June 2012
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Scott Walker Denies He Is Target Of John Doe... →
MILWAUKEE — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) vehemently denied a new report stating he is the target of a criminal corruption probe on Saturday.
Speaking to reporters after a meet-and-greet with volunteers at his campaign’s Wauwatosa headquarters, Walker said neither he nor his lawyers have received a letter stating that he is being sought out in the investigation, which is focused...
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Dana Busted: Loesch, Katz, and other Teabaggers... →
Yesterday, at a teabagger rally in Racine, Wisconsin featuring Walker/Kleefisch apologists, including Wisconsin Congressman and potential Romney VP choice Paul Ryan (R-WI01), Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch (R), The Dana Show’s lead substitute host Tony Katz, and of course CNN, KFTK, and Breitbart’s Dana The Devil. The rally featured tons of anti-union right-wing talking points.
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WatchCrooks and Liars: Is Scott Walker Going to Be Indicted Soon?
Let’s hope so.
On The Young Turks Friday, David Shuster claimed that he is almost certain that Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker will be indicted in the coming months for his role in the numerous scandals floating around his first campaign for governor. Shuster later clarified his claim on the Take Action News Facebook page:
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Wisconsin Recall: Democrats Expect To Win State... →
WASHINGTON — Despite polls showing Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) maintaining a narrow lead in his bid to fend off a recall challenge Tuesday, national Democrats said they remain confident the party will come out on top during the election.
Michael Sargeant, head of the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, a national group focused on electing Democrats to state legislative seats,...
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Michelle Obama Supports Marriage Equality So That... →
In President Obama’s public endorsement of marriage equality, he noted that he arrived at his position partly because he wants to impart the value of equality to his daughters, Sasha and Malia, who have friends with same-sex parents. In Michelle Obama’s statement on marriage equality today — a response to a question posed on Twitter about the Obama family’s discussions surrounding gay marriage —...
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BREAKING: Egyptian Dictator Hosni Mubarak...
Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak sentenced to life in prison for complicity in killings of protesters -@AP /@BreakingNews #HosniMubarak #Egypt
— Justin Gibson (@JGibsonDem) June 2, 2012
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Enyart says he's considering run for Congress in... →
Belleville attorney William Enyart, adjutant general of the Illinois National Guard, confirmed Friday he has been approached by 12th District Democrats to run for Congress in place of Brad Harriman on the November ballot.
Enyart said he is considering whether to run for the office but is yet undecided.
“I have had some people approach me and I think that is a great compliment,”...
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Mitt Romney Vice-Presidential Pick Could Come... →
WASHINGTON, June 1 (Reuters) - Senator John McCain waited until just before the 2008 Republican convention to name his vice presidential pick, sticking to a timing tradition thought to pump up party activists before the big push to Election Day. This year, there is at least a small chance that Republican Mitt Romney might break with tradition and name his vice presidential choice earlier in the...
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National Review Writer Goldberg: "Conservatives... →
The National Review’s Jonah Goldberg is claiming that 18-year-olds should be denied the right to vote because they are “so frickin’ stupid about so many things.” In a video first posted by the Daily Caller, Goldberg laments the culture’s obsession with youth and argues that conservatives should “beat out” young people’s belief that “socialism is better than capitalism.”
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Watchvia MMFA: Bolling Conspiracy Theory: “Obama Is Trying To ’Bring People Closer To The Cities’ To Keep An Eye On Them”
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BREAKING: Judge orders George Zimmerman to turn... →
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Recall Election Could Foretell November Vote →
The Wisconsin vote pitting Gov. Scott Walker against Tom Barrett will send a message about Americans’ attitudes toward candidates who cut collective bargaining rights.
And in many ways it is. The outcome of the election on Tuesday will not just decide the state’s leanings on matters of budget, taxes and policy, as well as the ultimate trajectory of Mr. Walker’s fast-rising political prospects....
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GOP Congressional Spokesman for Hayworth: ‘Let’s... →
How do you deal with female political opponents? If you’re the spokesman for Rep. Nan Hayworth’s (R-NY) re-election campaign, you might “hurl some acid” at them.
