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GOP continues to support #3 House Republican who spoke at white supremacist event

Well isn’t this awkward?!? House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA), the #3 Republican in the U.S. House, has Speaker John Boehner’s (R-OH) “full confidence as our Whip,” according to a statement put out by Boehner’s office. That’s despite the fact that Scalise spoke at a white supremacist event in 2002….

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Could the conservative 5th Circuit Court of Appeals rule in favor of marriage equality?

This could be a big deal. The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit is home to some of the most conservative federal appeals judges in the country. Five of the court’s judges once wrote that a man could be executed despite the fact that his lawyer slept…

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Woman shot by two-year-old son at Wal-Mart

Clearly the whole “More guns! More guns!” mantra we’ve heard from so many conservatives isn’t working. A 2-year-old boy, sitting in a shopping cart at a Walmart in Hayden, Idaho, shot and killed his mother on Tuesday with a handgun from her purse, a spokesman for the Kootenai County Sheriff’s…

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ThinkProgress: Why Racism Is A Public Health Issue

This is a must-read considering what’s been going on in our country (and our own backyard) lately. Obviously, deeply ingrained racial inequality has a wide range of consequences here in the United States. Some of them, like issues of criminal justice and voting rights, are perhaps more starkly evident than…

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Taxpayer-funded voucher school closes its doors mid-school year

Another day, another story of a taxpayer-funded voucher school closing its doors in the middle of a school year. A private Milwaukee high school run by a voucher-school operator that’s come under scrutiny this year has been barred from receiving more taxpayer money, state documents show. And now Travis Technology…

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Scott Walker erroneously thinks he’s smart, speaks on foreign policy & immigration

Apparently Our Dumb Governor thinks he knows better than President Obama how to . Walker, who is mulling a run for president in 2016, joined a lawsuit earlier this month seeking to block Obama’s executive action sparing as many as 5 million people living illegally in the United States from…

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Blogging Blue’s 2014 in review, along with a request

As 2014 draws to a close, I just wanted to share an update on where we’re at here at Blogging Blue. This past year we’ve had over 100,000 visitors and over 400,000 page views on the site, and we’re creeping in on a couple of milestone: we’re close to reaching…

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Rep. Gwen Moore calls for broader federal review of Dontre Hamilton case

On the heels of an announcement that U.S. Attorney James Santelle will review the shooting death of Dontre Hamilton at the hands of Milwaukee Police officer Christopher Manney, U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore has called for a broader review of whether the Milwaukee Police Department systemically violates citizens’ civil rights. U.S….

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The Political Environment: The GOP says Obama ruined everything…

This is brilliant! Here’s what’s facing the righty bench as it starts to take back the country: * A surging economy, reports The Washington Post today. The U.S. economy grew at its fastest rate in more than a decade between the months of July through September, according to government data released Tuesday morning,…

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