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Trickle-Down to Keep-the-Worker-Down: It’s Not the “Skills Gap” Driving Down Wages
Witness the reality of the GOP’s keep-the worker-down economics and its persistent drive to re-distribute wealth from the bottom to the top
Monthly Archives: December 2015
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It’s Nearly 2016 – Time For Democrats To Embrace Reality And Be Pragmatic
It is apparent that Democrats are on pace to repeat the electoral debacle of 2010 that allowed conservatives to take control of Congress
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New Year Wishes and a Warning: Stay Vigilant!
New Year is coming with mixed tidings, the good with the bad, with genuine evil in its wake, a Republican wrecking ball aimed right at us
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Bernie Sanders Destroys “Pathological Liar” Trump For Lying About His Tax Plan
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders ripped Donald Trump apart after the billionaire lied about the Sanders tax plan.
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Trump Digs The Hole Deeper As He Justifies His Creepy Sexism By Blaming Hillary Clinton
Speaking in Hilton Head, South Carolina today, the Republican front-runner Donald Trump continued on with his juvenile refusal to take responsibility for his own actions and words.
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Pressure Grows On Temple To Cut Ties With Bill Cosby After Sexual Assault Arrest Warrant
Pressure is growing from advocates around the country for Temple University to finally cut all ties with Bill Cosby after an arrest warrant was issued against the comedian in connection with a sexual assault against a former Temple employee.
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The Religious Right Loves Trump Because They Share A Dangerous Mindset
The rise of Trump, like the rise of the religious right, is the predictable outcome of Reagan transforming the GOP into a vehicle for theocracy
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The Low Information Republican Party is Wrong About Everything
The Republican Party has made politics a celebration of literally knowing nothing about anything, but feeling very strongly about it
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Thanks To Obama’s Executive Action 5 Million Workers Will Get A Raise In 2016
In 2016, 5 million US workers are going to get the overtime pay that they deserve thanks to President Obama’s executive action.
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Trump Busted With New Evidence That He Believes Hillary Clinton Will Be A Great President
The Trump facade is crumbling as evidence has surfaced that Donald Trump doesn’t really believe what he is saying. In a 2008 blog post, Donald Trump endorsed Clinton by saying that she would be a great president or vice president.
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Obama Wipes Out GOP Failure As Median Household Income Returns To Pre-Recession Levels
At long last, median household income has finally recovered from the Bush Recession. You know, the one Republicans denied existed but actually started in 2007.
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Krugman: Trump Distracts From the GOP Pledge To Double Down On W. Bush Policies
Krugman says the GOP establishment is determined “to take whatever didn’t work from 2001 to 2008 and do it again in a more extreme form”
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Insurrectionist Larry Klayman Names Obama 2015’s Muslim of the Year
Insurrectionist Larry Klayman claims “no other Muslim” has done more to “further Allah’s goal of a Christian and Jew-free world”
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The Big Dog (Bill Clinton) May Take A Bite Out Of Trump While Campaigning For Hillary Clinton
The Clinton campaign announced that former President Bill Clinton will be in New Hampshire to campaign for former Sec. of State Hillary Clinton. It is a safe bet that he will have a few choice words for Donald Trump.
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DNC Member Endorses Bernie Sanders In Nevada
Democratic National Committee superdelegate and women’s advocate Erin Bilbray endorsed Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders in Nevada today.
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Fox News Is Literally Dying Of Old Age As Younger Viewers Refuse To Watch Fox
Audience data for 2015 contains bad news for Fox News. Fox continues to march towards extinction as the average age of Fox News, primetime viewers is stuck at 68, while the revitalized CNN saw their average viewer age drop to 59.
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A Cowardly Donald Trump Attacks Hillary Clinton for Being Cheated On
A scared Donald Trump warned former Sec. of State Hillary Clinton that if she’s going to unleash Bill Clinton on Trump, she better not play the “women’s card” on him.
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Reagan Started the GOP’s Fascism Destroying America From Within
Reagan ushered in the first step of fascism, economic stagnation, when his extremist trickle down economic theory was imposed on the nation
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Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton Most Admired Man and Woman
Gallup shows Barack Obama and HIllary Clinton are the man and woman most admired by Americans, both of them head and shoulders above Trump
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Republicans Only Have Religious Freedom Because The Founders Created A Secular Nation
If these evangelicals in the Republican ranks had even the slightest clue how fortunate they are to live in a secular society they might rein in the perpetual sniping that their religious rights are being abridged by a secular government.
