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Today's GOP: Worst Political Party Since the Civil War

Tue, 22 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Martin Longman - May. 22 (Opinion) - What about the Jim Crow laws, or the Palmer raids, or the Japanese internment camps, or McCarthyism, or the Vietnam and Iraq wars? But when I started to think about it, I realized that many of the big mistakes our country has made since the Civil War were not really the result of one political party's actions.

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Mitt Romney, the Unlikable Presidential Candidate

Sun, 13 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

The Daily Beast - By Michael Tomasky - May. 13 (Opinion) - It’s been a long time since the country elected a man as personally unappealing as Mitt Romney. Will Americans overlook their deeply held conviction that he’s a jerk? Very few votes are going to be cast on the basis of what Mitt Romney did or didn’t do to John Lauber in 1965. So that, per se, isn’t Romney’s problem. But this is: The story lands as another brick on pile of evidence amassing that he’s just a disagreeable human being. A few days ago I wrote about Barack Obama’s biggest problem, which is that despite all the many areas in which Americans rate him higher than Romney, the one on which they give Romney the edge happens to be pretty important: handling the economy. Now we get to Romney’s biggest problem. The likability factor. He ain’t got it. And he ain’t got much of a way to get it.

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Stewart Analyzes The Evolution Of Fox News' Gay Rights Coverage

Fri, 11 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Jon Stewart - May. 11 (Comedy News) - This issue is just racism 2.0 and it aligns perfectly with the GOP agenda of rich white males. Justtheobvious: This issue is just racism 2.0 and it aligns perfectly Bingo ! They already have the middle class and poor on their 'fiscal' oppression list. So

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The Political Obstructionism Undermining US National Security

Fri, 11 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

thebulletin.org - By Kingston Reif - May. 11 (Opinion) - US congressional Republicans just passed legislation that will hamper implementation of New START as well as the administration's ability to make changes to the US nuclear arsenal. But this isn't a lingering Cold War hangover or an ideological battle.

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The GOP's Death Wish

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Robert Reich - Apr. 28 (Opinion) - What are the three demographic groups whose electoral impact is growing fastest? Hispanics, women, and young people. Who are Republicans pissing off the most? Latinos, women, and young people. It's almost as if the GOP can't help itself.

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Cannibalize the Future

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

readersupportednews.org - By Paul Krugman - Apr. 13 (Opinion) - '...Chris Christie...talks loudly about acting responsibly but may actually be the least responsible governor the state has ever had.'

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George Zimmerman Had More Legal Authority To Shoot And Kill Than Our Troops Do At War

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Think Progress - By Jon Soltz - Apr. 11 (Opinion) - One fact stands out in my mind: The “Stand Your Ground” law in Florida, which may let George Zimmerman off the hook for the killing of Martin, gives more leeway to shooters than our own military gives to soldiers in war.

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Save Wall Street! Congress Passes JO(BS) Act

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

readersupportednews.org - By Jim Hightower - Apr. 05 (Opinion) - Washington has finally heard the people's cries for jobs! In an urgent bipartisan push, Democrats and Republicans have joined hands across the aisle to pass the JOBS Act. In this time of "The Great Hurt" - with widespread unemployment, middle-class incomes tumbling and the price of gasoline skyrocketing - we can all applaud our stalwarts in the capital city for meeting the No. 1 need of America's hard-hit economy: deregulating Wall Street. Huh? I thought this was a jobs bill?

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Deciphering Right-Wing Code: What Conservatives Are Really Saying When They Seem to Spew Nonsense

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Sara Robinson - Apr. 05 (Opinion) - Even though right-wing narratives are often factually wrong, they are absolutely never content-free. Stories like this are always about something. And the weirder and more factually challenged they sound to liberal ears, the more important it probably is for us to know what that something is. Too often, our obsession with the gobsmacking wrongness of these statements deafens us to clues to the right's current motives and intentions that are frequently lurking in these strange declarations.

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Scalia, Fox's Man in Washington?

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

readersupportednews.org - By Matthew DeLuca - Apr. 05 (Opinion) - Is Roger Ailes clerking for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia? One might be forgiven for thinking so following last week’s oral arguments on the health-care law before the nation’s highest court. As has been pointed out elsewhere, some of Scalia’s questions from the bench made use of the tone and even the diction of the attacks on the Affordable Care Act frequently heard on Fox News and conservative talk-radio shows.

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Jokes from Justice Scalia Mask Grim Reality of American Health Care

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

nationofchange.org - By Wendell Potter - Apr. 03 (Opinion) - Since Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia clearly isn’t going to take the time to actually read the health care reform law before he decides whether or not it’s constitutional, maybe he and a couple of his buddies on the High Court can catch a screening of “The Hunger Games”, the movie about children battling each other to the death in a futuristic America, renamed Panem.

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Jon Stewart Mocks Mitt Romney's Tepid Endorsements

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Jon Stewart - Apr. 03 (Comedy News) - As the GOP primary race drags on, Jon Stewart is more and more convinced that Republicans will pick Mitt Romney to be the 2012 nominee...

