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Time Warner Cable Bans Gun Ads

thepoliticalfreakshow:

Just weeks after the mass shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., Time Warner Cable has initiated a company-wide ban on certain gun ads.

“We no longer accept ads showing semi-automatic weapons and guns pointed at people,” Time Warner Cable said in a statement. “We stand by this policy. If it’s essential to a business owner to show this kind of imagery in their commercials, there are other advertising options in the marketplace.”

On Dec. 14, 27 people, including 20 elementary school children, were killed at Sandy Hook. The tragedy has spurred a national outcry for tougher gun laws.

On Jan. 16, President Barack Obama mapped out new gun control measures that would require universal background checks for all gun purchasers and place a ban on semi-automatic assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines. The National Cable and Telecommunications Association said in a statement Wednesday that it supported the president’s proposals.

Click here to read the full story at Multichannel News.

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I don’t know why any woman or gay would ever vote for Romney. All you have to do is look at the Republican platform. I’ve never seen such hate this year in the Republican Party, national or state.
Wayne Butterfass, 70, a retired store owner from Cinncinati who has voted Republican for most of his life. A poll done by The Columbus Dispatch shows Republican Mitt Romney trailing President Obama by 9 points in Ohio. (via kileyrae)
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kileyrae:

cheatsheet:

Obama’s response to Romney’s joke about his birth certificate is pretty awesome. 

Boss.

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truth-has-a-liberal-bias: “I have been waiting for this moment for fifteen years. I can’t bring my daughter back, but I am so proud that Janey’s name is on this bill to inspire others to work for justice.” — Retired U.S. Marine Sergeant Jerry Ensminger (second from right) Last week, President Obama signed into law a new bill that will provide health care to thousands of veterans and their families who were made seriously ill by contaminated water at the Camp Lejeune military base in North Carolina. Retired U.S. Marine Sergeant Jerry Ensminger — who started the petition on Change.org that called for the new bill — was right there. Jerry agonized for decades over why his daughter Janey died of Leukemia at age 9. He discovered that Janey was only one of many to get sick and even die because of what is called the largest water contamination incident in American history. After more than 135,000 people signed Jerry’s petition, Congress passed “The Janey Ensminger Law,” named after Jerry’s daughter — now as many as one million people can get help paying for medical coverage from the contamination at the military base. Jerry’s not alone. Change.org members are winning campaigns that don’t just change the world, but that actually save lives — see the inspiring list of other recent victories below. We can’t wait to see what Change.org members like you will do next. Thanks for making all this happen,- Michael and the Change.org team

truth-has-a-liberal-bias:

“I have been waiting for this moment for fifteen years. I can’t bring my daughter back, but I am so proud that Janey’s name is on this bill to inspire others to work for justice.”
— Retired U.S. Marine Sergeant Jerry Ensminger (second from right)

Last week, President Obama signed into law a new bill that will provide health care to thousands of veterans and their families who were made seriously ill by contaminated water at the Camp Lejeune military base in North Carolina.

Retired U.S. Marine Sergeant Jerry Ensminger — who started the petition on Change.org that called for the new bill — was right there.

Jerry agonized for decades over why his daughter Janey died of Leukemia at age 9. He discovered that Janey was only one of many to get sick and even die because of what is called the largest water contamination incident in American history.

After more than 135,000 people signed Jerry’s petition, Congress passed “The Janey Ensminger Law,” named after Jerry’s daughter — now as many as one million people can get help paying for medical coverage from the contamination at the military base.

Jerry’s not alone. Change.org members are winning campaigns that don’t just change the world, but that actually save lives — see the inspiring list of other recent victories below. We can’t wait to see what Change.org members like you will do next.

Thanks for making all this happen,
- Michael and the Change.org team

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kileyrae: Mitt’s Medicare whiteboard - corrected. The Hill: “Romney uses white board to attack Obama on Medicare” View high resolution

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Mitt’s Medicare whiteboard - corrected.

The Hill: “Romney uses white board to attack Obama on Medicare”

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Hypocrites: GOP Criticizers of Obama's Lack of Foreign Policy Experience Are Praising Romney's Lack of Experience in Foreign Affairs

thepoliticalfreakshow:

The same Republicans who criticized President Obama for lacking foreign policy experience in 2008 are now stepping in to defend the dismal international relations record of Romney-Ryan ticket.

Former House Speaker New Gingrich (R) and former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R) on Sunday argued that Romney and Ryan are actually better equipped to lead on international relations than Obama and Biden:

GINGRICH: I think it’s an advantage that they’re not part of the current mess….Mitt Romney has the same amount of foreign policy experience as Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan defeated the Soviet empire decisively in 8 years. I would rather have Romney and Ryan rethinking everything than have the current team continue.

PAWLENTY: Romney and Ryan have a terrific national security policy team around them…Governor Romney spent his entire career in global business arrangements, transactions and traveling and understanding different countries, cultures and geography.

But both Gingrich and Pawlenty were happy, in 2008, to appear on the Sunday morning talk shows at do the opposite — attack Obama and Biden for not having the foreign policy chops they deemed necessary.

In the fall of 2008, Gingrich asked Fox News host Greta Van Susteren, “Who do you trust more to deal with the dangerous world … somebody who has read about it and sort of vaguely thought about it but hasn’t really collided head-on with it?”

Pawlenty echoed a similar line. “He basically graduated from law school, went on to be a community organizer and a law professor; went to the U.S. Senate and began running for president essentially the day he arrived,” he said of Obama on Meet The Press in 2008, “So what is it in his background, Tom, that would give him that same type of requisite wisdom and judgment and insight on national security matters or foreign affairs matters or anything else?”

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'It should not be considered partisan to demand details from the two men campaigning to be president. Both Republicans and Democrats should want to know the specifics of Romney’s tax plan. Both liberals and conservatives should insist that Romney reveal his plans to regulate the financial system. But so far, Romney has refused to give voters the most basic information about what he would do as president. That means he has refused to give voters the most basic information necessary for them to make an informed choice this November. That’s not acceptable. And neither voters nor the media should accept it.' —Ezra Klein at the Washington Post

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Obama campaign, DNC sue Ohio to RESTORE early voting

truth-has-a-liberal-bias:

President Obama’s reelection campaign, the Democratic National Committee and the Ohio Democratic Party have filed suit in federal court against the state of Ohio to restore early voting.

“Rather than protecting the right to vote, we’ve seen brazen attempts to undermine it,” DNC political director Patrick Gaspard told reporters. “It’s a cynical ploy.”

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Ohio was ground zero in 2004 for charges of malfeasance and irregularities and is expected to once again be a razor thin contest. […]


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And the next time a celebrity makes it seem like legalizing marijuana is the be all and end all of drug law reform, slap him in the face. (Metaphorically, unless you want to get your time on TMZ). Legalizing pot is the least of it. Getting politicians to understand how their actions contributed to the problem is a lot harder and requires more effort, but will ultimately pay off. If mandatory minimum sentences are reduced, for example, judges will be in a much better position to consider family structure when pronouncing a sentence. This local discretion could mean the difference between an intact family and a broken one.


Beyond that, since the United States isn’t about to legalize or regulate the illegal narcotics markets, the best thing a president can do may be what Obama winds up doing if he gets re-elected: using the bully pulpit to draw attention to the issue.

GQ: In His Second Term, Obama Will Pivot to the Drug War (via kileyrae)
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