Politics
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NAACP Calls on District Attorney to Probe Shooting of Black Children
Digtriad is reporting that the North Carolina chapter of the NAACP isn’t giving up its fight for additional charges against a man accused of shouting racial slurs before shooting two children. NAACP leaders met at the Caswell County courthouse Tuesday morning to make their first public call of action under the county’s new district attorney,…
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'Job-Killing' Bills: GOP Spending Cuts Would Cost 700,000 Jobs
Columnist Ezra Klein of the Washington Post is reporting that GOP spending cuts would cost America 700,000 jobs. He calls out the GOP in general and House Minority Leader John Boehner in particular — who label everything from health care to the stimulus bill as “job-killing” measures, yet fail to acknowledge the role that the…
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Crazy Qaddafi Déjà Vu
Paul Delaney is an inveterate diarist. In January 1989 he was the Madrid bureau chief for the New York Times when he was dispatched to Tripoli, Libya. His account of the trip from his diary will be included in a memoir he is completing. Jan. 3: Things heating up in Libya. U.S. President [Ronald] Reagan…
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Republicans Take Up for First Lady
The Wall Street Journal reports that New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and likely 2012 presidential candidate Mike Huckabee both defended Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move” campaign against conservative criticism on Sunday talk shows yesterday: “What Michelle Obama is proposing is not that the government tells you that you can’t eat dessert,” Mr. Huckabee said. Rather, the…
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Obamas' Trainer Tells His Fitness Secrets
Despite what Rush Limbaugh says, Michelle Obama has an enviable body, and her husband’s not so bad in the fitness department, either. The man who keeps them in shape recently offered some revealing details about the presidential fitness regimen. Cornell McClellan, personal trainer to the first family and a member of the President’s Council on…
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Obama's Trainer Tells His Fitness Secrets
Despite what Rush Limbaugh says, Michelle Obama has an enviable body, and her husband’s not so bad in the fitness department, either. The man who keeps them in shape is now revealing details about the presidential fitness regimen. Cornell McClellan, personal trainer to the first family and a member of the President’s Council on Fitness,…
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Romancing the Dictators
It’s one thing to give a pass to Beyoncé, Usher and Mariah Carey for shaking their booties in exchange for big bucks from the thuggish sons of Libyan dictator Col. Muammar Qaddafi. As my colleague Jenée Desmond-Harris points out on The Root, they aren’t foreign policy experts, and some never made it through college. They…
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Cutting Off Planned Parenthood: Why It's a Good Thing
Plenty of left-wing politicos and social activists have taken to the streets to denounce the House of Representatives’ recent vote to defund Planned Parenthood in an effort to reduce the federal debt. Those who worry that Americans in underprivileged areas (hot spots for Planned Parenthood) will not receive the family-planning education they need should take…
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They Love to Hate, in Growing Numbers
The Southern Poverty Law Center will host a 30-minute audio chat on hate groups and other extremist organizations at 1 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on Wednesday, March 2. Questions can be submitted before and during the webcast for those who register. The tally of white-supremacist hate groups reached a record high in 2010, a spike…
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Game On! The 2012 GOP Battle Begins
According to MSNBC, Mitt Romney’s getting defensive about criticism from Mike Huckabee on health care today signifies the real start of the race for the 2012 GOP nomination. Although Romney hasn’t officially announced his candidacy, if he’s going to engage in this type of debate, he may as well: In his new book, Mike Huckabee…