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Most Americans Approve Of Obama’s Handling Of Race Relations And The Economy
A majority of Americans approve of the president’s handling of race relations and his handling of the economy.
Monthly Archives: June 2015
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Kansas Issues $840 Million Debt Certificate To Cover Brownback’s Trickle Down Catastrophe
After a record-setting tax hike on the poor and middle class and truly Draconian social service cuts, the state is so broke that Brownback and Republicans had to resort to issuing a certificate of indebtedness to prevent the state from complete financial demise.
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Republicans Crushed In Oklahoma As Supreme Court Rules 10 Commandments Monument Must Come Down
In a 7-2 ruling, the Oklahoma Supreme Court has ruled that the Ten Commandments Monument erected at the State Capitol must be removed.
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Bernie Sanders Rips Presidential Candidates For Disgraceful Citizens United Money Grubbing
On the deadline day for quarterly presidential fundraising, Bernie Sanders ripped presidential candidates in both parties while calling for the overturning of Citizens United.
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Chris Christie Draws More Protesters Than Support For His Presidential Campaign
The protesters gathered outside of Chris Christie’s presidential campaign launch demonstrated more enthusiasm than the rest of the country has for the New Jersey governor’s presidential candidacy.
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The Republican Death Star Is Crumbling As CNN Beats Fox News For 4 Straight Days
The long-term problems at Fox News were exposed as CNN beat Fox News among the key age 25-54 demo for four straight days last week.
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Surging Bernie Sanders Expects Huge Crowd As He Rides Grassroots Tidal Wave Into Madison
At a press conference today concerning his upcoming rally in Madison, Wisconsin, at Veterans Memorial Coliseum at Alliant Energy Center, Bernie Sanders spoke of his campaign and his political platform.
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President Obama’s Approval Rating Jumps To A 2 Year High After Big Week Of Success
A new CNN/ORC poll has found that President Obama’s approval rating has jumped to a two-year high after a big week that saw two Supreme Court rulings go his way, legislative success, and a stirring eulogy in Charleston.
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Obama Dropkicks Republicans With Executive Action To Raise Overtime Wages For 5 Million Workers
The media proclaimed “lame duck” president has roared back again, as President Obama signed an executive order this morning order that put the Labor Department into action to extend overtime pay and raise wages for 5 million workers.
Open Call – It is Time to Fix or Replace the Republican Party
Huckabee complained that “some cowardly politicians will wave the white flag,” but we can’t even stop them from waving the Confederate flag
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Supreme Court Rejects Kansas And Arizona Voter Suppression Efforts
The Supreme Court refused to consider a case which would have required voters to show proof of citizenship to vote in federal elections.
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President Obama’s Big Step To Expedite Medicinal Marijuana Research
The good news and a possibly huge step forward for Americans suffering from a plethora of ailments, diseases, and disorders, was hailed by marijuana reform advocates because the President eased restrictions on cannabis research.
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SCOTUS Says Power Plants Have a Right to Pollute
In its final ruling for the term, the Supreme Court weakened the EPA’s ability to do its job, namely it’s ability to regulate power plants. Let’s face it, with all those rulings in favor of human beings, the conservative justices had to throw a bone to their political allies.
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Live Chat on Today’s SCOTUS Ban of Election Rigging
Join PoliticusUSA for a live chat on the Supreme Court’s big ruling that gave the people a weapon to combat Republican election rigging.
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Texas Attorney General Encourages County Clerks To Refuse Marriage Licenses To Gay Couples
Ken Paxton issued a statement on Sunday, openly encouraging the state’s County Clerks to defy the Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage.
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You’re Fired: NBC Finally Dumps Donald Trump
Public pressure finally became too much for NBC as the network finally did the right thing and dumped Donald Trump from The Apprentice and won’t televise the beauty pageants that he owns.
