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Tea Partiers Forget Bills of Attainder are Unconstitutional: Whoops!

David Segal | Posted 12.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Beck ACORN, Tea Party Activists, Tea Party Constitution, Palin ACORN, Acorn, Teabaggers, Tea Partiers, Defund Acorn Act, ACORN Hearing, Steve King Acorn, Tea Party Extremists, Bachmann ACORN, Tea Party, ACORN Corruption, Politics News

We'll know the Mad Hatters really care about the Constitution when they start heaping praise upon the small minority of elected officials who stood up to the unconstitutional "Defund ACORN Act."

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Judge Restores Acorn's Funding: Will Decision Inspire Democrats to Stand Up to the Right?

John Atlas | Posted 12.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: ACORN Funding, Fox News, Nina Gershon, Acorn, Darrell Issa, Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now, Politics News

Progressives should appreciate Judge Nina Gershon's courage to follow the constitution in the face of unconstitutional, bipartisan attacks against ACORN.

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Judge Blocks Government's Move To Cut ACORN Funding

AP | ADAM GOLDMAN | Posted 12.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Embezzlement, Fraud, Census, Prostitution, Center for Constitutional Rights, Acorn, Pimp, Bill Quigley, Community Organizing, ACORN Funding, Nina Gershon, Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, Politics News

NEW YORK — The U.S. government's move this fall to cut off funding to ACORN was unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled Friday, handing the emba...

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National Poortrait: No Proof of Global Climate Change

Lee Camp | Posted 12.11.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Acorn, Seiu, Fox News, Climate Change, Cartoon, Global Warming, Barack Obama, Political Cartoons, Comedy News

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ACORN Scandal Offers Key Lessons to All Charities

John Atlas | Posted 12.09.2009 | Politics

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Acorn is getting a bum rap -- in the news media, among politicians, and even by some foundations. The attacks are worrisome not just because they have harmed an effective grass-roots organization.

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ACORN Investigation Finds No Pattern Of Illegal Conduct On Videos

AP | PETE YOST | Posted 12.07.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — An internal investigation of the community-organizing group ACORN concluded there was no criminal conduct by employees caught on vi...

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ACORN Hearing: A Barrel of Laughs, A Bucket Of Nuts

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fearmongering, Darrel Issa, Acorn, Acorn Scandal, Joseph Cao, Barack Obama, Steve King, Politics News

Approximately 60 people showed up yesterday to watch Representative Steve King (R-Iowa) brandish a plastic bucket of acorns as his colleagues Lamar Sm...

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DOJ Says Government Can Honor Existing ACORN Contracts

NYT | CHARLIE SAVAGE | Posted 11.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Administration, Congress, Justice Department ACORN, Justice Department, Acorn, Politics News

The department's conclusion, laid out in a recently disclosed five-page memorandum from David Barron, the acting assistant attorney general for the Of...

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Gross Failure of the Media

Cenk Uygur | Posted 11.20.2009 | Media

Read More: Conservative Media, Saddam Hussein, Acorn, Public Policy Polling, 9/11, Media, Iraq, Press, Journalism, Media News

How can over a quarter of the country believe something that is patently untrue, utterly ridiculous, and lacking even one iota of proof?

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The 26 Percent Solution

Will Bunch | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rush Limbaugh, Polls, Acorn, Sarah Palin, Health Care Reform, Obama Bow, Right Wing, Glenn Beck, Bush Approval Rating, Global Warming, Politics News

If you ever needed proof that 26 percent of America is totally bat-guano out-of-their-freakin'-minds crazy, check out the new poll just out on Obama and ACORN.

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"ACORN Facts" Craze Set Off By Poll That Found Most Republicans Think Obama Stole Election

Greg Mitchell | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Twitter, Obama, Rightwing, Acorn, Obama Acorn, Politics News

A new Public Policy Polling survey finds. that 52% of all Republicans believe that the group ACORN stole the 2008 election for Obama. Here's what people are saying about ACORN on Twitter.

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Justice Department Takes On Fraudster Defense Contractor

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.09.2009 | Media

Read More: Fraud, Contractor Abuse, Department of Justice, Acorn, Defense Contractors, Media News

Your "This Day In Government Contractor Abuses" comes via Spencer Ackerman, who flags this release from the U.S. Department of Justice: The United St...

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Computers, Records Seized At ACORN Offices In La.

AP | CAIN BURDEAU | Posted 11.07.2009 | Politics

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NEW ORLEANS — State investigators raided ACORN offices on Friday, taking away computer hard drives and documents as part of a probe into alleged...

