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Eric Boehlert calls out media for failing to cover SOPA
Media Matters’ Eric Boehlert appeared Monday on The Young Turks to discuss the fact that the highly controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) was absent from mainstream television news coverage. Major media outlets, including ABC, CBS, Comcast/NBC, Viacom, News Corporation and Time Warner, support the legislation. It would allow authorities…
Romney dodges multiple marijuana questions
The group Students for a Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP) has sent dozens of its members to New Hampshire to question the Republican presidential candidates about their views on medical marijuana and other drug laws, but they have so far failed to get much of a response from former Massachusetts Gov.…
Marge Baker: Movement against Citizens United ruling ‘is going to grow’
Marge Baker of People for the American Way predicted Monday that the movement against the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling was going to continue to grow and expand through grassroots organizing. “The only answer we really have to the toxic issue of money in politics is to amend the Constitution,”…
Jail superintendent: Compassion needs to be brought into the system
Richard Van Wickler, the Superintendent of the Department of Corrections in Cheshire Country, NH and member of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, said in an interview that drug addicts should be shown compassion rather than jailed. He said he had seen numerous examples of people who were damaged or completely destroyed…
Sen. Franken pushes for Student Non-Discrimination Act
Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) has released an online video that urges people to tell their representatives to support legislation to protect public school students from a “wave” of bullying targeting lesbian, gay, bixsexual or transgender teens. “Nine out of ten LGBT kids are harassed or bullied in school,” he said.…
Psychic monkey devours Gingrich’s banana
Grandpa the psychic spider monkey is bananas for Newt Gingrich. The New York Daily News‘ Barry Paddock traveled to the Staten Island Zoo to get Grandpa’s prediction for Tuesday’s New Hampshire Republican primary. Grandpa was asked to choose from a series of bananas, each with the name of a GOP…
WATCH LIVE: Obama announces new chief of staff
Pres. Obama will announce Chief of Staff Bill Daley is stepping down and budget director Jack Lew will take over. Watch this live video from CNN, broadcast Jan 9, 2012. …
Romney: ‘I like being able to fire people’
President Barack Obama’s campaign got a huge political gift on Monday when Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney declared that he liked “to be able to fire people.” During a Chamber of Commerce breakfast in Nashua, New Hampshire, the former Massachusetts governor touted the idea of Americans buying their own insurance…
Homer Simpson becomes Glenn Beck style ‘loudmouth’
As The Simpsons approaches its 500 episode, writers on the latest episode of the landmark series decided to poke fun at Fox News and one of its former employees. In Sunday’s episode, after becoming a YouTube sensation after an airport meltdown, Homer Simpson wins the job of political analyst on…
Chris Christie to Occupy protester: You’re going down, sweetheart
At a rally for GOP hopeful Mitt Romney Sunday, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) called an Occupy Wall Street protester “sweetheart” and told her she was going to “go down.” Romney was first to be interrupted by the chant “Mitt kills jobs!” “You know, it’s wonderful to live in…
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