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June 6, 2012

Outcry over Romney's Mass. affirmative action move

WASHINGTON (AP) - Mitt Romney scuttled the Massachusetts government's long-standing affirmative action policies with a few strokes of his pen…
June 6, 2012

Ex-football player Wade Davis describes being gay in the NFL

Wade Davis is a former NFL player who briefly played on three teams, including the Titans, Seahawks and Redskins. In…
June 6, 2012

Rush Limbaugh calls Obama 'Barack Hussein Kardashian'

In Rush Limbaugh's opinion, Barack Obama is not the president of the United States, he is the celebrity of the…
June 6, 2012

Why Scott Walker's victory in Wisconsin isn't bad news for Obama's re-election

theGRIO REPORT - Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's resounding win against a Democratic effort to remove him from office no doubt…
June 5, 2012

Bill Clinton makes fun of Allen West's 'Communist' comments

Former President Bill Clinton made fun of Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) Monday night for saying that dozens of House Democrats…
June 5, 2012

Atlanta mayor Kasim Reed criticized for NBC 'Meet the Press' comments

ATLANTA - Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed is catching some heat for comments he made on NBC's 'Meet the Press' Sunday...
June 5, 2012

Silent in '08, black conservatives now more critical of Obama

ANALYSIS - Four years later, racial pride has given way to differences over policy, ideology and politics. Moderate black Democrats,…
June 5, 2012

Colorado vote on pot could affect Obama-Romney race

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) - Voters in this presidential battleground state won't just decide whether to go red or blue this…
June 5, 2012

President Bill Clinton: Mitt Romney would be 'calamitous' for US

NEW YORK (AP) - Former President Bill Clinton warned Monday that a Mitt Romney presidency would be "calamitous" for the…
June 5, 2012

Hip-hop and Election 2012: How Obama went from being 'the bomb', to being 'the man'

OPINION - In this election year rappers probably will not be criticizing President Obama. Not because he's black but because…
June 5, 2012

Wisconsin battle says little about Obama v. Romney

MILWAUKEE (AP) - Five months before Election Day, you'd think there would be no better harbinger about who will win…
June 5, 2012

Do we need to stop arguing over whether Barack Obama is black enough?

OPINION - Is Barack Obama black enough? Should we care? We need to stop arguing over President Obama’s blackness and…
June 4, 2012

Obama camp outspending Romney online

theGRIO REPORT - The Obama campaign is drastically outspending Mitt Romney on the internet in an effort to better target…
June 4, 2012

Study shows media coverage favors Romney, not Obama

OPINION - Was there ever a time that Republicans did not complain about the liberal media? If there is. I…
June 4, 2012

Do the new job numbers make Obama the underdog?

Yet Friday’s disappointing jobs report -- just 69,000 jobs created in May and the unemployment ticked up to 8.2% --…
June 4, 2012

With friends like these… Dems reject Obama campaign's Bain strategy

OPINION - First it was it was Newark Mayor Cory Booker and now it’s former President Bill Clinton who can’t…
June 4, 2012

Sluggish job growth a major challenge for Obama

A spring slowdown in hiring and a rise in the unemployment rate are weighing on President Barack Obama, while enhancing…
June 3, 2012

President Obama gives fifth grader best absence note ever

A Minnesota fifth grader will head back to school on Monday with what could be the best absence excuse possible:…
June 3, 2012

Donald Trump on birtherism, employs the 'black friend' defense

theGRIO REPORT - Donald Trump on Saturday employed a novel defense: he can't be racist, he just picked a black…
June 2, 2012

US economy souring, so what's a Democrat to do?

WASHINGTON (AP) - Five months before the elections, the uneven economic recovery is sputtering and job growth is anemic. Stock…