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Jessa Duggar Blamed Darwin for Holocaust But Should Look in Her Bible Instead
Jessa Duggar owes her religion to the anti-Semitic Martin Luther. But Darwin, who lived three centuries after Luther, is to blame for anti-Semitism?
Monthly Archives: October 2014
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The Democratic Party Is Not Your Abusive Partner, Progressives, It’s Your Problem Child
Calls for the Progressives to “break up” with the Democratic Party as an abusive partner miss the mark. The problems is actually their neglect of the party.
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Lace ‘Em Up: Why Neo-Conservatives Are So Anxious To Put Boots On The Ground
Republicans are itching to bring in ground troops against ISIS. The reason stems from an incessant desire to prove American superiority through military means.
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Bill Maher Rips The Hypocrites Who Are On Obamacare But Vote Republican
On his New Rules segment, Bill Maher tore apart hypocrites who are enjoying the benefits provided by Obamacare, but continue to vote for Republicans who want to kill the law.
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The Party of Plagiarism: Republican Senate Candidate Busted Again For Stealing Healthcare Plan
Republicans Senate candidate Monica Wehby (a doctor) got busted for plagiarizing her health care plan again, but this time she stole from the guy she criticized as knowing nothing about health care.
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Republican Sequester Prevented Health Agencies From Stopping Ebola Spread
There is little money for the agencies tasked with helping stop the virus due to the Republicans’ precious sequester the GOP House cannot possibly blame on anyone but their sick austerity economics.
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Republican Says One Invented GOP Scandal Proves Another Invented GOP Scandal
Texas Republican Randy Weber says Obama’s record on invented scandals is so bad that he can’t possibly be on top of another scandal they invented
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Introducing The Friday Fox Follies
Welcome to The Friday Fox Follies, a new weekly feature at PoliticusUSA. Each week Headly Westerfield will wrap up the Fox “News” tomfoolery and shenanigans (as the dictionary defines those words) into one neat little package with a bow.
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Conservative SCOTUS Could Gut Fair Housing Protections
On Thursday, the Supreme Court of the United States agreed to hear a case brought by Texas that seeks to limit the use of statistics in housing fairness cases.
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Ferguson Police Stomp All Over First Amendment By Arresting Protesters For Bad Language
What began as a day filled with severe rain storms and an opportunity for a number of Ferguson protesters to take a break from demonstrating ended with the Ferguson police department once again abusing the 1st Amendment in an effort to intimidate activists and protesters.
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Nearly Four Times More People Signed Up For Obamacare Than Watch Fox News
Fox News and their viewers like to pound their chests and tout their success, but Fox can’t hold a candle to Obamacare. Nearly four times as many people have signed up for Obamacare than watch Fox News.
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Message Delivered: Obama Rallies Democrats as the Economy Takes Center Stage
President Obama urges voters help him, “I need you to get involved.” He followed that up with hard jabs at the Republican Congress, telling supporters, “I can’t do it alone.”
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Natural Born Job Killers: Why Republicans Are Afraid to Reveal Their Job Creation Ideas
It is difficult to believe that any American might think, even for a nano-second, that Republicans serve anyone other than the rich and corporations, and it is why they are hesitant to lay out their true agenda heading into the midterm elections.
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Mitt Romney Accidentally Commits Misdemeanor Voter Fraud While Leaving The Republican Party
Mitt Romney, two-time loser, but third-time hopeful, signed voter registration forms with the wrong address and wrong party. Romney is no longer a Republican, apparently, according to his own careful perusal of the voter registration he signed. He also used an address he hasn’t used since 2009. Oopsie!
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Fox News Left In Tatters After President Obama Levels Them With An Epic Truth Bomb
All it took was one sentence from President Obama to send Fox News into a total panic. The president took down Fox with a short and sweet dose of reality that showed just how small the right-wing network is.
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Biting the Hand That Feeds Them, Conservatives Want to Kick Blue States Out of the Union
According to a new Fox News poll, the red staters that suck off of the rich blue states want to kick the rich blue states out of the union.
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We Are Way Better Off Than We Were When Bush Left Office As Jobless Rate Falls To 5.9%
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released September’s employment figures on Friday and it was almost entirely good news. The economy added 248,000 new jobs during the month and the unemployment rate dropped to 5.9%.
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Jon Stewart Exposes Republican Hypocrisy When It Comes To Saving American Lives
Jon Stewart lit into Republicans for claiming that they’ll do anything possible to save American lives when it comes to ISIS and the Ebola virus while showing no concern whatsoever for other issues that cost thousands of American lives annually.
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Horrific Security Breach as Fake Congressman Allowed Backstage At Obama Event
Another breach of presidential security was revealed to have occurred last week when a fake congressman was allowed backstage at an Obama event.
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Republicans Caught Between Opposition to Healthcare and Fear of Ebola
Republicans are saying Obama is underestimating threat of Ebola, which might explain why they’re refusing to fund a cure and provide healthcare
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First There Were ‘Shock Jocks,’ Now There Are Shock Docs
Yes, there are some shocking behaviors being noted in great numbers of doctor’s offices. It’s an ongoing problem and these ethical lapses could impact your care and, most certainly, your pocketbook.
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The Conservative Supreme Court Will Decide If Some Votes Are More Equal Than Others
The Supreme Court decided on Thursday that it will hear two election law related cases this term, the potential of redefining the meaning of free and fair elections.
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In Stunning Display Of Myopia, Ross Douthat Wonders Where The ‘Frightening Fringe Groups’ Are
At the end of a recent Sunday Review Op-Ed entitled, “The Cult Deficit,” I found myself annoyed by some of Douthat’s bland, unquantifiable assertions about the state of religious pedagogy.
