The 1 Percent Solution

Courtney Carbone, wrapped in a scarf and a nervous smile on a cool spring morning, is a transplant to the Northwest. She grew up in northwestern Connecticut, daughter of a carpentry teacher and a waitress who went on to teach preschool. Her parents were not so different from Ni …

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Actions Speak Louder Than Words: How the Obama Administration Has Worked Behind the Scenes to Advance Marriage Equality

The Obama administration has a pretty good record on LGBT issues, but it has also had a sometimes contentious relationship with gay rights activists. Even in the wake of Obama's “evolution” on marriage last week, some critics seized on his statement that the states …

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President Obama Is Ending Black America's 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Policy

The most profound impact of Obama's "evolution" on same-sex marriage could come in the form of dismantling decades-old anti-gay prejudices within the black church.

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NAACP Endorses Gay Marriage

The NAACP recognizes that - regardless of religious fealty - marriage is a right from which the government should not be able to bar anyone, including homosexuals. So much for black people leaving the President in droves over this issue.

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The TED Talk The Right Does Not Want To Discuss | Addicting Info

OK, so the premise is that “job creators” do not actually create jobs and giving them more money does not improve the economy. There are two different aspects to this that Hanauer is discussing. The first is the myth that the wealth of the rich will trickle down. …

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Starve the beast - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Family Values: Why The Right is Attacking Barack and Michelle Obama's Marriage

The right wing rumor that Barack and Michelle Obama almost got a divorce goes beyond irrational hatred of this president and ties into a specific Republican objective for 2012. The widely debunked Ed Klein claims in his new book that Barack and Michelle Obama almost got a d …

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How big a threat to the U.S. is Russia?

FROM CNN's Jack Cafferty: Top Democrats are jumping all over Mitt Romney for comments he made about Russia. Russia Threatens To Target U.S.Defense Sites With Nuclear Missiles[Photo: theblaze.com] 

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BBC News - Romney makes 'day one' promises in TV advertisement

As a long tenured Black Republican, I am frankly embarrassed that Mitt Romney has a couple of “House Negroes” in his first day purported positive advertisement who Black America should see as sellouts. These de facto 1 percenters must see themselves living in the whit …

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