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President Obama Designates Three More National Monuments, Brings His Total In Office To 19
On Friday, President Barack Obama designated three new National Monuments in the Western United States.
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Don’t Believe GOP Criticism – Donald Trump Speaks For The Party And The Base
Donald Trump’s truly vicious remarks targeting Hispanic immigrants exposed conservative racism that permeates the Republican base
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Colorado Supreme Court Rules Using Public School Money For Private Religious Instruction is Unconstitutional
The poor performance of deliberately underfunded public schools allows legislators to siphon off funds to religious institutions in the name of education.
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Note To Evangelical Republicans: This Is America, Love It Or Leave It
Evangelical Republicans hate America with religious passion because the Founding Fathers did not create a Christian theocracy
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Koch Brothers Are Ramping Up To Eliminate National Parks And Seize Federal Lands
a Koch and ExxonMobil-funded organization is calling for an end to national parks and privatization of all federally-owned land.
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Surprise! Hillary Clinton Is Farther Left Than Senator Bernie Sanders
- Commentary, Democratic Party, Elections, Featured News, Hillary Clinton, Issues, U.S. Senate, White House
For the record, then-Senator Hillary Clinton, like many Democrats, voted against the PLCAA which protects gun and ammo sellers from liability
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New Report Reveals GOP-Aligned Extremists Are The Greatest Threat To Americans
There is hardly a bigger motivator than fear, and it is a fact not lost on Republicans who prey on Americans’ fear of all things not conservative, but especially those foreign “extremists.” Of course, some Americans are acutely aware that the biggest threat to their safety, and the nation, is from American extremists in the…
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Texas A.G. Ken Paxton Orders State Officials to Violate Texas’ Religious Freedom Law
It is prescient that the top law enforcement officer in Texas, Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton, is either completely ignorant of the provisions ensconced in the Texas RFRA, or he is aware of the law’s protection of Texans’ civil rights and still says they do not apply to the LGBT community because…bible, god, religious freedom, judicial tyranny, and opposition to the U.S. Constitution.
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It Is Time For Americans To Declare Their Independence From GOP Religious Oligarchy
- Commentary, Featured News, Issues, Republican Party, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, U.S. Supreme Court
Americans should take time today to reflect on just how far the nation has drifted from the Founders’ “we the people” sentiment.
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Oklahoma Supreme Court Shocker: Earthquake Lawsuit Against Oil Industry Can Proceed
It was encouraging, then, that in a Republican-controlled state virtually owned by the oil industry, a High Court issued a procedural ruling that has the potential to hold the oil industry liable for injuring Oklahoma residents and damaging their property.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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…
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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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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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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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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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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It’s Not War Crimes, But Bush Officials Can Be Sued For Post 9/11 Violations
According to a recent ruling by the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, Bush administration officials did take part in “grave constitutional violations” after the 9/11 terror attacks. The Appellate Court revived a ‘long-running’ lawsuit against the Bush administration brought by mostly Muslim immigrants
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Religious House Republicans Plan To Deny Contraception Access to 4.6 Million Women
- Commentary, Featured News, Feminism, Issues, Republican Party, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Supreme Court
There is no other reason for Republicans to try defunding Title X than denying family planning services and contraception from women.
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Editorial Cartoon: Notches
A friend wrote, “Hatred is at fault for a lot, but I really think it’s important to define this particular act of terrorism as racism. Not just a generalised hatred, but a very specific form of hatred, aimed at a large group of innocent people.
One of the deadliest and most dangerous diseases in our Country is racism, and I believe it’s important for our society to own up to it.” She is right.
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The Rest Of The World Thinks Americans Should Be Ashamed
The Charleston massacre surprised some around the world who thought an African American President meant the nation’s days of racism were history
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South Carolina Killer’s Apparent Manifesto Surfaces Revealing His Ugly Racist Views
Assuming that Roof wrote the manifesto, there can be no question that the mass shooting at Emanuel AME Church was motivated by racism.
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Those Who Blame Obama For The Nation’s Epidemic Of Gun Violence Are Wrong
So to blame Obama for any failure to change the laws is to lash out at one of the few people willing to take on the NRA. That’s not helping.
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America Is Seriously Sick And There Is No Healing
Everyone from President Obama to the mayor of Charleston has made a specific point of saying the aftermath of a racially-motivated gun massacre of nine innocent and unarmed African Americans is a time for healing. Although they said the right thing, everyone is certainly sincere and they mean well, and they truly hope to comfort the victims’ families, survivors, and distressed Americans suffering the same pain, disgust, outrage, and sadness they feel after every other senseless gun slaughter. However, there is no healing for this sick, violent, and racist nation, and everyone knows it.
