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'Herman Cain Is An Art Project'

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Rachel Maddow - Nov. 17 (Opinion) - (VIDEO)

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Maddow: U.S. Democracy Is Being Bought By a Tiny Minority (Including the Kochs)

Fri, 14 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Lauren Kelley, Rachael Maddow - Oct. 14 (News Analysis) - Last night Rachel Maddow discussed the out-of-control campaign spending by a tiny majority of wealthy Americans -- including, notably, the Koch brothers, who intend to give more than $200 million to conservative groups before the 2012 election. "Who has that kind of huge huge huge money to spend on politics these days?" Maddow asks. "And why have we given those people control of our democracy?"

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House Approves Controversial Trade Deal

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - Oct. 13 (News) - Congress voted to approve a free trade agreement with Panama, a country of less than 4 million that still carries economic weight because of the Panama Canal.

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Maddow Gets Fed Up

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Rachel Maddow - Aug. 19 (News Analysis) - A frustrated Rachel Maddow called out Republicans for their hypocrisy surrounding President Obama's vacation--and the media for allowing the hypocrisy to go unchecked.

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Facebook users jailed over 'riot that never was'

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

MSNBC - Aug. 17 (News Report) - Two British men have been sentenced to four years in prison for trying to organize riots on Facebook, according to reports.

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Bill Maher Rips Obama, Calls Republicans 'A--holes'

Wed, 27 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Lauwrence O'Donnell - Jul. 27 (Interview) - Bill Maher took President Obama to task for his handling of the debt ceiling debate during an appearance on Lawrence O'Donnell's Tuesday show.

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Hacker attack cripples al-Qaida on web

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

MSNBC - By Pete Williams - Jun. 29 (News) - Computer hackers shut down al-Qaida's ability to communicate its messages to the world through the Internet, interrupting the group's flow of videos and communiqués, according to a terrorism expert.

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Rachel Maddow And Lawrence O'Donnell Mock Chris Wallace In Jon Stewart Interview (VIDEO)

Tue, 21 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O'Donnell - Jun. 21 (News Analysis) - "It was such a strange interview," Maddow, who has conducted her own lengthy sit-down with Stewart, said. "I can't believe that that went as ["Fox News Sunday" host] Chris Wallace intended it to." O'Donnell said he was baffled by Wallace's decision to pl

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The Democratic Spin Machine Is Never There

Fri, 17 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

ringoffireradio.com - By Mike Papantonio - Jun. 17 (News Analysis) - there are still numerous Republican sex offenders – those that actually committed crimes – that are still talking the halls in Washington. Mike Papantonio appears on The Ed Show on MSNBC to talk about the GOP perverts who need to follow Weiner’s example and get out of Washington.

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Cops arrest alleged cannibal after finding human stew

Tue, 17 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

MSNBC - By Staff writers - May. 17 (News) - Russian authorities arrested a man Tuesday in connection with dismembered body parts that were scattered around Moscow, police said according to reports.

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Maddow Rips Sunday Shows For GOP Guest Slant (VIDEO)

Tue, 10 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Rachel Maddow - May. 10 (News Analysis) - A week after the killing of Osama bin Laden, the Sunday shows had three times as many Republican guests as Democratic ones.

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Grayson on Gov. Scott: "We'll all have to bend over... and cough."

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

MSNBC - By Cenk Uygur - Mar. 31 (News Analysis) - Alan Grayson blasts Florida Gov. Rick Scott about the governor's plan to drug test public employees and welfare recepients at random. Scott owns Solantic, a health care company which specializes in... you guessed it... DRUG TESTING! Also, the Supreme Court has ruled that random testing is unconstitutional.

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Japan's radiation battle gets rougher

Sat, 26 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

MSNBC - By Alan Boyle - Mar. 26 (Opinion) - The battle to stabilize Japan's stricken nuclear complex just got tougher, due to the radioactive water that is apparently leaking from the reactors.

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'No need' to expand Japan evacuation zone

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

MSNBC - Mar. 22 (News Report) - Japan said Tuesday there was no need to extend a 12-mile evacuation zone around its tsunami-damaged nuclear plant, despite elevated radiation readings outside the area.

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Popping potassium iodide already? Really bad idea.

