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Democrats are feasting on the GOP’s Medicare cuts one year after playing defense on their own cutbacks. Jill Lawrence on why neither side can resist pandering to seniors.
What if they held an election and nobody attacked anybody over Medicare? Only in [...]
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So Mitt Romney’s big speech on health care is over. You can watch it here.
Romney defended the plan he signed into law in Massachusetts, including its health care mandate, which he mentioned by name, saying it was a good solution [...]
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Here’s one interesting little difference between Conservative Wet Dream Romney’s health care plan and Kenyan Socialist Obama’s health care plan:
Just one question: Why does Romney hate the unborn?
Originally posted to Daily Kos on Thu [...]
Continue Reading →In a June 2007 op-ed in the Des Moines Register, Gingrich wrote, “Personal responsibility extends to the purchase of health insurance. Citizens should not be able to cheat their neighbors by not buying insurance, particularly when they can afford it, and expect others to pay for their care when they need it.”
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ATLANTA (Reuters) – Georgia Governor Nathan Deal signed into law on Friday an immigration bill giving police authority to question suspects about their immigration status which is similar to a controversial measure passed in Arizona.
The law also requires many private [...]
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WASHINGTON — WASHINGTON (AP) – The bad economy has shortened the life of the trust funds that support Social Security and Medicare, the nation’s two biggest benefit programs, the government reported Friday.
The annual checkup said that the Medicare hospital insurance fund will now [...]
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Brutal State Terror in Bahrain – by Stephen Lendman
A previous article discussed police state terror in Bahrain, accessed through the following link:
Saying sporadic protests began last summer, major ones began for regime change on February 14, the tenth [...]
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How Nonviolence
Protects the State is the title of a 2007 book by Peter Gederloo. It can
be downloaded free at http://zinelibrary.info/files/How%20Nonviolence%20Protects%20The%20State.pdf
As a long time activist, I have always been
troubled by the militant nonviolent perspective [...]
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America already has the blood of Salvador Allende on its hands, and who knows
who else, and France and the UK have plenty of blood on their hands from the
past as well. But no leaders have ever been so bold [...]
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US human rights advocates who are planning to sail their boat – The Audacity of Hope – this spring as part of an [...]
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The UK government has floated the idea of employing private security firms in Libya to help bolster revolutionary forces fighting the regime of Muammar Qaddafi.
Defense experts and military officials raised the idea after high-ranking NATO officials including Secretary General Andres Fogh Rasmussen [...]
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By Russell Berman
The Hill.com
The law firm House Republicans hired to argue in favor of the Defense of Marriage Act has withdrawn from the case following a backlash from the gay and lesbian community.
The chairman of King Spalding, the Atlanta-based [...]
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By MIRWAIS KHAN and HEIDI VOGT
AP
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – Taliban militants tunneled at least 480 inmates out of the main prison in southern Afghanistan overnight, whisking them through a 1,000-foot-long underground passage they had dug over months, officials and insurgents said Monday.
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Continue Reading →Intelligence analysts are at odds with each other over which informants to trust, at times drawing inferences from prisoners exercise habits. They ordered DNA tests, tethered Taliban suspects to polygraphs, strung together tidbits at times in ways that seemed to defy common sense.
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Article source: http://feeds.mediamatters.org/~r/MediaMattersForAmerica-CountyFair/~3/gtYNPmDoMZg/201104260006
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Americans used to pride themselves on being a practical people, largely immune to religious and political dogmatism. Commonsense and know-how were universally seen as virtues. Crackpots and zealots of the David Koresh, Jim Jones type have abounded, but rarely commanded a mass [...]
Continue Reading →Nonetheless, I think this should have been done long ago.
Because a president has to put his public responsibilities before his pride and his privacy. That’s the price of the job – to defuse or debunk conspiracy theorists or just skeptics with all the relevant information you have.
It’s also the job of the media [...]
Continue Reading →The Marrist poll is getting lots of attention today for the toplines showing approval of Obama on the economy at an all time low. But this from the internals, I think, is more interesting:
The poll found that before Obama’s speech, 40 percent approved of his performance on the economy, versus 58 percent [...]
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Continue Reading →The about-face by ICE in Ms. Zanella’s case is an
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Continue Reading →Exxon Mobil, the largest American oil company, said net income rose 69 percent to $10.7 billion, or $2.14 a share, in the first three months of this year, from $6.3 billion, or $1.33 a share, in the same period last year.
The earnings beat some analysts’ expectations, and marked the fifth quarter in a row
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Due to a wave of online support—much of it from you guys—the Democratic Party committees in Wisconsin are starting the recall elections with a large cash advantage on their Republican counterparts. Here are the fundraising totals in the [...]
