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Maddow Suggests Fox News Employees Send Each Other Racist Emails

On her Tuesday broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show,” host Rachel Maddow criticized the Fox News Channel for its reaction to the Department of Justice’s investigation of allegations of civil rights violations within the government of Ferguson, MO, particularly

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MSNBC Panel: Exec Amnesty Opposition Motivated Partially By Racism

Democratic Strategist Jamal Simmons and writer and speaker Sayu Bhojwani argued that opposition to the president’s executive action on immigration is at least partially based on racism on Saturday’s “Melissa’s Harris-Perry” on MSNBC. “This 26-state lawsuit [against the president’s executive action] also

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Serena Williams Announces Return to Indian Wells

Serena Williams, the top-ranked female tennis player, announced in Time that she will return to Indian Wells in 2015. She boycotted the tournament after 2001, which became a mandatory stop on the WTA tour in 2009, since the tournament director did not apologize for treatment she endured playing there.

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SNL Sends Martin Luther King to 2015

NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” had Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. travel to the year 2015 as part of its intro. Dr. King, who had appeared to help a schoolboy with a paper on him, was briefed on, and reacted to

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Maher: ‘Hollywood Liberals Are Such Hypocrites’

HBO’s “Real Time” host Bill Maher proclaimed “Hollywood liberals are such hypocrites” in response to the controversy over the lack of diversity among Oscar nominees on Friday. In an interview with director Kathryn Bigelow, Maher asked whether there was real problem with

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BART #BlackLivesMatter Protesters Carry Torch Into Weekend

#BlackLivesMatter protesters caused major traffic jams for commuters in Boston on Thursday by attaching themselves to 1200-lb. barrels on a major freeway and earning themselves the title “#Douchebarrels” on social media. In San Francisco, #BARTFriday protesters who blocked commuters from getting to work the following morning earned themselves the same title while causing a cacophony of irritating noises, using spoons, that immobilized the working masses for a while.

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The Left Comes Not to Praise Charlie Hebdo, but to Bury It

If there were ever really a bright moment in the sun for Charlie Hebdo magazine’s slain writers and editors to be hailed as free speech martyrs, it’s just about over. The Left is very uneasy with the notion of celebrating people who delighted in trampling on sacred narratives about power and victimization. To be brutally frank, modern “liberals” aren’t all that wild about free speech, either.

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Levin: Obama Should Have Sent Al Sharpton to Paris

On Monday, talk radio host and author of “The Liberty Amendments,” Mark Levin said that President Obama should have sent Al Sharpton to this weekend’s French unity rally. “For this administration, representing the heart and soul of this administration, and

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