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GOP Convention Shows How Little the Truth Matters to Them
The usual BS’ers took to the podium on the last night of the GOP convention. An addled Clint Eastwood was the sad highlight of the night.
Monthly Archives: August 2012
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Romney Bombs: Convention Speech Draws 13 Million Fewer Viewers than McCain in ’08
Mitt Romney’s convention speech was watched 25 million Americans, which is 13 million fewer viewers than watched John McCain accept the Republican nomination in 2008.
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Mitt Romney Blows Off Fox News and Watches GOP Convention on C-SPAN
Mitt Romney proved once again that he is not really good at this being a Republican thing, as his personal aide tweeted a pic of him watching the RNC convention on C-SPAN, not Fox News.
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Obama’s Odds of Reelection Increase After Romney’s Acceptance Speech
How bad was Mitt Romney’s acceptance speech? According to Intrade, the odds of Obama being reelected have increased from 55.7% before the speech to 56.8% after.
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Lie of Omission: Republican Convention Pretends Iraq and Afghanistan Never Happened
Republicans made their convention a festival of lies, but the biggest lie was one of omission. No speaker dared mention the deficit inflating five trillion dollar wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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The Republican Party Turns the Page on Truth – And the Media Helps
The Republican National Convention set new records – and lows – for blatant dishonesty and the mainstream media makes it all possible
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The 5 Biggest Lies In Mitt Romney’s Acceptance Speech
Mitt Romney delivered an acceptance speech that stretched, massaged, distorted, and flat out violated the truth. Here are the five biggest lies uttered by Romney in Tampa.
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Another GOP Convention Night of Lies and Distortions
The speakers are all plugged into the same outlet. Obama as job-killing monster; the end is near and the ongoing distortion of the President’s you didn’t build that statement.
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Republican Convention Bombs As Viewership Drops by 17 Million
The GOP’s Mitt makeover isn’t going over well with American television viewers. Compared to night two of the 2008 Republican convention, viewership is down by 17 million.
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Bernie Sanders Applauds Obama for Supporting Citizens United Amendment
Sen. Bernie Sanders is praising President Obama’s support for his constitutional amendment and movement to overturn Citizens United.
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RNC Backfire: Familiarity Breeds Contempt for Romney and the Republicans
If Republicans are attempting to make an impression on voters, they are reveaing themselves as mean-spirited with no love for the American people or this country.
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Invalid Signatures Keep Colorado Personhood Off the Ballot in November
Personhood fell victim to its own dishonesty yesterday in Colorado, even as the Romney campaign called the abortion debate a distraction
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The 5 Biggest Lies in Paul Ryan’s RNC Acceptance Speech
Paul Ryan took the stage in Tampa and peppered his speech with lies, falsehoods distortions and exaggerations. There were many to choose from, but here are the five biggest lies.
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Obama Endorses Bernie Sanders’ Constitutional Amendment to Overturn Citizens United
President Obama made some big news today by announcing that he supports a constitutional amendment like the one proposed by Bernie Sanders to overturn Citizens United.
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Fox News Dumps Sarah Palin and Cancels All of Her Interviews
Sarah Palin has taken to Facebook to complain that Fox News has canceled all of her scheduled interviews during their coverage of the Republican Convention.
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Ann Romney Matches Her Husband Lie for Lie at the RNC
Ann Romney targeted women voters with a speech that was a mix of pure corn syrup, and blatant lies.
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Ann Romney Orders Hispanics To Stop Being Biased and Vote For Mitt
Ann Romney lectured Hispanics today that they should focus on issues this time around, and warned them to ‘wake up’.
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Republican Governor Says We Shouldn’t Focus on Little Things Like Romney’s Welfare Lie
While admitting Romney’s welfare to work ads are less than truthful, Gov Sam Brownback (R-KS) told us we shouldn’t focus on little things — like Romney’s lies, the truth or policy.
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RNC Attendees Throw Nuts at African American Camerwoman While Calling Her an Animal
The rebranding of the GOP and Mitt Romney took a hit last night, when RNC attendees threw nuts at a CNN African American camerawoman and said ‘This is how we feed animals!’
