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Michele Bachmann Falsely Invokes Biased 'Liberal Judges' In Fundraising Plea

Seeded on Tue May 15, 2012 11:09 AM EDT (The Huffington Post)

In several urgent fundraising appeals, Rep. Michele Bachmann falsely claims that biased “liberal judges” redrew her congressional district “in retaliation for repeatedly standing up to President Obama.” The truth is that only two of the five judges were  …

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Fables of Wealth

Seeded on Mon May 14, 2012 12:32 PM EDT (The New York Times)

Our most destructive lie, he added, “is that it is very easy for any American to make money.” The lie goes on. The poor are lazy, stupid and evil. The rich are brilliant, courageous and good. They shower their beneficence upon the rest of us.

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The Euro Zone has Greece – The United States has Red States |

Seeded on Thu May 10, 2012 1:33 PM EDT ()

You hear it almost every time a Republican presidential candidate speaks – the evils of welfare.  They speak about how THEY are opposed to an Obama welfare state, where personal responsibility has given way to an addiction to handouts. Red meat for Red states?   …

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OpEdNews - Article: A "Treason" Trial for Barack Obama?

Seeded on Wed May 9, 2012 3:37 PM EDT (OpEdNews.Com Progressive)
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A woman's suggestion that President Barack Obama "should be tried for treason" for supposedly "operating outside the construction of our Constitution" has raised a stir because Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney initially chose not to challenge her. But the news media  …

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"Jobs aren't coming back"

Seeded on Tue May 8, 2012 9:22 AM EDT (Salon.com)

It’s quite different now. For many people in the United States, there’s a pervasive sense of hopelessness, sometimes despair. I think it’s quite new in American history. And it has an objective basis.

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Manufacturers search for workers to sustain revival – USATODAY.com

Seeded on Tue May 8, 2012 8:53 AM EDT (USA Today)

Manufacturers "are coming back," said Meredith Aronson, director of the New Jersey Advanced Manufacturing Talent Network. "The companies I talk to are scared. Their orders are increasing, but they simply can't find the workers."

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Michael Tomasky on Dick Lugar's Cowardly Moderation

Seeded on Tue May 8, 2012 7:17 AM EDT ()

So it looks as if Richard Lugar is going to lose Tuesday's GOP Senate primary in Indiana. Hoosier Republicans are likely to send forth into battle Richard Mourdock, a Tea Party favorite who believes the era of cooperation is over (uh, yeah, it has been; nice that he finally not …

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The North Bank of the Big River

Seeded on Mon May 7, 2012 7:04 AM EDT ()

Immigration is not a curse. It is our heritage. And when we decided to make America the “shining beacon on a hill,” we ought to have known people were going to be drawn to the light.

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We Have A Structural Food Inflation Problem That's Crushing The Poorest People In America

Seeded on Sun May 6, 2012 10:22 AM EDT (Silicon Alley Insider)

What’s happened in the United States the past decade is that purchasing power for food and energy has declined. While government data shows overall inflation as tepid, the effects of this decline can be observed in real terms in the advance of poverty. This is why I began …

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Murdoch's Pride Is America's Poison

Seeded on Sun May 6, 2012 8:37 AM EDT (The New York Times)

My complaint is that Fox pretends very hard to be something it is not, and in the process contributes to the corrosive cynicism that has polarized our public discourse.

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Declaring War on 'Political Islamism'

Seeded on Sat May 5, 2012 1:29 PM EDT (Consortiumnews.com)

If Mitt Romney wins in November, the neocons have made clear they will reclaim full control of U.S. foreign policy and reverse President Obama’s few halting steps toward peace. The neocons even want to move past George W. Bush’s “global war on terror” to …

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Henry Aaron, Inventor Of Paul Ryan's Medicare Reform Concept, Explains Why It's Wrong

Seeded on Thu May 3, 2012 11:51 AM EDT (The Huffington Post)

The co-creator of the concept that Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) is relying upon to reform Medicare no longer thinks it will work. Henry Aaron, now of the Brookings Institution, got the chance to tell Ryan exactly why at a recent Capitol Hill hearing.

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Things That Really Matter

Seeded on Thu May 3, 2012 7:49 AM EDT (The New York Times)

Another week of presidential politics, another outbreak of faux outrage and media manipulation.

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Solar power's next shining | Sustainability & Resource Productivity Practice | McKinsey & Company

Seeded on Fri Apr 27, 2012 9:52 PM EDT ()

Has the solar-power industry lapsed into a classic cycle of boom and bust after a decade of unprecedented growth? It might appear so. As years of government subsidies boosted the global installed capacity of solar-photovoltaic (PV) modules and dramatically cut prices, new produ …

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Jeremy Hunt, the secret News Corp emails and the 'absolutely illegal' tip-off

Seeded on Wed Apr 25, 2012 10:20 AM EDT (Telegraph)

A devastating series of emails shown to the Leveson Inquiry lays bare the secret collusion between Jeremy Hunt, the Culture Secretary, and News Corporation as the company was trying to buy BSkyB.

