Former Secretary of State in the Bush 43 Administration, Condoleeza Rice, was thoroughly vetted to be the vice-presidential running mate for GOP presidential nominee, Mitt…

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Comedian Bill Maher may be an avid political and financial supporter of President Barack Obama, but he still found the rambling “sit down” that octogenarian…

via Huffington Post According to Fox News columnist Sally Kohn, vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan’s speech at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday “was an apparent attempt to set the world record for the greatest number of blatant lies and misrepresentations slipped into a single political speech.” “On this measure, while it was Romney who […]

via thinkprogress.org Our guest blogger is Sally Steenland, Director of the Faith and Progressive Policy Initiative at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. Now that Mitt Romney has picked Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) as his running mate, Ryan’s radical budget constitutes Romney’s economic platform. The Ryan-Romney budget is based on a number of false […]

via CNN New Jersey teenager was killed when his head hit a highway overpass after he apparently stuck it out of a party bus near the George Washington Bridge, which connects Manhattan with New Jersey over the Hudson River. Daniel Fernandez, a 16-year-old resident of Sayreville, died Friday evening on his way to a sweet […]

via BBC News US prosecutors have halted an abuse-of-power investigation against controversial Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, without filing charges. The probe was launched in 2010 over accusations that Mr Arpaio’s office launched a personally motivated corruption case against a judge. A separate probe into alleged racial profiling by Mr Arpaio continues. Mr Arpaio, the self-styled […]

via BBC News US songwriter Hal David, who wrote dozens of hits with collaborator Burt Bacharach, has died at the age of 91. His family said he died in Los Angeles from complications from a stroke. He and Bacharach wrote a string of hits for Dionne Warwick, including Walk On By and I Say a […]