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Mitch McConnell Hits A New Low As Kentucky Thinks Dead Col. Sanders Would Be A Better Senator
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is so unpopular in Kentucky that the state’s voters thought KFC’s Colonel Sanders would be a better senator that McConnell.
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More Than 213,000 Americans Sign Petition Telling NBC To Cancel Donald Trump
The public backlash against Donald Trump’s racism is growing into a tsunami of outrage as more than 213,000 Americans have signed a petition telling NBC to stop working with Donald Trump.
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Supreme Court Kicks Republicans In The Gut By Giving People The Power To Stop Election Rigging
By ruling that Arizona’s Independent Redistricting Commission is constitutional, the Supreme Court of the United States kicked plutocrat-loving, election rigging, gerrymandering Republicans in the gut.
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Fearing Abolition of the Death Penalty, The Supreme Court Upholds Lethal Injection
Fearing the United States would abandon its membership in the club of death-penalty countries like Iran and China, the Supreme Court ruled that death by legal injection is constitutional.
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John Oliver Mocks 5 Years of Incorrect Republican Declarations of the ‘End of Obamacare’
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver perfectly summed up all of the incorrect Republican predictions of the end of Obamacare in less than two minutes.
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Rick Santorum Was an Outlier of Crazy, But the GOP Has Caught Up
You can legitimately pooh-pooh Santorum and his chances of winning elected office ever again in his lifetime but he is now just a voice in the choir
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Human Rights Report That Ted Cruz Demanded Reveals Republican Hypocrisy
In fact, the State Department could easily have substituted the name Republican Party for Islamic Republic of Iran, condemned the same practices, and no conscious American or citizen of any other foreign nation would have batted an eye or disagreed with the assertions in the report; America’s human rights violations as of late are well known around the world.
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Donald Trump Lies And Claims That He Is Drawing Big Crowds Like Bernie Sanders
During an interview on CNN’s State Of The Union, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump lied and claimed that he is drawing big crowds just like Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders.
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Fact Checkers Deal A Blow To GOP By Finding Hillary Clinton Speaks The Truth On Voting Rights
In yet another blow to Republicans, their furious scrambling from 2016 Democratic presidential candidate and Secretary Hillary Clinton’s assault on their efforts to disenfranchise American citizens has been called out. They are wrong; Hillary Clinton was right. Ugh, reality, so mean.
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Paul Ryan Falls Flat On His Face When Asked What Republicans Can Do To Stop Obamacare
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) delivered a new moment of Republican failure when he was asked on CBS’s Face The Nation what Republicans can do realistically to stop Obamacare.
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A Defeated Lindsey Graham Admits Republicans Will Never Win With Current Platform
Lindsey Graham (R-SC) waved the white flag of defeat on “Meet the Press” today, when he told Chuck Todd that he doesn’t believe there is any chance of a Constitutional amendment to define marriage as being between one man and one woman.
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Bernie Sanders Predicts He Will Win The Democratic Nomination And Be The Next President
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders predicted on ABC’s This Week that he will win Iowa, New Hampshire, the Democratic nomination, and be the next president of the United States.
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Dirt Ignorant, Flag Waving Bigots Out in Force Across the South
The bigots were out in full force yesterday, some in Confederate uniforms, even more in pot-bellies, all of them racist or ignorant or both
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Democratic Policies Make Minnesota America’s Top State For Business
Minnesota is a shining example of how Democratic policies can help everyone prosper.
