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Republicans Feel No Shame Over Starving America’s Kids To Give Tax Cuts To The Rich
Republicans refuse to address child hunger outside of telling Americans to work longer hours for less pay and be happy they get paid at all
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Editorial Cartoon: Denier Buyer
Can’t wait to see Page 3 in National Geographic…
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GOP Propaganda Succeeds As 43% of Republicans Support a Military Coup Against America
Six years of anti-Obama hysteria has led to a plurality of Republicans supporting the military takeover of America
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Senator Sanders’ Criticism Of President Obama Is Baseless Historical Revision
Obama “failing to directly engage millions of voters” is not a valid complaint against the Obama Administration but revisionist history
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Kansas Secretary of State Fires State Employee For Not Attending Church
A former Kansas state employee has filed a federal wrongful termination lawsuit targeting Kansas’ Secretary of State and assistant secretary of state, Eric Rucker. The lawsuit alleges that the employee’s dismissal was founded on her refusal to attend bible and prayer services in Secretary of State Kris Kobach’s office.
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The Media Owe Hillary Clinton An Apology for Their Bogus Email Scandal
Hillary Clinton apologized for a made up email scandal that was blown way out of proportion by the MSM. Now that the DOJ has put that to rest, where is their apology to her?
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It Is Time To Prosecute Republicans For Violating the U.S. Constitution
Republicans not only have no intent in fulfilling their oath of office, they may have no idea what they are swearing to support and defend.
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Never Forget That Republicans Used 9/11 To Start Two Middle East Wars
The Bush administration used a terror attack on American soil to rack up a $6 trillion debt for two wars and are now plotting another one
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Republicans Only Allowed Religious Experts To Testify In Planned Parenthood Trial
The Republicans’ witness list was “a veritable who’s who” of evangelical anti-women’s choice experts – but no medical experts
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Republicans Have Spent 2015 Working For Foreigners, the Kochs, and Religious Extremists
Under Republican control, Congress has not laid any taxes to provide for anything, much less for the general welfare of the people,
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Victory For Education: State Supreme Court Rules Charter Schools Unconstitutional
The Washington state Supreme Court has ruled, in a very one-sided decision of 6 – 3 that charter schools are unconstitutional
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Americans Still Pay Dearly For George W. Bush’s Crusade Against Islam
The mainstream media is not reporting the continuing cost of military action against an extremist organization created by George W. Bush
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President Obama Fights For the American Workers Republicans Hate
Obama defends workers’ right to earn the federal minimum wage and overtime protections; something Republicans believe is an abomination
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Ohio Governor Kasich’s Corrupt Corporate Charter Schools Are A National Joke
Although Republicans have not had as much success transferring taxpayer funding for public education to corporations at the federal level, Republican governors have made raiding public education a bonanza for corporate charter and private religious schools.
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Republican Welfare Reform Pushed A Third Of America’s Children Into Extreme Poverty
The economy is growing for the extremely wealthy, but there were 3 million more children living in extreme poverty in 2013 than in 2008
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Evangelical Death Threats Against Planned Parenthood Are On The Rise
If history is any indication, law enforcement had better take the increase in death threats against abortion providers very seriously
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Breaking News To Evangelicals: God’s Law Does Not Supersede the U.S. Constitution
It may come as a shock to Kim Davis that in America there is no higher authority than the Constitution, no matter that she believes
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Editorial Cartoon: Gun Deaths
American men, women, and children. We’re number ONE!
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Tom Cotton Pledges To Stand With Netanyahu To Subvert American Foreign Policy
Cotton is the worst kind of traitor for standing with a foreigner, on foreign soil, and pledging his support to subvert the United States
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Hillary Clinton Is Right – Republicans Are Terrorists
The reason Republicans are attacking Clinton over non-issues is that they are terrified that she is neither intimidated by nor afraid of them
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Jeb Bush Made Millions Giving Investors Billions Of Florida Pension Funds To Lose
For Florida taxpayers, their trust in then-Governor Jeb Bush to protect their lifelong pension savings was wasted when he forged a highly-profitable relationship with Lehman Brothers that made Lehman and Bush millions. That special relationship was ultimately a certifiable disaster for Florida public employees.
