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Allen West's Opponent Quotes Eisenhower To Slam Slavery Comments
Tweet Share on Facebook July 13, 2012 CommentAs Allen West continues to defend his comments that Social Security disability insurance is a form of "slavery," the Florida Representative's opponent Patrick Murphy told Whispers he has a few choice words in response.
Murphy, a Democrat running against the provocative Tea Partier, quoted Dwight D. Eisenhower, who once said:
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Meghan McCain Is A Democrat, She Just Doesn't Know It
Tweet Share on Facebook July 13, 2012 Comment
Watching Meghan McCain speak at the Washington, D.C. Jewish Community Center Thursday night was like watching a square peg try to fit into a round hole.
Throughout the evening, McCain—who was in town to promote her new book "America, You Sexy Bitch"—repeatedly tried to profess herself a bonafide Republican of the next generation, albeit an "unorthodox" one. But the longer she spoke, that just didn't ring true.
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Roland Burris Says Reports of Jesse Jackson Jr.'s Alcoholism 'Invented Stuff'
Tweet Share on Facebook July 12, 2012 CommentAs rumors continue to swirl about the whereabouts and condition of Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., who last voted on Capitol Hill more than a month ago, one man thinks the media coverage has been filled with "invented stuff."
Former Illinois Sen. Roland Burris, who knows the Jackson family well, told Whispers the media has developed a "wolf-pack mentality" and needs to "cool out" on the alcohol allegations, which Burris thinks are untrue.
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Lesbian Super PAC Raises $200,000 In One Day
Tweet Share on Facebook July 12, 2012 CommentA first-of-its-kind lesbian Super PAC, launched Wednesday with the support of Obama donor Laura Ricketts and actress Jane Lynch, tells Whispers it has raised $200,000 in its first day alone. Its year-end goal is $1 million.
The group, called LPAC, plans to donate to pro-lesbian and pro-women candidates, whose names it will announce over the next few days, according to LPAC chairman and treasurer Sarah Schmidt.
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Conservative Group Uses Pinterest To Track Obama's Golf Outings
Tweet Share on Facebook July 12, 2012 CommentMitt Romney's wealth may be turning voters off, but it seems President Obama can't shake the elitist tag, either.
Less than a month after the president played his 100th round of golf, the conservative American Future Fund has created a Pinterest page devoted to Obama's golf courses. The page features about 20 "stunning and exclusive golf courses Obama has played at during his presidency," along with the clubs' membership price tag.
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Q&A: @pourmecoffee, One of the Funniest Political Satirists on Twitter
Tweet Share on Facebook July 11, 2012 CommentOne of the advantages of the Internet is its promise of anonymity. Careers can be made—and lost—without anyone ever knowing who was behind that blog, or Twitter account, review, or website.
But with that fame—and infamy—come concerted attempts to unmask numerous pseudonymous characters, from the author of the Secret Diary of Steve Jobs to the narrative storyteller composing foul-mouthed tweets for the @MayorEmanuel Twitter account (often when these figures eventually unmask themselves the guesses turn out to have been wrong, making the revelations anti-climatic).
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Animal Instincts: Ciarán Hinds Channels Clinton, LBJ for Political Animals
Tweet Share on Facebook July 11, 2012 CommentYou don't have to be an American history scholar to guess who and what was the model for the new limited television series Political Animals: the show depicts a philandering-but-popular former president whose wife—after a failed presidential run herself—wins over the country as secretary of state.
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Tea Party Hits Back at James Earl Jones for Calling Group Racist
Tweet Share on Facebook July 11, 2012 CommentThe Tea Party wants James Earl Jones to take his booming bass voice down a notch.
After the Star Wars actor compared the Tea Party to his racist grandmother on the public-radio show Smiley & West, he drew the furor of Tea Party Patriots, the nation's largest Tea Party-affiliated organization.
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Mitt Romney's New Latino Website Called 'Clunky'
Tweet Share on Facebook July 11, 2012 CommentAfter months of prodding from the Latino community, the Romney campaign launched a flashy Spanish-language website Wednesday, along with a new ad, in which Romney's son, Craig, speaks fluent Spanish.
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'Zombie SOPA Bill' May Be Nothing Worth Scaring Over
Tweet Share on Facebook July 11, 2012 CommentFree speech advocates were up in arms last year when House Judiciary Committee chief Lamar Smith introduced a bill called the Stop Online Piracy Act, which, they worried, would result in unbridled censorship of the Internet. By January, the online masses had mobilized. Some 7,000 websites coordinated a blackout to raise awareness of its supposed dangers. With mounting pressure against the bill, SOPA was eventually postponed.
But now its back, or so advocates of a free and open Web fear.
