Year: 2013 - Page 2

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Unpopular McConnell Can’t Shake Grimes, Another Poll Brings Bad News for Mitch

A newly released PPP poll shows MItch McConnell clinging to a one point lead over his Democratic opponent, Alison Lundergan Grimes.

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47% of Poor Whites Made Collateral Damage in GOP War on ObamaCare

Nationally, 47% of uninsured adults who fall into the “coverage gap” created by the Republicans refusing to expand Medicaid are white non-Hispanic.

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Jon Stewart Annihilates Megyn Kelly On Her ‘White Santa’ Non-Apology

On Monday night, Jon Stewart took apart the ridiculousness of Megyn Kelly’s explanation regarding her comments about Santa and Jesus being white.

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Senate Dems Compelled to Embrace the Suck On Budget To Avoid Disaster

The budget deal that was forged by Sen Patty Murray (D-WA) and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) looks to be one step closer to final passage as the Senate voted 67-33 Tuesday morning to end debate on the measure.

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Seven Arrested Fighting to Keep the Postal Office Alive in Oregon

The protesters of the ALEC/GOP led cuts were arrested for blocking the loading dock (a federal misdemeanor) with their sit-in, and refusing to leave when asked to do so.

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Approval Ratings for ACA and President Obama Climb In Latest ABC News Poll

A new ABC News/Washington Post poll was released on Tuesday. Overall, the poll had good and bad news for the President.

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Get Ready to Tread on Some Tea Party Snakes

Isaac Asimov wrote that, “Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.” The tea party is bending over backward to prove Asimov right.

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A Lot of Politically Surprising Things Happened Last Week…But Has Anything Changed?

As we barreled toward the New Year last week, it seemed that each morning brought with it some genuinely surprising political news.

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Hearing for North Carolina Election Law Challenge Set For July 2014

Last week, federal Magistrate Judge Joi Elizabeth Peake scheduled a hearing for July 2014, to impose a temporary injunction on North Carolina’s “voter ID” law.

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Democrats Gave Paul Ryan an Inch and Now He Is Trying to Take a Mile

Democrats allowed Republicans to behave badly and Ryan just said they will behave very badly and hold the debt limit hostage until his Path to Prosperity ransom is paid.

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Now Donald Trump Thinks He Might Want to be New York’s Governor

Billionaire Donald Trump is apparently mulling a run for New York Governor against incumbent Democrat Andrew Cuomo.

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Republican State Senator Moronically Compares ACA to Nazis and Terrorists

On Sunday, State Senator Bob Rucho, a Republican out of North Carolina, took to Twitter and decided to make a comparison that is just unbelievable in its idiocy and complete lack of historical awareness and understanding.

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ObamaCare and Al Franken Saved Nearly 80 Million Families $3.4 Billion on Premiums

In 2012, nearly 80 million families saved $3.4 billion upfront on their premiums because of Sen. Franken’s rule, along with other ACA programs

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POTUSING While Black: GOP Claims Obama Is Forbidden from Issuing Executive Orders

The thinking among Republicans is that this President is forbidden from issuing executive orders and they have indicated that he is abusing the authority that every other president in the modern-era.

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Republicans Shudder as Hillary Clinton Is Set to Be a Major Factor in 2014

Here’s some more bad news for Republicans. Hillary Clinton and her supporters are getting their operation together to endorse and campaign for Democratic congressional candidates.

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Democrats Need to Go on Aggressive Offense After Record November Fundraising

Democrats need a new attitude to go with that record November fundraising. They need to take a cue from Gov. Beshear, and aggressively defend a law that helps the majority of the people.

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DSCC Sees Huge Fundraising Gains in November Due to President Obama’s Help

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee released their fundraising numbers in November and they were nothing short of sensational. For the month, the DSCC raised a total of $5.1 million.

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Russian TV Star Wants to Throw Gays into Ovens – ALIVE

“I’d put them all alive in the oven,” Okhlobystin told his fans. “It’s a living danger to my children.”

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Paul Ryan Threatens President Obama and America With the Debt Limit

Paul Ryan showed his true colors today by threatening the economy, and confirming that Republicans will demanding ransom in exchange for raising the debt ceiling.

