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Florida Sinking Beneath the Waves, But Folks in Boca Raton Are Worried About Mosques
Mosques really don’t appear to be the problem. Like churches, they will be under water. Along with the people who attend them.
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Church Insurance Cites ‘Act of God’ in Not Paying for Church’s Flood Damage
It was ironic that an insurance company specializing in covering churches refused to pay for flood damage to a church they said it was an act of god.
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Louisiana Floods Coincide With Announcement July Was Hottest In History
Climate change increases the amounts of rain in the most intense events, and extreme rainfall events like in Louisiana are expected to grow increasingly more common.
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ExxonMobil Lies – They Still Oppose Any Climate Change Remedies
ExxonMobil promotes a carbon tax while contributing to Republicans who block all efforts to combat climate change with a tax on carbon.
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Oil Giant Pledges Major Shift To Renewable and Green Energy to Fight Climate Change
“Sierra Club welcomes Total’s new policy changes to meet the global climate accord and reduce its role in
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Donald Trump Only Cares About Climate Change When His Property Is At Risk
In public, Donald Trump wants the ignorant to believe that climate change is a hoax. It’s a whole different story when the self-obsessed billionaire stands to lose money.
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Tables Turned – A. G. Subpoenas Koch-Related Climate Deniers’ Documents
Republicans use subpoenas to terrorize climate scientists, but it is an infringement of their rights if the tables are turned.
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21 Youth Win Historic Climate Ruling Against Fossil Fuel and the Government
As it turns out, a group of 21 young people from across the nation have joined the climate change war in the savviest way possible and they just won a significantly historic and constitutional climate change court battle. And they prevailed against the fossil fuel industry and the federal government.
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Marco Rubio Spits On Miami Mayor’s Ringing Endorsement
Mr. Regalado’s endorsement comes at a time when the sea level has risen an unprecedented 5 inches all along the Atlantic coastline.
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SCOTUS Conservatives Give the Kochs What They Want and Ruled Against HumanityÂ
The fossil fuel industry said no more regulations and the conservative justices obediently complied
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The ExxonMobil Climate Scandal Reveals the Deadly Evil of Corporatism
The Bloomberg editorial board claims the government has no right to “shame” a company for trying to turn a profit, no matter the human cost
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Paul Krugman and Noam Chomsky Agree: Republicans Are A Serious Threat To Humanity
Paul Krugman and Noam Chomsky joined to sound the alarm about Republican being a threat not only to Americans but to human survival
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Paul Ryan’s ‘Pro-Growth Agenda’ Calls for Giving Your Money to Rich People
Paul Ryan insists he is going to ‘fix’ things, but since Obama has already done that, he can only mean he’s going to destroy them
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The Low Information Republican Party is Wrong About Everything
The Republican Party has made politics a celebration of literally knowing nothing about anything, but feeling very strongly about it
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The Liberal Project Goes into Another Year, Weathered but Unbeaten
The liberal project’s foe is a conservative ideology that de-legitimizes other modes of thought, compromise and a thought for the common weal
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Stop Praising A Koch Victory That Increases Climate Change and Enriches the Oil Industry
No wonder Republicans were praising themselves; just one unrelated-to-spending rider in a spending bill gave the Kochs tens-of-billions annually and endangered Americans lives and well-being; it is what Koch Republicans regard as a win-win.
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The GOP’s Reaction to Climate Change and Islam Has Created a Vortex of Stupidity
That Republicans focus on the idea of an “Islamic problem” shows us how catastrophically insufficient is their understand of the world
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ExxonMobil Defies Kochs – Warns Governments Must Intervene To Prevent Climate Catastrophe
ExxonMobil is the second leading oil corporation to publicly admit that climate change is real, following Shell Oil’s admission in March
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Republicans Ramp Up The Koch Crusade And Inquisition Against Science
When NOAA published research using empirical data to refute GOP climate-change denial, Lamar Smith (R-TX) subpoenaed to the scientists
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Peggy Noonan Says Linking Climate Change and Terrorism Makes Bernie Sanders Look “Daffy”
Despite all the evidence he is 100% correct about the connection between climate change and terrorism, Noonan thinks Sanders sounds “daffy”
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Environmental Activist Bill McKibben: “This Is A Day Of Celebration”
Climate activist Bill McKibben expressed jubilation after President Obama announced his decision to deny the Keystone XL pipeline.
