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Tea Party: Dropping GOP Stars?
Members of the Tea Party plan to abandon Republican lawmakers they helped elect four years ago because many have adopted more moderate positions on key issues such as immigration and health care, the Associated Press reports. The move could hurt the re-election chances of former stars, including the governors of Florida and Ohio. Four years…
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MHP: Washington Needs a Safety Net to Fight Poverty
On her MSNBC show on Saturday, Melissa Harris-Perry slammed Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.), chairman of the House Budget Committee, for refusing to allow a former guest to testify about anti-poverty programs. She penned a letter to the congressman explaining that Washington need a safety net to fight poverty. Dear Congressman Ryan, It’s me, Melissa. Look,…
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President Obama Celebrates 52nd Birthday
President Barack Obama turns 52 today and is spending part of the day at the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland, the Associated Press reports. The White House said little about how he’s celebrating. He played golf Saturday with friends from his days in Hawaii and Chicago. Some of them joined him at Camp David.…
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Florida Cops 'Followed Standard Protocols' Shooting Unarmed Black Man
Florida’s Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan said his officers followed protocol when they fired 15 shots at unarmed Roy Howard Middleton, 60, because he failed to comply with their commands, according to Salon. During an interview on Thursday with CNN’s Chris Cuomo, Morgan said that the officers saw a metallic object in Middleton’s hands as…
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Florida Lawmaker to Hold Hearings on 'Stand Your Ground'
The Miami Herald is reporting that Florida House Speaker Will Weatherford has announced plans to order hearings this fall on the state’s controversial “Stand your ground” law. It is considered a victory for the Dream Defenders, a group of activists and professionals who began protesting at the capitol after George Zimmerman was acquitted in the…
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Seth MacFarlane's New Show 'Dads': Racist?
The comedian’s new Fox show, Dads, is filled with racial jokes, but the producers claim that the real joke is on white men, according to the Wrap. Stereotypes abound on “Dads,” and come from the old-school-in-a-bad-way, socially out-of-step dads. One mistakes a woman of color for the maid. There’s a joke likening a boxing match…
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Democrats to Washington: Bail Out Detroit
A new national poll conducted by Quinnipiac University shows that while a majority of Democrats favor a federal bailout of Detroit, a wide margin of voters say Washington should steer clear of the foundering city. Fifty-one percent of Democrats favor Washington stepping in to provide federal assistance to the embattled city, which last month became…
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Rangel Hits Tea Partiers, Calls Them 'White Crackers'
In a wide-ranging interview with the Daily Beast published on Friday, 83-year-old Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) railed against the Tea Party, likening members to whites in the South who fought to preserve segregation during the civil rights movement. He also hit Republicans, accusing the party of sabotaging American competitiveness. There is little question that Rangel is nearing…
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New Jersey's Poor Living in Tent Cities
Tent cities have sprung up in Camden, N.J., one of the poorest cities in the nation, and other parts of the state as residents struggle to make ends meet, according to My9NJ. A chef at a nearby kitchen that feeds the poor in Camden told My9NJ that some of the people have lost their jobs…
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Hacker Prompts Colin Powell to Deny Affair
Former Secretary of State Gen. Colin Powell has released a strong statement of denial after a hacker known as Guccifer threatened to distribute “very personal” emails sent to him by a female Romanian diplomat, the Smoking Gun reports. In a statement addressing his relationship with Corina Cretu, a member of the European Parliament who previously held a…
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