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Democrats Are Setting Donald Trump Up For A Bill Clinton Beat Down
Political amateur Donald Trump is being set up to be taken apart by one of the greatest political minds and communicators in modern presidential history. Trump is about to be taken apart by former President Bill Clinton.
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A Terrified Trump Throws A Twitter Tantrum After Bernie Sanders Truth Bombs His Lies
A terrified Donald Trump threw a temper tantrum on Twitter after Bernie Sanders obliterated the billionaire by fact bombing his lies.
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Bernie Sanders Rips The Mask Off Of Trump To Reveal A Fraud Who Hates Working People
During an interview on CBS’ Face The Nation, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders unmasked Trump and revealed a billionaire candidate who is out to cut taxes for the rich while screwing over working class Americans.
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The Liberal Project Goes into Another Year, Weathered but Unbeaten
The liberal project’s foe is a conservative ideology that de-legitimizes other modes of thought, compromise and a thought for the common weal
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Donald Trump Dishonestly Claims Obama Won’t Deport Criminals
Trump claims Obama isn’t deporting criminals, but this is a Republican lie often told, and often refuted
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Bill O’Reilly Attacks on Muslims Another Facet of GOP Revisionist History
Bill O’Reilly dishonestly claims that Germans looked the other way when Hitler rose to power and that Muslims are doing the same with ISIL
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No Surprise That Donald Trump Is Aiding ISIS and The Ku Klux Klan
Using the ISIS playbook, Trump has become, for the KKK “the greatest thing to happen to white supremacists,” likely since legalized lynching
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Obama Looks To Dominate 2016 With Major Executive Actions On Guns And GITMO
President Obama is eyeing up major executive actions for his final year in office. The President is considering executive actions that would expand gun background checks and close GITMO.
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Porter Ranch California Disaster Darkens Holiday…What About Watts?
The predominately working poor neighborhood of Watts is still enduring their own man-made disaster since 2000 and maybe earlier
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President Obama To SCOTUS – Butt Out of Colorado’s Pot Law
Republicans in two states are appealing to SCOTUS to empower them to abolish another state’s rights to pass a law Republicans do not like
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David Barton Finds Someone Dishonest Enough to Republish His Jefferson Lies
David Barton got his book of lies about Jefferson back into print again, thanks to the liars at World Net Daily, a match made in hell
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Bernie Sanders Confronts CNN And Get Them To Admit Their Pro-Trump Bias
During an interview on CNN, Democratic presidential candidate got Chris Cuomo to admit that the media is biased towards Republicans and Donald Trump.
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A Very Texas Christmas – Evangelicals Force Another Nativity Scene To Be Taken Down
Texas’ governor claimed that the sentiment that others celebrate the holidays in their own way was bullying and persecuting Christians
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A Desperate Mike Huckabee Lambastes Ted Cruz as Inauthentic
Mike Huckabee grasps like a sinking man to the missteps of Ted Cruz, but even Ted Cruz could never be bad enough to save Huckabee
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Republicans Crushed As Obamacare Enrollment Nearly Doubles With Young People
The Obama administration announced today that ACA enrollment has increased by 1.8 million over last year and that enrollment has nearly doubled with young people compared to the same time in 2014.
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Republican Attacks Backfire As Support For Abortion Rights Hits A 2 Year High
Republican attacks against Planned Parenthood, which symbolizes choice in conservative circles even though Planned Parenthood does so much more than abortion, have backfired big time with the public. Support for abortion rights has hit a 2 year high, and with independents’ support gaining by 11 points.
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Bernie Sanders Uses His Record Setting Fundraising To Aggressively Expand In Nevada
The Bernie Sanders campaign is using their record-setting fundraising to aggressively extend the battlefield for the Democratic nomination into Nevada.
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Republicans Faceplant As Rand Paul Doubles Down On Trump’s Sexist Attack On Hillary Clinton
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) doubled down on Donald Trump’s vulgar obsession with Clinton’s bathroom breaks, last seen during Trump’s she got “schlonged” rant.
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Ted Cruz Busted On Secret Tape Admitting That His Core Positions Are Fake
In a secret recording, Ted Cruz admitted that he doesn’t really believe what he is trying to sell to Republican voters and that if elected president, a Cruz administration would not fight same-sex marriage. He also backed off of his positions on issues like abortion and common core.
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Don’t Be Fooled By Poll Suggesting Half Of America Would Be Ashamed of a Trump Presidency
A survey shows 58% of Americans know Trump is neither honest nor trustworthy, yet the same percentage like his strong leadership qualities
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Bizarre Evangelical Theories Can’t Explain Away the Problem of Dinosaurs
Finding a place for dinosaurs and man has been a tough sell for Evangelicals, but do a couple of solutions offer themselves? No, not really.