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Often Our Citizens Are Deaf To the Concerns of the Deaf. This Needs To Change

A sub-culture that commands little attention in the U.S. is the deaf community. The signing controversy in South Africa changes all of that

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The Real Tragedy After Newtown Is That There Has Been Nothing Done

The real tragedy of the Newtown massacre was that despite scores of legislators saying it was finally time to move to address mass gun violence, there has been absolutely nothing done.

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Texas Republicans Would Murder Truth – And the Biblically Unapproved

The Texas gubernatorial race features very little science and more than a little bloodshed

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Burning Cross: How Hate Serves to Strengthen Our Resolve Against Racism

I was told if I didn’t shut up, somebody would burn a cross in my yard. I was only nine, so such threats meant nothing to me.

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Desperate To Save His Job John Boehner Declares War on Tea Party Groups

In a private meeting John Boehner claimed that outside groups aren’t real conservatives, as he escalated his war on tea party groups that’s designed to save his job.

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Bumpy Ride: How Chris Christie’s Traffic Scandal May Wreck His Presidential Bid

Friday the 13th was a very unlucky day for Chris Christie. So unlucky, in fact, that it might cost him a chance at the presidency.

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Pastor Charged with Rape Blames Young Victims: ‘These are not really kids’

Jacoby Kindred, a Minnesota pastor charged for the rape of two young girls, blamed the girls for his predicament, “These are not really kids.”

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Republicans Insult America by Making Paul Ryan the Face of Compassionate Conservatism

To put Ryan’s face on the new compassionate conservatism is an affront to any American familiar with his contempt for suffering Americans.

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Megyn Kelly Says We Are a Bunch of Humorless Race Baiters for not Getting Her Joke

Megyn Kelly took a day off from her show “The Kelly File” to think about how she wanted to respond to the furor she had caused by saying Jesus and St. Nick were white guys. After some no doubt weighty reflection, she decided, and came back Friday not to apologize for being a not-very-bright racist…

USA Today/Pew Poll Shows Democrats With Advantage in 2014 Elections

A new poll released on Friday by USA Today and Pew Research shows that voters prefer Democrats to Republicans in a generic Congressional vote.

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Rachel Maddow Highlights AP Story Showing Red States Sabotaging the Uninsured

Rachel discussed an AP story that was published earlier in the day showing that the rate of participation in the online insurance marketplaces was much higher in Democratic leaning states.

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Chris Hayes Is The Only MSNBC Host To Meet NBC Employees Who Are Trying to Unionize

MSNBC’s parent company, NBC-Universal has been engaging in a union busting campaign, so the workers asked the primetime hosts to meet with them. So far, only Hayes has sat down with the workers.

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Morally Challenged GOP Isn’t Sure if Radel’s Coke Conviction is an Ethics Violation

The “law and order” party isn’t sure if they will go forward with an inquiry into Trey Radel (R-FL) after he pled guilty to buying cocaine from an undercover officer.

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John Boehner’s Outburst at Conservative Groups Was Completely Phony

Boehner’s phony indignation targeting conservative groups he bent over backwards serving over the past three years did not have an ounce of truth or credibility.

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House of Representatives Actually Pass a Budget Deal; Will Senate Follow Suit?

Lo and behold, in this least productive year ever in Congressional history, the House was able to get a two-year budget deal passed.

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Megyn Kelly’s White Santa Betrays the Conservative’s Fear of the Other

When conservatives say they want a “white” Christmas, they really mean they want a WHITE Christmas.

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Why America Needs Stricter Gun Control Laws

As a firearm owner, I have no issue with these rules, so long as I can legally purchase them.

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It’s Obvious That Democrats Did All the Compromising on The Budget Agreement

it was fairly clear by the giddy-ass grin on Paul Ryan’s face that Senator Murray likely did all the compromising to agree that an austerity budget defying sane economic comprehension.

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Time Re-Validates Humanity By Choosing Pope Francis Over Ted Cruz as Their Person of the Year

Time Magazine named the Pope their Person of the Year, with Ted Cruz as first runner up. Under their criteria the person of the year is “the person who most influenced the news, good or bad.” By this criteria, the Pontiff was the obvious choice.

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History Be Damned. Fox News’ Megyn Kelly Says Jesus Was White

Fox News’ Megyn Kelly pointed out that not only is Santa Claus white, but that Jesus was too. Apparently, she is unaware of where Jesus came from or what the Bible says.