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Conservatives Ignore Racism And Spin Church Shooting As A War On Christianity
Conservatives wasted no time trying to dismiss racism as a factor in the shooting instead calling it an attack on Christianity.
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Republicans Join With Democrats In A Rare Bipartisan Senate Effort To Ban Torture
The vote in the Republican-controlled Senate on Monday was an overwhelming bipartisan statement that the President’s 2009 executive order banning torture must be ensconced in permanent law to prevent a Republican administration’s repeat performance in the future.
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Too Bad Scott Walker, SCOTUS Doesn’t Think Forced Ultrasounds Are Cool
What makes this decision particularly noteworthy is that the Justices agreed with a Circuit Court ruling that disabused evangelical Republicans, and theocratic governors from North Carolina and Wisconsin, of the idea that forcing women to undergo rape by medical device is not, as Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker claims, “just cool.”
Vulnerable GOP Senators Clash With Presidential Candidates On How To Handle Obamacare Ruling
Senate Republicans are having a hard time agreeing on what to do if the Supreme Court guts Obamacare in the upcoming King v. Burwell ruling.
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Scott Walker’s Illegal Arrests Of Protesters May Cost Wisconsin Taxpayers $1 million
Walker’s attempt to abolish unions and ordering the arrest of protestors exercising their Constitutionally-protected freedom to assemble peaceably to seek redress of their grievance against a Koch puppet acting like Hitler actions that have already cost Wisconsin taxpayers $45,000 with another $1 million on the near horizon.
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Koch Nightmares Come To Life As Bernie Sanders Announces He Has More Than 200,000 Donors
The worst fear of the Koch brothers has always been that people will learn about their activities and fight back. On Face The Nation, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) announced that people are fighting back and his campaign now has more than 200,000 donors.
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Gunman Launches Brazen Attack On Dallas Police Station
A gunman, apparently acting alone, launched a brazen assault on Dallas Police Headquarters around 12:30 a.m. Saturday morning.
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Nestlé CEO Exacerbating California’s Drought Would Steal More Water If He Could
This is the same Nestlé corporation whose chairman condemned the UN for the ridiculously “extremist idea that drinking water is a human right”
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Fast Track Stuck At The Station As Pelosi Leads Charge To Kill Controversial Trade Bill
The U.S. House derailed President Obama’s trade bill on Friday. The chamber rejected an amendment designed to save the trade bill 302-126. That measure would have granted financial aid to workers displaced as a result of the trade agreement. However, skeptical members of both parties struck down that amendment, leaving Obama’s controversial trade bill “stuck at the station”, according…
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Koch-Republicans In Senate Vote To Nullify the Clean Water Act
Republicans, and their wealthy owners in the oil, coal, and chemical industry, particularly do not believe that any American warrants clean, non-toxic drinking water, and on Thursday Republicans in the Senate took an important step to make sure at least a third of the American population will lose access to what decent human beings believe is one of the most basic human rights; clean water.
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Scott Walker Intends to Rob Taxpayers to Enrich Billionaires
It is typical of Republicans to rob taxpayer dollars to subsidize their favorite industries, and in Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker intends on forcing taxpayers to subsidize a sports arena to save a few billionaires hundreds-of-millions of dollars.
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Koch-Republican Austerity Is Killing Michigan Democracy And Poisoning Residents
Bad things generally happen when corporate fascist take over government and eliminate democracy, and it is a fact of life many Michigan citizens have learned the hard way; by being poisoned.
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Gov. Sam Brownback Will Eliminate Kansas’ Judiciary If It Fails To Rule In His Favor
Republican Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback signed a bill into law that eliminates the state’s entire judicial system if the Supreme Court rules against an ‘administrative law’ Brownback’s Republicans passed to neuter the judiciary and end the state government’s separation of powers.
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Report Shows The Oil Industry Benefits From $5.3 Trillion in Subsidies Annually
In a new and disturbing report from researchers at the International Monetary Fund, the world’s governments are providing subsidies to the highly profitable oil industry to the tune of an astonishing $5.3 trillion in benefits per year.
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61 House Democrats Are Taking A Stand Against Corporate America
The 61 House Democrats led by Congressional Progressive Caucus co-chairs Keith Ellison and Raul Grijalva are demanding a new funding mechanism for the cost of TAA for displaced workers; but they did not call for a corporate tax hike to cover the cost. Why? Because this is America and corporations get a free ride which is precisely why Washington politicians let corporations write the trade agreement in secret.
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GOP Has Reason To Fret As Clinton Leads Bush 47-40 In North Carolina
A PPP poll found Democrat Hillary Clinton enjoying a modest 47-40 lead over Republican presidential hopeful Jeb Bush in North Carolina.