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Genocidal Tendencies Do Not Make Trump and Putin Christian Champions
One of Trump’s devoted followers would have you believe Trump is a super-Christian, but Trump echoes the Old, not the New Testament
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Paul Krugman Says Trump and Cruz Are George W. Bush Reincarnations. He’s Right
Trump is simply a reiteration of Bush; the man who contributed to the dumbing down of America so maniacal conservatives could appear sane
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Hillary Clinton Drops A Sanity Bomb By Treating Donald Trump Like He Is Sarah Palin
Hillary Clinton treated Donald Trump like President Obama treated Sarah Palin today when she was asked about Trump’s outrageously sexist comments about her.
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Both Clinton And Sanders Play Possum As Democrats Dodge Front Runner Status
It seems that neither Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders wants the label of front runner before Christmas. The Democratic campaigns each sent out pitches downplaying their chances of fundraising success.
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More Than 200,000 Viewers Sign Petition Demanding CNN and MSNBC Stop Promoting Trump
Viewers are noticing the extreme amount of airtime that CNN and MSNBC are devoting to Donald Trump, and they don’t like it. Over 200,000 viewers have signed a petition telling the two cable networks to stop promoting Trump’s “racist and homophobic” campaign.
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Another Big Win For Obama As Health Care Cost Rising At Slowest Rate Since 1961
.The revised third quarter economic data contained some good news for President Obama and Democrats as thanks to Obamacare; healthcare costs have risen at their slowest rate since 1961.
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Scott Walker Corruption Case Explodes As Gov. May Face Justice For Alleged Crimes
The Republican majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court thought that they killed the Scott Walker corruption case over the summer, but prosecutors aren’t giving up and preparing to file an appeal to the US Supreme Court.
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Donald Trump Hands Victory To Democrats After Vulgar and Sexist Attack Against Hillary Clinton
Mr. Trump felt the desperate need to attack Hillary Clinton for using a bathroom and then said that she got “schlonged”.
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Please Do Tell, Benham Brothers, Why We Liberals Hate Christmas
The Benham brothers don’t experience reality like the rest of us, so their explanation of why we liberals hate Christmas is rather bizarre
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President Obama Pays Back Birthers By Becoming The Trump Killer In Chief
President Obama is payback the nation’s biggest birther turned Republican front runner by becoming the Trump killer in chief.
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Donald Trump Told So Many Lies Fact Checkers Couldn’t Pick Just One for Lie of the Year
Winning Lie of the Year award because out of 77 statements checked, 76 of them were found to be mostly false to false to pants on fire lies, it’s Republican front-runner Donald Trump.
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President Obama Nails The Media For Whipping Up Fear To Get Ratings
President Obama is calling out the media for trying the scare the American people about terrorism in order to boost ratings.
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Like A Lump Of Coal in Republican Stockings: Donald Trump Is Not Going Anywhere
That big, loud Tartuffe oaf running off at the mouth who thinks killing journalists is no biggie is a real candidate. Donald Trump is not a Republican joke. He is a Republican candidate.
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Another Republican Bites The Dust As Lindsey Graham Drops Out Of Presidential Race
Lindsey Graham claimed that since most of the Republicans now support sending American troops back to Iraq and Syria, his campaign has been successful, so he is quitting the presidential race.
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Bush Created ISIS – Not Hillary Rodham Clinton
Bush’s response to 9/11 played directly into Osama bin Laden’s hands and provided a recruiting tool groups like ISIS could not exist without
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Pathological Liar Donald Trump Calls Sanders and Clinton Liars
We have seen how Bernie Sanders stepped bravely into the lion’s den and called out Trump as a pathological liar Sunday. While Sanders was speaking truth to power, Trump was busy accusing Hillary Clinton of being the liar. At the Democratic Debate Saturday Hillary Clinton called out Trump’s rhetoric, saying ISIL is using videos of…
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Democratic Debate; Little Hyperbole, Just Reasonable Solutions
Any objective observer would note that there is far less hysteria and more reasonable and thoughtful attempts to solve the problems that vex most Americans.
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Stop Praising A Koch Victory That Increases Climate Change and Enriches the Oil Industry
No wonder Republicans were praising themselves; just one unrelated-to-spending rider in a spending bill gave the Kochs tens-of-billions annually and endangered Americans lives and well-being; it is what Koch Republicans regard as a win-win.
