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We’re not yet a month into Barack Obama’s second term, and already Washington Post political blogger Jennifer Rubin can see the president’s “second-term curse” taking shape. At its core, according to Rubin, is last year’s terror attack on the U.S

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Vice President Joe Biden hit Republicans on Thursday night for their lies and distortions on Medicare. The Republican ticket has attacked Obamacare’s $716 billion in Medicare savings , while papering over Mitt Romney’s plan, which would bankrupt Medicare by 2016 . “They’re for a whole new plan,” Biden said.

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Some conservative media figures are praising Clint Eastwood’s performance from the final night of the Republican National Convention, in which the actor spoke to an empty chair representing President Obama.

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Mark Potok, Southern Poverty Law Center The Southern Poverty Law Center has responded to accusations by the Family Research Council and other anti-gay groups that its labeling of hate groups is “ incendiary ” and that it provided “license” to the gunman to attack FRC Wednesday and must be “ held to account .” Mark Potok, Senior Fellow at the SPLC, called Tony Perkins’ accusation “outrageous” and explained how the exploitation of this tragedy creates a false equivalence between criticism of anti-gay rhetoric and condemnations of gay people: Perkins’ accusation is outrageous. The SPLC has listed the FRC as a hate group since 2010 because it has knowingly spread false and denigrating propaganda about LGBT people — not, as some claim, because it opposes same-sex marriage. The FRC and its allies on the religious right are saying, in effect, that offering legitimate and fact-based criticism in a democratic society is tantamount to suggesting that the objects of criticism should be the targets of criminal violence

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Planned Parenthood really needs to be shut down, never to be opened again. America’s largest abortion mill is not looking out for the interests of women

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Obama Meets With Planned Parenthood Officials… Via The Hill: Officials with Planned Parenthood welcomed President Obama in Orlando Thursday as he visited for a campaign event. The two women, Jenna Cawley Tosh and Nancy Wolf, …

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So, what is Mitt hiding? I go away for one week and all kinds of fun breaks out in the presidential campaign

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by RL Miller, via Daily Kos Last week, the House held Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt for reasons arising from the House GOP-dominated probe into the “Fast and Furious” non-scandal, despite solid reporting, via CNN , that the vast architecture of a Congressional inquiry into a massive conspiracy was built on one disgruntled employee and a couple of lunatics with blogs. One good reporter exposed the lies at its heart, and it all came tumbling down. Now, the same House Oversight Committee wants to bring in the chief of Abound Solar for a hearing

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On The Daily Show , host Jon Stewart mocked Fox News’ repeated attempts to attach the “Watergate” label to several of the right-wing media’s manufactured attacks on President Obama.     After pointing out that the Fast & Furious operation is the latest story to be labeled as “Obama’s Watergate” by Fox News, Stewart mocked the network for using the same rhetoric to attack Obama over intelligence leaks, Solyndra, and the BP oil spill. Right-wing media has repeatedly attempted to pin the “Watergate” label to the Obama administration

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Bill O’Reilly brought Karl Rove onto his Fox News show for a dizzying spin session about the Obama administration’s announcement that it will allow some young undocumented immigrants to remain in the U.S. In a short span, Rove managed put forward numerous falsehoods about the new policy and the recent history of the immigration debate. Here are four facts about immigration — and how Rove tried to jam them up: 1. The change in deportation policy for young people is legal. The Department of Homeland Security announced that it will exercise its prosecutorial discretion and consider exempting some young immigrants from deportation. This is consistent with current law and has decades of precedent. But on The O’Reilly Factor , Rove claimed that President Obama is saying that “we will selectively apply the laws of the United States” and that “[w]e will exempt a class of people from the statutes. There’s no authority, I think, to do that.” 2. The new policy will be applied case by case. The DHS press release describing the policy change says , “Under this directive, individuals who demonstrate that they meet [certain] criteria will be eligible for an exercise of discretion … on a case by case basis.” On The O’Reilly Factor , Rove falsely asserted that Obama is saying that “we will selectively apply the laws of the United States, not individual, case by case by case, but by class.” 3. Comprehensive reform legislation was introduced in Congress under Obama. In December 2009, Democrats introduced a comprehensive immigration reform bill in the House of Representatives. On The O’Reilly Factor , Rove falsely claimed that in August 2009, Obama promised to introduce comprehensive legislation, but “nothing has happened.” 4. Republicans led the way in killing 2007 reform legislation. In June 2007, Senate Republicans played a dominant role in killing comprehensive reform legislation, which was backed by President Bush. A majority of the Democrats in the body voted to advance the legislation, while a majority of the Republicans voted to block it. Rove dubiously claimed that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid “was the guy who screwed up comprehensive immigration reform in 2007. He really is not a fan of comprehensive immigration reform.” From the June 18 edition of The O’Reilly Factor :

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