February 2012
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How The Gas Prices Are Manipulated By The Koch... →
Why are gas prices surging to levels unseen since the 2008 oil spike while the oil companies reporting record profits? Much of the problem is actually created by Wall Street traders here in the USA who gamble on oil prices and powerful multinational companies that manipulate the supply and demand by stockpiling oil when the price is low and expected to rise in the near future. And yes, so far...
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BREAKING: Mitt Romney has been declared the winner...
A bit of a shock.
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ALERT: Mitt Romney wins the Arizona Primary.
As expected.
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Conservative Hobbyhorses for 2012 →
Traditional Republican concerns—opposition to domestic spending and gender equality—have dominated the Republican presidential campaign thus far. But there are some new conservative fixations that will be important in the months to come. Generally, they have all been invented—much like opposition to an individual health insurance mandate—in reaction to President Obama’s moderate and generally...
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Sen. Durbin: "GOP Presidential Candidates ‘At War... →
Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) on Monday accused the Republican presidential field of incendiary rhetoric that did not match the level-headed tone in combating terrorism laid out by President George W. Bush and continued under President Obama. Appearing on CNN, Durbin was responding to the GOP candidates’ criticism that Obama’sapology to Afghans for the inadvertent burning of Muslim...
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Georgia Senate considers bill to criminalize union... →
Georgia already has some of the key anti-union laws that states like Wisconsin and Indiana have been fighting it out over in the past year. But that doesn’t mean they can’t try to pass even harsher anti-union laws. The state Senate is considering a bill that would basically make it illegal for unions to picket—or impossible for them to do so within tightened legal restrictions,...
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ME-Sen: Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe to retire →
Red alert! Longtime Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe—in a huge, huge shocker—says she’s retiring!
While I can imagine many reasons why Snowe, age 65 and a member of Congress since 1979, would want to depart, I most certainly cannot say I (or anyone else) saw this coming. Nevertheless, though Snowe was set to cruise to re-election, it would have meant another six years serving as part of an...
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Justin's Sports Corner: NFL Moves Opening Kickoff... →
justinsports:
To avoid conflict with President Obamaâs Thursday night speech at the Democratic National Convention, NFL will open season Weds Sept 5.Â
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) February 28, 2012
Right-wing assmunches are having a hissyfit over this.
Note in 2008 that these same wingnuts didn’t…
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American Family Association Targets Toys R Us over... →
After failing to convince JC Penney to fire Ellen DeGeneres as their spokesperson because she is openly gay, now the American Family Association’s group One Million Moms is putting Toys R Us in its crosshairs for selling an Archie comic book that features a same-sex marriage. The group demands that Toys R Us “remove all the same-sex ‘Just Married – Archie’ comic books immediately from your...
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Is Anyone Surprised that WND is Pushing a Patently... →
Last month the British newspaper the Telegraph ran a story alleging that First Lady Michelle Obama spent $50,000 at a Madison Avenue lingerie shop with the Queen of Qatar, a claim which was laughable on its face and of course proven to be categorically untrue. In fact, the Telegraph later pulled the article from its website.
Almost one month later, even after the story was...
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Russ Carnahan will take on Clay for U.S. House... →
JEFFERSON CITY • U.S. Rep. Russ Carnahan is challenging fellow St. Louis Democratic U.S. Rep. William Lacy Clay, setting up an intense and potentially divisive primary matchup this summer.
Carnahan, whose current district was eliminated in redistricting, filed Tuesday morning to run for the seat currently occupied by Clay, who filed for re-election less than an hour later.
Tensions have been...
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Communist takeover? Cape Girardeau school board... →
CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO (KFVS) -
After hours of discussion and debate, the Cape Girardeau school board passed the amended uniform code by a 5 to 2 vote.
Members of the board went line by line to discuss each item in the proposed dress code from the Dress Code Committee.
There were some big changes during that time. Board members voted to allow students to wear jeans, but there are restrictions on...
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Forced Birthers: Life Begins at Conception and...
Woman: Can I have birth control?
Government: No.
Woman: I got pregnant because I didn't have birth control and I don't want the fetus. Can I have an abortion?
Government: No.
Woman: I gave birth to my child but since I wasn't expecting it, I can't afford daycare. Can I have help paying for it?
Government: No.
Woman: My boyfriend isn't excited about sex anymore, because I lost my figure due to pregnancy. Will you pay for his erectile dysfunction pills?
Government: Yes.
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Allen West: "'Second Holocaust' On The Horizon If... →
Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) recently warned that a “second Holocaust” could break out in Israel if the United States didn’t take sufficient action to protect the nation against the supposed threats posed by Iran.
“You’re looking at a second Holocaust” if Israel doesn’t “know they can trust and depend upon the stars and stripes … to provide them...
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Will 'Michigan Become the First Islamic State in... →
Today the United States Reformation Prayer Network, an organization of “prophetic voices” using “strategic targeting coordinates for reformation prayer” founded by Cindy Jacobs, sent out a prayer alert for Michigan’s Tuesday primary which warned about the state’s Muslim community. Rick Joyner of the Oak Initiative previously warned that “there is actually an attempt to make Michigan our first...