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Bernie Sanders Sets New Fundraising Record As Network News Blackout Can’t Stop Him
The corporate broadcast network’s have virtually ignored Bernie Sanders, but that hasn’t stopped the Democratic presidential candidate from breaking President Obama’s record for most campaign contributions in a year.
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Gutless Paul Ryan Turns Yellow And Refuses To Criticize Trump’s Racism
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan was given two chances to criticize Trump’s racism and bigotry on Meet The Press and both times Ryan refused to call out the Republican frontrunner.
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Donald Trump Is So Easily Swayed by Flattery That He Defends Putin
Trump was just drunk on the praise, so drunk that he had to repeat it for the audience. Putin said I’m brilliant. Trump then proceeded to defend Putin against accusations that he kills journalists.
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Bernie Sanders Says What Republican Cowards Won’t: Trump Is A Pathological Liar
During an interview on ABC’s This Week, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders had the guts to do what Republicans are too afraid to do. Sanders called Donald Trump a pathological liar.
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Fox News’ Kimberly Guilfoyle Would Turn Gitmo Into a Death Camp
Guilfoyle exclaimed, “Just kill them all and close Gitmo, that’s fine. They don’t have to come here, they don’t have to stay there.”.
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5 Reasons To Be Glad That You Watched The ABC Democratic Debate
Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton unify the Democratic Party, and four other reasons to be glad that you watched the Democratic debate.
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Here Are The Winners And Losers From The ABC Democratic Presidential Debate
Here are the winners and losers from the ABC Democratic presidential debate.
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Democrats Unite As Sanders Apologizes To Clinton And His Supporters For Data Breach
The Democratic candidates came together during the ABC News presidential debate to agree to put the data breach scandal behind them as Bernie Sanders apologized for to both to Hillary Clinton and his supporters.
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The So-Called First Amendment Defense Act Will Destroy the First Amendment
Feeling persecuted by people suddenly having equal rights, GOP bigots developed legislation protecting just one set of beliefs – their own
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Islamophobes Closed A Virginia County’s Schools and Caused A Tenured Professor’s Suspension
Both the school district shuttering and University suspension center around the GOP and evangelical movement’s current cause, Islamophobia
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Obama Delivers A Dose Of Optimism and Levels Republicans With A Christmas Fact Bomb
President Obama delivered a lump a coal to Republicans by dropping a Chrismas fact bomb and listing 10 reasons why the American people should be optimistic heading into 2016.
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Bernie Sanders Camp Hopes DNC Fight Boosts Their Campaign
Months of tensions finally boiled over, and the Bernie Sanders campaign finally got the fight that they have been aching for with the DNC.
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UN Security Council Announces Road Map for Peace in Syria
The UN, if not the GOP, has announced a cohesive peace plan for Syria, one that does not involve carpet bombing till the sand glows
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DNC Reverses Decision And Gives Bernie Sanders Back Access To His Voter Files
Facing a hearing before a federal judge, the DNC reversed course and gave the Bernie Sanders campaign back immediate access to their voter files.
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Friday Fox Follies – Watters’ World Weary Warrior
Seeing as how it’s December 18th, this will be Friday Fox Follies last chance to report on the Phony War on Christmas this year, as well as expose Jesse Watters as one of the worst personalities appearing on the Fox “News” Channel.
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Hillary Clinton Urges Quick Resolution Of Lawsuit And Return Of Bernie Sanders Voter Files
The Hillary Clinton campaign is urging Democrats to come together for a quick resolution of the Bernie Sanders/DNC lawsuit. The campaign also wants Sanders to access to his voter files right away.
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Paul Ryan Brags Up GOP Priorities – Not the Middle Class, But Big Oil and Corporations
Ryan says he wants to protect us from the overreach of intrusive government bureaucracies but he really wants to protect his corporate owners
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Hillary Clinton Campaign Accuses Sanders Camp Of Stealing Data And Maybe Breaking The Law
During a conference call with reporters, including PoliticusUSA, Hillary Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook accused the Sanders campaign misrepresenting the data breach. The Clinton camp is accusing Sanders staffers of stealing data that revealed the strategy of the Clinton campaign in early voting states.
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Hillary Clinton Asks the DNC and Sanders Campaign to Protect Her Campaign’s Data
Upon the revelation of the campaign’s data breach by Senator Bernie Sanders’ campaign, the Clinton campaign called for protection of the Clinton campaign’s data.
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Bernie Sanders Campaign Files A Federal Lawsuit Against The DNC
The Sanders campaign has followed through on their threat by filing a complaint in federal court against the DNC for freezing them out of their own data.