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Extremists Listen to Republican Rhetoric and Prepare for Race War Against Obama
America is fracturing apart and when these heavily-armed groups begin shooting it is all down to Republicans inciting opposition to President Obama and violence against the government.
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Rick Santorum Tells Convention Romney and Ryan Will Keep Dream Alive
The Republican Dream apparently being one where children will be forced into life by Big Patriarchy but allowed to die in poverty after that
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As Isaac Arrives Republicans Threaten to Deny Disaster Relief Funding
House Republicans are already threatening to deny disaster relief funding for Hurricane Isaac unless they get more budget cuts.
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An Anti-Romney Backlash is Brewing at the Republican Convention
There may be a Revolution within the RNC. The RNC is violating Robert’s Rules of Order and is being broadcasted on the Interweb.
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Rush Limbaugh Hopes that Hurricane Isaac Kills Poor Black Democrats
Rush Limbaugh hoped today that Hurricane Isaac kills lots of poor Democrats in New Orleans, so that Louisiana can become a more Republican state.
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Unlike Obama, The Republican Convention has Banned Guns
Republicans have spent the past four years fearmongering that Obama is coming for their guns, but at the 2012 convention, the GOP has banned all guns and weapons.
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GOP Convention: Tuesday Night Drinking Games
Drinking games to liven up the GOP convention.Take a shot every time a speaker calls Obama a socialist! Do a keg stand for each each personality present who represents an assault on women’s rights!
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75% of Americans Oppose the Republican Convention’s Abortion Plank
The Todd Akin, Tom Smith one-two media gut punch is hiding the fact that three quarters of those polled oppose the Republican Party’s no exceptions anti-abortion plank.
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The Mainstream Media is Shocked but Romney’s Racist Lies Are Nothing New
The mainstream media has largely ignored the fact that Mitt Romney’s racist lies are not a change or anything new.
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Florida Family Council-Only Christianity Could Create or Save America
John Stemberger tosses facts aside to claim that only Christianity could create the American experience and only Christianity can save it
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Boycott Victory: GE, Western Union, and Sprint All Dump ALEC
The eve of the Republican convention was a bad day for ALEC as five more national and global corporate members of the American Legislative Exchange Council have cut ties with the group.
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With or Without Isaac, the Republican National Convention is Going to be One Windy Affair
Republicans delayed their convention a day, taking no chances with Isaac. There will be no political chances taken with the base either.
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Rush Limbaugh Claims Obama Changed Hurricane Isaac Forecast to Hurt the GOP
Rush Limbaugh is claiming that President Obama is manipulating the forecasted path of Hurricane Isaac in order to hurt the Republican Party.
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Americans Are More Interested in Bill Clinton’s Convention Speech Than Romney’s
According to new poll by the Pew Research Center, more Americans are interested in Bill Clinton’s convention speech (52%) than Mitt Romney’s (44%).
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Chris Matthews Erupts on Reince Priebus for GOP Playing the Race Card
Chris Matthews called RNC Chairman Reince Priebus out on Romney’s blatant race card playing via Romney’s inaccurate Welfare to Work ads and the birther joke.
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The GOP Attempts to Drag America Back to Their Imaginary Conservative Utopia
Republicans adopted positions in their platform which are steeped in ideological purity that defines the party as angry, white, patriarchal, and paranoid.
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Spiritual Hurricanes and an Aura of Unreality Surround GOP Convention
Most of us like a little reality in our diet, but the Republican Convention seems to be focused more on how to mainstream the crazy
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The Obama Campaign Mocks Romney’s Extreme Makeover Mittens Edition
The Obama campaign responded to Mitt Romney’s attempt at Hollywood image makeover with a bit of comedy worthy of wide release.
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Mitt Romney Hides His Tax Returns Behind a Stack of Buttermilk Pancakes
While Americans are still demanding that he release his tax returns, Mitt Romney went on national television to discuss the virtues of buttermilk pancakes.
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Ann Romney Shops at Costco: Do You People Like Her Now?
Ann Romney announced from one of the couple’s vacation homes that you people had her all wrong. Ann gets you, because she shops at Costco and makes buttermilk pancakes!
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Marco Rubio Touts GOP Abortion Platform That Suggests Women Are Not Humans
Rubio claimed Republicans were ‘protecting the rights of a human being to live,’ suggesting that pregnant women are not human beings.
