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Limbaugh: Blame the Lions for Climate Change
Seeded on Fri May 18, 2012 10:22 AM EDT (Media Matters for America)
In which Limbaugh argues that the problem with those concerned about the environment, is that they never, ever point out what lions are doing to create climate change. Or what parakeets are doing. They just blame it all on mankind.
How Our Demented Capitalist System Made America Insane
Seeded on Fri May 18, 2012 9:46 AM EDT (AlterNet.org)
The demented project of endless capitalist expansion, profligate consumption, senseless exploitation and industrial growth is now imploding. Corporate hustlers are as blind to the ramifications of their self-destructive fury as were Custer, the gold speculators and the railroad …
The GOP's Dead-End Path to Prosperity
Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 10:32 AM EDT (Working In These Times)
Mitt Romney may rue the day he called Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget proposal “marvelous,” as if he were describing a splendid buffet at the mansion of a friend. The plan from the influential, youthful Republican chair of the House budget committee does off …
Why Isn't Closing 40 Philadelphia Public Schools National News?
Seeded on Mon May 14, 2012 8:18 AM EDT (Truthout - All Articles)
If some racist made an inappropriate remark about the First Lady or her children our national "civil rights leaders" Obama fans all of them, would be all over that. But standing up for ordinary black children is something our leaders just don't do much any more. When was the last …
Obama Campaign Goes After Romney's Record At Bain Capital
Seeded on Mon May 14, 2012 7:54 AM EDT (Talking Points Memo)
he Obama campaign is launching an offensive Monday attacking Mitt Romney on his record at the private equity firm Bain Capital in a new ad campaign, painting the presumptive Republican nominee as a greedy, corporate job-destroyer. During the primary, Newt Gingrich and …
Scott Walker Using $100 Million Of Taxpayer Money To Fight Off Recall?
Seeded on Sat May 12, 2012 10:18 PM EDT (Forbes)
he effort kicked off ten days ago when, after fifteen months in the Governor’s chair where Walker has consistently cried poverty in the state budget as the rational for his many controversial moves, the Governor miraculously came up with $100 million to fund econo …
Brookhaven National Lab Brings Cheap Hydrogen Fuel a Giant Step Closer
Seeded on Sat May 12, 2012 3:34 PM EDT (Talking Points Memo)
A team of researchers at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York, has opened the door to a future of clean, cheap hydrogen fuel. Though hydrogen is catalyzed in water -- abundant and cheap -- it used to require platinum -- not so cheap -- to catalyze it. …
Walker on Divide and Conquer Video: I do not Recall
Seeded on Fri May 11, 2012 10:45 PM EDT (Talking Points Memo)
Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI) is responding to the controversy over a newly-released video, in which he told a wealthy donor that he would take a “divide and conquer” strategy to take down organized labor and potentially make Wisconsin a right-to-work state &mdas …
Why the Right Really Hates Obama --
Seeded on Wed May 9, 2012 1:33 PM EDT (Working In These Times)
And why ‘that hopey changey stuff’ is the only true antidote to Tea Party cynicism. Obama is a deeply familiar figure among tea partiers and conservative Christians. He has the energy and charisma of a pastor—but the context is all wrong. He's black....
Oligarchy in the U.S.A.
Seeded on Mon May 7, 2012 2:47 PM EDT (Working In These Times)
In any society, of course, an extremely unequal wealth distribution provokes conflict. Oligarchy is the politics of the defense of this wealth, propagated by the richest members of society. Wealth defense can take many forms. In ancient Greece and Rome, the wealthiest citizens c …
Indiana: Sarah Palin Backs Richard Mourdock for Senate
Seeded on Thu May 3, 2012 3:42 PM EDT (Roll Call Daily - Breaking News)
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Former GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin threw her support behind Treasurer Richard Mourdock’s (R) bid to unseat six-term Sen. Dick Lugar (R-Ind.) today. It’s a rare endorsement this cycle from the former Alaska governor, who has b …
Strike Two: FEC Questions Donations to Marco Rubio's PAC
Seeded on Thu May 3, 2012 3:32 PM EDT (Roll Call Daily - Breaking News)
Sen. Marco Rubio has lost no time paying an $8,000 civil penalty to the Federal Election Commission for taking campaign donations beyond the legal limit in his 2010 Senate race. But the Florida Republican’s disputes with the agency may not be over. The FEC has …
Behind Closed Doors, Republicans Arm Women For The Fight
Seeded on Tue May 1, 2012 10:30 PM EDT (Talking Points Memo)
At a downtown D.C. hotel this week, Republicans are training a volunteer force of women to run grassroots operations this fall. The training session, known as Blackboard 2 Blacktop, was in the works months before a public fight for the women’s vote had both sides ar …
Obama Approval Rating Up in April
Seeded on Tue May 1, 2012 1:05 PM EDT (- NationalJournal.com)
President Obama’s approval rating rose by one point in April to 47 percent, the highest average approval rating since last May and the death of Osama bin Laden, according to new data by Gallup. Gallup credits the average to a rise in popularity among independent …
Murdoch Faces New Pressure Following Parliamentary Report
Seeded on Tue May 1, 2012 12:24 PM EDT (Talking Points Memo)
The latest twist in the News Corporation phone hacking scandal came today in the form of a scathing UK parliamentary report that, among other things, states that its patron Rupert Murdoch “is not a fit person to exercise the stewardship of a major international …
On May Day, Only a Populist Movement Will Lead to True Freedom and an Inclusive Democracy
Seeded on Sun Apr 29, 2012 6:15 PM EDT (BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash)
"People seem to know about May Day everywhere, except where it began, here in the United States of America," says Chomsky in a new piece he's written for Zuccotti Park Press. "That's because those in power have done everything they can to erase its real meaning. .. …
Fox News Burying the National Dialogue in "Doo-Doo."
