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What if Sandra Fluke were a Woman of Color?

Mary Keck | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Family Planning, Rush Limbaugh, Women of Color, Ron Paul, Sandra Fluke, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Barack Obama, GOP Candidates, Bill Maher, Shirley Sherrod, Racism, Contraception, Newt Gingrich, Blunt Amendment, Healthcare, National Press Club, Bv-Politics, Black Voices News

In the wake of the Sandra Fluke vs. Rush Limbaugh media frenzy, we've begun to ask some very interesting questions. The queries popping up over the Fluke-Limbaugh controversy has brought a question to my mind: What if Sandra Fluke were a woman of color?

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Janet Napolitano: Homeland Security, Economic Security Go 'Hand-In-Hand'

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 01.30.2012

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Michael Chertoff, Global Supply Chain, Cargo, Video, Economy, Davos, Janet Napolitano, Homeland Security, Supply Chain, Janet Napolitano Homeland Security, Dhs, National Press Club, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- A top administration official on Monday signaled that the focus of homeland security in 2012 would shift in emphasis to business and the...

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GOP Hopeful Attacks Big Contenders

AP | BY STEVE PEOPLES | Posted 12.08.2011

Read More: Video, Jon Huntsman, Newt Gingrich 2012, 2012 Election, Mitt Romney 2012, Gop 2012, Mitt Romney, Elections 2012, Newt Gingrich, National Press Club, Jon Huntsman 2012, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Jon Huntsman says the leading Republican presidential candidates, Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich, are feeding a deficit of trust in polit...

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Women's Media Center Announces Girls' State Of The Union Video Contest

Women's Media Center | Posted 11.16.2011

Read More: Gloria Steinem, She Source, Contest, Girls' State of the Union, National Press Club, State of the Union, The Women's Media Center, Women News

Who? The Women's Media Center invites girls from all over the United States, ages 14-22, to create a 1-5 minute Girls' State of the Union video...

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Cain Manages Crisis With Denial, Humor, Song

AP | LAURIE KELLMAN | Posted 12.31.2011

Read More: Herman Cain Humor, Herman Cain Sings, Herman Cain National Press Club, Election 2012, Herman Cain for President, National Press Club, Herman Cain, Video, Black Voices News

WASHINGTON — It's one of the starkest tests of viability for any presidential candidate: crisis management, the ability to step past an explosiv...

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Can Herman Cain Sing His Way Out Of Trouble?

HuffingtonPost.com | Jon Ward | Posted 12.31.2011

Read More: Herman Cain 2012, Video, Herman Cain National Press Club, 2012 Election, Gop 2012 Primary, Gop 2012, Herman Cain, Sexual Harassment, Elections 2012, Republican Presidential Primary, Gop 2012 Presidential Candidates, Herman Cain Sexual Harassment, National Press Club, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Herman Cain escaped. The Republican presidential candidate made it off the stage at the National Press Club on Monday relatively unsc...

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The Bernanke Fed Is in a Deep Hole With a $1.6 Trillion Time Bomb

Robert Auerbach | Posted 10.29.2011

Read More: Charles L. Evans, Elizabeth A. Duke, Narayana Kocherlakota, Daniel K. Tarullo, Sarah Bloom Raskin, Jim McTague, Richard W. Fisher, Ben Bernanke, Arthur Burns, Chapman University Law School, National Press Club, Janet L. Yellen, Charles I. Plosser, G. William Miller, William C. Dudley, Business News

The Bernanke Fed's policy has created a $1.6 trillion time bomb that has contributed to high unemployment and may explode under the Fed's new policy a...

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Bachmann Says Washington Is 'Deceiving' American People In Debt Ceiling Debate

HuffingtonPost.com | Jon Ward | Posted 09.27.2011

Read More: Gop Presidential Candidates, Minnesota, Michele Bachmann 2012, Debt Ceiling, Ronald Reagan, John Boehner, Marcus Bachmann, President Barack Obama, President Obama, Elections 2012, Obama Debt Ceiling, Barack Obama, Rep. Michele Bachmann, Michele Bachmann, George H.W. Bush, Spending, Michele Bachmann for President, Gop Primary Election 2012, Republican Presidential Primary, Reparative Therapy, Republican Party, National Press Club, Debt Ceiling Debate, Republicans, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann on Thursday said the debt ceiling debate is just the latest chapter in a long history...

