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"As people sit around, and theorize and debate about what should be a reasonable or common ground, the voices of the people who are most affected by this decision are lost. They aren’t represented in these dialogues. Their specific realities don’t count."
An amazing interview with a late-term abortion provider, who takes on the politicized debate surrounding abortion.
Meet Maureen Russo: An eligible voter who couldn’t vote, thanks to a voter purge being conducted by Florida Gov. Rick Scott.
Corey Booker: The “drug war is a failure”
In a series of tweets last night, Newark Major Corey Booker argued about the horrendous impact the drug war has on African-Americans and suggested the need to move away from jail time and move towards rehabilitation.
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IT'S OFFICIAL: Iowa's Republican platform endorses birtherism
They also endorsed some other really, really bad ideas, like getting rid of the government, letting states nullify federal laws, and more than one conspiracy theory.
Mayor Cory Booker received over $565,000 from Bain Capital and the financial industry for his 2002 campaign
This helps explain why Cory Booker was so uncomfortable with attacks on Romney’s Bain Capital record. They were among his earliest and most generous backers.
"If your main argument for how to grow the economy is, ‘I knew how to make a lot of money for investors, then you’re missing what this job is about.’"
President Obama hits Romney on his Bain Capital experience.