Continue Reading →Twelve days after opening “Atlas Shrugged: Part 1,” the producer of the Ayn Rand adaptation said Tuesday that he is reconsidering his plans to make Parts 2 and 3 because of scathing reviews and flagging box office returns for the film.
“Critics, you won,” said John
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Continue Reading →…this morning brings a new poll from the Washington Post and Pew Research that finds a whopping 81 percent now think the deficit is a major problem that should be dealt with now, rather than when the economy improves. Tellingly, that number has jumped
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latimes.com:
Stanford University’s Faculty Senate voted Thursday to invite the Reserve Officer Training Corps back to the campus for the first time since the Vietnam War era, a turnaround prompted by the end of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy against gays serving openly [...]
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Barack Obama by Fanpix.net
Hell hath no fury like a progressive scorned. I haven’t seen jilted fans scream like this since they drafted Elvis.
Very well, let’s get it out of our systems. All together now: We hate Obama!
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Screen shot from an archive reel of footage from the Bay of Pigs
The National Security Archive has, on the fiftieth anniversary of
the Bay of Pigs invasion, filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit to
force [...]
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From: http://leftblogtweets.com/2011/04/alarming-new-fukushima-reports/
Five weeks after Japan’s disaster, reports suggest worse, not improved conditions. It portends serious regional and global trouble ahead, besides what’s already happened.
On April 16, AP headlined, “Radioactivity Rises in Sea Off Japan Nuclear Plant,” saying:
“Levels of radioactivity have risen [...]
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Fresh off her veto of her state’s “birther” bill, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer says that the White House gave her a “snub” by leaving her off the guest list for a meeting about immigration reform.
“I wish I would [...]
Continue Reading →From: http://www.opednews.com/articles/2/U-S-Government-Survives-S-by-Danny-Schechter-110417-304.html
The Capitol Hill battlefield is still for the moment as the Easter holidays
approach and the combatants get a break from the heated polemics and
overnight bargaining sessions. In a last minute deal, milked by both
sides for maximum drama and political advantage, the government will not
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From: http://leftblogtweets.com/2011/04/poll-iowa-gop-wary-on-obama-birth/
Donald Trump’s birther crusade could be a boon in Iowa, and “Romneycare” could dog the former Massachusetts governor in the first-in-the-nation caucus, a new poll shows.
A whopping 48 percent of Iowa Republicans said they don’t believe that Obama was born in [...]
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Los Angeles Times:
Leaders of the ultra-conservative Westboro Baptist Church have repeatedly skirted the law by maintaining a legal distance while picketing military funerals. This weekend, a New York artist attempted to beat the church at its own game by creating a satirical painting [...]
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Obama Again Capitulates – by Stephen Lendman
A previous article explained his sellout to Republicans last year on extending tax cuts to America’s aristocracy, accessed through the following link:
It shouldn’t surprise that on April 8, he repeated what’s become a habit – breaking every major campaign [...]
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When I was a small boy I was bullied more than
most, mainly because I was a foot shorter than than everyone else. They
demanded the cupcake my mother had packed in my lunchbox, or, they said,
they’d beat me [...]
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(Tayyip Erdogan)
Tayyip Erdogan has said Turkey was working on a “roadmap” to end the
war in Libya which would include a ceasefire and the withdrawal of
Muammar Gaddafi’s forces from some cities.
Turkey has held talks this week with envoys from Gaddafi’s government and representatives of the [...]
Continue Reading →From: http://leftblogtweets.com/2011/04/upon-the-wreckage-of-oligarchy/
Some days I wish that I could leave this country, just sail off in a sailboat
and forget about my own two years of living in a dirty garage. It is only a
pipe dream though; an emotional safety valve to allow the overflow of inputs to
blow [...]
From: http://leftblogtweets.com/2011/04/trumps-tea-party-triumph/
The Donald, suddenly riding high in the 2012 polls, drew rave reviews at a Tea rally in Boca Raton. Jim DeFede reports on why the birther card is working—and what Trump has learned from Gary Busey.
Hours before Donald Trump arrived for his Tea Party debut Saturday in Boca [...]
Continue Reading →The headline read, “Qaddafi Troops Fire Cluster Bombs Into Civilian Areas”. [1]
According to the evidence cluster bomb fragments that kill indiscriminately were found on Friday in Misurata, Libya the besieged city bombed earlier and tenuously held by the rebel forces fighting against Muammar Qaddafi and his army of loyalists [...]
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