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Far-Right Senate Candidate Phil Gingrey Loses His Entire Campaign Staff
Congressman Phil Gingrey (R-GA), who is running for Senate to replace the retiring Saxby Chambliss, is going to have to do some mass hiring today.
Monthly Archives: November 2013
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Sexist Republicans Endorse Calling Alison Grimes the New ‘Obama Girl’
Grimes is not an Obama supporter. She’s a politician. Republicans are desperately trying to tie her to the president since they have nothing on her than making her the cheerleader for the black guy.
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As the Senate Vote Looms, 59% of Americans Support Ending the Military Rape Culture
Fifty-nine percent of Americans support ending the military rape culture by putting an independent prosecutor in charge of deciding which rape cases to prosecute, according to a new poll.
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Walmart’s Greed Exposed: They Could Pay Employees $25,000/Year Without Raising Prices
A new Demos study has revealed that the only thing stopping Walmart from paying their employees $25,000 a year without raising prices is their ridiculous level of greed.
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Republican Food Stamp Cuts Force 47.7 Million People to Live on Less Than One Meal a Day
A new report reveals that the recent food stamp cuts mean that 47.7 million children, senior citizens, working Americans, and nearly a million veterans will have to get by on one less meal a day
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Taking Back the House, Vol. 21: Gary Miller and California’s 31st District
This is the twenty-first edition of a research project at PoliticusUSA known as Taking Back the House. The purpose of this project is to analyze each Republican Congressional district in the United States and see how likely the district can go ‘Blue.’
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Don’t Miss Catch an Illegal Immigrant Day Tomorrow
“The purpose of this event is to spark a campus-wide discussion about the issue of illegal immigration, and how it affects our everyday lives”
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Obama Vows To Fight: The ACA is Law That Will Last for Generations To Come
In a call with supporters tonight, President Obama explained the big picture behind all of the white noise about websites. He said that the ACA is a law that will last for generations to come.
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‘People With Conventional Views’: Welcome To The Real Modern Family, Washington Post.
The political and media firestorm about Richard Cohen’s recent column, as typical, missed the real issues.
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Have Decades of GOP Deregulation & Safety Net Gutting Made Depression the New Normal?
Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman is never afraid to ask the tough questions. Though his Times blog bears the name “The Conscience of Liberal,” the title is sort of an unfortunate misnomer.
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The Kochs and Their Astroturf Tea Are Demanding an Exemption From Campaign Finance Rules
It appears Americans are being kept unawares again as the Koch’s so-called grass-roots organization, the teabaggers, have asked for an FEC exemption on campaign finance disclosure rules.
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Obamacare Website Woes Amplified By Active Republican Hatred
In case you hadn’t already heard, it appears that some of the problems with the Obamacare website aren’t exactly due to that incompetence thing that Bob Woodward likes to pin on the Obama administration.
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Walmart Is Being Prosecuted for Illegally Firing or Disciplining 117 Employees
The NLRB has announced that they will be prosecuting Walmart for the illegal firing or disciplining of 117 employees who asked for better wages and treatment.
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Sociopath Right Wing Hero George Zimmerman Arrested For Domestic Violence
George Zimmerman has been arrested and is now in police custody after being accused of domestic violence by a girlfriend.
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Nancy Pelosi Mocks House Republicans Over Their Blank 2014 Agenda
“The House GOP’s 2014 blank agenda proves they are officially out of ideas,” Pelosi commented, sharing a picture of Eric Cantor’s blank 2014 Agenda.
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Stock Market Hits Record High of 16,000 Under ‘Terrible Socialist’ Barack Obama
When the Dow Jones hit 16,000 for the first time this morning, Plouffe tweeted, “DJIA 6443 March 6 2009. DJIA 16000+ Nov 18 2013. That terrible socialist, @BarackObama.”
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First Lady In Waiting Ann Romney Thinks Mitt Would Have Done Better with ACA Rollout
Ann Romney reminded everyone that if only Mitt had been elected, none of these problems would exist. Mitt Romney would be so much better at handling the economy and the ObamaCare rollout.
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Taking Back the House, Vol. 20: Jeff Denham and California’s 10th District
This is the twentieth edition of a research project at PoliticusUSA known as Taking Back the House. The purpose of this project is to analyze each Republican Congressional district in the United States and see how likely the district can go ‘Blue.’
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39 House DINOs Helped Crush ACA Requirements in a Critical Vote
Unless Democrats want more of the same in DC until January of 2021, they’ll have to move their frozen rumps and make their way to the polls.
