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Maddow takes on Bachmann, Bradlee Dean

By | 05.12.11 | 1:27 pm | More from The Minnesota Independent

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow made note of Rep. Michele Bachmann’s upcoming September appearance at the Freedom Jamboree, a tea party presidential nominating conference that will also feature Bradlee Dean of the religious group You Can Run But You Cannot Hide. Dean repeatedly has called for the incarceration of More…

Maddow on Republicans and children, cites Michigan Messenger

By | 04.27.11 | 9:48 am | More from The Michigan Messenger

Rachel Maddow had a segment last night about various Republican policies proposed around the country that would have a negative impact on children, including the bill in Michigan that would have required foster children to buy clothing only at second-hand stores.

She specifically showed our reporting on that More…

Foxx reiterates desire to hold hearings on student loan reform, though repeal unlikely

By | 01.14.11 | 1:42 pm

U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), chairwoman of the House Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness, told The Chronicle of Higher Education recently she aims to hold hearings to examine student loan reform, which became law in 2010 with the goal of ending federal government subsidization of private More…

Maddow highlights Foxx’s desire to dismantle student loan reform

By | 01.07.11 | 4:50 pm

Virginia FoxxThe North Carolina Independent News reported this week on the new chair of the U.S. House Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness, North Carolina Republican Rep. Virginia Foxx and her priorities for the new U.S. Congress. MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow took notice and included it

GRAPHIC: Video of U.S. Helicopter in Iraq Firing on Civilians in 2007

By | 04.05.10 | 2:53 pm

Via Marcy Wheeler and Rachel Maddow, this video obtained by Wikileaks shows what the classified information repository Website claims is an “unprovoked slaying of a wounded Reuters employee and his rescuers” by a U.S. helicopter in Baghdad in 2007. “Two young children involved in the rescue were More…

Scott Brown: Help Me Defeat Rachel Maddow, Who Might Run Against Me, According to Twitter

By | 03.23.10 | 4:58 pm

The campaign of Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.), who’s got less of a cash problem than almost anyone running for office in 2012 (he has millions left over from his special election bid), points to a fairly obscure blog to stoke fears that MSNBC host Rachel Maddow is being recruited More…

Ackerman Talks Terror on Maddow

By | 02.11.10 | 10:27 am

TWI’s Spencer Ackerman appeared on the Rachel Maddow Show last night, discussing the GOP’s mistaken claims — or, as Spencer puts it, “simply lying” — on the case of would-be Christmas bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. Check out the video after the jump:

We Can Interrogate Abdulmutallab Even After He’s Mirandized

By | 12.30.09 | 3:36 pm

Yesterday I debated Pat Buchanan on MSNBC about Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the would-be bomber of Northwest Airways Flight 253. Out of nowhere, he started saying how we needed to deny Abdulmutallab pain medication to get him to speak, and that by charging him in federal court and reading him More…

Spencer Ackerman and Rachel Maddow Discuss the ‘24’-ification of the National Security Debate

By | 12.30.09 | 9:45 am

After debating Pat Buchanan on “Morning Joe” earlier in the day about the efficacy of torturing terror suspects, TWI’s Spencer Ackerman returned to MSNBC last night to resume the conversation with Rachel Maddow. Video after the jump.

Weigel on Maddow: Tea Parties, the GOP and 2010

By | 12.17.09 | 9:20 am

TWI’s David Weigel appeared on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” once again last night to talk about recent GOP efforts to co-opt the Tea Party message ahead of the 2010 elections. Watch the clip after the jump.