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US Sen. Frank Lautenberg dies at 89 - NorthJersey.com
NorthJersey.com
7 mentions — 2 weeks ago
Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J. walks to the Senate floor from a Democratic caucus meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013.The oldest member of the Senate, Lautenberg had struggled with health problems since late last year, when he missed several weeks of votes because of what ...
Inside The Meltdown At America's Most Conservative, Most Christian Political Consulting Firm
buzzfeed.com
7 mentions — 2 weeks ago
DELAWARE, Ohio — About 30 miles north of Columbus, down the road from a Walmart and across the street from a Walmart-sized Baptist church, a brick-faced Victorian estate stands alone in a meadow of persimmons. The building blends nicely into the landscape, except for two features: the fleet ...
All Good Things...
The Daily Beast
8 mentions — 2 weeks ago
So it's been a rough month for my family and me. It's been a rough month for the blog too. I'm well aware that people come here to read about public affairs, not personal losses.Unfortunately, family and personal matters must claim my attention for some time to come.
Why Does the American Media Get Big Stories Wrong?
The Atlantic
7 mentions — 2 weeks ago
A magazine publisher has written a provocative article raising that question. I try to offer some answers. In "Our American Pravda," Ron Unz, the businessman, writer and publisher of The American Conservative, argues that there is good reason to be alarmed by the failures of the American media.
Biden cancels annual summer beach party
POLITICO.com
8 mentions — 2 weeks ago
Vice President Joe Biden will not be throwing his annual beach party for journalists this summer, POLITICO has learned.Since 2010, Vice President Biden and Dr. Jill Biden have invited top journalists to their home at the Naval Observatory for a beach bash that has included Super Soaker fights,
Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY) Announces She Has Lung Cancer
TPM LiveWire
2 mentions — 2 weeks ago
Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY) announced in a statement Monday that she has a treatable form of lung cancer:“My recent annual health physical revealed that I, like so many millions of Americans, have a treatable form of cancer.“Several diagnostic tests have led to a diagnosis of lung cancer.A treatment ...
Why the GOP’s youth vote problem = President Obama
washingtonpost.com
2 mentions — 2 weeks ago
Deep in a lengthy report about where the GOP went wrong with young voters in 2012 and what it needs to do differently lies a point worth looking at in more detail: The Republican Party’s struggles with young people haven’t come because the Democratic Party has a glowing ...
How Obama's FBI Nominee James Comey Triggered the Plamegate Investigation
Mother Jones
7 mentions — 2 weeks ago
The pending nomination of James Comey to become FBI chief is a poke in the eye with a very sharp stick for the Cheney crowd. Comey, deputy attorney general during the W. years, has drawn criticism from civil libertarians for being part of an administration that waterboarded (though ...
Fuck the High Road: The Upside of Sinking to Their Level | The Nation
The Nation
4 mentions — 2 weeks ago
Don’t feed the trolls: it’s probably the most common refrain in online discussions, especially when dealing with misogynists in feminists conversations. The idea is that the best way to deal with sexists is to starve of them of the attention they’re so clearly desperate for. Besides, we think,
Flashback: Obama Promised Lower Health Care Insurance Premiums For Everyone
buzzfeed.com
5 mentions — 2 weeks ago
“If you already have health insurance, the only thing that will change for you under this plan is the amount of money you will spend on premiums. That will be less.” No so much in California…posted on June 3, 2013 at 4:28pm EDT When he was selling his ...
Plouffe Fires Back At 'Suspected Arsonist' Issa
TPM LiveWire
3 mentions — 2 weeks ago
David Plouffe, a former top adviser to President Barack Obama, took to Twitter on Sunday to issue a stinging rebuke to House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA). Earlier in the day, the California Republican had branded White House press secretary Jay Carney a "paid liar." That got ...
