Witnesses tell TPM that Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) laughed when an elderly man at his town hall meeting this week asked "Who's gonna shoot Obama?"
Mark Farmer of Winterville, Georgia went to the meeting on Tuesday to ask a question about Social Securi ...
Posted Friday, February 25th 2011 at 11:10PM
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Chris Bosh shot 1-for-18 in Miami's 93-89 loss to Chicago on Thursday night, but he may have won an award for his acting performance in the second quarter.
Bulls forward Carlos Boozer got the ball down low with his back to the basket and Bosh defe ...
Posted Friday, February 25th 2011 at 11:01PM
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So, do you remember that time that the House passed a symbolic repeal of the Affordable Care Act, that didn't go anywhere, because Harry Reid is still the Senate Majority Leader and Barack Obama is still the President of the United States? Good times ...
Posted Friday, February 25th 2011 at 10:57AM
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(CNN) -- Thousands of teachers, nurses, firefighters and other public sector workers have camped out at the Wisconsin Capitol, protesting Republican Gov. Scott Walker's efforts to reduce their take-home pay -- by increasing their contribution to thei ...
Posted Wednesday, February 23rd 2011 at 10:33PM
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A federal judge on Tuesday upheld the health care reform law signed last year by President Barack Obama and found that Congress had the clear authority to regulate health insurance under the Commerce Clause of the Constitution.
U.S. District Judge ...
Posted Tuesday, February 22nd 2011 at 10:21PM
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The last time Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) went after public sector unions it had “disastrous results” for him and for taxpayers. As Milwaukee County Executive in 2009, Walker tried to get rid of the unionized security guards at the county courtho ...
Posted Tuesday, February 22nd 2011 at 10:45AM
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It’s time for us to stop lying to ourselves about this country.
America is great in many ways, but on a whole host of measures — some of which are shown in the accompanying chart — we have become the laggards of the industrialized world. Not only ...
Posted Monday, February 21st 2011 at 5:57PM
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WHERE: Laughlin Hall, CHURCH OF ST. LUKE IN THE FIELDS, 487 Hudson Street, NYC.
WHEN: 7-9 PM, Friday, February 25, 2011
ON THE WINGS OF THE WIND (SynergEbooks 2010) by Richard Kigel tells the improbable story of history’s first successful att ...
Posted Sunday, February 20th 2011 at 7:20PM
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In the half century since Wisconsin became the first state to give its public workers the right to bargain collectively, government employee unions have mushroomed in size and power — so much so that they now account for more than half of the nation’ ...
Posted Saturday, February 19th 2011 at 11:57AM
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Wisconsin's new Republican governor has framed his assault on public worker's collective bargaining rights as a needed measure of fiscal austerity during tough times.
The reality is radically different. Unlike true austerity measures -- service ro ...
Posted Friday, February 18th 2011 at 8:51PM
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Watch Rachel Maddow dissect the core of this issue and the reason it is so crucial for the 2012 election. The single greatest source of support for Democrats has been the Unions. If Republicans are successful in breaking the Unions, the Democrats w ...
Posted Friday, February 18th 2011 at 8:48PM
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Could a lovable Muslim sit-com family change America's perception of Muslims? Perhaps, but probably not the one you're about to see.
On Thursday night's "Daily Show," Aasif Mandvi followed Katie Couric's advice and created a pilot for a Muslim ver ...
Posted Friday, February 18th 2011 at 11:00AM
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Will it take the Republican Party as long to accept modern science as it took the Roman Catholic Church? The church waited 359 years to admit Galileo was right — the earth does move around the sun. Not until 1992 did the Vatican officially withdraw ...
Posted Thursday, February 17th 2011 at 10:53AM
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In Wisconsin, about 1,000 teachers called in sick Wednesday to protest Gov. Scott Walker’s attempt to strip their union bargaining rights.
In Washington, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie recounted his battle with his state’s teachers unions Wednes ...
Posted Thursday, February 17th 2011 at 10:50AM
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Three weeks ago, Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) — the second-highest ranking Republican in the House of Representatives — repeatedly refused to call theories that President Obama was not born in America “crazy.” He told Meet the Press’s David Gregory that “ ...
Posted Sunday, February 13th 2011 at 5:39PM
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Bill O'Reilly clearly had so many questions for President Obama that there was another part to the interview that we haven't gotten to see until now.
In this segment, Bill asks the president his toughest questions yet—the Culture Quiz—grilling t ...
Posted Sunday, February 13th 2011 at 4:46PM
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A Republican focus group is CONVINCED that President Obama is a Muslim. Why do they think this? 40% of Iowa focus group believe something that is false. Watch a clip of the focus group in action. See Lawrence O'Donnell challenge Iowa Rep. Steve K ...
Posted Thursday, February 10th 2011 at 10:12AM
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CNN. Feb. 8, 2011—When Dr. Lynne Holden was 8 years old, she didn't want a bicycle, a doll, or even a pony. She wanted a copy of the popular medical reference manual,Gray's Anatomy.
"Well, I always wanted to be a physician, since I can remember. ...
Posted Thursday, February 10th 2011 at 9:16AM
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THE ONION, FEBRUARY 2, 2011.
WASHINGTON—In a strong rebuke of President Obama and his domestic agenda, all 242 House Republicans voted Wednesday to repeal the Asteroid Destruction and American Preservation Act, which was signed into law last ...
Posted Saturday, February 5th 2011 at 6:40PM
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Tomorrow will mark the 100th anniversary of President Reagan’s birth, and all week, conservatives have been trying to outdo each others’ remembrances of the great conservative icon. Senate Republicans spent much of Thursday singing Reagan’s praise fr ...
Posted Saturday, February 5th 2011 at 3:47PM
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CAIRO—Inside Tahrir Square on Thursday, I met a carpenter named Mahmood whose left arm was in a sling, whose leg was in a cast and whose head was being bandaged in a small field hospital set up by the democracy movement. This was the seventh time in ...
Posted Saturday, February 5th 2011 at 12:23PM
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Journalists attempting to cover unprecedented unrest in Egypt reported being beaten, arrested and harassed by security forces and police for a second day Thursday, leading to sharply limited television coverage of the protests.
Various news outlet ...
Posted Friday, February 4th 2011 at 10:53PM
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Worldwide attention has turned to the Peru-Brazil border where uncontacted Indians live, and the South American countries are finally feeling the pressure to protect them.
Survival International's campaign with newly released photos of the tribe, ...
Posted Friday, February 4th 2011 at 12:08PM
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