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Lindsey Graham Complains That Trump Is Stealing All His “Angry White Guys”
Now that Lindsey Graham’s angry white guys have fallen in line behind Donald Trump, Graham turns to sour grapes and calls them the dark side
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Americans Should be Allowed to View the Horror of Now-Daily Mass Shootings
Every American should have the experience of seeing the sheer terror, hear the screams, and watch the bloodletting of innocent Americans
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Charles Koch Says It’s Undignified for the President to Tell the Truth About The Kochs
Charles Koch could not believe the President would do something that “flabbergasted” the dirty billionaire like telling the truth
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Planned Parenthood Strikes Back At Religious Bully Bobby Jindal
Jindal has refused to expand Medicaid in Louisiana, depriving thousands of healthcare, but says Planned Parenthood disrespects human life
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Wall Street Journal Warns Republicans Are Greatest Threat To America’s Economy
- Commentary, Elections, Featured News, Issues, Republican Party, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate
WSJ economists are fearful that Republicans will repeat their past “serious damage to the economy by harming consumer confidence”
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Poll Shows GOP Is Rapidly Losing Favor With Voters – Even Republican Voters
- Commentary, Democratic Party, Elections, Featured News, Issues, Republican Party, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, White House
Only 32% of Americans have a favorable impression of the Republican Party, while after 6 months of raving lunacy, 60% have an unfavorable view
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Florida GOP Proves It Is Dysfunctional As Legislature Implodes Over Redistricting Fight
The Florida legislature imploded on Friday as the Senate and House couldn’t agree on how to redraw the state’s legislative districts.
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The Hijacking of Bernie Sanders’ Message by A Small Group Of Elitist White Progressives
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is a man who has always advocated for the underdogs, for women, for minorities. And so it’s exceptionally ironic and troubling that his campaign is being hijacked by priggish, self-satisfied, angry white progressives.
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Tea Party Insurgent Kelli Ward Leads John McCain In Arizona GOP Senate Race Poll
A Kelli Ward victory over McCain would increase the odds for Democrat Rep. Kirkpatrick to win the general election and become US Senator.
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Racist Trump Tries To Link Baltimore And Ferguson Uprisings To Illegal Immigrant Gangs
Donald Trump continued his war on illegal immigrants, by blaming them for recent civil unrest in Baltimore and Ferguson.
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GOP’s Favorite Socialist Program Lost $8.5 Trillion And Will Bankrupt America
It is a common Pentagon practice to “regularly cheat on its accounting books” by submitting a falsely balanced budget to the Treasury
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Don’t Focus On Trump – He Is A Distraction From Seriously Dangerous Republicans
- Commentary, Democratic Party, Elections, Featured News, Issues, Other News, Republican Party, White House
The vile remarks Trump made about Mexican immigrants during his campaign kickoff speech were staples of GOP candidates going back to 2010
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This is Republican Immigration Reform: Slavery, Drone Attacks And Shredding the Constitution
Conservative bigots love the idea of shredding the Constitution’s 13th and 14th Amendments in place of actual immigration reform
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They’re Serious: Republicans Actively Calling To Shred the Constitution
- Commentary, Elections, Featured News, Issues, Republican Party, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, U.S. Supreme Court
The 14th Amendment grants citizenship to anyone born on U.S. soil. The GOP want to shred the Constitution to revert to legal white supremacy
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Threat Of Violent Revolution If Anti-Immigration Candidate Donald Trump Is Not Elected In 2016
Larry Klayman is a perpetually angry white man upset about what his pea-brain imagines is “the growing tyranny” of the Obama Administration
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Former Reagan And Bush Senior Policy Advisor Says Trump Exposes Crazy and Stupid In The GOP
Bruce Bartlett says policies don’t matter for the GOP, only attitude. “And Trump has exactly the right ‘chip on your shoulder’ attitude”
Conservative Prays For Katrina-Like Disaster In Chicago To Give Corporations Government Control
Instead of noting how inept the Bush response to help tens-of-thousands of Americans was, or mourning the loss of 1,800 lives, this sick psychotic conservative hoped that an equally-catastrophic disaster would strike the city of Chicago.
