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9:51 PM, February 12th, 2013

We know our economy is stronger when our wives, mothers, and daughters can live their lives free from discrimination in the workplace, and free from the fear of domestic violence. Today, the Senate passed the Violence Against Women Act that Joe Biden originally wrote almost 20 years ago. I urge the House to do the same. And I ask this Congress to declare that women should earn a living equal to their efforts, and finally pass the Paycheck Fairness Act this year.

Barack Obama in tonight’s State of the Union.

9:30 PM, February 12th, 2013

The greatest nation on Earth cannot keep conducting its business by drifting from one manufactured crisis to the next. Let’s agree, right here, right now, to keep the people’s government open, pay our bills on time, and always uphold the full faith and credit of the United States of America. The American people have worked too hard, for too long, rebuilding from one crisis to see their elected officials cause another.

Obama on the fiscal cliff and debt ceiling. Watch the State of the Union live.

8:58 PM, February 12th, 2013

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Our State of the Union live chat (complete with livestream) is up and running! Come join our awesome political columnists: John Avlon, Michelle Cottle, Mark McKinnon, Michael Tomasky, and Howard Kurtz (plus your humble social media editors)!

3:16 PM, January 29th, 2013

We are past the point in this country now where one’s views on homosexuality can be called a “matter of conscience.” No. Being against equality here isn’t a matter of conscience anymore than having been against racial equality in 1955 was. It is just bigotry plain and simple. Enough. Piss off. Go form your own Boy Scouts. Go form your own stupid country. You aren’t America anymore.

Michael Tomasky, being awesome. (via newsweek)

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1:24 PM, January 7th, 2013

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Hillary Clinton is getting back to work. (via @mitchellreports)

10:20 AM, January 7th, 2013

A hunting buddy of mine emailed me from the waiting room of his doctor’s office in Columbus, Ga., a few days after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School. He was cringing in embarrassment as an old redneck spewed racially divisive rhetoric in front of African-American patients. Then my friend’s embarrassment turned to astonishment as that same redneck (almost certainly a gun owner, given the region and his demographic profile) said, “I never cared much for Obama, but that speech he gave about those little kids—I give him an A for that. He’s gonna try and get more gun control, and I hope he gets it.

Why most gun owners support tougher control.

9:45 AM, January 4th, 2013

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inothernews:

President Obama reacts to the news of the Sandy Hook school shootings, delivered by deputy national security adviser John Brennan, on Dec. 14, 2012 — a day he has called the worst of his presidency. (Photo: Pete Souza / The White House via The New York Daily News)

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2:27 PM, January 3rd, 2013

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Feel like Joe Biden is having a moment. (photo via @steveking_)

2:11 PM, January 2nd, 2013

There’s only one group to blame…the House majority, and their Speaker, John Boehner.

N.J. Gov. Christie on House GOP holding up the hurricane Sandy relief bill.

(via @intelligencer)

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11:12 AM, December 19th, 2012

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All the fiscal cliff offers and counteroffers in one chart (via WaPo).

5:17 PM, December 14th, 2012

Obama: “Our hearts are broken today.” Read full transcript here.

3:26 PM, December 14th, 2012

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President Obama tears up while talking to the nation about the school shooting today in Connecticut

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5:14 PM, December 13th, 2012

Susan Rice drops Secretary of State run.

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12:11 PM, December 12th, 2012

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Justice Antonin Scalia is in hot water after comparing laws against homosexuality to laws against murder (which he later walked back). But this isn’t the first time he’s sparked controversy on the subject.

Back in 2004, Scalia was participating in a panel discussion at NYU Law School when the subject of his famously scathing dissent in Lawrence v. Texas, a case about laws criminalizing sodomy (Scalia wrote in dissent, i.e. for keeping anti-sodomy laws legal) came up.

When the time came for audience questions, a student named Eric Berndt stood up in the packed auditorium and pressed Scalia to explain his dissent, particularly his opinion as to whether it was constitutional for the government to peer into the bedrooms of consenting adults and punish them for what goes on in there. When Scalia did not answer to the student’s satisfaction, Berndt asked him, “Do you sodomize your wife?”

And Scalia was all like…

(Photo: Jessica Hill / AP Photo)

1:20 PM, December 5th, 2012

Watch Barack Obama tweet! Here’s what he typed.

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