THINK PROGRESS, July 3, 2012 -- A Republican running for Congress in one of the nation’s most competitive districts claimed that Americans “don’t die from prostate cancer, breast cancer” in order to justify his opposition to health care reform.
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Posted Wednesday, July 4th 2012 at 12:12PM
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THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW, July 3, 2012 -- Guest host Ezra Klein shows how GOP Senate MInority Leader Mitch McConnell is the most honest politician in Washington.
When FOX NEWS Chris Wallace asked him--three times!!!--what plans the GOP has for impro ...
Posted Wednesday, July 4th 2012 at 12:10PM
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TO ALL AT BIA:
As you all know, the election season is heating up.
As is proper in a democratic government, our future will be decided by the people. The party, philosophy, platform, policies, programs that receives the most votes gains t ...
Posted Tuesday, July 3rd 2012 at 4:23PM
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POLITICO, July 3, 2012 -- Voters haven't split clearly in one direction or another on last week's Supreme Court ruling on health care, according to a Pew Research Center poll. In fact, it doesn't look like voters even fully understand what the Court ...
Posted Tuesday, July 3rd 2012 at 4:21PM
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POLITIFACT, March 21, 2012 -- The Affordable Care Act, the Democrats' health care law, has often been defined more by falsehoods than truths.
Claims that the law is a "government takeover of health care," that it contains "death panels" and that ...
Posted Tuesday, July 3rd 2012 at 4:18PM
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TO ALL AT BIA:
As you all know, the election season is heating up.
As is proper in a democratic government, our future will be decided by the people. The party, philosophy, platform, policies, programs that receives the most votes gains t ...
Posted Monday, July 2nd 2012 at 10:41AM
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TALKING POINTS MEMO, July 2, 2012 -- In the wake of the Supreme Court decision to uphold the ‘Obamacare’ mandate under Congress’s taxing power, Democrats are unifying behind a message to refute the GOP contention that they raised taxes on the middle ...
Posted Monday, July 2nd 2012 at 10:40AM
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POLITICO, June 28, 2012 -- The individual mandate, the centerpiece of the health care law, is contentious, unpopular — and misunderstood.
So confusing in fact, that all sorts of myths have cropped up around it.
Here are five common misconceptio ...
Posted Saturday, June 30th 2012 at 11:36AM
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ABC NEWS, June 29, 2012 -- In what is now a well-known exchange from ABC News’ January 2008 Republican presidential debate at St. Anselm College in New Hampshire, Mitt Romney declared “I like mandates” when asked by moderator Charlie Gibson about his ...
Posted Saturday, June 30th 2012 at 11:07AM
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By Jonathan Chait, NEW YORK MAGAZINE, June 25, 2012 -- As we wait for a Supreme Court ruling on the Affordable Care Act this week, there is one urgent, overriding moral question at the heart of the health-care fight. Paradoxically, and maddeningly, t ...
Posted Wednesday, June 27th 2012 at 11:17AM
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THE DAILY BEAST, June 27, 2012 -- With the epochal Supreme Court decision on the Affordable Care Act coming this week, pundits and prognosticators have been working themselves into a tizzy trying to figure out who would win and who would lose in eac ...
Posted Wednesday, June 27th 2012 at 11:05AM
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CNN, June 25, 2012 -- With three places up for grabs on the U.S. Olympic track team, two women tied for third place in the women's 100 meters on Sunday -- crossing the line at exactly the same time -- which means the coveted Olympic spot could be dec ...
Posted Monday, June 25th 2012 at 8:24AM
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BLOOMBERG NEWS, June 22, 2012 -- The U.S. Supreme Court should uphold a law requiring most Americans to have health insurance if the justices follow legal precedent, according to 19 of 21 constitutional law professors who ventured an opinion on the m ...
Posted Monday, June 25th 2012 at 8:01AM
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"I'm Every Woman" is a hit song recorded by Chaka Khan in 1978. Written by successful songwriting team Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson, the soul/disco song reached number twenty-one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, and hit number one on the Hot R&B/ ...
Posted Sunday, June 24th 2012 at 4:03PM
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"State of Independence" is a song written by Jon Anderson and Vangelis, which has been recorded by several artists and has been a hit single on three occasions. The song is written in a reggae/calypso style and features an abstract spiritual lyric.
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Posted Sunday, June 24th 2012 at 4:00PM
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MITT’S NO POLICY PROBLEM: HOW LONG CAN HE GO WITH “VAGUE, GENERAL OR DOWNRIGHT EVASIVENESS?
POLITICO. June 24, 2012 -- Mitt Romney’s aides suggested that when the Republican appeared before a Hispanic advocacy group on Thursday he’d address immigr ...
Posted Sunday, June 24th 2012 at 11:28AM
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NEW YORK TIMES, June 23, 2012 — The tumor grew like a thick vine up the back of Eric Richter’s leg, reminding him every time he sat down that he was a man without insurance. In April, when it was close to bursting through his skin, he went to the eme ...
Posted Saturday, June 23rd 2012 at 8:14PM
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NEW YORK TIMES, June 23, 2012 -- Late on Tuesday, March 27, halfway around the world, President Obama began one of the most suspenseful waits in recent presidential history.
After a blur of nuclear security meetings in South Korea, Mr. Obama settl ...
Posted Saturday, June 23rd 2012 at 8:08PM
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REAL CLEAR POLITICS, June 22, 2012 -- President Obama does not currently have enough white support to win re-election even if he retains his minority base from 2008. At the same time, electoral data indicates Mitt Romney has not yet attracted enough ...
Posted Friday, June 22nd 2012 at 12:09PM
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SUMMERTIME
by George and Ira Gershwin
sung by Billie Holliday
Summertime,
And the livin' is easy
Fish are jumpin'
And the cotton is high
Your daddy's rich
And your mamma's good lookin'
So hush little baby
Don't you cry
One of ...
Posted Thursday, June 21st 2012 at 10:23AM
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HUFFINGTON POST, June 18, 2012 -- If Mitt Romney is elected president, the U.S. will experience an economic disaster the likes of which have been recently seen in Ireland, according to Paul Krugman.
"Ireland is Romney economics in practice," the N ...
Posted Tuesday, June 19th 2012 at 10:06PM
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NEW YORK TIMES, June 17, 2012 — Joan Tribble held tightly to her cane as she ventured into the overgrown cemetery where her people were buried. There lay the pioneers who once populated north Georgia’s rugged frontier, where striving white men plante ...
Posted Tuesday, June 19th 2012 at 3:09PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, June 18, 2012 -- This is a video of a magician named Rahat pranking drive thru workers with his floating cup trick, but their reactions never get old. This time around he's even accused of being a demon right before having the window ...
Posted Tuesday, June 19th 2012 at 2:48PM
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by James Atlas, NEW YORK TIMES, June 17, 2012 -- WHY was I in a tent in northern Vermont? Much less a tent in the woods at a Buddhist meditation center, reading Sakyong Mipham’s “Turning the Mind Into an Ally” by the light from my smartphone?
If y ...
Posted Sunday, June 17th 2012 at 9:44PM
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