Month: March 2012

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Bill Maher Blames Democrats For Trayvon Martin Shooting

Bill Maher argued that the Trayvon Martin shooting is cautionary tale for Democrats about the consequences of lying down and giving the right whatever they want.

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Conservatives and Management Beware: Keith Olbermann is Out There

Current has some of the smartest people and most compelling programming in the cable universe, so how did things go so wrong for Olbermann and the network?

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Funeral Director Has Proof Zimmerman Lied About Struggle With Martin

Richard Kurtz, a Miami funeral director who prepared Trayvon Martin’s body, said he found no “cuts, scratches, or bruises, only a gunshot wound to the chest.”

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The Republican Definition of Courage is Harming Children, Seniors and the Poor

Republicans are twisted if courage means bullying hungry children into poverty and eliminating seniors’ healthcare, and they tremble at the notion of offending the rich and powerful.

14

Taking a Ride on Bryan Fischer’s Secular Sharia Crazy Bus

After putting words in George Washington’s mouth, Bryan FIscher produces bullshit from his and claims “the Ten Commandments of secular Sharia law” is taking over the land

11

Better Pizza, Better Boycott: Papa John’s Drops Rush Limbaugh

Despite the fact that Rush Limbaugh and his P.R. offensive have declared the boycott over, Papa John’s has dropped Rush Limbaugh.

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Right Wing Hypocrites Stay Silent When Obama Discusses Melissa Jenkins Murder

Those on the right who accused President Obama of spreading hate with his comments about Trayvon Martin were oddly silent when the president discussed murder victim Melissa Jenkins today.

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Current Ridiculously Fires Keith Olbermann for ‘Disrespect’

Current TV announced today that they have fired Keith Olbermann because he lacked the values of, “respect, openness, collegiality.” Really? Lack of respect, that’s why you fired him.

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Scott Walker Tastes Defeat As Part Of Union Busting Bill Gets Struck Down

It’s almost as if the stars are out to get Governor Scott Walker. First, his recall election gets certified and then part of his infamous union busting bill gets thrown out.

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Romney/Palin 2012: Could Mitt Get Desperate Enough For This?

It’s just possible that Sarah Louise Palin, born a stone’s throw from Randy Weaver’s infamous Ruby Ridge, Idaho could be Mitt Romney’s 2012 running mate?

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The Catawampus State of 2012 America

The U.S. is catawampus; in short the country is a mess driven by a right-wing Supreme Court and the gun-nut red states.

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Resolve Grows To Put Limbaugh And His Fellow Republicans Out Of a Job

Rush Limbaugh and his fellow Republicans have underestimated the resolve of the StopRush and BoycottRush movements that are in this for the long haul.

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Imagining a Life Without Jesus – Two Minutes That Decided History

Two minutes in the life of Pontius Pilate decided world history for the next 2000 years, two minutes in which Jesus could have been pardoned – and forgotten by history

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Rush Limbaugh Claims He Is a Victim like Trayvon Martin

Rush Limbaugh claimed that both he and Trayvon Martin are victims of the left trumping things up.

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Do As I Say Not As I Do: The Truth About the Anti-Abortion Crowd

Republican women claim to be against abortions, but statistics don’t support this hypocritical stance. It’s possible that conservative women have just as many abortions as liberal women.

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According To American Executives China Is More Regulated Than the US

Before 2007, American corporations left the United States and relocated to higher tax and higher regulated countries. This proves that wages not regulations drove manufacturing overseas.

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CNN’s Erick Erickson Spreads More Lies About Obama

CNN’s resident tea party hate monger, Erick Erickson repeated Rick Santorum’s false accusation that the President is pro-infanticide.

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Mitt Romney Beds Down With Wisconsin’s Koch Suckers

While campaigning in Wisconsin via phone, Mitt Romney endorsed Governor Scott Walker’s “labor policies” and Representative Paul Ryan’s “budget plan”.

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George Zimmerman’s Father Makes Trayvon Martin Case Racial by Blaming Obama

In a local television interview, George Zimmerman’s father accused President Obama, the Congressional Black Caucus and the NAACP of spreading hate.

