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Massachusetts Voters Move To Ban Trump From The Ballot
Things are going from bad to worse for Trump, as voters in Massachusetts have filed legal action to bar him from the state’s presidential ballot.
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Indicted Felon Trump Greeted With Handshakes From Law Enforcement In Massachusetts
Trump arrived in Massachusetts and was greeted by a group of law enforcement officers who wanted to shake his hand.
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Trump Lashes Out at GOP Massachusetts Governor for Defending Mail-In Ballots
Donald Trump has slammed the Republican governor of Massachusetts after he defended mail-in voting and criticized the President for refusing to commit to a peaceful transition of power. Governor Charlie Baker said he was appalled by Trump’s suggestion he might not leave office if he loses in November. Baker made the comments on Thursday, having…
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Barack Obama: We’re Still Waiting for ‘A Coherent National Plan’ on Coronavirus
Barack Obama has subtly criticized President Donald Trump about his Coronavirus response yet again. The former president said there was no plan to deal with the crisis. Obama shared a New Yorker article on Twitter about Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker’s reaction to the virus. Baker has gone on the “offensive” and he’s also a Republican. “While we…
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AG Lynch Addresses The Post-Election Hate Crime Epidemic in Video Statement
“We still have a long way to go to ensure that every American can live free from the fear of violence or harassment based what they look like, how they worship, or whom they love.”
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Marching Backwards: Voters In Missouri Decide To Strip Civil Rights From LGBT Residents
Springfield voters repealed a non-discrimination ordinance on Tuesday, but the vote was very close in the Bible Belt community.
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First Popularly Elected Black Senator Edward Brooke Dies
The first African American to be elected by popular vote to serve in the U.S. Senate has passed away at the age of 95. Edward Brooke (R-MA) was the first black Senator to win an election after the 17th Amendment was ratified in 1913, allowing for the direct election of U.S. Senators. His victory came over…
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Bill Clinton Says Eric Garner “Didn’t Deserve To Die” For Selling Untaxed Cigarettes
In an interview with Fusion that will air in its entirety Tuesday evening, former President Bill Clinton told interviewer Jorge Ramos that Eric Garner did not deserve to die for the minor crime of selling untaxed cigarettes.
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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.
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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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Rachel Maddow Debunks GOP Gubernatorial Candidate’s Bogus Heart-Tugging Campaign Story
On Thursday night’s episode of The Rachel Maddow Show, host Rachel Maddow focused on Massachusetts’ gubernatorial race between Democrat Martha Coakley and Republican Charlie Baker. She discussed an emotional story by Baker that may be completely made-up.
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GOP Senate Candidate Scott Brown Is Not Only A Carpetbagger, But Also A Total Hypocrite
In an article that ran Wednesday in the Washington Post, Sean Sullivan pointed out that during his time in the Senate, Brown missed all six hearings that the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee held, even though Brown was a committee member
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Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Pats Female Reporter And Calls Her ‘Sweetheart’
On Tuesday, Republican candidate for Massachusetts Governor, Charlie Baker, called a Boston-area female reporter ‘sweetheart’ and patted her on her shoulder after she asked him a question.
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It’s Time to Give Anti-Choice Zealots A Taste of Their Own Medicine
Freedom of speech goes both ways and it is high time to give back to religious extremists what they dole out against women with impunity; and Supreme Court approval.
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GOP Carpetbagger Scott Brown Trails Democratic Incumbent By Double Digits In Senate Race
A new poll released Thursday by Suffolk University and the Boston Herald shows that Republican Scott Brown trails Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) by 10 points in his bid to defeat the incumbent.
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Happy New Year: Minimum Wage Workers in 13 States Will Get Automatic Pay Raise
Minimum wage workers in over a dozen US states have something to celebrate as they ring in the new year — a pay raise.
As He Gears Up For Another Senate Run, Scott Brown Forgets What State He’s In
Scott Brown wants to run for Senate in New Hampshire in 2014. It would help if he remembered the state’s name.
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IT’S TEOTWAWKI REDUX, NOT! Obamacare And The Exploitation of Technology Fear.
The right-wing uses the people’s fear of new technology to try to stop “Obamacare”. Many experts said that Y2K would lead to TEOFTWAWKI (the end of the world as we know it).
