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Recall over the summer, at Comic-Con in San Diego, when Quentin Tarantino finally discussed Will Smith's non-casting in the upcoming Django Unchained, and he revealed that he met with 6 different actors for the role, before finally settling on Jamie Foxx... and the question we had was who were the 6 actors he met for the part. Many of you chimed in with the names of actors you thought made up the 6, and there were several combos, but of the 32 responses, only 1 person got the entire 6 correct. The one name that the majority of you missed was... drumroll... Tyrese. Yes, Tyrese was one of the 6 actors Tarantino met for the role. This evening, EW posted exclusive excerpts...
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Today John Bolton, former U.N. ambassador under George W. Bush, said that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's trip to Australia is "very important" and necessary, undercutting attacks from conservative news outlets such as Fox News and Drudge that Clinton is vacationing Australia rather than testifying in front of a congressional committee about the Benghazi attacks. [...]
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Only 7 percent of Americans think the U.S. is winning the War on Drugs, while 82 percent think we are losing, according to a new Rasmussen survey. The national telephone survey was conducted on Nov. 9 and 10, days after two states passed ballot initiatives that legalize and regulate recreational marijuana. Proponents, including prominent law enforcement [...]
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By Rana DiOrio, Founder and Chief Executive Pickle of Little Pickle Press Feeling the weight of the world on my shoulders My recent trip to Ethiopia with a delegation of ONEMoms (and ONE Mums) affected me profoundly. I went to Ethiopia at a very pivotal time in my life. I was feeling the full weight of my responsibilities as... Read More »
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During a press conference today, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) made it clear why he will oppose U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice becoming Secretary of State: the war in Iraq. During the press conference, Graham and fellow Republican senators John McCain and Kelly Ayotte called for a Select Committee to investigate the attack on [...]
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President Obama came out with guns blazing at today's news conference, his first since re-election, pushing back hard against Republican senators' disparaging remarks about U.N. ambassador Susan Rice, Washington's odds-on favorite to get the nod as America's next secretary of state.
The president may indeed be genuinely outraged that one of his reportedly closest advisors is taking heat for the Sept. 11 snafu in Benghazi -- a situation Rice had nothing to do with. He repeated the administration's claim that when Rice took to the airwaves on Sept. 16 to explain the events in Libya, she was merely working with what the intelligence community had given her. And as far as we know, that's precisely what happened. (Benghazi isn't really the reason senators are objecting to Rice anyway, but that's ...
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When Karl Rove's Crossroads Grassroots Policy Strategies (GPS) formed in 2010, it established its official address in Warrenton, VA, and registered with the Internal Revenue Service a tax-exempt 501(c)(4) "social welfare organization." It apparently did not, however, register as a charitable organization with the Commonwealth of Virginia, as appears was legally required. According to state [...]
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Mitt Romney is attributing his loss in the 2012 election to the "gifts" President Obama gave to minority voters, the Los Angeles Times is reporting. Speaking to donors on Wednesday, the former Massachusetts governor praised his own campaign, but speculated that Obama won because he was "very generous" to his base: Mitt Romney told his [...]
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After a lengthy and heated hearing, an Ohio bill meant to defund Planned Parenthood cleared a House committee on Wednesday by an 11-9 vote along party lines. House Bill 298, ostensibly about re-prioritizing federal family planning money, seeks to strip $1.7 million from Planned Parenthood clinics in the state. According to Planned Parenthood Ohio CEO [...]
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