Senate Defeats 'Pull And Pray' Amendment

Friday, March 02, 2012 THE BIG STORY, BY JOE CONASON Rising Market Debunks Republican Myth (Again) Rising financial markets -- which mirror the improving economy -- have long symbolized prosperity even for Americans who own no shares. Bumping up against 13,000 this week, the Dow average was seen as still another portent of recovery, for President Obama's electoral prospects as well as for the nation. What the president might consider explaining is that the latest market surge (and its rise over recent months) is unsurprising to anyone familiar with America's financial history. The rule that stretches back over the past century is clear: Stocks rise under Democrats and decline under Republicans. And that simple statistic is matched by a broad set of economic data that follow the same partisan vector. Republicans have often succeeded in persuading voters that their party is "good for the economy" -- a persistent myth that the president ought to debunk. READ MORE Send To A Friend >> FEATURED COLUMN: BRUCE JUDSON Are Bankers Capitalists? The CEO of JPMorgan Chase, Jamie Dimon, is right. He and his colleagues are successful. But the real question is this: What are they successful at? By almost any criteria, the banks operate under rules that are so far from capitalism as to be unrecognizable. READ MORE Send To A Friend >> FEATURED COLUMN: CONNIE SCHULTZ What Everyone Should Know About Chardon, Ohio Before this week, most of the country never had heard of Chardon, Ohio. Now millions know it as home to the deadliest school shooting in seven years. There is no escaping this tragic narrative, but it does not come close to telling the whole story of this close-knit community. In that way, Chardon is like every small town we never have heard of until something too horrible for words swallows it whole. READ MORE Send To A Friend >> Super PACs A Cheat Sheet On The Top 10 'Super Donors' The coming election cycle will likely be the most expensive in history. Thanks to Citizens United and other recent court decisions, individuals, corporations and unions can make unlimited donations to so-called Super PACs that support a candidate. The money is flowing in. So, exactly who is donating, and what do they want? READ MORE Send To A Friend >> FEATURED COLUMN: SUSAN ANTILLA Featured Column: Susan Antilla Occupy Wall Street and its working groups, including Occupy the SEC, were supposed to be dead, in case you missed the obituaries. Now the protesters are messing with detractors' heads, re-emerging as a media-savvy corps of legal, banking and activist members who appear sane and authoritative. This is not how the "welfare-bum hippies" propaganda script was supposed to play out. READ MORE Send To A Friend >> PULL AND PRAY Rush Limbaugh Calls College Senior A "Slut" Because She Uses Birth Control On Wednesday, the right-wing radio gasbag, who has no children and is currently on his fourth wife, decided it would be a good idea to slap the "prostitute" label on a Georgetown Law student who testified before Congress on the need for healthcare plans to cover contraception. One day later, the Senate barely defeated a bill that would allow employers and insurers to avoid covering birth control. Most defended the bill on the grounds of "religious freedom" -- but Limbaugh's stone-age utterings may have given the game away. READ MORE Send To A Friend >> CARTOON OF THE DAY Send To A Friend >>

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House passes resolution marking Selma voting-rights march - The Hill's Floor Action

House passes resolution marking Selma voting-rights march - The Hill's Floor Action

Rush Limbaugh calls law student a ‘slut’ for wanting contraception to be covered by health insurance at religious institutions - NY Daily News

Rush Limbaugh calls law student a ‘slut’ for wanting contraception to be covered by health insurance at religious institutions - NY Daily News

Rush Limbaugh Doubles Down On Sandra Fluke, Offering ‘As Much Aspirin to Put Between Her Knees As She Wants’ - ABC News

Rush Limbaugh Doubles Down On Sandra Fluke, Offering ‘As Much Aspirin to Put Between Her Knees As She Wants’ - ABC News

Sandra Fluke Issues Statement On Limbaugh's Comments And Public Support - Democratic Underground

Sandra Fluke Issues Statement On Limbaugh's Comments And Public Support - Democratic Underground

