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America Is #1…In Corporate Taxes

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

finance.yahoo.com - By Aaron Task - Apr. 02 (Opinion) - America is used to leading the world but not like this: As of April 1, the U.S. has the dubious distinction of being the developed economy with the highest corporate tax rates. On Sunday, corporate taxes in Japan dropped to 38%, making America's 39.2% ra

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Murdoch's American Sins: Less Sensational, But More Dangerous

Fri, 08 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Will Bunch - Jul. 08 (Opinion) - Right now, there's still a big disconnect between the uproar over the Murdoch empire in Great Britain -- salacious, tabloid-style crimes committed by tabloid journalists -- and closer scrutiny of the press baron's operation in the United States, which in addition to the highly profitable Fox television network also includes the politically influential Fox News Channel, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Post among its outlets.

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Backing Bill O'Reilly in a Debate: Like Rooting for a One-Legged Man in an Ass-Kicking Contest

Sat, 21 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

sensen-no-sen.blogspot.com - By Pbi - May. 21 (Opinion) - Bill O'Reilly invited Jon Stewart on his show to debate the faux controversy over rapper Common's invitation to the White House. Bad move, for BillO; almost 80% of his own viewers ackowledge he came out the loser.

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Jon Stewart Rips Fox News' First Presidential Debate

Tue, 10 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Jon Stewart - May. 10 (Comedy News) - While Stewart finds it hard to imagine a candidate beating President Obama post-killing bin Laden, he had to comment on who showed up to the first Republican Presidential debate Fox News held May 2, or rather, who didn't show up

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Jon Stewart Mocks Fox News' Response To Egypt's Revolution (VIDEO)

Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Jon Stewart - Feb. 15 (Comedy News) - "The Daily Show" returned from a week-long break Monday night and caught up on the big news that somehow always occurs when they go on vacation. This time, they missed Hosni Mubarak's resignation as President of Egypt, and the analysis of Egypt's social media-led revolution by the media, particularly Fox News.

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Anti-WikiLeaks Lies And Propaganda

Tue, 07 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Salon - By Glenn Greenwald - Dec. 07 (Opinion) - "The New Republic," Matt Lauer, Dianne Feinstein, others lead a demonization campaign against the whistle-blowers.

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Who's Ignorant?

Tue, 23 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Power Line - By John Hinderaker - Nov. 23 (Opinion) - Dumb liberal op-ed pieces are legion, and generally we let them pass in silence. But this one by Richard Cohen in the Washington Post is such a howler that it deserves comment. Cohen's theme is that Sarah Palin is ignorant; the evidence is her criticism of Michelle Obama's famous observation, in connection with her husband's Presidential nomination, that "For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country...." Given that pretty much everyone denounced Mrs. Obama's comment at the time, it is not clear why Governor Palin's reference to it in her forthcoming book, two years later, is worth a column. The only apparent explanation is the Left's obsession with Palin. But Cohen's reasoning tells us more about him than either Governor Palin or Mrs. Obama

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Stewart Mocks Whitman, Paladino & The Media's Hyperbolic Election Coverage (VIDEO)

Thu, 04 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Jon Stewart - Nov. 04 (Comedy News) - Last night on "The Daily Show," Jon Stewart wrapped up his coverage of the 2010 midterm elections by mocking the night's biggest winners and losers as well as the media's exaggerated analysis. Stewart began with the biggest winners of the midterms, the Tea Party and female candidates, who both won big Tuesday night.

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Washington Post Downplays Iraq War Crimes

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Robert Parry - Oct. 27 (Opinion) - The Post editors also sought to shift responsibility for the death toll away from the Bush administration – and themselves – by noting that “the vast majority of Iraqi civilian deaths were caused by other Iraqis, not by coalition forces.” But that argument misses the point understood by the Nuremberg Tribunals – that it is the original war of aggression that unpacks all the other evils of war

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And Even STILL I Am Not Allowed To Make A Racial Slur About Our President? After THIS? AYFKM!?!?!?

Mon, 25 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Red State - By Dave Poff - Oct. 25 (Opinion) - In the new post-racial America, brought to us by Barack “don’t call me black or white, just call me American” Obama, we have been told our differences are behind us now…just because he exists and… just because he is black. Yet, day by day and speech by speech, this President has done more damage to race relations than any combination of Presidents since Lyndon Johnson…and he, at least, tried to make things better with a sincere heart.

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Julian Assange walks out of CNN Interview

Sat, 23 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Danny Shea - Oct. 23 (Interview) - Assange, who was being interviewed to discuss the 400,000 pages of documents WikiLeaks released about the Iraq War, grew upset when interviewer Atika Shubert asked about his personal legal issues.

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8/28 conservative rally versus the 10/2 liberal rally

Sun, 03 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

MiltonWolf.com - By Milton Wolf - Oct. 03 (Comment) - I can't wait to hear the Department of Truthiness claim these rallies were more or less the same.