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Recent Judicial Decisions Show How Crucial It is To Fight for Obama’s Nominees
Recent appalling decisions by Bush-appointed judges show the importance of getting some Obama-appointed judges on the bench. If only he could
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John Boehner Is Trying to Emulate Vladimir Putin’s Assault on Homosexuals
John Boehner is doing his best to help the anti-gay movement increase their power in America and learn how to emulate Russian President Vladimir Putin’s assault on homosexuals.
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Why the GOP Will Fail: Senator Admits Republicans Have No Plan to Fix or Replace ACA
Sen. John Barrasso showed why Republicans are setting themselves up for failure by admitting to millions that they plan to take away their health insurance by not fixing or replacing the ACA.
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Bob Woodward Explains to Fox News That the ACA Isn’t Obama’s Watergate
This ride must almost be over because Bob Woodward, Obama hater extraordinaire, has just told Fox News that this is not Obama’s Watergate.
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Sen. Gillibrand Takes On the Military Rape Culture and Gets Told She’s Not an Expert
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is taking aim at the rape culture and that means taking aim at the status quo. Naturally John McCain dismissed her because she doesn’t have experience commanding the military.
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Nancy Pelosi Guts David Gregory’s Republican Talking Points and ACA Lies
Democratic House Leader Nancy Pelosi destroyed David Gregory and his Affordable Care Act lies on Meet The Press with a display of facts, truth, and no apologies.
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Protester Arresting Scott Walker Criticizes Congressional GOP for Not Compromising
Wisconsin Republican Governor Scott Walker used the government shutdown against his congressional 2016 competition and criticized Republicans for not compromising.
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The GOP ‘Gloats and Mocks’ While President Obama Tries to Solve Problems
While President Obama is taking ownership of the problems with the ACA rollout and trying to fix them, the Republican Party is busy mocking.
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The Founders Did Not Establish Congress as a Church Council
Only Anglo-Saxons are real Americans but then only if they are carrying around a Semitic book with a later Greek revision added to it?
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David Gregory Makes a Fool Of Himself Comparing the ACA Rollout to Bush’s Iraq War
Republican talking points distributor David Gregory was happy to help Brian Williams advance concern trolling to the next level by comparing the ACA rollout to the Iraq War.
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Justices Thomas and Scalia Violate Judicial Ethics By Headlining Right Wing Fundraisers
Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia have again set themselves above ethics rules because they are, after all, Koch brother properties.
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Ted Cruz is Attending David Barton’s Conference for State Legislators
Barton is not a scientist. He is not a historian. He pretends to be a constitutional scholar but has no law degree. So why is Ted Cruz listening to him?
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Republican Condemns President Obama For Not Using the Old Testament to Guide Policy
It is astonishing, but one of their champions used the floor of the House to condemn President Obama for not utilizing Old Testament prophecy as a guiding force for Middle East policy,
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Dearborn Heights Man Faces Murder Charges in Shooting Death of Renisha McBride
The man who shot Renisha McBride has been slapped with a 2nd degree murder charge from Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy. 54-year old Theodore Wafer is expected to be arraigned today at 2 PM for his role in the shooting death of McBride.
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Taking Back the House, Vol. 19: John Campbell and California’s 45th District
This is the nineteenth edition of a research project at PoliticusUSA known as Taking Back the House.The purpose of this project is to analyze each Republican Congressional district in the United States and see how likely the district can go ‘Blue.’
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Meet the 39 House Democrats Who Joined With Republicans to Sabotage The ACA
In a stunning display of political cowardice, 39 House Democrats caved to Republican fearmongering and voted with the GOP in favor of a bill that sabotages the ACA.
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Mitch McConnell Is Less Popular Than the Affordable Care Act in Kentucky
Things are so bad for Mitch McConnell in Kentucky that a new DFM Research poll found that the Senate Minority Leader has a higher unfavorable rating than the Affordable Care Act.
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Obama Promises He Will Veto the Latest House Republican Trick to Destroy the ACA
House Republicans are wasting more time voting on a bill that is disguised as a fix to the ACA, but it really an act of sabotage. President Obama has already promised he will veto the bill.
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David Barton Thinks He Scares Us
“I’m really scary,” Barton declared. “I am very scary for people who have a secular worldview.”
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At Least One Institution is Thriving Under Our Divided Federal Government – Gangs!!!
Within a few years, there could be one million gang members in the U.S. Gangs are a refuge for children of poverty. No Teapublicans care.
Numbers Game: What the ACA’s Initial Enrollment Really Means
Having affordable health care will mean a world of difference for the 106,815 people who now have it for the first time in their lives.
