7:36 am October 15, 2010, by ctucker
WASHINGTON — Amplified by the right-wing message machine, Republicans paint President Obama as an unyielding left-winger, an unreconstructed liberal who refuses to compromise. The president’s critics have ...
Posted Sunday, October 17th 2010 at 9:41AM
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This is the BEST and most creative rendition of the national anthem I have EVER heard. I was about to watch this game when Marvin came out to sing and it was such a haunting cover that I never forgot it.
For years (before YouTube and instant vi ...
Posted Tuesday, September 28th 2010 at 6:25PM
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"SACRAMENTO, Calif. � Chartered jets that offer "white glove service," fancy fundraisers in Beverly Hills and beyond, and enough high-priced political consultants to fill an auditorium."
"Those are a few of billionaire Meg Whitman's favorit ...
Posted Monday, September 27th 2010 at 6:02PM
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The other day I was listening to a left wing talk show, and this right winger calls in. It’s interesting how they are allowed to call into left wing shows, but you're not going to get on with Limbaugh unless you prove yourself to be a mirror image ...
Posted Sunday, September 19th 2010 at 1:20PM
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Back in the day, platform shoes and elephant leg pants. Black light and fishnets.
George Clinton got a Marvin Gaye/Curtis Mayfield groove going on on vocals, and Gary Shider is rockin the hell out of that guitar!
"I was one of five born t ...
Posted Saturday, September 18th 2010 at 1:03PM
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March on Washington D.C.
On Saturday, October 2, 2010, hundreds of thousands of Americans from across the country will gather at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. to demonstrate our re-commitment to change.
The One Nation March will feat ...
Posted Saturday, September 18th 2010 at 12:46PM
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According to the the U.S. census US capital investment in foreign countries has gone from $1.3 trillion in 2000 to $3.2 trillion in 2008 while at the same time the Bush tax cuts which overwhelmingly went to the wealthy cost 1.3 trillion per politif ...
Posted Saturday, September 11th 2010 at 6:08PM
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US fundamentalist pastor Terry Jones, who wants to burn copies of the Koran on Sept. 11, ran a church in the western German city of Cologne until last year when members of the congregation expelled him. Former members have spoken of his hate-filled s ...
Posted Wednesday, September 8th 2010 at 5:12PM
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AS my flight approached America last weekend, my mind circled back to the furor that has broken out over plans to build Cordoba House, a community center in Lower Manhattan.I have been away from home for two months, speaking abroad about cooperation ...
Posted Wednesday, September 8th 2010 at 4:59PM
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This archived radio broadcast of aliberal Democrat by the name of Ronald Reagan campaigning for President Truman, as well as soon-to-be liberal lion Hubert H. Humphrey, presents an important lesson to Democrats everywhere.
In the radio address, th ...
Posted Monday, September 6th 2010 at 3:49PM
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Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell has told the Mainichi he believes the Iraq War -- which began while he was in office in 2003 -- could have been averted.
Powell also stated during an Aug. 24 telephone interview that he regretted the fal ...
Posted Sunday, September 5th 2010 at 12:51PM
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Irma, this is for you...
Watch and listen as Beck twists in the wind under the questioning of Fox's own Chris Wallace. Beck's stuttering and stumbling responses makes it laughable that anyone would think this man could even come close to standing ...
Posted Sunday, August 29th 2010 at 6:49PM
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By Eugene Robinson
Friday, Aug 27, 2010
The majestic grounds of the Lincoln Memorial belong to all Americans -- even to egomaniacal talk-show hosts who profit handsomely from stoking fear, resentment and anger. So let me state clearly that Glenn ...
Posted Friday, August 27th 2010 at 5:29PM
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It might sound like a punch line, as "Ebonics" -- the common name for what linguists call African-American English -- has long been the butt of jokes, as well as the subject of controversy.
But the agency is serious about needing nine people to tr ...
Posted Wednesday, August 25th 2010 at 2:04PM
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Daisy Khan is shocked. In a phone conversation with her minutes ago she said she couldn't believe that what had started out as "a community center for everyone in the neighborhood, to scale up and build up people of all religions has become so skewed ...
Posted Thursday, August 19th 2010 at 11:57PM
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"Dr." Laura Schlessinger, on her radio show, takes a call from a woman seeking her help. The woman identifies herself as black and that she is married to a white man. The woman is seeking Schlessinger's help because she says she is tired of her hus ...
Posted Saturday, August 14th 2010 at 7:09PM
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Among the most revealing aspects of life during the Obama presidency is the panoply of responses to a black family in the White House. What made so many of us proud of our country on Jan. 20, 2009, has increasingly provoked expressions of hatred from ...
Posted Saturday, August 14th 2010 at 6:44PM
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"...all of your children, and all of my children, are going to have to pay for our mistakes some day. And now, now when I see you, all I can say is peace...peace go with you brother (and sister) where ever you may be.... ...
Posted Saturday, August 14th 2010 at 12:32AM
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If we want peace, we got to work for peace, in our hearts, in our lives, on BIA and in our world. Peace is a time when we all bring ourselves closer to one another. It requires commitment, sincerity and love.
Can we have peace?
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Posted Wednesday, August 11th 2010 at 5:36PM
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Don't know if you all have ever seen this or are fans of Dave Chappelle, but this sketch about the blind black racist hits on all cylinders. If there was ever any doubt, here Chappelle established his status as comedic genius with this sketch on rac ...
Posted Thursday, August 5th 2010 at 3:26PM
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This is a very revealing discussion between Lawrence O'Donnell standing in for Keith Olbermann, and Washington Post reporter Eugene Robinson, regarding the Shirley Sherrod incident and the many aspects of it.
Sherrod discusses what happened and wh ...
Posted Friday, July 23rd 2010 at 10:08AM
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Fox has really outdone itself this time. And this time it was just such an outrageous slander and con job. Said the NAACP:
"Having reviewed the full tape, spoken to Ms. Sherrod, and most importantly heard the testimony of the white farmers mentio ...
Posted Wednesday, July 21st 2010 at 8:50AM
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Looking at Saddam Hussein's life it becomes clear that it was not just taken by the West, but also given.
The CIA, after in 1963 removing Iraqi ruler Gen. Abdel-Karim Kassem, in 1968 helps to create a second coup. THIS WAS LED BY SADDAM'S MENTOR ...
Posted Friday, July 16th 2010 at 12:05PM
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This is for Cynthia:
“The largest Pyramid, King Khufu’s, is often called the Great Pyramid. It lies in the desert west of Giza, accompanied by the pyramids of Khafre and Menkaure (Khufu’s son and grandson). The Great Pyramid was built during ...
Posted Thursday, July 15th 2010 at 9:55AM
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