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Can Current TV Establish Itself as a Real... →
Current TV made a rapid switch to progressive political programming—and some big-name talent with big-time personalities that might conflict with what the network wants.
February 26, 2012 |
You would be forgiven if you thought, at first, that the new incarnation of Current TV looks a lot like the old version of MSNBC. After six years as a nonpartisan news network – albeit one...
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Watch(via Stephen D. Foster at Addicting Info: Rick Santorum Insults JFK, Says Separation Of Church And State Makes Him Want To Vomit (VIDEO) | Addicting Info)
Rick Santorum is high on religion. So high, in fact, that he wants religious institutions like the Catholic Church to have power in government, which would be totally unprecedented in the history of America. Santorum appeared on ABC on Sunday...
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Documents: Babeu ran private boarding school with... →
The DeSisto School sits abandoned in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
It was a private boarding school for troubled teens with a long and troubled history of its own.
Pinal County Sheriff and U.S. Congressional candidate Paul Babeu was the school’s Headmaster and Executive Director from 1999 to 2001.
While Babeu ran the school, the Massachusetts Office of Child Care Services launched an...
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Disgraced Sheriff Paul Babeu ran Massachusetts... →
The Paul Babeu saga continues: We have reports that while Headmaster of the DeSisto School, a notorious behavior modification gulag school that has since been closed as of 2005, Babeu has been accused of aiding and abetting physical abuse towards children.
ABC15.com (Phoenix):
EXCLUSIVE - The ABC15 Investigators have uncovered physical and sexual abuse allegations at a boarding school, run at...
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The Right-Wing Plot to Undermine Science in Public... →
Last week, climate science watchers confirmed what they already knew about the climate science “skepticism” of the Heartland Institute – a “free-market” think-tank previously known for taking money from tobacco companies to question the health risks of second-hand smoke.
As leaked documentsnow make clear, some of the Institute’s most prominent donors have a strong financial interest in sowing...
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How Right-Wing Smears Against Occupy Exploit... →
“On the morning of October 29, a woman participating in OWS was sexually assaulted at Liberty Plaza.” This was the opening of the November 4 statement released by the NYC survivors’ support team (an offshoot of Safer Spaces OWS) responding to a sexual assault that had become a lightning rod within the movement—and for its agenda-laden critics.
In November, those critics of Occupy...
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Target's Anti-Union Employee Video | Crooks and... →
Gawker obtained a copy of Target’s notorious anti-union propaganda video showed to all new employees. The poorly-designed video is little more than a litany of lies and misleading statements about unions and a series of statements about how awesome it is to work for Target without a union. The video begins with a portrayal of unions as ‘businesses’ that exist solely to make a...
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GOP reliance on ‘culture wars’ turning off younger... →
FAIRFAX, Virginia (Reuters) – Colleen Wilson has all the makings of a foot soldier for whichever Republican becomes the nominee to oppose President Barack Obama in the November election.
She had planned to vote for former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney because of his business experience and ideas for fixing the U.S. economy, but said inflammatory rhetoric at CPAC made her wonder if she...
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Key Illinois primaries: 12th Congressional... →
CHICAGO (AP) - 12TH DISTRICT: Takes in all or parts of 12 counties from St. Louis’ eastern suburbs to the state’s southernmost tip at Cairo, along the Ohio River.
CANDIDATES: Two Democrats and three Republicans seek to succeed retiring Democratic Congressman Jerry Costello. The GOP contenders are Rodger Cook, a former Belleville mayor and St. Louis Cardinals football player; Theresa...
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Jason Plummer, Just release tax returns - Opinion... →
Why is Jason Plummer refusing to release his federal income tax returns? Plummer is a Republican contender for U.S. Rep. Jerry Costello’s 12th District seat who is handing his primary opponents all sorts of ammunition. He refused to release his returns when he ran for lieutenant governor two years, and now he’s saying no again.
The more Plummer refuses, the more it makes you wonder...
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The Truth About Right-to-Work (For Less) →
Pro-business conservatives are pursuing an unprecedented assault on the rights of working families at both the national and state levels. Congress and no fewer than 37 state legislatures are pushing through right-to-work or related bills. Some of them are passing. Everywhere, though, the arguments supporting the laws are based on outright falsehoods, some of them, including phrases like...
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Rick Santorum: "Americans With ‘Special Needs’... →
Rick and Karen Santorum claimed that fears about how the Affordable Care Act would affect their youngest daughter’s medical condition inspired them to embark on their campaign for the presidency and suggested that the law would ration care to sicker or disabled Americans. “What did it for me was Obamacare,” Karen said in explaining her support for Rick’s decision to pursue the White House on...
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Why Mitt Romney Might Be Even Weaker Than You... →
Mitt Romney’s got a problem.
Purple Strategies released their “Purple Poll” on Thursday, data from twelve swing states the showed former Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) in a better position to beat President Obama than former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. It wasn’t by much — overall, Santorum was down two against the President versus a four point Obama advantage on Romney. But for the former...
