Oliver North and former Arkansas governor and Fox News host Mike Huckabee are among the headliners at the Friday evening session for 2012 Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C. Watch this live video from CNN, broadcast Sept. 14, 2012. …
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Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney says the upcoming debates will be tough because President Barack Obama has a tendency to “say things that aren’t true.” “I think he’s going to say a lot of things that aren’t accurate,” Romney told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos in an interview that aired on Friday.…
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On her show Thursday night, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow explained that the attack on a U.S. consulate in Libya appeared to be the work of an organized jihadist group rather than the act of an angry mob. She noted that Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, who was killed along with three…
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Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) on Thursday night continued his altercation with America’s largest gay and lesbian Republican organization, accusing the Log Cabin Republicans of being intellectually dishonest. “This year in particular, we have an extraordinary gap between the two parties,” he said on Current TV. “You have this completely anti-LGBT…
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Princeton professor Cornel West said Thursday that President Barack Obama had not done enough to help the poor, but he was still a better choice than Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. “I mean, we would say that the mendacity and mediocrity of Romney is such that it’s fairly clear that…
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Washington Post reporter Nia Malika Henderson on Thursday noted that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney had selected neoconservatives from the Bush administration to be his foreign policy advisers. “He is surrounded by neocons from the Bush administration, people that Colin Powell called ‘too far to the right’ in terms of…
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Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA), co-chair of the Congressional Out of Poverty Caucus, on Thursday called for Congress to declare a “war on poverty.” “It is beyond shameful that over 45 million Americans, including over 16 million children, are living in poverty in the wealthiest nation in the world,” she said…
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Jones Day partner Michael Carvin, a conservative constitutional lawyer, blasted opponents of the controversial Citizens United ruling at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday. “I know this has provoked a lot of rhetorical excess and severe criticism, which I must say I find quite puzzling because all Citizens United…
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Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney on Thursday was confronted by an angry heckler who accused him of “politicizing” the death of the top U.S. diplomat in Libya to gain an advantage over President Barack Obama. On Tuesday, U.S. ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and at least three members of his…
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Embattled Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO) on Wednesday reacted to the death of a U.S. ambassador in Libya by accusing President Barack Obama of not liking the very country he is leading. On Tuesday, U.S. ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and at least three members of his staff had been killed…
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