Month: July 2014

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CIA Admits It Spied On Senate Committee That Investigated Bush-Era War Crimes

Throughout efforts by the Senate Intelligence committee to investigate the Bush Administration’s war crimes, the committee faced one obstacle after another.

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As Wisconsin Supreme Court Upholds Vote Suppression, GOP Finds a New Way to Suppress the Vote

Even with changing the rules on voter ID which the Wisconsin Supreme Court upheld with a bit of tweaking, vote suppressors need more ways to intimidate voters.

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Editorial Cartoon: Octoputin

Sanctions are cutting off the expansionist arms of Russia’s Putin

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Democratic Congressman Says That GOP Senator Ted Cruz Is Essentially Speaker Of The House

On Thursday afternoon, Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) appeared on MSNBC’s NOW with Alex Wagner to discuss the recent decision by Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) to pull the Republicans’ own border crisis bill from the floor.

GOP Self Destructs As Boehner Won’t Let Republicans Leave Until They Pass Border Bill

The Republican Party is again self destructing in front of the entire country as John Boehner is refusing to let House Republicans go on vacation until after they pass the border bill.

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Hypocrite Boehner Demands Obama Act Alone On Border Crisis While Suing Him For Executive Action

Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) was forced to cancel the vote on his border legislation after he didn’t have enough votes to pass it. Boehner then issued a press release demanding that Obama act alone to secure the border.

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MSNBC’s Ari Melber Calls John Boehner’s Lawsuit Against Obama An ‘Expensive Nothingburger’

During Thursday’s broadcast of Morning Joe, MSNBC contributor Ari Melber explained that the House Republicans’ lawsuit against President Obama has very little merit and is really just a law administration case, which is as boring as it gets.

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Evangelical Churches Are Blatantly Violating The Law By Electioneering From The Pulpit

The IRS agreed to start doing its due diligence and enforcing the law against mainly Christian evangelical churches that “have been blatantly and deliberately flaunting electioneering restrictions” with impunity because they believe they are above, and immune from, the nation’s laws; because they are evangelical Christians.

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Nancy Pelosi Rips The Mask Off Boehner’s Fraud: The Lawsuit Is Really About Impeachment

Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic Party aren’t going to let John Boehner fool the American people. At a press conference, Pelosi ripped the mask off of Boehner’s lawsuit fraud.

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Steve Stockman Says Fellow Republicans Call Lois Lerner is a “Word That Rhymes with Witch”

“Well, they said some things about jail and a word that rhymes with witch sometimes to me.”

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Gun Organization Candidate Questionnaires: Be Sure To Answer RIGHT!

A friend of mine is running for state representative. He gets a ton of questionnaires, including the two referenced in this submission. That would include the National Rifle Association of America and the Palmetto Gun Rights (PGR) and The National Association for Gun Rights questionnaire combo.

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Hobby Lobby Backfires As Satanic Temple Demands a Religious Exemption

A Satanic Temple based in New York is demanding a religious exemption based on the Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby ruling that allowed artificial legal instruments (corporations) to eliminate contraceptives from employee’s prescription plans because they contravene the corporation’s deeply-held religious beliefs.

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House Democrats Want Texas Governor Rick Perry To Explain His Refusal To Expand Medicaid

This week Democrats in the House Oversight Committee sent a letter to Republican Texas Governor Rick Perry demanding that he explain his decision to not expand Medicaid in his state

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House Republicans End Their Day of Disgrace By Passing Resolution To Sue Obama

House Republicans embarrassed the entire country today by voting to sue President Obama. The good news is that five House Republicans joined Democrats in voting against the resolution.

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House Republicans Make Shameful History By Voting 227-195 To Sue President Obama

By a vote of 227-195, the House voted to move forward with John Boehner’s lawsuit against President Obama.

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When We Fight We Win! Detroit Wins Major Victory In Water Battle

It just goes to show you that sometimes when you fight for what’s right, and you fight hard, then good things begin to happen. In Detroit, there is no more important fight right now than the fight to prevent water shutoffs to poor and working families struggling to get by in a vicious and unforgiving economy.

