WASHINGTON -- The equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution does not protect against discrimination on the basis of gender or sexual orientation, according to Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
In a newly-publishe ...
Posted Monday, January 3rd 2011 at 6:37PM
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In the epilogue to the new paperback version of his book on President Obama, "The Promise," Jonathan Alter notes that one of the president's major challenges for 2012 will be combating the "Obama Hate Machine." That's an appropriate name for the righ ...
Posted Saturday, January 1st 2011 at 12:28PM
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Starting Saturday, two of the new health care law's most significant reforms take effect -- or at least begin to take effect.
The first will dramatically clamp down on insurance industry waste, abuse, and excesses. Starting on New Year's Day, insu ...
Posted Friday, December 31st 2010 at 12:34PM
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One of the major rallying cries of the Republican Party and the wider conservative movement has been to repeal the recently passed health care law. To justify this demand, these conservatives claim that Americans want the law to be repealed and that ...
Posted Thursday, December 30th 2010 at 10:45AM
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Village People a "one-man band"? In this case it's a perfect match.
Here is a one-man Village People group (complete with four puppets/mannequins attached to him at the joints) performing the classic song "Y.M.C.A." with surprising ease.
Th ...
Posted Tuesday, December 28th 2010 at 8:27PM
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The good news is that the right-wing isn't talking about President Obama being a secret Muslim right now. The bad news is that they're now concerned that he's going to use his honorary status as a Crow Tribe Indian to return the United States to Nati ...
Posted Tuesday, December 28th 2010 at 5:19PM
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WASHINGTON — This month's early, under-the-radar campaigning by potential Republican challengers to President Barack Obama is a reminder of something too easily forgotten: Running for president is harder than it looks, and Obama ultimately will sta ...
Posted Tuesday, December 28th 2010 at 10:32AM
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Americans say they most admired President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2010, according to an annual USA Today/Gallup survey released Monday.
Obama is Americans’ most admired man for the third consecutive year, getting ...
Posted Monday, December 27th 2010 at 1:38PM
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Unearthed in a college archive, the grainy black-and-white dramatization, made in 1958, tells the story of a bungled purchase order and a boss who wanted the guilty party’s scalp. The company’s managers faced a glaring choice: fire an inept clerk ...
Posted Monday, December 27th 2010 at 11:10AM
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WASHINGTON - People who play basketball with Barack Obama say he's more dogged than flashy, more determined than skillful, more adaptable than unique. He'll trash talk on a dribble-drive with Reggie Love, but in the old days he was a studious, unself ...
Posted Wednesday, December 22nd 2010 at 6:56PM
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(CNN) -- Voters who flocked to the Republican banner seven weeks ago are probably scratching their heads, wondering, "Who really won in November?" After handing the president and Congressional Democrats the worst drubbing in more than half a century, ...
Posted Wednesday, December 22nd 2010 at 6:49PM
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In a rare moment of ebullience, President Barack Obama marked what is likely to be the final day of public events in the first half of his term with the repeal of the 17-year old “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy barring gays from serving openly ...
Posted Wednesday, December 22nd 2010 at 2:56PM
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A group of 9/11 first responders attempted to storm Tom Coburn's office Tuesday to personally lobby the GOP senator to lift a block that he had vowed to place on legislation meant to help cover their mounting health care costs.
John Feal, head of ...
Posted Wednesday, December 22nd 2010 at 1:03PM
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With just hours left in the 111th Congress, Republican lawmakers find themselves the target of ire and scorn from the most unlikely of adversaries: the firefighters and police officers who rushed into the burning twin towers on Sept. 11 nearly a deca ...
Posted Wednesday, December 22nd 2010 at 12:46PM
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President Barack Obama may be staging a comeback in the eyes of the American people, a new poll suggests.
In a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll released Monday, 48 percent of Americans say they approve of how Obama is handling his job, while 48 pe ...
Posted Monday, December 20th 2010 at 11:06PM
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The Islamophobia gripping the U.S. grows more entrenched by the day. Once confined to the far right, more and more pundits, power-brokers, and politicians are bringing it into mainstream. Apparently unsatisfied with dragging Muslims through the mud, ...
Posted Monday, December 20th 2010 at 10:39PM
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Committed to the obstruction of any Democratic priority, Senate Republicans successfully blocked the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act that gives desperately-needed compensation to first responders who contracted serious illnesses while ...
Posted Monday, December 20th 2010 at 9:54AM
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When historians look back at 2008-10, what will puzzle them most, I believe, is the strange triumph of failed ideas. Free-market fundamentalists have been wrong about everything — yet they now dominate the political scene more thoroughly than ever. ...
Posted Monday, December 20th 2010 at 9:53AM
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Love it or hate it, Fox News has shaken up the media establishment and achieved financial success by airing the views of strident conservative pundits. Yet while the network has never made any bones about the political slant of opinion shows hosted b ...
Posted Sunday, December 19th 2010 at 11:24AM
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ThinkProgress reported yesterday on a study conducted by World Public Opinion — a project managed by the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland — which found that that “greater exposure” to Fox News during the ...
Posted Saturday, December 18th 2010 at 10:47PM
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Hardball's Chris Matthews and guests former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown and Ron Reagan share their expert analysis over POLITICO's 5 biggest lies of the year. Watch the hilarity grow as they can't suppress their amusement at the immense idiocy ...
Posted Saturday, December 18th 2010 at 11:19AM
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Jon Stewart last night continued his impassioned efforts to draw attention to the 9/11 first responders bill that was filibustered by Senate Republicans, criticizing the major television networks for not mentioning the bill in their evening broadcast ...
Posted Saturday, December 18th 2010 at 11:00AM
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Anne Hathaway is hosting the Academy Awards this year -- and she's got way more than just one date.
The 'Love and Other Drugs' star, who is hosting the Oscars this year alongside James Franco,visited Staten Island’s PS 22 in New York City on Thu ...
Posted Friday, December 17th 2010 at 6:18PM
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