Republican Congressman Goes Birther: Obama Is ‘Just Not An American’
Rep. Mike Coffman (R-CO) is apologizing after being caught on tape delivering a birther rant about how President Obama is “not an American.” “I don’t know whether Barack Obama was born in the United States of America. I don’t know that,” Coffman said at a fundraiser last week. “But I do know this, that in [...]Similar News >>
Bill Kristol Says He’s ‘Mostly Supportive’ Of Obama On Israel, Heads Group Attacking Obama As ‘Anti-Israel’
In a debate last night with Jeremy Ben Ami of the liberal pro-Israel group J Street, neoconservative don Bill Kristol told the audience in the New York synagogue that he had no problems with President Obama’s Israel policies. But just two months ago, a right-wing pro-Israel group Kristol heads rolled out the latest of its [...]Similar News >>
Bill Kristol Says He’s ‘Mostly Supportive’ Of Obama On Israel, Heads Group Attacking Obama As ‘Anti-Israel’
In a debate last night with Jeremy Ben Ami of the liberal pro-Israel group J Street, neoconservative don Bill Kristol told the audience in the New York synagogue that he had no problems with President Obama’s Israel policies. But just two months ago, a right-wing pro-Israel group Kristol heads rolled out the latest of its [...]Similar News >>
Coming This Summer: For $24.95, George W. Bush Will Share His ‘Strategies For Economic Growth’
Former President George W. Bush jumped back into presidential politics this week, endorsing presumptive 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney. He also, according to the New York Times, plans to release a book in two months that will lay out his advice on boosting economic growth: Gingerly, the 43rd president is beginning to add his voice [...]Similar News >>
Yes, Lady Arm Wrestling IS Feminist.
When my friend Brandy asked me to accompany her to a “women’s arm wrestling event” a few months ago I happily obliged. As it turned out I was about to participate in the first ever meeting of the “Boston Arm Wrestling Dames,” or BAWD, a local branch of the Collective of Lady Arm Wrestlers (CLAW). [...]Similar News >>
Because Of Abstinence Education, 60 Percent Of Young Adults Are Misinformed About Birth Control’s Effectiveness
A new study from the Guttmacher Institute unsurprisingly finds that greater knowledge about contraceptive services is directly correlated to a decrease in young adults’ risky sexual behavior. However, after quizzing a nationally representative sample of 1,800 sexually active Americans between the ages of 18 and 29 on their basic knowledge of contraception methods, Guttmacher reports [...]Similar News >>
What You Need To Know About Ed Klein, Author Of New Book Smearing Obama
The New York Post yesterday published the first excerpts from an upcoming biography on President Obama by Edward Klein, “The Amateur.” In the Post’s excerpt, Klein alleges that former President Clinton called President Obama an “amateur” and desperately tried to convince Hillary to resign as Secretary of State and challenge Obama in the Democratic primaries [...]Similar News >>
Solar Investing Goes Mainstream: The Top Five Creative Ways To Finance Solar Projects
by Jesse Morris, via Rocky Mountain Institute Thousands of Americans log in to online trading accounts every day to manage personal stock portfolios. Now, there’s a new option for individual investors. I recently took advantage of this option by creating an account with Solar Mosaic and investing a small amount of money, along with about [...]Similar News >>
What You Need To Know About Ed Klein, Author Of New Book Smearing Obama
The New York Post yesterday published the first excerpts from an upcoming biography on President Obama by Edward Klein, “The Amateur.” In the Post’s excerpt, Klein alleges that former President Clinton called President Obama an “amateur” and desperately tried to convince Hillary to resign as Secretary of State and challenge Obama in the Democratic primaries [...]Similar News >>
What You Need To Know About Ed Klein, Author Of New Book Smearing Obama
The New York Post yesterday published the first excerpts from an upcoming biography on President Obama by Edward Klein, “The Amateur.” In the Post’s excerpt, Klein alleges that former President Clinton called President Obama an “amateur” and desperately tried to convince Hillary to resign as Secretary of State and challenge Obama in the Democratic primaries [...]Similar News >>
In A New Documentary, Robert Redford Tells The Colorado River’s Epic Story
by Michelle Nijhuis, via OnEarth Actor Robert Redford has always loved the landscapes of the West, and his classic roles as the outlaw Sundance Kid and mountain man Jeremiah Johnson are now part of Western lore. As executive producer and narrator of a new documentary, Watershed, Redford takes a close look at the greatest Western [...]Similar News >>