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The Wheels Are Falling Off Of Ben Carson’s Campaign As Four Senior Advisers Quit
Barely over a month after launching his presidential campaign, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson has lost four senior campaign advisers.
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With His Mocking of Joe Biden, Ted Cruz Proves That He Isn’t Fit to Govern
Our politics are centered on policy, but there is a line that should not be crossed and Senator Ted Cruz has officially crossed it. He is not only not fit to be president, he isn’t fit to be a sitting senator.
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Mike Huckabee Cuts Bait, Removes Duggar Endorsement From Campaign Website
Huckabee has pulled the Duggar endorsements from his website, but he cannot undo the damage done from his connection to the Duggars.
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Huckabee Thinks One Beheading Is Worse Than 17 Texans Killed In Record Floods
Huckabee raged and attempted to contradict the President telling Fox News that, “I assure you that one beheading is much worse than a sunburn.”
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According To Polls Most Americans Are Socialists Like Bernie Sanders
It is glaringly obvious that for regardless the reason Senator Sanders self-labels himself as a “democratic socialist,” or whatever negative connotations that label socialist has according to constant harping by Republicans, most Americans support Mr. Sanders’ policies.
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Scott Walker And ALEC Allow High School Dropouts To Teach High School
Of course, anything ‘stupid’ Republicans conceive of is always at the behest of their funding machine the Koch brothers and their legislative arm the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC): the latest Wisconsin stupidity is no exception.
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Don’t Be Fooled Because Kansas Republicans Admit Trickle Down Is a Scam
Kansas’ Republican legislators are all but admitting their precious trickle down experiment was not only a failure, it is a scam. In fact, although not quite stating “our only economic policy is a scam to enrich corporations and the wealthy,” just admitting they have to raise taxes to plug gaping revenue holes and more recently, that income inequality is a problem in America, is just as good.
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Martin O’Malley Needs a Reboot Before He Ruins What Could Be A Great Democratic Primary
We were set for a primary where the issues actually get coverage because there would be no mud. That all changed yesterday, when along came former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley.
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Kansas Republicans Finally Admit That Their Tax Cuts For The Wealthy Have Failed
With the state budget forecast to have a 400 million dollar shortfall, Kansas Republicans are finally acknowledging that the massive GOP tax cuts approved under Governor Sam Brownback have not generated the revenue Republican lawmakers promised. The right-wing Kansas Legislature is now contemplating the unthinkable — raising taxes to plug the budget hole. The legislature…
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Biker Thugs Converge On Arizona Mosque Armed Looking For War
But now, the Texas-size extremism is spreading to Arizona and it includes Texas-style armed biker thugs, conspiracy theorists, and anti-Muslim sentiments that set Texas apart as right-wing extremist central.
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Texas-Size GOP Hypocrisy As a Result of Climate Change Deluge
It is true that all Republicans are blatant hypocrites, but now that go-it-alone awesome Texas experienced a little anthropogenic climate change weather, the Lone Star State’s Republicans, both tea party and mainstream Republicans alike, are demanding some of those hated “federal government handouts” they oppose for other Americans whether it is for food, housing, healthcare, or disaster relief.
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Former GOP US House Speaker Dennis Hastert Indicted For Violating Federal Banking Laws
Former Republican U.S. House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert was indicted by a grand jury on Thursday for violating federal banking laws and for lying to the FBI. Hastert, the longest serving GOP House Speaker in U.S. history, was charged with one count of structuring currency transactions to evade Currency Transaction Reports and a single count of making a false statement…
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Vatican Says Irish Marriage Equality Vote Was The Defeat Of Humanity
Although a weapon like same-sex marriage able to jeopardize the existence of the world’s largest religion sounds terrifying, the Vatican went a step farther and claimed the recent democratic vote in Ireland legalizing same-sex marriage is not only a clear and present danger to Christianity, it was a “defeat for humanity.”
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Despite Bernie Sanders’ Campaign Pledge, Koch-Republicans Will Block Infrastructure Spending
It is likely that Senator Sanders was sending a message to the Koch brothers that regardless they currently control government spending, he intends on appealing to the people for support to invest in America. Something Republicans oppose regardless Americans’ lives have been lost and are increasingly in danger due to America’s substandard transportation infrastructure.
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Christian Counseling and Homeschool Program Embraced By Duggars Funded By Hobby Lobby
Hobby Lobby has, for years, provided substantial financial support to Bill Gothard, the Christian fundamentalist who founded the ATI homeschool program and the Institute in Basic Life Principles (IBLP). IBLP is the Christian sexual treatment center the Quiverfull Duggars sent their son Josh to for “Christian sexual counseling.”