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Fired Sanders Staffer Claims He Was Only Trying To Document Security Vulnerability
Fired Sanders campaign staffer Josh Uretsky said that he accessed the Clinton voter file data in an attempt to document fully the scope of the security problem so that it could be accurately reported to the DNC.
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Democrats Celebrate Christmas Early With Huge Victories In The Bipartisan Omnibus
Leader Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) office sent out a memo detailing Democratic wins in the Omnibus and in the Senate, Al Franken (D-MN) praised the bipartisan agreement for extend several renewable energy incentives and making working family tax credits permanent.
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Obama Ends A Great Year By Reminding Republicans Of All Of His 2015 Wins
President Obama used a few moments of his end of the year press conference to remind Republicans and the American people of the many successes of his administration in 2015.
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Bernie Sanders Accuses DNC Of Undermining Campaign And Threatens Federal Lawsuit
At a press conference, Bernie Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver accused the DNC of trying to undermine the Sanders campaign. The campaign is threatening to take the DNC to federal court if they do not allow Sanders access to his own data.
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Government Spending Bill Headed To Obama’s Desk After Sailing Through Congress
The House and Senate easily passed an omnibus bill that funds the government through September 30, 2016. The bill will be signed by President Obama as soon as it hits his desk, as lawmakers are heading home for Christmas.
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Fox Devotee Arrested For Making Terrorist Threats – Now Arrest Fox News’ Employees
A Fox News commenter in Washington state, Scott Anthony Orton, was finally arrested for posting terrorist threats aimed at StemExpress
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Religious Right Leaders Rally Behind…Ted Cruz
Hate group leader Tony Perkins got Religious Right bosses to rally behind proven hater Ted Cruz, but will it make a difference?
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Bernie Sanders Rolls Into Debate With New Momentum After Snagging 2 Big Endorsements
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is set to roll into Saturday’s presidential debate with endorsements from Democracy For America and the Communication Workers of America (CWA).
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House Republicans Introduce A War on Christmas Resolution
It was inevitable that at some point, the radicalized United States House of Representatives would become involved in an official way, in the imaginary “War on Christmas” Fox News works so hard to sell in between their “Happy Holiday” breaks:
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President Obama Shows What Real Family Values Look Like In Bear Grylls Interview
“Really, that’s incredible… and that’s such a statement for family first,” Bear Grylls says to President Barack Obama as the President discusses his tradition of having dinner every night with his family.
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Bernie Sanders Makes History And Sets A New Record By Surpassing 2 Million Donations
The Bernie Sanders campaign has accomplished something that no other non-incumbent presidential campaign has ever done. Bernie Sanders donors have made more than 2 million contributions so far in 2015.
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Half Of America is Now Impoverished Because the Koch-Republicans Destroyed the Middle Class
The percentage of middle-class households dropped in every state in the Union between 2000 and 2013, along with median income
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Donald Trump Freaks Out Because Syrian Refugees Have Cell Phones
Donald Trump wants to know why Syrian refugees have cell phones, who they might be calling, and who is paying for them, ‘hint, hint.’
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Hillary Clinton Hits Disgraceful Republicans For Holding 9/11 Responders Healthcare Hostage
Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton hammered Congressional Republicans for allowing 9/11 responder healthcare to expire so that they could use it as a bargaining chip in negotiations to keep the federal government open.
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Bernie Sanders Shreds The Republicans Candidates For Promising To Undermine The Constitution
During an interview on MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders called out the Republican presidential hopefuls for proposals that would undermine the US Constitution.
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Fact Checkers Bust Carly Fiorina For False Attack On President Obama
Fiorina’s attempt to attack President Obama as a weak leader hated by generals, all of whom she claimed to know and implied she could get back to work lickity split, was rated “Mostly False” by Politifact.
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Ted Cruz Is Under Investigation For Possibly Leaking Classified Information During Debate
Sen. Ted Cruz is under investigation after he potentially revealed classified information during the CNN Republican presidential debate.
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Trump Supporter Shouts “Sieg Heil” As African American Protester Is Removed
It was bound to happen sooner rather than later, but although everyone knew it was coming it was still a little disconcerting to hear an official Nazi call for idol worship and victory at a political rally for the Republican frontrunner for the party’s presidential nomination.
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Hillary Clinton Takes to Twitter and Owns the Republican Debaters
While the Republican candidates were embarrassing themselves on CNN, Hillary Clinton was busy embarrassing them on Twitter
