Month: February 2015

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During his Final Days as AG Eric Holder Will Push For Improved Civil Rights Protections

During an interview with Politico on Friday, Holder said he plans to push for a new standard of proof in civil rights offenses.

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Conservatives Tarnish Their Brand Further By Putting Duck Dynasty Clown On Stage At CPAC

In his long speech, Robertson warned that America was becoming sick from STDs and that wherever Jesus is missing, murder follows.

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Rudy Giuliani, The Crazy Uncle Face Of The New Republican Party

Seems like every time you turn around these days there’s another crazy Republican uncle doing and saying the kind of things crazy Republican uncles do.

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Republican Congressman Peter King Slams Self-Righteous Delusional Wing Of His Party

Appearing on Luke Russert’s online MSNBC TV program, Shift, New York Congressman Peter King (R) slammed fellow House Republicans for not simply banding together to pass a clean funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security. King made it clear that he was fed up with Tea Party Republicans playing politics with Homeland Security funding….

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GOP Lunacy In Criticizing Obama’s ISIS Strategy At CPAC

Now they are lining up at the annual Aryan-sponsored conservative conclave to accuse the President of all manner of malfeasance in cleaning up and dealing with George W. Bush’s religious crusade in Iraq that engendered the rise of Islamic extremists known as the Islamic State (IS, ISIS, ISIL).

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren Obliterates Scott Walker With Just One Sentence

Sen. Elizabeth Warren needed just one sentence to lay waste to the hopes of the union buster turned Republican Great White Hope for 2016 Scott Walker.

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Bernie Sanders Tears Into House Republicans For Passing One Week DHS Funding Bill

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has some pointed words for House Republicans. Sanders told them that it was time to stop playing political games. and found it incomprehensible that the House is refusing to properly fund Homeland Security.

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Twisted By Obama Hate, Republicans Threaten To Overthrow Boehner If Clean DHS Bill Passes

A group of House Republicans hate President Obama so much that there is a very real possibility that they overthrow John Boehner if he allows a vote on the Senate passed clean funding bill for Homeland Security.

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5 Big Whoppers from Speaker Boehner

Unwilling to do anything to help Americans, John Boehner concocts some more self-serving lies to blame Obama for his own failings

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Boehner’s Pathetic House Can Only Pass A One Week Funding Bill For Homeland Security

In a display of failed Republican leadership, John Boehner and House Republicans could only pass a one week funding bill for Homeland Security.

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Friday Fox Follies – Forget The Falklands

There’s nothing Friday Fox Follies likes least than to repeat a topic from last week because new jokes are hard to find. No matter. When Bill O’Reilly Goes Ballistic On Eric Engberg, David Corn, Calls Bob Schieffer A ‘Plagiarist’ this reporter must follow the truth, no matter where it goes.

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Richard Mack, Founder of CSPOA Wants You to Pay His Health Care Bills

Remember Richard Mack, the guy who defended welfare rancher Cliven Bundy? He’s also the founder of The Constitutonal Sherrifs and Peace Officers Assocation. Now he is uninsured, has a stack of healthcare bills and wants you to pay them.

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President Obama Mourns The Death Of Leonard Nimoy

After it had been announced that Leonard Nimoy had passed away at the age of 83 from COPD, President Obama issued a statement that paid tribute to the man who brought Spock to life.

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Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker Wants To Eliminate Reporting Requirements For Campus Rapes (Corrected)

Walker has proposed a budget which says that campus rape isn’t such a big deal that a witness should be required to report it.

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John Boehner Humiliated As House Republicans Defeat His Bill To Keep Homeland Security Open

In a crushing defeat for John Boehner, his own House Republicans defeated the Speaker’s bill, and jeopardized national security by voting against a three week funding bill for Homeland Security.

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Marco Rubio Flip Flops On Immigration Reform, Recasts Himself As Border Hawk At CPAC

Friday morning, at CPAC, Senator Rubio told an audience that he had learned that his previous support for immigration reform was a mistake.

