Month: May 2014

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In Case You Missed It… Assorted Oddities from Around the Web

Stories that hit the web this past week involved man-made DNA, edible water bottles. yawning and expensive name brands.

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The Revenge of the Poor, Betrayal of the Elite Now Leads to The Rise of Super Bugs

Neglecting the conditions and healthcare of the poor has contributed to drug-resistant microbes which have reached crisis proportions.

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Bill Kristol Responds To His Own Lewinsky/Hillary Clinton Conspiracy Theory With Benghazi

This Sunday on ABC’s This Week, host Martha Raddatz had a panel discussion about the recent reemergence of Monica Lewinsky. Raddatz brought up Lewinsky’s article in Vanity Fair. She cornered Bill Kristol on his recent conspiracy theory and responded with Benghazi.

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Elizabeth Warren Blasts Boehner’s House Circus, ‘That’s not how you run a country.’

On Face The Nation, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) slammed Republicans for avoiding the real issues. She said that the way Republicans are doing things in the House is not how you run a country.

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Democratic Congressman Goes On Fox News and Destroys Their Benghazi Hysteria

Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-CA) showed up on Fox News, and destroyed the conspiracy spreading by dropping a fact bomb on the Republican Party and right-wing network’s Benghazi hysteria.

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John Boehner Admits That The IRS Scandal Is All About Impeaching Obama and Holder

John Boehner’s answer to Fox News about why he hasn’t had Lois Lerner arrested revealed that the true motive behind this faux scandal is impeaching Attorney General Holder and/or President Obama.

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CNN Shoots Down Michele Bachmann With a Single Point About Benghazi and Jobs

Michele Bachmann tried to justify yet another Benghazi investigation by saying it’s what the people want, but Candy Crowley said the people want jobs.

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Americans Are Watching and They No Longer Trust The Conservative Supreme Court

The conservatives have been so blatant in their service to special interests that Americans have taken notice, and a new poll reveals the people have lost faith in, and are weary of, this conservative Court’s rulings.

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Editorial Cartoon: A Flower for Mother

A cartoon in celebration of all mothers, sons and daughters of mothers, and Mother Earth.

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The Gestapo: Power and Terror in the Third Reich – And Why This Book Matters

Office IVA of the RSHA (Reichssicherheitshauptamt (Reich Main Security Office) dealt with communism, Marxism, and reaction. Office IVA3 dealt with liberalism and immigrants.

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Godzilla: Where’s the Respect?

The summer blockbuster movie season kicks into high gear next week with one of the most highly-anticipated releases- the latest reboot of Godzilla.

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Anti-Semitic Republican Lawmaker Sticks Both Feet Into His Mouth

Tennessee State Sen. Stacey Campfield (R) made a comment comparing the Affordable Care Act to the train ride 6 million Jews and non-Aryans rode during Nazi Germany.

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Tossed From TV: How a Pair of Bigoted Brothers Lost Their Reality Show

As America marches toward nationwide legal gay marriage, its opponents are being further and further ostracized. Case in point: HGTV’s Benham brothers.

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Disaster Warning: The Area Under The Keystone XL Pipeline Is Likely To Experience Earthquakes

The area geologists warned is likely to experience damaging earthquakes is situated under the proposed path of the KeystoneXL pipeline set to carry bitumen-laden tar sand renowned for ruptures without earthquakes, but that is something Republicans beholden to the oil export industry are unlikely to ever admit.

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Obama Is on Pace For The Best Job Creation Year Since Bill Clinton Was President

Under President Obama, the United States is on pace to have its best job creation year since Bill Clinton was president in 1999.

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Man Who Had Unemployment Benefits Cut Off By Republicans Threatens John Boehner’s Life

An Indiana man who had his unemployment benefits cut off after House Republicans refused to extend them has been charged with making multiple threats on Speaker of the House John Boehner’s life.

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Republicans Embrace The Fail and Reconsider Rand Paul for 2016

Republicans are so desperate that they’re starting to believe that Rand Paul is a 2016 contender.