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As Western Papers Suffer, D.C. Bureaus Die Out

High Country News | Kate Sheppard | Posted 08.27.2011

Read More: Dc Bureau, Rocky Mountain News, Salt Lake Tribune, Albuquerque Journal, Western Coverage of Dc Politics, Death of Newspapers, Deseret News, National Press Club, Las Vegas Sun, Denver Post, Denver News

The Washington, D.C., office of the Salt Lake Tribune's Thomas Burr and Matt Canham resembles most newsrooms. A few pieces of art cling haphazardly to...

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U.S. Culture Slightly Less Entrepreneurial Than Indonesia: Survey

The Huffington Post | James Sunshine | Posted 07.25.2011

Read More: BBC World Service, India, Thomas Friedman, Bbc, Australia, Innovation, United States, Entrepreneurship, Small Business America, Canada, National Press Club, China, Business News

Americans have long been comforted by the belief that they live in the world's most entrepreneur-friendly country. But among the 24 countries surveyed...

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Government Claims It's Getting Easier To Apply For Federal Jobs

AOL Jobs | Wyatt Kash | Posted 07.19.2011

Read More: Job Announcements, John Berry, Hiring Practices, Job Applicants, Unemployment Crisis, Office of Personnel Management, Jobs, Hiring Reform Initiative, National Press Club, Business News

The director of the federal government's Office of Personnel Management reported new figures today indicating that agencies are making it easier to hi...

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The Spiritually Viral Hunger Fast

Jim Wallis | Posted 06.08.2011

Read More: Evangelicals, Tax Cuts, National Press Club, Budget Debate, National Council of Churches, Christian Groups, National Association of Evangelicals, Catholic Bishops, Sojourners, Service Employees International Union, World Vision, Biblical Story of Esther, Salvation Army, Prayer Fasting, Passing the Baton, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Catholic Church, Religion News

The hunger fast for a moral budget has gone spiritually viral. Ten days ago, we announced that the budget debate had become a moral crisis. We now have more than 30,000 participants and are still growing.

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Public Response to Obama's YouTube Comment on Drug Legalization Shows Progress

Rob Kampia | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Debate, Incarceration, Youtube, Marijuana, Joycelyn Elders, Drug Use, Public Health, Reform, Criminal Justice, Marijuana Policy Project, Mpp, Marijuana Legalization, National Press Club, Barack Obama, Arrest, Politics News

It wasn't long ago that discussing drug legalization was akin to considering whether it should be legal to dump toxic waste on your property line. But now, the marijuana issue is finally legitimate.

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Richard Dreyfuss Holds Media Accountable

Mike Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Richard Dreyfuss, Diane Ravitch, Newton Minnow, Gabrielle Giffords, Civility, Political Incivility, National Press Club, Edward R. Murrow, Media News

Actor Richard Dreyfuss, 63, is applying his passion to a new act: calling the collective media to task.

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Chu: Will America Miss Its "Sputnik Moment" on Energy?

David Ferris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stephen Chu, Obama Cleantech Strategy, Doe, US China Competition, Cleantech, Sputnik Moment, 1957, Arpa-E, Energy Department, President Obama, R&D, Energy Secretary, China, National Press Club, Green News

America is at a "Sputnik moment," Energy Secretary Stephen Chu said today. The government's next moves will determine whether the country leads the clean-tech race -- or loses it to China.

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On Biography

Nigel Hamilton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Siddharta Mukherjee, International Biographers Organization (BIO), Biographers Groups, Education, Emperor of All Maladies, National Press Club, Biography, Books News

In the Arts section of the New York Times, Charles McGrath tells of the oncology doctor with the looks of a Bollywood star, Sid Mukherjee. His new boo...

