Earlier this week, the Census Bureau released its latest income and poverty data for the year 2011. The major headline in most newspapers and media outlets was the notion that the national poverty rate remained virtually unchanged from the previous y ...
Posted Friday, September 14th 2012 at 6:11PM
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WASHINGTON -- Over the past few weeks, the Romney campaign has repeatedly pointed to five separate studies supporting the candidate's contention that a dramatic, across-the-board, reduction in tax rates can be paid for by economic growth and the elim ...
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POSTED BY TIM LOUIS MACALUSO ON FRI, SEP 14, 2012 AT 9:12 AM
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s long and illustrious political star plummeted when the Brits rightly opposed being dragged into President George W. Bush’s Iraq War. The British ...
Posted Friday, September 14th 2012 at 5:58PM
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Obama: Americans laid down lives 'in service to us all'
Editor's note: Several protests stemming at least in part from an anti-Islam film produced in the United States are unfolding outside U.S. embassies around the world. Friday's protests follow o ...
Posted Friday, September 14th 2012 at 4:44PM
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The violence in the Middle East has renewed questions about which countries get U.S. foreign aid and whether they deserve it.
Some House conservatives wanted to strip foreign aid to Libya and Egypt from a six-month funding bill set for a vote toda ...
Posted Friday, September 14th 2012 at 4:40PM
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A graphic photo has surfaced online allegedly showing the “attempts to rescue” U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens in the final moments of hi ...
Posted Thursday, September 13th 2012 at 11:27PM
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NAACP President Ben Jealous spoke today at a Philadelphia against the state's new voter identification law, which requires citizens to have a photo ID to vote.
"We have seen," Jealous said, "more states, pass more laws, pushing more voters out of ...
Posted Thursday, September 13th 2012 at 11:17PM
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In a letter at Global Grind, Russell Simmons explains what he thinks the rapper is missing about the goals of the movement and the "99 percent."
As a person who cares deeply about Occupy Wall Street, I have to honor their year-long effort and educ ...
Posted Thursday, September 13th 2012 at 11:10PM
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"The world needs American leadership. The Middle East needs American leadership," Romney continued. "And I intend to be a President that provides the leadership that America respects and will keep us admired throughout the world.”
Romney's words, a ...
Posted Thursday, September 13th 2012 at 11:05PM
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A Pennsylvania judge's decision to uphold the state's tough new voter-identification law last month was based in part on a 19th century state court decision that at the time disenfranchised many Philadelphia workmen who the court didn't feel were vir ...
Posted Thursday, September 13th 2012 at 9:44PM
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