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Kucinich: Citizens United ruling would have staggered our Founding Fathers
Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) said Wednesday that the Founding Fathers of the United States would not have supported the U.S. Supreme Court’s controversial decision in Citizens United. “Money is destroying our politics and our political system,” he said in a video uploaded to YouTube. “Our electoral system has become such…
Fox & Friends airs its own four-minute anti-Obama attack ad
Update (below): Fox News pulls video, claims it was ‘unauthorized’ Fox & Friends on Wednesday morning unveiled a four-minute advertisement that attacked President Barack Obama, which was created by Fox News associate producer Chris White. “Lets talk a little bit about what the campaign slogan used to be for Obama,…
Author of controversial ‘ex-gay’ study: ‘I apologize’ to LGBT community
Earlier this month, psychiatrist Dr. Robert Spitzer fully recanted a controversial 2003 non-peer reviewed study that he published in the journal The Archives of Sexual Behavior, a study in which he posited that “highly motivated” LGBT people could reach their so-called “heterosexual potential” through counseling and prayer. In a piece…
Romney surrogate: CNN ‘should be embarrassed’ for covering birther story
Former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu, who is now a surrogate for Mitt Romney, on Wednesday blasted CNN host Soledad O’Brien for reporting on the presumptive Republican nominee’s link to birthers like billionaire Donald Trump. Following a week of ranting by Trump about President Barack Obama’s citizenship, O’Brien asked Sununu…
West: Female critics are my ‘liberal groupies’
Rep. Allen West (R-FL) added to his growing list of eye-raising statements at his latest town hall event Tuesday afternoon in Boca Raton, Florida, including calling woman who disagree with him as his “groupies.” “Oh those are my liberal groupies,” West said while pointing to a camera person. “I’ve got…
Hannity: ‘Odd that they didn’t release the birth certificate’
Fox News host Sean Hannity on Tuesday denied he was a “birther,” but found it “odd” that President Barack Obama took so long to release his birth certificate. “You know, I’ve never been a birther,” the Fox News host declared. “You know, it was odd that they didn’t release the…
Maddow takes on Florida voter purge
On her show Tuesday night, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow reported on the ongoing voter purge in Florida. The state is attempting to remove non-citizen voters from the rolls. State election officials have identified 2,600 non-citizens. But as Maddow noted, local officials have already discovered errors in the list. Watch video,…
N.Y. Times reporter: Obama has ‘central role’ in drone strikes
New York Times reporter Scott Shane told PBS Newshour on Tuesday about the President’s involvement in U.S. drone strikes against suspected terrorists in Yemen and Pakistan. Shane and fellow New York Times reporter Jo Becker revealed details about Obama’s so-called “kill lists” in an article published Tuesday. The President is…
Krugman: This may be when it all falls apart
Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman said Monday that the tepid response to the current economic crisis could ruin the United States and Europe. “We are living through a time where we face an enormous economic challenge,” he told RT’s Thom Hartmann. “We are facing —…
Zach Wahls disputes myths about same sex marriage
In an interview with Reason.TV’s Nick Gillespie, Zach Wahls explained how being raised by his two lesbian mothers impacted his view of politics and same sex marriage in particular. “There are probably two very large misconceptions,” Wahls said. “The first is that there is something inherently immoral about homosexuality, and…
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