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Trapped in the 80s, A Delusional Mitt Romney Thinks He’s Ronald Reagan

Romney may fool Americans with his alleged foreign policy acumen and fantasies of cowboy diplomacy, but Russian President Dmitry Medvedev clearly understands Romney is out-of-touch with reality.

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Fundamentalists Are Hell-Bound, Says Jesus: More From Our Exclusive Interview

Jesus explains that his ministry was for the poor and oppressed, not against them, and that the rich and powerful serve Satan and the demonic powers in control of the earth

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Alan Grayson Blows Apart Trayvon Martin Shooter’s Story

On MSNBC, Alan Grayson explained why the ABC News video of George Zimmerman blows apart his defense and proves that Trayvon Martin’s family was right.

Hey Newt…Don’t Let the Door Hit You In the Ass

Newt Gingrich is firing staff and scaling back on primary appearances. The latest polls don’t look good for Gingrich and even his Adelson money is running out.

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“Three Important Documents” – Air Force Training Requires Chapel Attendance

Here is an example parasitic proselytizing at its worst and in the most dangerous institution of all – our military.

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Obama Surges to an 11 Point Lead over Mitt Romney

There was dual story revealed in the latest CNN poll. As the economy gets better, President Obama’s approval ratings go up. The more Mitt Romney campaigns, the less America likes him.

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Bye Bye China; Hello Third-World America

Chinese wages have risen marginally and those same corporations are looking to return to the U.S. now that unions have been all but destroyed by the Republicans, driving down wages.

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The Second Right Wing Assassination of Trayvon Martin

The murder of Trayvon Martin was the accomplishment, not the mistake, of a racist and ultimately greed-based system, this includes its politics, economics and culture.

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Bobby Rush Kicked Off the House Floor for Supporting Trayvon Martin with a Hoodie

Rep. Bobby Rush tried to show his support for Trayvon Martin by wearing a hoodie, but he was kicked off the House floor for violating a rule against wearing hats.

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The Right’s Randian Psychosis Spells Doom for All But the Wealthiest Americans

It is Ayn Rand’s immoral ideology that informs the character of Republican philosophy and spells doom for all but the wealthiest Americans.

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Jesus Says David Barton Doesn’t Speak for Him: An Exclusive Interview

David Barton has little to do with actual Christianity and even less to do with first century Judaism, as Jesus explains in this exclusive interview

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Fox News Blames Obama for the Trayvon Martin Controversy

Fox News has decided that President Obama is responsible for the controversy surrounding the shooting of Trayvon Martin, not George Zimmerman.

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Fox News Has Lost 17% of Their Viewers in March

Not only is the Republican primary pushing away voters, it is also turning off cable news watchers. Case in point, ratings leader Fox News saw a 17% decline in viewership in March.

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Trayvon Martin’s Killer’s Story Is Still Full of Holes

When you closely examine the Zimmerman’s version of the events that led up to the death of Trayvon Martin, his account and some witness accounts don’t match.

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Boycott Success: Nearly 200 Advertisers Have Abandoned Rush Limbaugh

Kohler has joined the list of hundreds of other companies who have either dropped, or requested their ads not be associated with Limbaugh.

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The Latest Schadenfreude: Big Oil Republicans Blame Obama for Gas Prices

The right is attempting to have it both ways on gas prices. They are protecting Big Oil’s profits, while blaming President Obama for the high price of gas.

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Angry and Insulted Women Will Make The Republicans Pay In November

Women are angry, insulted, and sick and tired of being treated like second-class citizens and they have the motivation, intelligence to end the Republican war against them.

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LaKay Roberts and the Rights of School Children to be Treated Like Human Beings

Children like LaKay Roberts have the same right to an education every other child in America has; to make special rules to restrict those rights is dehumanizing and wrong

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Debunking the GOP Propaganda: Only 34% Want Obamacare Repealed

Republicans and conservatives would like you believe that Americans hate Obamacare, but a new poll found that only 34% of those surveyed want Obamacare repealed.

