HUFFINGTON POST, September 15, 2012 -- There's a new Obama in town.
Jay Pharoah debuted his POTUS impression on Saturday night's SNL season premiere, replacing Fred Armisen in the role.
In the opening sketch, Pharaoh's Obama reminded voters tha ...
Posted Sunday, September 16th 2012 at 4:29PM
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THE GRIOT, September 11, 2012 -- The U.S. House of Representatives on Monday night approved a resolution that will move the bust of Frederick Douglass to the Capitol, making him only the third African-American to be so honored. The other two: Rev. Ma ...
Posted Friday, September 14th 2012 at 12:50PM
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THE GRIOT, September 13, 2012 — “Saturday Night Live” has elected a new Barack Obama: Jay Pharoah will take over the plum role of impersonating the president.
“SNL” creator and executive producer Lorne Michaels announced the casting switch in an ...
Posted Friday, September 14th 2012 at 12:48PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, September 12, 2012 -- As Serena sat in the same chair that she occupied shortly before her trip to Wimbledon, the 2012 U.S. Open champion gave Jimmy Fallon credit on Monday night for the good luck that has followed her from England's ...
Posted Thursday, September 13th 2012 at 9:16AM
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GREED AND DEBT: THE TRUE STORY OF MITT ROMNEY AND BAIN CAPITAL by Matt Taibbi, ROLLING STONE, September 2012.
Here's how Romney would go about "liberating" a company: A private equity firm like Bain typically seeks out floundering businesses wit ...
Posted Wednesday, September 12th 2012 at 2:25PM
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SEPTEMBER 11, 2012 -- Amazing time lapse photography--watch the new World Trade Center rise from the ashes. ...
Posted Tuesday, September 11th 2012 at 1:13PM
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ROLLING STONE, September 2012 -- Everyone knows that he is fantastically rich, having scored great success, the legend goes, as a "turnaround specialist," a shrewd financial operator who revived moribund companies as a high-priced consultant for a st ...
Posted Tuesday, September 11th 2012 at 11:56AM
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HUFFINGTON POST, September 11, 2012 -- MSNBC reached another historic milestone after becoming the most-watched cable news network during the week of the Democratic National Convention.
The network hit ratings gold after beating CNN and Fox News d ...
Posted Tuesday, September 11th 2012 at 11:33AM
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By Jonathan Chait, NEW YORK MAGAZINE, September 10, 2012 -- Mitt Romney made some news when he appeared on Meet the Press yesterday and said he intended to reform the health-care system to allow people with preexisting conditions to obtain health ins ...
Posted Monday, September 10th 2012 at 3:03PM
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TALKING POINTS MEMO, September 19, 2012 -- In a Sunday interview, Mitt Romney spoke out for a popular provision in the Affordable Care Act that guarantees coverage for people with preexisting conditions. But his campaign later clarified that he suppo ...
Posted Monday, September 10th 2012 at 3:02PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, September 9, 2012 — Finally tested, even trailing, at the U.S. Open, Serena Williams turned things around just in time.
Two points from defeat, Williams suddenly regained her composure and her strokes, coming back to win the last ...
Posted Sunday, September 9th 2012 at 9:14PM
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THINK PROGRESS -- On September 8, 2011 — one year ago today — President Obama laid out a series of policy proposals known collectively as the American Jobs Act. The plan included stimulus spending in the form of immediate infrastructure investments, ...
Posted Saturday, September 8th 2012 at 11:52AM
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ALTERNET, September 3, 2012 -- It's a day before the Democratic National Convention and Dr. Melissa Harris-Perry has packed her bags in preparation for what will likely be the turning point of the 2012 race to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Her New Orlean ...
Posted Saturday, September 8th 2012 at 11:50AM
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By David Blight, NEW YORK TIMES, September 7, 2012 -- SUPPRESSING the black vote is a very old story in America, and it has never been just a Southern thing.
In 1840, and again in 1841, the former Frederick Bailey, now Frederick Douglass, walked a ...
Posted Saturday, September 8th 2012 at 11:49AM
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POLITIFACT, September 6, 2012 -- During his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., President Barack Obama touted recent growth in manufacturing jobs.
"After a decade of decline, this country created over half ...
Posted Friday, September 7th 2012 at 6:31PM
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POLITIFACT, September 6, 2012 -- Bill Clinton used his nominating address at the Democratic National Convention to respond to the Republican critiques leveled at President Barack Obama during the GOP’s Tampa convention. But there was one attack in pa ...
Posted Friday, September 7th 2012 at 6:28PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, September 2, 2012 -- Melissa Harris-Perry erupted at a guest on her show Saturday morning during a discussion on welfare.
Harris-Perry launched a discussion based on a new book titled "Why Americans Hate Welfare" by Princeton prof ...
Posted Thursday, September 6th 2012 at 10:41AM
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POLITIFACT, September 5, 2012 -- Are Democratic presidents better than Republican presidents at job creation? Former President Bill Clinton said so -- forcefully -- in his speech to the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte.
"Since 1961, for ...
Posted Thursday, September 6th 2012 at 10:39AM
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THINK PROGRESS, September 4, 2012 -- Recently, the Romney campaign has taken to telling voters that Obama “can’t tell you that you’re better off” now than four years ago. While the economic numbers suggest otherwise, there’s a simpler way to understa ...
Posted Thursday, September 6th 2012 at 10:35AM
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By Joan Walsh, SALON, September 2, 2012 -- At first I thought the flap over Paul Ryan claiming he ran a marathon in under three hours was silly. (No, I’m not a runner.) Before I read his remarks to the worshipful Hugh Hewitt, it seemed possible that ...
Posted Monday, September 3rd 2012 at 11:55AM
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by Howard Fineman, HUFFINGTON POST, September 3, 2012 -- I know that 21st-century campaigns are about micro-targeting individual voters using social media and laser-casting of print, web and Facebook advertising, plus organizing and get-out-the-vote ...
Posted Monday, September 3rd 2012 at 11:53AM
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HUFFINGTON POST, September 1, 2012 -- Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney launched the final leg of his quest for the White House by visiting storm-battered Louisiana on Friday. He drove through a town that was flooded by Hurricane Isaac i ...
Posted Saturday, September 1st 2012 at 7:38PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, September 1, 2012 -- "I wish President Obama had succeeded because I want America to succeed," Mitt Romney said in his acceptance speech.
But, it turns out he didn’t always feel that way. In fact, just after Obama was inaugur ...
Posted Saturday, September 1st 2012 at 4:22PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, 2012 – Paul Ryan's campaign walked back comments the VP nominee made about running a marathon.
"I had a two hour and fifty-something" marathon, Ryan said last week an interview. "I hurt a disc in my back, so I don’t run marathons ...
Posted Saturday, September 1st 2012 at 4:16PM
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POLITIFACT, August 31, 2012 -- In his speech accepting the Republican nomination for president, Mitt Romney repeated a charge he’s made before: that Obama has traveled the world apologizing for America.
"I will begin my presidency with a jobs to ...
Posted Friday, August 31st 2012 at 1:07PM
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