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Director Charles Ferguson: Politicians are afraid of Wall Street’s power
Director Charles Ferguson told Reuters TV on Thursday that criminal behavior on Wall Street is not prosecuted because politicians are scared of the financial sector’s power. Ferguson is the director of the 2010 Oscar-winning documentary Inside Job, which examines how banking practices, the housing boom, and deregulation led to the…
Gov. Patrick endorses Elizabeth Warren in Massachusetts Senate race
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick on Wednesday endorsed consumer advocate Elizabeth Warren for the U.S. Senate, saying Democrats were lucky to have candidates like her. “Elizabeth Warren is my friend and I believe should be the next United States Senator from Massachusetts,” he said at Warren’s campaign headquarters. “I want to…
Romney aides feared Obama conspiracy to block Solyndra visit
Mitt Romney’s campaign aides said on Thursday that they kept the presumptive Republican presidential nominee’s visit to a bankrupt company secret because they worried the White House would conspire with local officials to block the event. CNN’s Jim Acosta explained that the trip was “steeped in secrecy and mystery” until…
Axelrod to pro-Romney hecklers: ‘You can’t handle the truth!’
Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod took the president’s re-election pitch to his opponent’s home turf in Boston on Thursday, but presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s supporters did their best to drown out his message. During a news conference outside the Massachusetts Statehouse, Axelrod faced relentless booing, heckling and chanting…
WATCH LIVE: President Obama welcomes former President George W. Bush
Thursday afternoon former President George W. Bush will make a rare appearance at the White House again as President Barack Obama unveils presidential portraits of the 43rd president and his wife, Laura Bush. The portrait is meant to honor Bush’s presidency. His daughter, Jenna Bush Hager, told Fox & Friends…
Tony Perkins: Gay tourism ad shows Obama’s ‘radical values and backwards priorities’
Christian think tank leader Tony Perkins is blasting President Barack Obama over an effort to market the U.S. that includes images of LGBT people. During a Thursday radio address, the Family Research Council president pointed to a recently created tourism advertisement that shows two gay men vacationing together. “A new…
Maddow: Romney campaign ‘playing along’ with birthers
Wednesday night on “The Rachel Maddow Show,” host Rachel Maddow examined the role of Donald Trump in the campaign of former Massachusetts governor and Republican nominee for president Mitt Romney. On a day that saw the release of Romney’s embarrassing iPhone app and a badly-written gun policy memo which assured…
Axelrod: Handful of plutocrats trying to buy this government
Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod said Wednesday that billionaires were trying to buy the United States government in the November elections. “There was a report this morning that the Republican Super PACs, apart from Romney and apart from his own super PAC, intend to spend a billion dollars in this…
Rep. Barbara Lee calls PRENDA ‘shock and awe’ in ‘war on women’
Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) blasted the Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act (PRENDA) on Wednesday, comparing it to the “shock and awe” military strategy used at the beginning of the Iraq war. “Supporters of this bill claim that the legislation would combat sex-selective abortions,” she said on the House floor. “Here we go…
Senate candidate: My proposed federal birther office ‘not about Obama’
Republican Senate candidate Pete Hoekstra on Wednesday denied that his proposed federal so-called “birther” office had anything to do with President Barack Obama. He recently told a Michigan tea party group that there should be an office established in Washington, D.C. that ensures presidential candidates meet the minimum qualifications to…
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