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Democrat Slams ‘Petulance’ of House Republicans and Says a Toddler is More Adult

“Words fail me in describing the petulance of the Republican lawsuit against the President. This toddler is more adult than some of my colleagues.

Republican Congressman Accuses Boehner of Wasting Taxpayer Money with Lawsuit

Congressman Walter Jones (R-NC) insisted that Boehner should stop the “theater”, calling his lawsuit a “show”, and instead he should just impeach.

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Obama Empties Both Barrels and Tears Boehner’s Lawsuit Against Him To Shreds

President Obama took the stage in Kansas City, MO, and while discussing the economy tore Speaker of the House John Boehner’s lawsuit against him to shreds.

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Senate Republicans Vote Against American Jobs By Blocking Bill To End Outsourcing Tax Breaks

Senate Republicans blocked a bill today that would potentially bring millions of jobs back to the United States by refusing to end tax breaks for companies who outsource jobs.

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Rachel Maddow Perfectly Illustrates Effects Of Mississippi’s Refusal To Expand Medicaid

During the Tuesday night broadcast of The Rachel Maddow Show, host Rachel Maddow ended the show by discussing Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant and his recent comments regarding his state’s high uninsured rate.

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Phyllis Schlafly, Who Uses Ideology to Trump Reality, Feels Differently About Her Own Ideology

If we don’t need to be guided by 150-year-old ideas about women, why do we need to be guided by 150-year-old ideas about gender and 3,000-year-old ideas about the cosmos itself?

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Editorial Cartoon: Rip Van Boehner

John Boehner could fall asleep for twenty years and he’d wake up saying the same thing.

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Bad News Pouring In For Republicans: Democrat Mark Pryor Leads Arkansas Senate Race By 6

A new poll of Arkansas has Democratic incumbent Sen. Mark Pryor leading his Republican challenger Tom Cotton by six points.

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Republicans Have Proven On Multiple Occasions That Their Loyalty Is Not With America

There is a tendency among Republicans to support foreign nations and leaders over the interests of this nation that clearly shows their patriotism is reserved for any nation other than America.

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Rush Limbaugh Applauds Domestic Violence Because It Upsets ‘Jurassic Park Feminazis’

On Tuesday’s broadcast of The Rush Limbaugh Show, conservative windbag and hateful misogynist Rush Limbaugh commended and praised the NFL for their light punishment of Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice.

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Tan Scam: Boehner Caught In A Lie While Blaming Democrats For Obama Impeachment Talk

Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) got caught in a massive lie when he claimed today that the talk of impeaching President Obama is a Democratic scam. Boehner seems to have forgotten his own threat to impeach the president.

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Crushing The GOP Lie: Here Is a List of Republican Incumbents Who Support Impeachment

Republicans won’t admit that they are gunning to impeach President Obama, but here’s a roundup of quotes that says otherwise.

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Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly Claims Ghetto Culture Causes 9-Year-Old Black Kids To Smoke Weed

During Monday night’s broadcast of The O’Reilly Factor, host Bill O’Reilly used his ‘Talking Points Commentary’ and an additional panel discussion to race-bait and disseminate misleading information on the issue of marijuana use.

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Maryland Republican Leads Secessionist Group in National Anthem – Dixie

Not only does Peroutka want to secede, but he is concerned, he says, that the “biblical view” of government should “survive the secession.”

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Mitch McConnell’s Big Spending Isn’t Working As He Is Tied With Alison Lundergan Grimes

Mitch McConnell has already spent $30 million to try to keep his Senate seat, but a new Bluegrass Poll found that he remained tied with Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes.

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Editorial Cartoon: Trophies

The U.S. sugar industry owns King Ranch in Texas where they fly the political GOP elite, all expenses paid, to a hunting vacation. There, the pretend big game safari boys like Rick Scott can hunt on a well stocked ranch for their ‘trophies’.

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Sarah Palin Is Trying To Steal Fox’s Viewers With a Channel That Costs More Than Netflix

Still stuck in 2008, Sarah Palin thinks that people will pay more than the cost of a Netflix membership to listen to her bitter ramblings about President Obama.

