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CAUGHT RED HANDED

Wed, 23 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

bbvforums.org - By Bev Harris - May. 23 (Investigative Report) - Four hundred and eighty-eight voters, every one of them in the Tennessee district of US Rep Steve Cohen (D-09), all but four lifelong Democrats, and nearly all Black, had their voting history erased by Shelby County election workers, setting them up for purge from the voter list.

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Government Report Contradicts GOP On Dire Situation

Wed, 23 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - May. 23 (News Report) - A new government report said spending cuts scheduled to go into effect in 2013, coupled with the simultaneous expiration of Bush-era tax cuts, will shrink the U.S. economy and raise unemployment -- contradicting the Republican claim that reducing the federal budget deficit will spur economic growth.

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Bachmann’s Fundraising Whopper

Sun, 20 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

FactCheck - By Robert Farley - May. 20 (Fact Check) - In several urgent fundraising appeals, Rep. Michele Bachmann falsely claims that biased “liberal judges” redrew her congressional district “in retaliation for repeatedly standing up to President Obama.” The truth is that only two of the five judges were Democratic appointees, and Bachmann’s Minnesota district has become even more Republican than … More >>

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Mitt Romney's flip-flops

Fri, 18 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

PolitiFact - By Bill Adair , Louis Jacobson - May. 18 (Fact Check) - For the 2012 presidential campaign, we're using the Flip O-Meter to assess the statements of President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. This article includes links to the Flip-O-Meter items we've published on Romney. We'll update it as we publish more in the future.

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Top GOP Pollster to GOP: Reverse On Gay Issues

Sat, 12 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

The Daily Beast - By Andrew Sullivan - May. 12 (News Report) - Below is a remarkable document. It's a memo circulated by Jan van Lohuizen, a highly respected Republican pollster, (he polled for George W. Bush in 2004), to various leading Republican operatives, candidates and insiders. It's on the fast-shifting poll data...

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Missouri Republicans Fight To Stop Women From Entering Politics

Thu, 10 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

care2.com - By Robin Marty - May. 10 (News Report) - As more politicians continue to promote anti-women policies both locally and nationally, one suggestion that has been made to combat their efforts is a simple one — get more women elected to politics. Women legislators are the best ones to know how these oppressive policies will really effect women in the real world, and would be the most likely to fight against them being made law. Unfortunately, Missouri has caught on. To nip that problem in the bud, the state legislature has a simple solution. Cut off access to programs that can help women get into government. Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/missouri-republicans-fight-to-stop-women-from-entering-politics.html#ixzz1uV0lTyy4

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Fox News Contributor: Women's Voting Rights 'One Of America's Greatest Mistakes'

Wed, 09 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Gene Demby - May. 09 (News) - Jesse Lee Peterson, the controversial conservative preacher and regular guest of Sean Hannity, said in a recent video it was a mistake to allow women the right to vote.

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The PolitiFact guide to Medicare attack lines

Sun, 06 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

PolitiFact - By Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson - May. 06 (Fact Check) - Barack Obama has slashed Medicare by $500 billion. Mitt Romney and House Republicans want to end Medicare. And a new board is going to ration care so Washington can waste more money. Believe any of that? You shouldn’t. But it’s what the political ads likely will be saying between now and Election Day in November. We have some advice for voters sorting out the claims: Believe nothing you hear in a 30-second TV ad. Here are a few facts about Medicare: • It’s the government-run health insurance for Americans over age 65. • It’s a Canada-style, single-payer system. Liberals love that; conservatives don’t. • It has approximately 50 million people on its rolls. • That 50 million will grow to 80 million as baby boomers retire. Paying for that will be a challenge. Those realities about Medicare have sparked a full-fledged political brawl for 2012.

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Mitt Romney's Dangerous Foreign Policy Team: Nostalgic for Bush, Hellbent on War with Iran

Wed, 02 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Alex Kane - May. 02 (News Analysis) - Romney’s persistent knocks on Obama’s foreign policy make clear that, while the economy will be the number-one issue this year, foreign policy will be a close runner-up. Behind Romney’s statements on world affairs is a group of close advisers whose views harken back to the Bush administration’s belligerent neoconservative brand of US foreign policy--not the best idea, considering how discredited it has become. “The most striking aspect of Romney's approach to foreign policy is its lack of creativity -- its brazen willingness to recycle Bush-era talking points, attitudes, and of course personnel,” said Peter Certo, a researcher at Right Web, a project of the Institute for Policy Studies.

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Why Is the Conservative Brain More Fearful? The Alternate Reality Right-Wingers Inhabit Is Terrifying

Wed, 02 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Joshua Holland - May. 02 (News Analysis) - Consider for a moment just how terrifying it must be to live life as a true believer on the right. Reality is scary enough, but the alternative reality inhabited by people who watch Glenn Beck, listen to Rush Limbaugh, or think Michele Bachmann isn't a joke must be nothing less than horrifying. Research suggests that conservatives are, on average, more susceptible to fear than those who identify themselves as liberals.

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The Ghost of Joe McCarthy in Today's Republican Party

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Bill Moyers, Michael Winship - Apr. 27 (News Analysis) - Tea Party favorite Allen West was asked at a local gathering how many of his fellow members of Congress are “card-carrying Marxists or International Socialists.”

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Bombs Not Food: Republicans Aim To Save Military By Cutting Food Stamps

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Arthur Delaney, Michael McAuliff - Apr. 27 (News Analysis) - WASHINGTON -- The latest Republican plan to reconcile the budget and preserve defense spending extracts even deeper cuts from programs to help the poor and...