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Fear Of Hillary Clinton Leads Conservatives To Illogically Blame Her For Boko Haram

The right-wing media has focused their attentions solely on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Based on the logic they are presenting, Clinton is to blame for Boko Haram’s actions due to her not designating them as a terrorist organization during her tenure as Secretary of State.

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Michelle Obama Tackles Terrorism Against Women and Girls In Moving Mother’s Day Message

Michelle Obama honored mothers and motherhood on the Mother’s Day weekend by drawing a vital connection to the importance of girl’s education and the unconscionable terrorist kidnapping of more than 200 Nigerian girls.

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Susana Martinez Is The Latest Republican ‘Star’ Tied to Cronyism and Corruption

The latest Republican “star” to find themselves in the midst of a corruption scandal is New Mexico governor, Susana Martinez.

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After SCOTUS Ruling, Sectarian Prayer Quickly Becomes Christian-Only Prayer

Roanoke County Supervisor Al Bedrosian says, “The freedom of religion doesn’t mean that every religion has to be heard.”

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Marriage Equality Comes to Arkansas…Yes, Arkansas

Pulaski County Circuit Judge Chris Piazza overthrew Arkansas’ ban on same-sex marriage Friday.

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About Time! FBI Investigating Welfare Rancher Cliven Bundy For Threatening Law Officers

KLAS-TV in Las Vegas is reporting that the FBI is now conducting an investigation into the armed standoff between Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy’s supporters and local and federal law enforcement.

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Republican Governor Surrenders to Voting Rights in Pennsylvania

Voting Rights advocates in Pennsylvania declared victory on Thursday, after Governor Tom Corbett announced he will not appeal a January court ruling that quashed one of the most restrictive voter ID laws in the country.

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‘Racist Romeo’: Donald Sterling Explains that He Used Racism as an Aphrodisiac

Donald Sterling, Los Angeles Clippers owner of racist and misogynistic infamy, doesn’t understand why you think he’s a racist. So he’s explaining it again to you.

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House Dems Call Boehner Offer a Slap In The Face and Refuse to Be Props In Benghazi Circus

House Democratic leaders have flat out rejected John Boehner’s offer to be props on his special Benghazi committee. After meeting, Democrats called the offer a slap in the face.

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Led by Darrell Issa, House Republicans Are Taking America Back to McCarthyism

This week, Issa took a page straight out of McCarthy’s tactics and for the first time since the McCarthy era called for a vote to hold a witness in contempt for exercising her Constitutional 5th Amendment right.

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Paranoid Memo Reveals That America Just Isn’t That Into The Kochs

Americans are just not that into the Kochs or their “give us all of your money because freedom!” message. It turns out that Americans are not as stupid as the Koch brothers think they are.

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Republicans Fundraise on the Benghazi Dead While Disrespecting the Family’s Wishes

Fresh off the 2012 death of her son, Massachusetts native Glen Doherty’s mother shamed the Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and the GOP for trying to use her son’s death for their political agenda. So now they’re fundraising off of his death.

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The Koch Brothers Are Going to Try To Buy Congress By Spending $125 Million

The Koch brothers are going to try to buy Congress this year by outspending both the Republican and the Democratic parties combined.

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The Daily Show Perfectly Satirizes The Uncomfortable And Blatant Racism In Pro Sports

On Thursday night’s edition of The Daily Show, host Jon Stewart, along with correspondent John Hodgman, addressed the recent Donald Sterling controversy while also sending up the current inequitable relationship in sports between team owners and the athletes.

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Tony Perkins Says Conservative Christians Have More Rights than Other Christians

Perkins claims ‘true religious freedom’ only applies to ‘orthodox religious viewpoints'” as though there is anything orthodox about his beliefs

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Interstate Health Care Compact Laws and ALEC Are Inseparable!

Another front has opened up in the corporate war against ACA. It’s called a Health Care Compact.