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GOP Governor Who Won’t Expand Medicaid Blames Obama For High Uninsured Rate In State

A study done by WalletHub finds that Mississippi is the only state that has seen its uninsured population increase since the implementation of Obamacare. Gov. Phil Bryant decided to blame Obama for this despite Bryant not expanding Medicaid.

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House Republican Claims That President Obama Is Begging The GOP To Impeach Him

Rep. Steve Stockman (R-TX) is claiming that President Obama actually wants Republicans to impeach him so that Democrats will avoid losing the election in November.

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USA Today Publishes John Boehner Editorial Then Trashes His Lawsuit Against Obama

USA Today published an editorial by House Speaker John Boehner defending his lawsuit against President Obama, while at the same time their own editorial board published an editorial blasting the lawsuit.

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Morning Joe’s GOP Cheerleaders Upset That Top Republican Won’t Dismiss Impeachment Talk

During a discussion on Monday’s broadcast of Morning Joe, host Joe Scarborough and NBC News Chief White House Correspondent Chuck Todd both lamented over recent comments from the #3 Republican in the House.

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Kansas Is Going Bankrupt And Republicans Are Lying About the Tax Cutting Reason Why

Despite Republican warnings the state will be bankrupt in two years, more than 100 Kansas Republicans swearing to help replace Brownback with a Democrat for governor, and a credit agency downgrading Kansas credit, a noted conservative economist lied to support Brownback’s tax cuts as a job creating bonanza. Kansas is lagging behind the rest of the nation in creating jobs besides facing a revenue shortfall of massive proportions.

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A Liberal’s Handy Guide to the Bible’s Exaltation of the Poor

Because the only Jesus who concerns them is a long-haired cracker with an AR-15, it has fallen to the alleged “party of the Godless” to preach the Gospel to the GOP

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Bernie Sanders Comes Through Again For Vets As Deal Reached To Reform the VA

Sen. Bernie Sanders has delivered for our veterans. Sen. (I-VT) will be unveiling compromise legislation with House Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman Jeff Miller that will fund and reform the VA.

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Paul Ryan’s Poverty Plan Is a Scheme To Shift Federal Funds To Corporations

Not only is Ryan’s plan an experiment in privatization, government control of poor Americans’ lives, and a slick way to give Republican states another tool to shift federal funds to religious organizations and corporations, it is as far from compassionate.

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Washington State Gun Nut Persuades New York Judge to Dismiss DC Gun Law

On Saturday, Judge Frederick J. Scullin Jr., who normally sits on the Federal Bench in New York, struck down DC’s gun law which restricts possession of these deadly weapons to the home.

29

New Poll Shows That Hillary Clinton Would Crush Mitt Romney in 2016

A new CNN poll smashed Mitt Romney’s delusions that he could defeat Hillary Clinton in 2016 by showing that voters would support Clinton over Romney 55%-42%.

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Nancy Pelosi Won’t Let CNN Get Away With Ignoring Boehner’s Path To Obama Impeachment

CNN tried to ignore Speaker John Boehner’s lawsuit against Obama and Republican dreams of impeachment, but House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi would not let them get away with it.

33

GOP Senator Lindsey Graham Slams Obama And Claims The President Is AWOL On Foreign Policy

On Sunday, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) appeared on CNN’s State of the Union to discuss President Obama’s foreign policy decisions when it comes to Russia, Israel and the Middle East.

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David Gregory Wakes Up and Busts Paul Ryan On His Lies About The Poor

In a rare moment of lucidity, Meet The Press host David Gregory called out Rep. Paul Ryan’s uncompassionate lies about the poor.

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Top House Republican Refuses To Say That The GOP Won’t Impeach President Obama

On Fox News Sunday, House Republican Whip Steve Scalise refused to take impeaching President Obama off the table when asked about impeachment.

