POLITIFACT, May 16, 2012 -- The Obama campaign aired this ad in several battleground states in May 2012. Months after Newt Gingrich raised Mitt Romney’s record at the private equity firm Bain Capital as an election issue, Barack Obama has taken up t ...
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HUFFINGOTN POST, May 20, 2012 -- The private equity firm co-founded by presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney “fired a lot of people” to get “prosperity for the rich,” CNBC analyst Jim Cramer said during an appearance on Meet The Press thi ...
Posted Sunday, May 20th 2012 at 5:18PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, May 20, 2012 -- The latest episode of "Saturday Night Live" took on Al Sharpton, portraying the MSNBC host as someone who just doesn't understand the news.
The show has mocked Sharpton's hosting abilities and his teleprompter flub ...
Posted Sunday, May 20th 2012 at 4:55PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, May 19, 2012 -- Less than two weeks after President Barack Obama announced his public support for gay marriage, a prominent African-American civil rights organization is following suit.
The National Association for the Advancement ...
Posted Sunday, May 20th 2012 at 11:31AM
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HOLD ON, HELP IS ON THE WAY by Whitney Houston --
When you're down and in despair
Don't be uneasy because he'll be there
Say don't you worry, no don't you fret
The Lord has never, never failed you yet
So hold on, help is on ...
Posted Saturday, May 19th 2012 at 8:03PM
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THINK PROGRESS, May 17, 2012 -- While African Americans are generally less supportive of marriage equality as a whole, a growing number of black leaders and community members have come to embrace the issue since President Obama endorsed the freedom t ...
Posted Thursday, May 17th 2012 at 11:11PM
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I LOOK TO YOU by Whitney Houston
As I lay me down
Heaven hear me now
I’m lost without a cause
After giving it my all
Winter storms have come
And darkened my sun
After all that I’ve been through
Who on earth can I turn to?
Chorus:
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Posted Sunday, May 13th 2012 at 9:50PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, May 11, 2012 -- Sybrina Fulton, the mother of Trayvon Martin, released a Mother's Day video urging viewers to press lawmakers to reconsider their support for controversial stand your ground laws.
"This will be my first Mother's Da ...
Posted Saturday, May 12th 2012 at 10:36AM
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HUFFINGTON POST, May 11, 2012 -- MSNBC's Tamron Hall handily shut down guest Tim Carney on Friday, in an exchange so fiery that she immediately began trending on Twitter.
Hall asked Carney about Mitt Romney's testy reaction to a reporter asking ab ...
Posted Friday, May 11th 2012 at 4:15PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, May 11, 2012 -- Stephen Colbert on Thursday was still “reeling” from President Obama’s announcement this week that “he is gay.”
“I have to assume that’s the reason he supports gay marriage,” Colbert said. But Colbert is a marriage ...
Posted Friday, May 11th 2012 at 1:07PM
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WASHINGTON POST, May 10, 2012 — Mitt Romney returned from a three-week spring break in 1965 to resume his studies as a high school senior at the prestigious Cranbrook School. Back on the handsome campus, studded with Tudor brick buildings and manicur ...
Posted Thursday, May 10th 2012 at 11:29PM
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THE LAST WORD, May 9, 2012 -- Lawrence O'Donnell discusses President Obama's historic statement affirming support for marriage equality with author Toure, Wshing Post columnist Jonathan Capeheart and political analysts Richard Wolffe.
How will Oba ...
Posted Thursday, May 10th 2012 at 10:25AM
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POLITICS NATION, May 9, 2012 -- Melissa Harris-Perry reminds us that May 10, 1866 is a date to remember in Civil Rights history. On that day the House of Representatives passed the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, granting citizenship to former s ...
Posted Thursday, May 10th 2012 at 10:16AM
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by Sarah Burris, HUFFINGTON POST, May 6, 2012 -- I can break treaties with myself all the time.
You see, I’m one of many Oklahomans — probably like Elizabeth Warren — who grew up hearing stories of my family’s mixed heritage. My grandfather talked ...
Posted Monday, May 7th 2012 at 11:15PM
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NEW YORK TIMES, May 5, 2012 -- Next week is National Teacher Appreciation Week, and, as far as I’m concerned, they don’t get nearly enough.
On Tuesday, the United States Department of Education is hoping that people will take to Facebook and Twitt ...
Posted Sunday, May 6th 2012 at 7:19PM
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TALKING POINTS MEMO, May 5, 2012 — The thousands of Obama supporters who gathered here Saturday for the second of two campaign kickoff addresses by the president ticked off a litany of fears when asked what makes them nervous about the general electi ...
Posted Sunday, May 6th 2012 at 11:32AM
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POLITICO, May 6, 2012 -- At a private fundraising reception in Palm Beach recently, Mitt Romney was overheard acknowledging his weakness among Hispanic voters. If it’s not turned around, he said, “It spells doom for us.”
Take a look at the elector ...
Posted Sunday, May 6th 2012 at 11:27AM
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THE GREATEST LOVE OF ALL by Whitney Houston
I believe the children are our future
Teach them well and let them lead the way
Show them all the beauty they possess inside
Give them a sense of pride to make it easier
Let the children's laughter r ...
Posted Saturday, May 5th 2012 at 12:08PM
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CNN, May 2, 2012 -- Eric LeGrand's football coach at Rutgers helped him emotionally in the months after his on-field paralysis. Now the coach is symbolically helping him realize his dream of making it to the NFL.
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers, now coac ...
Posted Friday, May 4th 2012 at 10:59PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, May 2, 2012 — To put it mildly, Rutgers' Eric LeGrand was surprised when his former coach called to let him know the Tampa Bay Buccaneers were interested in signing the paralyzed defensive tackle.
"It came out of nowhere," LeGrand ...
Posted Friday, May 4th 2012 at 7:27PM
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CNN, May 3, 2012 – (Peter Bergen, CNN National Security Analyst, and author of "Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for bin Laden, From 9/11 to Abbottabad” is the only journalist to visit the place where Bin Laden lived and died.)
We climbed the stai ...
Posted Friday, May 4th 2012 at 2:08PM
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NEW YORK TIMES, May 4, 2012 — This is the land of die-hard Democrats — mill workers, coal miners and union members. They have voted party line for generations, forming a reliable constituency for just about any Democrat who decides to run for office. ...
Posted Friday, May 4th 2012 at 2:07PM
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POLITICS NATION, May 2, 2012 -- Republicans have been pushing Voter ID laws across the country to suppress the vote. 92 year old Philadephia resident vivan Applewhite shares her story of being denied her right to vote for the first time in 50 years. ...
Posted Thursday, May 3rd 2012 at 12:21PM
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CNN, April 30, 2012 -- The One World Trade Center building will have three top-floor observation decks. Its first 90 floors will be designated for office space, and the following 10 floors will be reserved for air conditioning, heating, and electrica ...
Posted Monday, April 30th 2012 at 4:45PM
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