America's Voice is pleased to send eight talented people to the fourth annual Netroots Nation conference scheduled to happen this year in Pittsburgh from August 13 - 16, awarding them with the opportunity to participate in four days of insightful panels, training sessions and networking opportunities, and the opportunity...
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As Greg Sargent reported today, over at The Plum Line: "The National Council of La Raza, a top Latino civil rights group, is taking a shot at RNC chair Michael Steele and several prominent GOP figures for skipping its ongoing annual conference, saying it raises questions about the GOP's...
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Over the weekend, Senator Jon Kyl stated: "To try to do immigration reform this year would be an impossibility." He listed all the items on Congress' "already crammed" agenda to prove his point. But one item he mentioned on that agenda is the confirmation of Sonia Sotomayor as Supreme...
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Mario Solis-Marich writes: "The Most Trusted Name in News" has looked the other way as Dobbs made them cash by selling outright lies about the immigration debate. Will CNN officials continue to hide in their accounting suites as Dobbs makes believe that the President of the United States is...
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The report makes several recommendations, including limiting the use of home raids to a last resort for targets who pose a serious risk to national security or have violent criminal records; the use of judicial rather than administrative warrants, and the videotaping of all home raids. It also...
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Colbert may have tickled our funny bones last night, but Rachel Maddow set the record straight-- watch it. Huffington post blogger Nicholas Graham reports in 'Maddow Demolishes Buchanan's Surreal Facts About America's Racial Past (VIDEO):' "While Maddow said it would not be fair to re-litigate issues without the guest...
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Leo: "He referred to Buchanan, who has been appearing on MSNBC all week claiming Sotomayor has "a lifelong resolve to discriminate against white males," as a reverse civil rights leader, and showed a clip of him saying, "White men were 100% of the people who wrote the Constitution,...
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In July of 2007, Prince William County, Virginia became "ground zero" in America's explosive battle over immigration policy when elected officials adopted a law requiring police officers to question anyone they thought was "probably" undocumented. 9500 Liberty reveals the startling vulnerability of a local government targeted by national...
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This morning we posted Rachel Maddow's takedown of regular MSNBC commentator Pat Buchanan over his outrageous comments about race and Judge Sonia Sotomayor. Media Matters has a roundup of Pat's sordid history on the topic of race. Turns out there is no shortage of outrage in the blogosphere right...
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"Kos: Republicans appear to be heeding Buchanan's advice, more concerned about placating their shrinking regional white male base than in expanding their tent. Some Republicans are even concerned about that." With Senator Schumer set to drop immigration reform legislation by Labor Day, as he says, the GOP will...
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