Media Matters Republicans have found a new hero in Dr. Ben Carson, whose current political rise to fame is almost entirely based on a speech at the National Prayer Breakfast that really told President Obama off, according to a conservative base that bases all of their new-hero decisions on who they think might be good… Read more »
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Iraq War Hero With Brain Injury Is First Man Charged in NY Safe Act (Video)
Benjamin M. Wassell, an Iraq War hero who, despite a traumatic brain injury from an improvised explosive device that destroyed his vehicle back in 2006, was able to lead other wounded Marines through a minefield to safety, was the first person charged in violation of the New York State Safe Act. Iraq War hero Benjamin… Read more »
Politico dubs Dick Cheney ‘civil rights hero’
Politico Editor-in-Chief John Harris, along with reporters Maggie Haberman and Alexander Burns have a story on the key players advancing same-sex marriage. Among them, former Vice President Dick Cheney, who they call “a civil rights hero”…
Mitt Romney’s secret ’47 percent’ taper lauded as courageous national hero
The bartender — um, videographer — who set up a camera at a Mitt Romney fundraiser last May and caught the candidate’s “47 percent” comment on tape has gone public and is being lauded as perhaps the greatest American hero of our time. Ed Schultz devoted a full hour tonight to Scott Prouty, focusing at length… Read more »