Kingwood Observer Article (2011-11-02) Teachers: The Bastion and Backbone of a Striving America

When we talk about all the hatred, fear, and ignorance in this country, I will never understand why people so quickly assume that the racism, homophobia, and brain-drain all comes from the South. […]

Rasmussen 5/14-20/12; 3500 likely voters; 2% margin of error Mode: Automated phone Rasmussen Release National 2012 Congress 43% Republicans, 39% Democrats (chart)... […]

NEW YORK -- Chasing President Barack Obama's cash advantage, Republican challenger Mitt Romney expects to raise $10 million during a three-day fundraising swing through the... […]

Sooner Poll 5/7-10/12; 504 likely voters; 4.4% margin of error Mode: Live telephone interviews Tulsa World Release Oklahoma 2012 President 62% Romney (R), 27% Obama... […]

It still appears that the central thrust of the P5+1 will be limited to immediate concerns over Iran's nuclear program and not the underlying issues that define Iran's relationship with the international community. […]

MARSHALL, Mich. (AP) — Federal officials have released photographs and 5,000 pages of documents related to the pipeline rupture in southwestern Michigan that polluted the... […]

President Obama is scheduled to address the press at 4:30 pm EST at McCormick Place, Chicago. Listen to the live NATO press conference below. NATO... […]

On Monday, May 21, the National Religious Campaign Against Torture joins with Amnesty International USA and the Center for Constitutional Rights in delivering more than 60,000 names of people who have signed statements urging President Obama to issue a formal apology to Arar. […]

WASHINGTON -- It was evident, from the moment he lamented attacks on Bain Capital during an interview on "Meet The Press," that Cory Booker would... […]

NEW YORK, May 21 (Reuters) - U.S. stocks rose on Monday to snap a six-day losing streak on the S&P 500, rebounding from equities' biggest... […]

Gen. Sarath Fonseka, who led the military campaign that ended two decades of civil war, then ran unsuccessfully for president, was freed after nearly two years in prison. […]

Landlords can stipulate a smoking policy, leaving those unwilling to take their cigarette breaks outside with fewer options. […]

Dharun Ravi had used a webcam to watch Tyler Clementi in bed with a man, in a case that produced debate on suicide among gay teenagers. […]

The Obama campaign insists that the full-throated assault on Bain Capital is a critique of Mitt Romney's claim to be a jobs creator. But much of the commentary describes Mr. Romney in highly personal ways. […]

Lebanese factions supporting and opposing the Syrian regime fought in Beirut on Monday, leaving several people dead. […]

The agreement to give the Afghans the lead role in securing their country next summer begins the end of the United States’s involvement in a decade-long war. […]

The European Commission said Google might have abused its dominant position in online search but gave the company a chance to settle without facing formal charges. […]

Micah True became a mythic figure after being featured in the best-selling book “Born to Run.” Then, on March 27, he went for a run in the Gila Wilderness. […]

An attacker dressed as a soldier killed more than 90 people when he blew himself up in the midst of a military parade rehearsal in the capital on Monday. […]

Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan Chase's chief executive, says the bank intends to keep its dividend of 30 cents a quarter unchanged. […]

We are in the second half of the second round. On Friday we got our first quarterfinal matchup: the GOP debate audience booing the gay soldier versus Herman Cain's sexual harassment defense ("there are thousands of women I didn't molest!"). The bracket is here. Today's winner will face off against Mitt Romney's Etch-a-Sketch. 1. […]

Today's comic by Tom Tomorrow is The Invisible Hand strikes again!: What you missed on Sunday Kos ... Sunday's comic by Matt Wuerker was ... and those other halos? ... William Galston talks 2012 election with Daily Kos, by DemFromCT Two Daily Kos/SEIU polls show why Americans Elect failed, by Chris Bowers Billionaire donors drive anti-teacher, pro- […]

Trigger alert: Your jaw is going to drop after you read this question from none other than Andrea Mitchell to Mitt Romney spokesman Eric Fehrnstom (he of "Etch-A-Sketch" fame): ANDREA MITCHELL: There are winners and losers, but isn't it fair to single out companies that might have survived if they had not been bleeded by the investors and the […]

Scott Brown and Mitt Romney: "What? Friends? Who? Us? We barely know each other." (Brian Snyder/Reuters) Mitt Romney and Scott Brown have something very fundamental in common—beyond being Massachusetts Republicans. They're both political chameleons, doing and saying whatever it's going to take to convince voters they'll be whatever p […]

Ooh, they are so, so very clever: The Republican National Committee is looking to capitalize on Newark Mayor Cory Booker’s (D) criticism of the Obama campaign’s attack on Mitt Romney’s record at Bain Capital, urging supporters to sign a petition saying they “stand with Cory.” “Yesterday New Jersey Mayor Cory Booker, a surrogate spokesman for the Obama campai […]

Cue the Mitt Romney outrage machine about transfers of wealth... Via Maggie Haberman, these are some amazing statistics: For every dollar Mitt Romney's Bain Capital invested in Ampad, it received $20 back in profit—a 2,000 percent return—even though the company went bankrupt. For every dollar Ampad's creditors were owed its when the company bankrup […]

Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, turning his back on Speaker John Boehner, again. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) House Speaker John Boehner isn't backing down from his increasingly lonely campaign to pick a debt ceiling fight before the election. He's a one-man band on the issue, saying yesterday on This Week: [H]e was “not going to apologize for leading […]

Mitt Romney's (not so) secret weapon (Jim Bourg/Reuters) The Wall Street Journal's Danny Yadron notes the Obama campaign's cash-on-hand advantage over Mitt Romney: The Obama campaign and affiliates at the DNC and Obama Victory fund had $144.3 million of cash on hand at the end of April, more than double the $61.4 million for the Romney campaig […]

Speaker John Boehner has a procedural threat to the bipartisan Senate Violence Against Women Act. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters) House Republicans may have found a potent procedural weapon in their fight to exclude groups of people they don't like from Violence Against Women Act protections, TPM's Brian Beutler reports. The Constitution's Origination C […]

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