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Olympic Bid a No-Win Situation for Obama

Chris Prevatt | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Msnbc, 2016 Olympic Games, Michelle Obama, Cnn, Twitter, Jon Stewart, President Barack Obama, Associated Press, Copenhagen, Liberal Media Bias Media Bias, The Daily Show, Newt Gingrich, International Olympic Committee, Right Wing Media.Rio De Janeiro, Ioc, Chicago 2016, Health Care Reform, Politics News
Chris Prevatt

But it is one hell of a leap to compare Obama's participation in Chicago's Olympic bid to his health care reform efforts.

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Going Rogue And Other Cheesy Political Book Covers (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Posted 10.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Political Books, Slideshow, Rudy Giuliani Leadership, Dan Quayle Standing Firm, Mike Huckabee, Tom Delay, True Compass, Mitt Romney, Going Rogue, John McCain Courage, Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin, Ted Kennedy, Cheesy Political Book Covers, Cheesy Book Covers, Politics News

The cover of Sarah Palin's forthcoming book Going Rogue was made public today. In honor of the inspirational photograph of the ex-governor, here are ...

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Jason Linkins

Newt Gingrich Topless Bar Snafu: Owners Speak To Rachel Maddow (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pornography, Rachel Maddow, Video, Newt Gingrich, Politics News

Newt Gingrich! Does anyone currently walking the face of the earth know more about entrepreneurship? Or about American Solutions For Winning the Fut...

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Newt Gingrich Makes "World's Best Persons" For Revoking Business Award He Gave To Strip Club (VIDEO)

Posted 10.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Msnbc, Video, Keith Olbermann, Newt Gingrich, World's Best Person, Politics News

Keith Olbermann named Newt Gingrich "World's Best Person" for revoking two of his Business Defense and Advisory Council Entrepreneur Awards after he d...

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Gingrich Group Withdraws Invitation To Topless Club

The Dallas Morning News | Gromer Jeffers Jr. | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gingrich Stripper, Gingrich Entrepreneur of the Year, Gingrich Topless Club, Gingrich Dawn Rizos, Gingrich Gentlemen's Club, Gingrich Porn, Gingrich Withdraws Invitation, Newt Gingrich, Politics News

Dawn Rizos didn't need any formal recognition that The Lodge, one of the best-known gentlemen's clubs in Dallas, was a successful small business. But...

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Dispatch From Silicon Valley: The Origins of Innovation

David Kralik | Posted 11.21.2009 | Technology

Read More: Innovation, Newt Gingrich, Technology, David Kralik, Silicon-Valley-Venture-Capital, Silicon Valley, Technology News
David Kralik

So what it is about the culture, companies and innovations that routinely give credence to why Silicon Valley remains the World Capital of Innovation?

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Time to Get Real About the ACORN "Controversy"--and Republican Double Standards

Robert Creamer | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Kbr, Aig, Mark Sanford, Acorn, John Ensign, Voter Registration, Boeing, Blackwater, Mickey Mouse, Breaking News, Citicorp, Community Organizing, Republicans, Newt Gingrich, Haliburton, David Vitter, Politics News
Robert Creamer

The Right wing has always hated ACORN. Partially that's because the organization has been so effective at allowing poor people to vote. The Right hates it when poor people vote.

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GOP Leadership Worried About Damage To Party's Reputation From Base

POLITICO | Glenn Thrush | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Nrcc, Obama Birth Certificate, Michele Bachmann, Social Networking, Death Panels, John Boehner, President Obama, Gop, Newt Gingrich, Eric Cantor, Pete Sessions, Politics News

"I would point out that the greatest anxiety about the president's policies tends to come from independents," he said. Long before the tea parties or...

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Rush Limbaugh's Big Fat Republican Health Care Plan

Beth Armogida | Posted 11.15.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Rush Limbaugh, Death Panels, Ann Coulter, Health Care Reform, Glenn Beck, Newt Gingrich, Health Care, Republicans, Republican Party, Comedy News
Beth Armogida

Homosexuality will be classified as a mental illness, unless of course you're a male, Christian politician. OxyContin will be free, untraceable and in donut form. All illegal aliens will be covered... with dirt.

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Screaming Joe Wilson: Newt Gingrich's Frankenstein

Lorelei Kelly | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Adam Smith, 1994 Elections, Wall Street Bailout, New Orleans, National Security, President Obama, Health Care Reform, Frankenstein, Newt Gingrich, Wall Street Bonuses, Rep. Joe Wilson, War Profiteering, Contract With America, Pakistan Democracy, Afghanistan War, Capitalism: A Love Story, Politics News
Lorelei Kelly

If congressional politics are inside baseball, Newt Gingrich completely upended the playing field. Joe Wilson isn't an accident, he's an outcome.

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The Weak In Review

Dave Hackel | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Karl Rove, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Liz Cheney, Lindsay Graham, Joe Wilson, Glenn Beck, Chuck Grassley, Newt Gingrich, Barack Obama, Michael Savage, Jim Greer, Dick Cheney, Politics News
Dave Hackel

I know for sure that Obama's speech on health care was good because Rush Limbaugh thought it was "disgusting, reprehensible, embarrassing, petulant, divisive and crude."

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The Bile Boils Over

Tom Sullivan | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Birthers, Worldnetdaily, Deathers, Father Coughlin, Rush Limbaugh, Death Panels, Matt Drudge, Crooks and Liars, Rep. Joe Wilson, Barack Obama, Jackie Robinson, OpenLeft.Com, Tea Baggers, Conservatives, Sean Hannity, David Neiwert, Neoconservatives, Gop, Michael Savage, Glenn Beck, Paul Krugman, Paul Rosenberg, Newt Gingrich, Town Hall Meetings, Politics News
Tom Sullivan

Conservatives bathed in daily lies -- from WMDs to "death panels" -- have become so comfortable spreading them that they treat it like good, clean fun for the whole family.