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With the ACA Succeeding Darrell Issa Threatens to Charge Kathleen Sebelius With a Crime

Rep. Darrell Issa’s endless abuse of his investigative powers hit a new low today, as he threatened to charge HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius with a crime.

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Tea Party Primary Challenger Matt Bevin Accuses Mitch McConnell of Turtling

Bevin is using Twitter to put his foot down on McConnell, accusing him of being MIA since the Murray/Ryan budget was announced.

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Michigan State Senator Slams GOP Legislature Over ‘Rape Insurance’

On Wednesday, the Michigan State Senate passed a bill that requires a woman to purchase separate health insurance prior to getting an abortion.

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Boehner Unloads on Conservative Groups, Says They Have Lost All Credibility

In his presser this morning, Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) accused conservative groups of using their members and said they lost all credibility.

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Stephen Colbert Mocks Fox News with a Parody of the 12 Days of Christmas

Colbert’s “12 Days of ObamaCare” includes classics like “ObamaCare is beginning to look a lot like socialism”, “Feliz Death Panel” and “a Healthcare manager ObamaCare made our Lord Jesus Cry”.

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Senate Republicans Waste Everybody’s Time By Throwing Hissy Fit Over Nominations

Republican Senators went through with their plan on Wednesday and held up business in the Senate by debating to delay the vote on one of President Obama’s judicial nominees.

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For Budget Deal, Paul Ryan Called the Jesus of the Republican Party

A senior Republican leadership aide called Ryan “the Jesus of our conference” because of the budget deal announced Tuesday by Ryan and Senator Patty Murray (R-WA)

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Virginia Republican Leader Tries to Incite Assassination Attempt On President Obama

At the Virginia Republican retreat, party chairman Pat Mullins tried to incite an assassination attempt against the President of the United States.

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George Zimmerman Walks Again as Prosecutors Drop Charges

Prosecutors have decided not to press charges against George Zimmerman, citing a lack of cooperation from his girlfriend, Samantha Scheibe.

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166 House Democrats Stand Up to GOP Cruelty and Fight For The Unemployed

166 House Democrats are pulling out all of the stops, including trying to keep the House in session through Christmas, as they battle the GOP’s cruel plan to harm 1.3 million unemployed Americans.

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HHS Releases ACA Enrollment Numbers for November and it Sends Republicans Reeling

While estimates had already been released prior to today in regards to the number of enrollments through the health insurance marketplaces through November 30th, the Department of Health and Human Services released the official numbers on Wednesday.

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John Boehner Finds a Shred of Courage and Gets Smacked Down By the Kochs and Heritage

A rare moment has occurred in which Speaker John Boehner found some courage in the land of OZ and he’s paying for it now.

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NBC/WSJ Poll Shows Majority of People Reject the Republican Party and Their Views

While the media will focus on the President’s disapproval ratings showing as an all-time high in this poll (54%), the real story here is that, for the most part, this poll shows that the American people are still rejecting the Republican Party and its ideals.

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Chuck Todd Is Wrong to Compare ACA Website Glitches to Katrina

Chuck Todd tried to justify comparisons of ObamaCare glitches to Katrina by saying that pundits are comparing political fallout, but that is inaccurate and wrong.

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ALEC Members Refuse to Sign a Pledge Supporting Democracy

ALEC members were recently asked to sign a pledge to support democracy, and they refused. Not only did they refuse to sign the pledge, but the corporate media didn’t report on it.

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Christmas is a Pagan Holiday – Get Over it Already

If you want to know the reason for the season, you don’t have to look back to Christ but past him.

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The Tea Party Trembles; There Seems To Be No Denying the Presidency to Hillary Clinton

The 2016 presidential election only seems a long ways off. Hillary Clinton has positioned herself for a second run since the first run ended

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Maxey Scherr is the Only Democrat Worth Supporting for US Senate in Texas

Only one of the five Democratic candidates seems worthy of support from progressives, liberals and centrists interested in flipping the seat from red to blue. That candidate is El Paso attorney Maxey Scherr.

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Obama Smacks Down The Republican Hysteria Over the Castro Handshake

After Republicans like John McCain embarrassed themselves with outrage over the Castro handshake, the White House put out a statement that made them look like even bigger fools.

