Charles Koch Warns of Collectivism While Advocating Koch Style Collectivism
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In his WSJ op-ed, Charles Koch condemns collectivism, unless it’s the collectivism inherent in Kochism.
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In his WSJ op-ed, Charles Koch condemns collectivism, unless it’s the collectivism inherent in Kochism.
Meet the new and even more extreme model of the Todd Akin 2012.
A cruel irony of yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling lies in the Chief Justice’s definition of corruption.
The Koch Court drove another dagger into democracy today with a ruling that gives greedy old plutocrats license to buy even more Paul Ryan clones than Citizens United made possible
Wendy Davis’ opponent’s education policy is based on a compilation of right wing assumptions about gender, race and class with intellect based in part on the mythical musings of white nationalist and misogynist Charles Murray.
Following Greg Abbott’s announcement of his plans to improve Texas’s pre-K program, Wendy Davis gave 20 million reasons why Abbott’s promises prove he is a hypocrite.
During a conference call held on Thursday, a senior administrative official outlined the key features of the President’s proposed program.
True to his word, President Obama is moving forward to take government out of the business of collecting and storing telephone meta data.
On Wednesday, Osama Bin-Laden’s son-in-law, Sulaiman Abu Ghaith was found guilty of conspiracy to kill Americans by serving as an Al Quaeda spokesman following the 9/11 attacks.
Right Wing extremists continue to claim they care about free and fair elections while advocating for and establishing “laws” that effectively restrict voting by non-Republicans.
Michelle Byrom’s trial is a classic example of why I oppose the death penalty.
If someone told me even a year ago, that the Supreme Court would consider if corporations practice a religion and with it, have a right to freedom of religion I wouldn’t have believed it.
The Bush Administration authorized the NSA to collect data on millions of Americans. This was done solely on George W. Bush’s orders and for some time before a FISA court judge allowed the data collection in 2004.
The next time Republicans and their surrogates at Fox news talk about their love for the constitution, and especially when they claim to care about civil rights, remember Wednesday, March 5 2014.
Stockman sort of got a small taste of the smear tactics he used, when his 1977 mug shot resurfaced. The Texas Tribune published it and his arrest record a month ago.
On Sunday, Florida Prosecutor Angela Cory’s office announced it would seek a 60-year sentence against Marissa Alexander in her retrial for firing a warning shot.
While ballots are secret during elections, the Lone Star state’s version of a primary requires voters to disclose their party preferences to the election clerk.
Jan Brewer vetoed SB 1062, the bill that would have allowed businesses to refuse services to people on religious grounds.
For years, the Republican Party has tried, and succeeded, in brainwashing their base to believe that Barack Obama and the Democratic Party are Nazis.
Superior court Judge issued an injunction against North Carolina’s school voucher law because it is likely that suits challenging this law will succeed on the merits.
Republicans in North Carolina are trying to quash a subpoena for emails regarding the “rationale, purpose and implementation” of House Bill 589, aka the most egregious vote suppression law in the country.
The lawyers defending Utah’s ban on same-sex marriage before the Supreme Court of the United States don’t have the law on their side, nor do they have valid facts.
Now that their Obamacare kills jobs lie was discredited by the CBO’s report and again in testimony to Congress, Republicans in the House of Representatives are seeking another way to call “you people” lazy freeloaders.
Perhaps in the name of appeasing Mayor Vincent Grey’s belief that removing the threat of jail time will result in widespread consumption of the drug, the council voted 11-1 on a watered down effort to decriminalize marijuana use.
Earlier this week, Reince Priebus tried to punish MSNBC with a boycott for calling out Republicans on their racism.
The Republicans “new” plan to replace the ACA brings back everything that was wrong with the old system and they found away to make things even worse.
What happens when a constitution doesn’t conform to the Republican Party’s ideology? If it’s the constitution of the United States, they revise its meaning, or make something up about the original intent of the constitutional protection.
Monday’s order by the Supreme Court to “suspend” same sex marriage in Utah is, to put it mildly, disappointing.
Now that the charade of Phil Robertson’s pretend suspension is over, homophobes nationwide can rest assured that their “right” to spread hate is preserved and the corporate sponsors of Duck Dynasty will profit handsomely.
The Republicans and the Tea Party thought they had it made when the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act. They were wrong.
Last week, federal Magistrate Judge Joi Elizabeth Peake scheduled a hearing for July 2014, to impose a temporary injunction on North Carolina’s “voter ID” law.
Time Magazine named the Pope their Person of the Year, with Ted Cruz as first runner up. Under their criteria the person of the year is “the person who most influenced the news, good or bad.” By this criteria, the Pontiff was the obvious choice.
This week’s Republican attempt to reach out to minorities was the latest lesson in how to become less popular than dog poop.
If you’re a woman in Texas, getting married or divorced could cost you your vote, especially if you drive too.
In response to the DOJ’s challenge of Texas’s redistricting plan and voter ID laws, Attorney-General, Gregg Abbott admitted what we already know.
What most of us call trolling, Fox calls p.r. in its quest to plant pro Fox spin on critics’ blogs and websites.