Thu, 17 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

MSNBC - By JoNel Aleccia - Mar. 17 (News Report) - As demand spikes for potassium iodide in the wake of Japan’s nuclear crisis, U.S. poison control centers are starting to receive reports of illness in people who’ve ingested the drug aimed at protecting against radiation sickness.

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Second nuclear meltdown likely under way in Japan, official says

Sun, 13 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

NBC News - Mar. 13 (Special Report) - Japanese officials were trying frantically to thwart partial meltdowns presumed under way Sunday at two earthquake-stricken nuclear reactors in Japan.

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Wall St. and gas prices

Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

MSNBC - By Ed Schultz - Mar. 11 (Opinion) - As we predicted, Republicans are blaming President Obama for not drilling enough for oil, even though production is at an eight-year high, and supplies are at an 18-year high.

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Hacker group vows 'cyberwar' on US government, business

Wed, 09 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

MSNBC - By Michael Isikoff - Mar. 09 (Special Report) - A leader of the computer hackers group known as Anonymous is threatening new attacks on major U.S. corporations and government officials as part of at an escalating “cyberwar” against the citadels of American power.

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2 U.S. airmen shot dead at airport in Germany

Wed, 02 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

MSNBC - Mar. 02 (Breaking News) - A gunman fired shots at U.S. military personnel on a bus outside Frankfurt airport on Wednesday, killing two airmen and wounding two others before being taken into custody, the U.S. Air Force said.

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Rachel Maddow on Wisconsin "Budget Crisis" - Show Transcript, Feb. 17th

Sat, 26 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

MSNBC - By Rachel Maddow - Feb. 26 (News Report) - I‘m here to report that there is nothing wrong in the state of Wisconsin. Wisconsin is fine. Wisconsin is great, actually. Despite what you may have heard about Wisconsin‘s finances, Wisconsin is on track to have a budget surplus this year. I am not kidding. I‘m quoting their own version of the Congressional Budget Office, the state‘s own nonpartisan “assess the state‘s finances” agency. That agency said the month that the new Republican governor of Wisconsin was sworn in, last month, that the state was on track to have a $120 million budget surplus this year.

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TRMS correspondence with Politifact

Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Rachel Maddow Show - By Rachel Maddow - Feb. 25 (Comment) - Subject: Correction requested re: The Rachel Maddow Show Dear Mr. Umhoefer and Mr. Borowski: I'm writing to request that you make a correction to your Truth-O-Meter post of Thursday, February 17th, 2011. http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2011/feb/18/rachel-maddow/rachel-maddow-says-wisconsin-track-have-budget-sur/ In your effort to challenge a Capital Times editorial you have mistakenly ascribed the argument therein to Rachel Maddow. In so doing, you have half-quoted her in one instance, misquoted her in another, and misrepresented her overall.

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Rumsfeld on ‘contingency plans’ for Iraq

Wed, 23 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

MSNBC - By Andrea Mitchell - Feb. 23 (Interview) - During an interview with NBC’s Andrea Mitchell, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld defends the Iraq War invasion and also shares his thoughts on the current situation in Libya.

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Durbin, Graham on Social Security and the Deficit

Sun, 20 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Meet the Press - By David Gregory, Sen. Richard Durbin, Sen. Lindsey Graham - Feb. 20 (Interview) - Sen. Durbin: Social Security does not add one penny to the deficit. Social Security untouched will make every promised payment for more than 25 years. ... The Social Security program, as it's currently put together, does not have any impact on the deficit.

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Wisconsin "Budget Crisis" Engineered by Gov. Walker

Fri, 18 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

MSNBC - By Rachel Maddow - Feb. 18 (News Report) - An attempt by the Republican plan to end collective bargaining rights (effectively ending unions) in the state of Wisconsin is nothing more than a Republican plan to end the democratic party once and for all. If they can take the unions down, then there is no democratic force that can compete with republican fundraising efforts in the wake of the Citizens United supreme court decision.

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U.S. can't link accused Army private to Assange

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

MSNBC - By Jim Miklaszewski - Jan. 25 (News Report) - U.S. military officials tell NBC News that investigators have been unable to make any direct connection between a jailed army private suspected with leaking secret documents and Julian Assange, founder of the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks.

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