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Editorial Cartoon: JIMMY
The Earth is our habitat and Jimmy fought to improve lives everywhere on this planet.
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Donald Trump Advises Automakers To Kill Jobs To Increase Corporate Profits
Trump’s plan to help U.S. automakers sounds an awful lot like Mitt Romney’s underhanded tactics at Bain Capital
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Inaction In the Bundy Standoff Legitimizes Anti-Government Sedition In Montana
Republicans are guilty of inciting insurrection against the authority of the United States by supporting armed, anti-government militias
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Bernie Sanders’ “Racial Justice Platform” Wins Praise From Black Lives Matter
As racial justice platforms go, even though it appears to have taken some pressure from desperate activists, it is beyond dispute that Senator Sanders hit a grand slam; it is no wonder he won praise.
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Heavily-Armed White Oath Keepers Roam Ferguson Streets As Police Order Protesters To Disperse
On the anniversary of Michael Brown’s murder, a group of heavily armed white militiamen paraded around playing army, and looking for trouble
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Democrat Charles Schumer Joins Lindsey Graham and Benjamin Netanyahu’s Lust For War
- Commentary, Democratic Party, Featured News, Issues, Republican Party, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, White House
Schumer (D-Israel), announced he was joining forces with war monger Graham (R-Israel) to thwart the UN’s P5+1 nuclear deal with Iran
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Conservatives Go Mad Because Netflix Announces A Year’s Unlimited Paid Maternity Leave
The conservative attacks on Netflix appear to be a typical Chamber of Commerce, ALEC, and Americans for Prosperity attack on American workers
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7-Year-Old Banished Student Feels Wrath Of Evangelical’s Religious Freedom
In February of this year, a seven-year-old 2nd grade student in Indiana was “banished” from having any contact with other students because his teacher, a playground supervisor, and a school administrator concluded that the child’s “bad ideas” persecuted (offended) another student.
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Trump Edges Bush, Crushes Rubio With Florida Republican Voters
Neither Bush nor Rubio appears to be in a strong position to carry their home state, as they both trail Donald Trump in the latest poll.
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Conservative Attacks On Trump May Backfire By Encouraging Him To Run As A Spoiler In 2016
If the conservative media and the GOP establishment take down Trump, he may decide to deliver payback by running a spoiler campaign.
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Charles Koch Admits He Needs More Power To Control The Government
- Commentary, Elections, Featured News, Issues, Republican Party, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, U.S. Supreme Court
Most Americans are unaware, tragically, that America is dangerously close to becoming a fully-fledged plutocracy run by the Koch brothers
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Scientific Studies and Fox Presidential Debate Prove Republican Voters Are Stupid
Conservatives are innately stupid and frightened, so Republicans know their absurd and mendacious statements will resonate with their base
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Kochs And ALEC Make War Against Americans And Pope Francis Public
The mainstream media is finally reporting that the Koch’s legislative arm ALEC is moving into the open to prevent action on climate change
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Another GOP Threat of Violence: Chris Christie Will “Punch Teachers In Their Faces”
The latest Republican presidential candidate to express his predilection to use violence against other Americans is New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.
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Dirty Liar Charles Koch Campaigns As An Advocate For the Poor
The only regard Charles or David Koch have for the poor is keeping them in poverty and subjugated to the rich at any cost
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Conservatives Force College Board To Revise History Classes To Fit Conservative Ideology
Republicans are opposed to an educated populace as a means of sustaining their ignorant electoral base and one particular subject has evoked outrage among conservatives because it is impossible to deny.
