Tag: Barack Obama

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Fox News Analyst Calls Obama the Reincarnation of Pontius Pilate

Ralph Peters calls Obama Pontius Pilate, but Pilate, according to the Bible, tried to save Jesus and early Christianity made him a hero

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The Left Sends Rahm Emanuel A Message By Forcing Runoff In Chicago Mayor’s Race

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel got just 45 percent of the vote Tuesday, forcing him into a runoff against 2nd place finisher “Chuy” Garcia.

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It’s Time We Believed Elizabeth Warren. She’s Not Running. And That’s OK

Warren is not running. It is not going to happen, and I think it’s time to accept that fact.

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Rudy Giuliani Says He Can’t Be Racist Because President Obama’s Mother Was White

After claiming that President Obama doesn’t love America at a dinner Wednesday night, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani told the New York Times Thursday that his comments cannot be deemed racist because the President was raised and taught by white people.

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Bill O’Reilly’s Call for Holy War Just Articulates What the Right Has Been Doing All Along

We’ve been victims of holy war for decades. This just turns attention from our own women, children and poor to Muslim women, children and poor

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Marco Rubio Laughingly Accuses Obama’s Policies of Being Bad for the Nation

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) tried to walk a finer line when asked to respond to Giuliani’s remarks. He demonstrated how to be weak and spineless while playing more subtly with Palin fire.

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Unbalanced Ben Carson Thinks President Obama May Be Guilty Of Treason

Dr. Ben Carson implied that Barack Obama could be guilty of treason if he fights Congress on a clean bill for funding Homeland Security.

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Bombastic Tea Party Loon Joe Walsh Eyes Illinois Senate Race

Former Congressional Representative Joe Walsh (R) says he is “very seriously considering challenging” Illinois Senator Mark Kirk (R).

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The Countering Violent Extremism Summit Will Not Ignore Homegrown Terrorism

Despite the insistence of Republicans that the War on Terror is unidirectional, that it extends only outward, in the direction of Islam, it is omnidirectional, and extends inward as well as outward. The Western World, like the Middle East, is facing terror from within. Fox News and Republican politicians would have you believe that Islam…

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Push to boost defense spending puts GOP in budget bind

Pressing Pentagon demands in a time of terror threats and Islamic State militants have put newly empowered congressional Republicans in a bind.

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Dear Religious Right: I’m Still Waiting for the Sky to Fall

My question is, will there be spankings all around? And if so, will there be a charge?

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Before Announcing Departure, Jon Stewart Mocks Fox News’ Newfound Love For Muslim King

Prior to making the announcement on his upcoming departure, it was business as usual, as Jon Stewart once again aimed his sharp wit at his favorite target — Fox News.

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Koch Brothers Group Shouted Down By Irate Citizens During Montana Town Hall Meeting

The Koch Brothers probably thought opposition to Obamacare would be an easy sell in Kalispell, but their town hall meeting backfired.

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GOP Congressman Distorts Obama Speech, Says President Defends ISIL

In a speech where President Obama condemned ISIS as a “death cult”, Congressman Fleming interprets Obama’s words to be supportive of ISIS.

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It’s Time To Face The Truth That Republicans Are Traitors

It is likely that throughout America’s short history, except for the traitorous Confederacy, no group of individuals has exhibited the characteristic betrayal of a traitor more than conservatives in general, and Republicans in particular.

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The Truth, “No president in history has done more for Israel’s security than Obama”

Republicans hope to paint Democrats as “anti-American” “Nazis” if they don’t attend Netanyahu’s speech, but President Obama has done more for Israel’s security than any other president.

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Critics Claim Hillary Has an Income Inequality Problem

Have we really reached the point where asking the wealthy to pay their fair share of taxes is a form of vilification?

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Israeli Official: Boehner And Netanyahu Conspired “To Defy and Humiliate President Obama”

Obviously Boehner is frustrated that he has been outplayed and out-maneuvered at every turn by the President, and lacking the wherewithal to take on the President himself, he marshaled support and conspired with a foreigner, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, to “defy and humiliate President Obama.”

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The Radical Right Can’t Handle The Truth From President Obama

The point is that all Christians should advocate and revere the truth with religious fervor; unless it is uttered by President Barack Obama at which point they “can’t handle the truth.”

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GOP Stooge Tries To Take Healthcare From 13 Million Because He Wishes Obama Wasn’t Born

Next month, the Supreme Court of the United States will consider King v. Burwell, in which millions of people will be affected.