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Dems Get Wish as Cornyn Will Face Tea Party Primary Challenger In Texas Senate Race

Late on Monday, just 15 minutes before the deadline to file, Rep. Steve Stockman (R-TX) shocked the GOP establishment by placing his name on the ballot for March’s Republican primary and will face off with incumbent Sen. John Cornyn.

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Woman Hating Libertarian Lululemon Founder Steps Down in Wake of Women’s Bodies Comment

Remember Lululemon founder Chip Wilson telling us ladies that “some women’s bodies just don’t actually work” for his yoga pants, he had to step down as chairman today because you all wouldn’t shut up.

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Ted Yoho Callously Schedules ‘Family Firearm Safety Event’ On Newtown Anniversary

Representative Ted Yoho (R-FL) sent out an invitation through his Facebook page for a ‘Family Firearm Safety Event’ that will be held in Lake City, FL on December 14th.

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New Poll Finds America Hates Congressional Republicans More Than Ever

According to a new Marist poll, Americans hate the job congressional Republicans are doing. Only 22% of voters approve of the job the Republicans are doing. Seventy-four percent disapprove.

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Eric Cantor Takes Steps to Give Netanyahu Power Over American Middle East Policy

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor has taken steps to reassert Netanyahu’s power over American Middle East policy to thwart the P5+1 agreement that halts Iran’s alleged nuclear weapon program.

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Republican Candidate Says You Have to Talk to Women on an Emotional Level

The Republicans persist in talking to women with attitudes twenty centuries out of date, and that this presents no obstacle.

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President Obama Provides a Peek Into His Soul During His Eulogy of Nelson Mandela

President Obama’s eulogy of Nelson Mandela was personal. moving, and provided a surprising look inside the president’s soul. It was a great speech.

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A Holiday Wish as the Least Productive Congress in History Wraps Up Its Year

This Congress is on pace to be the least productive in history. Let’s set this overpaid, under-performing inertia against the productivity levels of the typical American worker

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Bernie Sanders Obliterates the Republican Argument Against Raising the Minimum Wage

Sen. Bernie Sanders went on MSNBC and destroyed every major Republican argument against raising the minimum wage, while calling the GOP’s position, ‘just factually wrong.’

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Ted Cruz Courts Republican Voters by Starring in a Coloring Book

Sen. Ted Cruz reaching out to Republican voters by starring in a coloring book that calls him a real life hero while combining lessons about the American political system with the Bible.

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Sarah Palin Scores Another Cable TV Series That is Doomed to Fail

Here we go again. America’s favorite half-term governor and failed Vice-Presidential candidate has scored herself another documentary television series.

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Another Conservative Journalist Offensively Compares the ACA to Iraq War

It seems that the National Review’s Ramesh Ponnuru felt that it had been too long since a conservative had made the idiotic comparison between the Affordable Care Act and the Iraq War.

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John Boehner and Eric Cantor Respond to Economic Good News By Planning to Kill More Jobs

It was a certainty that Republicans would use the recent good news on the economy, both GDP growth and job numbers, as a reason to find new ways to thwart the recovering economy and kill more jobs.

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Here Are The Facts That Republicans and The Media Aren’t Telling You About the ACA

PoliticusUSA recently sat down with a financial advisor who works with the ACA regularly to get the real story that the media isn’t reporting on the Affordable Care Act and the website.

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Republicans Might Learn How to Talk to Women But They Don’t Care What They Think

“We control 30 governorships, we control 26 state houses and senates chambers. You know, we, in fact, know how to speak to women on their policy issues.”

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GOP Congressman Wants NRCC to Cut Off Funding for Gay Candidates

Virginia Republican House Representative Randy Forbes is trying to pressure the NRCC not to fund gay Republican congressional candidates.

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Sarah Palin Disgraces History With Claim Adams and Jefferson Support Her War on Christmas

Sarah Palin’s contention that Founding Fathers John Adams and Thomas Jefferson would join her in the war against the imagined war on Christmas is too much of an affront to American history.

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David Gregory and Meet The Press Lie and Claim the ACA Website is Still Broken

David Gregory and NBC News didn’t even acknowledge the surge of Americans signing up for the ACA, while pushing the bogus Republican talking point that the ACA is broken.

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House Republicans Are Proudly Celebrating Their Obstruction of President Obama

Twisted House Republicans are proudly celebrating their obstruction of President Obama and bragging about how they have slowed the government down.

