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Editorial Cartoon: War Wounds
What does it say about America when it asks its brave men and women to risk their lives, have them return home damaged physically and mentally, and then treats them like doormats?
Daily Archives: Thu, May 22nd, 2014
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IRS to Propose New Rules for Dark Money Groups
Republicans depend on the big money of Sheldon Addelson, the Koch Brothers and other corporatist billionaires. However, the GOP’s biggest financial resource is the secret money funneled through political action groups masquerading as social welfare groups aka 501 c 4 groups.
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House Republicans Want to Limit School Lunch Program to Rural White Kids Only
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The House Republicans released a proposed agriculture and food safety budget on Monday. The budget offers less in food program funding than President Obama requested, which comes as no surprise. However, one specific provision in the House proposal should raise eyebrows.
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GOP Dirty Trick: Greg Abbott Won’t Denounce ‘Abortion Barbie’ Posters Supporter Paid For
Republican Attorney General Greg Abbott is keeping it classy in Texas, where he refused to denounce the “Abortion Barbie” campaign posters that greeted Democratic state Senator Wendy Davis in California Thursday.
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Disaster Strikes Republicans as Darrell Issa Sabotages Their Big Benghazi Investigation
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) completely sabotaged the House Republican Benghazi investigation today by discussing a White House memo that undermines a big part of the Republican conspiracy theory.
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Bernie Sanders Smacks Down Marco Rubio For Betraying Veterans On The Senate Floor
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) tried to play partisan politics with the VA on the Senate floor, and was hammered by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) for voting against veterans.
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Ed Schultz Proves He’s Smarter Than Rush Limbaugh By Moving His Radio Show to the Web
Ed Schultz’s move to end is radio show is another sign that political talk radio is dying.
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The VA Scandal Is Rooted In the Delusional Republican Belief That Wars Are Free
Republicans claim that the problem at the VA isn’t one of not spending enough — cover for Congress giving Obama less than he asked for — because the budget has gone up.
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The Real Scandal: 258,000 Veterans Lack Healthcare Because Republicans Won’t Expand Medicaid
While Republicans are trying to blame the problems at the VA on President Obama, the real scandal is that the Republican refusal to expand Medicaid in 23 states has left 258,6000 veterans without healthcare.
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The Day After, The Tea Party Does Walk of Shame from Mitch McConnell’s Room
Mitch McConnell is not worried. He’s confident that the rest of the Tea Party will fall in line after he set out to destroy them, and accomplished his goal.
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Creationists Respond to Neil deGrasse Tyson and Cosmos With Moronic Babble
Although fundamentalist Christians have no dearth of so-called tormentors, for the past eleven weeks their greatest enemy has been science in the person of Neil deGrasse Tyson and the Fox science documentary series Cosmos.
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The Religious Right’s Culture of Death
Linda Harvey complained that efforts by the CDC to prevent HIV with Truvada, a PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) drug, will lead to racial cleansing. This is no doubt true in the same way that flushing your toilet three times in a row, very fast, will make your Teddy Bear come alive.
