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The Inequality Speech That TED Won't Show You - A super-rich venture capitalist tells the truth about "job-creation" and the importance of the middle class
Seeded on Thu May 17, 2012 9:26 AM EDT ()
It is astounding how significantly one idea can shape a society and its policies. Consider this one. If taxes on the rich go up, job creation will go down. This idea is an article of faith for republicans and seldom challenged by democrats and has shaped much of …
How Mitt Romney gets away with his lying
Seeded on Thu May 17, 2012 8:07 AM EDT (The Washington Post)
Yesterday, Mitt Romney gave a big speech in which he accused Obama of lighting a “prairie fire of debt.” It’s a good line, and it has received widespread media coverage. Romney’s speech has already been dissected by Jonathan Chait and Steve Benen. They …
'Family Guy' Does the Tea Party
Seeded on Mon May 14, 2012 12:22 PM EDT (Crooks and Liars)
Peter joins the Tea Party to get rid of the annoying government, only to find the "grassroots" organization run by his billionaire father-in-law Cater Pewterschmidt for his own evil ends. (SPOILER ALERT: After dispensing with their local government and the ensuing chaos the res …
Terrifyingly Hilarious: Nebraska Woman Gives The Most Amazingly Bonkers Anti-Gay Rant Ever
Seeded on Fri May 11, 2012 2:43 PM EDT ()
You know what’s not funny? Hate. You know what’s also not funny? People going on hate-filled rants. However, you know what is funny, people going on hate-filled rants that make so little sense that they sound like someone took the worst comments from a political mes …
Old Testament No Longer Part of the Bible, According to the American Taliban
Seeded on Fri May 11, 2012 5:05 AM EDT (Crooks and Liars)
Steven Palazzo (R-MS) wanted a provision banning same-sex marriages ceremonies on all military facilities. Todd Akin (R-MO) wanted a "conscience clause" so that military chaplains could refuse to wed gay and lesbian couples. And on and on it went. For hours. Loretta Sanchez an …
Adding to the deficit: Bush vs. Obama
Seeded on Thu May 3, 2012 2:31 PM EDT (The Washington Post)
Since President Obama became chief executive, the national debt has risen almost $5 trillion. But how much of that was because of policies passed by Obama, and how much was caused by the financial crisis, the continuation of past policies and other effects? For this analysis, …
Chart: The illustrated history of you being screwed by people like Mitt Romney
Seeded on Wed May 2, 2012 1:11 PM EDT (Daily Kos)
Quick and dirty, folks. Basically, the upper line represents the value of your work. The lower line represents what you got paid for it. The empty space in between—the difference between what your work was worth and how much you got for it—represents the money the …
Jon Stewart DESTROYS Republicans' whiny excuses over Obama's bin Laden ad
Seeded on Wed May 2, 2012 9:04 AM EDT (Daily Kos)
Last night, Jon Stewart blasted the GOP for whining over Obama's ad about bin Laden. Jon then proceeded to go to the videotape to show Republicans doing the exact same thing they're whining about now back in 2004. Make this go viral, folks.
The 9 Worst Lies Right-Wingers Tell About the Bin Laden Raid
Seeded on Tue May 1, 2012 8:07 PM EDT (MotherJones.com)
It's May 2012, and as Chevy Chase would say, Osama bin Laden is still dead. And now the vanquished Al Qaeda leader is a political football, being bandied by both parties to score election-year points. The GOP, having slipped a bit from its perch as the national security party, …
Wind turbine creates water from thin air
Seeded on Tue May 1, 2012 4:59 AM EDT (CNN)
Wind turbines have long produced renewable energy but a French engineering firm has discovered another eco-purpose for the towering structures. Eole Water claims to have successfully modified the traditional wind turbine design to create the WMS1000, an appliance that can manu …
What Has Caused Record Inequality (and Greater Recessions)?