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Crossroads: Neil Armstrong’s Death Meets the Republican War on Science
Neil Armstrong’s passing seems to coincide with the end of American exceptionalism and signals the beginning of a new era in American history that, if Republicans have their way, rejects science.
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Ever Since Citizens United Unions Have Been Under Siege
Conservatives have steadily been eroding the power of unions in the wake of Citizens United since they are their only liberal financial foe
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An Angry God’s Wrath Falls on Tampa Bay
We have had it drilled into us that storms are not storms – I think it’s quite obvious that Isaac is God’s answer to the Republican platform
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Team Obama Unveils an Epic 15 Second Beat Down of Birther Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney learns the hard way that birtherism doesn’t pay in this amazing 15 second destruction put out by the Obama campaign.
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South Carolina Democrats Attack One of Their Own, Defend Republican ‘Spy’
An South Carolina Democratic Luncheon meeting attendee challenging the presence of a Republican spy, triggers a DINO defense of Republicans.
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Did Anonymous Strike Again and Target Mitt Romney’s Tax Returns?
The mysterious hacktivist group may have struck again and this time, Mitt Romney’s taxes may have been the target.
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Entitled Pandering Pathological Liar Mitt Romney Adds Racism to His Resume
When Romney said that no-one asked to see his birth certificate, he really told Americans that he is a pandering racist who thinks too highly of himself.
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Romney Ryan 2012 Win Would Give Corporations Olympic Gold Medals!
All Big Corporations would be Olympic Gold Medal Winners with a Romney Ryan 2012 Presidential Election win!
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Mitt Romney asks, ‘Why Don’t the Brothers Love Me?’
Thanks to the margin of error in polling, the rather surreal scenario suggests that the actual number of black folks who do not want Romney to be president is less than zero.
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It’s Personal Now: Republican Women Explain Why They’re Voting Obama
‘This is personal now.’ Women explain why they can no longer support the Republican Party, and instead are voting for President Obama.
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Todd Akin Tells the GOP to Kiss The Missouri Senate Seat Goodbye
In a brief statement, Todd Akin essentially told the Republican Party to forget about defeating Claire McCaskill because he is going to be in the race until November.
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Rush Limbaugh Blames Obama’s Class Warfare for Empire State Building Shooting
While claiming that he was illustrating the absurdity of the situation, Rush Limbaugh blamed President Obama and class warfare for the Empire State Building shooting.
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The Obama Campaign Hammers Romney for Going Birther in Michigan
The Obama campaign put the hammer down on Romney’s attempt to go birther by labeling him a birther and calling out his desperate dog whistle plea to the GOP.
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Ohio’s Former SOS obliterates Husted’s Uniformity and Fairness Claim
Perhaps Jon Husted doesn’t understand that uniformity and fairness are not interchangeable when it comes voting rights.
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As Fiscal Cliff Approaches Republicans Try to Kill 2 Million Jobs
With fiscal cliff in sight, Republicans will not accept anything less than austerity measures that guarantee to kill 2 million jobs in 2013.
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Rick Warren Cancels Candidate-less Candidate Forum and Lies About Why
Warren says he canceled his planned forum with Obama and Romney because of incivility but the real reason was neither man was interested
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Romney Campaign Admits Oil and Gas Industry Wrote Their Energy Plan
Not even trying to fool anyone anymore, the Romney campaign has admitted that their energy policy was written by the oil and gas industry.
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Sierra Club: End Coal Fire Plant but Not Mountaintop Removal?
. Sierra’s Beyond Coal project does only so much, and it has not recognized to date that ending Mountaintop Removal for the human health disaster science is now demonstrating that it is.
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One Of Romney’s Investment Advisers Warns Against The Tea Party
In 2010, one of the companies where Romney parked his money sent out a letter from its advisers to their investors warning of a coming fiscal catastrophe if the GOP took control in the midterms.
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Romney pledges to kill the Only Network (PBS) Airing His Wife’s Convention Speech
Ironies abound as the only network that will be carrying Ann Romney’s convention speech is that the same broadcast network that her husband has promised to kill (PBS).