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Obama Refuses TransCanada Request to Suspend Keystone XL Pipeline Approval
TransCanada claims they need more time to work with American officials but the real reason is to avoid a losing battle with President Obama
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Ted Cruz Says ‘Climate Change Is Not Science, It’s Religion’
Drowning in evidence, Cruz denies there is evidence, and then claims if we say he “denies” it we’re proving climate change is a religion
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Facing Tough Re-Election Fight, GOP Senator Ayotte Breaks Ranks With GOP On Clean Power
On Sunday, New Hampshire Senator Kelly Ayotte (R) announced that she will support the EPA’s Clean Power Plan.
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House Republicans Are Targeting Scientists For Harassment and Intimidation
Armed with “suspicious subpoena power,” the House Science Committee is using its authority to conduct a witch hunt against NOAA scientists for doing the job they are paid to do; study the oceans and atmosphere and publish the results.
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Bernie Sanders Takes On Big Oil By Calling For A Criminal Investigation Into ExxonMobil
Bernie Sanders is calling for the Department of Justice to open a criminal investigation into ExxonMobile after internal memos revealed the oil giant engaged in corporate fraud by denying climate change.
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Pope Visit Backfires On Republicans As Obama and Francis Team Up On Climate Change
Almost immediately, Pope Francis and President Obama negated any Republican hopes of using the Pope’s visit to score political points by teaming up at the White House on a climate change message.
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Hillary Clinton Unifies Democrats – Opposes Keystone XL On Climate Change Grounds
There must be ten or twenty immediate reasons a person can give for opposing a foreign corporation, TransCanada’s crusade to build a dangerous tar sand pipeline across America’s heartland, and they are all valid. However, the overriding, and immediate, cause for alarm should be the devastation tar sand development, production, and transport will have on…
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Washington Post Conservative Claims That Honoring the Pope is Hating America
The Koch brothers are executing a well-planned assault on the Pope by portraying him as a Pagan and his followers as un-American
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Conservative Heartland Institute “Accuses” Pope of Paganism
The problem for conservatives is not that the Pope made room for Paganism in the Church, but that he refuses to make room for capitalism
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Ten Lonely House Republicans Acknowledge Climate Change Is Real
The ten signed a resolution “affirming that human activity contributes to climate change” and they endorsed action to respond to the threat.
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Republicans Engage in More Treason to Undermine the President on Climate Change
Mitch McConnell and his gaggle of traitors warn foreign governments not to trust Obama when negotiating with Obama in Paris this December
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Bobby Jindal Urges President Obama Not To Mention Climate Change On Katrina Anniversary
Bobby Jindal sent a letter to President Obama, requesting that the president not talk about climate change on Katrina’s 10th anniversary.
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GOP Hopeful John Kasich Flip Flops On Climate Change, Jumps Into Denialist Camp
John Kasich told Chuck Todd on MSNBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday, that the theory of man-made climate change was unproven.
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Kochs And ALEC Make War Against Americans And Pope Francis Public
The mainstream media is finally reporting that the Koch’s legislative arm ALEC is moving into the open to prevent action on climate change
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Democrats Outsmart Mitch McConnell With Resolution Supporting Pope Francis On Climate Change
A group of liberal Senate Democrats turned the tables on Majority Leader Mitch McConnell today by introducing a resolution supporting Pope Francis’ views on climate change and calling on the Senate to immediately act.
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Bernie Sanders Shreds GOP Science Deniers While Applauding Obama Climate Change Initiative
Bernie Sanders went where the media won’t while supporting President Obama’s climate change initiative. Sanders bluntly called out the Republican Party for being owned by the Koch brothers, and the oil companies.
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Here Are The Facts You Need To Fight The Republican Lies About Obama’s Clean Power Plant Plan
Republicans are doing the bidding of their fossil fuel masters by distorting President Obama’s historic clean power plant plan, but here are the facts that you need to know in order to fight back.
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Anti-Science Boehner Hypocritically Remembers Apollo 11’s Moon Landing
It is science that explains our universe, and that it science – not a cherry-picked Bible – that provides us the means of that understanding
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Huckabee Thinks One Beheading Is Worse Than 17 Texans Killed In Record Floods
Huckabee raged and attempted to contradict the President telling Fox News that, “I assure you that one beheading is much worse than a sunburn.”