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Bobby Jindal Has Decided To Let The GOP Be The Stupid Party After All
A little over two years ago, after Democrat Barack Obama soundly defeated Republican Mitt Romney in the 2012 presidential election, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal admonished fellow Republicans to “stop being the stupid party”. Jindal’s comments were not only directed at Mitt Romney’s politically tone deaf presidential campaign, but also at insensitive GOP Senate candidates like Todd…
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Republican Opposition To SCOTUS Gay Marriage Ruling Is Opposition To The Constitution
Conservative opponents of the Constitution see no contradiction in attacking the Marriage Equality ruling as a violation of the Constitution
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A Naturalized American Citizens Tells Donald Trump He Knows Nothing
This is an open letter from Fernando Suarez del Solar, Founder & Director of the Guerrero Azteca Peace Project
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No Conservatives, Legalizing Gay Marriage Doesn’t Mean Polygamy Is Next
Shortly after the Supreme Court’s historic ruling in favor of the right for same-sex couples to marry, conservatives rushed to condemn the ruling by invoking the slippery slope logical fallacy that permitting gay couples to marry opens the door to legalizing polygamy too. Conservative commentator Bill Kristol tweeted “Polygamy here we come”. Fox News host Martha…
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Bernie Sanders in New Hampshire This Weekend, to Midwest Next Week
Bernie Sanders in in New Hampshire this weekend and moves on to the Midwest this coming week, beginning in Madison, WI
Reaction To SCOTUS “Obamacare” Ruling Reveals Republicans’ Intrinsic Inhumanity
That idea of compassion, or humanity for other human beings has become anathema to Republicans and conservatives over the past six years
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Bernie Sanders Makes History By Raising More Money Than Every GOP Presidential Candidate
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has made history by raising more money than every 2016 Republican presidential candidate, and every 2012 Republican presidential candidate not named Mitt Romney.
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Reeling Republicans Rocked As Obama Vows To Expand Obamacare And Cover More People
More bad news for Republicans. President Obama announced today that he planned to go on offense and continue working to expand the reach of Obamacare to cover more Americans.
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Multiracial Group Of Teachers And Activists Take Down South Carolina Confederate Flag
A multiracial group of teachers and activists did what the politicians haven’t. They took it upon themselves to act to remove the Confederate flag from the South Carolina state capitol at 5:30 AM ET.
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The GOP Has Tossed its Ideological Cookies and it’s Not a Pretty Sight
Republicans say they will fight tooth and nail to repeal Obamacare. In other words, to condemn my son – and millions like him – to death
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Friday Fox Follies: Foxy Friends’ Fibs
There’s so much going on, but this week’s Friday Fox Follies starts with How “Fox & Friends” became the most repugnant show on Fox News, which is saying a lot considering the competition.
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Maine Lawmakers Move To Impeach Republican Governor Paul LePage
Six lawmakers announced on Thursday that they plan to launch impeachment proceedings against Maine Governor LePage.
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Powerless And Impotent Rush Limbaugh Attacks Star Trek Legend And Icon George Takei
So George Takei, one of gay rights’ wittiest defenders, and just a very funny, engaging fellow, has drawn the ire of the intoxicated-with-himself Rush Limbaugh, because Takei isn’t forced to abide by Rush’s bigoted beliefs.
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President Obama Ends An Incredible Week With Powerfully Moving Eulogy Of Clementa Pinckney
The heart and soul of President Barack Obama were on full display as he moved the nation with his powerful eulogy for the slain Rev. Clementa Pinckney.
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In the Most Moving Speech of His Presidency, Obama Sings Amazing Grace
President Obama burst into a spontaneous rendition of the poignant and appropriate song, “Amazing Grace”.
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208,000 Americans Join Bernie Sanders In Calling For More Presidential Debates
More than 208,000 Americans have joined Bernie Sanders in calling on the Democratic Party to hold more presidential debates.
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Republicans Running for President Are Trying To Nullify The Federal Right To Same Sex Marriage
Republicans running for president are now running on the platform of nullification, which is to say, the concept of the desperate pre-and-during the Civil War, as states threatened to nullify federal law so that they could have slaves.
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Republicans Freak Out And Call For The Abolition Of All Civil Marriage After Same-Sex Legalization
Republicans like Rep. Steve King (R-IA) have responded to the legalization of same-sex marriage by calling on the states to abolish civil marriage.
