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Bachmann and Palin to unite for Tea Party convention.
Sarah Palin will star as the keynote speaker at next February’s First National Tea Party Convention, which will take...
 
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Strip club owner’s dog shelter named for Gingrich opens.
Last September, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich retracted an “Entrepreneur of the Year” award he accidentally presented to Dallas strip club owner Dawn Rizos and refunded the $5,000 donation Rizos made to Gingrich’s American Solutions for...
 
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Strip club owner’s dog shelter named for Gingrich opens.
Last September, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich retracted an “Entrepreneur of the Year” award he accidentally...
2 days ago Think Progress | Topics: Think Fast, Gingrich
 
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Palin fuels presidential rumors: ‘I like’ the sound of ‘President Palin.’
Yesterday, Sarah Palin was greeted by a throng of supporters in The Villages, Florida — a retirement community northwest...
2 days ago Think Progress | Topics: Think Fast, Media, Palin
 
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Perino: ‘We did not have a terrorist attack on our country during President Bush’s term.’
Last night on Fox News, host Sean Hannity whined — as he usually does — about how the Obama administration...
3 days ago Think Progress | Topics: Think Fast, Bush, Perino, Terrorism
 
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After conceding, then unconceding, then conceding, then unconceding, Hoffman now concedes.
On Nov. 16, ThinkProgress reported that failed Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman told Glenn Beck that he was...
 
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How the recession is affecting Thanksgiving.
While many Americans will be sitting down to a hearty Thanksgiving meal on Thursday, too many others will go hungry. With the...
4 days ago Think Progress | Topics: Think Fast, Economy, Poverty
 
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Seattle Chamber of Commerce: Unlike the U.S. Chamber, we’re ‘environmentally progressive.’
It is becoming increasingly clear that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the right-wing lobbying giant, is not actually the...
 
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Barrasso politicizes breast cancer: The Preventive Services Task Force would pull the plug on my wife.
Yesterday, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), a breast cancer survivor, accused Republicans of politicizing breast cancer....
4 days ago Think Progress | Topics: Think Fast, Health Care
 
Adam Turetzky
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Tea partiers heckle woman whose daughter-in-law died because she didn’t have health insurance.
At a town hall event on health care reform hosted by Rep. Dan Lipinski (D-IL) earlier this month, Midge Hough told the tragic story of how her daughter-in-law, Jenny, and her unborn grandchild died recently because they didn’t have health insurance....
 
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Tea partiers heckle woman whose daughter-in-law died because she didn’t have health insurance.
At a town hall event on health care reform hosted by Rep. Dan Lipinski (D-IL) earlier this month, Midge Hough told the tragic...
 
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Lieberman refuses to debate Maddow on health care because she has a ‘point of view.’
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow has repeatedly tried to get Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) to come on her show and debate health care....
 
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In wake of misleading Palin footage, Fox News institutes ‘zero tolerance for on-screen errors.’
Last Thursday, Fox News issued an on-air apology after ThinkProgress reported that the network had recycled old file footage of...
5 days ago Think Progress | Topics: Think Fast, Fox News, Media
 
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Fort Bragg sales of Palin’s book are ‘weak’ in advance of her visit.
Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin is in Fort Bragg, NC today, for another stop on her “Going Rogue” book tour....
5 days ago Think Progress | Topics: Think Fast, Military, Palin
 
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New FBI data show a sharp increase in anti-gay hate crimes.
Today, the FBI released its latest annual statistics on U.S. hate crimes in 2008. Overall, “the 2008 numbers are up...
 
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Chris Wallace selectively quotes CBO analysis to suggest Senate health bill increases costs.
This morning on Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace selectively quoted the Congressional Budget Office analysis of the merged Senate legislation to suggest that the Senate health legislation would increase government outlays on health care over 20 years...
 
buco
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Chris Wallace selectively quotes CBO analysis to suggest Senate health bill increases costs.
This morning on Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace selectively quoted the Congressional Budget Office analysis of the merged...
 
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New Missouri billboard tells Americans to ‘prepare for war’ against the government.
Fired Up! Missouri points out that the Lafayette County Republican Central Committee is highlighting a new billboard in the state with steps for a “citizens guide to revolution of a corrupt government“:This billboard replaces one that warned that...
 
buco
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Historic health care legislation moves forward for debate in the Senate.
The Senate voted along party lines tonight to avoid a GOP filibuster and move forward with debate on historic health care...
 
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1,500 uninsured Arkansans line up for a free health care clinic.
One out of every five people in Arkansas does not have health insurance coverage. However, today over 1,500 uninsured Arkansans...
6 days ago Think Progress | Topics: Think Fast, Health Care
 
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PBS’s Bill Moyers to retire from weekly television in April 2010.
Veteran PBS journalist Bill Moyers has announced that he will be ending his Friday night public affairs show “Bill Moyers...
7 days ago Think Progress | Topics: Think Fast, Media, Moyers
 
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Speaking with Palin, Dennis Miller transitions from calling Newsweek cover ’sexist’ to insulting Hillary Clinton.
Earlier this week, Sarah Palin wrote on her Facebook page that Newsweek’s choice to use a Runner’s World photo of...
 