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As Thousands Protest, Rush Limbaugh Defends Trayvon Martin’s Killer

As thousands protest in Sanford, FL, Rush Limbaugh defended the shooting of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman as getting a little, “overzealous.”

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Bad News GOP: Only 25% of Americans Believe Obama Can Influence Gas Prices

The Republican strategy of using gas prices against Obama took a hit today as a Suffolk University poll found that only 25% of Americans believe Obama has a lot of influence on gas prices.

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The Poison Pen of Right-Wing Newspapers: Half-Truths and No Truths

A misleading headline about Harry Reid provides the perfect demonstration of just how far right wing newspapers or conservative editors are willing to go to poison the well.

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Rick Santorum Loses His Religion, and Exposes the Bulls**t Behind His Campaign

Rick Santorum exploded in rage calling a reporter’s question bulls**t and then claimed he had been “aggressively attacked,” but the only B.S. is Santorum’s presidential campaign.

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The “Good News Club”: How the Religious Right is Taking Indoctrination into Public Schools

With the blessing of the Supreme Court, fundamentalist, right wing evangelists are taking religious indoctrination into the public schools.

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Stand Your Ground Was ALEC’s Vision, Not the Founding Fathers

It is not a stretch to imagine that ALEC has deliberately sought to arm as many disgruntled Americans as possible and given them legal cover to “defend their liberty” from the overreaching government.

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Sharing the Gospel of Augustus Caesar

For the Roman world, Augustus was a messiah, and the cities were eager to proclaim his “good news” (evangelion) even before Jesus was born

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How the Republican War Machine Has Lied to America About Iran

The imminent threat from Iran that Republicans like to fear monger about has existed since Ronald Reagan, and the surest way to blow up the world is to allow the GOP to bomb Iran.

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Michele Bachmann Tells Supporters of Trayvon Martin They’re Imagining Things

Michele Bachmann tried to defend Newt Gingrich’s comments about the shooting of Trayvon Martin by accusing people of imagining what happened.

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Paranoid Conservatives Warp The Hunger Games To Fit Their Anti-Obama Fantasies

Conservatives have twisted The Hunger Games into a warning about how Obama wants to control all of our resources, including our livestock.

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A Warning from Rachel Maddow about Moral Cost of Apathy towards War

On Meet The Press, Rachel Maddow discussed her new book and troubling development of collective American apathy towards perpetual war.

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Republicans Use Threats And Pseudo Terrorism To Deny 30 Million Americans Healthcare

Republicans cannot come up with one legitimate reason for denying every American healthcare so they resorted to fear-mongering and threats that border on terrorism.

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Rick Santorum Learns A Lesson About Meaningless Miracles In Louisiana

If ever a win was meaningless, it’s Rick Santorum’s expected Louisiana runaway. The Deep South is the only sure thing that the flaming heterosexual has left.

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Profiteering for Jesus

And Jesus so loved the rich he gave his life for them. Or so you’d think. Jesus’ evolution into a plutocratic champion of the ultra-wealthy beggars belief. That is certainly the outlook of prosperity gospel, the idea that Jesus will make you rich.

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After Louisiana Win 5 of the Top 6 Porn Consuming Red States Have Voted For Rick Santorum

With his win in Louisiana tonight, 5 of the top 6 pornography consuming red states that have voted in 2012 have supported Rick Santorum.

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Sarah Palin Attacks and Demeans The Disabled By Calling Them Defenseless

While taking part in Sean Hannity’s show on left wing hate language, Sarah Palin demeaned disabled Americans by referring to them as defenseless.

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The Slaughter of Native Americans Was The U.S.’s Original Stand Your Ground

Native Americans were dispatched with the same unfeeling inhumanity then that killed African-American Trayvon Martin, and now they are nearing extinction.

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Rachel Maddow Asks What It Will Take To Fight The Gun Lobby

Rachel Maddow pointed out that no matter what the people want, we can’t even have a dialogue about gun laws because the gun lobby always gets its way.