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Gretchen Carlson the Persecution Peddler Claims She is Persecuted

Gretchen Carlson preaches persecution for Fox News and pretends to be persecuted in a new film, but she feels it is unfair to persecute her for selling persecution

35

The Nation’s Highways Are Shot

I recently foolishly, VERY FOOLISHLY, decided to drive to the activist’s convention, Netroots, in Detroit. I wanted my wife and I to experience one of our favorite pathways through the beautiful Smoky Mountains with a side trip to Ohio to visit friends.

18

As Climate Change Worsens Many Americans Refuse To Accept Reality

Of course, there is a reason so many Americans do not accept the reality of global anthropogenic (man-made) climate change, but the fact is that it is here and another batch of empirical data show it is worse than scientists predicted.

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Act of Love? Jeb Bush, ‘Moderate Republican,’ Calls for Deportation Of Migrant Children

Remember when former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, the consummate “moderate Republican,” shocked everyone by calling immigration an “act of love?” It looks like he’s changed his mind.

31

Freedom Isn’t Free: Republicans Refuse to Compromise on VA Reform

Republicans in committee must reconcile the House and Senate bills to fix the broken VA system. The problem? That would involve the dirty “C-word”: compromise.

12

Bill Maher Calls It Out: Republicans Hate Neil DeGrasse Tyson Because He Is a Black Scientist

On Real Time host Bill Maher spoke the truth about why Republicans hate Neil DeGrasse Tyson. Maher said that Republicans hate the Cosmos host because he is a black scientist.

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Obama Turns The Tables and Uses Economic Patriotism To Blast GOP Corporate Enablers

President Obama used the idea of “economic patriotism” to push forward his budget, in which he closed one of the tax loopholes that lets companies avoid paying taxes by Romneying themselves to another country just to avoid paying taxes here.

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Ted Cruz and His Father Accuse Obama of Their Own Anti-American Plans

The Cuban anarchist Ted Cruz and his father Rafael are working tirelessly to destroy American democracy and true freedom of religion, by replacing it with the “Christians Only” pabulum being peddled by the Religious Right. The bought-men of the Supreme Court are more than willing to go along with what the Religious Right is selling…

4

Editorial Cartoon: Fracking Crazy

Florida Governor Rick Scott is ‘no scientist’ but he thinks acid fracking and drilling for natural gas near the environmentally fragile Everglades is a good thing.

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Paul Ryan Calls For Poverty Shaming and Block Grants in “New” Anti-Poverty plan

Paul Ryan, apparently thought of as the great Republican policy wonk, released his “new” anti-poverty plan on Thursday.

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Nancy Pelosi Rips the Shameful GOP House For Adding Extra Days To Their Vacation

Pelosi said, “Well, I think my constituents, but broader to the public, should know that we are engaged in a drive-by Congress. We are hardly ever here, and when we are, we are engaged in process, not progress.”

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Republican Congressman Thinks Senior State Department Officials Are Visitors From India

On Thursday, during a hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Curt Clawson (R-FL) spoke to two senior officials from the State and Commerce Departments as if they were government representatives from India.

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America Refudiates Sarah Palin As 65% Reject Her Call For Obama Impeachment

Last weekend Sarah Palin claimed that God wants President Obama impeached, but according to a new CNN poll, 65% of the American people disagree with both Palin and her version of God.

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Darrell Issa’s Crushing Defeat: Investigators Find Obama Adviser Didn’t Violate Law

Rep. Darrell Issa suffered a crushing defeat in his crusade to bring down President Obama when investigators concluded that top Obama aide David Simas did not violate the law by using taxpayer dollars for political activities.

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Funny or Die Spoofs The Conservative Men On The Supreme Court’s Women Hating Ways

“You’ve heard the Supreme Court was an “old boys’ club,” but you probably didn’t know about the forts, nudie mags, and secret passwords.”

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Red State GOP Governors In Danger Of Losing To Democratic Candidates This November

In a poll released by SurveyUSA on Thursday, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Paul Davis widened his improbable lead over incumbent Republican Kansas Governor Sam Brownback. Polls in other red states show GOP governors in real trouble.