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Rand Paul Tells Millions He’s Doing Them a Favor By Cutting Off Unemployment Benefits

Sen Rand Paul said we shouldn’t extend unemployment benefits set to expire momentarily because it will lead to perpetual unemployment. In other words, Paul thinks he’s doing the unemployed a favor.

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South Carolina’s Lee Bright Wants to Replace Lindsey Graham – and the United States

Bright says, “If the Tenth Amendment won’t protect the Second, we might have to use the Second to protect the Tenth.”

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Another Obamacare Success: More People Sign Up In 2 Days Than Signed Up In October

Here’s some more ACA good news. More people signed up for the ACA in two days this week than were able to sign up during the entire month of October.

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Hate Group Westboro Baptist Church Says They Are Going to Picket Mandela’s Funeral

The Westboro Baptist Church is trying to take their platform of hate and intolerance to a whole new level by planning to picket Nelson Mandela’s funeral.

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Corporate Bull and Bullying Has States Spending Billions of Taxpayer-Incentive Dollars

In order to retain a really huge company within U.S. borders, states have to open up their vaults to the tun of billions in incentives

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Koch Brothers Illegally Funnel Millions Into Campaign to Eliminate Pensions and Sick Pay

The Koch Brothers are are launching a nationwide campaign to eliminate public sector workers’ wages, pensions, sick pay, workers’ compensation.

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A Tale of Two Heroes: How Nelson Mandela Was Truly the Anti-Reagan

Nelson Mandela was everything that Ronald Reagan wasn’t. For Conservatives today, that simply means that Mandela was clearly in the wrong.

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Glenn Beck Says Daughter Brainwashed into Thinking he is Anti-Gay

In true Beckian style, he has invented a Glenn Beck who can be outraged and hurt by an intolerance on the left he has invented out of whole cloth

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A Nasty Anti-Obama Column Draws a Contributor’s Angry Response

A Newsday columnist, Lane Filler, recently wrote some truly untrue things about our President and his health care plan. I emailed an answer

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Jerry Brown Soars to Record Approval Rating and Enormous Lead Over Republican Challengers

Yesterday’s California Field Poll is full of good news for Democratic Governor Jerry Brown. Republicans on the other hand, have little to celebrate, given that the poll shows the Republican gubernatorial field getting annihilated by Brown. Brown leads all three hypothetical Republican opponents combined by a 52-23 margin. While Brown tallies 52 percent support…

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MSNBC Helped Sarah Palin Muzzle the 1st Amendment By Not Supporting Martin Bashir

What MSNBC accomplished by not supporting Bashir’s 1st Amendment right was to muzzle and pre-censor the rest of the network’s on-air talent. They also positioned themselves as just another conservative media outlet.

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Limbaugh Says Mandela Got Over Being Oppressed So African-Americans Should Too

Limbaugh uses the death of Nelson Mandela to attack civil rights leaders and African-Americans in this nation.

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Rand Paul’s Latest Fail: Doing Minority Outreach to a Small White Crowd in Detroit

Rand Paul demonstrated the GOP’s idea of outreach in Detroit today by speaking to a nearly totally white audience about tax cuts.

As He Gears Up For Another Senate Run, Scott Brown Forgets What State He’s In

Scott Brown wants to run for Senate in New Hampshire in 2014. It would help if he remembered the state’s name.

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Foreign Press Says What America’s Won’t: Sarah Palin is a Traitor

After the firing of Martin Bashir, it is important to remember that the foreign press has been saying for years what the American media won’t. Sarah Palin is a traitor.

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New Jobs Report Destroys Republican ‘ObamaCare Part Time Economy’ Meme

Republicans have been hissing that ObamaCare is turning America into a “part time economy” for months now, but now reality is here and reality disagrees. Again.

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Nelson Mandela Showed the World What It Takes to Forgive and Move Forward

If there was ever a man who had justifiable reason to hate, it was Nelson Mandela. He chose not to hate.

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Georgia’s Insurance Commissioner Says Pre-Existing Conditions Are Your Own Fault

My little boy was born with a pre-existing condition, a rather severe one: a blood-storage disease called Type 3 Gaucher disease. In the words of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), his body does not produce the enzyme needed (beta-glucocerebrosidase) to “break down a fatty substance called glucocerebroside into a sugar (glucose) and a simpler…

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