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Obama Hammers Republicans For Betraying Their Country On Climate Change
It was prescient, then, that when President Obama addressed graduates of the Coast Guard Academy and told them that “denying it (climate change), or refusing to deal with it endangers our national security. Anything less is negligence. It is a dereliction of duty and it undermines the readiness of our forces,” he was describing and referring to Republicans.
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Senate Republicans Plan New Treasonous Sabotage Of Obama On Global Climate Change Talks
Not content with undercutting the President and sabotaging America’s foreign policy, Senate Republicans are planning a new treasonous act of sabotage against an Obama led potential global change agreement.
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Obama Turns The Tables On GOP By Invoking God and The Children In Climate Change Fight
President Obama turned their own argument against Republicans by suggesting that we must act against climate change to protect the nation’s God-given natural wonders, and our children from disaster and harm.
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Wisconsin Becomes Second Koch-Republican State To Ban Climate Change Discussion
Now that the Koch Republicans banned government employees from uttering the words “climate change” because they wanted to prevent damage to the environment, one wonders how long before Republicans issue state-wide bans on citizens mentioning, discussing, or advocating for action to combat climate change.
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California Suffers Historic Drought While Oil Industry Wastes 2 Million Gallons of Water Daily
To make matters that much worse, the over 2 million gallons of toxic water the oil and gas industry disposes of daily is pumped into the aquifer and poisons the diminishing underground supply at an alarming rate; so much so that well over a hundred (at last count) drinking-water wells have been shut down by state water regulators and the EPA due to oil waste-water contamination.
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McConnell Warns Foreign Nations That GOP Will Undermine Obama Climate Change Deals
Taking a page out of a freshman Senator Tom Cotton’s playbook, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell issued a threat to the world’s nations that America is an exceptionally deceitful country that cannot be trusted to honor its pledge to reduce carbon emissions and help diminish the devastating effects of global climate change.
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Why Isn’t Boehner Touting China Over America On Climate Change?
Boehner and Republicans are also intent on defeating President Obama’s climate change initiatives on myriad fronts such as stripping the EPA’s authority to regulate carbon emissions from coal-fired electricity generating plants, or the air and water pollution related to coal mining. If Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell are so intent on comparing America to China, they should embrace the President’s climate change agenda and follow the communist nation’s latest effort.
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Gov. Rick Scott Banned Talk of “Global Warming” and “Climate Change”
Rick Scott’s administration banned use of terms like global warming and climate change, but denial won’t turn sea level rise into a nuisance
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Bernie Sanders Applauds Senate Democrats For Sustaining Obama’s Keystone XL Veto
Sen. Bernie Sanders applauded the Senate today for sending the message that United States is listening to the scientific community on climate change by sustaining President Obama’s veto of Keystone XL.
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EPA Finding Signals The Death Knell For The KeystoneXL Pipeline
Republicans and the Koch brothers make no secret that next to taxes, there is no part of the federal government they despise more than the EPA, so it is a major slap in their faces that it was the agency they hate above all others that delivered the death knell of their 8 billion-dollar dream project.
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Bernie Sanders Sets Republicans Up To Humiliate Themselves On Climate Change Vote
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has forced Senate Republicans into a potentially embarrassing vote on whether or not climate change is real. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) that the Senate will vote on the Sanders climate change amendment to the Keystone XL bill.
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Corrupt John Boehner Conspires With Foreigners Against America’s Best Interests
Boehner has enlisted a foreign corporation (TransCanada), the Canadian Prime Minister, and a foreign energy department to put pressure on America, and particularly its President, to approve construction of a pipeline Canada is well aware is an environmental and ecological disaster.
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The Koch Brothers Launch A Surrogate War Against Pope Francis
The Catholic Pope has garnered nothing but serious opposition and pushback from America’s evangelical and Catholic Republican movement, and now the Koch brothers and their dirty energy cabal have joined what is developing into a dirty oil-evangelical war against Pope Francis.
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Bold Democrat Mary Landrieu Should Be Truthful About KeystoneXL
It may have been Democrat Howard Dean who said not long ago that if given a choice between voting for a Republican, or a Republican-lite, voters of both parties will always opt for the real Republican; because they cannot trust a Democrat pandering for votes as a Republican. It is a lesson Senator Mary Landrieu, and soon-to-be-former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, would do well to heed.