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Hillary Clinton Is Building Her Democratic Army As The GOP’s Worst Nightmare Comes True

She hasn’t even announced yet, and Hillary Clinton’s campaign is looking like an incumbent’s reelection campaign.

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Obama Attacked for Telling the Truth about Christianity’s Bloody History

Republicans are outraged that Christian murdering and enslaving for God should be compared to ISIL murdering and enslaving for God

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Another GOP Staffer Loses His Job Over Racist Comments

Republican Congressman Aaron Shock accepted the resignation of staffer Benjamin Cole, over racist comments Cole made on social media.

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Koch Lovers Claim Kochs Are Defenders of the American Dream

Under attack and exposed, the Kochs have gone on the offensive, with their minions singing paeans of praise for our “benevolent” overlords

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Obama Stands Firm On Protecting Social Security In 2016 Budget

Republicans hope to create a social security crisis, but President Obama has declared that he has no desire to indulge them in that fantasy.

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GOP Trickle Down Has 70% of Americans Near Financial Calamity

Instead of changing course and helping the majority of the population, Republicans still propose heaping wealth on the rich and increasing taxes on the bottom 90% of the population to complete the utter destruction of middle income earners. According to yet another report they are succeeding beyond their wildest dreams.

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Obama budget sets up battle with Republican-controlled Congress

After a year of relative peace in Washington’s budget battles, President Barack Obama will lay out a $4 trillion budget on Monday that needles Republicans with proposals for higher taxes on the wealthy and businesses to pay for education, public works projects and child care.

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Debate on Gun Violence Limited by Either-Or Thinking

There have been 101 school shootings since Newtown. Obama said afteward, “the time is now.” It is now well past time, and nothing has been done

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Anti-Semitic Hate Group Funding Republican National Committee Israel Trip

Now, it is apparently official that the Republican National Committee is closely-aligned with an official hate group according reports the RNC is accepting an all-expenses paid trip to Israel despite rightful criticism from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and an Israeli newspaper.

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Israeli Ambassador Throws John Boehner Under The Bus After Disrespect Of Obama Backfires

In an attempt to justify and mitigate Prime Minister Netanyahu’s acceptance of an invitation to speak to Congress, Ron Dermer, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ambassador to the U.S., basically threw Speaker Boehner (R-OH) under the bus.

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Device, possibly aerial drone, found on White House grounds

Police, fire and other emergency vehicles swarmed around the White House in the predawn hours, with several clustered near the southeast entrance to the mansion. The White House was dark and the entire perimeter was on lockdown until around 5 a.m., when those who work in the complex were allowed inside.

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Obama to cut short India trip to pay call on Saudi Arabia

President Barack Obama will shorten his trip to India and divert to Saudi Arabia, paying respects after the death of King Abdullah and meeting with the oil-rich nation’s new monarch, the White House said Saturday.

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Delusional Donald Trump Says He Would Have Beaten Obama In 2012

Shameless self-promoter Donald Trump is once again trying to draw attention to himself, claiming he would have beaten Obama in 2012.

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Republicans’ Allegiance Is to Israel; Not America

It is obvious now that America is not in an ‘official war,’ Republicans need a fear-mongering diatribe from Netanyahu on the pressing necessity for anything to draw America into another Middle East war

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On The Roe v. Wade Anniversary A March To Ban Contraception

Today is the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade ruling giving women the right to choose when they give birth and, like every year for over two decades, religious fanatics will protest the landmark decision. Their contention is that patriarchs in Catholic Church, not women, own the right to make reproductive choices for American women.

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Obama will not meet with Netanyahu during trip to Washington

President Barack Obama will not meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he travels to Washington in March.

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The GOP Wants to Turn America into the Ultimate No-Go Zone

Republicans want to replace the laws of physics and say, “This is how reality works now” but you can’t legislate reality out of existence

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The Lame Duck President’s Not So Lame State Of The Union Speech

I was privileged to watch a chamber full of sullen, petulant, mostly far-right and white, wealthy Koch puppets, largely sitting on their hands as second term President Barack Obama, gave them a not so subtle dressing down.

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Partisan IRS Budget Cuts Create Pointless Tax Season Headaches

If there’s one bargaining tactic Congressional Republican lawmakers have perfected since President Obama took the oath of office in January 2009, it’s trying to cut off America’s nose to spite its face.

