A roving journalist with a camera recently went to a Tea Party rally in New Hampshire, one of the six states to legalize Same-Sex Marriage.
When the reporter asked what changes they noticed since Gay folks had the right to marry in New Hampshire ...
Posted Friday, April 22nd 2011 at 4:42PM
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MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell once again blasts Trump's ridiculous, fact-free charge on President Obama's birthplace, denouncing him as "The racists greatest hero."
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Posted Friday, April 22nd 2011 at 10:35AM
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ATLANTA — Each of the 90 federal historic sites in the United States has its appeal. But for all their cultural value, the sites don’t change much. A studious tour given by a park ranger. A plaque to read. Another note in a travel journal.
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Posted Friday, April 22nd 2011 at 10:12AM
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Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) has been raising the ire of Michiganders across his state recently as he has rammed through his radical agenda. This agenda first consisted of advocating for and passing giant corporate tax cuts, continued with stripping ...
Posted Wednesday, April 20th 2011 at 5:40PM
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The election is eons away, but Ed Schultz jumped into the race for the 2012 GOP nomination on Monday to deliver his (most likely not at all) coveted endorsement. The lucky candidate--and the one who will most likely receive the highly-sought-after "S ...
Posted Wednesday, April 20th 2011 at 9:42AM
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Once Robin Williams gets going, it can be tough to slow him down. Such was the case today, when he stopped by 'The View' (weekdays, syndicated on ABC) and Joy Behar promptly asked him about Donald Trump. Williams took over from there, joking about wh ...
Posted Wednesday, April 20th 2011 at 9:20AM
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On his April 13, 2011, speech on his vision for America’s fiscal future, President Barack Obama quickly went on the offensive against the Republican deficit-cutting budget proposal championed by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., a ...
Posted Tuesday, April 19th 2011 at 10:44AM
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Obama’s speech yesterday was as 2012-focused as any we’ve heard him give. This was not a speech about dollars and cents as much as it was an appeal for Americans to think about what kind of country they want and how they define shared sacrifice.
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Posted Tuesday, April 19th 2011 at 10:43AM
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Corporations are roaring. Wall Street is rolling in cash. C.E.O. bonuses are going gangbusters. It’s a really good time to be rich!
If you’re poor, not so much. The pall of the recession is suffocating. The unemployment rate is still unbearabl ...
Posted Saturday, April 16th 2011 at 3:18PM
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Jackie Robinson Day 2011 commemorates the 64th anniversary of his historic debut in Major League Baseball with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
The anniversary simultaneously commemorates the breaking of the color barrier in baseball, as Jackie Robinson was ...
Posted Friday, April 15th 2011 at 10:32PM
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This morning, the House debated the budget proposal put forth by the Congressional Progressive Caucus, a response to the budget drafted by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI). During the debate, CPC member Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) asked Rep. Todd Rokita (R-IN) wh ...
Posted Friday, April 15th 2011 at 6:58PM
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WASHINGTON -- House Democrats showed Friday that they, too, have it in them to pull the kinds of parliamentary tricks on the House floor that Republicans mastered when they were the minority.
During a series of votes on alternative budget proposal ...
Posted Friday, April 15th 2011 at 6:47PM
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Pennsylvania's former senator Rick Santorum lifted his new campaign slogan from a famous American poem that he obviously never read. Given his political stances, Santorum could have found a better match in a Pat Boone song. MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell ...
Posted Friday, April 15th 2011 at 9:19AM
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama says Republicans who are sowing doubts about whether he is American-born may gain politically in the short term by playing to their constituencies but will have trouble when the general election rolls around. ...
Posted Friday, April 15th 2011 at 9:01AM
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MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell dissects President Obama's speech yesterday on the deficit reduction. He offers some historical background on Republican strategy to eviscerate government and shows how the President stood up for our nation's core values.
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Posted Thursday, April 14th 2011 at 11:19AM
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HuffPost's Howard Fineman appeared on MSNBC's 'The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell' Wednesday night to discuss President Obama's budget speech.
"I think more generally you're seeing a more combative, populist president here who's clearly in pres ...
Posted Thursday, April 14th 2011 at 11:15AM
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On Monday night's "Daily Show," Jon Stewart picked up where he left off last Thursday: the (narrowly avoided) government shutdown over budget cuts.
One of the biggest points of contention, federal funding for Planned Parenthood, was the item that ...
Posted Tuesday, April 12th 2011 at 11:06PM
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Track and field legend Carl Lewis officially announced on Monday that he’s entering a race — a political race, that is.
The AP reported that Lewis, now 49, announced his bid to represent his hometown of Willingboro, N.J., in the state Senate. ...
Posted Monday, April 11th 2011 at 6:54PM
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What will 'Fox & Friends' Monday-morning coverage of the near government shutdown look like? According to the show's tagline, it will involve "coffee, smiles, fear and terror."
When you set out to mock a show that already mocks itself so well, the ...
Posted Sunday, April 10th 2011 at 10:23PM
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WASHINGTON — President Obama opened the week by calling on Democrats to embrace his re-election campaign. He closed it by praising Republicans for forging a compromise to cut spending this year and avert a government shutdown.
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Posted Sunday, April 10th 2011 at 5:57PM
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WASHINGTON — At one crucial moment in the game of chicken over a looming shutdown of the United States government, President Obama and the House speaker, John A. Boehner, faced off in the Oval Office. Mr. Boehner, a Republican heavily outnumbered i ...
Posted Sunday, April 10th 2011 at 5:55PM
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So, “The One” wants a Round Two.
This week President Obama made it official that he’s seeking a second turn. Make no mistake, that’s going to be hard.
In the prologue to “The Audacity of Hope,” Obama wrote: “I serve as a blank scr ...
Posted Saturday, April 9th 2011 at 11:29AM
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Rachel Maddow issued a warning to some of her viewers on her Tuesday show, telling them that, just by watching her, they could wind up the target of conservative groups.
Maddow was reacting to a statement by the Mackinac Center, a right-wing think ...
Posted Friday, April 8th 2011 at 4:56PM
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It's early, but Donald Trump is emerging as a significant player in the Republican race for president. The latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal survey found that among people planning to vote in the Republican primary, Trump placed second, tied with M ...
Posted Friday, April 8th 2011 at 4:46PM
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The federal government is on the verge of shutting down as Republican and Democratic Party negotiators have failed to reach a compromise on a bill to continue to fund the government. Progressives are resisting deeper cuts to programs Main Street Amer ...
Posted Friday, April 8th 2011 at 7:05AM
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