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Austin anti-abortion group targets African Americans in NYC, causes controversy

By | 02.24.11 | 12:16 pm

Image by Matt MahurinAn Austin-based anti-abortion group’s foray into the Northeast media market is causing quite the controversy. According to Texas Secretary of State records, Heroic Media founder Brian Follett is the registered agent for Life Always, the group that paid for a three-story high billboard that’s part of Follett’s campaign targeting More…

Finally, a New Black Panther Party Sighting

By | 11.02.10 | 3:12 pm

It was bound to happen eventually. Fox 29 Philadelphia has the scoop:

Fox 29 News spotted Tuesday a member of the New Black Panther Party standing outside of a local polling place where voter intimidation was reported two years ago.

The man was seen outside the polling place in

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Michigan Man to Hold ‘Town Hall’ Opposing Transfer of GTMO Detainees

By | 08.19.09 | 12:17 pm

The recent news that the Obama administration is considering sending some Guantanamo detainees to a maximum-security prison in Michigan, plus all the attention to recent “town hall” events on health care around the country, has spurred a local Standish, Mich., restaurant owner to hold a town More…

Worst Paper on the Whole East Coast

By | 04.28.09 | 10:06 am

The overblown “100 Days of the Obama Presidency” stories will, for the most part, be terrible. But some special honor must be paid to the dippy “100 Mistakes” list featured in the New York Post (which endorsed Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) for president, if that matters). There are some More…

GOP Goes Nuts on ACORN — and Fox Eats It Up

By | 10.07.08 | 10:35 am

Update: A few hours after this item was posted, the AP reported that ACORN’s Las Vegas offices were raided by the FBI.

When the Assn. of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, announced yesterday that it had registered more than 1.3 million new voters nationwide so far this More…

Activists Pin Mortgage Voter Suppression on McCain

By | 09.19.08 | 1:48 pm

A civil rights group is pressing Sen. John McCain to disown the “ugliest attack on voting rights” in “recent history,” referencing a Republican scheme to suppress voters based on foreclosure, which was first reported by our sister site, The Michigan Messenger.

Dems Respond to Obama’s Fox Turn

By | 09.05.08 | 2:25 pm

Sen. Barack Obama’s appearance on “The O’Reilly Factor,” — TWI coverage and video here – revives the roiling debate among Democratic strategists, Obama aides and liberal bloggers over how to handle an influential cable channel that covers U.S. politics while opposing the election of most Democrats.

Fox’s tight and symbiotic ties More…