Haley Barbour’s Increasingly Toxic Pre-Campaign for President
by Kai Wright on April 21 2011, 11:15AM
The Mississippi governor will be among the most serious 2012 GOP contenders, and that’s troubling.
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Tea Party’s Marilyn Davenport Apologizes for Obama Chimp Email
by Asraa Mustufa on April 21 2011, 9:55AM
But she’s still blaming the liberal left for picking up the story in the first place.
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Pastor Terry Jones Takes Anti-Muslim Campaign to Michigan
by Asraa Mustufa on April 21 2011, 9:55AM
This time the serial provocateur has popped up in Michigan.
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Arizona Welcomes Official Tea Party Flag
by Julianne Hing on April 20 2011, 2:41PM
As Arizona’s legislative season wraps up, it wasn’t all relief and the return of common sense.
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Gov. Bobby Jindal’s Potentially Self-Destructive Support of Birther Bill
by Jamilah King on April 20 2011, 12:02PM
But would he be keeping himself off of his own state ballot?
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Gov. Brewer Vetoes Birther and Gun Bills
by Julianne Hing on April 19 2011, 8:27AM
Sometimes, very occasionally and even in Arizona, sense prevails.
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America’s Getting More Diverse, So Why Isn’t Congress?
by Jamilah King on April 18 2011, 5:05PM
GOOD shows that our current lawmakers aren’t representative of demographic changes.
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Yes, Again: Tea Party GOP Member Sends Racist Email
by Asraa Mustufa on April 18 2011, 1:50PM
For them, it just doesn’t get old.
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Arizona’s Birther Bill Moves to Gov. Brewer’s Desk
by Julianne Hing on April 15 2011, 1:36PM
But not everyone is excited about the bill, which is a transparently coded attack on President Obama’s black roots.
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Donald Trump Has a ‘Great Relationship With the Blacks’
by Jamilah King on April 14 2011, 4:20PM
He just wants you to know that he really, really cares.
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CBC Drops Its Own Budget: $5.7 Trillion Deficit Cut Without Gutting Programs
by Shani O. Hilton on April 14 2011, 1:04PM
It’s been a tradition every year since 1981, but this year’s budget battle gives the proposal new significance.
Topics: Politics
Arizona Senate Passes Birther Bill
by Julianne Hing on April 14 2011, 11:40AM
But it’s not the first state to try to turn the hysteria around President Obama’s black roots into legislation.
Topics: Politics
The Long Racial History of the Tea Party’s Deficit Trojan Horse
by Dorian Warren on April 13 2011, 10:30AM
The American right has been railing against the size of federal government for centuries. We’d do well to remember why.
D.C. Mayor Vince Gray Arrested in Budget Battle Protest
by Shani O. Hilton on April 12 2011, 1:30PM
A new budget deal prevents D.C. from spending its own funds on abortions for poor black and brown women.
Stopgap Budget Deal Cuts More Community Development, Transit
by Shani O. Hilton on April 11 2011, 12:44PM
Expect another $38.5 billion in cuts, the details of which are to be announced later this week.
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Is Michele Bachmann Shutting Down the Government (To Run It)?
by Channing Kennedy on April 8 2011, 3:49PM
Her tea party caucus is showing just how much heft it plans to throw around in the 2012 elections.
$327 Million for Women’s Health Will Shut Down Government, Say Dems
by Shani O. Hilton on April 8 2011, 3:27PM
None of that money goes to fund abortion, but it does fund reproductive health for poor women of color.
Topics: Budget, Planned Parenthood, Politics
A Picture of America’s Changing Demographics
by Asraa Mustufa on April 7 2011, 2:29PM
Center for American Progress has some compelling graphics on the Census 2010 data that’s got folks buzzing about diversity.
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Obama Can Save Government by Reviving His 2008 Mastery of Values
by Kai Wright on April 7 2011, 11:54AM
The president once argued the budget was a values-based document. Now, he’s all about process over purpose.
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As Budget Battle Climaxes, Civil Rights Groups Tally Potential Damage
by Shani O. Hilton on April 5 2011, 3:28PM
Marian Wright Edelman: “This is the most dangerous time for black children since slavery.”
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