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How Obama Suckered Romney into His Bin Laden Trap
Mitt Romney fell into President Obama’s trap on Osama Bin Laden, and now the president has closed the noose and made the Republican nominee appear weak on national security.
Monthly Archives: April 2012
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Oklahoma Supreme Court to Personhood USA: Oh, No You Don’t
Those nut jobs pushing Personhood amendments around the country got slapped down again today, this time by the Oklahoma Supreme Court.
African Americans Will Be Critical to the 2012 Election, but None Will Be Elected to the Senate
President Obama looks like he’s going to be re-elected, no African Americans will be elected to the Senate in 2012, but their support will be critical in Senate elections across the country.
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Scott Walker Blames Protesters for Wisconsin’s Highest in Nation Job Losses
Scott Walker excused his record as governor with the worst job losses in the nation by blaming the protesters for scaring off businesses.
Watch the Arguments For the Bush Torture Program Self Destruct
If successful, torture would not produce results faster than methods that are more compatible with our values, morals and the law.
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Ridiculous Romney Claims Obama Auto Bailout Was Really His Idea
Romney senior adviser, Eric Fehrnstrom, said that President Obama’s decision to bailout Chrysler and General Motors was actually Mitt Romney’s idea.
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Get Ready For Some Right Wing May Day Hysteria
Tomorrow is May Day and the day of Occupy protests from coast to coast and we are already being warned of the violence to come at the hands of leftist anarchists
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The Girl Power Unity of Fluke and McCain Spawns a Right Wing Meltdown
After the Nerd Prom, Meghan McCain and Sandra Fluke swapped stories about being attacked by sexist losers and showed solidarity and support on Twitter for one another. Naturally, this upset Michelle Malkin.
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If Romney’s Finances Were Vetted Would His Pinstripes Turn Into an Orange Jumpsuit?
Nominee Romney if his finances were thoroughly vetted, might end up trading his pinstripe suits for an orange jumpsuit.
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Rachel Maddow Makes History and Triumphs over the War On Women
Republicans tried to target Rachel Maddow in their war on women, but Maddow made history by calling out the GOP’s condescending misogyny on Meet The Press.
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Paul Krugman Obliterates the Myth that Low Business Taxes Create Jobs
When Paul Krugman was confronted with the right wing myth that lower business taxes create jobs on ABC’s This Week, the Nobel Prize winner pounced a delivered some economic straight talk.
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The Media Ignores Facts to Parrot Republican Social Security Bad Mouthing
In the wake of the 2012 Trustee’s Report on Social Security, the right wing continues to have the media as an ally in circulating myths about the program.
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Republicans have Awakened a Livid Female Giant Who Will Make Them Pay
Women are not sitting idly by hoping the Republican assault will subside, and the GOP is going to pay in the general election.
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Once Again, Christians Mistake Removing a Special Privilege with Oppression
Fundamentalists are crying oppression because the U.S. Air Force has decided that as of Oct 1 the Bible is not a required item at lodging facilities on its bases
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Jimmy Kimmel’s 10 Best White House Correspondents’ Dinner Jokes
An unfettered Jimmy Kimmel unleashed a comedy barrage at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. In case you missed it, here are Kimmel’s 10 best jokes.
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President Obama Burns Sarah Palin and the GOP With Pit Bull Joke
President Obama took the Republicans eating dog attack and turned it into a put down of Sarah Palin and the far right.
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Sisterhood Slideshow from War on Women Rallies A28
Rallies were held in 55 cities today to unite against the war on women. Here are some photos shared with us from today.
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Senate Study Proves Republicans Wrong on Torture
After a three year study, the Senate Intelligence Committee is confirming what many of us already know. Aside from being un-American, immoral and illegal, the Bush Administration’s torture policy didn’t work.
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Pro Wrestling Explains How Republicans Try To Fool Us All
Karl Rove, the Brothers Koch, ALEC and Romney put on just as fake a show as their ‘rasslin’ brethren, but unlike wrestling they’re not trying to entertain their fans (voters)…they’re using them.
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Watch Live: Unite Against The War On Women Protests
If there is no War on Women, why are there 55 Unite Women rallies for women’s rights today? Watch the live streams here.
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Republicans Tell Americans Privacy is for Corporations Not People
So called job creators are requiring your social networking passwords and twice now, the Republicans have blocked measures to protect employees’ privacy.
