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“After mocking NBC’s Brian Williams for warning about climate change, Fox News host Bill O’Reilly on Monday night implored his fellow conservatives not to dismiss the all-electric car company Tesla Motors. “I will give you one concrete thing that all responsible people should be rooting for,” he said on his …

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*Last week, continuing the sometimes catty intraparty feud between Republican hawks and GOPers skeptical of foreign intervention, former Vice President Dick Cheney took a shot at Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.). But Paul is not likely to be fazed by criticism from Cheney, for several years ago the Kentucky senator was …

*Mississippi Republican governor Phil Bryant today signed a bill into a law that will allow business and individuals to deny service to anyone in the interest of religious liberty, according to ThinkProgress. The legislation, known as Senate Bill 2681, the Mississippi Religious Freedom Restoration Act, would allow businesses and individuals …

*Liz Cheney and Fox News political analyst Juan Williams on Sunday got into a heated debate over the Senate report on the CIA’s interrogation practices during the Bush administration, when Cheney’s father, Dick Cheney, was serving as Vice President…* John Iadarola (host of TYT University, and Common Room), Jayar Jackson …

*When employers laid off Americans by the millions during the Great Recession (PDF) of 2007-2009, people didn’t just lose their jobs. They lost their health insurance, too, and the number of uninsured swelled during those lean years. Now it seems the Affordable Care Act has reversed that damage: The number …

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