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Poll: Obama, Romney Close in Battleground States

Jeff Fecke — Thu, 31 May 2012 18:00:13 +0000

President Barack Obama has a narrow lead over former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney in Colorado and Nevada, and ties Romney in Iowa, according to an NBC/Marist poll released this morning. Obama leads Romney in Colorado 48 percent to 46 percent, and leads in Nevada 45 percent to 44 percent. In Iowa, the two candidates are [...]

Louisiana Approves Taxpayer Funding For School Operating “On Faith”

Judy Molland — Thu, 31 May 2012 17:40:00 +0000

Louisiana has been hard at work expanding its school voucher program recently, and the results are alarming. This is the same state that four years ago passed a law that encourages teachers to critique science such as evolution and global warming, although there is currently a push to put evolution back in the curriculum. Now [...]

Romney Touts Constitutional Amendment Disqualifying Eisenhower, Roosevelt and McCain From Being President

ThinkProgress — Thu, 31 May 2012 17:00:55 +0000

Written by Ian Millhiser At a campaign rally in Las Vegas yesterday, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney touted the idea of making anyone who does not have a business background as ineligible for the White House as if they had been born in Kenya: �I was speaking with one of these business owners who [...]

BREAKING: 1st Circuit Declares DOMA Unconstitutional

Jessica Pieklo — Thu, 31 May 2012 15:04:26 +0000

The 1st Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston ruled this morning that the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) denies a host of federal benefits to gay married couples and is therefore unconstitutional. The decision is not only a win for equal rights advocates, but a near dare to the Roberts Court to take up the [...]

Obama Wary of Using Force in Syria, Romney Urges Arming Rebels

Kristina Chew — Thu, 31 May 2012 14:58:57 +0000

The Houla massacre, in which over a hundred including dozens of children were slaughtered, has brought a new urgency to the crisis in Syria.

Some Florida Officials Challenge Voter Purge

Jessica Pieklo — Thu, 31 May 2012 14:18:43 +0000

Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) may be engaging in one of the most aggressive voter suppression drives in history, but at least one elections official will not participate. ThinkProgress reports that Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections Susan Bucher the state sent her office a list of 115 names it considered “sure matches” with a [...]

What Is Harper Afraid Of? Asks Franke James

Cathryn Wellner — Thu, 31 May 2012 05:00:59 +0000

When it comes to criticism of their environmental record, Canada’s federal Conservatives have a standard operating procedure: silence it. �So when visual essayist and activist Franke James was invited to Croatia, they quietly torpedoed the trip. If anyone is surprised that a democratic country would censor one of its artists, take a look at Annie [...]

Obama Still Can’t Say “Climate Change”

Tara Holmes — Thu, 31 May 2012 04:30:10 +0000

Climate change is a total downer. The topic is so dire and depressing in fact that very few media outlets even want to mention the phrase “climate change” or “global warming.” While that’s not entirely surprising, particularly given the right-wing funding pools of many mainstream media conglomerates (think Fox News), when our own President can’t [...]

What Is In The Budget Implementation Bill?

Amy Boughner — Thu, 31 May 2012 04:00:23 +0000

After the Harper government introduced the 2012 Economic Action Plan (read: budget), they had to introduce the budget implementation bill to Parliament. That implementation bill is numbered C-38 and titled by the government ‘The Jobs, Growth and Long-Term Prosperity Act.” This bill also happens to be 452 pages and contains some things that weren’t really [...]

Fox and Friends Create Anti-Obama Hit Piece (Video)

Jeff Fecke — Thu, 31 May 2012 01:15:16 +0000

The “Fair and Balanced” slogan of Fox News long ago became a punchline; it’s generally agreed by everyone that Fox is overwhelmingly hostile to Democrats and overly solicitous to Republicans. But even by the quasi-journalistic standards of Fox, this morning’s four-minute hit piece on Obama was remarkable. The ad — er, news piece, which Fox [...]