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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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Corporate Greed Forces First City In California To Run Out Of Water
For several California cities, that corporate greed is finally paying dividends, and not the good kind, leaving them without water.
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In One Fell Swoop Obama Announces Solar Jobs For 50,000 Veterans and Takes On Climate Change
Since Republicans have relentlessly obstructed jobs programs for America’s Veterans, the President took it upon himself to enact the program at American military bases and provide job training for at least 50,000 veterans.
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Extremist Climate Deniers Claim Historic Climate March Was An Attack On Their Way of Life
The anti-science crowd loves science that gave them automobiles, medicine, electricity, sanitation, and ability to communicate easily with any location on Earth, and they depend on medical science to eliminate threats to their lives. It is curious, then, that when the preponderance of scientists from around the world warn them of an existential threat to their health, well-being, and their nation’s survival, the extremists claim it is “an attack on their way of life.”
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Republicans Threaten to Withhold Government Funding Over Obama’s New EPA Rules
Republicans in the House and Senate are so angry at the President over new Environmental Protection Agency regulations on coal-powered power plants that they are threatening to withhold previously agreed-on funding for the government unless the EPA regulations are eliminated by September 30.
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Kevin McCarthy’s Rise to Majority Leader Is Great News For The Polluting Koch Brothers
It was little surprise then, that Republicans elected Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) as the new House Majority Leader to use his position of power to thwart California’s environmental leadership and repay his primary campaign donors in the process.
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Obama Admits That He Wants to Go Off On Republican Climate Change Deniers
During an interview with The New York Times, President Obama admitted that the Republican anti-science climate change deniers are frustrating and that he wants to go off on them.
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Conservatives Use Racism To Try To Discredit Neil deGrasse Tyson and Cosmos
It was just a matter of time before the opposition and criticism of astrophysicist and Cosmos host Neil deGrasse Tyson became overtly racist, and it is no real surprise that Fox News provided a nationally-televised forum for a white supremacist.
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Republicans Label Obama’s Plan To Combat Climate Change a Terrorist Attack
. As usual they use mendacity as a fear-mongering tool to convince their stupid supporters that President Obama’s attempt to assuage the health and economic devastation of climate change is a deliberate job-killing, economy-devastating, terrorist assault on Americans.
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House Republicans Refuse to Discuss Climate Change Because They Aren’t Scientists
In the House of Representatives, Republicans signaled to the world that not only are they not discussing the veracity of man-made climate change, they signaled to the world they are smarter than climate scientists and officially denied that what 97% of climate scientists say is wrong and that there is no climate change threat.
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Bernie Sanders Calls Out Marco Rubio For Embarrassing The Nation
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said what many are already thinking when he called out Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) for embarrassing the nation.
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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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No Global Warming? NOAA Says January Was Fourth Warmest on Record
You have to go all the way back to 1976 – the year Paul McCartney and Wings made it to #1 with “Silly Love Songs” and Elton John and Kiki Dee followed close on their heels with #2’s Don’t Go Breaking My Heart, to find a below average temperature for January.
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Fox News Bumps Climate Change Denier Sean Hannity’s Show for Coverage of Winter Storms
In a juicy bit of irony, Fox News is bumping climate change denier Sean Hannity’s show and replacing with an hour of news coverage dedicated to the extreme winter storms.
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Climate Change Deniers Using Cold Weather as Proof Exposed as Idiots By Jon Stewart
On Monday night’s episode of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart took aim at conservatives who have taken to the airwaves in the past few days to spout idiotic statements regarding climate change in light of record cold temperatures over much of the United States
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Despite Bitter Cold Weekend in US, Climate Models Indicate Global Warming is Intensifying
A new study argues that models have underestimated the extent to which the doubling of carbon dioxide will affect global temperatures.
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CNN Makes Man Made Global Warming Front Page News
A UN report coming out Monday reveals that world climate scientists are 95 percent confident that we humans are causing global warming
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Republicans Pledge To the Kochs That They Will Oppose Any Climate Change Bill
Republicans are signing on to a new pledge to Charles and David Koch to oppose any legislation relating to climate change unless it is accompanied by an offsetting amount of tax cuts.
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Republicans Attack Science To Advance Religion and Oil Industry Profits
Religious groups and Republicans are on a campaign to bring an end to science to advance religion and oil industry profits.