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Heartbreaking ‘Dear Daddy’ Messages In Funeral Program from Clementa Pinckney’s Daughters
Here is the heartbreaking picture of Clementa Pinckney’s daughters’ dear daddy messages to their father in his funeral service program.
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Rick Perry Ignores Supreme Court Ruling Vows to Enable Discrimination Against Gays
Rick Perry vowed that if he were president we would not have to worry about progress or equal rights, because he firmly believes in letting states discriminate against people’s rights.
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Texas Republicans Must Bow Down to Progress by Obeying the Marriage Equality Ruling
Marriage equality has been banned in Texas since 2005, so immediately after the ruling on Friday, the Executive Director of Progress Texas put out a statement warning, “Texas Republicans must comply with marriage equality ruling”.
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History is Made As the Supreme Court Recognizes Marriage Equality
The Supreme Court made an historic ruling recognizing that same sex couples have a right to marry under the 14th Amendment on the anniversary of the Windsor case.
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Supreme Court Legalizes Same Sex Marriage As Roof Completely Falls In On Republicans
In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court has ruled that state laws banning same-sex marriage are unconstitutional.
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Todd Starnes Wants God to Chase SCOTUS and POTUS with Bugs
“Send the hornets!” ought to be the “battle prayer of every patriot saint.” Oh sweet little baby Jesus and his AR-15. You mean you’re all saints now?
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ALEC Plans Corporate Control and Privatization Of Every City In America
It is true the Koch’s are poised to spend nearly a billion dollars to put a Koch surrogate in the White House, and to completely take over the entire nation they are paying an American Legislative Exchange Council subsidiary to impose their corporate agenda on every town, village, city, and county in America.
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Arson At North Carolina African-American Church Being Investigated As Possible Hate Crime
Wednesday morning an arsonist started a fire at Briar Creek Baptist Church, a predominately black church in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Donald Trump Is Rocketing Up The Republican Polls And He Just Called Mexicans Rapists
During an interview with CNN newly minted top contender for the Republican presidential nomination, Donald Trump, called Mexicans rapists.
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Here Is The Stunning Utter Failure Of The Republican Led Congress In One Chart
The first 170 days: Republicans passed zero jobs bills but raised the deficit by $610.7 billion dollars by passing more permanent tax cuts for the rich/corporations while voting to raise taxes on middle class families with children,
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Bernie Sanders Puts A Bull’s Eye On The Billionaires With Bill To Raise Taxes On The Wealthy
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has introduced a bold new bill to combat income inequality by increasing taxes on the wealthiest Americans.
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Live Chat: Celebrate How Obama Beat Republicans In The Supreme Court On The ACA
Join PoliticusUSA at 4 PM ET for a live chat/celebration of President Obama’s big win as the Supreme Court ruled in favor of ACA subsidies.
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Republican Presidential Candidates Flip Out Over Crushing Supreme Court Obamacare Defeat
Republicans think the court ruling in favor of providing affordable health care for Americans is judicial tyranny.
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Praise Abounds As The Presbyterian Church Applauds Supreme Court Obamacare Decision
The Presbyterian Office of Public Witness Director put out a statement applauding the Supreme Court decision on Obamacare, hoping the nation can now focus on poverty and inequality.
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President Obama Drops The Reality Hammer On Republicans After Supreme Court Victory
President Obama celebrated today’s Supreme Court ruling in favor of ACA subsidies by giving Republicans a dose of the straight truth about Obamacare.
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Hillary Clinton Throws Down The Gauntlet And Challenges Republicans On Obamacare
Hillary Clinton isn’t just running on the Affordable Care Act. She is making Obama a key issue. Sec Hillary Clinton challenged the Republican presidential candidates, “Anyone seeking to lead our country should stand up and support this decision.”
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Watch Live: President Obama Speaks About His Obamacare Victory In The Supreme Court
Watch live as President Obama talks about the Supreme Court ruling in favor of Obamacare subsidies.