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Mitch McConnell’s Worst Nightmare: Women and Vets Come Together In New Grimes Ad

Alison Lundergan Grimes strong campaign continues to win over voters as Mitch McConnell’s last worst nightmare is eclipsed by the next one.

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Megyn Kelly – Fascism Today’s Sexy Poster Girl

Her credentials bestow a degree of verisimilitude, at least among those wishing to have their preconceptions validated by an attractive, half-dressed woman

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Mitch McConnell Whines About Opponent’s Out-Of-State Donors While Fundraising On Wall Street

McConnell’s team has tried to paint her as a Hollywood liberal whose values are all wrong for Kentucky. Recently, it has been revealed that McConnell is a huge hypocrite.

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Harry Reid Rips Chuck Todd and the Corporate Media for Covering for Republicans

During his interview with MSNBC’s Chuck Todd today, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) ripped Todd and other Beltway journalists for not being honest about what the Republican Party is doing.

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The Tea Party’s Over As Only 41% Of Republicans Support The Far-Right Movement

Gallup released a new poll on Thursday which shows that opposition to the Tea Party is at its highest level since the polling firm started tracking the far-right, anti-government movement in 2010.

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Benghazi Committee Backfires as Boehner Refuses to Answer Fundraising Email Questions

A sign that the latest House Republican Benghazi show investigation is backfiring grew when John Boehner refused to answer questions about why he won’t stop the Republicans from fundraising off of Benghazi.

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TX GOPer: It’s a ‘Myth’ that Planned Parenthood Has Anything to do with Women’s Health

When when asked about women’s healthcare, Dan Patrick said, “Look this is a myth that Planned Parenthood has anything to do with women’s health.”

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Morning Joe Slams GOP For ‘Undermining the Credibility of Benghazi Committee’ with Fundraising

Calling Republican fundraising over the death of four Americans in Benghazi “disgusting”, Joe Scarborough charged on Morning Joe Thursday morning that Republicans have ‘have undermined the credibility of this committee.’

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Missouri GOP Shows a Special Degree of Stupid By Passing Kansas’ Worst Tax Cuts In the Country

Missouri Republicans are stupider than congressional Republicans because they carefully studied Kansas Republicans’ economic policies that created a budget nightmare for the state and its people.

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Ted Cruz Champions Nuremberg-Style Laws for Gays and Lesbians

If all this seems disturbingly familiar, it should. The Nazis said, “Don’t Buy from Jews!” The Religious Right is saying, “Don’t Sell to Gays!”

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Editorial Cartoon: Hot Topic

It must be true. I heard it on FOX News.

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206 House Republicans Scramble for 7 Spots on Benghazi Committee

Nearly 90 percent of the House Republican caucus members want a spot on the House Benghazi select committee.

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Bill Nye Drops Climate Change Truth Bombs All Over CNN’s Crossfire Set

Thankfully Bill Nye is in possession of the type of feistiness that liberals (and yes, I acknowledge grief that environmental common sense has become partisan) are going to need in order to have a prayer of saving humanity.

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Republicans React to Climate Change Report With Denial and Hatred

When the White House released a regularly-scheduled scientific report awash in empirical data that climate change is a real and present man-made danger, it was little surprise that the Republican and Koch brothers’ media outlet Fox News disparaged the report as a distraction from Fox and Republicans’ debunked Benghazi distraction.

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Disgusted Democrat Slams Republicans for Running the House Like a Political Circus

A disgusted and fed up Sandy Levin called Republicans out for turning the House into a circus as they tried to pass a resolution calling for a Special Counsel to investigate the IRS.

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Despite Select Committee Chairman’s Objections, Republicans Are Fundraising Off Of Benghazi

Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC has said that he won’t try to use Benghazi as a fundraising issue. However, the NRCC and other Republicans aren’t following that advice.

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P*rn and Jokes About Pubic Hairs in Your Coke: A New Twist on GOP Hatred of Women

In a recent interview, former Sen. Alan Simpson still scoffed at the idea that watching a bit of your boss’s choice of p*rn whilst he discusses pubic hairs on the Coke bottle was a problem. It’s not like Thomas touched Hill, he tells us.

