Politics
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Christie Contrite, Fires Aide Involved in Traffic Jam Scandal
Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey has begun to attempt to clean up the mess left behind after it was revealed that key members of his staff had plotted to jam traffic by closing lanes on the George Washington Bridge at Fort Lee, N.J., as revenge against the city’s Democratic mayor, the Associated Press reports.…
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Shaquille O’Neal Still Supports Chris Christie Amid Bridge Scandal
Despite the bridge traffic-jam scandal surrounding New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and the many scathing remarks about his character—ranging from implications that he knew about the set-up to accusations of bullying—he still has one huge supporter: Shaquille O’Neal. O’Neal, who surprised a few people when he appeared in an ad endorsing the governor for his…
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Fox News Hosts ‘Heart’ Don Lemon
Even Fox News is confused as to which channel Don Lemon works for. On Thursday, Fox News’ The Five aplauded CNN’s Lemon for the smooth way he dragged the president’s name into New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s bridge scandal, Mediaite reports. One of Christie’s top aides allegedly sent emails asking that traffic jams be created, by…
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Cory Booker and Rand Paul: Why Are These 2 New BFFs?
In the current political environment, it appears as strange a mismatch of bedfellows as any in recent memory. But something in the water on Capitol Hill is connecting freshman senator and social media maven Cory Booker (D-N.J.) with ranting Tea Party and libertarian idol Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.). At first glance, it’s the Odd Couple…
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Christie Scandal Could Cost GOP Its Great Black Hope
2014 is barely a week old, and yet the year has already given us its first political scandal—one that potentially has ramifications for years to come. A string of emails published Wednesday by the Bergen Country Record suggest that staffers in the office of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie coaxed a Port Authority staffer to…
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Texas Mega-Church Pastor Says Obama Is Paving Way for Antichrist
In a new book, one fundamentalist Christian pastor claims that the president is paving the way for the Antichrist through his policies, the Raw Story reports. “Although President Obama is certainly not the Antichrist, his policies are paving the way for the Antichrist,” wrote Robert Jeffress—the pastor of Dallas’ 11,000-member First Baptist Church—in a press…
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Bob Gates’ Obama ‘Bombshell’ Doesn’t Tell Us That Much
MSNBC’s foreign policy maven, Andrea Mitchell, calls it a “bombshell,” and Tuesday’s headline, from Robert Gates’ own Wall Street Journal op-ed, touts the former defense secretary’s “quiet fury.” But if excerpts from his new memoir, Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War, hold true for the rest of his book, then—net-net—Gates’ account of Obama’s White…
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Reagan Economist: Minimum Wage Is the ‘Black Teenage Unemployment Act’
An economist influential in the Reagan administration called the $7.25-an-hour federal minimum wage the “black teenage unemployment act” and claimed it “makes absolutely no sense whatever,” the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports. Arthur Laffer, who is known as the father of “trickle down economics”—the theory that tax breaks for big businesses stimulate the poorer economy—denounced the current…
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Former Defense Secretary: Obama Distrustful of Military Leadership
Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates is calling out President Barack Obama and the administration for being distrustful of military leadership, NPR reports. In a new book that will be released Jan. 14, Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War, Gates declares that he was “seething” and “running out of patience on multiple fronts” while he…
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50 Years Later, It’s Time for a New War on Poverty
Fifty years ago today, President Lyndon Johnson gave one of the most important State of the Union speeches in American history. Championing the cause of racial and economic equality, he promised, “This administration today, here and now, declares unconditional war on poverty in America.” A half-century later, it’s time for America to declare a new…