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England Reveals the Republican Path to Prosperity to be a Highway to Hell
The lessons from England should cause Americans to shudder at the Republican attempts to impose austerity while the country is recovering from the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
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David Barton Says Science Can’t Cure Divine Punishments like AIDS
David Barton claims that science won’t be able to cure AIDS because AIDS is a punishment for sin showing he is as ignorant of science as he is of history
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Bill Clinton Takes Down Romney By Speaking the Truth About Obama
President Obama’s latest ad touts the truth about his national security record and Mitt Romney’s Bush policy of ignoring bin Laden. This is the one thing Republicans really don’t want to talk about.
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President Obama Promises Our Troops That America Will Fight for Them
The President and First Lady were in Hinesville, Georgia today talking to our troops and military families about a new executive order that will help protect them from deceptive targeting.
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Golden Boy John Edwards’ Fall From Grace into Federal Court
The future looks bleak for John Edwards. It all started going downhill when he started an adulterous affair with a little known filmmaker, Rielle Hunter. He is now standing trial on federal charges.
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Sean Hannity Trips Over His Own Ignorance and Creates an Epic Obama Insult Fail
Today while attempting to insult the President, little lost boy Sean Hannity tripped over his own limited knowledge of basic English as he whined that Obama is a “crybaby.â€
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ALEC Teeters as Boycott Success Forces Members to Flee
The successful boycott of ALEC is the sending the organization into a PR tailspin, and forcing members to flee and rebuke the American Legislative Exchange Council.
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Rick Snyder Attempts to Kill Democracy in Michigan via Fontgate
Republicans decided that the people of Michigan should not be allowed to vote on the Emergency Manager law because the size of the font on the petition. Seriously.
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Romney’s Foreign Policy: A Cruel Joke on Humanity
Romney’s desire to take us back to the Bush Administration’s foreign policy is a reminder that politics plays cruel jokes on humanity.
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House Republicans Take Student Loans Hostage in Their War Against Women
Since House Republicans are losing the war on women, they are holding 7.4 million student loans hostage to inflict the most damage on women who coincidentally outnumber men enrolled in college.
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GOP Women Still Embracing Mama Grizzly Chic
I am afraid, Mama Grizzly Chic is still the rage in the GOP’s harem culture, where conservative women are real women and just being mama grizzlies you betcha
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Susan Sarandon Explains Why Women Need White Man’s Di*#s
Gearing up for the Unite Women nationwide march this Saturday, Susan Sarandon explains the many benefits of having a white man’s d*$k (WMD) in this Funny or Die video. NSFW.
A Lesson for Sean Hannity on What Obama has Done for Students With Loans
Sean Hannity claimed President Obama has done nothing for students with loans, so in an attempt to educate the most uneducable, here is exactly what Obama has done to help student borrowers.
Pay Us Back: Boehner and GOP Owe Taxpayers $124 Million for Bush Vacation Travel
President George W. Bush spent over 124 million taxpayer dollars on trips to his ranch in Crawford, TX, and using John Boehner’s logic we demand that the GOP pay us back.
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The Pocket Lint Generation: Sold Out, Indebted and Forgotten
Crushed between a pricey education and a worthless job, we’ve left 19-39 year-olds financially stranded in America.
Boycott Causes Rush Limbaugh to Crack and Blame Spanx for His Troubles
In a desperate and crazy bid to get his advertisers back, Rush Limbaugh is blaming Spanx, and not himself, for ‘killing’ the women’s movement.
Board of State Canvassers Deadlocks on Michigan’s Emergency Manager Law
Despite scoring a recent major victory, opponents of Michigan’s Emergency Manager law had their efforts to get a repeal measure on the ballot blocked by Republicans on the Board of State Canvassers.
Rupert Murdoch Admits Cover Up, But Claims He Is The Victim
Murdoch testified that there was indeed a cover up in the hacking scandal, but claiming he was victim in the hackings, Rupert said he was “misinformed and shielded.â€
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While Obama Lives It Romney Can’t Comprehend America’s Exceptionalism
The American dream was being born poor, studying, and working hard to find success is something Romney can’t understand, while Obama lived through it and earned the nation’s highest office.
