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By David Gibson - Politics DailyThe FBI in New York has reportedly arrested Theodore Shulman, a radical abortion rights campaigner with a long history of threatening pro-life activists, and charged him with making interstate threats against two abortion opponents who were not identified. The 49-year-old Shulman was arrested on Thursday and was being held without bond at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City, according to pro-life activists who were alerted to Shulman's incarceration by federal investigators. An officer at the correctional center referred a calls about inmates to the public relations office, ...
Keith Olbermann Quits MSNBC; Both Sides Mum on Reason
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailyNEW YORK – Keith Olbermann, the highest-rated host of MSNBC, has quit the cable news network. In an abrupt announcement on the air Friday night, he said he was leaving "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" immediately. The flamboyant anchor, who was the leading and possibly most strident symbol of MSNBC's liberal leanings, settled his contract late this week and agreed to step down. His relationship with NBC's corporate management had been troubled for some time, but news of his departure came as a surprise to most pundits and MSNBC insiders. Click play to watch video: As he closed his ...
9/11 Health Bill: Who Deserves More Credit, Jon Stewart or Shep Smith?
By Nathaniel Jones - AOL NewsGiving government health benefits to the 9/11 first responders may have seemed like a no-brainer to everyone from Barack Obama to Rudy Giuliani, but it took the efforts of two talking heads to push it through Congress. After months of debate, one compromise that included billions of dollars in benefits cuts and one extended act of public shaming for the opposition, the Senate unanimously passed a $4 billion bill giving health benefits to 9/11 workers today. In part, the public shaming of Republican members of Congress by Comedy Central's Jon Stewart and Fox News' Shepard Smith can be ...
White House: Fox News 'Destructive', Olbermann & Maddow 'Invaluable'
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyAs Tom Diemer noted earlier, President Obama called Fox News' political agenda "destructive" in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine. Interestingly, this was followed up by White House Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton, who said on Tuesday, "... if you're on the left, if you're somebody like Keith Olbermann or Rachel Maddow or one of the folks who helps to keep our government honest and pushes and prods to make sure that folks are true to progressive values, then he thinks that those folks provide an invaluable service." This, of course, makes the original comments about Fox News even ...
Do Political Talk Show Hosts Poison the Debate? Voters Have Their Say
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyIt's common these days for everyone from President Obama on down to bemoan the lack of civility in the current political climate and put a lot of the blame on the partisan political talk show hosts found on cable TV news and the radio. So here are two headlines from a Politico/George Washington University Battleground poll on what people likely to vote in this year's elections think about them: -- News flash for liberals Rachel Maddow, Ed Schultz and Keith Olbermann: Not only does MSNBC, where you call home, lag behind Fox News in audience, more people never heard of you compared to Fox's ...
The Top 25 Progressive Twitterers
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyHere are the 25 essential liberals to follow on Twitter. If you're a progressive, I'm guessing you're already following most of these folks. If you're a political junkie who wants insights into the progressive world, keep reading. And if you're a conservative, you better keep tabs on this list, too. One clarification: This isn't a list of the top liberals in America. And there are plenty of terrific liberal bloggers who don't use Twitter much, if at all. But if your goal is to keep up in rapid-fire fashion with the progressive movement, here are the places to go. 1. @markos -- Does Markos ...
'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Policy: Conflicted Gay Soldiers Also Face ROTC Debt
By Peter W. Fulham - Politics DailyDan Choi entered the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1999, well aware that as a gay cadet serving under the "don't ask, don't tell" law, which bars gays from serving openly in the military, his enrollment carried certain risks. Still, he said, he was undeterred by the policy. But after a one-year tour of duty in Iraq in 2006, his attitude changed. First Lieutenant Choi (pictured below) started a relationship with his boyfriend and discovered that he wanted to share his personal life with his friends and family. "I realized that these are the things that my soldiers talk ...
Rand Paul Under Fire For Views on Civil Rights Act
By David Sessions - Politics DailyRand Paul, the son of Texas congressman Ron Paul and the newly minted Republican nominee for Senate in Kentucky, came under fire this week from Democrats and others after media appearances where he refused to fully embrace the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the law that legally ended segregation in the United States. Paul defeated Republican opponent Trey Grayson on Tuesday. During his victory speech, Paul said he was bringing a "message from the Tea Party," which expected him to "take our government back." Controversy broke out after Paul was interviewed on NPR's "All Things Considered" ...
Rand Paul Under Fire for Remarks on Civil Rights Act
By Steve Pendlebury - AOL News(May 20) -- Rand Paul, the new face of the tea party movement, is in hot water because of his comments about anti-discrimination laws. The political newcomer knocked off the GOP establishment's candidate, Trey Grayson, in Kentucky's Republican Senate primary on Tuesday and called it a "mandate" for the tea party's drive to limit Washington's power. During a victory lap of interview programs the next day, Paul was asked about his belief that the Americans With Disabilities Act gave government too much authority over private business. NPR's Robert Siegel wanted to know whether Paul felt the ...
Commencement Speakers 2010: Barack Obama, Glenn Beck Hit Campuses
By Aaron Steiner - Politics DailyCommencement season is arriving, and that means all the top schools are engaging in bouts of competitive name dropping. Commencement speakers tend to be a highly anticipated announcement among the nation's top schools, seeing who can secure the big brand names like "Clinton" or "Immelt." Speaker selection can often cause a bit of student unrest (see: Syracuse protests over this year's selection, JPMorgan Chase chief executive Jamie Dimon), and, at times, nationwide controversy (see: protests at Notre Dame over President Barack Obama's speech last year). More and more, commencement addresses ...
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