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Rep. Anthony Weiner was furious over Republican opposition to a bill providing medical care for 9/11 emergency responders.

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President Obama apologized to fired USDA official Shirley Sherrod and encouraged her to return to work.

The video of  Shirley Sherrod released by Republican scum blogger Andrew Brietbart’s on July 19  did not tell the full story. Brietbart selectively edited the video to cast Sherrod  in a  racist negative light.

Here is the full unedited video, shot by the local NAACP unit that hosted Mrs. Sherrod. Watch the video, and judge for yourself.

President Obama called on Republicans Monday to stop blocking a bill that would extend unemployment benefits to millions of out of work Americans.

The civil rights group NAACP points to racist epithets and signs to support its claim. What do you think? Leave us a comment!

With the political rhetoric on Capitol Hill boiling there is one voice that tries to calm the waters. As John Dickerson reports, Barry Black’s prayers on the Senate floor help relieve partisan bickering.

President Obama lashed out at Republicans as out of touch with the daily problems of Americans, hoping to deepen the contrast with the opposition party as midterm elections loom and economic anxiety still runs hi.

Comedienne Sarah Silverman has lashed out against Fox News! Sarah says, “The entire Fox News Channel is a 24-hour-a-day racism engine, but it’s all coded, all implied.” “Lou Dobbs used to scream on CNN about ‘immigration,’ not ‘filthy Mexicans.’”

Silverman also said the entire Republican right wing is marked by a subtle form of racism.

She says, “Right-wing Americans who appear in mainstream media are not out there calling black people ‘n*ggers,’ or saying, ‘The Klan has good ideas,’” she wrote. “Instead, they’re questioning the legitimacy of Obama’s presidency by accusing him of being born in Africa or of being a Muslim. Or they’re having tea parties and calling Obama a ‘communist’ and a ‘Nazi.’”

Listen to Sarah Silverman read an excerpt from her book below:

A judge in Michigan today sentenced former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to up to five years in prison for violating terms of probation on an obstruction of justice conviction.