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Supreme Court Saves Republicans From Themselves by Upholding the Affordable Care Act
Millions of Americans will breathe a sigh of relief now that the Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act. By a vote of 6-3, the Supreme Court looked beyond the one sentence the plaintiffs hoped would kick fellow Virginians and millions nationwide off their health insurance. The Chief Justice wrote the ruling. Alito, Scalia and Thomas dissented.
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Obama Gets A Gigantic Win As Supreme Court Rules ACA Subsidies Are Constitutional 6-3
In a decision that crushed Republican hopes of using the judicial system to gut Obamacare, the Supreme Court ruled by a 6-3 margin that the subsidies are constitutional under the ACA.
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Ann Coulter “Accuses” Nikki Haley of Being an Ignorant Immigrant
Of course, Haley is no more an immigrant than Coulter is a student of history, and as well-informed as Coulter, which admittedly is not saying much
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California Judge Blocks Hateful ‘Kill The Gays’ Initiative As Unconstitutional
California Superior Court Justice Raymond M. Cadei declared the controversial “Sodomite Suppression Act” unconstitutional and he refused to allow the proposed ballot initiative to be circulated. In his ruling, Judge Cadei described the hateful initiative that called for killing gay people “patently unconstitutional on its face.”
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President Obama Takes Down A Heckler Who Tried To Disrespect Him In The White House
President Obama wasted no time taking down a heckler who tried to disrespect him during an event at the White House.
17
Corrupt Scott Walker Gave $124 Million Of Taxpayer Money to His Corporate Donors
One of Scott Walker’s creations shortly after being sworn in as Wisconsin’s governor released a report that exposed yet another Walker administration scandal involving taxpayer money going directly to Walker’s campaign donors.
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Bernie Sanders: Unlike Hillary Clinton, ‘I’ve Taken On The Big Money Interests.’
On MSNBC, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders strongly contrasted his record with Hillary Clinton’s by saying, “I have taken on every element of the big money interests in this country.”
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Scott Walker Is Trying to Mortgage Wisconsin’s Future to Fund his White House Bid
Scott Walker’s lack of popularity in Wisconsin is certainly noticeable, but Walker’s problem right now is his budget, which Wisconsin Republicans say is looking tailored more for out-of-state Republicans like voters in Iowa, than for Wisconsin.
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As Louisiana Falls Apart A Delusional Bobby Jindal Announces He’s Running For President
Gov. Bobby Jindal has wrecked the state of Louisiana and now he wants to take the carnage national. Jindal announced on Twitter that he is running for president.
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Republicans In Retreat As Alabama Governor Takes Down Confederate Flag From State Capitol
The Republican version of damage control is spreading all through the South as Republican Gov. Robert Bentley ordered the Confederate flag to be taken down from the state capitol.
Our Long National Nightmare Ends: Fox News Dumps Sarah Palin and Deems Her Irrelevant
It is the end of the line for Sarah Palin. Fox News has dumped the quitter governor and deemed her irrelevant to American politics.
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Conservatives Tried To Excuse Their Racism With Bogus Clinton-Gore Buttons
There is a conservative meme traveling the Twittersphere that makes it appear Clinton-Gore in 1992 were all about the Confederate-vote. In response to my post the other day, Ted Cruz Whines as Republicans Get Called Out for Their Symbol of Racial Hate appears this tweet: @PureMitten @KaJo503 @tedcruz @politicususa button was neither made nor distributed…
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Obamacare Keeps Working As Uninsured Rate Keeps Dropping
According to the CDC, the share of working-age Americans who lack health insurance dropped by more than four percentage points in 2014.
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South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley: Flagging Down a Phony!
In the wake of a senseless, extraordinarily brutal, punk kid execution of nine innocent, spiritual and consummately decent African-Americans in an iconic Charleston AME church, the Haley-engineered hypocrite express is currently roaring down the nation’s media tracks at full speed.
