Politics
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Tea Party Rips Boehner and Ryan on Debt Ceiling
We’re over here wondering what House Speaker John Boehner promised the Tea Party, since they threaten to unseat him every time they don’t like what he says regarding the nation’s debt. Wes Barrett of Fox News is reporting that Tea Party leaders ripped into Boehner (R-Ohio), as well as other House Republicans, saying any vote…
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After Foster Care: What Happens Next?
On April 29, President Barack Obama issued a proclamation recognizing May as National Foster Care Month. “For nearly half a million youth in foster care across our country,” the president began in the lengthy statement, “the best path to success we can give them is the chance to experience a loving home where they can…
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No Bush-Obama 'Continuity' in bin Laden Killing
Conservatives have attempted to credit George W. Bush for President Barack Obama’s success in killing Osama bin Laden in various ways, from exaggerating the role of so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques” to praising Bush’s unsuccessful seven-year attempt to do so.Today, Ross Douthat offers the latest version of this argument: that killing Bin Laden constitutes “the most…
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Newt Gingrich to Announce 2012 Presidential Bid on Wednesday
The Washington Post is reporting that a spokesman for Newt Gingrich says that the former House speaker will announce Wednesday that he is running for president. Rick Tyler said that Gingrich will make the announcement by Facebook and Twitter. He will give an interview to Fox News later that night. Gingrich will offer his first…
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VIDEO: Obama: Osama bin Laden Raid Was Worth the Risk
CNN is reporting that in an interview with 60 Minutes, President Barack Obama said that sending U.S. troops on a dangerous mission to get Osama bin Laden was worth the risks, even though it was not certain that the al-Qaida leader was in the Pakistani compound. “This was still a 55-45 situation,” Obama told CBS.…
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Kanye Launches Scarf Line, Man Calls Police on Crack Dealer, President Obama Spoof and More
Kanye debuts limited edition scarves: Even though the rapper’s initial artwork for his latest album was banned, he recently announced that he’ll be creating five limited edition scarves inspired by the artwork. Only 100 of each scarf will be made and sold for $364 apiece, so get them while they last! __________ Where’s my change…
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Cain Was Able at the GOP's First Debate
On a day when President Barack Obama sucked the oxygen out of the news cycle with his visit to New York’s Ground Zero, when marquee names like Michele Bachmann, Mike Huckabee, Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin and Mitt Romney were no-shows, and even the Associated Press was boycotting over lack of access for its photographers, the first…
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When Presidents Win
That high-pitched clacking you hear is the wailing and gnashing of teeth on the radical right, whose efforts to paint President Barack Obama as a weak-spirited and feckless protector of America’s national security have been buried as deep as the seaborne corpse of Osama bin Laden. Now that the world’s most wanted terrorist has been…
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Black Civil War Re-Enactors Reclaim History
At the end of the Civil War in May 1865, a throng of Union soldiers marched along the streets of Washington, D.C., victorious in the Grand Review of the Armies. Missing at the march, however, were the surviving black soldiers who counted themselves among the ranks of nearly 200,000 African Americans who fought during the last…
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Barbara Lee: End the War Now
Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) was the sole member of Congress to vote against the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan, a decision all the more controversial against the backdrop of post-9/11 fear and pain. Nearly 10 years later, and in the wake of the killing of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, the progressive lawmaker tells The Root…