Acid throwing is not a joke. It is a serious and horrific form of gender-based violence. Seventy two percent of the time, victims of acid throwing are women. In fact, an attack occurred in Pakistan just four days ago– two women and...
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Hoffman not pursuing Costello's House seat →
A former southwestern Illinois lawmaker seeking a return to the state House says he has no plans to pursue the seat being vacated by Congressman Jerry Costello.
Democrat Jay Hoffman’s disinterest in running for the 12th Congressional District seat comes after he was mentioned as a possible replacement for former Democratic nominee Brad Harriman.
h/t: STLtoday.com
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DOMA Declared Unconstitutional; Next Stop, Supreme... →
Gay rights advocates secured another milestone victory on Thursday, when the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit unanimously declared unconstitutional a federal law denying benefits to same-sex married couples that are otherwise available to opposite-sex married couples. This is the first federal law ever declared unconstitutional by an appellate court for discriminating against gays and...
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Dana Busted: Loesch smears Shriver and Barrett on... →
Today, I found out that Dana Loesch is still playing her bullying games at her foes on twitter, and the main targets were Adam Shriver (@stlactivisthub) and Milwaukee Mayor (soon-to-be possible Governor of Wisconsin) Tom Barrett (@barrett4wi).
Nope, your BFF Walker ducked and dodged questions like a typical Rethuglican. Tom Barrett, on the other hand, was honest and direct in calling his...
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ALERT: Snighda Nadipati wins 85th National...
Snighda Nadipati, 14, of San Diego wins National Spelling Bee with ‘guetapens’ - @msnbc on.msnbc.com/NlNH9Z
— Breaking News (@BreakingNews) June 1, 2012
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One Million Moms ‘Disturbed’ That JC Penney Is... →
Right on cue, the American Family Association’s One Million Moms has expressed outrage at JCPenney’s new Father’s Day advertisement featuring a same-sex couple with their kids. Suggesting the ad is “promoting sin,” OMM attacks the store for “taking sides” instead of remaining “neutral” in the “culture war”.
OMM previously attempted to boycott JCPenney when the store announced Ellen DeGeneres...
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Walker's office stonewalled DA inquiry, record... →
Milwaukee County prosecutors opened the secret John Doe criminal investigation more than two years ago after being stonewalled by Gov. Scott Walker’s office when he was county executive, according to a newly released record.
The document appears to cast doubt on some of Walker’s claims about his role in launching and cooperating with the probe.
On May 5, 2010, Assistant District...
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Federal Judge Blocks, Skewers Florida’s Third... →
A federal judge on Thursday blocked a controversial Florida law signed by Gov. Rick Scott that sharply curtailed third-party groups’ ability to register voters and forced many of them to discontinue their voter-registration drives.
In a 27-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Robert L. Hinkle said there was little justification for a “harsh and impractical” 48-hour deadline for organizations to...
May 2012
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Cutting Room Floor: Live Action Edited Out... →
Earlier today, anti-choice activist Lila Rose and her group Live Action released a heavily edited video designed to falsely portray a Planned Parenthood employee as having helped an activist posing as a patient get an abortion because of the sex of the fetus. While the edited video includes less than seven minutes of clinic footage, the full video runs for a more than an hour, and the...
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Watch(via Limbaugh: Early Voting Is “ A Recipe For Cheating. It’s One Of The Reasons It Exists“)
Rush, you spend more pigging out at pizza buffets than you do about caring for decency and this country you claim to love!
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The Fox Cycle: From bogus right-wing attack to... →
As more and more media outlets follow Fox News’ lead in covering the manufactured New Black Panther Party/Department of Justice (DOJ) scandal, Media Matters offers three case studies of previous bogus right-wing attacks that, with help from Fox News, went mainstream before being debunked.
New Black Panther story following a familiar pattern. Fox News’ embrace of Adams’...
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BREAKING: John Edwards not guilty on one count,...