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Democrats Aggressively Gun to Clean House With ‘1 Million Votes for 2014’ Campaign

Democrats are getting organized in midterms. House Democrats are rolling out a campaign to lock down commitments from 1 million supporters to vote in November, according to the DCCC.

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Republicans Block Attempts To Get Corporations To Pay Their Fair Share of Taxes

ns. The bottom line is Republicans, like their corporate funding mechanism, do not believe and will not support any legislation that taxes corporate profits; either abroad or at home.

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Kansas Could Turn Blue as Democrat Paul Davis Leads Governor’s Race by 8

What’s the matter with Kansas? Gov. Sam Brownback (R) has triggered a backlash among voters in the state that has him trailing Democratic candidate Paul Davis 48%-40%.

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The Hypocrisy of the Religious Right’s Version of God’s Word

Franklin Graham, who regularly ignores the entirety of Jesus’ teachings, tells us that “Christians cannot ignore parts of God’s Word because they are unpopular or cause division.”

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An Incident In New Orleans Shows How Religious Freedom Can Become Religious Tyranny

This week evangelical anti-choice activists congregated in New Orleans to protest a woman’s right to choose, and took their religious tyranny into the sanctuary of a church, interrupted a service, and loudly informed congregants they do not worship according to the “true faith” and warned them to repent.

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Two-Faced Marco Rubio Turns Back On DREAMers As He Wants Obama To End DACA

On Thursday, after meeting with leaders of Central American countries on Capitol Hill, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) released a statement where he called on President Obama to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that the president enacted in 2012.

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House Republican Hearing On The Harmful Impact of Obamacare Completely Backfires

A House Republican hearing on the harmful impact of Obamacare on Medicare Advantage completely backfired when the expert witnesses that Republicans invited disagreed with them.

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David Gregory Is Toast as Chuck Todd and Joe Scarborough Fight For Meet The Press Gig

A new report says that David Gregory is toast as host of Meet The Press and that Chuck Todd and Joe Scarborough are battling to replace him.

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Fox News’ Megyn Kelly Tells Massive Lie To Assist Ted Cruz’s Latest Attack On Obama

On Wednesday night’s broadcast of Fox News’ The Kelly File, host Megyn Kelly let loose a huge whopper of a lie when discussing the recent 48-hour FAA ban on flights entering and leaving Tel Aviv’s airport.

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House Republicans Behave Like Criminals While Advancing Obama Lawsuit

Republicans on the House Rules Committee behaved like common criminals as they advanced the lawsuit against President Obama while voting down every amendment related to disclosing the cost of the lawsuit.

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John Boehner Feuds With Reality During a Dishonest Press Conference Blaming Obama

Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) opened his presser asking “Where are the jobs?” as if he expected an alternate Speaker John Boehner to appear and explain himself. No such apparition did appear.

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Ted Cruz Accuses Obama of Sinister Conspiracy to Impose Economic Boycott on Israel

Ted Cruz: President Obama uses FAA to Boycott Israel by Imposing flight ban on Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport, crippling Israeli tourism

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New NRA Plan: Bullet Subsidies and Forcing Kids to Shoot Their Way to Graduation

Mandatory gun zones and making marksmanship a mandatory requirement to advance in school are just a couple of the NRA’s newest gimmicks to maintain our lead as the country with the most guns, albeit in a fewer hands.

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Fake Christians All Up in Arms about the Black Jesus TV Show

The real problem seems to be “Jesus as a ‘black guy’ living in the hood,” when every bigot knows black folks can’t share in his AR-15 totin’ goodness!

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Editorial Cartoon: Wingnut Gear Shift

Time for a recall.

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Democrats Have A Chance To Get Rid of Scott Walker as Wisconsin Governor Race Is Tied

Democrats weren’t able to recall him, but they may be able to beat Republican Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker in November. The latest Marquette Law School poll finds that Democrat Mary Burke and Walker remain locked in a statistical dead heat.

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We’ve Tolerated ‘Too Big to Fail’ for Far Too Long

With international disasters and foreign policy imbroglios everywhere you turn, it’s easy to forget that we have numerous domestic issues with which we still must contend.