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How The Tea Party and Republicans Continue to Blow Golden Opportunities
The Tea Party and the Republicans could have led a much-needed national debate about the role and size of the federal government during this shutdown, but they haven’t.
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From The Boston Marathon to West, TX, The Cost of the Sequester Hits Home
With more than 780 troops still on state active duty in Massachusetts, the National Guard’s warning about the sequester cuts should serve as an impetus for Republicans.
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Plouffe Points Out that Romney Will Rubber Stamp the Tea Party Agenda
On ‘Meet the Press’ this morning, Senior Advisor David Plouffe pointed out that Mitt Romney would be a rubberstamp for the Tea Party if elected.
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What You Need to Know About Voting in States Affected by Sandy
Election officials in several states are dealing with a variety of issues that come with whole communities being evacuated, poll stations being seriously damaged or destroyed.
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25 Americans Are Dead Because Romney Believes Government Oversight Restricts Profits
There are 25 dead Americans because Romney believes government oversight restricts corporate profits, and that a company with a poor safety record should be allowed to regulate themselves.
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The Boston Globe Endorses President Obama Over Their Former Gov Romney
Today, the real blow for Romney comes from Massachusetts, where he was Governor. The Boston Globe has endorsed President Obama.
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Romney Claimed Bain Didn’t Attract Women, But 30% of Harvard Business Grads Were Female
Romney said Bain is ‘a profession that has yet to attract many women and minorities’ but at the time, almost 30% of Harvard Business School were women.
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Mitt Romney’s Binders Full of Women is a Trapper Keeper Full of Lies
Romney never asked for those binders full of women. So, not only was his comment strikingly offensive in its insensitivity, but it wasn’t even true.
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Is Mitt Romney Mentally Ill?
Mitt Romney is a pathological liar, a hypocrite, and deceitful in words and deeds, it is about time his possible mental illness, Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASP), is discussed.
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Romney’s 800 Vetoes Shatter His Bipartisan Myth
Romney claims he had a bipartisan record as Governor, but history tells another story. He issued 800 vetoes, most of which were overturned.
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Elizabeth Warren Leads by 5 as Scott Brown Spins his Wheels Towards Defeat
Sen. Scott Brown’s personal attacks are getting him nowhere against Elizabeth Warren, as the Democrat continues to lead the Massachusetts Senate race 50%-45%.
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Romney Called Out Scott Brown as the GOP Obstructionist He Is
Mitt Romney said Scott Brown was sent to DC to stop ObamaCare, calling out Brown as a Republican obstructionist sent to DC to do the Republicans’ bidding
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Mitt and Ann Romney Reveal Themselves to be Arrogant Contemptible Elitists
Americans have had an opportunity to become familiar with Willard and Ann Romney over the past couple of months, and they have revealed themselves to be arrogant contemptible elitists.
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Familiarity Breeds Contempt as Home States Reject Romney/Ryan
If Romney loses Michigan or Massachusetts and wins the White House, he will be the first candidate since 1916 to lose his home state and win the presidency. He’s not only losing his two home states, but Ryan’s as well.
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Deval Patrick Rocks the Convention With Impassioned Call for Obama
Deval Patrick issued a fiery call to Democrats to rally around Obama, implying that Romney is more interested in having the job than doing it
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Paul Ryan: A One-Man Fiscal Cliff?
Does Romney’s choice of Paul Ryan as his running mate signal his campaign is tacking to the right again, or is Ryan tacking left? It seems the first casualty will be Ryan’s near-universally reviled budget plan, but can Mitt really defang Ryan and get him ready for primetime?
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The Failure of Austerity Demonstrated by Scott Walker and Mitt Romney
Romney and Walker each pushed austerity politics only to end up with abysmal job records, yet polls say gullible voters keep supporting them.
Unions Betray Their Economic Self-Interest By Supporting Brown Over Elizabeth Warren
There was a time when union members voted in their own economic self-interest. Unfortunately, this seems to be changing in Massachusetts where Scott Brown leads Elizabeth Warren with union members.
