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Poll finds large majorities favor rights of gays to adopt, serve in the military. 
Ali Frick via Think Progress on Wed, 03 Dec. 2008
A new poll commissioned by the LGBT advocacy group GLAAD found encouraging news for supporters of gay rights:
– Three-quarters of U.S. adults (75%) favor either marriage or domestic pa
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White House Still Won’t Use The Word ‘Recession,’ Press Corps Doesn’t Seem To Notice
Ryan Powers via Think Progress on Wed, 03 Dec. 2008
Early last month, a reporter asked Assistant White House Press Secretary Tony Fratto why the White House refuses to use the word “recession.” The reporter quipped, “Is that word radioactive?” Fratto demurred, saying, “we don’t make those
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Blackwater plans new mission: fighting pirates.
Faiz Shakir via Think Progress on Wed, 03 Dec. 2008
The private security firm Blackwater is planning to offer a new service to make money: protection from the pirate-infested waters off the coast of East Africa. “Blackwater’s push to land its first antipiracy contract is part of a strategy to build its business outside its State Department security work in Iraq, which brin
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Hannity: ‘If You Don’t Listen To Talk Radio, If You Don’t Watch Fox News,’ You’re Misinformed
Ali Frick via Think Progress on Wed, 03 Dec. 2008
Last night, Fox’s Hannity & Colmes hosted John Ziegler, author of a push poll attempting to prove that voters who supported Barack Obama were misinformed. Hannity used Ziegler’s study to complain that Obama supporters didn’t know about “really significant issues” like Bill Ayers and Ob
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Novak: ‘I Don’t Think I Hurt Valerie Plame’ And I Would Out Her Again Because The Left ‘Tried To Ruin Me’
Ben Armbruster via Think Progress on Wed, 03 Dec. 2008
During a recent interview with the National Ledger, conservative columnist Robert Novak was asked if he would reveal Valerie Plame Wilson’s secret CIA identity if he could go back and do it all over again. Novak not
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Retired generals meet with Obama to urge a clean break from Bush’s detainee policies.
Matt Corley via Think Progress on Wed, 03 Dec. 2008
Addressing speculation that he “is unlikely to radically overhaul controversial Bush administration intelligence policies,” President-elect Barack Obama pledged last month to end torture as part of “an effort to regain America’s moral stature in th
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Kristol: ‘We won the war’ in Iraq.
Ben Armbruster via Think Progress on Wed, 03 Dec. 2008
Last night in New York, ABC News correspondent John Donovan moderated a debate between the Weekly Standard’s Bill Kristol, former Bush aide Karl Rove, Slate editor Jacob Weisber
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UN Ambassador-nominee Susan Rice: I’m not going to ask John Bolton for advice.
Matt Corley via Think Progress on Wed, 03 Dec. 2008
Yesterday, President-elect Barack Obama formally named Susan Rice as his nominee to be U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. After the press conference, Rice spoke to The New Republic’s Dayo Olopade,
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O’Reilly Uses Doctored Photo Of NBC President
Ali Frick via Think Progress on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
Last July, Fox and Friends aired doctored photos of New York Times reporter Jacques Steinberg and editor Steven Reddicliffe while attacking them for writing stories critical of Fox News. As Media Matters noted, “the journalists’ teeth had been yellowed, their facial features exaggerated, and portions of Reddicliffe’s hair moved furt
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Chambliss: Don’t Call My Support For Privatizing Social Security ‘Privatization’
(unknown author) via Think Progress on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
During an interview with Hannity and Colmes last night, Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) falsely claimed that he "never sought to privatize social security":
COLMES: Do you acknowledge now that, had we privatized Social Security, as you wanted to do, people would be suffering even more and losing their life's savings ...
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Bush strips collective bargaining rights from federal employees.
(unknown author) via Think Progress on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
Yesterday, President Bush issued an executive order "that denies collective bargaining rights to about 8,600 federal employees who work in law enforcement, intelligence and other agencies responsible for national security." 900 of the employees affected were already represented by collective bargaining units. Colleen Kelley, president of the National Treasury Employees ...
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After 9/11, Rove pressured the entertainment industry ‘to produce propaganda.’
(unknown author) via Think Progress on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
The New York Times reports today that shortly after 9/11, the White House met several times with "a delegation of high-level media executives, including the heads of every major studio," in order to discuss how "the entertainment industry could play a part in improving the image of the United States ...
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Chris Matthews: Obama’s cabinet looks like ‘the many faces of Benetton.’
(unknown author) via Think Progress on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
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Ladies and Gentlemen, the Honorable and Most Venerated Holy Senator from Pennsylvania.
Following President-elect Obama’s morning press conference announcing his national security team, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews praised the diversity of Obama’s cabi
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Ford CEO will drive to Washington for auto bailout hearings.
(unknown author) via Think Progress on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
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i kind of love this mental image of a man in hat and tails with a monocle demanding some paprika in his soup
The CEOs of the Big Three automakers were heavily criticized for flying pri
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O’Reilly Whitewashes Torture At Gitmo: ‘There’s Certainly No Proof That Ever Happened’
Ryan Powers via Think Progress on Mon, 01 Dec. 2008
Today on the Radio Factor, a listener called in to tell Bill O’Reilly that she had “zero confidence” in Obama’s ability to close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. In the course of her call, the listener expressed mock concern for the detainees that were mistreated there. O’Reilly, apparently missing
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Jeb Bush: GOP needs to set up ‘a shadow government.’
(unknown author) via Think Progress on Mon, 01 Dec. 2008
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aw poor jebby feels left out of the shadow government that's been in place since 1984
In an interview with the conservative online publication Newsmax, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said the GOP must broaden its appeal to avoid becoming “the old white-guy party,” and recommended that Republicans create a “
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Bush admin. proffers the ‘Chuck and Larry’ defense to deprive gay federal employees of health benefits.
(unknown author) via Think Progress on Mon, 01 Dec. 2008
In September, the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee considered legislation that would provide federal benefits to same-sex domestic partners of federal employees. Howard Weizmann, the deputy director of the U.S. Office Of Personnel Management, objected to the bill because it "could lead to fraud and abuse in the programs we administer." ...
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For Nearly A Year After Recession Started, Bush White House Insisted That ‘We’re Not In A Recession’
Matt Corley via Think Progress on Mon, 01 Dec. 2008
Earlier today, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) announced that “the U.S. has been in a recession since December 2007, making official what most Americans have already believed about the s
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Palin Recycles Old Stump Speech In Georgia, But Replaces ‘McCain’ With ‘Chambliss’
Ali Frick via Think Progress on Mon, 01 Dec. 2008
Today, Gov. Sarah Palin traveled to Georgia to campaign for Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R), who faces a tough runoff election tomorrow against Democratic challenger Jim Martin. In the first of four stops today, in Augusta, Palin told the crowd, “
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Fox News shut out again at Obama press conference.
(unknown author) via Think Progress on Mon, 01 Dec. 2008
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This is awesome
Fishbowl DC has been keeping tabs of which media outlets have been allowed to ask a question at President-elect Barack Obama’s five press conferences so far. They report Fox News is 0-5.
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