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Eight Reasons the Democrats lost Virginia & New Jersey--and How to Recover

Paul Loeb | Posted 11.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Acorn, Jon Corzine, Youth Vote, Virginia Governor Race, Obama, Democrats, New Jersey Governor Race, Creigh Deeds, Obama Grass Roots Campaign, Politics News

Losing the Virginia and New Jersey governorships hurt. Local factors played a part, but these are major states. So it matters why the Democrats lost them. Here are eight reasons -- and lessons for next time.

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All You Need to Know About the ACORN Scandal and Who Is Behind It

Mike Stark | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Andrew Brietbart, Acorn, Hannah Giles, James O'keefe, Politics News

You may remember Andrew Breitbart as the proprietor of BigGovernment.com, and, apparently, babysitter for juvenile delinquents James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles, the conservative, hidden-camera-wielding duo that went undercover to obtain footage of low-level ACORN staffers.

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A Pileup of Lawsuits Slams Atlantic Yards

Daniel Goldstein | Posted 10.22.2009 | New York

Read More: Brooklyn, Atlantic Yards, Atlantic Yards Brooklyn, Eminent Domain, Eminent Domain Abuse, Mta, Esdc, Empire State Development Corporation, Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn, Dddb, Bruce Ratner, Ny Supreme Court, Acorn, David Paterson, Michael Bloomberg, New York News

Where are the charges of frivolity when it comes to Ratner's, Bloomberg's and Paterson's hardheaded goal of building the most expensive arena in history, in the middle of a recession and housing crisis?

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New ACORN Video: Undercover Videographers Release Tape Of Philly Visit

AP | PETE YOST | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: ACORN Prostitution, Acorn, ACORN Philly Video, Hannah Giles, ACORN Video, James O'keefe, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Two conservative activists released a new undercover video targeting the community organizing group ACORN on Wednesday, an attempt ...

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Ted Turner Would Fire Lou Dobbs

Linda Milazzo | Posted 10.19.2009 | Media

If Jonathan Klein were as responsible an executive as Ted Turner, and as conscientious a citizen as Ted Turner, he would be as concerned as Ted Turner about the danger of Lou Dobbs.

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The Census and the GOP Latino Strategy: If You Can't Beat 'Em, Don't Count 'Em

Miguel Guadalupe | Posted 10.16.2009 | New York

Read More: Latinos, 2010 Census, Senate, Latino Voters, Acorn, Illegal Immigrants, Gop, Immigration, Democrats, Republican Party, New York News

Republican Senators have proposed to require all those who fill out census surveys to affirm their citizenship. That may be the final nail in the coffin of the GOP/Latino relationship.

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'South Park' Skewers ACORN (VIDEO)

Posted 10.30.2009 | Comedy

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Last month, two ACORN employees were caught on tape advising a couple posing as a prostitute and pimp to lie about her profession in order to qualify ...

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Beth Butler Fired By ACORN; Director Of Louisiana ACORN Is Companion Of Founder Wade Rathke

The Times-Picayune | Gordon Russell | Posted 10.13.2009 | Home

Read More: New Orleans, Beth Butler, Katrina Recovery, Who Is Beth Butler, Louisiana ACORN, Wade Rathke, Attorney General, Obama Itinerary, Obama Comments, Land, Obama, Real Estate, Acorn, Louisiana AG, Hurricane Katrina, Bertha Lewis, Embezzlement, Home News

Beth Butler, the longtime executive director of Lousiana ACORN, was terminated by the organization's national leadership Monday amid a power struggle ...

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GOP Uses ACORN To Fight Bank Redlining Law

AP | SHARON THEIMER and PETE YOST | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics

WASHINGTON — Conservative Republicans are capitalizing on the troubles of community activist group ACORN – ranging from charges of voter r...

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New Rule: Everyone Deserves Equal Rights

Bill Maher | Posted 10.10.2009 | Comedy

This weekend is the perfect time for Obama to announce he's repealing "don't ask, don't tell" and committing to a full-throated endorsement of gay marriage. But of course that's not going to happen.

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Meet The Senators Who Voted Against The Franken Amendment

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Contractor Abuse, Kbr, Defund Acorn Act, Al Franken, Acorn, Politics News

I think that all homo sapiens can understand how the mere thought of an organization that receives government money through contract mechanisms being ...

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Rachel Maddow vs. "Dr. Evil": Smackdown over Rick Berman's Corporate Funding (VIDEO)

Art Levine | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Acorn, Rachel Maddow, Employee Free Choice Act, Dr. Evil, Rick Berman, Politics News

Berman has established a bevy of anti-reform "non-profit" websites that enable him to attack everything from ACORN to unions to MADD while defending trans-fats and a low minimum wage as good for the economy.

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