Elizabeth Warren Leads Scott Brown In Massachusetts Senate Nail-biter
A new WMUR poll of Massachusetts finds Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren holding a narrow lead over Republican Senator Scott Brown, 46%-43%. The WMUR poll shows the race between Warren and Brown to be as close as close can be. Not only is Warren’s three point lead within the poll’s margin of error, but both candidates…
Jon Stewart Hammers Martha Coakley’s Campaign Gaffes
Right wingers are always complaining about how that mean liberal Jon Stewart is always picking on them and their network Fox News, well on Monday night’s The Daily Show, Stewart unloaded on the gaffe riddled campaign of Democratic Senate candidate Martha Coakley. Check out the video.
Former Presidents Carter, Bush, and Clinton React to the Death of Ted Kennedy
Reaction is still coming in from all over the political world to the news that Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) lost his battle with brain cancer and passed away last night. Former Presidents Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, and Jimmy Carter have all released statements remembering Kennedy.
Home of the Whopper: Burger King Costs Taxpayers $273 Million a Year
Not only did Goldman Sachs take $10 billion in TARP money and pay out $6.5 billion in bonuses, but
Endangered: Republicans Only Have an Advantage in 5 States
A new Gallup analysis of their 2008 polling data has found that not only has the electoral map sh
Kerry Or Richardson For Secretary of State
A note in an AP story Rahm Emanuel being offered the chief of staff job caught my attention. According to some Democrats, John Kerry would like to be Secretary of State, but the freshly shaven Bill Richardson would also like the job, and let’s not forget the role of Joe Biden.
A Liberal’s View of the Republican National Convention: Day 3
I got home a little late tonight and got in just as Carly Fiorina, former CEO of Hewlett Packard, is speaking. I’ll leave her “comments” alone as I didn’t see all of it. I’ll start tonight’s “running diary” of the GOP convention with the first speaker I had the opportunity to fully observe.
8:08pm—Mitt Romney’s on stage. Wait, what? Romney’s on stage? Who decided to let him out of the Christian fundamentalist doghouse?
Poll: Obama Leads McCain by 21 in Connecticut
A new poll of the state of Connecticut released today by Quinnipiac University shows Barack Obama leading John McCain, 56%-35%. This poll is in line with a growing state by state trend towards double digit leads for Barack Obama.
Poll Update: Obama Leads McCain by 13 in Massachusetts
A new Survey USA poll of that state of Massachusetts released today shows that despite losing the Democratic primary to Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama has sprinted out to a 13 point lead over John McCain, 53%-40%. As is becoming the norm with these state polls, Obama leads with women and McCain with men.
Update On and Obama’s Reaction to, Ted Kennedy’s Illness
A statement from the office of Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) clarified that the Senator did not have a stroke, but is instead undergoing tests after suffering a seizure.
Ted Kennedy Suffers a Stroke
Click here for the updated story The Boston Globe is reporting that family members have been summoned to Boston after Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA) was airlifted to Massachusetts General Hospital from Hyannis Port after he suffered a stroke this morning.
Former DNC Chair Kirk Endorses Barack Obama
Former DNC Chairman and Massachusetts superdelegate Paul G. Kirk Jr. announced his endorsement of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama this morning.
Discouraging Signs on Universal Health Care in Massachusetts
Last year, revolutionary legislation went into effect in Massachusetts mandating health coverage for all citizens of the Bay State. Because universal health coverage is one of would-be President Barack Obama’s big tickets, this might qualify as a teachable moment.
The “Madness” of Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton seems to be in a lot of trouble. Her campaign may be running out of steam. And eventually, money, as she simply cannot compete with Barack Obama in fundraising numbers. And almost day by day, it seems someone else is calling for her to get out of the race.
The Homopoliticus: The “Madness” of Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton seems to be in a lot of trouble. Her campaign may be running out of steam. And eventually, money, as she simply cannot compete with Barack Obama in fundraising numbers. And almost day by day, it seems someone else is calling for her to get out of the race.
Obama Challenges Clinton on Experience Claims
The Barack Obama campaign has jumped on the opening created by Hillary Clinton’s absurd Bosnia exaggeration to add a few of their own choices to Clinton’s list.
Barack Obama’s Catholic Problem
One story and demographic that has been more or less constant for Barack Obama has been his struggle to win Catholic voters.