Florida 4-Year-Old Shoots Off Part Of His Finger With Gun He Found On Couch
TPM LiveWire
2 mentions — 2 weeks ago
A Lake County, Florida couple have been arrested on charges of child neglect after a 4-year-old shot off a piece of his finger with a gun that was left on their couch, WKMG Local 6 reports.Donald Greeson, 40, told police he had smoked marijuana and took prescription pills ...
Christ Christie Gives Eulogy For Sen. Frank Lautenberg
TPM LiveWire
2 mentions — 2 weeks ago
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (R) decided to forgo his planned address to the Governor's Conference on Women Monday and instead gave an impromptu eulogy for Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), the 89-year-old World War II vet who passed away earlier in the day.Christie admitted that he and the ...
Anatomy of a Bogus Obamacare Argument
New Republic
3 mentions — 2 weeks ago
If you want to know why we can’t have an honest debate about Obamacare, all you have to do is pay attention to some recent news from California—and the way a highly distorted version of it, by one irresponsible writer, has rippled through the conservative press.The news was ...
College Republicans Report: Damaged GOP Brand Cost 2012 Youth Vote
TPM LiveWire
2 mentions — 2 weeks ago
The College Republicans National Committee released a blistering postmortem study of the 2012 presidential election on Monday that finds the Republican Party's brand "in need of significant repair" if the GOP wants to win back the youth vote in future elections.The report, titled "Grand Old Party for a ...
GOP Report Warns Of Party’s Apocalypse With Young Voters
TPMDC
3 mentions — 2 weeks ago
The Republican Party’s troubles with young voters are well known. But a new internal report virtually elevates the threat level to apocalyptic, declaring that the GOP needs a “fundamental re-thinking” of its approach in order to remain viable with the younger generation.The 95-page report by the College National ...
Top Republican Won't Run for Capito Seat #WV02 - At the Races
At the Races
4 mentions — 2 weeks ago
State Del. Eric Nelson will not run for the GOP nomination to succeed Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., in the state’s 2nd District, according to two sources.But strategists from both parties envision scenarios in which the seat could flip to Democrats now that Capito will not be on the district ballot. Nelson was the favorite of top Republicans to run and had the potential to clear the GOP field.Now the primary is wide open. Last month, state and national sources named a number of Republicans as contenders for the seat.
Christie’s Choice: Lautenberg’s Death Leaves Gov A Tricky Pick
TPMDC
2 mentions — 2 weeks ago
Sen. Frank Lautenberg’s death Monday morning sets up a complicated succession process that will have implications for two Garden State politicians widely believed to hold national ambitions: Gov. Chris Christie (R) and Newark Mayor Cory Booker (D). With Lautenberg’s passing, it falls to Christie to appoint a temporary ...
Al-Qaida Sets Up a Complaints Department
NationalJournal.com
3 mentions — 2 weeks ago
Since taking over certain elements of civilian leadership in Iraq, Lebanon, and Syria, while also intensifying its fighting against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, al-Qaida is now looking for feedback from the public.The terrorist organization has set up a department for people of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq ...
Frank Lautenberg and the disappearing veterans of Congress
washingtonpost.com
2 mentions — 2 weeks ago
The death of Frank Lautenberg means that not a single one of the 115 World War II veterans who served in the Senate remain, the latest evidence of the rapid decline in members with military service.The numbers are striking. As recently as the 111th Congress, which ended January ...
Lindsey Graham: “No evidence” IRS was acting on White House instructions
salon.com
4 mentions — 2 weeks ago
Topics:Lindsey Graham,Barack Obama,Darrell Issa,IRS,Conservatives,Ohio, Politics News Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., says that there’s “no evidence” so far that IRS officials were acting based on directives form the White House when they targeted conservative groups.“I don’t believe this was something thought up in the Cincinnati office, but I have ...
Glenn Close: With mental health in mind, I'd do "Fatal Attraction" "totally differently"
CBS News Video
4 mentions — 2 weeks ago
In Washington, D.C. to help raise awareness of mental health issues, actress Glenn Close - founder of "BringChange2Mind" - told CBS News correspondent Major Garrett that her character in the 1987 psychological thriller "Fatal Attraction" contributed to the stigma of mental illness.New Jersey Democratic Senator Frank Lautenberg passed ...