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Marco Rubio Whines That Same-Sex Marriage Supporters Need To Be Tolerant Of His Bigotry

On Wednesday, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) appeared at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. to deliver a speech aimed at bolstering his reputation among social conservatives.

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Rumors Swirling That David Gregory Will Dumped From Meet The Press After Midterm Elections

The David Gregory is going to be dumped from Meet The Press rumor mill is rolling again with a report that the host might be out after November’s midterm elections.

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Most Republicans Say They Can’t Live Off Minimum Wage Yet Still Oppose Raising It

A poll released by Public Policy Polling on Tuesday reveals that the vast majority of Americans claim that they would be unable to support their households on the current federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour.

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Republicans Heading For Disaster as 57% Support ACA or More Liberal Health Care Reform

Underneath the numbers in the new CNN Obamacare poll is a looming disaster for Republicans. Fifty-seven percent of those polled support the ACA or an even more liberal health care reform.

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Democrat Charlie Crist Surges and Opens Up a 6 Point in Florida Governor’s Race

More good news for Democrats out of Florida where former Gov. Charlie Crist has jumped out to six point lead over Republican Gov. Rick Scott 46%-40%.

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Criticism Of Obama After Malaysian Airliner Shootdown Reveals Hypocritical Double Standard

So it was this week when Republicans accused President Obama of political dissonance by failing to show Americans he was in charge of the downed Malaysian passenger jet tragedy or influx of child refugees because he did not cancel his scheduled events, it was certain Republican presidents did exactly the same thing.

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Crazy Bigoted Republican Will Replace Crazy Bigoted GOP Congressman In Georgia

In Georgia’s 10th District, which is currently represented by Paul Broun, pastor Jody Hice defeated Mike Collins by a somewhat comfortable margin, 54% – 46%.

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Gordon Klingenschmitt Says if You Can’t go to Church You Can’t Use Public Restroom

Where, logically, is the connection between assemblies of the Lord and bathrooms? Even if it were the law of the land, the Bible doesn’t mention public restrooms

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If She Doesn’t End Up In Prison Michele Bachmann Says She May Run For President in 2016

Disgraced soon to be former Rep. Michele Bachmann said during an interview that she might run for president again in 2016.

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Outrageous Ruling On Obamacare Subsidies Is A Call To Arms For Liberals

If we do not elect durable majorities in Congress that allow our president to appoint and confirm judges to the Supreme Court, the DC Court of Appeals and other key judicial posts, all of our grassroots activism, all of our get-out-the-vote efforts will be for naught.

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Editorial Cartoon: Putin Victims

Vladimir Putin’s culpability in the MH17 disaster is clear.

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Conservatives Prematurely And Foolishly Gloat Over DC Court’s Obamacare Ruling

Republicans who have spent the past few years doing everything they possibly can to obstruct and repeal the Affordable Care Act felt pretty good about themselves Tuesday morning. That all changed by the afternoon.

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John Boehner Makes A Fool Out of Himself Trying To Use ACA Subsidy Ruling To Push His Lawsuit

After the DC Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling that Obamacare subsidies were illegal for the federal marketplace, Speaker Boehner jumped the gun with a statement that pushed his lawsuit against President Obama.

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Republican Victory Turns Into Defeat as Second Court Rules Obamacare Subsidies Are Legal

The Republican “victory” on the legality of Obamacare subsidies for the federal exchange quickly turned to defeat as a second appeals court ruled that the subsidies are legal.

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Federal Court Ruling That Obamacare Subsidies Are Illegal Expected To Be Overturned

Today, in a 2-1 split decision, the Republican judges on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals embraced a controversial interpretation of the ACA that believes all subsidies issued through the federal marketplace are illegal. The decision is expected to be overturned.

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Commentary: Calling Out Israel’s Campaign Against Palestinians Is Not Anti-Semitism

One would rather be a pariah than sit idly by while Israel wages war against innocent Palestinian civilians who were herded onto a Native American-like reservation under threat of annihilation, or tricked into going there with a false promise of being granted a homeland.

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