Judge rules a mistrial on the other 5 counts; it’s up to the prosecutors on whether they try Edwards again. -@NBCNews
— HuffPost Politics (@HuffPostPol) May 31, 2012
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‘Money with Melissa Francis’ Debuts Monday on Fake... →
Melissa Francis, who joined Fox Business Network from CNBC in December, launches her new show Monday. “Money with Melissa Francis” debuts Monday at 5pmET. Francis will continue as co-anchor of FBN’s “Markets Now” at 1pmET alongside Lori Rothman.
The addition of Francis’s show at 5pm means a shift for two other shows. “The Willis Report” with Gerri Willis moves to 6pmET and Neil Cavuto‘s...
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Will Scandal-Plagued Election Clerk Supervise... →
Republican Kathy Nickolaus may be the only county clerk known by name across Wisconsin—and not for a good reason.
Last year, Nickolaus, the top election official in Waukesha County, a solidly Republican suburb outside of Milwaukee, blamed “human error” for the late discovery of more than 14,000 missing votes in a bruising state Supreme Court race. Those votes erased liberal favorite...
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BREAKING: Walmart Ends Financial Support For ALEC →
The world’s largest retailer, Walmart, has become the nineteenth group to leave the American Legislative Exchange Council. Walmart’s departure from the right-wing legislation-crafting group is particularly salient because the big box chain is also the largest purveyor of firearms in the country.
Eighteen other groups have dropped ALEC since their ‘Stand Your Ground’ legislation came under...
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DOMA ruled unconstitutional by Massachusetts... →
The federal government had no permissible federal interest in denying benefits to same-sex couples under the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston ruled Thursday.
Congress’ effort to “put a thumb on the scales and influence a state’s decision as to how to shape its own marriage laws” should subject the justifications of the law to greater scrutiny, the...
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Vote to replace Harriman is based on number of... →
While the Democratic Party chairmen of each of the 12 counties represented by the 12th Congressional District will get a vote to determine who replaces Brad Harriman on the November ballot, metro-east leaders will have the final say on the candidate whose name appears on the November ballot.
The 12 party chairs will vote with their ballots weighted by how many people voted in the 12th District...
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Joe Walsh (R-IL08): "Democrats Want Hispanics,... →
WASHINGTON — Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Ill.) made another controversial remark last week, telling constituents that Democrats want Hispanics to be dependent on government — and claiming that African Americans already are.
“The Democratic Party promises groups of people everything,” Walsh, a conservative freshman from suburban Chicago, said during a Schaumburg, Ill., speech...
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BREAKING: MAJOR REVELATIONS IN JOHN DOE PROBE -... →
BREAKING: MAJOR REVELATIONS IN JOHN DOE PROBE - Scott Walker Mistakenly Admits He is Under Investigation
Following reports that Scott Walker’s criminal defense fund grew by $100,000 in May, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is today reporting major revelations in the John Doe criminal corruption probe, including Scott Walker’s mistaken admission that he is under investigation.
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Kansas pastor Knapp calls on U.S. government to... →
The pastor of New Hope Baptist Church in Seneca, Kansas says President Barack Obama has gone too far in supporting same sex marriage and it’s time for the U.S. government to begin killing gay men and lesbians.
“Terrorists are dangerous, the economy is a real and present danger,” Pastor Curtis Knapp told his congregation on Sunday. “But there is simply nothing other than the holocaust of the...
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FLASHBACK: Justin's Generalities: MTV2 abandons... →
tylrc:
altmusictv has learned MTV2 is abandoning the concept of VJ-hosted shows, opting instead for a straight-up video block format. Subterranean, Headbangers Ball, Sucker Free, and all surviving music shows on the network will drop their hosts, voiceovers, and guests. Essentially,…
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Tony Perkins’ FRC tells Obama: ‘Wages of sin is... →
A Christian think tank is telling President Barack Obama that the “wages of sin is death” after he announced support for equal marriage rights for LGBT people.
