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Mitt Romney's Tax Havens Used To Justify More Spending on AIDS
Tweet Share on Facebook July 24, 2012 CommentIn a packed auditorium at the World Bank Monday night, world leaders, an ambassador, professor and other global health experts debated whether governments should still be investing as much as they do in HIV/AIDs in a "resource-constrained environment."
Arguments against continued investment in HIV/AIDS received boos from the crowd; arguments for the investment received cheers and claps.
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Tea Party Could Hold Rally With Bachmann, Cain Before GOP Convention
Tweet Share on Facebook July 24, 2012 CommentThe Tea Party is attempting to put together a rally for the evening before the Republican National Convention in Tampa, featuring appearances by Michele Bachmann and Herman Cain.
On the "Unity Rally 2012" website, organizers wrote that "tea party activists and like-minded organizations are uniting" to "rise above our disagreements and rivalries for the good of the movement."
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Obama Ad Showing Romney Singing Off-Key Was Very Effective With Independent Voters
Tweet Share on Facebook July 23, 2012 CommentPolitical mudslinging, once called "as American as Mississippi mud," has only intensified as the presidential election draws closer, with President Obama and Mitt Romney currently hitting one another with 90 percent negative ads.
And while many Americans hate negative ads, a new project by Vanderbilt University and research firm YouGov shows them to be highly effective—at least for the Obama campaign.
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Gary Johnson Could Appear in Presidential Debates
Tweet Share on Facebook July 23, 2012 CommentAfter weeks of angry protests on Reddit, Facebook and Twitter to get Libertarian party nominee Gary Johnson in the presidential debates, Janet Brown from the Commission on Presidential Debates tells Whispers he might appear there.
Supporters of Johnson, a former New Mexico governor, have repeatedly said their candidate has been unfairly excluded from presidential election coverage by the mainstream media, hurting his chances to appear in the debates.
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After Colorado Theater Shooting, Lawmakers Lose Their Cool
Tweet Share on Facebook July 23, 2012 CommentAt least three current or former lawmakers drew attention to themselves over the weekend with intense or questionable remarks in reaction to Friday's Colorado movie theater shooting, which left at least 12 dead and dozens injured.
Republican former Arizona State Sen. Russell Pearce responded to the shootings on his Facebook page, where he appeared to blame the movie theatergoers for their inability to stop the shooter, believed to be 24-year-old James Holmes. Comparing the tragedy to the September 11 attacks, Pearce wrote:
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Many Anti-Obama Facebook Groups Attack President's Race, Not Politics
Tweet Share on Facebook July 19, 2012 CommentSurprise, surprise—people who thought electing Barack Obama would usher in a "post-racial" America were merely thinking wishfully. A new study by a Baylor University researcher finds that some of the largest anti-Obama Facebook groups focus on the president's race, not his politics.
On Facebook groups such as "I hate it when I wake up in the morning and Barack Obama is President" (800,000 likes) and "I hate Obama" (17,500 likes), members post photos that frequently portray the Obama family in historical "blackface" photoshops and art. Comments on many of the photos include racial slurs and personal attacks.
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Republican National Convention Lifts Ban on 'Hoods' After Trayvon Martin’s Death
Tweet Share on Facebook July 19, 2012 CommentThe city of Tampa's initial ordinance for heightened security at the upcoming Republican National Convention looked slightly different than its final version today.
The first draft made it illegal for any person visiting the convention to wear "any mask, hood or device whereby any portion of the face is hidden, concealed or covered." But in the final draft, the word "hood" is no longer there.
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Gay Marriage Icon Slams Mitt Romney On 'Mitt Gets Worse' Site
Tweet Share on Facebook July 18, 2012 Comment"Mitt Gets Worse," a new website from two Democratic Super PACs, turns the notion that "It Gets Better" for gay and lesbian children on its head.
The site features video testimonials from prominent members of the gay community, including Julie Goodridge, a gay marriage icon who led the fight for the freedom to marry in Massachusetts, arguing that if Mitt Romney were to become president, their lives would only get worse.
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ResistRNC Pledges Peace, Worries Conservatives With Tampa Plans
Tweet Share on Facebook July 18, 2012 CommentThere are few things more magnetic for protesters than a political convention.
And as the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., draws near, ResistRNC, a planned five-day protest, is seeking to rev up its supporters. ResistRNC says it is not affiliated with any political party, but rather is protesting the "pursuit of wealth" and "exploitation and oppression." The group also said it supports planned protests at the Democratic convention in Charlotte, N.C.
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Sen. Sherrod Brown's Wife Makes Conservative Blogger Look Silly
Tweet Share on Facebook July 18, 2012 CommentConnie Schultz, a Pulitzer prize-winning columnist and wife of Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown, posted an E-mail exchange between herself and an unnamed, unwitting conservative blogger to her Facebook page Tuesday night.
The blogger emailed Schultz on July 9 to say, smugly: "Dear Ms. Shultz, We are doing an expose on journalists in the elite media who socialize with elected officials they are assigned to cover. We have found numerous photos of you with Sen. Sherrod Brown. In one of them, you appear to be hugging him. Care to comment?"