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Boehner Is A National Embarrassment For Comparing America to China and Russia

The problem with Boehner is that he is so accustomed to lying and making a laughingstock of himself, that he is likely unaware that he embarrasses himself, and America, whenever he opens his mouth.

Democrats Win As Senate Passes Clean Homeland Security Bill 68-31

Senate Republicans caved gave Democrats and President Obama what they wanted by passing a clean Homeland Security funding bill, 68-31.

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If You’re Keeping Score, Add The LA Riots To List Of Things Bill O’Reilly Has Lied About

On Thursday evening, The Guardian published a report claiming six people who worked with Fox News host Bill O’Reilly during the 1992 Los Angeles riots have disputed his past remarks that he was attacked by protesters and concrete rained down on him.

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Democrats Aren’t Letting Boehner Weasel Out Of The Homeland Security Crisis He Caused

Speaker of the House John Boehner’ s (R-OH) bill to fund Homeland Security for three weeks in a shameless attempt to buy time to try to get out of the crisis that Republicans caused, and Democrats aren’t buying it.

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CPAC: Icky Brown People Are Destroying our Country

Republicans have sold their souls, assuming they have any, to white nationalists who believe mixing races is rebellion against God

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Here’s To Booting A Chicago DINO Out Of The Mayor’s Office

Incumbent Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel is going to have to labor a bit extra for the next six weeks if he hopes to continue to occupy that legendary office.

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Two Years After SCOTUS Gutting, GOP Rep Insists Congress Is Ready To Amend Voting Rights Act

It should be no surprise by this time, but whenever present-day Republicans point a finger and cry “foul,” you can be reasonably sure the crime is an inside job.

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House Republicans Are Already Trying To Block The New Net Neutrality Rules

House Republicans are trying to block the new net neutrality rules passed by the FCC, and are turning a victory for the open internet into an Obama conspiracy theory.

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DC Mayor Defiantly Stands Up To House Republicans, Legalizes Pot In Nation’s Capital

Ignoring warnings from House Republicans, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser enacted the city’s new law legalizing marijuana possession on Thursday.

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Democrats Blast Scott Walker For Comparing Labor Unions To ISIS

Gov. Scott Walker insulted millions of Democrats and Republicans who belong to unions today by comparing unions to ISIS during his CPAC speech. Democrats are responding by blasting Walker.

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Shameful American Democracy Ranks 45th In The World In Electoral Integrity

Now, it appears there may be a good reason for yet another voting rights amendment according to a new report placing America’s electoral integrity” on par with Colombia and Bulgaria at 45th among the world’s democracies.

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While GOP Candidates Pander To The Right At CPAC, Hillary Still Leads All 2016 Matchups

A PPP poll, released on the eve of CPAC, shows Hillary Clinton leading the entire GOP field by margins of 7 to 10 percentage points.

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Al Franken And Bernie Sanders Praise Net Neutrality As An Enormous Victory Over Corporations

In two separate statements, Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) praised the passage of the FCC’s new net neutrality rules. Franken called the rules an enormous victory for the American people, while Sanders said that the success of net neutrality shows that ordinary Americans can win when they stand up to corporations.

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A Historic Day For Every American As The FCC Passes Net Neutrality Rules

History was made today as the FCC voted 3-2 in favor of changing the rules to keep the Internet open and neutral for all.

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Fox News Edits Video To Make Look Like Obama Is Illegally Enforcing Immigration Action

Fox News hit a new low today by selectively editing video of President Obama’s immigration town hall to make it look like the president is illegally enforcing his immigration executive actions.

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Editorial Cartoon: The Real Pipeline

The real pipeline leads from the Kochs’ bank accounts to Washington.

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Jon Stewart Goes To Town On Fox News For Being “Chronically Angry” About Liberalism

During Wednesday night’s broadcast of The Daily Show, host Jon Stewart lit into longtime nemesis Fox News for waging a “chronically angry war for ideological purity.”

