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Advertisers and radio stations are being courted by Mike Huckabee's radio talk show syndicator who has sent an email urging radio stations to replace Limbaugh with Huckabee's show. Reuters reports that arlier this week, Cumulus Media sent out an email blast to fellow radio station owners with a photoshopped picture of former U.S. Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, promoting him as the conservative talk radio host of the future.

We've all heard the right wing talking point "Gas was $1.99 a gallon before Obama was elected." Whether it be from Fox News or from our conservative friends or family members who refuse to verify right wing talking points, and just take what they hear in their echo chambers as fact. Let's take an historical look at the gas prices for the last 4 years. The chart above from GasBuddy.Com is a perfect example of how the facts have been distorted.

The Supreme Court examined today the requirement in the Affordable Care Act (that is, health reform) that individuals have health coverage or face a penalty. Apart from the legal questions before the Court, here’s what Americans need to know about this “individual mandate.” It won’t affect the vast majority of Americans. Most Americans already have insurance — through their jobs or through a program like Medicare, Medicaid, or the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).

Scores of mourners gathered in a California mosque on Tuesday to pay respects to an Iraqi-American woman who died after being severely beaten in her home by a killer who left a threatening note that prompted police to investigate the murder as a possible hate crime. Shaima Alawadi, a 32-year-old stay-at-home mother of five, was found unconscious in the dining room of her rented home in the San Diego suburb of El Cajon on Wednesday

What does 50 cents buy these days? Not a cuppa joe, a pack of gum or a newspaper. But you can get a steal of deal for a 50-cent piece: a first-class stamp. Plus a nickel in change.Each day, six days a week, letter carriers traverse 4 million miles toting an average of 563 million pieces of mail, reaching the very doorsteps of our individual homes and workplaces in every single community in America.

According to a new Politico report, Mitt Romney's new California beach house will have a separate elevator just for his cars. Some of the other luxurious amenities include a planned outdoor shower and a 3,600-square-foot basement - a room with more floor space than the existing home’s entire living quarters. Construction plans like these require a lot of planning. There are city codes that have to be adhered to and permits that must be obtained.

Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday that Romney's decision as Massachusetts governor to veto a bill in 2004 that would have barred state contractors from outsourcing work allowed millions of dollars to flow to companies to run call centers in India. He touted the administration's call for tax incentives for companies that "insource" or return jobs to the U.S.

The Florida "Stand your Ground" law that may protect George Zimmerman, the man who recently shot and killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, became the template for an American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) "model bill" that has been introduced in dozens of other states. As the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) has reported, the bill was brought to ALEC by the National Rifle Association (NRA). (The law at issue is also known as the "Shoot First" bill or the "Castle Doctrine" law in various states.)

The horrific story of Anna Brown, a black, homeless, 29-year-old St. Louis woman and mother of two who after refusing to leave a hospital because her legs hurt so much was arrested for trespassing, handcuffed, dragged into a jail cell and left moaning on the floor, where she died of blood clots minutes later. Police thought she was on drugs. She wasn't. Can anyone possibly argue there is not underway in this country a gender, color and class war, though not the one the right wing envisions?

As the Trayvon Martin case draws national attention, we look at another fatal shooting of an African-American male that has received far less scrutiny. Kenneth Chamberlain, Sr., a 68-year-old African-American Marine veteran, was fatally shot in November by White Plains, NY, police who responded to a false alarm from his medical alert pendant. The officers broke down Chamberlain’s

The U.S. government now projects that the total cost to develop, buy and operate the Lockheed Martin Corp F-35 Joint Strike Fighter will be $1.45 trillion over the next 50-plus years, according to a Pentagon document obtained by Reuters. The Pentagon's latest, staggering estimate of the lifetime cost of the F-35 -- its most expensive weapons program -- is up from about $1 trillion a year ago, and includes inflation.

The founder of the main manufacturer of "pink slime," has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to Mitt Romney's, Politico reports. "Pink slime," a product made by grinding up connective tissue from cows and beef scraps and then treating it with amonia, has been the focus of national controversy. The product used to be only suited to make dog food.

Did Rick Santorum really call Barrack Obama a “n****r”?! Did he drop the N-bomb? Some are calling this a potentially campaign killing gaffe, but it just doesn't seem like a gaffe in my opinion. Harshly criticizing Obama’s policies before supporters in Janesville, Wisconsin, Santorum said: “We know the candidate Barack Obama, what he was like – the anti-war government nig… “eh the eh, America was a source for division!” he stammered..

Yesterday the U.S. Senate failed to overcome a Republican filibuster against legislation to repeal annual taxpayer subsidies that benefit the nation’s largest oil companies.The 51-47 vote was not enough to move to passage of the repeal, which was strongly endorsed by President Obama. Sens. Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., both voted to end the subsidies.

About 50 students from a high school in Detroit have been suspended after staging a walk-out to protest deteriorating conditions in the school. Public schools in the area have lost about 100,000 students during the past decade due to poor management. Pupils from the boys’ school Frederick Douglass Academy abandoned their classrooms over teacher shortages and a lack of resources on Friday.

FOLLOWING THE news these days is like witnessing a parade of horrors. As soon as you regain your composure after being disturbed by an incident of racist violence, another comes into view.Each day is bringing new details about the murder of Trayvon Martin, the Black teenager killed by racist vigilante George Zimmerman, whose body was drug-tested and classified as a "John Doe" by Sanford, Fla., police, as his parents desperately searched for their missing son.

Does this article – or maybe just the headline – annoy, offend or terrify you? If so, it may soon be illegal in Arizona. The state's legislature has passed a bill which would update an existing telephone harassment law to apply to the Internet and other forms of electronic communication. The problem, though, is that it dramatically broadens the scope, making it potentially criminal to even marginally offend someone when they aren’t even the target of the “offensive” communication.

A new case of police shooting an unarmed black teenager is underway in Pasadena, California, sparking anger while controversy over the similar killing of Trayvon Martin in Florida still persists.While Martin was shot dead by a neighborhood watch captain who claimed he was attacked by the teenager, the California case seems to be even more egregious as police

Global investment, securities and sex. Goldman Sachs has long been a big name on Wall Street, but an investigation tying the banking giants to a website linked with sex trafficking has left the firm scrambling to say goodbye to some stock. Goldman Sachs signed a deal on Friday to begin unloading its share in Village Voice Media, a privately held media conglomerate that oversees some of the biggest alternative newspaper in America.

Unpaid parking tickets? That’s a strip search. And no leash on your doggie? That’s a strip search too. It might sound weird, and a wee bit terrifying, but that’s the verdict out of the United States Supreme Court this week. The US Supreme Court decided in a 5-4 vote made Monday that law enforcement officials have the right to conduct invasive strip searches on any arrested persons, no matter how minor the alleged offense might be.