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Congressmen Seek To Lift Propaganda Ban

Propaganda that was supposed to target foreigners could now be aimed at us. "Disconcerting and dangerous," says Shank.

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All White Jury Declares White Policeman Innocent Despite Video Of Him Beating Black Teen

Police officers were caught by a security camera apparently beating a black teen as he lay prone with his hands behind his head...

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Did Elizabeth Warren Plagiarize Her 'Pow Wow Chow' Recipes?

The credibility of Massachusetts Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren took another hit today as Boston radio talk show host Howie Carr released evidence that appears to confirm Ms...

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Too good to check: Did Elizabeth Warren plagiarize her recipes in “Pow Wow Chow”?

Too good to check: Did Elizabeth Warren plagiarize her recipes in Pow Wow Chow?

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House GOP Throws Out Entire Summer Of Debt Ceiling Negotiations In Less Than 10 Minutes

Last August, debt ceiling negotiations between House Republicans and Senate Democrats came to an end when President Obama signed into law the Budget Control Act, a not-so-grand bargain that created a...

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Top Right-Wing Group: Minority Births Are ‘Not A Good Thing’ Because They ‘Don’t Share American Values’

Yesterday, the New York Times reported on new census data which showed, for the first time, that non-white births made up over 50 percent of all births in the United States last year...

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BREAKING: Eleven More Lawmakers Drop ALEC

In the last two months, sixteen companies and other institutional supporters of the American Legislative Exchange Council announced that they would part ways with the organization likely costing the...

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Arizona’s Top Election Official Goes Birther, Threatens To Keep Obama Off The Ballot

Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett the states top election official made an appearance on a local radio show in yesterday in which he threatened to keep President Obamas name off of the states...

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Obama May Not Make The Arizona Ballot For Usual Stupid Arizona Reasons

Your Wonkette is going to write a fun sentence and it is going to be true...

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Arizona Official Suggests Obama Could Be Off Ballot

Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett (R) told KFYI he's not entirely convinced President Obama was really born in the United States and suggested he could be knocked off the state's presidential...

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SEIU Union Bosses May Make LAX the Most Dangerous Airport in America

LAX could become the weak link in airport safety...

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WI Union Member Supports Scott Walker Over 'Marxist' Union Leadership

Less than three weeks remain until the June 5th recall election in Wisconsin that will decide whether or not Governor Scott Walker remains in office...

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Witness: Trayvon Martin Attacked George Zimmerman 'MMA Style'

According to Sanford Police Department reports released today, a witness interviewed 90 minutes after the shooting testified that he saw Martin straddling George Zimmerman on the ground and violently...

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AUDIO: Witness Says George Zimmerman Repeatedly Bullied Him At Work, Targeted Him With Racist Jokes

Among the evidence in the Trayvon Martin case released by the Florida state prosecutor yesterday was a 15-minute interview with a former work collegue of George Zimmerman...

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May 18 News: Vermont Becomes First U.S. State To Ban Fracking

A round-up of the top climate and energy news. Please post other links below. Vermont Gov...

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May 18 News: Vermont Becomes First U.S. State To Ban Fracking

A round-up of the top climate and energy news. Please post other links below. Vermont Gov...

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Oklahoma Students Shown A Movie Comparing Abortion To The Holocaust

Students at a public Oklahoma high school were given copies of a movie that compares abortion to the Holocaust after a local family asked the principal if they could distribute the DVDs to students,...

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Facebook Will Avoid Paying $16 Billion In Taxes After Going Public

As ThinkProgress has noted, Facebooks initial public offering will help both CEO Mark Zuckerberg and the company itself avoid billions of dollars in taxes...

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Can Occupy Fight Back Against the War on Women? | The Nation

Sarah Seltzer The first Feminist General Assembly is a model for how OWS can—and can't—work alongside established social movements.

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Can Occupy Fight Back Against the War on Women? | The Nation

Sarah Seltzer The first Feminist General Assembly is a model for how OWS can—and can't—work alongside established social movements.