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Mitt Romney: Professional Liar

Seeded on Mon Apr 23, 2012 6:45 PM EDT (Consortiumnews.com)

Last week, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney claimed his dad had been attacked by President Obama, who “likes to attack fellow Americans.” Yet, Romney’s verbal assault on Obama was itself a multi-layered fabrication that revealed Romney consummate  …

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This Will Not Stand

Seeded on Thu Apr 19, 2012 3:16 PM EDT (Scoop)

In 1878, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony drafted an amendment to the US Constitution that would make it illegal to bar citizens from voting based on gender. It took 42 years for their amendment to be ratified by Congress, but nearly 100 years after that historic dec …

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Mitt Romney, American Parasite

Seeded on Wed Apr 18, 2012 8:24 PM EDT ()

His years at Bain represent everything you hate about capitalism

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America's Founding Pragmatism

Seeded on Wed Apr 18, 2012 7:58 AM EDT (OpEdNews.Com Progressive)

Perhaps it was inevitable that the American Right with its bottomless pot of money would pour some of it into the pockets of clever propagandists who would rewrite the nation's founding narrative and transform the Constitution's Framers into anti-government zealots. After all,  …

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Conservative Politics, 'Low-Effort' Thinking Linked In New Study

Seeded on Mon Apr 9, 2012 3:36 PM EDT (The Huffington Post)

Conservatives and liberals don't seem to agree about much, and they might not agree about recent studies linking conservatism to low intelligence and "low-effort" thinking.

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GOP Five's Code: "Power Is Power"

Seeded on Mon Apr 9, 2012 12:09 PM EDT (OpEdNews.Com Progressive)

As the Republican-controlled Supreme Court gets to work writing its opinion on the Affordable Care Act -- with many observers expecting that the five GOP justices will strike the law down -- it's worth recalling how a similar batch of Republican justices twisted the Constitutio …

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Cardinal Dolan: government contraception policy is a

Seeded on Sun Apr 8, 2012 10:54 AM EDT (CBS News)

Catholic Cardinal Timothy Dolan said the president's new contraception policy is "intruding into the life of faith." On CBS News' "Face the Nation," Dolan, who is the Archbishop of New York, told host Bob Schieffer that the president brought on the confrontation with his polic …

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National Review's John Derbyshire Pens Racist Screed: 'Avoid Concentrations Of Blacks,' 'Stay Out Of' Their Neighborhoods

Seeded on Sat Apr 7, 2012 6:39 PM EDT (The Huffington Post)

A writer for the conservative National Review provoked outrage on Friday after penning a column that warned whites to "avoid large concentrations of blacks." John Derbyshire's piece, published in Taki's Magazine, is startling from beginning to end. It takes as its inspiration  …

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A Dose Of Socialism Could Save Our States - State Sponsored, Single Payer Healthcare Would Bring In Business & Jobs

Seeded on Sat Apr 7, 2012 10:35 AM EDT (Forbes)

How often do we hear the argument that American business is suffering under the yoke of a healthcare system that places a huge responsibility on employers to carry the heavy load of insuring their employees? According to a Gallup Poll out this week, 48 percent of small busines …

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New Bush-Era Torture Memo Released, Raises Questions About What Has Changed And What Hasn't

Seeded on Sat Apr 7, 2012 7:46 AM EDT (The Huffington Post)

A six-year-old memo from within the George W. Bush administration that came to light this week acknowledges that White House-approved interrogation techniques amounted to "war crimes." The memo's release has called attention to what has changed since President Barack Obama took …

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    OK… so maybe “idiotic conservative” is a little redundant. At any rate, here’s a snapshot into the ignorant world of Republican-land. Putting these phrases back into context would simply make them sound even more moronic. Enjoy yourself a laugh at some of …

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  • Michele Bachmann Falsely Invokes Biased 'Liberal Judges' In Fundraising Plea

    Source: The Huffington Post

    In several urgent fundraising appeals, Rep. Michele Bachmann falsely claims that biased “liberal judges” redrew her congressional district “in retaliation for repeatedly standing up to President Obama.” The truth is that only two of the five judges were  …

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  • Fables of Wealth

    Source: The New York Times

    Our most destructive lie, he added, “is that it is very easy for any American to make money.” The lie goes on. The poor are lazy, stupid and evil. The rich are brilliant, courageous and good. They shower their beneficence upon the rest of us.

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