Politics

Lee Fang at ThinkProgress is reporting that Occupy Wall Street may have more in common with the Boston Tea Party than today’s Tea Party does. The article cites five reasons the nascent Occupy Wall Street movement embodies the real Boston Tea Party. Americans, upset with a government that used the colonies to enrich the East…

The Huffington Post is reporting that in an interview on Monday with ABC’s George Stephanopoulous, President Barack Obama described himself as “absolutely” the underdog in his upcoming race. He said that the reason, in large part, is the dismal economy that’s playing out on his watch. He made the comment after Stephanopoulos indicated that a…

Charlotte, N.C., Mayor Anthony Foxx’s 15th-floor office looks out onto a busy New South city that will get even busier in September 2012. Once the Democratic National Convention moves in for a week — bringing along President Barack Obama and 35,000 delegates, politicians, celebrities and members of the media — Foxx might be sharing only…

Since Texas Gov. Rick Perry entered the race nearly two months ago, the presidential campaign of the GOP’s presumptive front-runner has imploded, Jamelle Bouie writes in a blog entry at the American Prospect, and the Republican Party is scrambling to find a replacement. The obvious choice is Mitt Romney.  It’s no exaggeration to say that…

You can’t make this stuff up. As if the coyote-shootin’, secession-talkin’, global-climate-change denyin’, George Wallace-channelin’ twit from Texas — otherwise known as Gov. Rick Perry — didn’t already have enough trouble proving he was ready for prime time, here comes a Washington Post story alleging that he hunted at and entertained guests at a hunting…

The Associated Press is reporting that President Barack Obama blasted the GOP over booing a gay soldier. The president stated that anyone pursuing the job of commander-in-chief must support the entire U.S. military, including gay service members. A combative Obama criticized GOP presidential candidates for staying silent when the crowd at a recent debate booed…

Mediaite is reporting via the Daily Mail that President Barack Obama’s image is being used to advertise fried chicken in China. Really? Actually, we are not surprised by the offensive advertising. We have seen it before, and we didn’t have to go as far as China. Brooklyn, N.Y., is already home to an Obama Fried…

A federal court judge expects to rule by late October on whether the Food and Drug Administration can require new, strident text warnings and images to be added to cigarette packaging that could affect the one in five African Americans who still smoke. At a Sept. 21 hearing in the U.S. District Court for the…