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Anti-Public School Evangelicals Now Control Alabama and Texas Education Boards
It is obvious that the owner of a professional sports franchise, say a National Football League team, would only hire a hair-stylist who detests, and has never played, the game of football as a general manager and head coach if they wanted their team to fail miserably. That is an absurd idea, but it is precisely what two religious Republican governors who want to decimate their state’s public education system did in appointing evangelical anti-public education fanatics to run their state’s public school systems.
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While Other Candidates Tap Millionaires, Sanders Campaign Is Fueled By Small Donations
Bernie Sanders’ campaign is a grassroots movement, while most of the other campaigns are backed by millionaires and billionaires.
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Cowardly Americans Tremble In Fear While A Courageous Nun Defends Women
- Commentary, Featured News, Feminism, Issues, Republican Party, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate
The GOP is opposed to providing for the general welfare of anyone but corporations, the filthy rich, and especially the extremely religious
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Donald Trump Exposes Koch Republicans As Glaring Fascists
Republicans have tapped into the religious and conservative negative reaction to 21st Century modernity, or social progress as it is called
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Federal Appeals Court Dealt McConnell And the Kochs A Bad Day
The Appellate Court ruled that the ban on federal campaign contributions by individuals who contract with the government is constitutional. The takeaway from the ruling, besides putting a damper on McConnell’s political life, is that regardless the push by the Koch-Republicans and two horrendous rulings by Koch acolytes on the Supreme Court, 11 appellate judges firmly believe there is too much money in politics and that more “can be a very bad thing.”
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Editorial Cartoon: BSA not Anti-Gay
Another bastion of homophobia falls
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Convicted Felon Who Killed “Cecil” the Lion Mirrors Republican Cruelty Toward Americans
Republican policies and practices towards wild beasts are not unlike their barbarism and cruelty targeting women, people of color, and others
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Appeals Court Thwarts Evangelical Pharmacists’ Objections To Filling Prescriptions
The ruling and the assertion that a religious fanatic is treated the same as a secular person will not sit well with theocrats.
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Editorial Cartoon: Huckabee
This could apply to the entire crowd of Republican candidates, but Huckabee gets the personal honors for his remarks about Obama and the Iran deal…
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Mike Huckabee Compares President Obama To Nazis Exterminating Jews
Huckabee, who believed in diplomacy for white presidents, claims that Obama “will take the Israelis and march them to the door of the oven”
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Editorial Cartoon: Muzzle
Something for the loudmouth who doesn’t quite have everything he needs
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Bobby Jindal Is Wrong; Louisiana Mass Shooting Is The NRA Norm
No sane human being would think to regard something normal as awful, except when a common occurrence founded on a group’s twisted values and behaviors is exposed for all the world to see; then it is prudent to label “normal” as awful.
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Jeb Bush And Scott Walker Campaign To Impress the Koch Brothers, Not the People
It would be difficult for even Fox News to argue against the idea that Republicans only campaign, and act, according to the will of the Koch brothers, and two candidates for the Republican presidential nomination are already vying to impress, and best serve the interests of, the Koch brothers, not the American people.
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Democrats Drill Republicans By Hitting Them In The Koch With Supreme Court Ethics Bill
It is an affront to Americans, and frankly the rule of law, that every judge is held to ethical standards except the 9 Supreme Court Justices
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Christians Are Evangelicals’ New Enemy In Marriage Equality War
It is a sad fact of life that there are some human beings who cannot exist without expressing animosity, or worse, deep and extremely emotional dislike directed against individuals, groups or ideas. Indeed, hatred is nearly always associated with feelings of intense anger, unwarranted disgust and an unhealthy pre-disposition towards hostility and violence. It is…
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First I Shook Jeb’s Hand; Then I Shook My Head
- Commentary, Elections, Issues, Media, Republican Party, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, White House
A 2013 Gallup Poll of 65 countries that considered the U.S. the greatest threat to world peace. Elect Jeb Bush and that number will double.