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Michigan Tea Party Republican Candidate Wanted to Make His Students Cry
MI Republican candidate for Congress Kerry Bentivolio told his students his goal was to make them cry and he added, ‘You’re just a paycheck to me.’
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Republican Stimulus Hypocrisy Should Enrage Every Struggling American
Every Republican who opposed infusing federal money into the economy, or obstructed President Obama’s jobs plans, knew they were stunting the economy and killing jobs.
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Why Won’t Sarah Palin Admit Her Body Has Magic Powers
Bryan Fischer is upset that his word isn’t good enough; that his Christian male voice does not invalidate a woman’s experience and science
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Newsweek Isn’t That Into Customers, Doesn’t Apologize for Coat Hanger Cursor
Newsweek isn’t apologizing for their coat hanger cursor, with which they mocked women’s lives. Instead, they send US customers to an anti-Obama article on the Daily Beast.
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Republican Candidate for Sheriff Will Use Deadly Force to Stop Abortions
A Republican candidate for Hillsborough County, New Hampshire Sheriff won’t rule out the use of deadly force to stop an ‘elective’ legal abortions.
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Obama Asks Romney How Many Teachers’ Jobs Are Worth Tax Cuts For Millionaires?
President Obama asked Mitt Romney the fundamental question of this election. Obama asked Romney. ‘How many teachers’ jobs are worth tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires?
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An 18 Point Swing in Economic Optimism Powers Obama Over Romney
Buried in the latest results of the NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll is an 18 point swing in economic optimism for President Obama.
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Rush Limbaugh Claims Hurricane Is an Obama Conspiracy to Cancel GOP Convention
Rush Limbaugh is even blaming Obama for the weather. On his radio show, Limbaugh claimed that Hurricane Issac is an Obama conspiracy to shut down the Republican convention.
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Paul Ryan Insults Women Voters, Calls Forcible Rape a ‘Side Issue’
Paul Ryan says women won’t be distracted by ‘side issues’ of Ryan’s positions on rape, which align closely with Republican Representative Todd Akin’s views.
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Wi AG Appeals to State Supreme Court to Reinstate the Unconstitutional Voter ID Law
Just when you thought voting rights were safe in Wisconsin, Attorney-General, J.B. Van Hollen decided to appeal to the Supreme Court to overturn rulings that struck down Walker’s Voter ID law.
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Romney Busted – Proud to Have Endorsement of Akin Rape Doctor in 2007
The insincerity of GOP Akin-rebukes have become apparent with the revelation that Romney accepted the endorsement of the doctor behind Todd Akin
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Todd Akin Claims He’s the Real Victim and Raises Money Off Legitimate Rape
Todd Akin is claiming that he is the victim of his legitimate rape scandal, and now he is circulating a petition of support and trying to raise money off his comments.
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Hell Hath no Fury Like Saying ‘Hell’ in Your Valedictorian Speech
There are 20 churches in Prague, OK, and one high school valedictorian who was denied her diploma for saying hell.
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Newsweek Tumblr Changes Cursor to Coat Hanger to Mock Women
Newsweek changed the cursor on their Tumblr account to a coat hanger in order to support the GOP platform, mock HuffPo, and women’s reproductive rights.
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Ohio Sec. of State Husted Suspends Democrats For Defending Voting Rights
Last Friday, Ohio’s Secretary of State Jon Husted took the unprecedented step to preserve his block the black vote directive.
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A Mountain of Legislation Proves Legitimate Rape is a Republican Policy, Not a Gaffe
As Akin begs forgiveness for his words, not one Republican apologizes for the mountain of legislation that proves ‘legitimate rape’ is a GOP policy, not a gaffe.
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Legitimate Rape is the Tip of the Republican War on Women Iceberg
There has been a firestorm over comments made by Todd Akin regarding what he calls ‘legitimate rape,’ and although it is a big story, it is just a microcosm of the entire GOP’s overall view of women.
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Withering Support for Todd Akin, and Karl Rove Pulls His Ads
Todd Akin is running out of friends. Even an anti-abortion group wants him to quit. But his biggest loss will be Karl Rove’s Crossroads GPS
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Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp Has Donated Almost $59,000 to Reelect Obama
Fox News and Rupert Murdoch’s other News Corp properties hate Obama so much that they have donated nearly $59,000 so far this year to reelect him.