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Abercrombie Wants Supreme Court To Believe Religious Headscarves are Caps

In a case of fashion vs. religious discrimination, Abercrombie & Fitch wants to convince the Supreme Court that, under its dress code, a headscarf is a cap.

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Fox News Analyst Calls Obama the Reincarnation of Pontius Pilate

Ralph Peters calls Obama Pontius Pilate, but Pilate, according to the Bible, tried to save Jesus and early Christianity made him a hero

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The Left Sends Rahm Emanuel A Message By Forcing Runoff In Chicago Mayor’s Race

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel got just 45 percent of the vote Tuesday, forcing him into a runoff against 2nd place finisher “Chuy” Garcia.

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Obama Shreds Republicans And Promises To Veto Bill Overturning Immigration Executive Action

President Obama delivered an impressive performance at the immigration town hall at FIU. The president shredded Republicans for opposing immigration reform while promising to veto any bill that overturns his immigration executive actions.

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Editorial Cartoon: The Scoundrel

For former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, patriotism is truly the last refuge of a scoundrel.

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It Is Time To Repeal the 10TH Amendment And Unify America

It is true that there was open rebellion and massive bloodshed as one faction that could not countenance a ‘united’ nation sought to rip the country apart, but the sentiment that engendered the Civil War is still alive and well due to one ill-advised amendment to the nation’s founding document; the 10th Amendment.

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Bernie Sanders Lays Into John Boehner, “No More Excuses” Do Your Job

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) had a blunt message for Speaker of the House John Boehner. Sanders told Boehner to stop making excuses and do his job.

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Senate Democrats Force Mitch McConnell To Cave As Clean Homeland Security Bill Moves Forward

Senate Democrats allowed a clean Homeland Security funding bill to move forward after Majority Leader Mitch McConnell caved and dropped the language that overturned President Obama’s immigration action.

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57% Of Republicans Say Dismantle Constitution And Make Christianity National Religion

A PPP poll found that 57 percent of Republicans want to dismantle the Constitution and establish Christianity as the national religion

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Republican Lawmaker Thinks Women Can Get Gynecological Exams by Swallowing Cameras

Nothing compares to Republicans when they wander into that deep mystery of women’s reproductive health, especially if it means understanding a woman’s anatomy and how it functions.

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Good News For MSNBC: Rachel Maddow Has The Most Watched Non-Fox News Show

It has been a rough month for MSNBC, but the network did get one piece of good news. The Rachel Maddow show was the highest rated non-Fox show in February.

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West Virginia Republicans Want To Throw People In Jail For Helping Uninsured Get Obamacare

West Virginia state House Republicans are proposing a new law that would make it a felony for anyone to enforce the health care law. In other words, any employee that would help a West Virginian get access to affordable health care would be committing a crime.

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More Bill O’Reilly Lies Uncovered As Colleagues Claim He Made Up Story In JFK Book

On Tuesday, Media Matters published a piece that accused Fox News host Bill O’Reilly of making a false claim in his book Killing Kennedy. In the book, O’Reilly said that he witnessed the suicide of a Russian emigre, George de Mohrenschildt, who knew Lee Harvey Oswald.

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Obama Patriotism Poll Is An Indictment Of Republican Hatred of President and Country

A YouGov poll on President Obama’s patriotism accidentally revealed how deeply Republicans hate President Obama and remain angry at the country that elected him twice.

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Republicans Say Stomachs Connect to Vaginas and that Cancer is a Fungus

Healthcare has a lot in common with the environment, with Republicans, who know nothing about either, eager to pass legislation regarding both

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In An Unprecedented Move Harry Reid Puts The Screws To John Boehner’s Obstruction

Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) took the virtually unprecedented step of nailing John Boehner’s obstruction by announcing that Senate Democrats will not support any deal to fund Homeland Security unless Boehner caves first.