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Protecting Women from Themselves in Mississippi
Mississippi Gov Phil Bryant says if liberals really cared about women’s health issues, we’d join him in stripping women of the right to make their own healthcare decisions
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Scott Walker Gets Ridiculed For Highest Job Losses in the Nation
Ed Schultz rips apart Scott Walker’s worst job losses in the country record. But the fun doesn’t stop there. He then brings on Governor Pat Quinn (D-IL) for a little job growth schadenfreude.
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Occupy Detroit Back Stronger Than Ever Protesting GE
Occupy is back in Detroit, Michigan as hundreds of protesters marched during a GE shareholders meeting, demanding that GE pay its fair share of taxes.
GOP Calls for Obama Investigation But Bush Misused Air Force One for RNC Events
The Republican National Committee is calling for an investigation of Barack Obama’s travel, but in 2004 George W. Bush misused Air Force One to attend RNC fundraisers.
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When Issuing Imprecatory Death Prayers, Does Spelling Count?
When right wing prayer warriors issue death fatwas, does spelling count? If so – several of us are safe.
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Republicans Get Slapped Down Trying to Limit Access to Birth Control
New Hampshire Republicans working with the Catholic Church figured they could take away a few more rights from women and no one would care. They were wrong.
Amazon Arrogantly Ignores ALEC Boycott While Funding Voter Suppression
ColorofChange has called on Amazon.com to join 13 other companies in dumping ALEC, but so far the Internet giant has ignored the boycott and continued to fund voter suppression.
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Obama Slow Jams While Romney and the GOP Stonewall Student Loans
Barackness Monster (President Obama) ain’t buying it. The GOP need to find something new to do as Obama slow jams on student loans.
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GOP Senate Candidate Calls Draft Dodging Pedophile Ted Nugent a Patriot
Only in the Republican Party could a draft dodging pedophile like Ted Nugent be held up as a patriot by one of their candidates for the United States Senate.
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Reality Crashes Down on John Boehner’s Desperate Attempt to Save His Job
The reality that voters won’t fall for the Republican lies again after a year-and-a-half of legislative obstruction, repeal frenzy, and the war on women can’t be surprising to John Boehner.
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America Faces the Specter of Religious Apartheid
Monotheism is built not just on the rejection but the ejection of the constructed other. If we live in the end times they are the end times of religious liberty
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Decoding the Secret Agenda in Mitt Romney’s Better America Tonight Speech
A little discussed excerpt in Mitt Romney’s Better America Tonight speech revealed his true intentions using the White House to attack public schools and unions.
As His Empire Crumbles Limbaugh Dares Boycotters With New Sandra Fluke Attack
Rush Limbaugh desperately tried to save his crumbling empire today with a new conspiracy theory and an attack on Sandra Fluke.
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Ann Romney Loves the Fact that She Doesn’t Have To Work and You Do
During a speech in Connecticut, Ann Romney did her part for the GOP’s war on women by saying that she loves the fact that many women can’t stay home with their kids.
Fighting Predatory Capitalism: Occupying and Preventing Illegal Foreclosure
According to foreclosure victims, banks are promising owners who are having financial trouble that if they are three months behind on their mortgage payment, the bank would negotiate a new interest rate.
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Romney’s Severe Conservatism Cuts Taxes For the Rich and Sends Millions Into Poverty
Under Romney’s plan, the rich pay less and government shrinks sending tens-of-millions of Americans into abject poverty with no hope of surviving.
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Champion the Vote Champions Faith-Based Bigotry
Bill Dallas of Champion the Vote is upset that he has to explain about gays to his little daughter. His solution is to get out the vote to vote the gay away
Procter & Gamble Goes From Taunting Boycotters to Dumping ALEC
A few weeks ago Procter & Gamble taunted the boycotters of ALEC today they that they are leaving the American Legislative Exchange Council.
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If Corporations Were People, Wal-Mart Would Be In Jail
Wal-Mart’s stock price plunged this morning after allegations of bribing Mexican officials and thereby violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and also covering up their bribes.
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Media Bias Exposed: Romney Gets 3 Times More Positive Coverage than Obama
A new study from Pew’s Project For Excellence In Journalism has uncovered a serious case of media bias, as Mitt Romney is getting three times more positive media coverage than President Obama.