Grijalva Slams Arizona Governor For Using Foreclosure Settlement Funds To Balance Budget
Thursday, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) announced that her state would become the latest to devote its portion of funds from the $25 billion mortgage fraud settlement to balancing the state budget. The funds were intended to go toward relief for struggling homeowners, but Brewer and the state legislature will use $50 million of its [...]Similar News >>
Open Thread Plus African Land Grab Cartoon
A penny for your cyber-thoughts. Nature news reports the story, “African land grabs hinder sustainable development — Sales of forest land to corporations are dispossessing inhabitants and harming ecosystems”: A scramble to buy African land is threatening the continent’s sustainable development, according to reports launched today at the Royal Society in London. Of the 203 [...]Similar News >>
Detailed Arctic Sea Ice Analysis With Great Charts
by Neven Acropolis via Arctic Sea Ice blog I’m starting this blog post off with a conclusion that was reached a while back already: Sea ice on the Atlantic side of the Arctic looks vulnerable, sea ice on the Pacific side should be thicker. Right, with that out of the way we can now look at [...]Similar News >>
Mitt Romney’s Support Of Same-Sex Adoption Lasts One Day
Among Mitt Romney’s timid responses this week after President Obama’s endorsement of marriage equality was an admission that he was “fine” with same-sex couples adopting children, saying, “that’s something that people have a right to do.” But by Friday afternoon, he was already backing away from that position, suggesting that he merely “acknowledges” that many [...]Similar News >>
Richard Mourdock Wants His Own Senate Race To Be Unconstitutional
Indiana U.S. Senate candidate Richard Mourdock, the Tea Party candidate who proclaimed that “bipartisanship ought to consist of Democrats coming to the Republican point of view” shortly after defeating longtime incumbent Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN), does not think he should be elected to the U.S. Senate. Indeed, he believes that it should be unconstitutional for [...]Similar News >>
CEOs Of Tax Dodging Corpotations Want To Cut Their Own Taxes Too
Earlier this week, the CEOs of 18 corporations wrote an open letter to Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner opining that it would be a mistake to increase the tax rate on dividends and capital gains as called for in the Obama administration’s budget. The budget treats investment income the same as ordinary wage income for households [...]Similar News >>
POLL: 51 Percent Agree With Obama On Marriage Equality
A new USA TODAY/Gallup poll shows that 51 percent of voters approve President Obama’s endorsement of marriage equality, while 45 percent disapprove. It seems the President may lose some support to Mitt Romney, suggesting that those who oppose marriage equality feel more strongly about the issue than those who support it. According to the survey, [...]Similar News >>
Romney Blames Obama For Foreclosures After Telling Homeowners Not To ‘Try To Stop The Foreclosure Process’
President Obama outlined three proposals to address America’s struggling housing market today in Nevada, the state with the nation’s second highest foreclosure rate. Ahead of the speech, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney circulated a release hitting Obama’s housing record, including a graphic criticizing the president for roughly the 3 million foreclosures and a high [...]Similar News >>
Kansas Senate Stops Anti-Abortion Bill That Would Have Required Doctors To Give False Information
Kansas Senate President Steve Morris (R) effectively killed an anti-abortion bill by sending it back to a Senate committee that is unlikely to bring it up for a vote before the legislative session ends today. “It is prudent for the Senate to have more time to consider the proposal,” he said. In a last-ditch effort, [...]Similar News >>
Romney Spokesman Gleefully Outed A Trans Woman, Ending Her Career
With all the talk over Mitt Romney’s bullying of a presumed gay classmate, some have questioned whether it’s fair to judge someone on their actions in high school. But everyone agrees that anything from a recent political career is fair game. So it’s telling that one doesn’t have to reach that far back to find [...]Similar News >>
Marc Thiessen Disregards WaPo Ombudsman’s Advice Against Asserting An Iran Nuke Weapons Program
Back in December, the Washington Post’s ombudsman Patrick Pexton criticized his newspaper for conflating Iran’s nuclear program with a nuclear weapons program. Noting that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) “does not say Iran has a bomb, nor does it say it is building one,” Pexton warned Post writers against asserting that Iran has a [...]Similar News >>