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In Republican Politics Truth Is a Non-Existent Concept

In Republican politics, the concept of reporting the truth is non-existent and contrary to their natural inclination to lie for the sake of political expediency.

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Counterstrike: Using The Free Market To Hold Men’s Sperm Accountable

In response to the patriarchal treatment of our bodies as property, here is sample legislation based upon licensing & property laws, demanding that men pay for “licensing, use and maintenance of our bodies & the offspring we create.”

25

The Media Gets Suckered by Fox News’s Blame The Hoodie Distraction

It is no surprise that Fox News would blame Trayvon Martin for his own murder, but the mainstream media’s willingness to sell the distraction is the real problem.

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Tone Deaf Santorum Supporter At Shooting Range Yells ‘Pretend It’s Obama’

Today while GOP Presidential candidate Rick Santorum was at a campaign stop in West Monroe, Louisiana target shooting, one of his female supporters yelled out, “Pretend it’s Obama!”

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Obama Calls For National Soul Searching Over Trayvon Martin Tragedy

The President made his first comments on the tragic Trayvon Martin case, calling for soul searching over the shooting and noting that if he had a son, he would look like Trayvon. It’s time for America to wake up.

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Republicans Pass Blame For Their Own Deficit Failures On To The Poor

Republican economic policy is responsible for a large part of the nation’s deficit, but instead of taking responsibility, they are proposing making the poor responsible for deficit reduction.

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The Consequences of Alaska’s Female Sexual Servitude Legislation

Alaska legislation proves that state-sponsored sexual servitude is alive and well. So much for the First Amendment, because all this is 100% religiously based

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Boycott Squeezes Harder as 31 More Advertisers Want Nothing to Do With Rush Limbaugh

A second list is being circulated that features 31 advertisers who want their advertising moved away from Rush Limbaugh’s show.

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From Obama to Trayvon Martin, the Consequences of Right Wing Race Baiting

There is a culturally relevant connection between the racial hatred ginned up by Republican leaders against President Obama and the shooting of Trayvan Martin.

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Unions Fight Back with Largest Political Mobilization Ever For Obama

Trumka’s decision to throw the full force of the nation’s largest union behind Obama will go a long way toward providing the margin of victory that Obama and the other Democratic 2012 contenders will need to get the job done.

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Bernie Sanders Trashes the Senate for Passing the Anti-jobs JOBS Act

Sen. Bernie Sanders has again spoken out for the people by standing up against a phony jobs bill passed by the Senate that loosens protections for investors and doesn’t create jobs.

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Good God It’s Romney: How Some Rigged Voting Machines Could Beat Obama

With the endorsement of Republican ‘Golden Boy’ Jeb Bush, Mitt Romney has locked up the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. Democrats are cautioned to start playing defensive politics and pay special attention to the very real possibility of rigging voting machines.

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City Manager Offers Misleading Justification for Not Arresting Travyon Martin’s Shooter

The Sanford City Manager issued a statement today claiming that the police were prohibited from making an arrest in the Trayvon Martin shooting, but a closer examination of the law reveals that the City Manager is misleading the press about the law.

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Justice For Trayvon: We Can Beat City Hall – and NRA as Well

After the killing of Trayvon Martin will we realize that after having success against Komen and Rush, we can stand up and take on the NRA?

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No Coincidence: Republicans Pushing For War With Iran Are Big Oil’s Best Friends

It is no coincidence that the Republicans pushing for war with Iran are also the same folks who do the bidding of the oil industry in Congress.

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Why the United States Needs to be More Like the NFL

Roger Goodell, commissioner of the NFL, sent a very strong message of accountability not only to players, but to coaches and management on Wednesday, proving that nobody is bigger than the NFL

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Bernie Sanders Calls Out All Three GOP Candidates for Lying About Obama and Gas Prices

Sen. Bernie Sanders called out Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, and Newt Gingrich for lying and covering up the real reason why gas prices are increasing.

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Obama Powers Up And Takes Down GOP Flat Earthers

President Obama powered up today and turned Republican attacks about gas prices into a defense of the common man against Big Oil.

