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ACLU deputy legal director: NDAA ‘still awful’ despite changes
Jameel Jaffer, deputy legal director at ACLU, said Wednesday night that the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) of 2012 was still highly problematic despite changes to the bill. “It was an awful bill before and it is an awful bill now,” he told MSNBC host Rachel Maddow. Provisions within the…
Judge orders exam for alleged White House shooter
WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Wednesday ordered a hearing to assess the mental capacity of a man arrested last month after allegedly firing shots at the White House in an attempt to assassinate President Barack Obama. The hearing, scheduled for Friday in Washington, will examine new evidence on the…
Uygur calls rival Sharpton an Obama cheerleader
Responding to a reader poll on Thursday night, Current TV’s “The Young Turks” host Cenk Uygur suggested that Al Sharpton, whose MSNBC program “PoliticsNation” airs at the same time as Uygur’s, is a cheerleader for President Barack Obama. The Current reader poll Uygur was responding to showed that 84 percent…
Obama rejects bid to tie pipeline to tax row
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama Wednesday warned he would reject any bid by Republicans to make his plans for a payroll tax cut conditional on his prompt backing for a contentious US-Canada oil pipeline. As he met Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who supports the Keystone XL project, Obama staked…
Blagojevich sentenced to 14 years in prison
Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for trying to sell the Senate seat vacated by President Barack Obama. Before the verdict, Blagojevich admitted to U.S. District Judge James Zagel that he was guilty, according to The Chicago Sun Times. “I never set out…
U.S. unveils new international gay rights strategy
WASHINGTON — The United States put the fight against gay and lesbian discrimination at the heart of its foreign policy Tuesday, but stopped short of warning transgressor nations they could be stripped of US aid. President Barack Obama on Tuesday ordered all government agencies that play an active foreign policy…
When calling out lies, don’t lie. Duh.
Politifact bills itself as a site dedicated to correcting the lies that come out of the mouth of politicians and political operatives. It's a great and necessary service. The problem with it, as you can imagine, is that the field of liars is so tilted to the right that if…
WATCH LIVE: President Obama calls for payroll tax cut
President Barack Obama was expected to speak about payroll tax cuts during Monday’s White House briefing. Watch this live video from CNN, broadcast Dec. 5, 2011. …
Obama, Clinton sought for testimony in WikiLeaks case
An attorney for Pvt. Bradley Manning, the lone soldier accused of funneling volumes of secret information to anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks, has a couple of high value targets on his list of dream witnesses: namely, President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Both appear on a list of witnesses…
Trump to moderate GOP debate
Billionaire real estate mogul Donald Trump will play the role of moderator at a Republican debate in Des Moines, Iowa on Dec. 27, according to reports published Friday. The debate, being staged by conservative magazine Newsmax, will be the first ever in presidential-level politics to be run by a reality…
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