House GOP Protects Defense Budget At The Expense Of America’s Most Vulnerable
The U.S. House of Representatives voted Thursday to rescind $110 billion in mandated cuts to the Pentagon’s budget by pushing these reductions onto domestic programs like Medicare, Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, and other mandatory social programs, which are already facing substantial budget cuts. Led by House Budget Committee chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), [...]Similar News >>
Study Shows ‘Clear Indications’ That Climate Change Is Impacting European Fish Stocks
Rising ocean temperatures are driving major changes in fisheries throughout western Europe, bringing warm water species typically seen in the Mediterranean to the coast of the United Kingdom. A new report card issued by European marine researchers details the ecological and economic impact that climate change is having on fisheries in the UK and Scotland [...]Similar News >>
How Huge Paychecks For CEOs And Wall Street Traders Increase Income Inequality
Over the last few decades, the gap between the richest Americans and everybody else has grown substantially. According to a new report from the Economic Policy Institute, one of the driving factors has been the growth in pay going to executives and employees of financial firms: The significant income growth at the very top of [...]Similar News >>
Colorado Appeals Court Strikes Down Gubernatorial Colorado Day of Prayer Proclamations
A unanimous three judge panel of the Colorado Court of Appeals held yesterday the eight year-old practice of Colorado governors issuing day of prayer proclamations violates the state’s constitution: “A reasonable observer would conclude that these proclamations send the message that those who pray are favored members of Colorado’s political community, and that those who [...]Similar News >>
Pro-GOP Chamber Of Commerce Ad Extols Bipartisanship, Implies Obama Re-Election
The Chamber of Commerce has released 21 new May 2012 “independent” political ads — 20 of which either attack Democrats or praise Republicans. But while most of the ads take partisan swipes at Democrats and Obamacare, the Chamber’s ads in solidly Democratic Hawaii improbably endorse bipartisanship. The narration for the 30-second spot in support of [...]Similar News >>
Patton Oswalt, Jessica Jones and the Innovative Future of Superheroes on Television
On Monday, I wrote about what Marvel Studios and other people making comic book movies ought to do with their franchises now that they’ve got people watching superhero movies the way they read superhero comics: over a period of years and an indefinite number of stories, with constant loops around to revisit characters and shifting [...]Similar News >>
Illinois Governor Comes Out For Marriage Equality
Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn (D) is the latest Democratic leader to follow in President Obama’s footsteps and express his support for marriage equality. Earlier this year when a same-sex marriage bill was introduced in the Illinois, Quinn said he was “not sure” if he supported it. According to his spokeswoman, he now “looks forward to [...]Similar News >>
‘Community’ Open Thread: Six Timelines and a Movie
This post contains spoilers through the May 10 episode of Community. I should start this off by saying how pleased I am by Community‘s renewal, even at thirteen episodes rather than a full season. It’s really nice to see this wonderful, experimental little show that’s been so marvelously dedicated to exploring the boundaries of television’s [...]Similar News >>
Tamron Hall Shuts Down Conservative Journo For Refusing To Answer Question About Romney Bullying
Washington Examiner reporter Tim Carney appeared on MSNBC this afternoon with host Tamron Hall, but was apparently uninterested in discussing what he agreed to come on to discuss, leading to a heated confrontation between the two. Hall asked Carney about the Romney campaign’s response to allegations that he bullied a perceived gay classmate in high [...]Similar News >>
National Action Alliance For Suicide Prevention Tackles LGBT Suicide
Our guest bloggers are Kellan Baker, health care analyst for LGBT Progress and Josh Garcia, intern for LGBT Progress. This post was originally published by the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention. Before he completed suicide at the age of 26 in 2010, Joseph Jefferson recorded his final words on Facebook: “I could not bear the burden of [...]Similar News >>
VIDEO: Three GOP Reps. Break With Romney, Oppose A Constitutional Amendment On Same-Sex Marriage
