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Obama’s second chance: the president has gun laws and climate change in his sight
There is a far less compromising mood coming from the White House – and a more aggressive political program When the firebrand Republican senator Ted Cruz went on conservative Laura Ingraham’s radio show last week, the topic of conversation swiftly turned to Barack Obama. As the president prepares to be…
Priebus: Republicans in blue states ‘ought to be’ rigging Electoral College
Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Reince Priebus says that conservative lawmakers in blue states like Wisconsin “ought to be looking at” ways to rig the Electoral College system to tilt elections towards Republican candidates in a way that could have allowed presidential candidate Mitt Romney to win. On Sunday, the…
Coulter calls to name abortion patients because they ‘might be willing to murder a child’
Conservative columnist Ann Coulter says that if newspapers are going to publish the names of people who have gun permits then they should also publish the names of women who had abortions because “mothers might want to know what other women on their street might be willing to murder a…
Dick Armey on $8 million FreedomWorks severance: I ‘couldn’t leave with empty pockets’
Former House Majority Leader and Tea Party favorite Dick Armey defended the huge payout he received for leaving FreedomWorks in an interview this weekend with ABC News, saying he, “couldn’t leave with empty pockets.” After an acrimonious rift developed between himself and others at FreedomWorks, Armey quietly resigned from the…
Study: Black voters may have turned out at higher rate than whites for first time in 2012
In the 2012 election, African-American voters may have turned out at a higher rate than white voters for the first time in history. According to Politico, black voters clearly turned out a higher percentages of registered voters than other ethnic minorities, and if early results from the Pew Research Center are…
Gingrich: Republicans must embrace same sex marriage and immigration reform
Failed presidential candidate and Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) said in an interview published Thursday that the Republican Party should own up to the “big wave of change” that is engulfing the country and embrace same sex marriage equality and a pathway to citizenship for the children of undocumented…
Florida GOP leaders admit crafting law to suppress college vote
The chairman of the Alachua County Republican Party told a newspaper this week that he and another prominent Florida Republican pushed for changes to the state’s provisional balloting system in order to suppress young and poor voters, many of whom are students or rent their residence. The Miami Herald found…
News outlets to fight Romney campaign over food, travel expenses
While the election ended over a month ago, relations between news outlets and the Romney campaign may become even more fraught in the near future. Multiple organizations are preparing to file an official complaint regarding large charges billed to them by the campaign for meals and other events, reported BuzzFeed.…
Fox News host: ‘Angry, old, white men’ made Rice the ‘minimum price’ for Benghazi
Fox News host Geraldo Rivera on Friday said that “angry, old, white men” like Sens. John McCain (R-AZ) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) demanded Susan Rice give up any ambition to be secretary of state as a “minimum price” for the September attacks in Benghazi. Speaking to the hosts of Fox…
Gunman wearing Romney mask robs Virginia bank
A man carrying a long gun and wearing what appeared to be a Mitt Romney mask robbed a bank in Sterling, Virginia on Thursday. WRC-TV’s Pat Collins reported that the robbery “was not a grab-and-go type of operation” because the suspect went to all five tellers demanding money before he…
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