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1 dead, 1 hurt in Chicago school stabbing | VIDEO Classes are canceled at Infinity School after two students were stabbed by a classmate Thursday morning. One of the victims died. Principal accused of attacking students | VIDEO A Rogers Park elementary school principal is under investigation after several students made disturbing allegations against him. They say he crossed the line when he disciplined them. Cook Co. makes morgue more accountable | VIDEO The Cook County board passed a series of ordinances Thursday that will bring more accountability to the medical examiner's office. Clinton in Chicago for jobs announcement | VIDEO Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is set to make what his office calls a big announcement about jobs and economic development for the city. Robber hits 3rd Cicero T-Mobile store | VIDEO Cicero police are searching for a suspect who is believed to be behind three armed robberies in recent weeks of T-Mobile store outlets, including one this past Wednesday in the west suburb. 3 arrested after confrontation with officer Three men were in custody Thursday after a confrontation with an off-duty Chicago police officer in the Little Village neighborhood. MORE STORIES Strange News Cyprus: 98-year-old woman faces gambling charge Jeep on runway prompts Philly airport closure | VIDEO Giant boulder makes 1st stop on way to LA museum | VIDEO 92-year-old Glenview woman celebrates 23rd birthday | VIDEO Parachutists leap off tall buildings for Leap Day Consumer Continental website to disappear this weekend Mandatory rear-view systems rule stalled Consumer Reports 2012 top cars Free-Cruise Scams | VIDEO BBB complaints up 15 pct for auto repair | VIDEO Healthbeat Metal hips may expose patients to toxins Study: Old flu drug speeds brain injury recovery Children consume too much sugar Judge blocks graphic images on cigarette packages Making multi-million-dollar players MOST POPULAR Ailing Oscar maker looks to lamps for future Michael Jordan house in Highland Park for sale Harrisburg survivors found in rubble Andrew Breitbart dies in LA at 43 Woman sues, says she was raped at Lisle hotel All Most Popular

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Thursday, March 1, 2012 Timothy L. O'Brien: Introducing "Breakdown: Americans on the Edge" MONEY Making Sense of Dollars and Cents: Announcing HuffPost Money BUSINESS BofA To Charge Customers Unless They Buy More Products, Have Enough Money POLITICS Mitt Romney Backtracks On Comment Opposing Blunt Amendment [UPDATE] MEDIA Andrew Breitbart Dead: Conservative Blogger Dies Suddenly WORLD Rebels Retreat From Besieged Neighborhood BLOG POSTS Bill Maher: The Great Thing About Having Been Poor If you grow up in America, it's pretty rare if you don't love money. One of the first things I ever remember being punished for was stealing money. Five dollars, off my father's dresser. Bob Cesca: The He-Man Woman Haters Club The most popular radio talker in the world just called an ordinary citizen a slut and a prostitute in front of 15 million people. 15 million Americans tune in specifically to hear him say horrendous things like that. Richard Cordray: Advancing Consumers' Interests We have heard story after story of consumers being hit with fees they did not expect and do not understand. We take these complaints very seriously. Sheila Bair: It's 2012: Do You Know Where Your Money Market Fund Is? Would you take money that your daughter needs for braces and make a short term loan to a Wall Street firm? Probably not, but if you've put your ready cash in a prime money market fund, those are the kinds of places where your money may be sitting now. Menachem Rosensaft: A Neo-Nazi in the GOP: Where's the Outrage From On High? Arthur Jones, a neo-Nazi, outspoken anti-Semite and Holocaust denier, wants to be a Republican congressman from the Land of Lincoln.