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Could Obama’s Best Climate Change Strategy Be Thwarted by Religious Fundamentalism?
Fossil fuel barons need to join the efforts to stem climate change, but their religious beliefs may be an unrecognized barrier to progress.
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Dirty Weather Puts 24 Hours of Reality in the Face of Climate Change Deniers
2012’s weather is a terrifying foretaste of the future of ourworld with Global Warming. Watch 24 Hours of Reality, the Dirty Weather Report
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As Their States Literally Burst into Flames GOP Climate Change Deniers Push Koch Hoax Propaganda
It is ironic that the states suffering most from extreme temperatures and raging fires are represented by Republicans fighting efforts to assuage climate change.
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Closing Minds and Banning Science in North Carolina
By banning science, by banning any discussion at all of climate change in North Carolina, the anti-regulation Republicans are regulating scientific thought.
Republicans Look To Return to the Dark Ages with Climate Science Investigation
With conservatives controlling the House, they are poised to take their war against science to a new level, and will be able to keep the EPA on the defensive, and in effect, impotent. Their goal is to pander to the oil industry and destroy the EPA along with Obama’s energy policy that does not favor the Koch brothers.
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Ten Things You’ll Be Voting Against if You Vote Republican
Today is the day we go to vote in the 2010 midterm elections. The results of this election will reverberate far beyond our localities; they will affect the entire country and indeed, the entire world.
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The GOP Wants a Return to the Gilded Age. Do You?
Unregulated capitalism gave us the evils of the Gilded Age. Unregulated capitalism gave us the crash of 2008 that has left not just America, but much of the world, reeling.
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Evan Bayh and the Environment Symbolic of Our National Paralysis
In the world of climate change legislation, everyone seems to be waiting for somebody else to act first. Thus, few are willing to lead; the rest are hesitant to follow. The United States, with a unique opportunity to lead the drive to save the planet, has chosen neither to lead nor to follow.
Director James Cameron Calls Out Glenn Beck
Director James Cameron was on MSNBC’s Hardball today and when he was asked by host Chris Matthews about the power Glenn Beck, he delivered an ominous warning, “Guys like Beck and the others, I think they are very dangerous to this country.” Some on the Left like Cameron are starting to wake up and realize that Beck, Limbaugh, and the others need to be taken seriously as more than entertainers.
Virginia GOP Politicizes Snow Storm to Argue Against Climate Change
In their quest to politicize everything, the Republican Party sunk to a new low today in the state of Virginia, as they are using the current record snow storm in a new ad that mocks Democrats for supporting climate change legislation. The Republican are ignoring that events like the massive snow event are exactly what scientists are warning of.
Left Behind: Conservatives’ Values are Anti-American
What exactly does the modern day conservative stand for? They’ve got a lot of confusion going on there, and not too many solid, consistent values. We’ve got regression, rage, and stupidity as an on-going theme, and the omni-present hatred of the “otherâ€.
The Political Apocalypse is Coming As the GOP Guns for Palin
Palin’s most powerful nemesis, McCain/Palin campaign strategist Steve Schmidt, will soon return the fire Palin unloaded on him from her book, “Going Rogueâ€. Operation Palin Apocalypse officially commences Sunday night when Schmidt appears on 60 minutes. The only question remaining is how low will they go? This is the GOP after all. The party of Rovian election tactics.
Copenhagen Smack Down: Der Spiegel Reporter to Inhofe: “You’re ridiculous!â€
The ranking Republican on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Jim Inhofe, made a scathingly embarrassing appearance in Copenhagen. While the senator didn’t have any meetings scheduled in Copenhagen, he managed to put together an impromptu press conference, during which he took it upon himself to announce that “global warming was a hoax perpetrated on the world by the UN” and sold to Americans “by the Hollywood elite.”
Mitt Romney Blames the US Budget Deficit on Overpaid Government Workers
Future 2012 GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney was on NBC’s Meet The Press today, where he blamed the excesses of government for the budget deficit, and overpaid government workers. Specifically, Romney said, “Average government workers, are now making $30,000 a year more than the average private sector worker.”
Not Good and Paw-lenty for 2012
A recent poll in Minnesota by St. Cloud University showed Governor Tim Pawlenty coming in 10 points behind President Obama if Pawlenty were to run against Obama in 2012. St. Cloud is located in the center of Minnesota, part of the extremely conservative 6th district which elected notorious Congresswoman Michele Bachmann to office not once but twice.
