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FOCUS: Ayn Rand-Loving Right Is Like Teen Boys Gone Crazy
Seeded on Sun May 13, 2012 9:24 AM EDT ()
If, as George Lakoff says, we view politics through the metaphor of family, then Mother's Day is a good time to ask the question: Where's Mom in this picture? What are all those dirty socks and pizza boxes doing in the living room? (Seriously: it looks like a frat house in here.) …
Norwegians sing to annoy mass killer
Seeded on Thu Apr 26, 2012 7:22 PM EDT (CNN)
40,000 people join to sing the song that Breivik hates the most. The best thing in the world today.
Mitt Romney: Mothers Should Be Required To Work Outside Home Or Lose Benefits
Seeded on Sun Apr 15, 2012 7:42 AM EDT (The Huffington Post)
Women who stay at home to raise their children should be given federal assistance for child care so that they can enter the job market and "have the dignity of work," Mitt Romney said in January, undercutting the sense of extreme umbrage he showed when Democratic strategist …
Mitt Romney blames President Obama for Bush-era law that doesn't do what Romney claims it does
Seeded on Thu Mar 22, 2012 4:40 PM EDT (Daily Kos)
The father of Obamacare on Monday, saying how bad things would have been for innovators like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates if they had been a businessmen during President Obama's administration.
Keystone XL Bill Thwarted By Senate Democrats
Seeded on Thu Mar 8, 2012 11:33 PM EST (The Huffington Post)
WASHINGTON -- The Senate on Thursday narrowly rejected a GOP provision to fast-track the construction of the Keystone XL crude oil pipeline.
SC County GOP: If You've Had Pre-Marital Sex, You Can't Be A Republican
Seeded on Mon Mar 5, 2012 3:08 PM EST (Talking Points Memo)
Before you can join the Laurens County Republican Party in South Carolina and get on the primary ballot, they ask that you pledge that you’ve never ever had pre-marital sex — and that you will never ever look at porn again.
Most of Obama's "Controversial" Birth Control Rule Was Law During Bush Years
Seeded on Thu Feb 9, 2012 12:54 PM EST (MotherJones.com)
In December 2000, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ruled that companies that provided prescription drugs to their employees but didn't provide birth control were in violation of Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which prevents discrimination on the basis of s …
EXCLUSIVE: Ari Fleischer Secretly Involved In Komen Strategy On Planned Parenthood | ThinkProgress
Seeded on Sat Feb 4, 2012 12:32 PM EST (Think Progress)
Ari Fleischer, former press secretary for George W. Bush and prominent right-wing pundit, was secretly involved in the Komen Foundation’s strategy regarding Planned Parenthood.
Wisconsin GOP Votes To Break Native American Treaties
Seeded on Fri Jan 27, 2012 10:27 AM EST ( Is Rick Santorum The Second Coming Of Bush/Cheney? | Addicting Info)
The Wisconsin GOP is attempting to pass a bill called Assembly Bill 426. Assembly Bill 426 is a bill that was introduced without an author, a bill that to this day cannot get a single person to claim ownership.
Mitt Romney: I Like Firing People (Video)
Mon Jan 9, 2012 2:13 PM EST
Yeah, we know Mitt: A closer look at Mitt Romney's job creation record.
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Charles P. Pierce on the brutal truth about the crimes at Penn State - Grantland
Seeded on Tue Nov 15, 2011 7:08 AM EST (Sports and Pop Culture from Bill Simmons and our rotating cast of writers - Grantland)
These things cannot be prayed away.
The Police Riot at Berkeley: If They'll Beat a Poet Laureate, Will They Kill a Student?
Seeded on Sun Nov 13, 2011 11:05 PM EST (The Huffington Post)
"The rich are now rich enough to pay half the population to kill the other half of the population." That about sums up the state of the world...
Trickle Down economics was a Trojan Horse
Seeded on Wed Oct 5, 2011 8:44 PM EDT ()
In the 1980’s Ronald Reagan ushered in a new era in American economics as he cut the top tax bracket from 70% down to 50% and then down again to 28%. In order to get support for doing this from the people, and also from politicians, a very crafty set of lies were produced.
