February 2012
Politics is a Matter of Life and Death (Times... →
sarahlee310:
That’s the message I take from a recent book by James Gilligan, a psychiatrist at New York University. In Why Some Politicians Are More Dangerous than Others, Gilligan documents a striking statistical connection between changing rates of violent death in the United States over the past century and the party of the president. He concludes that Republican administrations are “risk...
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Senate Votes To Stop Congressional Insider Trading
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liberalsarecool:
New York Times:
“In an effort to regain public trust, the Senate voted Monday to take up a bill that would prohibit members of Congress from trading stocks and other securities on the basis of confidential information they receive as lawmakers. The vote was 93 to 2.
This was in Obama’s SOTU. Pretty quick turnaround.
Congress was pissedddd when Obama mentioned...
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The BRAD BLOG : EXCLUSIVE: Virginia Officials... →
Had the same thing been carried out by a worker for the now-defunct ACORN, Republicans —- and even Newt Gingrich —- would have called it massive “voter fraud.” But the 1,500 acts of fraud, by Gingrich’s own admission, were carried out by a worker hired by his campaign, so it seems the media have barely noticed it.
Nonetheless, The BRAD BLOG has received confirmation from two different state...
January 2012
“After decades of “compassionate conservatism,” “a thousand points of light,” and...”
– AlterNet: The Truth About the Conservative Mind: Why Reactionaries from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin Have Fought Real Liberty (via silas216)
ShortFormBlog: The Department of Defense can't... →
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$2 billion of DoD’s Iraq War spending unaccounted for (oops) source
» Audit time! With the Iraq War’s chapter effectively closed, now’s apparently a good time to look back at all the money we spent there. There’s a problem, however: Of the $3 billion the Iraqi government set aside for…
"71% of recently polled Americans feel that... →
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“Whenever journalists are arrested/detained for reporting the news, everyone’s...”
– KGO Radio reporter Kristin Hanes • Discussing her arrest late Saturday as the Occupy Oakland protests flared up. She and Gavin Aronson of Mother Jones were among the over 200 people placed into custody Saturday night, as the Oakland protests reached a new breaking point — including the burning of an...
“These (GOP) debates… they have jumped the shark. Because last night — I swear to...”
– BILL MAHER, Real Time (via inothernews)
ShortFormBlog: Indiana Democrat foils attempt to... →
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the planIndiana Republican Jud McMillin (yes, just one “d”) introduced a bill in the Indiana General Assembly that would have required random drug testing of welfare recipients.
the sabatogeDemocratic legislator Ryan Dvorak added an amendment to also require drug testing for elected…
There are a bunch of people in a boat. One of...
“As we detailed last month, individuals spending more than $10,000 on elections...”
– On FIRE: How the Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate Sector Drove the Growth of the Political One Percent of the One Percent
Sunlight Foundation
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“To protest a bill that would require women to undergo an ultrasound before...”
– Huff Po (via rachelfershleiser)
This is the most beautiful thing. Can we send her flowers?
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BOOM.
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I think I love you, Janet Howell.
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Seems only fair.
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“The International Committee of the Red Cross has repeatedly betrayed the trust...”
– A statement from al-Shabaab • Discussing its decision to bar the Red Cross from the parts of Somalia it controls. That’s right: al-Shabaab is blocking humanitarian aid from being distributed over accusations by the Red Cross that they’re already blocking humanitarian aid from getting distributed....
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Hey, look. This is stupid.
housekeysofthekingdom:
““The Amish do not carry health insurance. The government respects their principles. Christian Scientists want to heal by prayer alone, and the new health care reform law respects that. Quakers and others object to killing even in wartime, and the government respects that principle for conscientious objectors. By its decision, the Obama administration has failed to show...
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Yes, it really was Ron Paul's fault.
reagan-was-a-horrible-president:
“It was his newsletter, and it was under his name, so he always got to see the final product. … He would proof it.”
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Ron Paul’s former secretary (and current supporter) Renae Hathway • Discussing the perceived-racist newsletters that went out under his name, and he has largely disowned since then. If he edited the newsletters, clearly this would contradict what...
“Rarely have so few imposed such damage on so many. When five conservative...”
– Bill Moyers (via azspot
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“Abortion was not always illegal before Roe. Into the 19th century, what a woman...”
– -Eleanor Cooney, The Way It Was (via prolifehypocrisy
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