Though their party’s presidential nominee is still pushing for a constitutional amendment to ban marriage equality, a number of House Republicans oppose such a move. ThinkProgress spoke with some House Republicans on Capitol Hill Thursday to discuss President Obama’s announcement that he supports marriage equality. While everyone we talked to personally opposed same-sex marriage, there [...]Similar News >>
Romney Holds Fundraiser With Anti-Immigrant Activist Kris Kobach
Mitt Romney held a fundraiser in Kansas City, Missouri last night with hundreds of supporters and several local officials, including Kansas Secretary of State Kirs Kobach, Romney’s informal immigration adviser. Kobach is a controversial figure who authored the harsh anti-immigrant laws in Arizona, Alabama, and South Carolina and has become the leading spokesperson of the [...]Similar News >>
Richard Mourdock Wants His Own Senate Race To Be Unconstitutional
Indiana U.S. Senate candidate Richard Mourdock, the Tea Party candidate who proclaimed that “bipartisanship ought to consist of Democrats coming to the Republican point of view” shortly after defeating longtime incumbent Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN), does not think he should be elected to the U.S. Senate. Indeed, he believes that it should be unconstitutional for [...]Similar News >>
From Kitty Pryde to Azealia Banks, Why Girl Pop Beats the Boy Bands
I may not be a huge fan of today’s boy bands. But while that phenomenon has come and gone, I feel like it’s been an awesome couple of years for young female solo artists to roll out weird pop love songs that are full of ambiguity, hedging, and occasional joy, to be silly, and self-aware. [...]Similar News >>
Website Offered Gun Owners Shooting Range Targets Of Trayvon Marin
An unidentified individual from Virginia is hoping to cash in on the tragic death of Trayvon Martin by selling gun range targets meant to resemble him. While the targets don’t feature a photo of Martin, they do depict a silhouette of a hoodie clutching a can of iced tee and a pack of Skittles hanging [...]Similar News >>
NASA Study Finds Surprising New Methane Emission Source And Possible Amplifying Feedback: The Arctic Ocean
NASA scientist: “It’s possible that as large areas of sea ice melt and expose more ocean water, methane production may increase, leading to larger methane emissions…. So our finding could represent a noticeable new global source of methane.” A new airborne study measured surprising levels of the potent greenhouse gas methane coming from cracks in Arctic sea [...]Similar News >>
Greene County GOP Denounces Call For ‘Armed Revolution’
A day after revelations of a March newsletter by the Greene County Republican Committee (GCRC) featuring a call for “armed revolution” should Republicans lose this November, that committee has denounced the column. In an open letter on the GCRC website, the committee’s chairman notes that the newsletter editor has since been replaced and that the [...]Similar News >>
U.N.: Afghan Civilian Deaths Down 20 Percent So Far In 2012
Compared to a four-month period running from January to April last year, civilian deaths in Afghanistan are down 20 percent, according to the United Nations’ special envoy to Afghanistan Jan Kubis. After rising for five straight years, the drop in deaths will be welcome news for the U.S.-led coalition there and Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s [...]Similar News >>
How Marriage Equality Is Good For Public Health
President Obama came out in support of marriage equality on Wednesday, saying that it was important to him to “go ahead and affirm that I think same sex couples should be able to get married.” His position is also good for public health. Studies have shown that legalizing same-sex marriage helps improve mental health. In [...]Similar News >>
NASA Study Finds Surprising New Methane Emission Source And Possible Amplifying Feedback: The Arctic Ocean
NASA scientist: “It’s possible that as large areas of sea ice melt and expose more ocean water, methane production may increase, leading to larger methane emissions…. So our finding could represent a noticeable new global source of methane.” A new airborne study measured surprising levels of the potent greenhouse gas methane coming from cracks in Arctic sea [...]Similar News >>
Europeans Look To China For Renewable Energy Expansion
by Jeffrey Cavanagh Even in the midst of an economic crisis, most European countries are staying committed to deploying renewable energy. But with demand starting to lag due to fiscal constraints, the region’s leaders are looking to large developing countries as growth markets for European companies. A leaked version of the European Commission’s latest energy [...]Similar News >>
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