Politics
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Tea Party Rep. Trey Radel Busted for Cocaine Possession, Taking Leave of Absence
Updated, Monday, Nov. 20, 11:01 p.m. ET: Florida Rep.Trey Radel will be taking a leave of absence and donating his salary to charity the Washington Post reports. Earlier: Radel, who approved of legislation that would require all food stamp recipients to be drug tested, pleaded guilty Wednesday to possessing cocaine and was sentenced to a year…
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Oprah Winfrey, Bayard Rustin Among Medal of Freedom Recipients
Recognized for their outstanding contributions to the United States, four African Americans received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, in a Wednesday morning ceremony at the White House. In a presentation in the East Room attended by first lady Michelle Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, President Obama awarded this year’s…
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The 2012 Election Jobs Report Manipulated by Census Bureau
The steep decline of the unemployment rate in August last year, from 8.1 to 7.8, was, in fact, too good to be true. It could be all mere fabrication, according to a New York Post report. As it turns out, the Census Bureau knew about the fabrication, too. In 2010, the bureau caught an employee…
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Young Voters of Color Battle 'Time Tax'
According to a new report, young voters, particularly those of color, are inconvenienced at voting polls. The report, led by Advancement Project, a multiracial civil rights organization, and OurTime.org, a nonprofit that seeks to bring out the political voice of young Americans, concluded that voting polices that have been enacted and/or proposed in certain states,…
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Republicans Block Yet Another Key Obama Appeals Court Nominee
Senate Republicans are at it again, blocking yet another Obama nomination to the key U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Monday. Robert L. Wilkins is the third straight nominee to the influential court to be blocked by Republicans, the Associated Press reports. According to the AP, Wilkins is a district…
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Outgunned: Stigma Over Mental Illness Linked to Gun Violence
Editor’s note: Read part 1 and part 2 of the series. Just days after Aaron Alexis killed 12 people and injured three others in the Washington Navy Yard shooting, it was revealed that he had suffered from severe delusions in the months leading up to the tragedy. Ultimately, his paranoia would get the best of…
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Obama Health Care Problems Affect More Than Just Policy
President Barack Obama has long maintained a decent public-approval rating despite his political problems. But with the disastrous health care rollout, his track record for bouncing back may be threatened, the Associated Press reports. According to the AP, the president, because of his credibility, was able to bounce back even during nasty policy debates and…
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Politicians Mess Up, but They Keep Their Jobs
What do Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul and Toronto Mayor Rob Ford have in common? Each politician, along with other political brothers-in-arms, faces a serious credibility crisis. Charges of plagiarism have Paul looking like a Bluegrass State punk, just when he was coasting along toward his 2016 presidential ambitions. And what about Ford? It’s a great…
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How Black Was JFK's Camelot?
Editor’s note: For those who are wondering about the retro title of this black-history series, please take a moment to learn about historian Joel A. Rogers, author of the 1934 book 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro With Complete Proof, to whom these “amazing facts” are an homage. Amazing Fact About the Negro No. 55:…
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Medicaid: Obamacare’s Untold Success Story
The untold success story in the Obamacare rollout is that the working poor are enrolling in Medicaid. Sadly, the media have largely chosen to ignore this fact. Positive statistics are crowded out by incessant Republican distracters who prefer obsessing over glitches on the Healthcare.gov website than highlighting the thousands of families already benefiting from the…