MOST POPULAR ON HUFFINGTONPOST.COM And The Happiest State Is... LOOK: Dramatic Photos Show Before And After Tsunami Destruction Ohio School Shooting Suspect Was Bullied, Came From Violent Home: Cops ON TWITTER Why Computer Screens Aren't To Blame For Eye Strain $375 Million Health Care Fraud Suspect Gave Cash To Tea Party Group 7 Of The Healthiest Foods You Should Be Eating But Aren't ON FACEBOOK Rush Limbaugh Calls Woman Who Was Denied Right To Speak At Contraception Hearing A 'Slut PHOTO: 'Racist' FHM Cover Gets Pulled Andrew Breitbart Dead: Conservative Blogger Dies Suddenly

Gay Donors Get Creative In Super PAC America

Thursday, March 01, 2012 THE BIG STORY, BY MATT TAYLOR Gay Donors Get Creative In Super PAC America In this Citizens United era of unregulated campaign cash, gay activists and donors are finding innovative ways to reward Barack Obama, who despite his equivocation on marriage equality is often lauded as the greatest friend to the LGBT community of any president in American history. "This kind of Republican campaign has mobilized the community like I haven't seen since 1992," said David Mixner, a veteran progressive strategist Newsweek once called the most powerful gay man in America. "There's a lot at stake. I have no doubt people will be involved in some way in Super PACs. You can count on the major donors of this community dong whatever they have to do to assist in the re-election of this president." There's also the prospect of what one leading strategist called the "Holy Grail" -- electing Wisconsin Rep. Tammy Baldwin the first openly gay U.S. Senator. READ MORE Send To A Friend >> FEATURED COLUMN: E.J. DIONNE Romney The Extremist Maybe Rick Santorum is helping Mitt Romney after all: Santorum's wacky statements about college and snobbery, along with his upset stomach over a 52-year-old John F. Kennedy speech, are distracting attention from Romney's extremist economic ideas. Romney's plan is simultaneously extreme and very, very boring. It draws on the one and only idea that today's conservatives offer for solving any and every problem that comes along: just throw yet more money at rich people. READ MORE Send To A Friend >> FEATURED COLUMN: JIM HIGHTOWER The Keystone XL Flim-Flam So, let's tally the score in this Keystone pipeline deal: The American people's environment would be put at risk, foreign nations would get the fuel, pipeline and oil investors would get the tax-subsidized profits, and we'd all stay hooked on deadly polluting oil. Meanwhile, the financial speculators and supply manipulators who are artificially causing our gasoline prices to rise escape scrutiny, while self-serving politicians (tanked up on Big Oil's and Wall Street's campaign cash) divert attention to the bugaboo of Obama's pipeline decision. READ MORE Send To A Friend >> SOCIAL SECURITY AND YOU SSI Is Not Social Security Social Security and Supplemental Security Income are two very different programs. Their only similarities are their names and the fact that they're both managed by the Social Security Administration. Many people who are getting Social Security disability benefits think (and constantly tell me) that they're getting SSI. Here's an example of how that can lead to all kinds of confusion. READ MORE Send To A Friend >> WAR AND PEACE North Korea Agrees To Suspend Nuclear Activities North Korea has agreed to suspend uranium enrichment as well as nuclear and long-range missile tests in a breakthrough in negotiations with the United States. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called Pyongyang's suspension of nuclear activities a "modest first step" but also "a reminder that the world is transforming around us." READ MORE Send To A Friend >> FOR BRITISH EYES ONLY James Murdoch Resigns From News Corp. Post James Murdoch, son of 80-year-old media titan Rupert Murdoch, is stepping down as executive chairman of News Corp.'s U.K. newspaper arm, the company said Wednesday. His role at News International has come under scrutiny by law enforcement amid Britain's expanding phone-hacking scandal at Murdoch-owned titles. READ MORE Send To A Friend >> CARTOON OF THE DAY Send To A Friend >>

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Do Not Grow Weary or Lose Heart; New Jim Crow Social Justice Movement Heads to Nebraska; Black Men of Honor College Fair; What's Missing Is Rage!; Black Women Greatly Outnumber Black Men at HBCU's

