Politics
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Living While Obama: Phone Call to Afghan President
President Barack Obama talks on the phone with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai from his vehicle outside the Jane E. Lawton Community Center in Chevy Chase, Md., on Sunday, March 11. The president called to express his shock and sadness over the reported killing of Afghan civilians. Like The Root on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter.
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Watch This: 11-Year-Old Interviews First Lady
Eleven-year-old Topanga Sena, a reporter for Scholastic News in Florida, recently talked to first lady Michelle Obama about her Let’s Move! campaign. “How do you respond to critics who say the government should not be telling people how to eat or to stay active?” Sena asked, reading from a sheet of paper. Mrs. Obama, explaining…
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Sarah Palin Changed the Game for the GOP
One of the great enduring mysteries of American politics is why we pay so much attention to anyone as lazy and ignorant as Sarah Palin. This, after all, is a woman who talks like a character straight out of Amos ‘n Andy. She makes up words such as “refudiate” that the Kingfish would have been…
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Obama's Day, March 13: March Madness
Office of the Press SecretaryDAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FORTUESDAY, MARCH 13, 2012In the morning, the President will receive the Presidential Daily Briefing and meet with senior advisors. These meetings in the Oval Office are closed press.Later in the morning, the President will visit with the 2012 Intel Science Talent Search finalists in the Eisenhower…
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Kiron Skinner Wants You to Stand With Newt
From a political perspective, it’s been an eventful Women’s History Month as debate over women’s health has continued to bubble up in state houses and Congress, as well as on the presidential campaign trail. Last week alone, Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell signed a bill requiring women to undergo an abdominal ultrasound before abortions, and Texas…
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Pat Robertson: Right About Legalizing Pot
Pat Robertson insists that he doesn’t smoke weed, and I believe him. Of all the wacky things the 700 Club televangelist has declared over the years — from the Haiti earthquake being the result of God’s retribution for a mythical Voodoo ritual to the recent tornadoes being the result of not enough prayer — he…
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Your Take: Free Speech Works Both Ways
As an 8-year-old, I wanted to be a U.S. senator when I grew up. My parents were proud but warned me that it would be an uphill battle; there weren’t any black people in the Senate, and I would have to work extra hard to overcome prejudice. I remember thinking that my parents weren’t up…
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Out-of-Touch Romney: Move Back to Detroit
Picture it: Mitt Romney’s Boston campaign headquarters, in a post-Super Tuesday strategy session. Everyone’s high on Tuesday’s six-state sweep. They’re sitting around a conference table, trading ideas on how to add a dash of pepper-jack ranch dressing to a campaign that’s as blandly risk averse as an iceberg wedge salad. Primary goals: Knock off Rick…
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Living While Obama: Dinner With Contest Winners
President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama have dinner with (from left) John Loringer and Cathleen Loringer of Wauwatosa, Wis., and Judy Glassman and Mitch Glassman of Cambridge, Mass., on March 8 at the Boundary Road in Washington, D.C. The Loringers and Glassmans were winners of a Democratic-campaign contest to have dinner with the…