said it "wouldn't be right if we didn't play them." LeBron echoed his coach, saying, "We have to play Boston to get where we want to get. It's here now."
Be c ...
Posted Friday, April 29th 2011 at 10:23PM
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WASHINGTON -- Well, that was weird.
Let's see: The Arab world is in tumult, with worrying signs that a Libya-style descent into civil war may be happening in Syria, where the stakes are unimaginably higher. Nearby, the warring Palestinian factions ...
Posted Friday, April 29th 2011 at 3:21PM
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I think we will all remember where we were when we learned the news that the President of the United States is the President of the United States. Now we can put to rest the crazy fringe idea that this will end the controversy.
Stephen Colbert is ...
Posted Thursday, April 28th 2011 at 2:43PM
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After being proven completely wrong on President Obama’s birth certificate, Donald Trump emphasizes another line of attack. This time, he is going after the President’s academic record and his intellectual accomplishments.
Lawrence O’Don ...
Posted Thursday, April 28th 2011 at 2:42PM
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HARDBALL, MSNBC, April 27, 2011. Chris Matthews and his Hardball analysts Eugene Robinson and Howard Fineman explain the reasons behind the Obama decision to release his birth certificate NOW. It was a politically astute move. What Obama has done ...
Posted Thursday, April 28th 2011 at 9:13AM
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"I accomplished something really important," says Donald Trump.
If he thinks wasting the nation's time and helping us gain information that we already knew are important.
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Posted Thursday, April 28th 2011 at 9:03AM
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WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) – In a stunning announcement that took even political insiders by surprise, President Barack Obama revealed today that he ran for President of Kenya in 2005 but was disqualified when a birth certificate surfaced sho ...
Posted Wednesday, April 27th 2011 at 2:58PM
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Anderson Cooper called out Sean Hannity for editing a clip of him in a misleading way.
Speaking on his Monday show, Cooper stressed that he didn't want to start a "cheesy cable news feud," but simply wanted to correct a clip Hannity had shown in a ...
Posted Tuesday, April 26th 2011 at 10:16PM
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On Monday night, Stephen Colbert announced that he was ready to endorse Donald Trump's potential presidential candidacy, in part because he said he'd finally been convinced that Trump's big publicity stunt could actually vault him into the White Hous ...
Posted Tuesday, April 26th 2011 at 4:31PM
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Financial Martial Law in Michigan: State appointed dictator disbands town government and closes schools. Rachel Maddow reports on how the community is fighting back. ...
Posted Tuesday, April 26th 2011 at 4:23PM
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I told myself that I wouldn’t be dragged into Donald Trump’s “birther” cesspool, yet here I am.
It became too much to ignore when he climbed to the top of the Republicans’ admittedly weak field of presidential contenders and serious mind ...
Posted Monday, April 25th 2011 at 10:46PM
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The impoverished former industrial town of Benton Harbor has become a flashpoint in the controversy over the new law that allows the governor to appoint Emergency Managers with virtually unlimited authority over local governments.
On Thursday the ...
Posted Monday, April 25th 2011 at 12:54PM
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DETROIT –Ashley Matthews, 17, described the heroic student-led occupation of her school, Catherine Ferguson Academy on April 15. She spoke of the wholehearted support the young mothers received from the community, as well as the vicious physical an ...
Posted Saturday, April 23rd 2011 at 5:31PM
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Rachel Maddow reports on why the state of Michigan and the city of Detroit should be Ground Zero in the fight to preserve Democracy.
With support from hundreds of Detroiters, students at the Catherine Ferguson Academy occupied their school ...
Posted Saturday, April 23rd 2011 at 9:49AM
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