Making Progress; Moving Forward! What's Missing Is Rage! - Harry Belafonte Links: The Black Star Project's website: blackstarproject.org Black Star Jounral: blackstarjournal.org Become a Member: Click Here Event Calendar: Click Here Like us on Facebook:   'Do Not Grow Weary or Lose Hope'   By Vincent G. Harding   "When you're surrounded by Fannie Lou Hamer and Amzie Moore and Septima Clark and Malcolm X and Martin King and Ella J. Baker, and when you take seriously those lives and the thousands like them, then it seems to me that the first response to what we've been through in these last few years is the question that one of my friends said she is always asking: What is the gift? For she assumes that life is full of gifts, sometimes absolutely disguised gifts. She assumes that whatever we are in the midst of, especially when it's fear-provoking and despair-encouraging, it is so necessary, so important, to keep asking, "What is the gift here?"   Read More... Michelle Alexander and The New Jim Crow Social Justice Movement Arrive in Nebraska on Saturday, March 10, 2010    People in Omaha, Lincoln, North Platte and Grand Island, Nebraska;  Sioux City, Des Moines, Davenport and Iowa City, Iowa; Sioux Falls, South Dakota; Minneapolis and Rochester, Minnesota; St. Joseph and Kansas City, Missouri; Overland Park, Topeka and Kansas City, Kansas; Cheyenne, Wyoming; and Denver, Colorado are encouraged to attend this event.     "Much like a great explorer, Michelle Alexander has discovered another America--a bizarro world where prejudice and discrimination have replaced truth and justice. An America that is as intent on destroying young Black men as it is at proclaiming its passion for freedom and fairness. Even some of the most conscious and best-intentioned Americans can't see The New Jim Crow and their roles in supporting it. Michelle Alexander holds a mirror up to America and reveals a monster!"  - Phillip Jackson, The Black Star Project    Read More... Read More... Take Young Men and/or Young Women to a Free College Basketball Game through a  Million Fathers Club Events    UIC Women vs University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee   7:00 PM Thursday, March 1, 2012 at  525 South Racine Street UIC Pavilion  Chicago, Illinois  *************************************************  DePaul University Men Blue Demons vs Seton Hall 5:00 PM Saturday, March 3, 2012 at AllState Arena 6920 North Mannheim Rd Rosemont, Illinois   *************************************************  UIC Women vs University of Wisconsin at Greenbay  3:00 PM Saturday, March 3, 2012  at UIC Pavilion  525 South Racine  Chicago, Illinois   Please call Bruce Walker at 773-285-9600 for more information or to reserve your FREE tickets! Black Male Teachers Becoming Extinct     "There are African American men all over the country with skills, and with passion, that can serve these boys in so many capacities that they don't even know," King says. "It makes a huge difference because [the students] are able to be comfortable with themselves, they're able to see what they'll become one day, and if those images are positive, it raises their self identity to another level."   King hopes that by reaching his young black boys early, he'll be able to help them build a strong educational foundation that will allow them to buck another troubling trend: the low number of African American males entering and graduating from college. A recent report from the Department of Education showed that males are now a distinct minority on campus-even at historically black colleges and universities.   Read More... Black Women Greatly Out Number Black Men at HBCU's.  Who Will Professional Black Women Marry?   Of Black males who make it to an HBCU, only 29 percent will graduate within six years, which is worse than the 33 percent national average of black males at all colleges. Nationally, the six-year graduation rate is 57 percent.   The gender gap is magnified at Clark Atlanta University, where a staggering 74 percent of the students are female. Last fall, as the school welcomed one of the largest freshman classes in history - more than 1,000 - fewer than 100 were men.   Read More... One of the best options for educating Black students in America -- Saturday University     Please call 773.285.9600 to learn how to start a Saturday University in your city.  We have 15 free Saturday Universities operating in and around Chicago.  Please call 773.285.9600 to register your child for free academic enhancement or for more information about Saturday University.   Read More... Belafonte - "What's missing is that rage." It was both a walk down memory lane and a call to action when singer, actor, civil rights activist and international humanitarian Harry Belafonte spoke at St. Sabina Church.  Part of a Black History Month program that also brought Princeton Professor Cornel West to the South Side church on Sunday, Belafonte, espousing incendiary views on racism and capitalism for six decades, did not hold back during his presentation Friday night.   Read More...