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Tiger Woods Hires Ari Fleischer.
The New York Post reports that golfer Tiger Woods has hired former Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer to help repair his public image: Two sources in the golf community have told The Post that Ari Fleischer, the former presidential advisor to George W. Bush and the man who was brought in to help repair [...]...

NJ Superior Court Judge Reprimanded For Mocking One Defendant’s English, Comparing Another To O.J. Simpson
The Associated Press reports that the New Jersey Supreme Court has chastised Superior Court Judge James N. Citta, who “belittled an immigrant defendant’s poor English skills and compared another defendant to O.J Simpson.” Citta demeaned a Mexican immigrant who, after pleading guilty to violating his parole, explained that he failed to follow its [...]...

170 House Republicans Rebuff Steele By Voting To Ban RNC’s ‘Census’ Mailer.
Under Chairman Michael Steele, the Republican National Committee has been using controversial mailers posing as official Census documents to raise money. “Calling itself the ‘Congressional District Census,’ the letter comes in an envelope starkly printed with the words, ‘DO NOT DESTROY OFFICIAL DOCUMENT’ and describes itself, on the outside of the envelope, as a [...]...

TurboTax Drops Glenn Beck, Whose Show Has Gone Without Ads For More Than A Month In The UK.
Yesterday, StopBeck.com announced that TurboTax has become the 120th advertiser to drop Fox News host Glenn Beck. In an announcement on Twitter, TurboTax stated: Thanks everyone for your feedback, & for reminding us of what we value. We’ve pulled advertising from the Glenn Beck show. TurboTax’s decision to pull out of Beck’s show came just two [...]...

ThinkFast: March 11, 2010
Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) issued a new directive yesterday distancing himself from Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s effort to strip protections for LGBT students from all state colleges and university non-discrimination policies. McDonnell initially supported Cuccinelli’s legal reasoning, but he subsequently received significant criticism from college students and faculty members. M...

CNN’s Crowley Suggests Democrats Debated Afghanistan Exit Strategy To ‘Make The Massa Story Go Away’
Today, the House of Representatives is debating H. Con Res. 248, a privileged resolution brought to the floor by Reps. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), Walter Jones (R-NC), and others that required Congress to debate whether or not to continue the war in Afghanistan. During one point in the debate, Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) delivered an impassioned [...]...

Six Democrats Side With Banks, Ask For ‘Alternative’ To Landmark Student Lending Reform
One of the greatest hardships facing America’s college students is student debt; the average student in the class of 2008 graduated with $23,000 of debt, “a figure 25 percent higher than what their older brothers and sisters owed when they graduated from college in 2004.” To tackle this student debt crisis, last year the House [...]...

Ignoring His Own Votes, Bond Claims Reconciliation ‘Cannot’ Be Used For ‘Major’ Legislation
Repeating conservative lies about reconciliation, Sen. Kit Bond (R-MO) told MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell today that reconciliation for health care reform “procedurally cannot be done.” Claiming it was never used for major legislation without “overwhelming bipartisan support,” Bond predicted the Senate will ultimately not be able to pass the health care bill through the rec...

Health Insurance Lobby Leaves The Door Open To Supporting A GOP Repeal Of Health Reform
America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), the lobbying juggernaut for the health insurance industry, hosted its annual conference at the Ritz Carlton this week. As a vote on health legislation nears, the industry announced yesterday that it is funding a new round of national ads aimed at killing reform. The insurance industry has attacked every version [...]...

Even Though Bush Used False WMD Claims To Justify Iraq War, Rove Claims They Dealt With ‘Reality’
In his book that was released this week, former top Bush aide Karl Rove claimed that President Bush would not have authorized an invasion of Iraq in 2003 if he had known Saddam Hussein did not have weapons of mass destruction. “Would the Iraq War have occurred without W.M.D.? I doubt it,” Rove writes. “The [...]...

Limbaugh Now Says He Won’t Move To Costa Rica — Will Just Go There To Use Its Public Health System
On Monday, hate radio host Rush Limbaugh pledged to leave the country and go to Costa Rica if Congress successfully passes and implements its health care legislation. Yesterday, Limbaugh claimed that he never said he’d leave the country. The host explained that what he meant was that he would go to Costa Rica to [...]...

American Petroleum Institute Uses Stock Photos Of ‘Americans’ To Defend Oil Subsidies
Big Oil is using fake “Americans” to defend billions in tax subsidies. The American Petroleum Institute is running full-page ads in Politico and Roll Call that attack Congress for “new energy taxes”: Congress will likely consider new taxes on America’s oil and natural gas industry. These new energy taxes will produce wide-reaching effects, and ripple through [...]...

Archdiocese Responds To Controversy Over Its Decision To Kick Children With Lesbian Parents Out Of School.
Last week, officials “at Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic School, acting at the direction of the Archdiocese of Denver,” decided to not re-enroll two unnamed children because their parents were lesbians. Following fierce protests of the decision, the Archbishop of Denver has written an op-ed where he says the Church “does not claim” that [...]...

‘Jihad Jane’ Undermines Right-Wing Calls For Profiling Based On The Myth That All Terrorists ‘Look Alike’
Since the Ft. Hood shooting and the failed Christmas Day terror attack, some on the right have stepped up their calls for ethnic “profiling” and “discrimination,” with former House Speaker Newt Gingrich saying the Obama administration is more interested in “protecting the rights of terrorists” than “protecting the lives of Americans.” Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s [......

Netanyahu Apologizes For Settlements News, Despite Recently Appearing With Pro-Settlement Cleric Hagee
On Monday, the day Vice-President Joe Biden was to arrive in Israel, the Israeli government announced approval for 112 new homes in Beitar Illit, an ultra-Orthodox settlement near Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, despite having agreed in November to curb settlement growth in partial fulfillment of Israel’s obligations under the Bush administration road [...]...

Mukasey Calls Liz Cheney’s ‘Al-Qaeda 7′ Ad ‘shoddy And Dangerous.’
Yesterday, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) joined a growing chorus of conservatives condemning the McCarthy-like tactics of Keep America Safe, the new group led by Bill Kristol and Liz Cheney, which recently released an ad questioning the loyalties of Justice Department lawyers who were once involved in representing al-Qaeda terror suspects. Today in the Wall Street [...]...

ThinkFast: March 10, 2010
Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN), who is a playing “a crucial role in bipartisan negotiations over financial regulation,” pushed to “remove a provision from draft legislation that would have empowered federal authorities to crack down on payday lenders. … The industry is politically influential in his home state and a significant contributor to his campaigns, records [...]...

Beck: The Census Is The Government’s Attempt To ‘Increase Slavery’
The Census is a popular topic of right-wing...

Will Tea Parties Embrace Movement Pushing To Portray Women From Mexico As ‘Welfare Queens’?
Erin Rosa of Campus Progress reports that NumbersUSA, a “mainstream” immigration restrictionist group with troublesome ties to hate groups, hosted a public conference call last night to discuss “a variety of tactics to thwart an upcoming march on Washington DC by immigrant rights supporters.” One tactic proposed on the call involves portraying women from Mexico [...]...

Graham Condemns Keep America Safe’s Attacks On DOJ Lawyers As ‘shameful.’
In recent days, prominent conservatives have denounced a McCarthyite ad questioning the loyalties of Justice Department lawyers who have represented Guantanamo detainees in the past. The ad was produced by Keep America Safe, the new group led by Bill Kristol and Liz Cheney. Today, Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-SC) added his name to the opposition: “I’ve been [...]...

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