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Obama’s Brilliant State of the Union Wasted On Stupid Anti-Government Americans

For the past seven years President Barack Obama has delivered prescient State of the Union speeches that should appeal to the majority of Americans regardless of their party affiliation except for one small detail; he represents the federal government.

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Facts Are In A No-Go Zone For GOP Presidential Hopeful Bobby Jindal

Bobby Jindal repeating the European no-go zones myth, reminds us that he has never had a close relationship with the truth.

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Boehner’s SOTU Fact-Checking Blames Obama for Income Inequality

The sad fact of Republican fact-checking is that their fact-checking needs to be fact-checked, and this was never more true last night.

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Obama’s Tax Plan Forces Republicans To Choose Main Street Or Wall Street

President Obama’s proposal to give middle class and working class Americans a tax break has the GOP on the defensive.

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Obama Didn’t March In Paris Because Of Difference Between Free Speech And Hate Speech

Terrorism is something worth fighting against. President Obama knows this, and has been proving it time and time again throughout his presidency. Please don’t forget that this is the man who wiped out Osama bin Laden.

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Lindsey Graham Doubles Down On Claim That Obama’s Policies Are “Getting People Killed”

During an appearance on Meet the Press Sunday, frequent Sunday show guest Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) reiterated his previous claim that the policies of President Obama was “getting people killed.”

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Get the Facts on President Obama’s Middle Class Tax Cut Plan

The following is a summation of President Obama’s tax code proposals as well as a PDF fact sheet, both as provided by the White House.

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In Secret Meeting With Democrats Obama Vows To Go On Offense Against Republicans

President Obama told congressional Democrats in a closed door meeting that he planned to continue going on offense. The president vowed to defend the Democratic agenda and called on the members of his party to help sustain his vetoes.

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Mike Huckabee’s Unconscionable Attack on the First Lady and Beyoncé

Huckabee, whose son hung a dog, attacks Michelle Obama for letting her kids listen to Beyoncé, and accuses Jay-Z of pimping his wife

House Republicans Put Obama’s Life In Danger By Holding Homeland Security Funding Hostage

Until it is fully funded, the Secret Service will not be able to move forward with the additional security measures recommended for the White House and President Obama.

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Republican Congressman Compares Obama To Hitler For Not Attending Paris Unity Rally

If you were wondering how long it would take for a Republican to invoke Adolf Hitler in the made-for-Beltway-media controversy surrounding the White House’s nonattendance at the Paris Unity Rally over the weekend, you got your answer Monday evening.

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Obama Attacked for Missing Unity Rally in Paris Sunday

Yesterday saw some 3.7 million people unite against terrorism in Paris and in various places around France in unity rallies. The largest of these rallies was in Paris. French officials of the Interior Ministry said the rally’s size was “unprecedented,” more than a million people in Paris alone (the Chicago Tribune reported estimates of between…

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Thieving Republicans Robbed Americans In Their First Week Controlling Congress

It is amazing that Republicans who could not pass any legislation last year, spent the first four days of the 114th Congress stealing from women, retired and disabled Americas, large corporations’ employees, and various government departments and the Executive Branch.

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GOP’s First Step To Inflict Kansas Economic Woes On America

There is nothing as evil, mean-spirited, and pathetic as a mature adult who sees firsthand that something is inherently dangerous to other human beings and should be prevented at all costs, and yet wishes they could do the same thing. Last year, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, like all Republicans, witnessed the complete economic devastation…

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Jeb Bush Suggests That Hillary Clinton’s Only Qualification for President Is Her Husband

Jeb Bush said, “If someone wants to run a campaign about 90s nostalgia, it’s not going to be very successful.”

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2014 Finishes With Best Job Growth Since 1999 As Unemployment Rate Drops To 5.6%

On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released December’s job numbers and revealed that the strong growth we had seen throughout 2014 continues unabated.

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Conservative Columnist Predictably Uses French Terror Attack To Criticize President Obama

Shortly after news broke Wednesday morning that three gunmen attacked a French satirical newspaper, Breitbart columnist Ben Shapiro decided to use the tragic event to take shots at President Obama and Hillary Clinton.

