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Barack Obama, Epic Ad-Libbed Burn, Smackdowns, SOTU, State of the Union Address, Videos
Barack Obama, Smackdowns, Speeches, Videos
President Obama went off-script with an epic ad-libbed burn to Republicans during his State of the Union address Tuesday night, earning him a standing ovation from several members of Congress. The President’s original remarks, as prepared for delivery were: I have no more campaigns to run. My only agenda for the next two years is […]
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Martin Luther King, Speeches, Tea Party Convention, The Tea Party, Videos, Wild Bill Finley
Racial Issues, Right Wing Hatred, Speeches, The Tea Party, Videos
No, slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. would not be in the tea party were he alive today. Speaking before the 2015 South Carolina Tea Party Coalition Convention, conservative YouTube celebrity and Tea Partier “Wild Bill” Finley received a huge applause after claiming that slain Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. would […]
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Activism, Madison Kimrey, Martin Luther King, Speeches, Videos
Activism, Speeches, Videos
Madison Kimrey, one of the nation’s youngest political activists, delivered this speech on Martin Luther King as a part of the 10th annual “Blessed are the Peacemakers” program in Freeland, Washington. South Whidbey Record reports that “Kimrey, age 13, rose to prominence when she articulated a passionate refute of North Carolina state governor Pat McCrory’s […]
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Bernie Sanders, Climate change, Global Warming, Keystone Pipeline, Science Denial, Speeches, Videos
Climate/Nature, Speeches, Videos
Bernie Sanders tore into Congress last week during debate about the Keystone Pipeline, telling Senators “when we reject science, we become the laughing stocks of the world.” As a Senate panel took up a proposal last week to build a controversial oil pipeline from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, Sen. Bernie Sanders warned that […]
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Pope Francis, Tragedies
Pope Francis, Religion, Speeches, World News
Pope Francis criticized “deviant forms of religion” in the wake of the Islamist terror attacks in Paris last week. In his “State of the World” address to the diplomatic corps today,, Pope Francis referred to the “tragic slayings in Paris”. Quoting from his Message for the “2015 World Day of Peace” from December 8 2014, […]