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States Petition To Secede From Union

Source: Jake Miller / CBS News As the dust settles in the wake of President Obama’s decisive reelection last Tuesday, the White House petition website has been flooded by a series of secession requests, with malcontents from New Jersey to North Dakota submitting petitions to allow their states to withdraw from the union. Most of the [...]

Holly Solomon, Arizona Wife, Runs Over Husband Because Of Obama Re-Election: Cops

Source: The Huffington Post A wife furious at her husband for not voting, ran him over in a Gilbert, Ariz. parking lot, according to police. The East Valley Tribune reports that, on Saturday night, Holly Solomon, 28, was arguing with her husband over his lack of voter participation when, witnesses said, they heard yelling and saw Solomon get into [...]

FBI Visits N.C. Home Of Paula Broadwell

Source: AP / USA Today CHARLOTTE — FBI agents are at the North Carolina home of the woman whose affair with retired general David Petraeus led to his resignation as CIA director. A spokeswoman for the FBI says that agents went to Paula Broadwell’s home in Charlotte on Monday night. FBI spokeswoman Shelley Lynch declined [...]

IT’S OFFICIAL: President Barack Obama Wins Florida, Topping Romney In Final Electoral Vote Tally 332 To 206

Source: AP / The Washington Post ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Four days after the election, President Barack Obama can finally claim victory in Florida. The state finished counting its votes Saturday. Obama was declared the winner, giving him a 332 to 206 final margin in the Electoral College. Florida officials said Obama had 50 percent [...]

Coal Company Announces Layoffs In Response To Obama Win

Source: James O’Toole  / CNN Money NEW YORK – A coal company headed by a prominent Mitt Romney donor has laid off more than 160 workers in response to President Obama’s election victory. Murray Energy said Friday that it had been “forced” to make the layoffs in response to the bleak prospects for the coal industry [...]

CIA Chief Petraeus Resigns Over Affair

Source: Dana Ford / CNN  Only two people know how the affair started, but the world knows now about its inglorious end. Admitting to the extramarital affair, David Petraeus stepped down as director of the CIA on Friday in a surprise move that shocked the intelligence community just days after President Barack Obama was re-elected. Immediate [...]

GARY L. FLOWERS: Post Election Progressive Policy Priorities

by Gary L. Flowers Executive Director & CEO Black Leadership Forum, Inc. Now that the 18-month, nearly 2 billion dollar, 2012 election for president of the United States of America is over the political question is settled as President Obama is set to begin his second term in January 2013. However, the question of policy [...]

THIS WEEK On Washington Watch: Obama Wins Second term, Expectations For The Next Four Years, Minority Turnout At The Polls

REVEREND OMAROSA MANIGAULT AMONG NEWSMAKER GUESTS ON NOV. 11 WASHINGTON WATCH WITH ROLAND MARTIN –Topics to include: Obama wins second term, expectations for the next four years, minority turnout at the polls, and highlights of the First Family during election night– November 9, 2012, Silver Spring MD – President and CEO of the NAACP, Ben Jealous; [...]

ROLAND S. MARTIN: GOP Voter Suppression Fueled Black Turnout

By Roland S. Martin Editor-in-Chief RolandMartinReports.com As political pros, journalists and pundits pick over exit polls to study how and why President Barack Obama beat Mitt Romney for the presidency, a lot of the attention has been showered on the Latino turnout, gender gap and late breaking voters for the president. The African American turnout [...]

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