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The Truth About the U.S. Postal Service

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

nationofchange.org - By Jim Hightower - Mar. 28 (Opinion) - The USPS is an unmatched bargain, a civic treasure, a genuine public good that links all people and communities into one nation. So, naturally, it must be destroyed.

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Medicare Costs too Much and They Better Not Cut it

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

nationofchange.org - By Dean Baker - Mar. 19 (Opinion) - There is an old story about two men in a retirement home. The first declares, “the food in this place is poison.” His friend agrees and adds, “and the portions are so small.”

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Natural Born Drillers

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Economist's View - By Paul Krugman - Mar. 16 (Opinion) - Unlike natural gas, which is expensive to ship across oceans, oil is traded on a world market... Oil prices are up because of rising demand from China and other emerging economies, and more recently because of war scares in the Middle East; these forces easily outweigh any downward pressure on prices from rising U.S. production. And the same thing would happen if Republicans got their way...

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Jon Stewart Rips Fox News For Limbaugh Double Standard

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Jon Stewart - Mar. 14 (Comedy News) - Stewart brings a crucial argument to all of this. Clear Channel banned the Dixie Chicks because they disagreed with their clearly political speech in which they criticized President Bush for the war in Iraq. They had no problem banning them from their ai

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Doonesbury Comic Strip, March 12, 2012 on GoComics.com

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

gocomics.com - By Garry Trudeau - Mar. 12 (Comedy News) - "The Shaming Room"

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Ignorance Is Strength

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Economist's View - By Paul Krugman: - Mar. 09 (Opinion) - One way in which Americans have always been exceptional has been in our support for education. ... But now one of our two major political parties has taken a hard right turn against education, or at least against education that working Americans can afford. ... And this comes at a time when American education is already in deep trouble.

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Rush Limbaugh backs child kidnappers

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800

care2.com - By Paul Canning - Mar. 09 (Opinion) - The LRA have kidnapped thousands of children across central Africa, raped them and forced them to be soldiers. Their leader, Joseph Kony, was indited by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in 2005 for numerous atrocities. There are 33 charges, 12 counts of crimes against humanity, which include murder, enslavement, sexual enslavement and rape. There are another 21 counts of war crimes which include murder, cruel treatment of civilians, intentionally directing an attack against a civilian population, pillaging, inducing rape and forced enlisting of children into the rebel ranks. ICC Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo said that “Kony was abducting girls to offer them as rewards to his commanders.” Some of the children are forced to hide every night to avoid kidnapping. This is the ‘Christian’ Limbaugh is defending.

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Jon Stewart Slams Rush Limbaugh's Sandra Fluke Comments: 'He Is A Terrible Person' (VIDEO)

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Jon Stewart - Mar. 07 (Comedy News) - Unless you've been doing yourself a favor by not paying attention to Rush Limbaugh, you've probably heard about the conservative radio host calling Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke a "slut" for supporting contraceptive insurance coverage -- and you're probably outraged.

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Cowards and Apologies That Aren't

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800

readersupportednews.org - By John Cory - Mar. 04 (Opinion) - Limbaugh's apology was not an apology; it was a lecture and a rationalization of the vile, mean-spirited invective that is his trademark.

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What's the matter with white people?

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Salon - By Joan Walsh - Mar. 04 (Opinion) - Both the right and left suddenly have a lot of complaints about white people, particularly the so-called white working class. In “Suicide of a Superpower,” Pat Buchanan describes white Americans contemptuously at times, as an endangered species obliviously collaborating in its own demise by tolerating liberal multiculturalism. Charles Murray, the man who in the 1980s blamed government for encouraging sloth and single-parenthood in the black community, is now saying the same thing about the white lower class: they’re suffering from declining wages and higher unemployment not because of a changed economy, but because they’ve come to prefer slacking and shacking up to hard work and marriage. But white rich people are a problem, too: Murray’s book “Coming Apart: The State of White American 1960-2010″ indicts the white uber-class for refusing to impose their own traditional values, which he believes are the foundation of their economic success, on their lazy, out-of-control lessers.

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One Billion Rising: V-Day's Eve Ensler Launches Global Day of Action, Dance Against Women's Violence

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman, Eve Ensler - Mar. 02 (Interview) - "The fact is, we have not busted this notion that the father still dominates in his authority over women and children and determines the rights of our lives, determines the rights of our futures and our bodies," Ensler says. "If we’re going to actually free women, which is freeing men, which is allowing everybody a life of dignity and grace, and not walking in fear and terror, we have to go further and be disruptive and be dangerous."

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The Sad Race for Bottom on the Loony Right

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Robert Reich - Feb. 28 (Opinion) - even if they lose the presidency on Election Day they’re still likely to be in charge of at least one house of Congress as well as several state legislators and governorships. That’s a problem for the nation.

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Jon Stewart Rips GOP's Obama Fear-Mongering

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Jon Stewart - Feb. 23 (Comedy News) - "It appears Barack Obama has failed to keep many of the campaign promises that his opponents made for him," Stewart joked. While the four remaining GOP presidential candidates debated once again in Arizona Wednesday night, Jon Stewart took a look at how

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