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President Obama Demonstrates Statesmanship to Republicans in Meeting Mexico’s President

President Obama and Mexican president, Enrique Peña Nieto, talked yesterday about various issues involving the two countries, including Cuba, immigration, drug war violence and border security

The Forces of Nullification Behind Opposition to Boehner

This is really about opposition to Obama, and in violation of the Constitution, forcing him into the role of a compliant puppet of Congress

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Republican Congressman Michael Grimm To Resign From Office After Felony Conviction

New York Republican Congressman Michael Grimm is resigning, after pleading guilty to felony tax evasion.

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President Obama Explains That Discussion Regarding Race Issues Is Healthy For The Nation

During a comprehensive interview with NPR’s Steve Inskeep that was released Monday, President Obama spoke at length on a number of hot-button topics and issues that have come to the forefront in 2014. One of the issues he touched on was race relations in this country.

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President Obama Named The Most Admired Man In The World For The 7th Straight Year

The endless Republican anti-Obama campaign suffered another defeat as for the seventh consecutive year President Obama was named the most admired man in the world by Gallup.

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Republicans Plan Another Bush Trickle Down Assault In 2015

Some Republicans are beginning to express little hope that the President will go along with the scam and may eschew raising taxes on the poor, for now, and instead set their sights on slashing corporate taxes.

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Conservatives Can’t Find Their Way to the Future Because They Can’t Understand the Past

Context is everything, and in willfully misrepresenting the past, Republicans create a false premise upon which to build their plans for the future

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No, We Don’t Care If President Obama Goes to Church

Obama critics might take a moment to reflect that even though Obama does not go to church regularly, the economy is booming

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113th Congress Produces 22% of “Do-Nothing” 1947-1948 Counterpart

Similar to overpaid NFL “star” Jay Cutler’s reign of terror as the starting quarterback for the Chicago Bears, the best thing we can say about the 113th session of Congress is that it’s over.

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Black Democratic Strategist Rips Fox Host For Saying Obama’s Making Things Worse For Blacks

During an appearance on Fox & Friends Thursday, Reverend Jacques Degraff, a Democratic strategist and Fox News contributor, shredded host Elisabeth Hasselbeck for arguing that black Americans lives have been made more difficult by President Obama.

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President Obama Outplayed Republicans Again – So Stop Complaining

Once again, President Obama has out-maneuvered Republican plans to further wreak havoc on the nation, and although a clean funding bill would have been ideal, it was never going to happen because Republicans.

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A Cuban Victim of the Cold War is Free Today Thanks to President Obama

Though there has seemed no reason for the two nations to remain at odds over the past 20+ years, old animosities die hard. Though a small step, this announcement is but one of many we will see in coming days, and it is a long overdue step, one refreshingly taken in the right direction.

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Sen. Marco Rubio Leads Predictable Republican Whinefest Over Obama’s New Cuba Policy

After President Obama announced a new policy shift with Cuba Wednesday, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) led the predictable Republican outrage. Specifically, Rubio called Obama a weak negotiator and said Congress will not lift the embargo.

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The White House Delivers The Facts On President Obama’s New Course on Cuba

The following is a fact sheet from the White House Office of the Press Secretary on the President’s plan to chart a new course on Cuba. President Obama will be speaking about this at noon on Wednesday the 17th.

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Drudge Suggests Obama Blackmailed Boehner to Get Funding Bill Passed

Because he can’t admit to the most likely explanation, insanity in his own party, Matt Drudge tweets the least likely explanation, blackmail

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Lynching Obama

Republicans just can’t get over the fact that they can no longer get together and lynch the black guy they found in the white neighborhood

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Of Black Men and Sea Changes – and Hope

Barack Obama and John Boyega were both attacked for taking a traditional white man’s role: president and storm trooper

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GOP Senator Lindsey Graham Thinks Release Of CIA Torture Report “Politically Motivated”

On Tuesday, after Senate Democrats released a detailed report showing the CIA’s use of torture was both ineffective and far more expansive than previously acknowledged, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) released a statement where he said that the release of the report was “politically motivated.”

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President Obama Takes Over Stephen Colbert’s Job With Ease During Appearance On Show

With The Colbert Report wrapping up it nine-year run this month as host Stephen Colbert moves to CBS to take over David Letterman’s spot, the show was able to pull off a bit of a coup by booking President Obama as a guest Monday.

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MSNBC Contributor Calls Out Media For Not Covering Obama’s Initiatives In Wake Of Ferguson

During Monday morning’s episode of Morning Joe, MSNBC contributor Dorian Warren called out the media for not giving proper coverage or discussion over the initiatives laid out by President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder in the wake of high-profile killings by police.