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Angry supporters boo Palin for leaving in the middle of her book signing: ‘Quittin’ on the job!’
Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin was in Indiana yesterday for a book-signing at a Borders store. One thousand lucky fans with...
8 days ago Think Progress | Topics: Think Fast, Palin
 
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New Missouri billboard tells Americans to ‘prepare for war’ against the government.
Fired Up! Missouri points out that the Lafayette County Republican Central Committee is highlighting a new billboard in the...
8 days ago Think Progress | Topics: Think Fast, Radical Right
 
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Utah lawmaker claims he doesn’t ‘mind’ gays, but ‘I don’t want ‘em stuffing it down my throat all the time.’
Earlier this month, the Church of Latter Day Saints made headlines when it threw its support behind a measure in Salt Lake City...
 
buco
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Bush Justice officials support trying terror suspects in civilian court.
Saying that critics are “understating the criminal justice system’s capacities,” two top Bush Justice...
 
buco
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‘Read the stimulus’ advocate Dick Armey slammed for not bothering to read the stimulus.
Yesterday, the House Oversight and Government Reform committee held a hearing on the implementation of the Recovery Act, also...
 
buco
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Rupert Murdoch denies he said Obama made a racist comment.
Earlier this month, News Corp. president Rupert Murdoch said that President Obama made “a very racist comment” when...
 
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Barbour refuses to say Palin’s qualified to be president, pauses and stumbles when questioned about it.
Mississippi Gov. and Repulican Governors Association (RGA) President Haley Barbour (R) attracted attention on Wednesday for...
 
buco
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Senate health bill restores abstinence-only education funding.
President Obama’s FY2010 budget eliminated funding for abstinence-only education and school districts are increasingly...
 
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Texas gay marriage ban may have outlawed all marriages in Texas.
In 2005, the state of Texas adopted an amendment to its Constitution that said marriage in the state could only be between one man and one woman. The amendment also declared: “This state or a political subdivision of this state may not create or...
 
buco
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‘Teabagger’ was an Oxford Word of the Year finalist.
In February, when conservatives began protesting against President Obama with tea parties, the Washington Independent’s...
 
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O’Reilly warns of a coming ‘tax revolt’: ‘Pelosi will be bobbing up and down in the Boston Harbor.’
Glenn Beck had Fox News host Bill O’Reilly on his radio show today to promote their upcoming “Bold & Fresh...
12 days ago Think Progress | Topics: Think Fast, Beck, O'Reilly, Pelosi
 
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After ‘getting a lot of flack,’ Tea Party protesters rethink burning Periello and Pelosi in effigy.
On Saturday, the Danville Tea Party in Virginia plans on holding a “Fired Up for Freedom” rally. The group...
 
buco
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Report: In her memoir, Palin says she doesn’t believe in evolution.
In the past, former Alaska governor Sarah Palin has been cagey about her views on creationism and evolution, saying that she...
 
buco
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McCain urges town hall attendees to cut up their AARP membership cards.
Last week, the AARP, a nonpartisan organization that advocates on behalf of those aged 50 and over, endorsed the House health...
 
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Liz Cheney floats her father Dick as potential 2012 presidential candidate.
Liz Cheney, the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, sat on this morning’s Fox News Sunday panel. The topic...
13 days ago Think Progress | Topics: Think Fast, Cheney, Liz Cheney
 
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Tea Party activists plan to burn Reps. Periello and Pelosi in effigy tomorrow.
The Danville TEA Party organization in Virginia is holding a “Fired Up for Freedom” rally tomorrow where it will be...
 
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Napolitano on Sheriff Arpaio: ‘He was unwilling to accept there were standards that needed to be met.’
One of the more controversial steps the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has recently taken is the revision and...
 
buco
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Goldman Sachs report concludes insurers would profit from watered-down Senate health bill.
The Huffington Post’s Sam Stein reports that Goldman Sachs (in the course of performing “God’s work“)...
 
buco
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RNC employee health insurance plan covers abortion.
Last week, 176 House Republicans joined with 64 Democrats in voting for the so-called Stupak amendment, which could...
 
buco
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Crist flip flops — and flips again — on his support for the federal stimulus.
In recent weeks, Gov. Charlie Crist (R-FL) has been flip flopping on whether he supported the federal stimulus bill. First he...
16 days ago Think Progress | Topics: Think Fast, Crist, Stimulus
 
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E.J. Dionne: Democrats should ‘learn to live’ with leaving women behind on health care.
In his Washington Post column today, E.J. Dionne claimed that pro-choice lawmakers and advocates are overstating how...
16 days ago Think Progress | Topics: Think Fast
 
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Lou Dobbs to announce departure from CNN tonight.
The New York Times reports that CNN anchor Lou Dobbs plans to announce on his show tonight that he is leaving the network,...
16 days ago Think Progress | Topics: Think Fast, CNN, Dobbs, Immigration
 
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Majority of Americans are worried Fort Hood shooting will ‘prompt a backlash’ against Muslims in the military.
The Plum Line’s Greg Sargent points to a new Rasmussen poll showing that 57 percent of the American public is...
 
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Blackwater tried to bribe critical Iraqi officials with $1 million after 2007 shootings.
On Sept. 16, 2007, a Blackwater convoy opened fire in Iraq’s crowded Nissor Square, killing 17 Iraqi civilians and...
17 days ago Think Progress | Topics: Think Fast, Blackwater, Ethics, Iraq
 
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Marine reservist chases, assaults Greek Orthodox priest whom he mistook for an Arab terrorist.
Alexios Marakis, a Greek Orthodox priest visiting the U.S., got lost in Tampa and tried to stop and ask directions from Marine...
18 days ago Think Progress | Topics: Think Fast, Military, Race, Religion
 
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Lawsuit alleges that New York Post DC bureau chief’s goal was ‘to destroy’ Obama
The Huffington Post’s Sam Stein reports today that a fired New York Post employee, Sandra Guzman, has filed a complaint...
 
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: ‘It’s a just and noble cause to make health care available to everyone.’
Hall of Famer and basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar revealed this morning that he has been battling leukemia, a form of...
18 days ago Think Progress | Topics: Think Fast, Health Care, Sports
 
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Former Bush officials ‘are leading a new business push into Iraq.’
In 2008, Tim Shorrock reported for Salon that while “working inside America’s ’shadow’ spy industry,...