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The Lost Message In Patricia Arquette’s Oscar Acceptance Speech

Once in a while, and not very often, one award-winner actually says something worth hearing and as is usually the case, if it is an important social message it will irritate some group. Apparently, when Patricia Arquette called for equal rights for women, and specifically appealed to other minority groups to join the war for equality, it raised the ire of the right and left.

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DOJ Decides Not to Seek Civil Rights Charges Against Teflon Criminal George Zimmerman

On Tuesday, the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division announced because an independent federal investigation found insufficient evidence, it would not pursue civil rights charges against Travyon Martin’s killer, George Zimmerman.

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Orange Crushed: John Boehner Melts Down After President Obama Vetoes Keystone XL

Speaker of the House John Boehner could only react with inept rage after President Obama vetoed Keystone XL.

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President Obama Vetoes Keystone XL With Blistering Veto Message

President Obama vetoed the Keystone XL pipeline bill today, with a short message to Republicans in Congress that should serve as a warning that this president is won’t be bullied by anyone.

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Alaska Legalizes Recreational Marijuana, Prompting Sarah Palin’s Town To Ban Pot Brownies

Libertarian-style conservatism has its limits in the town that launched Sarah Palin’s career. They draw the line at pot brownies.

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Bill O’Reilly’s Story Falls Apart: No CBS Colleagues Will Confirm His War Coverage Lies

When he isn’t name calling or threatening reporters, behind the scenes Bill O’Reilly tried desperately to find somebody who worked with him at CBS to confirm his war correspondent tales, but no one would go on his show.

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Obamacare Is A Smashing Success As Uninsured Rates Continue To Plummet

A Gallup poll finds the percentage of Americans lacking health care coverage has dropped from 17.3 percent in 2013 to 13.8 percent in 2014.

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Elizabeth Warren Shreds Congress For Screwing The Middle Class While Passing Keystone XL

While discussing the unveiling of the Middle Class Prosperity Project along with Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) ripped Congress for wasting months on passing Keystone XL for an oil company and shutting down DHS while the middle class gets screwed.

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Trapped Rat Bill O’Reilly Completely Cracks Up As He Threatens New York Times Reporter

In an interview with the New York Times Monday evening, Fox News host Bill O’Reilly personally threatened a reporter over the paper’s coverage of the controversy surrounding O’Reilly’s claims that he was in a war zone when he covered protests in Buenos Aires in 1982.

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David Barton Lies That Lawsuit Which Did Not Take Place Proves He Doesn’t Lie

David Barton tried to refute his long history of lying by falsely claiming a lawsuit which never took place proves his innocence

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President Obama Plans To Quickly Veto Keystone XL Bill

The Republican passed Keystone XL will hit the president’s desk Tuesday morning. Obama is expected to quickly and quietly veto the bill in order to keep the heat on Republicans as the shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security looms.

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Connected Big Boys Access A Bottomless Pit Of Tax Credits

There’s a bill parked in the House Ways & Means Committee called the New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) Extension Act for 2015. Over at the Senate Chamber, a companion piece awaits introduction.

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Reckless Crackpot Ted Cruz Falsely Compares Barack Obama to Corrupt Richard Nixon

in an interview with Newsmax TV, Texas Senator Ted Cruz (R) tried to compare President Obama with lawless former President Richard Nixon.

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After Scott Walker Flubs Easy Questions, Conservative Pundit Claims Walker Is Doing Just Fine

Neoconservative pundit and Iraq War apologist Bill Kristol appeared on MSNBC’s Morning Joe Monday morning to take part in a panel discussion on a number of issues, including potential GOP Presidential candidate Scott Walker’s recent flubs of easy questions surrounding President Obama’s patriotism and the theory of evolution.