Ted Cruz wants to default because it will bring about Economic Armageddon and he thinks the President will get blamed for it.
The Kochs’ lead hostage taker in the Senate is blocking Tom Wheeler’s nomination to be chairman of the FCC.
The Republican “solution” to the non-existent government exemption from the ACA actually creates a government exemption from the ACA.
Renee Ellmers, was one of the 144 House Republicans who voted to make the economy scream while keeping her paycheck because she “needed it.”
Judge Richard Posner says he got it Voter ID ruling wrong, acknowledges that the result of it is vote suppression.
When the Tea Party’s base starts sound like liberals, you know the Tea Party is in trouble.
If he were here today, Lincoln would have a lot to say that would have the Tea Party crying because he would sound a lot like Obama.
The first case the Supreme Court heard this term brought what’s left of campaign finance laws back for scrutiny by the same court that gave us corporations have civil rights and money is speech in Citizens United. Citizens United, the Sequel, is brought to you by Sean McCutcheon, a businessman and Republican activist from Alabama. …
The SCOTUS has a docket full of additional cases taking direct hits at established constitutional rights and social policy.
Republicans don’t want you to know this, but that there are ways to provide ordinary citizens with healthcare and prosper while doing it.
Rafael and the wacko birds celebrated the government shutdown as if they actually accomplished something.
Fortunately, President Obama wasn’t deterred by fear of the varied and contradictory criticisms ranging from being called a hypocritical war monger to crazy conspiracy theories.
ECSU student Montravius King fought the GOP vote suppression effort and won in North Carolina.
The freedom that Martin Luther King espoused and envisioned remains elusive to Americans who call DC home because we don’t have voting representation in the House and no representation in the Senate.
Without question, the ALEC inspired “Voter ID” law in NC, and in other red states, target votes by blacks and Hispanics. Make no mistake about it, ALEC has women’s votes in the cross hairs too.
Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI) is on the record saying he wants to fix the pre-clearance formula by the end of this year.
According to Pat Buchanan, “whites are the only group that you can discriminate against legally in America now.”
The Kochs decided that the Tribune papers weren’t financially viable enough to use as Tea Party style propaganda outlets.
In Republican newspeak, eligible voter is code for voters who are rich, white, male and Republican.
The DOJ announced has announced that it will challenge Texas’ voter ID law because the law violates the Voting Rights Act as well as the 14th and 15th amendments of the U.S. Constitution.
Republicans really did it to themselves with the fake IRS “scandal”; they may lose the ability to shield their donors from public scrutiny.
In Florida, it’s deja vu all over again. Rick Scott is back in the business of purging the vote. The last time Scott tried this, 182,000 people were put on an initial list based on DMV records.
The American people are not stupid, and can’t be tricked by Republicans carrying plates of cookies into giving up their civil rights.
A new White House petition is requesting prosecution of George Zimmerman for depriving Trayvon Martin of his constitutional rights of life and liberty.
A group of Democratic lawmakers have proposed a law to establish a Supreme Court Code of Conduct that is sure to have Supreme Court Justices Thomas and Scalia quaking in their Tea Party boots.
There are a few lessons that lawmakers can take from the case of Ariel Castro.
\When one looks at each law passed by the NC Republicans in isolation, it’s easy to dismiss them as bad. When taken together, North Carolina is a blue print of what a Koch Empire would look like.
On the heels of suppressing voting rights, North Carolina’s Senate was on a roll and gave final approval to their version of state interference in women’s reproductive health.
North Carolina Republicans have rubber stamped a voter suppression law that some might say is more consistent with fascism than with a government of the people, for the people and by the people.
Today, the North Carolina state senate passed the most extreme vote suppression bill ever after a very generous 2-hour debate.
The latest job stats from the Koch Republic of Pope, aka, North Carolina, add yet more data to the already massive proof that Republican policies kill jobs.
Republicans should support a law that requires rapists to take financial responsibility for the life that they say should have personhood status from the moment of conception.
Four of the other Zimmerman jurors responded one juror’s interview with CNN statement with a statement in which they distanced themselves from Juror B 37.
Zimmerman jurors were misinformed about Florida’s self defense law, and given the distorted impression that if someone provoked an altercation they still had an absolute right to use lethal force.
Zimmerman was acquitted before opening arguments because the case law shows that concepts like stand your ground only apply to certain people.
The Koch Republic of Pope (formerly North Carolina) stooped to a new anti-democratic low in its attack on women’s reproductive rights.
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This ruling gives us a lesson in political reality. Republican governors and Republican controlled state legislatures will suppress the vote. Voting Republican means endorsing vote suppression.
By kicking the case back to the lower court with instructions, the SCOTUS majority delegated the “dirty work” to the lower court.
This is what North Carolina has turned into.This is what happens when conservatives get control of government and use it to intimidate opponents of the corporate owned government’s policies.
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Under the pretense of defending diversity, Bush torture policy guru John Yoo came out in favor of a diversity of war criminals.
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Republicans take on Nancy Pelosi and, to their peril, Hillary Clinton.
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According to testimony by two police officers supported with audio tape evidence, Stop and Frisk targets racial minorities.