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YouTube CEO Offers “YouTube Instant” Creator a Job via Twitter

Sat, 11 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Mashable - Sep. 11 (Opinion) - If you build an awesome web app, the job offers will come. At least that's the story for one computer science student at Stanford University. Earlier today,

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Is the web really dead?

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Boing Boing - By Rob Beschizza - Aug. 17 (Review) - Without commenting on the article's argument, I nonetheless found this graph immediately suspect, because it doesn't account for the increase in internet traffic over the same period. The use of proportion of the total as the vertical axis instead of the actual total is a interesting editorial choice.

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How Politico stole the mosque narrative

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

drumsnwhistles.com - By Karoli - Aug. 16 (Review) - Politico’s claim of “walked-back” remarks was published at 12:52PM EDT. The video wasn’t published until 2:42PM EDT. In that two hours, Politico controls the story by reporting the President’s remarks as a “walkback”. It changes from “Obama Endorses Mosque” (which he didn’t…) to “Mosque flap swirls around Obama”. If any form of responsible reporting had taken place, they would have included the video in their report when it was first published. As it was, Politico restated and amended the President’s remarks to fit their own editorial slant, because really, there’s not too much to report about him reiterating the comments he made the day before, is there?

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Cookie Madness!

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Buzzmachine - By Jeff Jarvis - Jul. 31 (Opinion) - I just don’t understand Julia Angwin’s scare story about cookies and ad targeting in the Wall Street Journal. That is, I don’t understand how the Journal could be so breathlessly naive, unsophisticated, and anachronistic about the basics of the modern media business. It is the Reefer Madness of the digital age: Oh my God, Mabel, they’re watching us!

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Politico's 'Age Of Rage': More Evidence That It Still Hasn't Figured Out Journalism

Sat, 24 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Jason Linkins - Jul. 24 (Opinion) - It's getting really weird to hear an organization that's cast itself as a "new-media" leader constantly admit that it doesn't understand the first thing about it.

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Disaster Messaging

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

TruthOut - By George Lakoff - Jul. 08 (Opinion) - Democrats are constantly resorting to disaster messaging. Here's a description of the typical situation: * The Republicans out-message the Democrats. The Democrats, having no effective response, face disaster: They lose politically, either in electoral support or failure on crucial legislation.

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Don’t Mistake the Messenger for the News Media

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Emily Badger - Jun. 25 (Opinion) - One observer suggests that efforts to rescue American journalism are generally more efforts to rescue American journalism companies.

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The Problem: BP Oil Gusher a Product of Abiotic Oil--Not Dinosaurs

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

beforeitsnews.com - By Grant Lawrence - Jun. 15 (Opinion) - It appears that BP hit a massive deep channel of abiotic oil. That means that the oil was not produced from decaying matter but from chemical processes deep within the earth. It has been known for years that there is abiotic oil. The notion that the earth had hit a peak in oil production was, in my view, fed by Big Oil and financial interests to justify the massive profits from price rigging and speculation. Peak oil was also used as an excuse to justify deep sea drilling and other risky ventures to get more oil.

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Glenn Beck Attacks

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

beck.cnnbcvideo.com - Mar. 11 (Comedy News) - Fox host Glenn Beck spent much of the last week claiming that a normal, everyday progressive, Janet Barnes, along with her pinky, commie, leftycrat Facebook friends were all linked to Stalin, Elvis, Joe Biden's cousin, and the guy who came up with the idea of taxes.

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Glenn Beck misses Joe McCarthy

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Salon - By Mike Madden - Mar. 11 (Review) - The Fox News host reaches a new low in his rewriting of U.S. history

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Beck: The Census Is The Government’s Attempt To ‘Increase Slavery’

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Think Progress - By Alex Seitz-Wald - Mar. 09 (Opinion) - The Census is a popular topic of right-wing conspiracy theories and Fox News host Glenn Beck spent a good portion of his radio show today fear-mongering about it.

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Glenn Beck to Jesus: Drop Dead Pinko!

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Rev. James Martin, S.J. - Mar. 08 (Opinion) - Beck says "Social justice" is a code word for Nazism and Communism. And that you should leave your church if they mention it.

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'Sarah Palin Needs To Go To College' (VIDEO)

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Bill O'Reilly; George Stephanopoulos - Feb. 25 (Opinion) - As for frequent "O'Reilly Factor" guest Sarah Palin, O'Reilly says she absolutely wants to run but has to weigh whether she wants to put her family through the process. And, he added, she needs to study up. "Sarah Palin needs to go to college," O'Reilly said. "Political college, world affairs college, and she is. She's hired a bunch of advisers and they're giving her a whole bunch of tracks to learn, because it is a sophisticated deal."

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