Friday, August 31, 2012
Hardball: Fact checking Paul Ryan: truths vs. views
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Hardball: Plotting a one-term presidency
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Ryan’s Speech Contained a Litany of Falsehoods And Mitt Romney, in his acceptance speech on Thursday night, asserted that President Obama’s policies had “not helped create jobs” and that Mr. Obama had gone on an “apology tour” for America. He also warned that the president’s Medicare cuts would “hurt today’s seniors,” claims that have already been labeled false or misleading.- NYTimes.com
Ryan’s Speech Contained a Litany of Falsehoods - NYTimes.com: ""And Mitt Romney, in his acceptance speech on Thursday night, asserted that President Obama’s policies had “not helped create jobs” and that Mr. Obama had gone on an “apology tour” for America. He also warned that the president’s Medicare cuts would “hurt today’s seniors,” claims that have already been labeled false or misleading.
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Thursday, August 30, 2012
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
NBCNews.com video: Rewriting Republican policy on rape
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Rachel Maddow: Voting rights battle rages in Ohio
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Sunday, August 26, 2012
Up w/ Chris Hayes: Urban vs. suburban area culture wars
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Up w/ Chris Hayes: The future of the GOP
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Up w/ Chris Hayes: The history of backlash politics
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Up w/ Chris Hayes: Diversity within the Republican party
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Up w/ Chris Hayes: Will the GOP actually shrink government?
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Up w/ Chris Hayes: Who controls the Republican party?
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Up w/ Chris Hayes: The modern day GOP
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Romney Caught Lying About His Role At Bain Capital - Mitt Romney Reaped Huge Tax Benefits Based On 'Active' Role At Bain Capital
Mitt Romney Reaped Huge Tax Benefits Based On 'Active' Role At Bain Capital: "'As we have said many times before, Governor and Mrs. Romney's assets are managed on a blind basis. They do not control the investment of these assets. The investment decisions are made by a trustee,' spokeswoman Michele Davis said.
But according to his 2010 tax return, when the Internal Revenue Service comes calling in April, Romney has a different answer: The presumptive GOP nominee reaps lucrative tax breaks for 'active' participation in the private equity firm he founded, as well as a host of other investments.
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Saturday, August 25, 2012
Friday, August 24, 2012
Hardball: Romney, why so secretive?
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The Last Word: The Conservative party America needs
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The Last Word Tax expert: New docs strongly suggest 'tax avoidance' by Romney
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Thursday, August 23, 2012
Rachel Maddow: Ryan forgets hes seeking national office
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The Last Word: Romneys big lies on Medicare and welfare reform - The Media and American People Must Demand That Romney's Lying Stop. (It is one thing to exaggerate during a campaign. Hyperbole is to be expected but purposefully lying is beyond the pale.)
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Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Health Experts Dismiss Assertions on Rape - NYTimes.com
Representative Todd Akin’s assertion that women who are victims of “legitimate rape” rarely get pregnant provoked outrage across the political spectrum, but the views he articulated are far from new in anti-abortion circles.
The idea that during rape, “the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down” to prevent pregnancy, as Mr. Akin said, has surfaced periodically among anti-abortion advocates over the past two decades, usually involving the term “forcible rape” to refer to what Mr. Akin called “legitimate.”
Dr. John C. Willke, a general practitioner with obstetric training and a former president of the National Right to Life Committee, was an early proponent of this view, articulating it in a book originally published in 1985 and again in a 1999 article. He reiterated it in an interview Monday.
“This is a traumatic thing — she’s, shall we say, she’s uptight,” Dr. Willke said of a woman being raped, adding, “She is frightened, tight, and so on. And sperm, if deposited in her vagina, are less likely to be able to fertilize. The tubes are spastic.”
Leading experts on reproductive health, however, dismissed this logic.
“There are no words for this — it is just nuts,” said Dr. Michael Greene, a professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive biology at Harvard Medical School.
Dr. David Grimes, a clinical professor in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of North Carolina, said, that “to suggest that there’s some biological reason why women couldn’t get pregnant during a rape is absurd.”
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The Last Word: A history of re-defining rape
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The Last Word: The Ryan-Akin connection
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Monday, August 20, 2012
Romney & Ryan's positions on Abortion. Ryan's view is exactly the same as Aiken!
Abortion exceptions
"Ryan opposes abortion under all circumstances, unless the procedure is deemed necessary to save the mother’s life. Romney says he would allow exceptions for cases of rape and incest.
Ryan is a co-sponsor of the Sanctity of Human Life Act, which defines a fertilized egg as a human being — similar to recent “personhood” efforts in a handful of states. He also won his seat in 1998 by running to his opponent’s right on abortion and emphasizing no exceptions. Romney has suggested he supports a constitutional personhood legislation, but has also said that he would allow for abortions in cases of rape and incest."
Sunday, August 19, 2012
Melissa Harris-Perry: Mitt Romneys lip service to education
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Melissa Harris-Perry: The politics of debt
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Good Look: 'We are all Sikh now' - Melissa Harris-Perry
Last weekend, Melissa offered a moving response to America's latest mass shooting, a senseless act of violence interrupting preparations for a birthday lunch at a Sikh temple outside Milwaukee. In her Footnote, Melissa made reference to Sikh documentarian and activistValarie Kaur who was on the ground in Oak Creek speaking with and documenting the community's recovery. Valarie had already written what I considered the most necessary piece in the days immediately following the shooting, writing in the Washington Post that the media shorthand "mistaken identity" -- describing how the white-supremacist killer may have thought Sikhs were Muslims, because we can get why they would be targeted -- should be forever retired.....
Saturday, August 18, 2012
Up w/ Chris Hayes: What is next for Julian Assange?
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Up w/ Chris Hayes: The diplomatic standoff over Assange
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Up w/ Chris Hayes: Ryan releases two years of tax returns
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Up w/ Chris Hayes: Ryan releases two years of tax returns: ""
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