Hillary Clinton To Speak At Hamilton College’s "Great Names" Lecture
Attendance will be free and open to the public. Clinton’s husband gave the same lecture at the upstate New York school nearly ten years ago.
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Here’s Video Of Another Time The Heritage Analyst Said Blacks and Hispanics Have Lower IQs
Jason Richwine, a senior policy analyst at the conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation and co-author of a controversial report on the economic costs of immigration reform, said at a 2008 event that the “most important way” race was different was in IQ. He made similar comments in a 2009 PhD dissertation, which have received attention this week.
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Five Ways America Has Changed Since Obama Announced His Support For Marriage Equality
From Washington state to Washington, DC, and from the Rhode Island statehouse to the Supreme Court of the United States, the country is very different from just last May.
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Minnesota House Passes Marriage Equality Bill, 75-59
The Senate will vote and is expected to pass the bill Monday, and Gov. Mark Dayton has said he will sign it. Minnesota would be the 12th state, plus DC, with marriage equality.
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Heritage Immigration Implosion Could Pull In More Anti-Immigration Scholarship
Conservatives face questions over the people they’re relying on to support their opposition to immigration reform. One says Hispanics have a lower IQ than “native white Americans.” Another says pregnant women shouldn’t be allowed in the US.
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The Government Is Selling THE REAL Air Force One Online For Only $50,000
Flew multiple presidents for +30 years.
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Schumer Refuses To Say Whether He’ll Vote For Same-Sex Couples’ Protections In Immigration Bill
Sen. Chuck Schumer says while he strongly supports protections for same-sex couples, his “Republican colleagues feel very strongly that if this is in the bill they would not be able to support it.”
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Rachel Maddow In 2006: “I Want The Next President To Be Like George W. Bush”
From the book, Air America: The Playbook: What a Bunch of Left Wing Media Types have to Teach you about a World Gone Right.
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Hillary Clinton To Address Realtors Conference In San Francisco
Cashing in.
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GOP Senator Calls White House EPA Pick “Unresponsive” After She Answers Hundreds Of His Questions
David Vitter says Gina McCarthy isn’t responding to his questions. But she’s answered hundreds he submitted in writing.
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Benghazi Investigation Creeps Closer To Hillary Clinton
Does the buck stop with the former secretary — or is it a political hit? “Who is Cheryl Mills?”
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Keystone Pipeline Opponents Hope For A Hero In Joe Biden
“Biden is known for speaking his mind and speaking the truth, and I think that’s what he did here,” an activist says.
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Commercial Breaks Made It Hard For Fox News To Be Fair And Balanced During Benghazi Hearings
“We’re trying to get a commercial break. We’re getting lopsided Democrats versus Republicans. We’ll try to rectify that.”
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Benghazi Witness Says State Dept. Told Him Not To Meet With Congressional Investigators
Deputy chief of mission for the U.S. in Libya Gregory Hicks testified Wednesday that he was told not to meet with a congressman sent to investigate the attack on the American consulate in Benghazi. Hicks said a State Department lawyer accompanied the delegation and attempted to be in every single meeting he was involved in.
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Chinese Netizens Appeal To "Chairman Obama"
Their petitions to White House: Take official stance on tofu, extradite a student, liberate Hong Kong — and China. “If we vote, will we be asked to drink ‘coffee’?”
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Heritage Foundation Distances Itself From Comments On Hispanic IQ
The conservative group’s immigration expert, Jason Richwine, wrote in 2009 that immigrants have lower IQs than “white native” Americans. Heritage says that’s not their view. Another bad news cycle for immigration opponents.
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New Jersey Newspaper Envisions Skinny Chris Christie
A rendered front page image asks, “Our New Governor?” How the local papers covered the governor’s secret weight-loss surgery.
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Benghazi Witness: Special Forces Told Not To Go To Besieged Consulate
Gregory Hicks, the deputy chief of mission for the U.S. in Libya and the highest-ranking U.S. official in Libya after the Sept. 11th attack on the consulate, said Special Forces were told they were not authorized to board a flight to Benghazi. Lt. Colonel Gibson, the the lieutenant colonel in Tripoli who commanded the Special Operations team told Hicks he “had bigger balls than somebody in the military,” according to transcript of an interview released by congressional investigators.
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Benghazi Witness: “Until The Aftermath Of Benghazi, I Loved Every Day Of My Job”
Gregory Hicks, the deputy chief of mission for the U.S. in Libya and the highest-ranking U.S. official in Libya after the Sept. 11th attack on the consulate, described loving every day of his 22-year foreign service career until the attacks on the consulate.
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Conservative Women’s Group Claims Credit In Mark Sanford’s Win
Victory has a thousand mothers.
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This Chris Christie Spoof Is Totally Epic
In a video produced by his office for the annual N.J. Legislative Correspondents dinner, the governor pokes fun at his national prominence, and a possible 2016 bid, with cameos by Alec Baldwin, James Carville, and Jon Bon Jovi. “But you hate getting press coverage in DC!”
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Joe Biden Tells Supporter He Opposes Keystone Pipeline, But Is “In The Minority,” She Says
The activist recalls a conversation on the controversial pipeline project. “He grabbed my Sierra Club hat on my head and said, ‘Yes, I do — I share your views.”
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OpUSA Attack On Federal Government Either Didn’t Happen Or Didn’t Work
“Whatever it is didn’t even rise to ‘give a damn’ levels,” federal official says.
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Delaware Senate Passes Marriage Equality Bill, Governor Signs It
The vote was 12-9. UPDATE: Gov. Jack Markell signed the bill — which takes effect July 1 — into law, making Delaware the 11th state, plus DC, to allow same-sex couples to marry.
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White House Brings Obama’s Optimism On Immigration Back Down To Earth
Obama says he’s “absolutely convinced” comprehensive reform will pass this year. Senior administration officials are optimistic too, but they note there’s still a House GOP.
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Senator Patrick Leahy Files Amendments To Include Gay Couples In Immigration Bill
The Vermont senator’s addition of a second amendment relating to recognition of state-sanctioned marriages is “nothing short of a strategic master stroke,” one advocate says.
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Rubio Argued In 2006 Book For Moving Up Florida Primary
“Currently, a small, non-diverse group of citizens (the voters of Iowa and New Hampshire) have a disproportionate impact on the nomination of presidential candidates.”
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HRC Says Republican Resistance To Same Sex Immigration Protections Is Homophobic
“These senators are towing a tired line that no longer represents mainstream opinion, and they’re throwing same-sex couples under the bus in the process,” Human Rights Campaign says of opposition.
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MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” And Chris Christie: A Love Story
The governor of New Jersey has been mentioned in over 500 episodes of MSNBC’s nationally broadcast morning show since 2009.