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Republicans Freak Out as Some In FEC Want Fox and Conservative Media Treated Like PACs

Republican FEC Chairman Lee Goodman is sparking a right wing freak out by claiming that some in the FEC want to treat conservative media such as Drudge and Fox News like political action committees.

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John Boehner Joins The Impeachment Crowd By Claiming Obama is Lying About Benghazi and the IRS

At a press conference that supposedly about jobs, Speaker of the House John Boehner joined the impeachment Obama crowd by claiming that Obama is lying about Benghazi, Fast and Furious, and the IRS.

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The Report Chris Christie Bought to Clear Himself Will Cost Taxpayers More Than $1 Mil

The law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher charged Republican Governor Chris Christie’s office $1.1 million for the short time frame between Jan. 12 to Jan. 31 to look into the lane closures on the GWB.

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Joe Scarborough Throws Childlike Tantrum On Air And Rips Bill Clinton For ‘Horrific Acts’

On Wednesday’s edition of Morning Joe, co-hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough discussed Monica Lewinsky’s new Vanity Fair piece, which will be released online Thursday and hit newsstands on May 13th. Scarborough threw a tantrum on air.

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Charlie Crist Calls Out the Right Wing Racism of The Republican Party

Florida Democratic candidate for governor, Charlie Crist, went there and called out the Republican Party’s racism towards President Obama during an interview on Fusion.

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One Thing GOPer Tom Tancredo Knows about the Negro – They Shouldn’t Be President

“He’s more dangerous than any other threat we face as a nation,” Tancredo said. “Barack Obama, I believe, is dedicated to destroying the America that I love”

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In Case You Missed It… Assorted Oddities from Around the Web

Some stories that hit the Internet this past week involved a dead whale, brain implants, Neanderthals and the House of Davids.

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Editorial Cartoon: Rick Scott-Not

When people from the North and the Midwest started arriving to Florida, I thought the state that I loved would become more ‘enlightened’. It didn’t happen, and nearly four years ago they elected Rick Scott. Bummer.

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Democratic Senator Unloads On Republicans For Opposing Obama Because He Is The Wrong Color

Retiring Democratic Senator Jay Rockefeller unloaded on Republicans during a hearing today. He said that Republicans don’t want anything good to happen for this president because he’s the wrong color.

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Fox News Claims Climate Change Report Is A Distraction From Benghazi

On Tuesday, while announcing that the White House had released this report, Fox News’ Bill Hemmer, host of America’s Newsroom, stated that the report was perhaps being used to distract people from the “multiple scandals swirling around the administration.”

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Monica Lewinsky Destroys GOP Hopes of Using Bill’s Scandal Against Hillary Clinton

Monica Lewinsky is back, and she has is debunking the talking points that Republicans are hoping to use against Hillary Clinton in 2016.

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White House Hopes Climate Change Report Will Finally Get GOP To Stop Denying Its Existence

A new climate change report was released by the White House on Tuesday. White House counselor John Podesta stated that he hoped that Republicans would look at this report change their minds on the existence of climate change and that it is indeed caused by man.

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Democratic Oregon Governor Performs Life-Saving CPR On Unconscious Woman

Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber (D) saw an unconscious woman along a city street and he jumped into action, performing CPR to save her.

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Republicans Try To Silence House Democrats By Kicking Them Out of a Taxpayer Funded Room

Top House Democrats, including Leader Nancy Pelosi were supposed to be holding a Steering and Policy Committee hearing on the Republican refusal to extend unemployment benefits, but Republicans kicked Democrats out of their scheduled room.

Supreme Court Throws Out Establishment Clause With Public Prayer Ruling

When Americans in the near future look back and wonder how, why, and when their democracy was lost to theocracy, and the Constitution replaced with the bible, they can look back at the Court’s ruling as a pivotal moment, not the deciding moment, in democracy’s demise but a very significant one all the same.