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National Press Club Panel Will Help Reporters Become Flacks

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Eat the Press, Public Relations, Media Criticism, Journalism, National Press Club, Media News

Journalism: is there a future in it? Probably not, who knows? But if you're stuck in a thankless reportorial job and want to get down to the busines...

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Happy Birthday Helen!

Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Al Hayat, White House Correspondents Association, Myra McPherson, White House, Watchdogs of Democracy?: The Waning Washington Press Corps and How It Has Failed the Public, American Journalism, Lady Liberty, Dateline: White House, Arab-American, Detroit Free Press, Anti-Semitic, United Press International, Arab American National Museum, Wayne State University, Hearst News Service, Arab, Brady Briefing Room, Fox News, National Press Club, Helen Thomas, Detroit, Media News

August 4 marks Helen Thomas' 90th birthday. May she celebrate it in good health and peace, surrounded by her countless loved ones. As a former colleague, I had the pleasure and privilege of observing Helen in action up close.

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Habeas Works

Ginny Sloan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Guantanamo, William S. Sessions, Douglas K. Spaulding, Human Rights First, The Constitution Project, National Press Club, Habeas Corpus, Guantanamo Detainees, Politics News

Two years ago, the U. S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in the landmark case Boumediene v. Bush. The Court ruled that the constitutionally gua...

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A Muslim Voice of Reason Against Israeli Actions: Ibrahim Ramey

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt, Muslim American Society, United Nations, Holocaust Denial, Riverside Church, Nuclear-Free Zone, Civil Rights, Climate Crisis Coalition, Muslim, Gaza, Global Citizen, Tanzania, Norfolk, New England, Millennium Hotel, Human Rights, Ibrahim Ramey, Temple of Understanding, Africa, Memorial Day, Congressional Black Caucus, Washington DC, Palestine, Barack Obama, Japan, New York City, Free Gaza Flotilla, Thought Leader, Martin Luther King, Fellowship of Reconciliation, Cairo, Ibrahim Abdil-Mu?Id Ramey, U.S.A., National Press Club, Nyack, Mid-East, Israel, World News

I first met Ibrahim Abdil-Mu'id Ramey after he delivered the plenary speech about Dr. Martin Luther King and the linkage between Dr. King's movement a...

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In Search of Budget Sanity: A Dispatch From the Belly of the Beast

John Milewski | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fairness and Independence in Redistricting Act, Debt, Budget, Economic Crisis, Jim Nussle, John Tanner, Congressional Budget Office, Federal Budget, Alice Rivlin, Redistricting, National Debt, Federal Budget Deficit, Wall Street, Financial Crisis, Bipartisanship, Medicare, Partisanship, National Press Club, Politics News

At a session on the looming debt crisis comprised of Republicans, Democrats, and others, one of the key findings of the group is that the "process is broken."

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Do Unto Others... (VIDEO)

Dennis Whittle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Globalgiving, Religion, Charter for Compassion, Ted, The Golden Rule, Chris Anderson, Karen Armstrong, National Press Club, Impact News

Chris Anderson, Curator of TED, said at the launch of the Charter for Compassion, "This is not about kumbaya

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Steele Turned To Prominent GOP Strategist For Health Care Speech

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Alex Castellanos, Steele Health Care Speech, Michael Steele, Health Care Reform, Steele Speech, Castellanos Health Care, National Press Club, Politics News

The progressive research organization, the Media Matters Action Network, has accused Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele of mimickin...

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The Weekly Standard Owes Me a Correction (I'll Wait)

Eric Boehlert | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Eric Boehlert, Media Matters for Ameica, National Press Club, Bill Kristol, Weekly Standard, Media News

How difficult is it to send a Weekly Standard "reporter" to a National Press Club event and then assume that "reporter" can accurately quote what people said at the event?

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Robots in Education

Gerald Bracey | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Arne Duncan, Education, Standards, Tests, Education Reform, Governors, National Press Club, Politics News

Engineers have made great advances in robotics in recent years. Everyday-robots can vacuum rugs and mop floors. More advanced models can act as secretary of education.

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