For too long, a credulous mainstream media depicted the Tea Party as an uprising of independents fed up with the dominant political parties. But as Skocpol and Williamson ... More »
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Doug Greer
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I am concerned by the general public's' ignorance of science, critical thinking, environmental issues, and economics. There is way too much dogma surrounding all those topics in the "mainstream media".
About Doug
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Software Engineer
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all science, environmental economics, social justice, philosophy, software engineering, science fiction
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software engineer, philosphy, secular humanism, social websites, some biological sciences
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Center for Inquiry: http://www.centerforinquiry.net/ (Subscriber)
Atheist Alliance International: http://www.atheistalliance.org/ (Member)
Community of Reason: http://groups.google.com/group/communityofreason (Member)
Freedom from Religion Foundation: http://www.ffrf.org/ (Member)
The Young Turks: http://www.theyoungturks.com/ (TYT Member)
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Journalism:
Decline to state
Education:
College graduate
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90 minutes a day or more
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90 minutes a day or more
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English-only
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25-34
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Male
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Doug posted this story - Jan 20, 2012
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Doug posted and reviewed this story - Jan 18, 2012
A project that involves patrolling public discourse, though, will inevitably involve judgments not only about truth, but about what attacks are fair, what arguments are ... More »
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Doug posted this story - Jan 1, 2012
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This article goes to the heart of the problems with establishment journalism. Too many corporate journalists are fooled into using hard-core ideologues as objective experts.
PolitiFact seems unaware of the fact that the Executive Branch doesn’t determine what the law means. Just because Obama lawyers argue that the 2001 More »
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Doug posted and reviewed this story - Dec 21, 2011
The Executive Director of the Institute for Fraud Prevention, Professor William K. Black, fact checks Obama's answers to the 60 Minutes' correspondent's weak line of questions relating to the Obama Administrations actions in the wake of the Financial Crisis.
What Obama missed, and Kroft failed to call him on, is that “wild risk” by banks are typically frauds. I have explained these matters at length in previous posts, so I ... More »
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Doug posted and reviewed this story - Dec 21, 2011
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Doug posted and reviewed this story - Oct 3, 2011
This article makes unsupported assumptions about just how to interpret what a national deficit really is. The article assumes that anything which causes the Federal government to have to pay interest on Treasury Bonds contributes to the Federal deficit. From a certain point of view, this may be true. But if true, anyone who has Treasury Bonds in their 401K is contributing to the federal deficit. The best propaganda is true from a certain point of view.
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Doug posted and reviewed this story - Oct 3, 2011
Selise has this to say in her post on why this is kabuki: Q: Why is there even a debate about “fixing” Social Security when it’s not broken? A: Because ... More »
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Doug posted and reviewed this story - Oct 3, 2011
Doug posted and reviewed this story - Oct 3, 2011
Wait a second! The government knows it must pay the interest. But the government chooses to not plan for that in the budget they create… which forces the government ... More »
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Doug posted and reviewed this story - Apr 30, 2011
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Doug posted this story - Apr 30, 2011
Doug posted and reviewed this story - Apr 29, 2011
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Doug posted and reviewed this story - Apr 29, 2011
Doug posted and reviewed this story - Apr 29, 2011
Doug posted and reviewed this story - Apr 29, 2011
Journalist have to expose the hustlers who pretend to be journalists. This piece does a good job at exposing a rather transparent attempt to paint educators as a cartoon stereotype of labor activists which is very popular among the corporatist Right.
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Doug posted and reviewed this story - Apr 29, 2011
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Doug reviewed this story - Mar 29, 2011
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“This is Economic Treason”: 500,000 March in London Protesting Public Spending Cuts and Corporate Tax Dodgers
They start in the next few weeks. So these are people, a half-million people on the streets, before this program has really begun. That’s a pretty extraordinary thing. ... More »
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Doug reviewed this story - Feb 25, 2011
Doug posted this story - Jan 24, 2011
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Politifact seems to have fallen into the balance trap. In the face of a torrent of Right-wing propaganda, they go out of their way to find something, anything, which can indict real journalists like Maddow.