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Wisconsin GOP Votes To Break Native American Treaties
Seeded on Fri Jan 27, 2012 10:27 AM EST ()
The Wisconsin GOP is attempting to pass a bill called Assembly Bill 426. Assembly Bill 426 is a bill that was introduced without an author, a bill that to this day cannot get a single person to claim ownership.
Mitt Romney: I Like Firing People (Video)
Mon Jan 9, 2012 2:13 PM EST
Yeah, we know Mitt: A closer look at Mitt Romney's job creation record.
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Charles P. Pierce on the brutal truth about the crimes at Penn State - Grantland
Seeded on Tue Nov 15, 2011 7:08 AM EST (Grantland)
These things cannot be prayed away.
The Police Riot at Berkeley: If They'll Beat a Poet Laureate, Will They Kill a Student?
Seeded on Sun Nov 13, 2011 11:05 PM EST (The Huffington Post)
"The rich are now rich enough to pay half the population to kill the other half of the population." That about sums up the state of the world...
Trickle Down economics was a Trojan Horse
Seeded on Wed Oct 5, 2011 8:44 PM EDT ()
In the 1980’s Ronald Reagan ushered in a new era in American economics as he cut the top tax bracket from 70% down to 50% and then down again to 28%. In order to get support for doing this from the people, and also from politicians, a very crafty set of lies were produced.
Contrary Brin: "Class War" and the Lessons of History
Seeded on Mon Oct 3, 2011 5:52 PM EDT ()
One aspect of our re-ignited American Civil War is getting a lot of air-play. It is so-called “class war.” That's the tag-line ordered up by Roger Ailes. The notion: that any talk of returning to 1990s tax rates - way back when the U.S. was healthy.
Revealed: Fake Facebook Identity Used By Military Contractors Plotting To Hack Progressive Organizations | Common Dreams
Seeded on Mon Aug 22, 2011 7:03 AM EDT (Common Dreams)
Earlier this year, ThinkProgress obtained 75,000 private emails from the defense contractor HBGary Federal via the hacktivist group called Anonymous. The emails led to two shocking revelations.
Daily Kos: Oslo Shooter Manifesto: Exterminate The "Liberal Fascists"
Seeded on Sun Jul 24, 2011 12:49 PM EDT (Daily Kos)
In the words of Anders manifesto,
Allen West tirade: Wasserman Schultz 'vile...despicable...not a Lady' - Ben Smith - POLITICO.com
Seeded on Tue Jul 19, 2011 10:36 PM EDT (Politico)
Looks like Boehner needs to reign in his dog before someone goes all Preston Brooks on a teabagger. This douchebag should be in Leavenworth, rotting away instead of disgracing the voters of Florida.
Attention Marxists: Labor's Share Of National Income Drops To Lowest In History
Seeded on Sat Jun 4, 2011 12:57 PM EDT (This Is The Government: Your Legal Right To Redeem Your Money Market Account Has Been Denied | zero hedge)
the lowest in HISTORY.
Herman Cain's Enron-esque Disaster | Mother Jones
Seeded on Mon May 23, 2011 6:21 PM EDT (MotherJones.com)
Cain clearly believes that his pro-business message is what GOP voters want to hear. So much so, in fact, that on Saturday he officially unveiled his candidacy for the 2012 GOP nomination.
Tea Party Patriots Pressure Public Schools to Teach Christian American History
Seeded on Wed May 11, 2011 1:28 PM EDT (Religion Dispatches)
The “Adopt a School Action Plan” is designed to take advantage of a requirement that public schools teach about the Constitution -- for the purpose of promoting co-called Christian American History.
Welcome to Pure Michigan, the land of Dickens | MLive.com
Seeded on Sat Apr 23, 2011 4:02 PM EDT (News Impact - MLive.com)
From the same jackhole, neo-con reactionary Michigan State Representative who wanted to outlaw marriage for illegal immigrants, comes his latest brainstorm - eliminate the $9.9 million the state allocates to help the very poor and foster families pay for school clothes.
Sleepwalking Into the Imperial Dark: What It Feels Like When a Superpower Runs Off the Tracks
Seeded on Tue Apr 19, 2011 3:13 PM EDT (The Huffington Post)
This can't end well. No, no it won't. People need to wake up and smell the coffee, but I guess it is easier to blame someone else and go shop at Walmart for some more plastic stuff from China.
BREAKING - Major Tsunami Damage in Northern Japan
Seeded on Fri Mar 11, 2011 2:06 AM EST (ABC News)
Breaking News- 8.8 Earthquake strikes Japan. Helicopter TV shots of wall of water from Tsunami devastating the Japanese countryside.
Cut Head Start But Keep Subsidies for Big Oil? Earth to Boehner...Come In!
Seeded on Thu Mar 10, 2011 11:44 AM EST (The Huffington Post)
Oh look, the GOP are shilling for corporations instead of taking care of Americans. Shocker.
Black History Month is Herman Cain Playing the Race Minstrel for CPAC
Seeded on Sat Feb 12, 2011 11:37 PM EST (AlterNet.org)
Herman Cain's shtick is a version of race minstrelsy where he performs "authentic negritude" as wish fulfillment for White Conservative fantasies.
Rep. Chris Lee (R) Resigns From Office
Seeded on Wed Feb 9, 2011 6:16 PM EST (buffalo.ynn.com)
LOL Another family values candidate bites the dust thanks to an affair.
From Mississippi to 'The Corner': A Tale of Right-Wing Wrongness
Seeded on Tue Feb 8, 2011 2:34 PM EST (TNR's The Worst Political Sex Writing The New Republic)
By now, it's easy to be cynical about the Internet's ability to degrade rational argument. After all, one can only read so many birther blogs without starting to go numb.
Reagan: Morning After in America
Seeded on Sat Feb 5, 2011 9:14 AM EST (MotherJones.com)
David Stockman, Reagan's first budget director in the 1980s and the godfather of the Gipper's supply-side tax cuts, was watching the proceedings from his home in Colorado and shaking his head.
John Boehner To Give Keynote Address At Annual Insurance Lobbyists Summit
Seeded on Thu Jan 27, 2011 12:50 PM EST (The Huffington Post)
Whore for the Corporations has to whore. Tell me again how the HCR Law repeal isn't just a naked power grab for the insurance companies? Enjoy your #1 place in the world for spending on American health care while the nation sinks down below 40th place on results, USA.
Let's Get This Straight
Seeded on Wed Jan 12, 2011 8:59 PM EST (shakespearessister.blogspot.com)
I couldn't have said this any better. The shooting in Tucson was not an anomaly.
Paul Ryan And Ayn Rand
Seeded on Wed Dec 29, 2010 9:54 AM EST (TNR's The Worst Political Sex Writing The New Republic)
Ryan would retain some bare-bones subsidies for the poorest, but the overwhelming thrust in every way is to liberate the lucky and successful to enjoy their good fortune without burdening them with any responsibility for the welfare of their fellow citizens.
Wall Street Execs Whine To Politico About Their Hurt Feelings
Seeded on Tue Dec 28, 2010 1:28 PM EST (The Huffington Post)
For maximum effect, this whole article should be rendered on the page as if the words had all been cut out from magazines. Oh look - the "masters of the universe" are whining about not being differed to properly by the President of the US.
The Decline and Fall of the American Empire
Seeded on Tue Dec 7, 2010 1:17 AM EST (The Huffington Post)
A soft landing for America 40 years from now? Don't bet on it. The demise of the United States as the global superpower could come far more quickly than anyone imagines.
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Indiana legislators are moving forward on a bill that would allow creationism to be taught alongside other theories in the state's public school system.
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