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Obama Hammers Republican Cowards Who Refuse To Lay Out Their Ideas
President Obama drilled Republicans during his speech at Northwestern for lacking the courage to lay out their real ideas to the American people.
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Racist Fox Troll Claims African Ebola Patients Will Seek Out ‘Witch Doctors’ For Treatment
During a segment on Fox News’ Outnumbered Thursday, the network’s favorite little racist troll, Andrea Tantaros, claimed Africans traveling to the United States who may possibly be infected with the Ebola virus won’t go to hospitals, but instead seek out witch doctors for treatment.
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Kansas Is a Portent of Republican Medicare Privatization Disaster
Democrats have a living, breathing example of privatizing Medicare, and frankly everything in the Path to Prosperity budget, that has done nothing Republicans promise and everything Democrats warned will come to pass. If he has accomplished nothing else, Kansas Governor Sam Brownback has given Democrats and all of America a preview of precisely what a Republican Congress will do to America.
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Change Is Coming: Ferguson Sees Huge Surge In Voter Registration Since Michael Brown’s Death
USA Today reported on Thursday that the town of Ferguson has seen a huge surge in voter registration since the August 9th death of 18-year-old Michael Brown.
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How To Lose A Senate Election: Joni Ernst Wants to Discuss Privatizing Social Security
Republican Iowa Senate Candidate Joni Ernst, whose castration of the swine in DC ad earned her a devoted conservative following, thinks “we all need to sit down” in a bipartisan manner to discuss privatizing Social Security.
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A Secret Service Agent Leaked President Obama’s Schedule To Mitt Romney In 2012
A Secret Service agent jeopardized President Obama’s security by leaking where the president was going to be ahead of time to the Romney campaign during the 2012 election.
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U.S. Intel Failures Have Become the Latest Republican Benghazi Hoax
Led by Fox News (again), the mainstream media’s reaction to Obama’s admission of American intel failures has become the latest Benghazi hoax
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The College Republicans Put Out the Most Offensively Sexist Ad Ever for Rick Snyder
Vote for Governor Rick Snyder (R-MI), girls, because wedding dresses are all you understand.
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Republican Candidate for A-G of Arkansas Kicked Off Voter Rolls For Registering in Multiple States
As of Tuesday, the Republican candidate for Attorney-General in Arkansas is no longer a registered Arkansas voter. It turns out that Leslie Rutledge registered to vote in Arkansas, DC and possibly Virginia. Of course, Rutledge claims the Democrats did it’. They’re targetting her! Republicans are being persecuted! According to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Pulaski County Clerk, Larry…
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Editorial Cartoon: NOT Narrow-Minded
He’s jus’ tryin’ to save folks from the nasty gubment.
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Grand Jury Looking Into Michael Brown Shooting Now Being Investigated For Misconduct
The St. Louis County Prosecutor’s office is now investigating potential misconduct surrounding the grand jury that is currently investigating the shooting of Michael Brown. On August 9th, the unarmed 18-year-old was shot six times by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson.
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Alison Lundergan Grimes Deploys Big Dog Bill Clinton in New Knockout Ad
Alison Lundergan Grimes’ (D-KY) campaign released a new 30-second television ad entitled “President Clinton” in which the Big Dog wastes no time letting the people know that being a Senator is about “getting new jobs, contrary to Mitch McConnell’s claim.
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GOP Takes One On The Chin As Kansas Court Rules Dems Don’t Need To Name Senate Candidate
A Kansas district court ruled on Wednesday that the Democratic Party does not need to name a Senate candidate to take on incumbent Republican Senator Pat Roberts. This decision opens the door for independent candidate Greg Orman to face Roberts in a head-to-head battle.
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Fourth Circuit Restores Early Voting and Out of Precinct Voting in North Carolina
In a 2-1 decision, the Federal Appeals Court for the Fourth Circuit granted a temporary injunction to restore same day registration and out of precinct voting in North Carolina.
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Pierson Resigns As President Obama Concludes New Leadership Was Necessary in Secret Service
Julia Pierson, Director of the Secret Service, resigned on Wednesday following a hearing into the rash of Secret Service failures, some of which happened before she was directing the agency.
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Iowa Senate Candidate Joni Ernst Can’t Escape The Republican Anti-Woman Crusade
For a senatorial candidate from Iowa, the way to show support for a religious principle is voting for a constitutional amendment that effectively eliminates a woman’s constitutional rights, and then claim the amendment really would not do anything at all.
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Bill Maher Unloads On Red State Democrats Who Think Bashing Obama Will Help Them Win
Real Time host Bill Maher had some tough words for Democratic candidates who believe that bashing President Obama will help them win in November. Maher said that Democrats need to stop chasing voters who will never support them.
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GOP Senate Candidate Scott Brown Is Not Only A Carpetbagger, But Also A Total Hypocrite
In an article that ran Wednesday in the Washington Post, Sean Sullivan pointed out that during his time in the Senate, Brown missed all six hearings that the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee held, even though Brown was a committee member
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Conservative Blames President Obama For His Own Potential Assassination
While writing about the problems at the Secret Service, the absurd conclusion was drawn that if President Obama gets assassinated it will be his own fault.
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With 33 Days Until the Election Alison Lundergan Grimes Leads Mitch McConnell 42%-40%
A new poll of Kentucky released today shows a very unpopular Sen. Mitch McConnell (R) trailing his Democratic challenger Alison Lundergan Grimes in the Senate race 42%-40%.
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For Republicans ISIL is Only an Excuse to Attack Our President
The suspicion that Republicans are far more horrified by a black president than Islamic terrorists is borne out by the rhetoric