KKK Invitations Taped To Mailboxes In Colorado Suburb
TPM LiveWire
2 mentions — 2 weeks ago
Several residents of Security-Widefield, Colo. received invitations to join the Ku Klux Klan on Sunday, according to the El Paso County Sheriff's Department.The Daily Gazette reports that residents of three suburbian streets found ziploc bags taped to their mailboxes containing racist literature with a phone number that when ...
Sen. Frank Lautenberg Dead At 89
TPM LiveWire
2 mentions — 2 weeks ago
Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), a stalwart in New Jersey politics who had planned to retire at the end of his fifth term next year, died Monday, NorthJersey.com reported. He was 89.
Issa Calls Carney A ‘Paid Liar’ (VIDEO)
TPM LiveWire
2 mentions — 2 weeks ago
Arguing that the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative groups stemmed from the agency’s headquarters in Washington, House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) blasted White House press secretary Jay Carney on Sunday, calling the spokesman a “paid liar.”“And the administration is still — their paid liar, their ...
Couple At Center Of Ricin Case Points Fingers At Each Other
TPMDC
3 mentions — 2 weeks ago
A Texas couple at the center of the investigation into ricin-tainted letters sent to President Barack Obama and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg are reportedly trading accusations back and forth. CBS News said Nathan Richardson told investigators his wife, Shannon, is attempting to frame him for the mailings.
Rove Says Bachmann 'Did Nothing'
TPM LiveWire
2 mentions — 2 weeks ago
Veteran Republican strategist Karl Rove wasn’t exactly lamenting Rep. Michele Bachmann’s (R-MN) decision to not seek re-election, saying Sunday that the Minnesota congresswoman “did nothing” in her role as the tea party’s leader on Capitol Hill.“Actually, it will be an opening for the tea party,” Rove said during ...
Carney Dismisses Darrel Issa's 'Paid Liar' Charge
TPM LiveWire
3 mentions — 2 weeks ago
White House press secretary Jay Carney on Monday dismissed comments made by House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) this weekend in which he called Carney a “paid liar" for the administration's response to the Internal Revenue Service scandal."I hadn't heard that. That's amazing," Carney quipped at a ...
Obama to nominate three judges Tuesday
POLITICO.com
2 mentions — 2 weeks ago
President Barack Obama on Tuesday will nominate three judges to serve on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, a White House official said Monday.Obama’s nominees are, Patricia Ann Millet, Cornelia Pillard and Robert Wilkins, who now sits on the D.C. District Court, for which he was confirmed unanimously ...
New data shows school “reformers” are full of it
salon.com
5 mentions — 2 weeks ago
Topics:Michelle Rhee,Education,Education Reform,Teachers,Poverty,Teachers Unions,Rahm Emanuel,Michael Bloomberg,Charter schools,New York City,Wall Street,Department of Education,economic inequality, Politics News In the great American debate over education, the education and technology corporations, bankrolled politicians and activist-profiteers who collectively comprise the so-called “reform” movement base their arguments on one central premise: that America should ...
Cambodia's Orphan-Industrial Complex
The Atlantic
2 mentions — 2 weeks ago
The country's orphanages are brimming, but along with brighter opportunities for poor kids come signs of long-lasting attachment issues.Seyma had a rebellious streak, and it came out strongest in the classroom. The 11-year-old Cambodian had some real authority as an assistant teacher, whichis to say translator. He liked ...
WSJ Editorial Board Member: NYC Bike-Share Program Has 'Begrimed' Best Neighborhoods
TPM LiveWire
3 mentions — 2 weeks ago
In a video interview posted Friday on the newspaper's website, Dorothy Rabinowitz, an editorial board member for the Wall Street Journal, disparaged New York City's recently launched bike-share program."Do not ask me to enter the mind of the totalitarians running this government of the city," Rabinowitz said when ...