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The National Rifle Association’s annual meeting on May 3-5 will feature a number of conservative media figures — including Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, and Ted Nugent — who often use violent rhetoric and promote gun-related conspiracy theories.

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Fox Business anchor Lou Dobbs dismissed the discovery of errant data points in a recently dismantled Harvard economics study that had formed the cornerstone for arguments supporting U.S. and European austerity as merely “a small mistake.” On the April 30 edition of Fox Business’ Lou Dobbs Tonight , Dobbs discussed with former Reagan administration economic adviser Arthur Laffer a “contretemps” between New York Times columnist and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman and historian Niall Ferguson over national debt and the economy

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The New Jersey legislature reached a deal with Gov. Chris Christie (R) today on a bill aimed at ending preventable deaths because those who witness drug overdoses are afraid to call the police.

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Fox’s Bret Baier hosted a confidential informant to express his opinion that the Obama administration could have aided staff who were killed during the September 11, 2012, attack on a U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya, an opinion refuted by military experts and nonpartisan analysis

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Photo: The Denver Post Post-Newtown, sales for bulletproof backpacks and whiteboards have soared as parents and school districts seek to take children’s safety into their own hands. The reaction is along the lines of what the National Rifle Association has promoted for months: that armed guards, and not gun regulation, is the answer to school shootings. Congress responded to parents’ concern by caving to pressure from the NRA and blocking the only serious federal attempt to pass gun safety legislation earlier this month.

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Long lines to vote in Florida for the 2012 election Though Republican election officials in battleground states sought to dampen voter turn out of traditionally Democratic voters through by instituting identification requirements and limiting early voting hours, a new analysis of census data by the Associated Press shows that African Americans “voted at a higher rate than other minority groups in 2012 and by most measures surpassed the white turnout for the first time.” The analysis finds that had “people voted last November at the same rates they did in 2004, when black turnout was below its current historic levels, Republican Mitt Romney would have won narrowly”: The 2012 data suggest Romney was a particularly weak GOP candidate, unable to motivate white voters let alone attract significant black or Latino support . Obama’s personal appeal and the slowly improving economy helped overcome doubts and spur record levels of minority voters in a way that may not be easily replicated for Democrats soon

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On August 5, 2012, just before 10:30 in the morning, Wade Michael Page pulled up outside the Sikh temple in Oak Creek, WI., took out his semi-automatic handgun and started killing worshipers. An Army veteran and an avid bass player in a neo-Nazi rock band, Page murdered two Sikhs outside the house of worship and then made his way inside

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Nineteenth Century nullificationist Senator John C. Calhoun Nearly two centuries ago, South Carolina Sen

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Earlier this month Gov. Nathan Deal (R-GA) called a request for him to support integrating a still-segregated school prom in Wilcox County, Georgia a “ silly publicity stunt ,” and he later labeled the segregated prom quesiton a “ private issue [], and not something that the state government needs to have its finger involved in.” Perhaps he would feel differently if he surrounded himself with more diverse appointments

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Voter ID laws, which require voters to show photo ID in order to vote, are one of the most common forms of voter suppression laws favored by Republican state lawmakers.

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