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How a cancer-stricken judge became America's newest drug-reform warrior

Three and a half years ago, on my 62nd birthday, doctors discovered a mass on my pancreas. It turned out to be stage 3 pancreatic cancer. I was told I would be dead in four to six months...

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DOCUMENTARY PROOF: James O’Keefe’s Latest Video Is A Fraud

As ThinkProgress documented this week, both of the non-citizens shown in James OKeefes latest video sting supposedly committing voter fraud by participating in American elections are actually American...

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Mississippi State Rep Condemns Gays To Death, Claims They Spread Disease

Mississippi state Rep. Andy Gipson (R) has attacked gays on his Facebook wall, calling homosexuality a sin and citing Leviticus 20:13, which calls for people who are gay to be put to death...

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9 New Pieces Of Evidence In The Trayvon Martin Case

Last night, state prosecutors released a large amount of evidence including 183 pages of documents and numerous multimedia files related to their murder case against George Zimmerman...

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Van Jones Rips Holder over Fast and Furious

Matthew Boyle at The Daily Caller broke the news last night, but I had to hear it for myself. The whole interview is very interesting and I encourage you all to listen...

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A 'Fact Checking Error'? Dystel & Goderich Ask Writers to Submit Their Own Bios

Another reporter and I decided we wanted to write a non-fiction book about aging super-jocks--men and women in their 60s, 70s and 80s who could still sprint or do an Ironman or play baseball...

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Surprise: Obama’s campaign now fundraising off of Rev. Wright attack ad that never ran

Surprise: Obamas campaign now fundraising off of Rev. Wright attack ad that never ran

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A Drop in Fund-Raising for the Obama Campaign

President Obama's campaign took in $25.7 million in April, a drop of about $10 million from the previous month.

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The Vetting - Exclusive - Obama's Literary Agent in 1991 Booklet: 'Born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii'

Breitbart News has obtained a promotional booklet produced in 1991 by Barack Obama's then-literary agency, Acton & Dystel, which touts Obama as "born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii."

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New Book: David Axelrod Privately Calls Obama 'Black Jesus'

David Axelrod privately calls Barack Obama Black Jesus, according to Edward Kleins fantastic new book, The Amateur (p. 59)...

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Obama Campaign Spent At Least $159,000 On Guggenheim Documentary

FEC reports detail payments to Guggenheim's "2012 Documentary Partners, LLC."

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TED Refuses to Post Talk By Venture Capitalist Who Says Rich People Don't Create Jobs

In the face of a constant stream of arguments from Republicans that the wealthy are job creators and thus deserve lower taxes, billionaire venture capitalist Nick Hanauer recently gave a 'TED Talk'...

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Do Cell Phones Belong in the Classroom?

Mobile devices are ubiquitous in American high schools, and their use is harder to regulate than old-fashioned note passing. But here's why teachers should be paying closer attention.

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‘Blade Runner 2′ and the Feminism of Science Fiction

Though Ridley Scotts recent interview with The Daily Beasts Marlow Stern runs a full two pages, virtually all of the media attention has been on its final sentence: And well definitely be featuring a...

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Lizz Winstead Has an Opinion on That!

The Daily Show cocreator on her new memoir, our worthless media, and how people keep trying to mess with her "crazy-ass uterus."

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Charest's emergency bill may not end unrest, but inaction is no longer an option

The ink was barely dry on emergency legislation tabled in the Quebec legislature Thursday night when the hyperbole began flying...

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Facebook Unfriends Uncle Sam: Mark Zuckerberg’s Plan To Avoid Taxes

The right-wing has been lauding Facebook co-founder Edward Saverin for his decision to renounce his U.S. citizenship in order to avoid taxes...

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Think Tanks Push ALEC to Go After Unions

At a closed-door ALEC meeting, Koch-funded policy shops unveil new restrictions on public-sector unions.

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