We’re still looking for more info on the story, but this is a pretty big deal guys. The decision reverses a combat exclusion policy passed back in 1994. source
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3 months ago
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4 months ago
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"When I see a former governor say that the President is “shuckin’ and jivin’,” that’s racial era slave term. When I see another former governor after the president’s first debate where he didn’t do very well, says that the president was lazy. He didn’t say he was slow. He was tired. He didn’t do well. He said he was lazy. Now, it may not mean anything to most Americans, but to those of us who are African Americans, the second word is shiftless and then there’s a third word that goes along with that. The birther, the whole birther movement. Why do senior Republican leaders tolerate this kind of discussion within the party?"
4 months ago
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"There’s no way to defend what Todd Akin said. You just can’t do it, and you shouldn’t try to put it into a scientific context. It was a bad statement. And to try to defend it or explain someone else’s poor choice of words, it would be a fool’s errand."
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Former Rep. Mary Bono Mack (R-CA), quoted by Politico, in response to Rep. Phil Gingrey’s (R-GA) defense of former Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO).
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(via liberalsarecool)“He’s partly right on that.”
— Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-GA), an OB-GYN, quoted by the Marietta Daily Journal, on former Rep. Todd Akn’s (R-MO) “legitimate rape” comments.
4 months ago
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5 months ago
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"There’s no prospect of an agreement that doesn’t involve the rates going up on the top 2 percent of the wealthiest."
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Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner.
Geithner told CNBC that the Obama administration was prepared to dive off the fiscal cliff if Republicans do not agree to raise tax rates on the wealthy.
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5 months ago
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"I think there is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women."
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Madeleine Albright, 2006
On this day, December 5, 1996, President Bill Clinton nominated Madeleine Albright to become the first woman Secretary of State.
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5 months ago
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"I look forward to hearing from my party’s leadership about why my principled, conservative voting record offends them. That’s sure to be a lively and entertaining conversation."
- Rep. Justin Amash, responding on Facebook to news reports that the GOP kicked him off the House Committee on the Budget – without telling him. h/t Buzzfeed (via officialssay)
5 months ago
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"Last Tuesday, the President of the United States signed into law the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act. As President Obama was signing this bill into law, Bradley [Manning] and I were in the courtroom for [his trial]…How can you reconcile that? I don’t know the answer to that question."
- David Coombs, lawyer for Bradley Manning, the jailed soldier accused by the government of leaking national security information to WikiLeaks. (via motherjones)
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6 months ago
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"I always hate this kind of scapegoating after elections. I mean, when you lose, you lost. Someone asked me the other day, ‘Why did Mitt Romney lose?’ Because he got less votes than Barack Obama. That’s why."
- NJ Gov. Chris Christie • Discussing his displeasure with the mental gymnastics that both parties frequently display, after losing an election, in an interview with Joe Scarborough on MSNBC’s ‘Morning Joe’. Gov. Christie has become the most recent prominent Republican to publicly dismiss Mitt Romney’s theory that “gifts” won President Obama the election, though he’s far from the only one to do so. source (via shortformblog)
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6 months ago
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"I’m not a scientist, man."
- Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) declining to say how old the Earth is in an interview with GQ magazine.
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6 months ago
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"There’s no white resentment without white supremacy. If you take away the idea that America is first and foremost, and should always be run by white people, if you take that away, then white resentment doesn’t make any sense. You know, it immediately dissipates. And so I just don’t— this sounds like a strange defense of the Republican Party, but it’s like, there’s a market for this, and the market was created by history."
- The Atlantic’s Ta-Nehisi Coates on the politics of white resentment, from Saturday’s Up w/ Chris Hayes. (via upwithchris)
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6 months ago
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Today is the day where you go and vote for the POTUS and lots of other government officials. They matter, and it matters that you go and vote for them whether you live in a swing state or not- not every election on the ballot is decided by the electoral college and if you want the groups you belong to to have their issues paid attention to, you have to show up at the polls. That is the only way to guarantee yourself political attention.
If self interest isn’t enough to motivate you, think of your heaviest civic obligations. You are asked to follow the laws, pay your taxes, and to vote. If you are reading this, chances are you don’t make enough to pay taxes and you probably don’t follow all of the laws; the least you can do it go and vote.
Go and vote for the man you think will do the best job governing the country for the next four years, and think hard about your decision. Be critical of your favorites, don’t vote down party lines, and take the time to look up issues and names that will be on your ballot. Don’t waste or take lightly one of your only chances to participate in the republic and have a semblance of a say in who will serve as your local, state, national, and international voice for the foreseeable future. If you are too lazy or apathetic to want to be part of making a decision that affects not only you directly but millions nationally and billions internationally, fuck you. Vote.
6 months ago
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"Mitt Romney is a highly moral man who happens to be amoral when it comes to politics—a salesman willing to make whatever pitch will sell at that moment."
6 months ago
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"More importantly, if you put a statement in the form of a question, is that journalism?"
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Stephen Colbert, calling Fox News out for their non-stop, 6 week long controversy creation also known as Libya coverage.
This is what I’m saying, Stephen!
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