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Bernie Sanders Confirms Media Bias: The Networks Kept Him Off TV Because He Is A Liberal
During an appearance on The Ed Show, Bernie Sanders confirmed that the television networks didn’t want him on their shows because he is a liberal.
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As Republican Run From The Confederate Flag, Hillary Clinton Calls Out Racist Terrorism
While Republicans are running away from the Confederate flag that they spent decades defending and embracing, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is speaking the truth about racial terrorism.
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Graham Is Right; Confederate Flag Represents Racist and Treasonous Republicans
Nearly a week after a true and loyal Confederate racist brutally murdered nine innocent African Americans worshipping in a building they assumed was a safe sanctuary from Confederates, and after several days of negative publicity and pressure, both Governor Haley and Senator Graham suddenly think that maybe a symbol of treason and racism is not playing well with decent Americans.
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Hillary Clinton Leads Scott Walker, Jeb Bush, and Marco Rubio By 8-14 Points
A Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll shows Hillary Clinton with a commanding lead over each of the top three GOP presidential candidates.
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For The First Time Ever More Americans Approve Than Disapprove Of Obamacare
According to a new CBS News/New York Times poll, for the first time ever in the poll’s history, more Americans approve than disapprove of the Affordable Care Act.
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Amazon To Pull All Confederate Flag Merchandise Off Of Its Site
Amazon has become the latest retailer to announce that they are pulling all Confederate flag merchandise off of their website.
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Voters Aren’t Buying Media Whining About Dynasties Their Concern Is Money In Politics
The press and Republicans (and some Democrats) have been pushing hard to make “dynasties” the issue of 2016. Voters aren’t buying. They are worried about money in politics. Specifically wealthy individuals and corporations buying our government. In other words, take heart, the American people are more awake than we thought. According to an NBC News/Wall…
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The White House Reminds Journalists Just How Wrong They Were About Obama’s Power
Upon the news that President Obama’s trade agenda cleared a hurdle in the Senate, the White House gently reminded journalists of their previous incorrect predictions and dire warnings of the End of Obama.
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Obama Trade Agenda Moves Forward By Barely Clearing Key Senate Hurdle 60-37
President Obama’s trade agenda barely cleared a key Senate hurdle as the Senate voted 60-37 to advance the Trade Promotion Authority bill to a final vote.
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Anonymous Launches Operation To Shut Down Westboro Baptist Church
Anonymous responded to the Westboro Baptist Church’s plan to picket the funerals of the Charleston shooting victims by launching an operation aimed at shutting down the hate group.
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Bryan Fischer Claims Confederate Flag is a Democratic Problem
Fischer ignores 150 years of history since Lincoln, including the GOP’s Southern Strategy to attract all the racists over to their party
Supreme Court Declares Warrantless Searches Of Hotel Registries Unconstitutional
The U.S. Supreme Court struck down warrantless searches of hotel registries in a 5-4 decision on Monday.
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Ben Carson Abandons Conservative Talking Points By Calling Racism Racism
In a refreshingly honest op-ed piece, Carson pulled no punches in calling the South Carolina church massacre a racist act.
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Walmart Becomes The First Store To Remove All Confederate Flag Merchandise
Walmart is leading the nation by announcing it will remove all Confederate flag merchandise from its stores.
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The Entire World Knows GOP Trickle Down Is Disastrous For Americans And The Economy
The International Monetary Fund (IMF), has finally conducted comprehensive research and reported what every conscious human being on Earth already knows like they know the Sun rises in the East; GOP trickle-down economics is a certifiable economic disaster that reliably retards economic growth, kills jobs, and increases income inequality.
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Donald Trump Thinks African American Youths Are Worse Off Under Obama Than Slavery
Asked about race relations, Donald Trump blamed Obama, saying, “African-American youth is doing worse than virtually it’s ever done.”
