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People For the American Way Stands Up For The Constitution In Supreme Court Brief
This is the America that Trump is trying to normalize, an America where there is a hierarchy of rights based on who you are or how you pray.
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America’s Worst Journalist, Judith Miller Uses Paris Attacks To Bash US College Kids
Judith Miller responded to the terrorist attacks in Paris by sending out a tweet bashing American college students.
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Republicans Join With Democrats In A Rare Bipartisan Senate Effort To Ban Torture
The vote in the Republican-controlled Senate on Monday was an overwhelming bipartisan statement that the President’s 2009 executive order banning torture must be ensconced in permanent law to prevent a Republican administration’s repeat performance in the future.
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Rick Santorum – Pope Has More Important Things to Worry About Than the Earth
It is interesting that Santorum thinks there are more important things than a habitable planet – like creating jobs for dead people on a dead planet
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Don’t Be Fooled Because Kansas Republicans Admit Trickle Down Is a Scam
Kansas’ Republican legislators are all but admitting their precious trickle down experiment was not only a failure, it is a scam. In fact, although not quite stating “our only economic policy is a scam to enrich corporations and the wealthy,” just admitting they have to raise taxes to plug gaping revenue holes and more recently, that income inequality is a problem in America, is just as good.
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Paul Krugman Is Right The Iraq War Was A Bush Crime
Having a discussion will not change the disastrous consequences of Bush and company’s crimes, bring back the three-quarters of a million dead Iraqi civilians or thousands of American soldiers, it may inform Americans of the intent of Republicans defending the invasion and occupation.
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Republicans Push the Benghazi Video Lie to Discredit Hillary Clinton
But there really was an offensive video, and it did actually offend Muslims, and it did actually play a role in the attack that left four Americans dead
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Louie Gohmert Says Iraq War a Mistake. Because Obama
As Jeb has reminded us, Dubya is our problem, not his. Or Gohmert’s. Or the Republican Party’s, it seems
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Chris Christie’s New Campaign Strategy? Run On Slashing Social Security and Medicare
On Friday, Robert Costa at The Washington Post reported that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie disclosed his 2016 platform to a group of Republican policy analysts on Monday.
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No, Nancy Pelosi’s Trip to Syria Was Nothing Like “Tehran Tom’s” Iran Letter
Attempts to link Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Syria with Cotton’s Iran letter, fail, as Pelosi was even briefed by the White House before she went
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Jon Stewart Uses Brian Williams Fiasco To Call Out Media For Accepting Bush’s Iraq War Lies
During Monday night’s broadcast of The Daily Show, host Jon Stewart addressed the recent revelation that NBC News anchor Brian Williams had made false claims about taking rocket fire during a helicopter ride in Iraq in 2003.
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Dick Cheney and Evangelical Christians Epitomize Dark Age Barbarism
Instead of shame and humiliation that this government condoned and defended myriad human rights violations, one of the architects of torture, Dick Cheney and several Bush officials hit the airwaves defending torture with overwhelming support from the religious right.
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New York Times Editorial Calls for Investigation and Prosecution of Torturers in Bush Administration
The Times says this is “about ensuring that this never happens again and regaining the moral credibility to rebuke torture by other governments”
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Republicans Condemn North Korean Human Rights Violations While Ignoring Their Own
The hypocrisy of this nation co-sponsoring a resolution condemning anyone country for human rights abuses (torture) is beyond the pale. Particularly in light of the recent Senate Intelligence Report verifying what the world has known for several years; America is guilty of committing gross human rights abuses on its own citizens and “suspected terrorists” held in captivity.
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Dick Cheney Says Senate Torture Report That He Hasn’t Even Read Is “Full Of Crap”
Former Republican Vice President Dick Cheney appeared on Fox News Wednesday night to defend the Bush Administration’s use of “enhanced interrogation techniques” and dispute the findings of a Senate panel’s report regarding torture. One problem — he hadn’t read the report.
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Senate CIA Torture Report Still Protects Bush War Criminals
As one would expect from criminals, many Republicans, George W. Bush, and former Bush administration officials in charge of the torture program condemned the Senate’s report as a biased attempt to rewrite history.
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Joe Scarborough Compares CIA Torture Report To Rolling Stone’s Campus Rape Story
In a tweet that was read live on the air by Joe’s co-host Mika Brzezinski, Scarborough compared the Senate report to Rolling Stone’s much-maligned campus rape story involving the University of Virginia.
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CIA Torture Program Was Brutal And Ineffective
The Senate Intelligence Committee’s executive summary reveals that the CIA torture program was both brutal and ineffective.
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Senate Fights To Release Report Detailing Bush-Cheney’s CIA Torture Program
The chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee responsible for the report, Senator Dianne Feinstein, is incensed over the CIA’s fight to release the report which included revelations the CIA spied on and infiltrated the Senate committee investigating the Bush-Cheney torture program.
