By Gabriel Sherman, THE NEW YORKER, May 22, 2011—On Monday afternoon, March 28, Fox News chairman Roger Ailes summoned Glenn Beck to a meeting in his office on the second floor of News Corp.’s midtown headquarters to discuss his future at the network ...
Posted Sunday, May 29th 2011 at 7:02PM
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As we honor Teacher Appreciation Month, here are 20 musicians who have also worked on the other side of the desk.
Sheryl Crow
After studying theory and voice at the University of Missouri -- where she also fronted a rock band named Kashmir ...
Posted Sunday, May 29th 2011 at 12:12PM
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There's nothing us regular folk love more than seeing a ridiculously wealthy guy who thinks the rules don't apply to him have a bad time. 'SNL' took aim at Dominque Strauss-Kahn, the disgraced IMF chief who was until Friday being held without bail a ...
Posted Wednesday, May 25th 2011 at 11:49AM
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BERNARD LAFAYETTE, NEW YORK TIMES, May 20, 2011—Fifty years ago today I arrived in Montgomery, Ala., on a Greyhound bus. I was 20 years old and was there as one of the Freedom Riders, a racially mixed group, mostly college students, who were riding b ...
Posted Friday, May 20th 2011 at 11:11AM
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NEWSWEEK, May 15, 2011—Earvin “Magic” Johnson isn’t the reflective type. He tends not to dwell on the past or even second-guess the decision he made 10 minutes ago. So when asked if he often thinks about that chilly November morning in 1991 when he s ...
Posted Wednesday, May 18th 2011 at 9:59PM
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CBS, May 15, 2011—The news that Osama bin Laden had been hiding in plain sight in a Pakistani military town surprised many Americans, but it came as no surprise to the man you'll hear from. His name is Amrullah Saleh and four years ago he told Pakist ...
Posted Monday, May 16th 2011 at 10:43PM
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THINK PROGRESS, May 16, 2011--As of today, the United States has officially hit its legal borrowing limit, bumping into the statutory debt ceiling. The Treasury Department has some options at its disposal for delaying default, but those will be exhau ...
Posted Monday, May 16th 2011 at 2:42PM
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POLITIFACT, May 13, 2011—Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney made a major speech on health care in Ann Arbor, Mich., on May 12, 2011. We check his contention that the health care law is a "government takeover" of the sector.
Some talking p ...
Posted Sunday, May 15th 2011 at 12:51PM
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THINK PROGRESS, May 14, 2011--Rep. Ron Paul’s (R-TX) presidential campaign is already living up to the far-right brand of libertarianism he’s come to symbolize for his followers. In one of his first interviews after announcing his 2012 bid yesterday ...
Posted Sunday, May 15th 2011 at 12:35PM
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DENTON, Tex. — As she prepares for her commencement at the University of North Texas here on Saturday, Burlyce Sherrell Logan can still hear the words the institution’s president spoke at her freshman welcoming ceremony.
“ ‘There are some people h ...
Posted Saturday, May 14th 2011 at 10:30PM
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Stephen Colbert doesn't "want to be the one chump" without any unlimited corporate money going to his political action committee. That's why he showed up the the Federal Election Commission building in D.C. to formally request an advisory opinion on ...
Posted Saturday, May 14th 2011 at 7:59PM
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Just another day at the ball park for Evan Longoria.
In this incredible video, the Tampa Bay Rays star shows off his lighting quick reflexes, using his bare hand to pick off a line drive flying straight for a reporter's head. You really need to be ...
Posted Friday, May 13th 2011 at 10:27PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, May 13, 2011—The killing of Osama bin Laden by U.S. Navy Seals was legal.
So said retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens in a speech Thursday evening.
Speaking at a dinner that capped a daylong Northwestern Univ ...
Posted Friday, May 13th 2011 at 9:12PM
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THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW, May 12, 2011—On Wednesday, ConocoPhillips CEO Jim Mulva outraged many on Capitol Hill when he released a statement calling it “un-American” to end subsidies to the Big 5 oil companies — ExxonMobil, BP, Shell, Chevron, and Cono ...
Posted Friday, May 13th 2011 at 10:27AM
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THINKPROGRESS, January 7, 2011—This morning, the Labor Department released its employment data for December, showing that the U.S. economy ended the year by adding 113,000 private sector jobs, knocking the unemployment rate down sharply from 9.8 perc ...
Posted Friday, May 13th 2011 at 10:10AM
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THINKPROGRESS, May 11, 2011—House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) will give the commencement address at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. this weekend. Ahead of the visit, dozens of faculty members from the school and other other Cat ...
Posted Thursday, May 12th 2011 at 12:42PM
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MSNBC host Martin Bashir stunned ex-GOP Congressman Tom Tancredo on Tuesday when he used one of Tancredo's columns to ask if he wanted President Obama killed.
In a July 2010 Washington Times op-ed, Tancredo wrote, "Mr. Obama is a more serious thre ...
Posted Wednesday, May 11th 2011 at 4:40PM
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SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE “Undeclared Republican Presidential Candidates Debate,” gave Tina Fey the opportunity to dust off her Sarah Palin impression. She was joined by host Shep Smith and fellow debaters Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Michele Bachmann, and ...
Posted Monday, May 9th 2011 at 9:30PM
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CBS, May 4, 2011--Many parents dream of their children going to Harvard one day. But one local resident has actualized the goal of getting into the prestigious university — at 15 years old!
Saheela Ibraheem, of Edison, New Jersey, was also accep ...
Posted Sunday, May 8th 2011 at 10:55PM
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TIME, MAY 3, 2011, BY ROBERT BAER—Now I finally understand how Osama bin Laden eluded our grasp for all of these years - he was hiding in the open, in the backyard of one of our supposed allies.
Let's put this in context: Pakistan is a police sta ...
Posted Saturday, May 7th 2011 at 10:17PM
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MSNBC, May 6, 2011--The NRA is holding its national convention here in Pittsburgh. Rachel talks with Pittsburgh city councilman Ricky Burgess about how the inability to restrict guns has hurts businesses and residents.
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Posted Saturday, May 7th 2011 at 7:27AM
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HUFFINGTON POST, May 6, 2011—Torture apologists are reaching precisely the wrong conclusion from the back-story of the hunt for Osama bin Laden, say experienced interrogators and intelligence professionals.
Defenders of the Bush administration’s ...
Posted Saturday, May 7th 2011 at 7:21AM
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THE COLBERT REPORT, May 4, 2011--Stephen Colbert cannot get enough juicy gossip about the fortified compound where Osama bin Laden had been hiding.
On his show Wednesday night, Colbert ran through some of his favorite tidbits about Osama's hideout ...
Posted Thursday, May 5th 2011 at 1:17PM
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