February 2012
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Unions Pay People $60 Each To Act As “Protesters”... →
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Protesters at Friday’s “Occupy CPAC” event, organized by AFL-CIO and the Occupy DC movement, told The Daily Caller that they were paid “sixty bucks a head” to protest outside the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C.
One protester told TheDC that all the “Occupy” activists were being paid to protest, and that his union, Sheet Metal Workers Local 100,...
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Fast & Furious: ATF Targeting Cartel Members That... →
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Mexican cartel suspects targeted…
Let’s just take a look at your story. The actual title of the story is “House memo: Entire Fast and Furious mission was a failure.” Gee, a memo from the GOP-controlled House. The same House that has launched a series of witch hunts and smear campaigns against the Obama administration, with the investigation of Fast and...
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Libertarians are now anti-government extremists →
baseballlibertarian:
And all I can say is, thank you…
And I’m sure the Secret Service will make a note of that in your file. But yes, libertarians and those who call themselves “sovereign citizens” are anti-government extremists.
The right-wing “sovereign citizens” movement started in the 1970s according to the Anti-Defamation League. With the election of...
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“The President should come out for marriage equality, and he should issue an...”
– John Aravosis’ advice to the President
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“[Wisconsin Republican governor Scott Walker] is a clear asshole. There’s just no...”
– John Cole, And People Tell Me I Overuse the Word “Asshole”
The nation’s five largest banks just agreed to compensate home owners in 49 states who were improperly foreclosed on or who were otherwise screwed by shady mortage-servicing. Walker has announced that he’ll be taking some of...
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Rolling Stone publishes damning 84-page report... →
aheram:
Holy shit. If you want, download the full report here.
Keep in mind that this guy, Daniel Davis, has decided that spending a year in Afghanistan makes him more of an expert than those who’ve spent several years there. Also consider that two years ago while stationed in Germany he wrote to General David Petraeus (a four-star general with 37 years in the Army) and tried to tell him...
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“Anti-liberal propaganda has been ramping up for years. Former Fox News host...”
– Online ‘Hit List’ Targets Liberals
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“Covering birth control out of the premiums of non-religious employers means that...”
– Lindsay Beyerstein, “Contraception Compromise: Insurers Take One for the Team.”
The compromise described in the first paragraph is exactly the compromise that was struck this morning. — Ryking
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“As better economic news rolls out, Mitt Romney’s biggest issue — that Barack...”
– Romney is starting to sound a lot like Bob Dole, circa 1996
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“Interesting how the media narrative can change really fast. This morning Obama...”
– Did Obama Thread the Needle on Contraception Mandate?
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REPORT: By A Nearly 2 To 1 Margin, Cable Networks... →
Damned liberal media! Oh, wait a minute…
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I wonder if the Catholic Church will ever mention...
theworldisconfused:
Why, when the Catholic Church has actually taken numerous admirable stands in history, does the Church decide to stake its moral prestige on something as ridiculous as preventing affordable access to birth control?
For the most part, people will still get birth control. It will just be a bigger hassle and cost them more money. The Catholic Church was never faced with the...
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“Under the rule, women will still have access to free preventive care that...”
– White House Plan Requires Insurers to Pay for Contraception
By Meghan McCarthy (via nationaljournal)
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“In what senior administration officials described as an...”
– After uproar, Obama tweaks birth control rule
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“While cause marketing’s takeover of formerly philanthropic efforts can...”
– Komen Foundation: Selling Us for the Cure
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“Some 86% of Fortune 500 firms now ban discrimination on the basis of sexual...”
– Of companies and closets: Being gay-friendly is cheap and good for business
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“A tough campaign week may have just gotten worse for Newt Gingrich, with...”
– Report: Adelson done giving to Gingrich as funding dries up
Stick a fork in Newtie. He’s done.
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BREAKING: Planned Parenthood supports Obama... →
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“In the coming mud fight, there are reasons to expect that Santorum will make a...”
– Those mudslinging Republicans
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Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee... →
govtoversight:
The investigation of Rep. Spencer Bachus is the first of its kind involving a member of Congress.
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“Let’s turn to low turnout in the Republican races. Colorado, Minnesota and...”
– Low Turnout and the Big Tune-Out
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“The Romney campaign is better at dismantling than mantling. They’re better...”
– Low Turnout and the Big Tune-Out
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Talk Straight: Former Department of Education... →
talkstraight:
According to an article on Missouri Education Watchdog, a press release from the Pioneer Institute states that Robert S Eitel (former Department of Education Deputy General Counsel), Kent D. Talbert (former Department of Education General Counsel) and William M. Evers (former senior adviser…
The Missouri Education Watchdog is a right-wing extremist group of Fundamentalist...
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TELL CONGRESS: Don't block affordable access to... →
think-progress:
Please share the petition by reblogging this.
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"In his 2006 Massachusetts health care law, Mitt... →
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"Concrete pump manufacturer Putzmeister is the... →
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Does Google Know It’s Sponsoring a Right-Wing,... →
Google, there has to be a better way to reach out to right-wingers than financially-sponsoring a conference where a white supremacist and a birther are featured guests.
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After Gay Group Is Excluded, Conservative... →
So CPAC gave GoProud the shaft — and not in a nice way.
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This is the so called free market we live in →
baseballlibertarian:
But we have a free market, right?
The other day, The New York Times offered the story of Juliet Pries, who attempted to open an ice cream parlor in San Francisco:
Ms. Pries said it took two years to open the restaurant, due largely to the city’s morass of permits, procedures and approvals required to start a small business. While waiting for permission to operate,...
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Employment Rate for Young Adults Lowest in 60... →
evilteabagger:
Thank you, minimum wage (among other things).
Are you young and looking for work? You’re in good company.
Just 54 percent of Americans ages 18 to 24 currently have jobs, according to a study released Thursday by the Pew Research Center. That’s the lowest employment rate for this age group since the government began keeping track in 1948. And it’s a sharp drop from the 62...
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“Karl Rove pranced onto Fox “news” to announce his displeasure [with the Chrysler...”
– the rude pundit, “Quickies: Gay Marriage, Susan Komen Debacle, and Dirty Harry” (via icantbelieveitsalawblog)
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And Another Thing...
ivehadtoomuchtothink:
ryking:
Tumblr’s Fauxgressives: “How dare The Amazing Atheist viciously abuse another person online! Viciously abusing people is wrong! Now let’s viciously abuse TAA to show people that viciously abusing people is wrong!”
Those of you who claim to be progressives are living up to the Right’s worst stereotypes of us.
Viciously and repeatedly and PURPOSEFULLY triggering...