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Newt Gingrich Gives Award to Pornographer

Washington City Paper | David McKenna | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Capitol Hill Club, American Solutions for Winning the Future, Newt Gingrich, Politics News

I just got a note from Dan Kotman, spokesman for Newt Gingrich's DC PAC, American Solutions for Winning the Future, in response to my blog post about ...

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A "Personal" Invitation from Newt Gingrich

Jarvis Coffin | Posted 11.11.2009 | Media

Read More: General Industry, Newt Gingrich, Online Advertising, Behavioral Targeting, Internet Advertising, Privacy, Media News
Jarvis Coffin

A fax sent by Newt Gingrich is unsolicited -- and possibly unlawful.

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The Monkey, The Organ Grinder, & the Swift Boating of Van Jones

John Wellington Ennis | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Glenn Beck, Van Jones, Newt Gingrich, Van Jones Resigns, John Boehner, Sarah Palin, Tom Delay, Politics News
John Wellington Ennis

We need rope, lots of it, to let the right wing shark-osphere hang themselves in their xenophobic obsessions. Because what won't deter them is shame. There is no shame to these hacks.

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Newt Gingrich On Obama Back-To-School Speech: "I Recommend It To Everybody" (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Elyse Siegel | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Controversy, Conservatives, President Obama, Newt Gingrich, Obama School Speech, Politics News

Former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich spoke out Tuesday in support of President Obama's "back-to-school speech" delivered to school children ...

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Remember Gay People?

Jamie Kilstein | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rights, Religion, Mark Sanford, Contractors, Atheist, Rush Limbaugh, Barack, Prop 8, Kilstein, Obama, Jamie, Gay, Newt Gingrich, David Vitter, Gay Marriage, Politics News
Jamie Kilstein

We claim to be the freest, and the best, yet all of our citizens do not have equal rights. Tell the couple who have been together for 15 years that can't adopt a child that we live in the best country in the world.

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President Scarborough? "Morning Joe" Would Be a Viable Threat To Obama in 2012

Andy Ostroy | Posted 10.17.2009 | Media

Read More: MSNBC's Morning Joe, Gop, Joe Scarborough, President Obama, Mike Huckabee, Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin, George W. Bush, Joe Scarborough 2012, Joe Scarborough for President, Scarborough for President, Media News
Andy Ostroy

My early money for the Republican Party's next presidential nominee is MSNBC pundit and former Florida congressman Joe Scarborough.

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Jason Linkins

Mike Huckabee To Headline Conference On EMP Attacks

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fearmongering, Terrorism, Mike Huckabee, Emp Attacks, Newt Gingrich, Politics News

Matt Corley over at ThinkProgress noted yesterday that former Arkansas Governor and Republican Presidential Candidate Mike Huckabee has got a brand ne...

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Romantic Relationships Are Hotbeds for Serious Lies

Bella DePaulo | Posted 09.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Bill Clinton, Mark Sanford, Living a Lie, Friends, Relationships, Personality, Money, Clues to Deception, Kinship, Newt Gingrich, James McGreevey, Serious Lies, Lying, Infidelity, Rudy Giuliani, John Ensign, Silvio Berlusconi, Passions, Deception, Sex, Honor, Self-Presentation, John Edwards, Spouses, Romantic Partners, Identity, Nonverbal Behavior, Living News
Bella DePaulo

The BIG lies, the ones we consider most serious, are usually told by and to the people with whom we are most intimate.

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Gingrich vs. Greenpeace... with Bats

Kevin Grandia | Posted 09.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Newt Gingrich, Greenpeace, Green News
Kevin Grandia

There was a glimmer of hope that the planet may still be saved in a no-holds-barred softball match on the lawns of the Monument

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Dear President Obama: A Modest Medicare Proposal

Thom Hartmann | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Medicare, President Obama, Town Hall Debate, Obama Healthcare, Dick Armey, Healthcare System, Blue Cross, Medicare for All, Reagan Tax Cuts, Chuck Grassley, Medicare Bill, Sarah Palin, Max Baucus, Aarp, Universal Health Care, Healthcare Reform, Newt Gingrich, Town Hall Meetings, Healthcare, Politics News
Thom Hartmann

Most of us will do damn near anything to get out from under the thumbs of the multi-millionaire CEOs who are running our current insurance programs. Sign me up!

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Swiftboating

Norman Horowitz | Posted 09.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: And MSNBC, Abc, Nbc, Cnn, Fox, Cbs, Fnc, Lying, Rush Limbaugh, Swiftboat, Broadcast TV, Swiftboating, Cable Networks, Sarah Palin, Healthcare Reform, Newt Gingrich, Extreme Right Wing, Healthcare, Politics News
Norman Horowitz

Wikipedia defines this word as: "... American political jargon that is used as a strong pejorative description of some kind of attack that the speaker...

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Begala Rips Palin: She's "About Half A Whack Job" And A "Flaky Intellectual Lightweight" (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 09.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Video, Newt Gingrich, Paul Begala Video, Paul Begala Sarah Palin, Paul Begala, Sarah Palin, Politics News

Paul Begala and Newt Gingrich have decidedly different views on whether former Governor Sarah Palin can make a political comback. Gingrich outlined h...

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Sam Stein

GOPers Decrying Obama "Death Panels" Supported Intervention For Schiavo

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gingrich, Obama Death Panel, Terri Schiavo, Schaivo Death Panel, Michael Steele, John Cornyn Death Panel, Republicans Death Panel, Obama Health Care, Newt Gingrich, Politics News

On a conference call with reporters this week, Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas.) repeated what has become the most popular conservative canard about Preside...

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