Seeded on Sun Apr 29, 2012 8:29 PM EDT (The Huffington Post)
A concerted effort by business interests in general, and Republicans in particular, instigated a massive transfer of newly created wealth from wage earners to the owners of capital via various measures, including lowering upper income tax rates, restricting employees collective …
Rachel Maddow Makes History and Triumphs over the War On Women
Seeded on Sun Apr 29, 2012 8:17 PM EDT (PoliticusUSA.com)
The interruption by Castellanos was significant, because Republicans don’t want to talk about the war on women. They have adopted the same position towards the rights of women that they long ago adopted towards issues like poverty and racism. It doesn’t exist. Caste …
Jon Huntsman: GOP Is Like Communist Party In China
Seeded on Mon Apr 23, 2012 5:09 AM EDT (Politics | The New Civil Rights Movement)
Jon Huntsman, a former Republican Party candidate for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination, told an audience in Manhattan on Sunday evening that the GOP is like the Communist Party in China. Huntsman, who was President Obama’s Ambassador to China, certainly is in a positi …
Oligarchy is the new Fascism
Seeded on Sun Apr 15, 2012 9:20 PM EDT (Daily Kos)
When the super rich can break laws and face zero consequences because they have bribed the politicians and law enforces then we don't have a Democracy under the rule of law. We have an oligarchy for the super rich and a fake rigged democracy. Through a legalized system of b …
45 Signs That America Will Soon Be A Nation With A Very Tiny Elite And The Rest Of Us Will Be Poor
Seeded on Sat Apr 7, 2012 8:36 AM EDT ()
The middle class is being systematically wiped out of existence in the United States today. America is a nation with a very tiny elite that is rapidly becoming increasingly wealthy while everyone else is becoming poorer. So why is this happening? Well, i …
UPDATED: Michigan House Democrats get temporary restraining order against House Republicans for violating the constitution | Eclectablog
Seeded on Fri Apr 6, 2012 5:56 AM EDT ()
The Michigan Republicans in a rather remarkable display of arrogance have taken to passing bills lately and voting to give them “immediate effect”. They are, in general, allowed to do this and it bypasses the normal 90-day waiting period after the bill is signed int …
Capitalism's Dirty Secret: Corporations Don't Create Jobs, They Destroy Them
Seeded on Thu Apr 5, 2012 8:19 AM EDT (AlterNet.org)
Corporations are not working for the 99 percent. But this wasn’t always the case. In a special five-part series, William Lazonick, professor at UMass, president of the Academic-Industry Research Network, and a leading expert on the business corporation, along with journal …
Fox News Anchor, Heather Childers Takes Heat for Tweeting "Did Obama Campaign Threaten Chelsea Clinton's Life?"
Seeded on Wed Apr 4, 2012 9:10 AM EDT (Raw Story)
The liberal watchdog Media Matters on Tuesday pounced on a tweet sent by Fox News anchor Heather Childers, which linked to an article that claimed Obama’s 2008 campaign staff had threatened to kill Chelsea Clinton. “Thoughts? Did Obama Campaign Threaten Chelsea Cli …
"It's hard to point to a single priority of the Republican Party these days that isn't steeped in moral failing while being dressed up in moral righteousness"
Seeded on Thu Mar 29, 2012 7:36 AM EDT (The Washington Post)
There is moral crisis afoot! So say the Republican candidates for president, their pals in Congress and in state houses. Abortion, gay marriage, contraception — contraception, for Pete’s sake — things that so shock the conscience that it’s a wonder The W …
House GOP votes down Dem amendment to ban employer requests for passwords from Facebook, Twitter, etc.
Seeded on Thu Mar 29, 2012 5:38 AM EDT (DemocraticLeader.gov)
By being asked to disclose passwords to their personal social networking accounts, job seekers and others are put in the unfair position of having to choose between handing over private information and violating a website’s terms of service or forgoing a new job opportuni …
Bluegrass pioneer Earl Scruggs dies at age 88
Wed Mar 28, 2012 7:56 PM EDT
It may be impossible to overstate the importance of bluegrass legend Earl Scruggs to American music. A pioneering banjo player who helped create modern country music, his sound is instantly recognizable and as intrinsically wrapped in the tapestry of the genre as Johnny Cash's baritone or Hank Williams' heartbreak.
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Culture of Stupidity
Wed Mar 28, 2012 5:13 AM EDT
It's sad when we seem to admire stupidity over common sense and intelligent discourse. In high school it was far better for your popularity ranking to act like you were a complete and utter moron than it was to achieve good grades. Even among some adults it's social su …
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Morality crisis is in the boardrooms, not bedrooms
Seeded on Sun Mar 25, 2012 8:57 AM EDT (The San Francisco Chronicle)
Republicans have morality upside down. They're condemning same-sex marriage, abortion, access to contraception and the wall separating church and state. But the moral crisis in America isn't a breakdown in private morality. It's a breakdown in public morality. What Ameri …
Pure. Undiluted. Evil.
Seeded on Fri Mar 23, 2012 2:57 PM EDT (Daily Kos)
This is what we are fighting against in it's purest, most undiluted form of concentrated evil.
Deaf Student 'Speechless' After Obama Responds To Him In Sign Language
Seeded on Wed Mar 21, 2012 10:28 AM EDT (The Huffington Post)
Lots of people get giddy following even the briefest encounters with a president. But one Washington-area college student was especially elated that President Obama understood what he was saying. Or signing. As first reported on Distriction, Stephon, a student at Prince G …
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- Oligarchy is the new Fascism
When the super rich can break laws and face zero consequences because they have bribed the politicians and law enforces then we don't have a Democracy under the rule of law. We have an oligarchy for the super rich and a fake rigged democracy. Through a legalized system of b …
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