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It’s Time to Kill the Absurd Notion That Cutting Taxes on the Rich Grows The Economy
Ronald Reagan has been dead for over nine years and it is time to kill his absurd notion that cutting taxes on the rich and corporations produces a balanced budget, create jobs and economic growth.
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Harry Reid Eviscerates John Boehner, ‘Nobody knows what he’s talking about.’
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is fed up with Speaker of the House John Boehner. Reid let loose in an interview, and claimed that nobody knows what Boehner is talking about.
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Taking Back the House, Vol. 18: Ken Calvert and California’s 42nd District
This is the eighteenth edition of a research project at PoliticusUSA known as Taking Back the House. The purpose of this project is to analyze each Republican Congressional district in the United States and see how likely the district can go ‘Blue.’
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President Obama Goes On the Offensive and Vows to Fight for the ACA and the Uninsured
President Obama stood up today and took responsibility for the mistakes that have been made in the ACA, but he took on Republicans by vowing to fight for he healthcare law and the uninsured.
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Obama Outwits Boehner and Stops His Plot to Kill The ACA Dead In Its Tracks
President Obama has outwitted John Boehner again by proposing his own changes ahead of Boehner’s plot to kill the ACA with votes disguised as “fixes” to the law.
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Sarah Palin Rejects Pope Francis I’s Liberal Agenda
Palin said, “He’s had some statements that to me sound kind of liberal, has taken me aback, has kind of surprised me.”
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They Were Born That Way: Is This John Boehner’s ENDA?
John Boehner’s reaction in not wanting to hold a vote on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act legislation is still wrong.
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Bernie Sanders: Republicans Are Making Veterans Go Hungry to Give Tax Cuts to the Rich
Bernie Sanders called out Republicans for their outrageous policy of cutting food stamps for veterans in order to give massive tax cuts to the wealthy and corporations.
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ACA Enrollment Report Reveals The Truth: Millions of Americans Want Obamacare
A look inside the HHS’ ACA enrollment report reveals something that the media isn’t talking about. Demand for Obamacare is high. In other words, millions of people want Obamacare.
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Extremists Launch Treasonous Plot to Overthrow President Obama A Week Before Thanksgiving
Right wing extremists have proclaimed a date a week before Thanksgiving to demand the surrender of President Obama to face charges set out by a citizens’ grand jury.
30
Heartless John Boehner Goes Cold When Confronted By Child Immigration Activists
Two child immigration activists who have both had their fathers deported or detained confronted John Boehner today, and the Speaker’s cold reaction confirmed that he doesn’t care about people.
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Turtle Soup: Desperate Mitch McConnell Announces that He Will Only Talk About Obamacare
A desperate Mitch McConnell announced to the media back home that he will only talk about Obamacare. The problem is that the ACA is popular and working well in Kentucky.
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Taking Back the House, Vol. 17: Kevin McCarthy and California’s 23rd District
This is the seventeenth edition of a research project at PoliticusUSA known as Taking Back the House. The purpose of this project is to analyze each Republican Congressional district in the United States and see how likely the district can go ‘Blue.’
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To Celebrate Veterans Day David Barton Lies About What Bible Says About PTSD
Barton might want to think about the fact that nowhere does Jesus say that liars and hustlers and grifters will get into heaven
0
Sarah Palin Tells African Americans That They Misinterpreted the Word Slavery
Sarah Palin is telling African-Americans that they don’t know what the word slavery means. Palin reacted to her use of the term slavery by saying that people are misinterpreting her.
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The Great Hypocrisy Is That Republicans Are Anything But Pro-Life
In their blood lust to withhold healthcare, coupled with their sheer hatred for the Affordable Care Act, Republicans revealed that they hate the unborn at the same level they hate women and children.
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Sarah Palin Embarrasses Herself By Attacking Chris Christie For Being Fat
While being interviewed by CNN, Sarah Palin’s intellectual choo-choo derailed, as she skipped from discussing sexism to Chris Christie’s extreme weight.
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Bill Clinton Says President Obama Should Change The ACA to Let People Keep Their Plans
Former President Clinton is suggesting that President Obama change the ACA to honor the promise that he made that people will be allowed to keep their health insurance plans if they like them.
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Walmart Workers Go On Strike Demanding Better Treatment and a Living Wage
The working poor continue to push back and fight for a better life, as Seattle area Walmart workers are staging a one day strike to demand a living wage.
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Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes Ties Mitch McConnell as Republican Plummets to New Low
A new Lake Research Partners poll of Kentucky found Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes tied with Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell at 37% as McConnell job approval numbers hit new low.
