BY MICHAEL TOMASKY, THE DAILY BEAST, August 11, 2012 -- Paul Ryan? Really? It’s a stunning choice. A terrible one too. By making it, Mitt Romney tells America that he is not his own man and hasn’t even the remotest fleeting desire to be his own m ...
Posted Saturday, August 11th 2012 at 11:13AM
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THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW, August 9, 2012 -- Early voting in Ohio is now operating like this--extended hours in Republican leaning counties, limited hours in Democratic leaning counties.
How can this stand???
Here Rachel Maddow gives us the bac ...
Posted Friday, August 10th 2012 at 6:37PM
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THINK PROGRESS, August 10, 2012 -- The group of Catholic nuns who launched the Nuns On A Bus tour to shed light on the effects the House Republican budget would have on the poor turned its attention to the GOP’s presidential candidate this week, ch ...
Posted Friday, August 10th 2012 at 6:07PM
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THINK PROGRESS, August 10, 2012 -- Ohio has introduced a new tactic in their broader attempts to make it even harder for Democratic voters to get to the polls this year. Early voting stations in Ohio’s heavily Democratic counties will only be open ...
Posted Friday, August 10th 2012 at 5:56PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, August 9, 2012-- The Franciscan Action Network (FAN), a Catholic faith-based advocacy and civic engagement organization, is strongly criticizing Mitt Romney's recent ads and rhetoric regarding welfare programs and welfare recipients, ...
Posted Friday, August 10th 2012 at 11:42AM
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HUFFINGTON POST, August 8, 2012 -- Fox News host Alisyn Camerota defended a segment she hosted last week that questioned if Team USA's uniforms were patriotic enough.
Following Gabby Douglas' gold medal performance in the women's gymnastics indivi ...
Posted Thursday, August 9th 2012 at 11:15AM
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COMEDY CENTRAL, August 9, 2012 -- Anyone tuning into Fox News these past few months has probably noticed a growing trend in what they're covering: voter fraud. They've even gone so far as to instate a Fox News Voter Fraud Unit, dedicated (one would a ...
Posted Thursday, August 9th 2012 at 10:55AM
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CNN, August 7, 2012 -- Partisan legal showdowns in battleground states over a spate of new voting laws could turn the 2012 elections into a repeat of the 2000 presidential vote recount saga, political experts say.
"Whenever you change the rules by ...
Posted Tuesday, August 7th 2012 at 5:27PM
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CNN, August 3, 2012 -- A horse is a horse, of course, of course. That is, of course, unless that dancing horse belongs to the famous Romney family.
Rafalca, the dressage horse co-owned by Ann Romney, the wife of GOP presidential candidate Mitt Rom ...
Posted Monday, August 6th 2012 at 12:29AM
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CNN, August 4, 2012 --In the end, Gabby Douglas' massive gamble paid off.
Like many young girls, she sat glued to the TV during the 2008 Beijing Olympics, mesmerized by the dazzling gymnasts flipping their way to glory.
But instead of living vica ...
Posted Saturday, August 4th 2012 at 4:31PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, August 4, 2012 -- As Serena Williams stood atop the medal podium, her career Golden Slam complete thanks to an Olympic rout, the gusty wind on Centre Court blew the U.S. flag off its pole midway through the national anthem.
Old G ...
Posted Saturday, August 4th 2012 at 3:02PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, August 4, 2012 -- Sixteen year old Gabby Douglas, won the gold medal in today's women's gymnastics individual all-around. Like many of the parents we've watched during these Olympic games, her mother, Natalie Hawkins, has been by Gab ...
Posted Saturday, August 4th 2012 at 2:56PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, August 3, 2012 -- Before this week's gold-winning performance by the U.S. women's team, only one African-American female had ever earned an Olympic gold medal in gymnastics -- Dominique Dawes.
It's a fact that Dawes tearfully reca ...
Posted Friday, August 3rd 2012 at 1:44PM
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NEW YORK TIMES, August 3, 2012 — To become the Olympic champion in the individual all-around event, Gabby Douglas first had to leave everything she knew best.
She had to pack up her bedroom in Virginia Beach, where she lived with her mother, two ...
Posted Friday, August 3rd 2012 at 1:35PM
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NEW YORK TIMES, August 2, 2012 — At the Olympics, there have been doping scandals, bribery scandals and officiating scandals, many of them fully emerging only years after the fact.
The latest Olympic scandal — involving shuttlecocks and dumpe ...
Posted Thursday, August 2nd 2012 at 9:57AM
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HARDBALL, July 31, 2012 -- Mitt Romney's overseas diplomacy became butt of jokes.
Jon Stewart: "Our own Mitt Romney headed for London and the Olympics. Mr. Romney is Mr. Olympics, having saved the Salt Lake City games in 2002. And England is ...
Posted Wednesday, August 1st 2012 at 10:28AM
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THE GRIO, July 31, 2012 — The Americans lived up to their considerable hype Tuesday, routing Russia and everybody else on the way to their first Olympic women’s team gymnastics title since 1996.
Their score of 183.596 was a whopping five point ...
Posted Wednesday, August 1st 2012 at 10:04AM
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TALKING POINTS MEMO, July 31, 2012 -- Stephen Colbert has been a “lifelong” fan of dressage, or “horse ballet,” since about a month ago when he learned that Ann Romney has a horse competing in the London Olympics.
And Mitt Romney couldn’ ...
Posted Tuesday, July 31st 2012 at 11:32AM
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NEW YORK TIMES, July 31, 2012 — For decades many African-Americans have voiced conflicted feelings about Disney.
Many fault this entertainment colossus for being slow to introduce a black princess as a peer to Cinderella and Snow White. (There i ...
Posted Tuesday, July 31st 2012 at 11:11AM
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NEW YORK TIMES, July 31, 2012 — After doctors removed three tumors from her abdomen, Seimone Augustus watched as they placed the largest on a table, next to a ruler, which looked tiny in comparison. The tumor reminded her of a bowling ball. They to ...
Posted Tuesday, July 31st 2012 at 11:05AM
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CNN, July 26, 2012 -- Paulette Beale shakes her head at the suggestion, then flashes a contagious smile.
"It's still history," she says, to rebut the notion there could be less intensity for President Barack Obama in the African-American community ...
Posted Monday, July 30th 2012 at 9:49AM
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NEW YORK TIMES, July 30, 2012 — President Obama’s biography — son of a black father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas — has long suggested that unlike most African-Americans, his roots did not include slavery.
Now a team of genealo ...
Posted Monday, July 30th 2012 at 9:49AM
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HUFFINGTON POST, July 26, 2012 -- Kameron Slade-- the Queens fifth grader initially prohibited from delivering a pro-gay marriage speech at his school before the INTERNET heard about it-- adorably redelivered his speech in front of New York City Coun ...
Posted Friday, July 27th 2012 at 6:59PM
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POLITIFACT, July 21, 2012 -- In the wake of the mass shooting in Aurora, Colo., Americans took to social media to express their views on guns and violence.
A reader sent us one Facebook post about the extent of gun violence in the United States. ...
Posted Thursday, July 26th 2012 at 11:30AM
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