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Deadbeat Minnesota Republican Party Served With Eviction Papers
While Minnesota Republicans refuse to act on a foreclosure moratorium bill, they have been served with eviction papers for not paying rent on their state party headquarters.
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Obama Blasting Romney’s Updated Bush Policies in Swing States
Obama is leading Romney in eight swing states while Romney leads in only three. Perhaps this is because Republicans say Romney will be Bush updated and will do as he’s told by House Republicans.
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A Panicked and Desperate ALEC Admits that They Are Being Defeated
ALEC’s assault on democracy, though successful up until now, is over and it is entirely due to activist organizations and social media.
Romney’s Friendship with Netnayahu Threatens Iraq Redux in Iran
Willard ‘Mitt’ Romney’s longstanding friendship with Benjamin ‘Bibi’ Netanyahu last week, yet this important information received virtually no mention in the mainstream media.
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Seriously Media? CNN and NBC Whine about Obama’s Negative Campaign against Romney
Only in the bizarro world of the mainstream media will you find CNN and NBC ignoring Mitt Romney’s endless negativity and complaining about the Obama campaign being negative.
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Michigan’s Emergency Manager Laws Are Dismantling Democracy from Within
It is no exaggeration to say that Michigan’s emergency manager laws are a threat to democracy, and the chance to repeal them faces an uncertain future
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Republicans Attach Romney’s Polygamy Problem to President Obama
Desperate Republicans are trying to court evangelicals by attaching Mitt Romney’s family history with polygamy to Barack Obama.
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Keith Olbermann Shreds the GOP’s Obama Eats Dog Attack
Keith Olbermann returned to network television today and shredded the Republican attack on President Obama for eating dog meat as a child.
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Mitt Romney’s Sleazy Support of Ted Nugent Reveals His True Moral Character
Romney’s shameless pandering and association with Nugent should signal to Americans that he does not have the moral conviction or ethics to be president.
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CBN News Claims Media Matters is anti-Christian
In a world where saying “Happy Holidays!” makes you guilty of waging a war on Christmas, telling the truth about media bias means you’re anti-Christian!
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Paul Ryan Promises to Raise Taxes on the Poor and Middle Class
Eric Cantor is now claiming that it is the poor and middle class’s duty to give their money to the wealthy to create jobs even though the rich have not created one job.
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Breitbart’s Sordid Legacy: Weiner Photos and a Crooked Supreme Court
While the privileged-paranoia duopoly over American politics is nothing new to us, we find that Breitbart’s twisted career haunts, warps and dysfunctions our democracy to this day in a very direct and troubling manner.
Anti-Big Government GOP Passes the Tab For Nuclear Disasters On To Taxpayers
The GOP hates big government, but they love the Price-Anderson Act which is an insurance program that allows nuclear power plants to pass the cost of any Fukushima-type disaster on to taxpayers.
If Romney Wins, Detroit is a Warning of What’s in Store for Everyone Else
If Romney wins in November, urban communities around the country will be forced into dependency by hateful Republicans. If Obama loses, Detroit is a preview of things to come.
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Of Buggery, Nuns, and the World’s Oldest Good Old Boys Club
The Catholic Church has sicced the Inquisition on the nuns of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious: Buggery be damned: these women are getting uppity!
Vast Right Wing Media Conspiracy: 70% of Sunday Show Guests Are Republicans
Contrary to Mitt Romney’s claims of vast left wing media conspiracy, a new study by FAIR has found that 70% of Sunday news show guests are Republicans.
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CNN’s Dana Loesch Thinks Foreigners Shouldn’t Be Allowed To Report US News
CNN’s Dana Loesch attacked MSNBC’s Martin Bashir for being a foreigner, and claimed that foreigners shouldn’t be covering the media or news ‘in this country.
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Michele Bachmann’s Tar Baby Obama Racism Masks the GOP’s Sticky Situation
Unable to discuss the issues. Republicans like Michele Bachmann have to resort to using racism against President Obama in order to hide their real agenda.
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Hope from the Wild West: Jan Brewer Vetoes Guns on Public Property
The Governor of the Wild West state where you don’t need a permit to carry a concealed weapon vetoes a gun expansion bill for the second time.