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Fox News Freaks Out Over Todd Akin’s Refusal to Quit MO Senate Race
Fox News is starting to freak out over Todd ‘Legitimate Rape’ Akin’s refusal to quit the Missouri Senate race.
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Exposing the Inherent Racism in the Republican Myth of Voter Fraud
While there are some Republicans holding on to the myth about voter fraud, others are more candid about their intent, not to mention the inherent racism that goes with it.
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The Devil Inside Paul Ryan and Todd Akin’s Redefinition of Rape
Romney and Ryan are trying to run away from Akin this morning, saying they are for abortion in the case of rape, but history tells a different story.
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Virginia Republicans Call for Armed Revolution if Obama Wins in November
In a newsletter the Virginia Republican Committee is telling Republicans that if President Obama wins reelection, armed revolution will be their only option.
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Todd Akin Says Raped Women Do Not Get Pregnant So No Abortions
Missouri Republican Todd Akin says that women who are legitimately raped don’t get pregnant and that abortion punishes the child, not the rapist
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Mitt Romney Tells You That You Don’t Want to See His Tax Returns
In a desperate attempt to change the subject, the Romney campaign is now claiming that you don’t care about his tax returns.
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Why Caving To Republican Extremists is Not an Option
In America, the crackpots are close to controlling the very government that they are bound and determined to destroy.
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CNN Refuses to Call Ryan Blaming Obama for GM Plant Closing A Lie
Instead of calling out Paul Ryan’s GM plant closing lie, CNN asked if Ryan was fibbing on the campaign trail about Obama.
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Small Government Republicans Have Created a Bureaucratic Voter Suppression Nightmare
It seems ironic that the advocates of small government have established a nightmarish and confusing bureaucratic process that will deny Americans the ID they need in order to vote.
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The Obama Campaign Declares Sarah Palin Mentally Incompetent
Obama campaign spokesperson Stephanie Cutter defended Vice President Biden from Republican attacks about his competency by calling Sarah Palin mentally incompetent.
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Racists Create Their Own Super PAC to Accuse Obama of Racism Against Whites
By accusing Obama of racism toward white people, the Fight Bigotry Super PAC is the perfect haven for real racists to invest their money.
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Christian End-Time Fantasies Endanger Us All
Christian end time fantasies are not limited to the world of fiction; these people get elected to office and influence, even control policy
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Bill Maher Says What the Media Won’t: Voter ID Laws Are Racist
Bill Maher has the guts to say what the mainstream media won’t Voter ID laws are nothing more than a racist attempt to suppress the votes of African-Americans.
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A Win for Planned Parenthood with Kansas Prosecutor’s Decision to Drop Remaining Charges
Prosecutors in Kansas dropped the remaining 32 charges against Planned Parenthood bringing an end to, anti-choice zealot, Phill Kline’s witch-hunt masquerading as a prosecution.
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Obama Obliterates Romney and Ryan’s Medicare Lies
President Obama responded to Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan’s rash of Medicare lies by setting record straight on what a Romney presidency would mean for Medicare.
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Shades of Palin’s Bridge to Nowhere in Secret Pork Lover Paul Ryan
Just like Sarah Palin’s bridge to nowhere, Paul Ryan is a secret pork lover who blames President Obama for his own federal spending on camera.
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Paul Ryan Gets His Medicare Lies Straight From Koch Funded TV Ads
The GOP’s so called policy wonk spread lies about Medicare to America’s seniors that were taken from Koch Brothers funded television ads.
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Protecting Your Right to Vote in Ohio
In Ohio’s case, the methods may be comparatively subtle, but there is nothing about the new rules that makes voting easy.
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Paul Ryan’s Lies Can’t Hide His True Belief that Stimulus Is the Path to Prosperity
Ryan’s request for stimulus money proves he knows that the path to prosperity is not severe austerity measures and tax cuts for the wealthy, but government infusion of cash into the economy.
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Glenn Beck May Give Barton’s Book of Lies a New Lease on Life
David Barton’s Christian publisher may have dropped his book of lies and who better to save lies about a Founding Father than Glenn Beck?