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FRC Furious with Cheney for Supporting Marriage... →
Family Research Council senior fellow Robert Morrison yesterday chided former Vice President Dick Cheney for his support of marriage equality, particularly his role in garnering Republican support for the bill in Maryland. Morrison bragged that he didn’t respond to media inquiries at the 2000 GOP convention in Philadelphia to goad him into criticize Cheney, even though FRC president Tony...
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MD Same-Sex Marriage Bill Passes Last Hurdle... →
Same-sex marriage is on the way to being legalized in Maryland. The Washington Post reports the state Senate passed the bill already passed by the state House. That means the legislation is headed for Gov. Martin O’Malley’s (D) desk, where is it expected to get a signature.
h/t: Evan McMorris-Santoro at TPM
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Proof of Voter Fraud in Wisconsin. In the... →
A short diary. If a picture is worth a thousand words, a video may be worth far more.
Yesterday, the votes were coming fast and furious as our legislature rammed through a lot of repugnant legislation, from removing development restriction on wetlands to removing the rights of women to sue for punitive damages in employment discrimination cases. They also voted to stop allowing high school...
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Homophobic moron Dana Loesch: "The Left uses Gays... →
On Tuesday’s edition of The Dana Show, far-right homophobic hate-spewing radio host Dana Loesch misleadingly accused “the left of using Gays and Lesbians as pawns against conservatives.” Not surprising, given her history of ridiculing the LGBTQ community.
LOESCH: “When it comes to gay marriage— to be frank, I believe the left uses gay people as pawns. I believe...
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Barton: 'We've Never Been a Colonialist Nation' |... →
Today on WallBuildersLive, right-wing pseudo-historian David Barton proved once again why no one should trust what he says about American history, as he denied that the United States has “never been a colonialist nation” and “never gone out to conquer others and make ourselves bigger.” Surely, this must come as a surprise to the Native Americans and Mexicans, along with the people of the...
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Are Gas Companies Toying With Gas Prices to Help... →
Just read the headline.
It tells you all you need to know.
With gasoline consumption trending down, motorists wonder why price keeps rising
Yeah, why are gas prices rising at a time of year that they are traditionally lower than normal?
Well, if you give it some thought, I believe you will come to the same conclusion I have: that this is a rhetorical question.
We know that certain large, wealthy...
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Blame Oil Speculators, Not Obama, For Rising Oil... →
As the improving economy has robbed conservatives of their chief talking point against President Obama, they’ve turned to rising gas prices as the next problem to pin on the president.
Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) “instructed fellow Republicans to embrace the gas-pump anger,” while Rick Santorum conspiratorially claimed Obama is intentionally pushing up prices to cut carbon emissions. Not to be...
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Santorum Falsely Claims Democrats Get More Big... →
TUCSON, Arizona — In a speech yesterday at a Tea Party rally, Rick Santorum attempted to strike a populist tone, telling an audience that Democrats, not Republicans are the party of large corporations.
As members of the audience applauded and one woman screamed out that the Democrats are “hypocrites,” the former senator said:
You hear this mantra, oh that Republicans are the party of Big...
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The GOP’s Long War Against Women and Sex | The... →
Aspirins and short skirts and contraception, oh my! The last few weeks have seen a slew of Republican gaffes concerning women’s sexuality. From Rick Santorum’s billionaire supporter Foster Friess’s waxing nostalgic about the good old days when women put aspirin “between their knees” in lieu of contraception to an online furor over whether the young conservative women at CPAC dressed too...
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The downside of unbridled support for Israel -... →
In his op-ed “A case of leftist McCarthyism?” (Haaretz English Edition, January 13 ), James Kirchick declares that the tables have turned in the Israel debate in America, now that liberal critics of U.S. support for Israel’s rightist government are employing terms like “dual loyalists” and “Israel-firsters.” He argues that this is indicative of...
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WatchCenk Uygur on last night’s The Young Turks explained who benefits from the possible war in Iran: AIPAC, Neocons, Evangelical/Fundamentalist Christians, defense contractors, oil speculators, and other right-wing Israel-firsters all stand to benefit.
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Democratic congressional candidate Harriman... →
BELLEVILLE — Brad Harriman, who is running for the Democratic nomination for the 12th Congressional District, released his 2010 income tax returns Wednesday, a day after a Republican candidate challenged all candidates to release their taxes.
“People are fed up with politics as usual, and by releasing my tax returns, I hope we can improve transparency and fairness in our...
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Pelosi: GOP ‘Censoring’ Female Witness On Birth... →
House Republicans have refused to televise a Democratic-led hearing on birth control that features the testimony of a female witness the GOP spurned in a recent hearing, says House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). And Pelosi wants you to know it.
The hearing Thursday is set to have as its sole witness Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown law student whom House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA)...
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Newt Gingrich Calls Obama An 'Extremist' Who... →
The Republican presidential candidates Tuesday night, during a GOP debate in Arizona, took shots at President Barack Obama for his pro-choice history.
Newt Gingrich deflected a question about Obama’s recent decision mandating that employers’ insurance plans cover contraception by pointing out that Obama voted in favor of a law that protected abortion provides during his term as...