Senate Democrats Crush 4th Republican Attempt To Overturn Obama Immigration Action

Senate Democrats turned up the heat on Boehner and McConnell by blocking the fourth Senate Republican attempt to overturn President Obama’s immigration actions by attaching it to the Homeland Security funding bill.

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As Terrorists Threaten U.S. Malls, Conservatives Push To Shutdown Homeland Security

A day after it was reported that a terrorist group was urging attacks on malls in the United States, conservatives continued to refuse to support a bill that would avoid a shutdown of Homeland Security.

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DNC Endorses Constitutional Amendment Guaranteeing The Right To Vote

On the weekend, the DNC gave its unanimous endorsement to a constitutional amendment that explicitly states voting is an individual right.

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Fox News Stops Pretending To Be A News Network By Standing Behind Bill O’Reilly

Fox News isn’t even pretending anymore. Their pretense of journalism has been shattered by Fox News’s decision to stand formally behind war coverage liar Bill O’Reilly.

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Elizabeth Warren Teams Up With Obama on New Fiduciary Rules To Protect Consumers

One of the biggest nightmare scenarios for Republicans is coming to life as Sen. Elizabeth Warren is signaling a team up with President Obama on some new consumer protection rules.

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Bill O’Reilly Scandal Grows As 8th Former Colleague Calls His War Coverage Claims Absurd

Yet another of Bill O’Reilly’s former colleagues from CBS News disputes his active war zone claims. Even back then, his colleagues thought he was “grandstanding” and called his description of his reporting “absurd.”

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Media Intentionally Hides Republicans’ Economic Failures And Democrats’ Success

t is true that Republican policies are why Americans are rapidly losing economic ground to the few wealthy elites, but the media is not only culpable, they are facilitating this country’s slide into oligarchy by perpetually campaigning for the rich and powerful.

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Donald Trump Can’t Figure Out Why Jews Support Obama

Donald Trump can’t figure out why Jews support Obama. That is because there is no room for Jews in conservative “Murica.”

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Patricia Arquette Calls For Wage Equality During Oscar Acceptance Speech

Patricia Arquette brought down the house during tonight’s Academy Awards with a rallying cry for equal wages and rights for women during her acceptance speech.

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CNN Host Calls Out Darrell Issa For Defending Hateful and Demeaning Anti-Obama Comments

CNN State Of The Union host Gloria Borger called out Rep. Darrell Issa for defending the hateful and demeaning remarks that Rudy Giuliani made about President Obama.

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Republican Hypocrites Rejoice As John McCain Says He Is Ashamed Of His Country

The same Republicans who lost their minds over Michelle Obama’s proud of my country comments in 2008 are hypocritically overjoyed that John McCain said that he was ashamed of his country.

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America Is a Liberal Nation: Poll Finds Huge Support For Tax Hike On The Wealthy

America continues to move to the left as President Obama’s proposal to increase capital gains taxes on the wealthy was supported by a 56%-14% margin in a new AP/GfK poll.

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AP-GfK Poll: Most back Obama plan to raise investment taxes

The rich aren’t taxed enough and the middle class is taxed too much. As for your taxes, you probably think they’re too high as well. Those are the results of an Associated Press-GfK poll that found that most people in the United States support President Barack Obama’s proposal to raise investment taxes on high-income families.

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Bill O’Reilly Bombshell: 6 Former Colleagues Say O’Reilly Lied About War Coverage

CNN’s Reliable Sources has blown apart Bill O’Reilly’s claim that he was a war correspondent by interviewing six former CBS colleagues who say that O’Reilly is lying about his time as a war correspondent.

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Three Minutes Of Terror for The Koch Brothers As Bernie Sanders Storms Sunday Show

It was a terrifying three minutes for the Koch brothers, as Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) took on the Kochs directly and delivered a message of populism that struck at the heart of their oligarchic plot to buy control of the federal government on ABC’s This Week.