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Republicans Lack the Courage to Firmly Denounce Child Sexual Assault and the Duggars’ Cover-up
The reason Republicans have a problem is because they won’t denounce the Duggar family’s cover up of Josh Duggar’s sexual assaults. Former Governor Mike Huckabee has gone full-on defense of the child sexual predator and his family while other Republicans who used the Duggar family as right-wing Christian cred in photo-ops are now silent.
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Koch-Republicans Remember Soldiers’ Sacrifice With A Veterans Healthcare Coupon Scam
The privatization scam amounts to a yearly-issued, and set amount, coupon to purchase healthcare services at a private hospital or doctor’s office, or use as a discount card to purchase a private insurance policy.
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Republicans, Family Research Council and Josh Duggar Are A Match Made In Heaven
It is curious that so many Americans were surprised over the revelations that a religious conservative idol is guilty of molesting his sisters, or that Republicans embraced the FRC’s icon they must have at least suspected was a fraud. In fact, the close relationship between Republicans, the FRC, and Josh Duggar was a match made in heaven.
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California Corporate Farms Increase Water Use While Small Farms Offer To Cutback
In California, the greatest natural resource, water, is in extremely short supply and the oil industry, the Nestle Corporation, and corporate agriculture is rapidly draining what is left of California water for pure profit.
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Editorial Cartoon: Whacko, TX
Whacko Wayne and his Texas open-carry..
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Paul Krugman Is Right The Iraq War Was A Bush Crime
Having a discussion will not change the disastrous consequences of Bush and company’s crimes, bring back the three-quarters of a million dead Iraqi civilians or thousands of American soldiers, it may inform Americans of the intent of Republicans defending the invasion and occupation.
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Obama Hammers Republicans For Betraying Their Country On Climate Change
It was prescient, then, that when President Obama addressed graduates of the Coast Guard Academy and told them that “denying it (climate change), or refusing to deal with it endangers our national security. Anything less is negligence. It is a dereliction of duty and it undermines the readiness of our forces,” he was describing and referring to Republicans.
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While Shell Plans For Climate Catastrophe The Kochs Kill Renewable Energy
ere are two fronts in the dirty energy industry’s war on the climate with funding and legislative support from the Koch brothers on renewable energy and regulations to reduce carbon emissions. ere are two fronts in the dirty energy industry’s war on the climate with funding and legislative support from the Koch brothers on renewable energy and regulations to reduce carbon emissions.
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Police Would Have Massacred Texas Bikers If They Were Black
For the second time in a year, law enforcement officials held their violent aggression and hostility normally reserved for peaceful African Americans in check when a mass of armed white men began clubbing, stabbing, and shooting each other in Waco Texas.
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Republicans Use TPP Trade Deal To Slash Medicare
Republicans in the Senate have discovered yet another means of cutting Medicare to add insult to injury from the already damage-ridden Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement that benefits no-one but the big corporations who wrote the ill-advised proposal.
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Ted Kennedy: The True Measure Of The Man
If Edward Moore “Ted” Kennedy were alive at this moment, I’m convinced, at 83, he would still be in the Senate. He’d be just as passionate, committed, intelligently informed and supportive of the issues and legislation that really mattered.
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Paul Ryan Lies About Amtrak While Pledging No Republican Infrastructure Funding
Instead of acknowledging that as an austerity-minded Republican his only priority and primary goal for serving in the House cutting infrastructure spending, Ryan warned that Congress is in no way going to “rush to judgment and try doubling the size of government programs” just because some people died in an accident he said was caused by “human error.”
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Editorial Cartoon: The Thrill Is Gone
B.B. King (September 16, 1925 – May 14, 2015)
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Now Israelis And Republicans Are Very Angry At The Pope
Recently, although Republicans love the Vatican’s support for opposition to equal rights for women and the LGBT community, there has been growing enmity over the Pope’s opposition to income inequality and anthropogenic climate change. The Pope finally went too far this past week when he failed to comply with Israel’s agenda that Palestine will never be a sovereign state.
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Ohio Republicans Propose Poll Tax For 2016 Election
Now it appears that Ohio Republicans are on the verge of enacting an voter ID law that requires Ohio residents to pay a fee in order to cast a ballot.
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Russ Feingold Looks To Take Wisconsin Back From The Kochs With 2016 Senate Run
Former Senator Russ Feingold has announced that he is ready for a rematch in Wisconsin for the seat that he lost to tea party Republican Sen. Ron Johnson. Feingold also echoed a populist anti-Koch message in his announcement.