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Republicans Celebrate Veterans Day By Dishonoring Veterans In Word And Deed
Republicans have no respect for the valiant service and sacrifices of veterans. In fact, for well over a decade, at least, Republicans have done everything within their power to dishonor their service.
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Wesley Clark Calls for a New National Strategy to Unite and Move us Forward
Clark outlines the challenges facing us, which together, he argues, “are exactly the grounds over which a national strategy must be unfurled.”
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No Joke – Scholar Tells us President Obama Could Learn from President Bush
David Rothkopf says, “Bush recognized the urgent need for change and instituted a sweeping reordering of his administration, its policies and priorities.”
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Friday Fox Follies – Diseased Central
What’s more contagious than Ebola with absolutely no cure? As we head into next week’s election, Fox “News” has been stricken with a near-fatal form of Obama Derangement Syndrome. Worse: Quarantines won’t work against it — unless you switch off your tee vee.
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Hey Republicans, Hate and Bigotry are not Values, They’re Character Flaws
Rick Santorum claims if he hadn’t been persecuted into silence, he could have convinced millennials to be hateful bigots like he and his buddies
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Do Not Let Republican Candidates Hide Their Extremism These Midterms
Scott Walker, Sam Brownback, Rick Perry, Rick Snyder, and others, are ideological and religious extremists, and their hate, win or lose, does matter.
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Nondisparagement Clauses and the Path to GOP Corporatist Tyranny
If our elected government is replaced by a board of directors, is it far-fetched to think corporate nondisparagement clauses might trump our freedom of speech?
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SOFA Has Become As Mythical for Fox News as George W. Bush
The one thing you will never hear mentioned by Fox News is SOFA. It gets in the way of their Obama is to blame for ISIL narrative
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ISIL and the Limits of the Republican Alternate Reality Bubble
The U.S. must tread carefully in Iraq. The GOP’s reality bubble will not protect them – or the rest of us – from real world, as opposed to fantasy, consequences
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Fumbling Toward War: The GOP’s Foreign Policy of Hate
Republican foreign policy is a tortured and terrifying admixture of religious dogmatism, political ideology, and corporate thirst for profit
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Megyn Kelly Uses Bush’s Defense of Iraq Surge to Blame Obama for ISIL
All Megyn Kelly had to do is re-write history, ignoring the fact that Bush followed up his warning by signing SOFA, agreeing to withdraw US troops from Iraq
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Republicans Fearmonger Over ISIS to Distract From Their Ineptitude
What is curious, is that Republicans are campaigning against President Obama who is not running for any political office, but since they cannot run on their records in Congress, they are using conditions in Iraq to frighten Americans into supporting the GOP.
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Warmongering Neocon Bill Kristol Gets Raked Over The Coals Regarding His Iraq Stance
During Sunday’s broadcast of ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Bill Kristol was absolutely destroyed over his opinion that the United States needs to deploy thousands of troops to Iraq and re-engage in a combat mission.
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Boehner’s Frivolous Law Suit Is A Shiny Object For His Intellectually Challenged Base
Sanity has definitely left the building when the Party of Unitary Executive President George W. Bush tries to make the case that Barack Obama has abused his powers under the Constitution.
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Fox News Gets Busted for Falsely Claiming that Obama Released the ‘New Bin Laden’
PolitiFact finds Fox News “false” for claiming that ISIS leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi was “released by Obama in 2009.” He was released under Bush, according to the DOD.
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The Media Embarrasses Itself by Treating the Lying Bush Bumblers Like Iraq War Experts
America’s mainstream media is as apt to repeat failures as conservatives likely due to the symbiotic relationship between corporate media and the conservative movement.
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Republicans Blame Obama For Iraq When It Was Bush Who Signed The Agreement to Leave
What any of the Republicans blaming Obama for pulling American troops out of Iraq in 2011 should remember, is that in October 2008 George W. Bush was president when the Status of Forces Agreement was drafted and ratified by Iraqi lawmakers a month later in November 2008.
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George W. Bush’s Head Cheerleader For The Iraq War Forgets What Year The War Started
Ari Fleischer, the White House Press Secretary under President George W. Bush during the early years of the Iraq War. took to Twitter on Friday to help conservatives pin the blame on Obama for the recent surge of violence in Iraq.
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If Republicans Really Supported The Troops They Wouldn’t Propose Privatizing the VA
If Republicans supported the troops and appreciated the sacrifice of those who made it home alive then they would not propose privatizing the Veterans Administration.
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Chris Christie Wants a More Aggressive Foreign Policy in Very Messy, Difficult Places
Acting as though he would know right from wrong, Christie said America is “the strongest moral power for what is good and what is right in the world.”
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Ross Douthat Ignores Context and Facts to Make Obama a Foreign Policy Failure
Douthat also carefully avoids mention of Egypt, another Obama foreign policy success story, where the Obama administration’s moderating influence ensured that the Mubarak regime would be sent packing, and without the violence of a civil war.
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Right-Wing Nut And Disgraced Former Navy Chaplain Wants To Kill Liberals?