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Using ALEC Playbook, Bobby Jindal Radically Reshapes Public Education

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - Apr. 26 (Special Report) - Gov. Bobby Jindal has remade the Louisiana public schools system with impressive speed over the past legislative session. Last week, he signed into law a suite of landmark reform bills that will likely change the direction of public education in Louisiana forever. But not all change is good, and critics say both Jindal’s agenda and the strategy to move it come right from the playbook of conservative advocacy group ALEC, in an effort to revive Jindal’s national political profile.

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Arthur Laffer's Rich States, Poor States Is More Wish List Than Analysis

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

ctj.org - Apr. 13 (Special Report) - few people would argue that good schools or basic infrastructure (power, transit, roads) are unimportant to states’ economic performance. But the ALEC-Laffer rankings give states no credit for either of these outcomes. On the contrary, adequately funding any public service actually reduces states’ rankings since Laffer assumes that tax revenue is detrimental to economic growth (all research from ITEP and academic economists to the contrary).

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Women's Jobs Axed By State Austerity Policies

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Matt Sledge - Apr. 13 (Special Report) - This is a nationwide scenario. At a lopsided rate, women like Akbari are losing their government jobs -- including teaching, executive administrator and child-care posts -- and finding it harder than men to find new work in the private sector. While reports a couple years ago talked about a "mancession," the picture has now dramatically shifted -- and not to women's advantage.

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FreedomWorks, Koch Brothers Clash Over Cato Institute Takeover Bid

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - Apr. 12 (News Report) - Dick Armey, chairman of FreedomWorks, released a statement opposing the Koch brothers' attempt to take majority control of the Cato Institute. WASHINGTON -- A split is opening up between two forces that helped to launch the Tea Party in 2009. FreedomWork

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"Fox Mole," We Hardly Knew Ye! In One Day, Fox Finds Employee Hired by Gawker, Fires Him, Threatens Legal Action

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Lauren Kelley - Apr. 12 (News Report) - The post neatly summed up everything that had been troubling me about my employer: Non sequitur, ad hominem attacks on the president; gleeful race baiting; a willful disregard for facts; and so on....

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Wisconsin State Senator Says Money Is 'Less Important' To Women

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Think Progress - By Travis Waldron - Apr. 10 (News Report) - Repealing the law was a no-brainer for state Sen. Glenn Grothman (R), who led the effort because of his belief that pay discrimination is a myth driven by liberal women’s groups. Ignoring multiple studies showing that the pay gap exists, Grothman blamed females for prioritizing childrearing and homemaking instead of money, saying, “Money is more important for men,”

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Fall Preview: Obama vs. Romney (and Ryan)

Sat, 07 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

FactCheck - By Eugene Kiely - Apr. 07 (Fact Check) - President Obama says Mitt Romney has embraced a budget that could throw hundreds of thousands of children out of Head Start classrooms, eliminate air traffic control services in some places, and “ultimately end Medicare as we know it.” Romney says that’s just “rhetorical excess”

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National Review Tries To Distance Itself From Derbyshire For Racist Column, But Silent On Calls For Firing Him

Sat, 07 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - Apr. 07 (News Analysis) - After the National Review’s John Derbyshire penned an unbelievably offensive and racist screed in Taki’s Magazine advising white Americans to stay away from black Americans, a firestorm has predictably erupted over whether his views will be sanctioned by the larger conservative movement. Derbyshire told ThinkProgress that his column urging the majority of Americans to “avoid concentrations of blacks not all known to you personally” was not satire, but in fact a “social commentary.”

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More Pipeline Piffle (And An Alaskan Absurdity)

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

FactCheck - By Brooks Jackson - Mar. 31 (News) - The misleading assault on the president’s energy policies continues. A conservative group’s TV ad claims “we will all pay more at the pump” because the administration “blocked” the Keystone XL pipeline. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell claims that the pipeline “could have brought 700,000 barrels of oil to the market

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ALEC, Walmart and Trayvon Martin?

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

readersupportednews.org - By Lauren Feeney - Mar. 29 (News Analysis) - What does Walmart have to do with the tragic death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin? The answer starts with Florida’s 2005 Stand Your Ground law, promoted across the country as "model legislation" by the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC — "a corporate-backed organization that has managed to keep a low profile even as it exerts vast influence," as Paul Krugman of The New York Times explains:

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Judicial Activists in the Supreme Court

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

nationofchange.org - By E. J. Dionne Jr. - Mar. 29 (News Analysis) - Three days of Supreme Court arguments over the health-care law demonstrated for all to see that conservative justices are prepared to act as an alternative legislature, diving deeply into policy details as if they were members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.

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Rep. Paul Ryan is Marie Antoinette

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

care2.com - By Paul Canning - Mar. 27 (Special Report) - His budget is full of tax cuts and programs to make the rich richer. How much does he think the aristocracy needs? Marie Antoinette Ryan gives his buddies a whopping $4.3 TRILLION in tax cuts. Why? Writes Dana Milbank in a column for The Washington Post: Ryan’s justification was straight out of Dickens. He wants to improve the moral fiber of the poor. There is, he told the audience at the conservative American Enterprise Institute later Tuesday, an “insidious moral tipping point, and I think the president is accelerating this.” Too many Americans, he said, are receiving more from the government than they pay in taxes.

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Racism in America: President Obama's Double-Bind on Trayvon Martin

Sat, 24 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - Mar. 24 (News Analysis) - Gingrich's comments are particularly egregious and opportunistic. People are murdered all the time. What makes the Trayvon Martin case noteworthy is that the police know who the murderer is and have so far simply refused to arrest him. It is highly unlikely that a white boy, even one wearing a hoodie, would have been followed, harassed and shot to death, but it is completely unthinkable that a white boy's death would not have resulted in an arrest.

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