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Fifty-One Years Ago Today: “Bloody Sunday”

March 7, 2016 JanF 2

Republishing a Post from March 7, 2015: Fifty Years Ago Today: “Bloody Sunday” ~ Rep. Terri Sewell at 1:59:20 Rep. John Lewis at 2:04:00 President Obama at 2:12:00 Transcript: Remarks by the President at the […]

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Women’s History Month Is Marching In

March 3, 2016 JanF 10

March is an excellent choice to designate as Women’s History Month because marching for our rights is a big part of women’s history. Demonstrating for women’s rights has a long storied past, probably because “just […]

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Weekly Address: President Obama – Degrading and Destroying ISIL

February 27, 2016 JanF 8

The President’s Weekly Address post is also an Open News Thread. Feel free to share other news stories in the comments. From the White House – Weekly Address In this week’s address, President Obama discussed […]

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President Obama: “Keeping the Guantanamo Bay detention facility open is contrary to our values”

February 24, 2016 JanF 5

Yesterday, President Obama put forward his plan for closing the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay: For many years, it’s been clear that the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay does not advance our national security — […]

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Weekly Address: President Obama – A New Chapter with Cuba

February 20, 2016 JanF 6

The President’s Weekly Address post is also an Open News Thread. Feel free to share other news stories in the comments. From the White House – Weekly Address In this week’s address, President Obama discussed […]

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President Obama: “Being president is a serious job”

February 17, 2016 JanF 10

President Obama held a press conference following the ASEAN summit he has been hosting in Rancho Mirage California (no tie!!). And – surprise! – there were questions about the U.S. Supreme Court opening and the […]

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You can’t change the rules just because you realize you are losing

February 14, 2016 JanF 20

It is bitter irony that the week in which President Obama talked about the “yawning gap between the magnitude of our challenges and the smallness of our politics” and addressed the nation about the hyperpartisan […]

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Weekly Address: President Obama – The State of American Politics

February 13, 2016 JanF 11

The President’s Weekly Address post is also an Open News Thread. Feel free to share other news stories in the comments. From the White House – Weekly Address In this week’s address, the President spoke […]

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Attorney General Lynch: “The residents of Ferguson have waited decades for justice. They should not be forced to wait any longer”

February 11, 2016 JanF 5

Our next president will likely get to choose three, perhaps four, people to sit on the Supreme Court. Those women and men are the ultimate arbiters of our laws and appointing people with integrity, and […]

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Protecting “this most basic human right”

February 10, 2016 JanF 13

As our country begins the process of electing our next president, and the members of the 115th Congress, the right to vote is still not settled. It is important to remember that protecting the franchise […]

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