Dr. “Chaps” Gordon Klingenschmitt, a disgraced former Navy chaplain, instructed his followers to arm themselves from “left winged crazies” after the shooting at the Fed-Ex Store in Suburban Atlanta.
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A Presidents’ Day Examination Of the Monumental Hurdles that President Obama Has Overcome
Instead of waxing philosophically on the achievements of past presidents, it is worthwhile to take stock of the current President and recognize the monumental hurdles he cleared while battling Republicans who made destroying his presidency and the nation’s economy their sole reason for serving in Congress.
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Another Conservative Journalist Offensively Compares the ACA to Iraq War
It seems that the National Review’s Ramesh Ponnuru felt that it had been too long since a conservative had made the idiotic comparison between the Affordable Care Act and the Iraq War.
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Republicans Show That They Abhor Peace by Criticizing Nuclear Deal With Iran
What the American people are reminded of with the warmonger’s criticism of diplomatic efforts is that Republicans abhor peace nearly as much as they love killing jobs.
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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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GOP Hypocrites Criticize The ACA Website But Stood By Bush’s Medicare Part D Roll Out
Instead of decrying the Medicare prescription plan as an abject failure, Republicans denouncing the ACA’s rollout as a reason to abandon the entire law asked Americans to be patient.
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66% of Republicans Want Their Representatives to Cause an Economic Catastrophe
One would think that the idea of deliberately crashing the economy would not garner much support, but an overwhelming majority of Republicans want their party to cause an economic catastrophe.
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GOP Rep. Jim Bridenstine of Oklahoma Calls Obama Unfit and Biden Embarrassing
On Monday, Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-Okla.), forgot not only President Bush but his fellow ethically-challenged House Republicans, and excoriated President Barack Obama from the House floor.
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Donald Rumsfeld Gives Bush a D and Obama an F
Donald Rumsfeld conveniently forgets the past and repeats the GOP’s favorite meme, that Obama has lost credibility and America’s confidence
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SEAL Team 6 Gate Replaces Benghazi as Worst Scandal Ever
Benghazi was bigger than Watergate (and apparently, 9/11 as well) but “Seal Team 6-Gate” is bigger even than Benghazi! (and Benghazi was totally the worst scandal ever, right? Well, not so much…).
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Republican Rep. Tom Price Says Obama No Longer has Consent of the Governed
What Price means by “the governed” is “angry white people” like himself who have sold their souls to the ravenous corporations seeking to replace the federal government
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Republicans Who Criticize Obama Were Silent When Bush Tried Terror Suspects In Civilian Court
During the Bush administration’s crusade against suspected terrorists who were tried in civilian court and not as “enemy combatants,” Republicans were silent until Barack Obama became president.
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War Criminal George W. Bush Should Be Given An Indictment Not a Library
The concept of giving kind regards to a convicted war criminal whose only relationship to a library should be a weekly visit to a federal prison library reveals that many Americans have short memories
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The Iraq Invasion Could Be a Worse Foreign Policy Decision than the Vietnam War
This month, an article argued the Iraq War was the single worst foreign policy decision in US history. This may be more than just hyperbole.
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Move Over Star Wars: A Trilogy of GOP Cognitive Dissonance: 2008, 2012, 2016
The Republican Party’s doldrums are likely to continue until they acknowledge reality, but there are no signs of that happening soon
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Let’s Be Honest, Red States Want to Secede Because the White Guy Didn’t Win
The secessionists whose real reason for wanting to leave America has nothing to do with the Founders, the Constitution, or the economy and everything to do Barack Obama’s skin color.
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In Foreign Policy Romney Needs to be More than Not-Obama
Mitt Romney is campaigning as not-Obama and in this case at least, he is being entirely honest: he is not Obama
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Romney and Ryan – The Haters in Chief
It is un-American to have as a president a man who preaches religious intolerance and who promotes the idea of state-sponsored religion
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Trying to Distract from His Own 9/11 Failures, Dick Cheney Whines About Obama
Dick Cheney is desperately trying to distract from the new NYT evidence against Bush ignoring 9/11 intel by falsely accusing President Obama of ignoring intel, because Obama prefers to read his own intel.
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Remembering the Bush Administration’s Post 9/11 Lies that Forever Changed America
While Americans reflect on the events of 9/11, they should remember that as catastrophic as the attacks were, it was subsequent events that really changed this country for the worse.
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President Obama Must Use the Convention to Tell the Unvarnished Truth
Tuesday is the opening day of the Democratic Convention. The speakers must speak the truth. The Bush administration screwed everything up.
Karl Rove Revises Bush Administration History One Lie at a Time
While on his book tour Karl Rove continues to revise the history of both George W. Bush and himself. While in Oklahoma City, Rove said that Bush would never allow him, “to engage in calling the leaders of the opposition party disparaging labels and question their motives.” This is yet another lie from Rove, who is on the outside looking in, and desperate for a comeback.