Seeded on Tue Apr 24, 2012 2:29 PM EDT (The Huffington Post)
Bill O'Reilly, the tumescent personality of Fox News,said on his Friday show "Robert Reich is a communist who secretly adores Karl Marx." (This came after Fox News' Neil Cavoto called me a "sanctimonious twit" for suggesting the rich should pay more in taxes.) O'Reilly's ac …
Romney Spokesman Used Twitter for Sexist Attacks
Seeded on Sun Apr 22, 2012 8:26 PM EDT (Think Progress)
Presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney’s new foreign policy spokesperson Richard Grenell has anodd penchant for targeting the wives of male politicians and women in general on Twitter. Grenell, who served as George W. Bush’s spokesperson at the UN and was an …
Strange But True: Mitt Romney Picked The Music For His Horse’s Dance Competition
Seeded on Thu Apr 19, 2012 9:32 AM EDT (The National Memo)
Mitt Romney won’t be in attendence at the 2012 Dressage World Cup, which starts today, but he and his wife Ann will play a very personal role in the tournament’s outcome. The Romneys are high-profile participants in the world of dressage, the classical sport of danci …
Conservative Judges Rule that Unfettered Capitalism is the Constitutional Standard
Seeded on Tue Apr 17, 2012 8:19 PM EDT (The Huffington Post)
As the Supreme Court's conservative majority stands poised at the edge of a cliff -- debating whether or not to strike down the Affordable Care Act and pick a very large fight with Congress and a sitting President -- two conservative judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D. …
NASA Ready To Show-Off Algae Biofuel Research Project
Seeded on Fri Apr 13, 2012 8:50 PM EDT (Talking Points Memo)
NASA has developed a system that captures carbon dioxide and helps to prevent pollution from wastewater while creating renewable algae biofuel, fertilizer and possibly animal feed, too. NASA calls its system OMEGA, for Offshore Membrane Enclosures for Growing Algae, self-co …
McDonald's Says It Left ALEC In March 2012 [UPDATE]
Seeded on Tue Apr 10, 2012 9:50 PM EDT (The Huffington Post)
Under pressure from a progressive campaign to abandon the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), McDonald's is insisting that it left the controversial conservative organization in March. On Tuesday, the online advocacy group Color of Change called on the fast-food chain …
The Free-Market Sainthood of the Koch Brothers
Seeded on Tue Apr 10, 2012 2:55 PM EDT (BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash)
Because nothing explains what's the matter with Kansas better than a Kansas editor's essay elevating the Koch Brothers to free market Sainthood. Nothing explains what's the matter with Kansas better than a Kansas editor's essay elevating the Koch Brothers to free market Sainth …
GOP Dream Of Hispanic VP May Be Fading
Seeded on Tue Apr 10, 2012 2:31 PM EDT (Talking Points Memo)
It’s been the dominant conventional wisdom ever since a wave of Hispanic Republicans won big races in 2010: Mitt Romney will pick a Hispanic running mate. But Romney may not be able to make that fantasy ticket a reality — even if he wants to. Picking a Hispanic pol …
Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free
Seeded on Mon Apr 9, 2012 4:39 PM EDT (BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash)
I think the illustrative sentence, for all three of what I call the great premises of Idiot America came from The New York Times, which was talking about the intelligent design movement. And the sentence that appeared on the front page of The New York Times is called the intell …
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Obama Campaign Goes After Romney's Record At Bain Capital
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Limbaugh: Blame the Lions for Climate Change
How Our Demented Capitalist System Made America Insane
Limbaugh: Blame the Lions for Climate Change
The GOP’s Dead-End Path to Prosperity
How Our Demented Capitalist System Made America Insane
Obama Campaign Goes After Romney's Record At Bain Capital
Obama Campaign Goes After Romney's Record At Bain Capital