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Taking Back the House, Vol. 16: Paul Cook and California’s 8th District
This is the sixteenth edition of a research project at PoliticusUSA known as Taking Back the House. The purpose of this project is to analyze each Republican Congressional district in the United States and see how likely the district can go ‘Blue.’
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Pope Francis Does Not Want Bishops Who Follow a Particular Ideology
The pope’s representative told the American bishops, “You know this comes from my admiration, respect, and loving concern for the Church in America.”
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Republicans Reeling as Support For Raising The Minimum Wage Surges to 76%
Congressional Republicans have vowed to block any bill raising the minimum wage, but a new Gallup poll shows that 76% of Americans and 58% of Republicans supporting increasing the minimum wage.
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Poll Finds Hillary Clinton Could Turn Texas Blue In 2016
A recent PPP poll found that the 2016 presidential race in Texas is surprising close. Hillary Clinton could move Texas closer to turning blue as Paul and Christie hold slim 4 point leads over Clinton.
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Does de Blasio Victory in NYC Offer Post-Racial Blueprint for American Cities?
In recent decades (starting with the ascent of former President William J. Clinton to the White House in 1992), “true” liberals have stood by helplessly as members of both of the nation’s political parties continued to drift further to the right.
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Republicans Honor Our Veterans By Making Sure That They Are Hungry and Struggling
Republicans have gone out of their way to keep America’s Veterans in a struggle to find work after returning from war.
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NBC Gives Sarah Palin a Disgraceful Platform to Lie About Obamacare
The corporate media helped to spread more lies about the ACA, when NBC gave Sarah Palin an unchallenged platform for her Obamacare lies on Today.
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Taking Back the House, Vol. 15: Tom McClintock and California’s 4th District
This is the fifteenth edition of a research project at PoliticusUSA known as Taking Back the House. The purpose of this project is to analyze each Republican Congressional district in the United States and see how likely the district can go ‘Blue.’
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Sarah Palin Sees Angry Atheists Armed with Attorneys but Can She See Russia?
“The war on Christmas is just the tip of the spear in a larger battle to marginalize expressions of faith and make America’s true religious freedom just a thing of the past,”
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Are We Safe From Congress? Senator Orrin Hatch And The Politics Of Vitamins
- Commentary, Featured News, Issues, Media, Other News, Republican Party, U.S. Senate, U.S. Supreme Court
The Senior Senator from Utah is endangering lives by putting his personal gain before the public’s health.
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George W. Bush Keynotes Event Promoting End Times
One of Jesus Christ’s commands to his followers was to spread the good news of the kingdom of god by convincing them he was the Messiah, but that is not the intent of the event Bush is promoting.
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The Real Villains Behind the Criticisms of Obamacare
The media is quick to look for anything negative about Obamacare, but they protect the real culprit: insurance company behavior
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Rick Perry Accuses Obama of Fraud While Denying 1 Million Texans Healthcare
Rick Perry accused President Obama of fraud today, at the same time that he is refusing to expand Medicaid and denying 1 million Texans healthcare.
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House Republicans Have Flip-Flopped on the ACA and Now Want to Fix Obamacare
Facing all time record low popularity, House Republicans have completely shifted their position and announced that they want to fix the issues with Obamacare.
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The Myth of Chris Christie Republican Savior Falls Apart During Fox News Interview
Chris Christie ducked and dodged questions as the idea that he will be the 2016 Republican savior fell apart on Fox News Sunday.
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The Folks Who Gave us Rand Paul Think Chris Christie Won’t Hold Up to Scrutiny
The party that has offered us every kook who walks in off the street would really like to wish away New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. The party that gave us Sharron “Rape Lemonade” Angle and Christine “I might be a Witch but I Don’t Know where my Vagina is” O’Donnell, and Sarah “I can see…
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Bill Maher Destroys Conservatives for Telling The Poor to F**k Off and Die
Bill Maher obliterated conservatives who have declared war against the poor, and their multitude of excuses for being cruel to working people.
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What the Media Won’t Tell You: Millions are Hurting as Red States Reject Medicaid Expansion
A number of right-wing states are leaving needy citizens without Medicaid coverage because their legislatures are rejecting expansion.
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Natural Born Job Killers: Republicans Are Set to Kill 1 Million More Jobs in 2014
Republicans will be killing 1 million more jobs in 2014, and a new report found that their austerity madness is doing immense long term damage to the US economy.
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Southern Comfort: Why The South Ain’t So ‘Backwards’ Anymore
The south is becoming more and more socially progressive, which is leading to an educated populace that should no longer be stereotyped.