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Neutering the Republican Penis
The Republican Party is eager to legislate on women’s use of their reproductive systems; they have so far shown no willingness at all to legislate use of their own
Finger Lickin’ Good: Owner of Pizza Hut, KFC, and Taco Bell Dumps ALEC
Yum! Brands, the owner of Pizza Hut, KFC, and Taco Bell has yielded to the ColorofChange boycott and became the 12th company to dump ALEC.
Rush Limbaugh Boycott Spreads To Local Advertisers and Radio Stations
The National Organization for Women has announced a campaign to hit Rush Limbaugh in the wallet by pressuring local businesses and radio stations to stop doing business with him.
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The War on Women is No Joke, But The Denials of the Right Are
Matthew Continetti, founder of the Washington Free Beacon, thinks the Republican war on women is a joke without victims or perpetrators
Mitt Romney Seduces then Screws Republicans on Immigration
Mitt Romney’s courting of the conservative Republican base has ended with a stealthy, morning after slide out of bed and run for the door. Don’t worry, he’ll call you.
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Anti-Christ Republicans Warp Religion to Justify Harming the Poor
Republicans claim Christianity as their guiding force, but they advocate a budget that takes from the poor and gives to the rich in a very unchristlike way.
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If Corporations Are People, They Are Psychopaths
Republicans are ruthlessly promoting social Darwinism via policies of inequality and corporatism, traits that indicate their push for economic Fascism.
Michigan Defunding Presidential Election in Predominantly Democratic Detroit
Detroit is facing a crisis. It may not be able to conduct a Presidential election due to lack of funding in the budget.
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John Boehner Gives Hard Pressed Americans the Raspberry
House Speaker John Boehner spins his tired old talking points, a more than metaphorical raspberry to any real discussion of either problems or possible solutions
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People Power Scores a Victory, But the Pressure On ALEC Must Continue
For now, ALEC’s announcement is cause for celebration and an indication that the people wield more power than corporations if they are driven, well-informed, and organized.
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Catholic Bishop Goes Into Persecution Mode – Claims Obama is Hitler
After spending 1500 years relentlessly persecuting every alternative to itself, the Catholic Church has the audacity to claim it is the persecuted party
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Is Mitt Romney Aware That Ted Nugent Is a Self-Admitted Pedophile?
Mitt Romney’s Ted Nugent problems are much worse than the rocker’s threats against President Obama. Romney’s real issue is that he has accepted the endorsement of an admitted pedophile.
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Stone Coal Liar: Sarah Palin Claims Obama is Bankrupting the Coal Industry
Sarah Palin continued her Fox News walk of shame out of big energy’s dorm room today defying all logic and statistics with a claim that President Obama is bankrupting the coal industry.
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The Difference Matters: Indy News Vs. Corporate MSM News
Independent news sources are needed now more than ever for one simple reason, no corporate control. The MSM is often too lazy or too embedded in a corporation to engage in real reporting.
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The GOP Give Women an Ideological ‘Up Yours, Girls!’ On Equal Pay Day
Demonstrating just how Republicans honor Equal Pay Day, Scott Walker, whose polices are endorsed by Mitt Romney, actually repealed parts of the Equal Pay Act in Wisconsin just days before the national event.
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Republicans Protect 4,000 Millionaires but Cut Food Stamps for 46 Million
Republicans have cut food assistance for 46.4 million Americans, while at the same time refusing to raise taxes on the nation’s 4,000 richest families.
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Mitt Romney Blames Obama For His Refusal To Release His Tax Returns
In his ABC interview with Diane Sawyer, Mitt Romney took the opportunity to side step her questions about his refusal to release his tax returns and blamed President Obama for his decision.
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Blaming America’s Problems on Bad Religion
New York Times columnist Ross Douthat claims that America’s problems stem from bad religion – heresy – without looking at the problems caused by orthodoxy
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Bernie Sanders Opens up a Can of Whoop Ass on GOP Oligarchs
In response to Buffett Rule being blocked by Senate Republicans, Bernie Sanders opened up a can on the GOP and connected the dots between Citizens United and taxing the rich.
Obama Skewers Senate Republicans for Blocking the Buffett Rule
After Senate Republicans blocked the Buffett Rule, President Obama took them to task and continued riding a wave of fairness towards reelection.
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The Bills Don’t Lie: Democrats Are the Real Supporters of Stay at Home Moms
The legislative differences between Republicans and Democrats tell the true story when it comes to supporting stay-at-home moms.