Family Research Council (FRC) — a hate group, according the the Southern Poverty Law Center — has asked pastors around the country to sign a letter to Obama, complaining that he had used the “presidential ‘bully pulpit’ to promote a...
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Church Cheers as 4-Year-Old Sings 'Ain't No Homos... →
Video of a young boy at a church in Indiana being cheered as he sings about how “no homos are gonna make it to heaven” has gone viral.
“The Bible is right, somebody’s wrong,” the boy, who appears to be around 4-years-old, sings. “Romans 1 and 27, ain’t no homo gonna make it to heaven.”
Before the boy can finish the song, members of the...
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Watch Fox & Friends Drops The Veil, Produces Four-Minute Anti-Obama Attack Ad
Fixed Noise = GOP Subsidiary.
While Fox & Friends has long been a home for some of the most vicious, misleading, petty, anddishonest attacks on President Obama, they crossed a new ethical line today by producing and airing what is essentially a four-minute anti-Obama attack ad.
The video - opening with the text...
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Return of the Birthers | The Nation →
Like political kudzu, no matter how many times they have been destroyed, birthers keep coming back. The last week has seen a sudden reemergence of the once-marginalized racist, xenophobic, Islamophobic notion that President Obama was not born in Hawaii. And the Republican presidential nominee is cozying up to leading birthers such as Donald Trump.
Obama’s natural born American citizenship has...
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Illinois GOP state Rep. Bost goes on epic tirade... →
Not many outside of Murphysboro, Illinois have heard of their State Representative Mike Bost (R) until Tuesday afternoon, who launched a major tirade in the Illinois House of Representatives over his chamber’s efforts at pension reform.
Bost disliked the reform bill endorsed by Gov. Pat Quinn and House Speaker Michael Madigan (D-Ill.) that cleared a House committee earlier in the day. According...
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ACLU lawsuit to challenge Illinois same-sex... →
CHICAGO (AP) — More than two dozen gay and lesbian couples in Illinois plan to file lawsuits Wednesday arguing that it’s unconstitutional for the state to deny them the right to marry, a move advocates hope will lead to legalized same-sex marriage in Illinois.
The two lawsuits - backed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois and the New York-based gay advocacy group Lambda...
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Watchvia MMFA: Hannity Says He’s “ Never Been A Birther“ But Adds It Was “ Odd That They Didn’t Release The Birth Certificate“
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Dana Loesch on GBTV's The Glenn Beck Show →
Today on GBTV’s The Glenn Beck Show, KFTK (whose station carries Beck’s radio show prior to The Dana Show and fellow employer Dave Glover as an occasional fill-in) radio host Dana Loesch filled in for the too deranged for Fixed Noise Glenn Beck.
Tonight on GBTV, guest host Dana Loesch was joined by Brandon Darby. Brandon has one of the most interesting life stories of anyone you will...
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Wolf Blitzer spars with Trump over birther... →
Donald Trump, de facto leader of the so-called “birther” movement, called into “The Situation Room” on Tuesday for what quickly became a testy interview with Wolf Blitzer about Trump’s continued skepticism over the authenticity of President Obama’s Hawaiian birth certificate.
Trump, in Las Vegas to host a fundraiser for Mitt Romney on Tuesday, took issue with...
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Watchvia MMFA: Limbaugh On “ Persecution Of Blacks In America“ : “What Persecution Would That Be?“
Rush Limbaugh is dismissing the notion that racial minorities face persecution.
Limbaugh was discussing a campaign stop Mitt Romney made on May 24 at a West Philadelphia charter school. A Washington Post blog entry reported that during the event, Romney “received something of a...
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Dirty Tricks In Wisconsin: Pro-Walker Secret Group... →
One week before Wisconsinites vote on whether or not to recall Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI), a conservative group is engaged in dirty tricks that have shut down the Democratic challenger’s campaign phones.
According to multiple reports, independently verified by ThinkProgress, the following spam text message is being blasted out to many Wisconsin cell phones:
FRM:WI@obamasaliar.com SUBJ:Union...