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Republicans Support And Defend Extremism Against America

Republicans are ardent defenders of right-wing extremists posing the greatest terrorism threat to the United States and since they are loyal supporters of their so-called champions of freedom; what better way to protect the real threat to America than shut down the Department of Homeland Security?

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Showdown In Wyoming As Anti-Discrimination Republican Boots Anti-Gay Rep From Meeting

Elaine Harvey (R-Lovell) evicted anti-gay Rep. Harlan Edmonds (R-Cheyenne) from a meeting when he refused to remain civil during a debate.

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GOP Governors Slash Education To Grow Their Ignorant Base

Because Republicans depend on “the widespread ignorance of objective reality,” their fascist threat to democracy is only succeeding due to the abundance of ignorance and gross stupidity of America’s uneducated citizenry. Subsequently, Republicans are building on their success and slashing education funding at a record pace to produce an entire population of stupid conservative voters.

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Heartless Texas Attorney General Fights To Invalidate The State’s Only Same-Sex Marriage

Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) is working to invalidate the marriage of a lesbian couple, one of whom has cancer.

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It’s Time We Believed Elizabeth Warren. She’s Not Running. And That’s OK

Warren is not running. It is not going to happen, and I think it’s time to accept that fact.

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Security Tosses Out Protesters As Marco Rubio Gets Loudly Heckled During Speech

In typical Republican fashion, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) couldn’t handle the truth so he had security remove protesters during a speech in his hometown.

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Bill Maher Calls On President Obama To Right Another Wrong By Legalizing Pot

Barack Obama has been a president who has righted many wrongs in our country. With this in mind, Bill Maher urged the president to legalize pot and pardon all nonviolent drug offenders who are currently incarcerated.

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Scott Walker says he doesn’t know if Obama loves his country

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a leading Republican contender for the White House in 2016, said Saturday he doesn’t know whether President Barack Obama loves his country.

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“Sovereign Citizen” Sentenced to 3 years In Jail For Tax Evasion and Filing False Liens

On Friday, the U.S. District Court for Nebraska sentenced a “Sovereign Citizen” to 36 months in jail for tax obstruction and filing false liens.

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Red State Voters Are Stupid For Electing Insane Republicans

One can hardly feel empathy for the people living under Republican extremists because unlike people suffering under fanatics in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan and ISIS-controlled Iraq; red state extremists are chosen by incredibly stupid Americans to govern.

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Bill O’Reilly Resorts To Name-Calling And Insults In Response To Mother Jones Story

During the Friday night broadcast of The O’Reilly Factor, host Bill O’Reilly responded to a Mother Jones story showing he embellished his war coverage as a reporter by throwing out personal insults and accusing the magazine and others of being “far left zealots.”

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The White House Is Gearing Up To Undercut Netanyahu’s Plan To Sabotage Obama

The White House is weighing options for a media blitz that will direct attention away from Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s U.S. visit and speech before Congress.

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South Dakota Lawmaker Claims Planned Parenthood Is Worse Than ISIS

South Dakota State Representative Isaac Latterell (R) compared Planned Parenthood unfavorably to the terrorist group ISIL.

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Friday Fox Follies – Falafels In The Falklands

When Friday Fox Follies went to press last week, Brian Williams’ spectacular crash to earth still echoed in Halls of Mediazuma. Many wags (this one included) noticed the condemnation was loudest (shrillest?) at the Fox “News” Channel, which did not hold itself to the same high standards.

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Veterans Group Demands That Fox News Take Bill O’Reilly Off The Air

A leading veterans group is calling on Fox News to take Bill O’Reilly off the air after it was uncovered that Fox News host lied about his history as a war correspondent.

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Rumors Are Growing That MSNBC Is Moving Rachel Maddow to 8 PM To Replace Chris Hayes

Multiple outlets have reported over the last few weeks that Chris Hayes is going to be canceled, but the story has taken a new turn with sources inside MSNBC saying that Rachel Maddow will be moving to 8 PM and a new host will be taking over her current 9 PM timeslot.

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