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Federal Appeals Court Upholds Ruling Overturning North Dakota’s Strict Anti-Abortion Law
A federal appeals court upheld a 2014 ruling blocking North Dakota’s fetal heartbeat anti-abortion law from going into effect.
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Poll Of Three Crucial Swing States Shows Sanders May Be More Electable Than Clinton
A new swing state poll provides evidence that Sanders, not Clinton, may represent the Democrats’ best hope for winning in 2016.
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Struggling To Stay Relevant, Rand Paul Takes Chainsaw To US Tax Code
Presidential hopeful Kentucky Senator Rand Paul released a video of him carving up pages of the tax code with a chainsaw.
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Mitch McConnell Wants To Rob Pensions To Fund Highway Repairs
As long as the Kochs own Congress, Republicans will propose robbing the elderly to pay for projects that benefit the rich and corporations
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IL Newspaper Crushes Sen. Kirk’s Moderate Reputation By Calling Him A Loud-Mouthed Radical
A local newspaper lashed out at Kirk’s extreme rhetoric on the Iran deal, calling him the love child of Michele Bachmann and Ted Cruz.
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Time To Stop Treating Jeb Bush As A Serious Candidate As He Dips to 7 Percent In Iowa Poll
A Monmouth Poll finds former Florida Governor Jeb Bush is polling just 7 percent with likely Iowa Republican caucus voters.
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Liar And Not-A-Scientist Boehner Blames California Drought On President Obama
Republican politicians thrive on the seemingly increasing stupidity of many Americans and they have learned exactly how to address their ignorant base
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American Taxpayers Fund the Largest Christian College In America and the World
Using taxpayer-funded federal aid is a critical part of Liberty University’s business model to create a “uniquely Republican” education program
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Republicans In Congress Push A Federal Evangelical License To Discriminate Law
So what evangelical Republicans in Congress came up with this week is a “novel” piece of federal legislation that mirrors the rash of religious Republican state schemes to legalize discrimination against the LGBT community.
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The Koch-Congress Is Gutting The EPA While The Media Is Silent
As the leading industrial nations in the world are working feverishly to combat climate change, Koch-Republicans work to further the damage
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Editorial Cartoon: Escape Tunnel
Gotta love that demagoguery, which is why he leads in the GOP polls.
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Israeli Netanyahu And GOP React To Iran Deal Like Petulant Little Brats
This idea that Israel, or Netanyahu, has unfettered purview of America’s foreign policy is a legacy of the Bush administration
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Scott Walker Says Poverty Pay Is A Living Wage
It is likely that Walker’s idea that poverty wages are living wages came directly from the Kochs, who see American workers as peasants
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Jeb Bush Is Promoting The Koch-Republican Job-Killing Economic Agenda
Bush, like every Republican, ignores the truth about American labor and his pathetic attempt to walk back his assault on workers fooled no-one considering it is his Party that has waged a brutal war on American workers for years.
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With A Stroke Of His Pen, President Obama Renders Hobby Lobby Ruling Obsolete
According to the Catholic justices’ ruling, the Obama Administration ‘must’ provide an accommodation for “religious” for-profit corporations and on Friday, President Obama did just that in response to the High Court’s decision. In fact, what President Obama did was effectively neuter the Hobby Lobby ruling and ensure that all women, even those employed by ‘religious corporations,’ will still have birth control covered at no cost to them; even if their evangelical employers object and refuse to provide it.
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Obama Passes Rule To Guarantee Birth Control Coverage For All Working Women
The Obama administration’s Department of Health and Human Services has issued a rule that will guarantee all working women access to contraceptive coverage, even if their employers express religious objections to providing that coverage.