Sarah Palin Floats Glenn Beck as a Possible 2012 Running Mate
In an interview with Newsmax, Sarah Palin floated Fox News host Glenn Beck’s name as her running mate for 2012. Palin said, “But Glenn Beck I have great respect for. He’s a hoot. He gets his message across in such a clever way.” Apparently, Palin’s qualifications for a running mate include that they be a “hoot.”
FNC’s Napolitano: Palin Lacks the Mental Capacity to be President
On Fox News Radio’s Brian and The Judge show, Judge Andrew Napolitano unloaded with both barrels on Sarah Palin. Napolitano said, “I just don’t think she possess the mental capacity to be the President of the United States. She’s a goofball.”
Even Lou Dobbs Wouldn’t Vote for Sarah Palin in 2012
Former CNN anchor Lou Dobbs was on the Today show this morning talking about the potential 2012 Republican presidential candidates. When it came to Sarah Palin, Dobbs said, “Would I consider voting her? Frankly based on what I have seen, personally no.” Things are looking bad for Sarah, when even Lou Dobbs says no thanks.
Hillary Clinton Offers Diplomacy over Coffee with Palin
Sec. of State Hillary Clinton was on NBC’s Meet The Press today. At the end of the interview she was asked about Sarah Palin’s comment in her book about the possibility of sitting down for a cup of coffee with Clinton. She said, “I’m ready to have a cup of coffee. Maybe I can make a case on some of the issues that we disagree on.”
Sarah Palin Accuses the AP of Lying About Her Book
A grumpy Sarah Palin posted a note on her Facebook page which claims that the AP’s report on the contents on the book is erroneous. It doesn’t seem to matter to her that the AP has actually read the book, because she said, “And as is expected, the AP and a number of subsequent media outlets are erroneously reporting the contents of the book.”
2012 Watch: Sarah Palin Finally Heads to Iowa
Even though numerous potential 2012 Republican presidential candidates have recently starting blazing a path to the Hawkeye state, the one notable exception has been former Alaska governor Sarah Palin. That is going to change in December, when Palin will come to the state, not to campaign, but to hawk her book.
Hillary Clinton Says She Won’t Ever Run for President Again
Sec. of State Hillary Clinton was on NBC’s Today show this morning when she was asked whether or not she will ever run for president again. Clinton said, “No. I mean, this is—this is—a great job. It is a 24/7 job. And– I’m looking forward to retirement at some point.”
Is the Nobel Peace Prize behind Obama’s Jump in Approval Ratings?
According to today’s Gallup daily tracking poll, President Obama’s approval rating has gained five points in the past week, and has jumped to 56%. The Gallup poll now matches other national polls that have seen the president’s numbers rising lately, but is his winning the Nobel Peace Prize behind the most recent increase?
Republicans David Brooks and Mike Murphy Say No to Palin In 2012
While discussing Sarah Palin’s new book both conservative columnist David Brooks and GOP strategist Mike Murphy agreed today on Meet The Press that Sarah Palin will not be the GOP nominee in 2012. Brooks went as far as to say, “And if Sarah Palin is the nominee, the Republican nominee, I’ll eat my hat.”
Palin Responds to GOP Criticism by Pimping Her Book
In response to former McCain advisor Steve Schmidt saying that nominating Sarah Palin as the GOP presidential nominee in 2012 would be a catastrophe for the party, Team Palin urged people to go buy her book. Instead of putting together a staff for a potential presidential campaign, Sarah Palin is trying to sell books.
2012 Poll: Obama Easily Leads Romney, Huckabee, and Palin
A new poll released by Public Policy Polling today revealed that if he was up for reelection today, President Obama would at worst win by the same margin as 2008, if not more. Obama currently leads Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, Jeb Bush, and Sarah Palin by 7-15 points. Huckabee came the closest to Obama, while Sarah Palin did the worst.
Obama Approval Rating Bodes Well for His Reelection in 2012
A new analysis by Public Policy of President Obama’s approval ratings found that his approval rating matches his support in the 2008 election. The people who don’t support Obama now, didn’t vote for him last year. 94% of people who approve of Obama support him against Sarah Palin. The numbers are equally high when Obama is matched up against Mitt Romney or Jeb Bush.
