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Jon Stewart laments ‘never-ending gobstopper’ GOP primary
On his show Wednesday night, Daily Show host Jon Stewart compared the Republican presidential primary to Zeno’s paradox, claiming candidates could never actually arrive at the endpoint. “All I heard was that Tuesday was Super Tuesday,” he said, “because we would finally have a decisive night, one that would finally…
Priorities USA Action co-founder defends Obama’s super PAC
Bill Burton on Wednesday defended President Barack Obama’s support for his own super PAC, even though the president opposes the controversial organizations in general. Burton is the co-founder and senior strategist of the Priorities USA Action, a super PAC that supports Obama. “At the end of the day, we don’t…
Bachmann: ‘Health care dictator’ could force one-child policy
While most of the media was covering the results of Super Tuesday, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) appeared on the GBTV program Real News From The Blaze to warn that the Obama administration’s contraception mandate could lead to one-child policies like those in China. “Women have a lot to lose under…
PBS already aired Breitbart’s Obama footage
Breitbart.com editors Ben Shapiro and Joel Pollak said Wednesday on Sean Hannity’s radio show that they would release footage that proved President Barack Obama had “radical intellectual founders” — footage which was covered up by the mainstream media. But before Breitbart.com released the footage, PBS Frontline published the full unedited…
Law professor: U.S. in state of perpetual war
University of Southern California law professor Mary Dudziak appeared Wednesday on MSNBC to explain why she believes the United States has been in a permanent state of war. “The idea of wartime is doing a lot of work in American politics,” she said. “The way we think about history is…
Rep. Speier: Air Force awarded alleged rapist instead of punishing him
Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA) on Wednesday delivered her sixteenth speech on the House floor condemning the “epidemic” of sexual harassment and rape in the U.S. military. To call attention to the problem, she has been telling the stories of women who were sexually harassed and assaulted while serving in U.S…
Democratic Convention chair: Party platform should include marriage equality
The chairman of the 2012 Democratic National Convention on Wednesday announced support for including same sex marriage in the party’s official platform. During a Politico Playbook breakfast, Mike Allen asked Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa if he thought the “Democratic national platform should have a marriage equality plank?” “I do,”…
Robertson: Calling Fluke a ‘slut’ and a ‘prostitute’ only ‘a little bit over the top’
In a segment broadcast by a Christian television network on Wednesday, televangelist and longtime icon of America’s religious right Pat Robertson suggested that Republican shock jock Rush Limbaugh’s characterization of a Gergetown law student as a “slut” and a “prostitute” was just “a little bit over the top,” but went…
Miami high school valedictorian avoids deportation
A high school valedictorian and her sister in Florida, who faced impending deportation, will be able to remain in the United States for at least two more years, according to The Miami Herald. North Miami Senior High School student Daniela Pelaez, 18, and her sister were granted a reprieve by…
Former NJ gov. poses as mentally ill man at homeless shelter
Earlier this week, a former governor of New Jersey went undercover to expose the struggle homeless people go through if they are mentally ill. Democratic state Sen. Richard Codey, who briefly took over as governor after Jim McGreevey (D) resigned in 2004, began calling homeless shelters last November only to…
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