Last week's State Of The Union address provided more than enough fodder for comedians, but "Saturday Night Live" had to wait until yesterday to give us their take. Like "Conan," "The Daily Show," and some of our other favorite comedians, "SNL" chose ...
Posted Monday, January 31st 2011 at 10:04PM
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NAIROBI, Kenya — It was late at night and totally dark when I first met David Kato. He had been described to me as “the most out” gay Ugandan and the country’s leading gay rights crusader, reviled by many, revered by a small few — but defin ...
Posted Monday, January 31st 2011 at 9:43PM
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African-American athletes may have been blessed with "hops" and "handle"--but here is the little known secret to how clunky earthbound white athletes can compete--great court sense (he knew exactly where his opponent would be standing), great anticip ...
Posted Saturday, January 29th 2011 at 10:12AM
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The National Catholic Reporter newspaper put it best: “Just days before Christians celebrated Christmas, Jesus got evicted.”
Yet the person giving Jesus the heave-ho in this case was not a Bethlehem innkeeper. Nor was it an overzealous mayor a ...
Posted Friday, January 28th 2011 at 2:33PM
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On Monday night's "Colbert Report," Stephen Colbert took a moment to react to Keith Olbermann's abrupt exit from MSNBC. As is his custom whenever a pundit relinquishes his post, Colbert attempted to absorb the "Countdown" host's essence, opinions and ...
Posted Thursday, January 27th 2011 at 12:01PM
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On his daily radio and television shows, Glenn Beck has elevated once-obscure conservative thinkers onto best-seller lists. Recently, he has elevated a 78-year-old liberal academic to celebrity of a different sort, in a way that some say is endangeri ...
Posted Saturday, January 22nd 2011 at 4:20PM
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WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT ABOUT? by Josh Marshall, Talking Points Memo
I was just on in the opening segment of Olbermann tonight. And I get home and get this press release from NBC saying this was the last episode of Countdown. At first I figured it ...
Posted Friday, January 21st 2011 at 11:15PM
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Anderson Cooper, the master of the TV match-up, had on both terrorism "expert" and sharia alarmist Frank Gaffney and Suhail Khan, a board member of the Amercian Conservative Union whom Gaffney has accused of being an operative of Muslim jihadists.
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Posted Friday, January 21st 2011 at 12:11PM
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In reclaiming the House last November, Republicans framed their victory as a clear mandate from the American people to scrap 'Obamacare.' A cursory scan of the polling data suggests they were right, with some polls pegging support for repeal as high ...
Posted Friday, January 21st 2011 at 12:07PM
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It was an abduction that made headlines and stunned the authorities: A 3-week-old infant, taken to a Manhattan hospital in August 1987 for treatment of a fever, was snatched by a woman dressed in nurse’s clothes and never heard from again.
Two d ...
Posted Thursday, January 20th 2011 at 4:07PM
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Washington (CNN) -- OK, you've got Palin fatigue. Not to worry. So does much of the country: The latest CNN poll shows that 56 percent of Americans view her unfavorably.
More damaging, though, is this: Sarah Palin's unfavorable rating among women ha ...
Posted Thursday, January 20th 2011 at 4:06PM
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Like all topical comedy outlets this week, "Saturday Night Live" was faced with the difficult task of commenting on the tragic events in Tucson. In last night's cold opening, "SNL" addressed it by mocking Fox News for their attempt at a toned-down rh ...
Posted Sunday, January 16th 2011 at 6:29PM
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Dr. Martin Luther King, February 4, 1968:
Every now and then I guess we all think realistically (Yes, sir) about that day when we will be victimized with what is life's final common denominator—that something that we call death. We all think abo ...
Posted Sunday, January 16th 2011 at 12:07PM
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Rep. Trent Franks (R-Arizona): “You know, I wish there had been one more gun there that day in the hands of a responsible person. That’s all I have to say.”
Rachel: In fact, there was a man on the scene at the shooting in Tucson, a witness ...
Posted Friday, January 14th 2011 at 7:20PM
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WASHINGTON — President Obama is not known for showing a surplus of emotion in public, but toward the end of his speech at the University of Arizona, he paused for 51 seconds and appeared to gather himself.
The audience was on its feet. Mr. Obama ...
Posted Friday, January 14th 2011 at 9:57AM
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In the span of a single news cycle, Republicans got a jarring reminder of two forces that could prevent them from retaking the presidency next year.
At sunrise in the east on Wednesday, Sarah Palin demonstrated that she has little interest—or ca ...
Posted Thursday, January 13th 2011 at 8:12AM
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On New Year’s Day, a devastating terrorist bombing at a Coptic church in Egypt killed 21 people and injured 79 others. Although the identity of the culprits was not known, it was assumed that they were Muslim extremists, intent on targeting those t ...
Posted Saturday, January 8th 2011 at 4:18PM
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This morning, the Labor Department released its employment data for December, showing that the U.S. economy ended the year by adding 113,000 private sector jobs, knocking the unemployment rate down sharply from 9.8 percent to 9.4 percent — its lowe ...
Posted Friday, January 7th 2011 at 7:21PM
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Call it a stumble out of the gate. Or a failure to find the gate entirely. Veteran Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX) and freshman Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick (R-PA) failed to make the official swearing in ceremony yesterday, a violation of the Constitution that ha ...
Posted Thursday, January 6th 2011 at 11:50PM
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Members of the House of Representatives, led by their new Republican majority, kicked off the 112th Congress this morning with a reading of the U.S. Constitution. The reading is largely a political maneuver, so it's no real surprise that the Constitu ...
Posted Thursday, January 6th 2011 at 12:03PM
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When the Republicans mandate the reading of the U.S. Constitution on Thursday, they will read it like they wrote it and own it. Progressives relish the opportunity to show how wrong they are.
Professor Akhil Reed Amar: “The American revolutio ...
Posted Thursday, January 6th 2011 at 12:02PM
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by Elizabeth Wydra, HUFFINGTON POST, Jan. 5, 2010.
With the start of the 112th Congress, Tea Party activists are brimming with pride over the fact that the new House GOP leadership will kick off the legislative session with a reading of the Consti ...
Posted Thursday, January 6th 2011 at 11:59AM
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WASHINGTON -- If the incoming Republican leadership in the House of Representatives is serious about trying to repeal health care reform, there's only one appropriate Democratic response: "Make my day."
Just to be clear, there's no earthly chance ...
Posted Tuesday, January 4th 2011 at 11:07AM
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