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ENDA is Great but Do Not Count the Religious Loons Out
They claim to defend religious liberty but they need to read the Pledge of Allegiance with its vow of “liberty and justice for ALL”
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A Senate Committee is the Latest to Attack Kathleen Sebelius Over ACA
Today, we take a close look at the Senate Finance Committee and their relentless and unfair attempts to discredit the Affordable Care Act
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The Koch Brothers Have Given Millions to Anti-Choice Organizations
The Koch brothers have given millions upon millions of dollars to anti-choice organizations using what is known as pass-through groups.
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President Obama Pushes Back and Stands Tall On Obamacare in New Orleans
President Obama isn’t backing down or being pushed around by the Republican attacks on the ACA. Today in New Orleans, the president went on the offensive stood tall on the ACA.
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Top House Democrat Rips Darrell Issa For Spreading Lies About Healthcare.gov Website
Rep. Elijah E. Cummings is the top Democrat on the House Government Oversight and Reform Committee, and he is not letting Rep. Darrell Issa get away with telling baseless lies about healthcare.gov.
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Taking Back the House, Vol, 14: Tom Cotton and Arkansas’s 4th District
This is the fourteenth edition of a research project at PoliticusUSA known as Taking Back the House. The purpose of this project is to analyze each Republican Congressional district in the United States and see how likely the district can go ‘Blue.’
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Bogus Benghazi Tale Falls Apart as CBS News Apologizes and Retracts 60 Minutes Story
On CBS This Morning, Lara Logan of 60 Minutes apologized for and retracted the her bogus Benghazi story that Republicans have been using to smear President Obama.
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Steve King Says if You’re not a Capitalist You Don’t Love America
“They don’t like the constitution, they don’t love this country, they don’t appreciate the greatness of America, they don’t think of this country the way I do”
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Joe Biden, Rand Paul and Plagiarism – False Equivalence Run Amok
With the outing of Rand Paul’s alleged serial plagiarism gathering steam his supporters are weighing in on social media. To paraphrase the common post, “And I suppose you were this outraged about Joe Biden too.”
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Treasonous Republicans Warp the Constitution To Justify Nullifying Federal Laws
Republicans persistently claimed they, and only they, adhere to the constitution regardless they routinely disregard or misrepresent the document to fit their extremist vision under Republican rule.
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Obama Apologizes To Those Who Have To Give Up Their Junk Insurance For Better Coverage
In an interview with NBC News, President Obama apologized to those Americans who had their substandard insurance policies canceled and are now forced to actually get decent insurance.
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Democratic Senate Candidate Compares The Tea Party to the Taliban, Pearl Harbor, and 9/11
Former Democratic Lt. Gov. John Bohlinger entered the Montana US Senate race with a bang by explaining that he is running because the tea party is like the Taliban and must be stopped.
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Coked Out Toronto Mayor Threatens to Kill People In New Video
The Toronto Sun released a bombshell story on Thursday, as it was provided clips from a video where embattled Toronto mayor Rob Ford was shown threatening to kill somebody while seemingly coked out of his mind.
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Beware the Bitter Bumpkins of North Colorado
If the story of five Colorado counties located on the northern edge of the state that actually voted to secede from Colorado wasn’t so pathetic it might actually qualify as perversely amusing.
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Suburban Detroit Area Shooting of African-American Woman Leaves Unanswered Questions
A 19-year old woman was killed on Saturday morning by a Dearborn Heights resident when she sought help after she was involved in a car crash.
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Taking Back the House, Vol. 13: Steve Womack and Arkansas’s 3rd District
This is the thirteenth edition of a research project at PoliticusUSA known as Taking Back the House. The purpose of this project is to analyze each Republican Congressional district in the United States and see how likely the district can go ‘Blue.’
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Democrats Set to Rock Republicans By Pushing to Raise the Minimum Wage to $10.10
Senate Democrats are meeting today and are preparing to drop a bomb on Republicans. They are going to push for raising the minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10 an hour by 2015.
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Tea Party Steals our Money, Wants to Sell National Parks to Subsidize their Greed
The tea party wants to sell what doesn’t belong to them, stealing our heritage to enrich themselves and the corporations that own them
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Virginians Embrace Separation of Church and State and Send Ken Cuccinelli Packing
Fortunately for Virginians who embrace the Constitution’s guarantee of separation of church and state, freedom of speech, and equal rights, attorney general Ken Cuccinelli was defeated.
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Rush Must Go: Limbaugh Claims Democrats Have Turned Women Into Abortion Machines
Rush Limbaugh claimed today that Democrats have turned women into nothing but abortion machines. After these comments, it is time for national disgrace Rush Limbaugh to go.