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Gun Nuts Threaten President Over Something He Hasn’t Even Done

The Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), regulates the international trade in things like small arms, battle tanks, combat aircraft and warships, so why the hate?

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Islamophobic Teacher Who Wanted Obama To Die From Ebola Resigns With Three Months’ Pay

Angela Box, a third-grade teacher of mostly minority children in Houston, has resigned and will receive three months’ pay after she made controversial and bigoted remarks in November about Muslims and President Obama.

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Fox News Blames Obama for Apartheid, Racist Cops, and GOP Jobs Obstruction

The latest “blame Obama” crusade is reaction to the President’s request for funding to train and outfit racist cops with body cameras.

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President Obama Will Request $263 Million To Outfit Law Enforcement With Body Cameras

President Obama will announce on Monday a proposal to provide $263 million in funds over a three-year period to outfit 50,000 police officers across the nation with body cameras.

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Republican Who Attacked Obama Girls Was Arrested as a Teenager for Misdemeanor Larceny

Elizabeth Lauten was arrested as a teenager in December 2000 for misdemeanor larceny, according to court records reported by the Smoking Gun.

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Archbishop of Chicago Defends Obama’s Immigration Executive Action

Immigration reform is not just something the bishops want, says Cupich, but God himself. How successful will the GOP be saying ‘no’ to God?

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President Obama Single-Handedly Protects Americans’ Health and Combats Climate Change

Now, every Republican and related conservative is under the illusion that providing for the general welfare means providing for the fossil fuel industry, corporations, the wealthy, Christian clergy, and financial sector’s general welfare, but that is not what the Founding Fathers or the first four American presidents believed; neither does President Barack Obama.

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Tom Tancredo Says Republicans in Congress Have Stockholm Syndrome

Tancredo says GOP is impotent. Impotent yes. Because they’re ideologically blinkered idiots. Not because they identify with their “captor” Obama.

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Giving Thanks And Keeping It Real

In our complex, contemporary America, finding reasons to give thanks, especially in wake of Ferguson, are becoming more and more elusive.

GOP Fail: Almost Half a Million People Sign Up for Obamacare in First Week

Almost half a million people signed up for Obamacare in one week.

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Republicans Go Into Racist Overdrive By Blaming Obama For Ferguson

Representative Peter King (R-NY) told Fox Business on Tuesday that the way to fix this Ferguson deal is for President Obama to invite Darren Wilson over to sort of make up for months of “smear and slander”.

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Republicans Wrong: 135 Legal Scholars Say Obama’s Immigration Actions Are Constitutional

135 legal and immigration scholars say that President Obama’s immigration actions are well within the legal authority of the executive branch.

President Obama Honors the ‘Class and Integrity Chuck Hagel Has Always Represented’

Saying it was Secretary Chuck Hagel’s decision to step down as Secretary of Defense, President Obama praised the Republican as an “exemplary defense secretary.”

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Chuck Norris Dares Obama to Mention God on Thanksgiving – Cue Fox & Friends Smear

After twisting Washington’s words to attack Obama, when, in fact, they defend Obama, Norris dares Obama to be like Washington even though he already is

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Immigration and the Shoddy Pretense of Journalism that is CNN

In examining the GOP’s wild accusations of Obama “lawlessness,” CNN declines to go beyond GOP talking points to the facts themselves

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House Report: No Benghazi Coverup. Republican Response? Broaden Investigation

in response to the House investigation proving there was no Benghazi coverup, Republicans, looking for a different answer want a Senate investigation

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The Cloyingly Sweet Rot of Nationalism

Love of country should never be fueled hate. It should be sufficient unto itself, desirable for its own sake. It should be its own end, not an excuse

Watch Live As President Obama Announces Executive Action for Immigration Reform

Live video of President Obama’s immigration address to the nation.

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St. Louis Cop Who Killed Black Teenager Identified As Obama-Hating Gun-Loving Racist

The St. Louis police officer who shot and killed 18-year-old Vonderrit Myers, Jr. last month was inadvertently identified by the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department when his name was included in an evidence envelope when Myers’ body was delivered to the funeral home.

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Pelosi Slams Republican Failure While Praising Obama for Strong Leadership

Pelosi detailed the threats Republicans have been making against President Obama for doing what all modern presidents before him have done, and then urged people not to listen to Republicans on immigration reform, saying we “welcome President Obama’s meaningful, courageous and imminent action.”

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