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Pat Robertson Condemns the Extremists He Created for Lost Elections

Robertson’s fingerprints are all over the rise of the conservative extremism he now condemns, being called by the Washington Post a power broker of the religious right.

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It’s All Too Easy to Relate To The Documentary ‘The Brainwashing of My Dad’

An upcoming documentary, “The Brainwashing of My Dad” traces how right wing media morphed a mild-mannered Democrat into a racist Republican. It happens all the time.

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Rick Santorum Says GOP Opposition To Minimum Wage Increase ‘Makes No Sense’

Rick Santorum says his party has been hostile to workers and that their opposition to raising the minimum wage “makes no sense”.

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Fox News Unequivocally Declares That Benghazi Is The Only News Story Worth Covering

Ever since it happened, Fox News has tried to turn the tragic events that occurred at Benghazi in September 2012 into a massive scandal that will destroy the Obama presidency.

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Republicans Launch a Draft Mitt Movement To Get Romney To Run in 2016

Republicans are so desperate for a candidate that they starting a movement to draft Mitt Romney to run again in 2016.

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Another GOP Anti-Obamacare Talking Point Down The Drain As Uninsured Rate Hits Record Low

Gallup released a new tracking poll on Monday that shows that the uninsured rate for Americans dropped to 13.4% in April. This continues a trend that started at the end of 2013

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CBS News Asks for Transcript of Their Bogus 60 Minutes Benghazi Report Deleted

While Republicans are trumping up their Benghazi hysteria, CBS News had the transcript of Lara Logan’s untrue 60 Minutes Benghazi report deleted from the Lexis Nexis database.

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GOP Senate Candidate Uses Campaign Ad To Aim At President Obama With A Gun

Iowa State Sen. Joni Ernst, who is trying to grab the GOP nomination for Iowa’s open US Senate seat, released a new TV ad this week in the hopes of grabbing some mainstream attention.

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The NRA Escalates Their Campaign of Murder Behind the Disguise of Self Defense

There is a troubling new justification for the right to keep and bear arms the NRA supports and it is entrapping suspected burglars and gunning them down in cold blood with impunity as part of the NRA-written and ALEC proposed “stand your ground” or “Castle Doctrine” laws.

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Obamacare Is Working: Nation’s Uninsured Rate Hits Lowest Point Since 2008

Gallup found that the uninsured rate dropped 1.5% from the last quarter of 2013 to the first quarter of 2014. The ACA is working as the percentage of uninsured Americans has hit it’s lowest point since 2008.

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Netanyahu, Ignoring Historical Irony, Wants Israel to Be a Volkisch State

It is ironic that Binyamin Netanyahu wants to walk Israel at least partway down the path Adolf Hitler took Nazi Germany, by declaring Israel a “nation state of one people only – the Jewish people – and of no other people.” Nazi Germany, you may remember, was also nation state of one people only –…

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Do Republicans Really Want to Investigate Benghazi?

Accusations made by Republicans regarding Benghazi are turning up an interesting tale. Many of the emails were altered by the RNC, which leads to this question: Are the Republicans truly interested in resolving Benghazi or is it a smoke screen for the 2014 elections?

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Following the Sarah Jones Tragedy: Gregg Allman Sues to Block Production of ‘Midnight Rider’

Two months after the on-set death of 27 year-old camera assistant Sarah Jones, headlines continue near-weekly regarding both the embattled production of the Gregg Allman biopic Midnight Rider.

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‘Scumbag’ Sen. Lindsey Graham Says Obama Is Disconnected From Benghazi Reality

Sounding like a lunatic, and acting as sleazy as possible, Sen. Lindsey Graham said that President Obama and the White House are disconnected from reality on Benghazi.

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On Fox News Sunday, Democratic Congressman Fights Back Against GOP’s Benghazi Obsession

During Sunday’s broadcast of Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace had Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) and Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) on to discuss both Benghazi and Ukraine. After letting Ayotte say her piece, Wallace turned to Schiff. The Congressman obliterated the GOP’s case.

