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Climate Advocates Surprised By Obama's Keystone Mention
The environmental left says Obama changed the paradigm on Keystone Tuesday and now he has no room to oppose it. Conservatives say otherwise. Via: Larry Downing / Reuters WASHINGTON — The climate...
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Senate's Lone Black Republican Praises Supreme Court Voting Rights Act Decision
“Punishing six southern states because of past failures does not help us in the present and certainly does not help find our path to the future,” says Tim Scott. Washington, D.C., March 22, 2013, U.S....
View ArticleCory Booker Ad: "Washington Ducks Our Problems"
“I won’t,” he promises. The first ad buy in New Jersey’s special Senate election. Via: youtube.com Mayor Cory Booker has purchased airtime for a campaign ad, slated to hit cable news stations in New...
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14 Important Moments From The Passing Of The Voting Rights Act
A key provision of the law was struck down today. How the historic bill was passed in 1965. President Johnson had this phone call with Martin Luther King Jr. discussing strategy for passing the law....
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8 Times The Voting Rights Act Stopped Voting Laws From Changing
The provision of the historic civil rights law struck down Tuesday has been used to keep voting changes considered to have discriminatory effect from happening. Supporters of the National Association...
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Exclusive: Documents Illuminate Ecuador's Spying Practices
The country where anti-surveillance hero Edward Snowden wants to take refuge spent half a million dollars on an Israeli-made “GSM interceptor” in a deal brokered by a U.S. middleman. Seeking the...
View ArticleDemocrats: Senator Race Proves Scott Brown Was A One-Time Thing
In an exclusive memo provided to BuzzFeed, the DSCC says what their latest victory means going forward. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee says Ed Markey's victory in Massachusetts over...
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Heritage Touts Marco Rubio In Fundraising Letter While Publicly Attacking Him
Jim DeMint boasts to prospective donors that Rubio is in the Senate, in part, because of his work challenging the GOP establishment. Meanwhile, Heritage is at war with Rubio’s immigration plan....
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After Four Decades Of Fighting, Gay Couples Wait On The Cusp Of History
Marriage between same-sex couples was seen as an impossibility by courts in the early 1970s. While the country has moved significantly on the issue, the Supreme Court’s expected rulings on Wednesday...
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Polygamists Celebrate Supreme Court's Marriage Rulings
“The nuclear family, with a dad and a mom and two or three kids, is not the majority anymore,” one polygamist cheers. The Supreme Court's rulings in favor of same-sex marriage Wednesday were greeted...
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Edie Windsor Talks About Her Victory: "It Just Feels Glorious"
“I had pretty much the same reaction as almost everyone in the room: We were all crying,” the marriage plaintiff tells BuzzFeed. Windsor and her lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, share their thoughts about a...
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Why Cable News Blew The Coverage Of Wendy Davis' Filibuster
Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis’ filibuster of a restrictive abortion law blew up on social media, but cable news networks ignored the buzz and stuck with rebroadcasts of earlier shows. Orlando TV news...
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Supreme Court Rulings Reveal Republican Rift On Marriage Equality
Many in the congressional GOP were ready to drop the subject, while two House Republicans celebrated the decisions. Rep. Tim Huelskamp called a vote on a federal marriage amendment “the most logical...
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Public Opinion On Marriage Equality From DOMA's Passage To Its Defeat
We’ve come a long way. Polling data retrieved from archives at Pollingreport.com. Each dot represents the individual result of a national poll that asked if participants supported or opposed same-sex...
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A Lot Of Men Follow Anthony Weiner On Twitter
The former congressman resigned over a sexting scandal that revolved around Twitter. Now his followers are mostly men. A lot of men follow former New York Congressman Anthony Weiner on Twitter. That's...
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How Glenn Greenwald Became Glenn Greenwald
Before he was the Guardian ‘s eyes on the National Security Agency, Greenwald was a Manhattan litigator with an itchy trigger finger. “He doesn’t care if the entire world hates him.” Via: Vincent Yu /...
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North Korea Threatens To Kill Human Rights Group
A blustery statement promises to kill the “thieving Americans” trying to get supplies into North Korea. People attend a mass rally marking the "day of struggle against U.S. imperialism" at Kim Il-sung...
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The Most Unfortunately Named Magazine In The Department Of Defense
Their editors’ jobs just got harder PRISM is the magazine of repute for the intellectual National Security crowd. PRISM is published by the National Defense University. Source: ndu.edu The college...
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The NBA, NFL, And MLB Might Help The Government Sell Obamacare
Representatives from the leagues say the Obama administration has reached out to them. Getty / Kevin C. Cox The federal government is in the early stages of exploring possible partnerships with...
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The New White House Line On NSA: "Snow-who?"
In Africa, the president dismisses the man behind the NSA leaks. Via: Gleb Garanich / Reuters WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama understands why the media and the world might be fascinated by former...
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