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Previewing her upcoming special, CNN reporter Deb Feyerick praised NRA board member Ted Nugent for his “deep connection with the facts” on gun violence. But Nugent’s radical views on gun ownership and outrageous and offensive comments about President Obama and prominent Democrats demonstrate that he is not a credible source for information on guns.  On Erin Burnett OutFront, Feyerick previewed a CNN special recorded at Nugent’s home that featured a conversation about strengthening gun laws

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Politico executive editor Jim VandeHei misrepresented a poll to claim that progressive Democrats are out of step with most people who voted for President Obama over how to deal with Social Security and Medicare. VandeHei stated on the November 20 edition of MSNBC’s Morning Joe that Obama voters are “at odds with the liberal base” of the Democratic Party on Social Security and Medicare: VANDEHEI: [T]here’s a lot of divisions inside the Democratic Party over what to do on entitlement reform. You’re not going to get any Republican votes for an increase in taxes unless you have some changes to Medicare and to Social Security.

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Following Monday night’s presidential debate, Fox News’ Sean Hannity, like many conservative pundits, seemed disappointed that Mitt Romney didn’t attack President Barack Obama over the issue of the terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya on Sept

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Rep. Todd Akin’s (R-MO) Senate campaign has struggled to rebound after his claim that women could not get pregnant from “legitimate rape” led to a drop in fundraising and GOP establishment support .

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Two national law enforcement organizations representing black and Latino police officers announced their support yesterday for the ballot initiative to legalize marijuana in Colorado. The endorsements by Blacks in Law Enforcement of America and the National Latino Officers Association of Amendment 64, which proposes to regulate marijuana like alcohol, were accompanied by a letter signed by law enforcement officials from around Colorado : As police officers, judges, prosecutors, corrections officials and others who have labored to enforce the laws that seek to prohibit marijuana use, and who have witnessed the abysmal failure of this current criminalization approach, we stand together in calling for new laws that will effectively regulate marijuana in a manner similar to alcohol. […] As law enforcement professionals, we especially want voters to understand that responsible regulation will allow us to do our jobs more effectively and safely

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by David Doniger, via NRDC’s Switchboard Climate change is not the first planetary pollution crisis we have faced.  That distinction belongs to the depletion of the earth’s protective ozone layer.

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Mitt Romney suggested that President Obama has taken God out of his heart during a rally in Mansfield, Ohio on Monday, telling a crowd of manufacturing workers that unlike the current occupant of the White House, he will always be guided by the Almighty. The comments appear to be a new post-convention Republican strategy to paint Obama as anti-God: ROMNEY: I believe it’s important to have a president and I will be a president, if elected, that honors that pledge and all the pledges that I made.

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Chicago teachers could hardly be more united in their disgust at Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s assault on public education. More than 98 percent voted to authorize a strike, which union activists say is as much about defending students and parents as it is about the economics of their contract. And while school has already started in the Windy City, the nation’s third largest school system could be shut down by next week, setting off a confrontation between a militant rank-and-file teacher movement and the mainstream of the labor movement and its allies, the Democratic Party

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – In cities hosting large gatherings such as the national political conventions or international summits, we’ve come to expect a massive militarized police presence, even as the ranks of protesters thin

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MSNBC host Chris Hayes The Democratic Party re-inserted language into its platform yesterday that declares Jerusalem as the capital of Israel after howls from Republicans suggesting that its omission meant the Democrats aren’t sufficiently pro-Israel.

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