Contrary Brin: "Class War" and the Lessons of History
Seeded on Mon Oct 3, 2011 5:52 PM EDT ()
One aspect of our re-ignited American Civil War is getting a lot of air-play. It is so-called “class war.” That's the tag-line ordered up by Roger Ailes. The notion: that any talk of returning to 1990s tax rates - way back when the U.S. was healthy.
Revealed: Fake Facebook Identity Used By Military Contractors Plotting To Hack Progressive Organizations | Common Dreams
Seeded on Mon Aug 22, 2011 7:03 AM EDT (Common Dreams)
Earlier this year, ThinkProgress obtained 75,000 private emails from the defense contractor HBGary Federal via the hacktivist group called Anonymous. The emails led to two shocking revelations.
Daily Kos: Oslo Shooter Manifesto: Exterminate The "Liberal Fascists"
Seeded on Sun Jul 24, 2011 12:49 PM EDT (Daily Kos)
In the words of Anders manifesto,
Allen West tirade: Wasserman Schultz 'vile...despicable...not a Lady' - Ben Smith - POLITICO.com
Seeded on Tue Jul 19, 2011 10:36 PM EDT (Politico)
Looks like Boehner needs to reign in his dog before someone goes all Preston Brooks on a teabagger. This douchebag should be in Leavenworth, rotting away instead of disgracing the voters of Florida.
Attention Marxists: Labor's Share Of National Income Drops To Lowest In History
Seeded on Sat Jun 4, 2011 12:57 PM EDT (This Is The Government: Your Legal Right To Redeem Your Money Market Account Has Been Denied | zero hedge)
the lowest in HISTORY.
Herman Cain's Enron-esque Disaster | Mother Jones
Seeded on Mon May 23, 2011 6:21 PM EDT (MotherJones.com)
Cain clearly believes that his pro-business message is what GOP voters want to hear. So much so, in fact, that on Saturday he officially unveiled his candidacy for the 2012 GOP nomination.
Tea Party Patriots Pressure Public Schools to Teach Christian American History
Seeded on Wed May 11, 2011 1:28 PM EDT (Religion Dispatches)
The “Adopt a School Action Plan” is designed to take advantage of a requirement that public schools teach about the Constitution -- for the purpose of promoting co-called Christian American History.
Welcome to Pure Michigan, the land of Dickens | MLive.com
Seeded on Sat Apr 23, 2011 4:02 PM EDT (News Impact - MLive.com)
From the same jackhole, neo-con reactionary Michigan State Representative who wanted to outlaw marriage for illegal immigrants, comes his latest brainstorm - eliminate the $9.9 million the state allocates to help the very poor and foster families pay for school clothes.
Sleepwalking Into the Imperial Dark: What It Feels Like When a Superpower Runs Off the Tracks
Seeded on Tue Apr 19, 2011 3:13 PM EDT (The Huffington Post)
This can't end well. No, no it won't. People need to wake up and smell the coffee, but I guess it is easier to blame someone else and go shop at Walmart for some more plastic stuff from China.
BREAKING - Major Tsunami Damage in Northern Japan
Seeded on Fri Mar 11, 2011 2:06 AM EST (ABC News)
Breaking News- 8.8 Earthquake strikes Japan. Helicopter TV shots of wall of water from Tsunami devastating the Japanese countryside.
Cut Head Start But Keep Subsidies for Big Oil? Earth to Boehner...Come In!
Seeded on Thu Mar 10, 2011 11:44 AM EST (The Huffington Post)
Oh look, the GOP are shilling for corporations instead of taking care of Americans. Shocker.
Black History Month is Herman Cain Playing the Race Minstrel for CPAC
Seeded on Sat Feb 12, 2011 11:37 PM EST (AlterNet.org)
Herman Cain's shtick is a version of race minstrelsy where he performs "authentic negritude" as wish fulfillment for White Conservative fantasies.
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