Politics
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Egypt's Voters: 'We're Making History'
Egypt’s voters say, ‘We’re making history’: Vote counting is under way in the historic presidential election that pitted stability against the ideals of the uprising that ended Hosni Mubarak’s rule. Read some of the voters’ stories here. 50 Cent’s take on gay marriage and straight male “little buns”: The rapper is all for marriage equality,…
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Romney's Visit to Black Charter School a Flop
Mitt Romney visited an inner-city charter school in Philadelphia on Thursday to promote his new education agenda, venturing for the first time in his campaign into an impoverished black neighborhood to hear the concerns of local educators and community leaders. But according to the Washington Post’s coverage of the event — in which he focused…
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The 'Is My Hair Just Like Yours'? Obama Photo
Everyone has seen the photo of Barack Obama in the Oval Office with a little boy whose arm is raised to touch the president’s hair. It’s hung in the White House and is still making the Internet rounds because of what many see as its moving message about the symbolic value of the first African-American…
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NAACP's Long History on Marriage Equality
Nadine Smith, executive director of Equality Florida, writes in a piece for the Huffington Post that the NAACP has stood by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people before. This isn’t the first time the NAACP has stepped out on principle on an issue that affects the lives of LGBT people. Nor is it the first…
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Marriage-Equality Stance Makes NAACP Relevant Again
In his column for the Washington Post, Eugene Robinson says the civil rights organization has finally returned to center stage. With its support for gay marriage, the NAACP has done more than strike a blow for fairness and equality. The nation’s most venerable civil rights organization has made itself relevant again. The NAACP’s 64-member board…
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Can We All Agree That Obama Is a Citizen Now?
It’s been more than a year since what should have been the end of the right-wing obsession about whether President Obama was really a natural-born U.S. citizen — when the White House provided a copy of his long-form birth certificate for all to see. But “should” doesn’t really apply when it comes to this issue.…
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Obama's Day, May 23: US Air Force Academy Commencement Address
THE WHITE HOUSEOffice of the Press SecretaryFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FORWEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 2012 In the morning, the President will travel to Colorado Springs, Colorado. The departure from the South Lawn and the arrival at Peterson Air Force Base are open press. While in Colorado Springs, the President will deliver the…
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Obama's Lesson From Cory Booker-gate
Make no mistake about it: Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker did his best on Meet the Press to throw President Barack Obama under the bus. Political pros don’t go on national TV and call their candidate “nauseating” by accident. And as a campaign surrogate who equated Obama’s attacks on businessman Mitt Romney’s business record with…