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You Sank My Battleship: Etch-A-Sketch Gaffe Buries Romney’s Momentum

Mitt Romney’s campaign wants you to know that you can trust old Mitt. Why, he’s as reliable as an etch-a-sketch!

Trayvon Martin, Racism in the United States, and You

If George Zimmerman is not prosecuted, how many extremists will see this as license to declare open season on your son, your daughter, your husband, your wife?

Rick Santorum Attends Event Telling All Non-Christians To Get Out Of America

Rick Santorum attended an event in Louisiana where renowned hate-monger Dennis Terry unleashed a vitriolic hate-fest aimed at gays, Muslims, Liberals, and Buddhists.

Mitt Romney Wins Illinois and Lies His Ass Off About President Obama

After Mitt Romney won another state that President Obama will carry in November, he converted his victory speech into a marathon of lies about Barack Obama.

Santorum Ignores Economy – Makes his Religion a Problem for Voters

The media is slowly becoming wise to the fact that Rick Santorum’s campaign is fueled by religion, not the economy. His stance on issues is religious, his rhetoric is religious and his appeal is not to fiscal conservatives but to social conservatives, to those on the religious right who menace our democracy with the specter of theocracy.

Mitt’s a Fit in Illinois – Santorum Still a Misfit

It was a predictable win for Mitt Romney in Illinois. Rich Santorum finished a 12-point second with but 8 of the 49 available delegates. Meanwhile, Santorum pines for PA and Texas.

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Your Local Post Office: From Public Service to Profit Piñata

For the past year we have seen an unremitting campaign by the corporate masters of the right wing to try to con the American people into privatizing the U.S. Postal Service.

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Meet the ALEC Lobbyists Behind Mitt Romney and Find Out What They Want From You

Remember the dark days of Dick Cheney’s secretive Enron meetings? Well, they’re coming for you again only this time, they’re wearing a Mitt mask.

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Elizabeth Warren Increases Her Lead over Scott Brown in Massachusetts Senate Race

A new Public Policy Polling poll of Massachusetts has found that Elizabeth Warren has increased her lead over Sen. Scott Brown to 46%-41%.

Apathy In Illinois: Romney and Santorum Fight For Right to Lose to Obama

Illinois GOP voters go to the polls today to choose from ideologically amorphous bore Mitt Romney, stubborn fungus Newt Gingrich and political punchline Rick Santorum.

Paul Ryan Returns To Enrage America By Promoting Medicare Armageddon

In this year’s version of Path to Prosperity, Rep. Paul Ryan returns with the same Medicare privatization plan that enraged retired Americans last year.

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The Republican Platform Aims at a Time Before the Constitution

Republicans don’t want to take back our country; they want to take our country back, back to a time before the United States, before the Constitution to the unworkable Articles of Confederation, to pre-Constitutional religious intolerance and oppression of minorities and of women.

How to Tell When a Federal Judge Is a Bush Appointee

When a judge hates President Obama because he is black, you better believe he was a Bush appointee.

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The Advertiser Boycott Hurts and Rush Limbaugh Is Starting To Squeal

As he continues to lose money, Rush Limbaugh tried to stop the bleeding by squealing about AstroTurf and how the boycott is really no big deal.

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Viewers Continue To Flee Fox News as Ratings Drop for a Second Straight Year

While CNN and MSNBC both saw their ratings grow in 2011, Fox News saw their ratings drop for a second straight year.

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While Right Accuses OWS of Rape, Violence Flourishes in the Tea Party

An established pattern of systemic Tea Party hatred toward women exists and is further evident in the legislation they push, and yet they can’t help themselves from projecting.

The USCCB Decides To Go To War Against The American Government

The USCCB is in a war with the American government to assert their authority as Onward Christian Soldiers over legally elected representatives of the people.

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A Russian Role Model for America’s Politicians

Republicans go through life trying to find excuses to avoid the responsibility of shared humanity and citizenship. Ms. Sobchak, like many other women both here and in Russia, demonstrates the ability to not only embrace that shared humanity, but by doing so to become a better human being, and a better citizen

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