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President Obama Shows Republicans Why They Can’t Win By Running Against Obamacare

President Obama’s jokes about the ACA rollout turned the issue that Republicans thought could carry them to victory in 2014 into a punchline.

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Nancy Pelosi Slams Republicans For Their Endless Exploitation of Benghazi

Democratic House Leader Nancy Pelosi has joined the list of Democrats who aren’t about to sit back and let Republicans float their bogus Benghazi conspiracies unchallenged.

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Hypocrite Greg Abbott Attacks Wendy Davis While He Begs For Outside Money On Talk Radio

Republican Greg Abbott’s campaign has been criticizing Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis for taking money from liberals outside of Texas, so imagine the surprise when Abbott went on Hugh Hewett’s national right wing talk radio show and begged for dollars.

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Republicans Revive The Bogus Claim That Obama Is The Abortion President

The claim that President Obama campaigned, and revels, in being “the abortion President” is driven by racism, evangelical fanaticism, and an abject ignorance of statistics.

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At Midterms GOP Does it’s Best to Destroy Economy, Points Finger at Democrats

Having created 0 job and cutting unemployment benefits, Boehner said, “we need more robust economic growth if we’re going to help the millions who remain unemployed get back on their feet.”

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Joel McHale’s 10 Best Jokes At the White House Correspondents Dinner

Joel McHale had a real roller coaster ride at the White House Correspondents Dinner, but his jokes didn’t pull punches and definitely brought the funny.

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Obama Slays Fox News and the Koch Brothers With One Joke at White House Correspondents Dinner

President Obama managed to take down both Fox News and the Koch brothers by highlighting the connection between the two with a single joke at the White House Correspondents Dinner.

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Alabama Supreme Court Justice Says First Amendment Applies Only to Christians

Moore leaves out that the Founding Fathers agreed to a secular Constitution that has NOTHING to do with God – anyone’s God

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House Democrat Slams Darrell Issa For His Latest Benghazi Publicity Stunt

Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) shredded Darrell Issa’s Benghazi subpoena of Sec. of State John Kerry by calling it a publicity stunt.

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John Boehner Takes His Orders Directly From Fox News When It Comes to Benghazi

Speaker Boehner allowed Fox News to “establish a new select committee to investigate the attack, provide the necessary accountability, and ensure justice is finally served.”

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Bill Maher Obliterates CNN’s Ghoulish Continuing Coverage of Malaysia Flight 370

On Real Time, Bill Maher tore apart CNN for their continuing and ghoulish coverage of Malaysia Flight 370.

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Right Wing Christians Tell The Poor To Kiss The Ground Beneath The Feet Of the 1%

Jesus never instructed his disciples, and there is nothing in the Gospels, remotely resembling Jesus Christ instructing anyone to revere the rich or kiss the ground they walk on, but Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association thinks that is what Jesus wanted and counselled Americans receiving government services to “kiss the ground beneath the feet of the one percent.”

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Editorial Cartoon: Peeved Packy

These pitiful packys just can’t give up Obamacare and Benghazi…Obamacare…Benghazi…Obamacare…Benghazi…

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Pay Us Back: House Republicans Owe Taxpayers $14 Million For Benghazi Investigations

House Republicans have already wasted 14 million taxpayer dollars on Benghazi investigations. Instead of appointing a Select House Committee on Benghazi, Speaker Boehner needs to pay the taxpayers back the money that he has wasted.

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Rush Limbaugh and His Army of Retired Government Moochers Don’t Want the Unemployed to Eat

On his radio show Friday, Limbaugh not only accused the President of fudging the numbers, he also used the time to complain about the fact that unemployed people in this country are able to eat. Yes, he actually said this.

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With Unemployment Shrinking and Obamacare Working, GOP Pushes All In On Benghazi

On a day where the unemployment rate fell to pre-financial crisis levels, and a month after private insurance enrollments through the ACA exceeded all expectations, Republicans decided to focus on the only thing they now think they can hammer President Obama on — Benghazi.

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