Thursday, February 28, 2013

Eric Cantor Admits That He and Paul Ryan Were the Driving Force Behind the Sequester

Eric Cantor Admits That He and Paul Ryan Were the Driving Force Behind the Sequester

Rachel Maddow Calls Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, ‘A Troll’

Rachel Maddow Calls Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, ‘A Troll’

Bob Woodward Agrees With Hannity: Journalists Should Ask Obama About Bill Ayers

Bob Woodward Agrees With Hannity: Journalists Should Ask Obama About Bill Ayers

Sean Hannity Launches Islamophobic Attack Against Keith Ellison

Sean Hannity Launches Islamophobic Attack Against Keith Ellison

JUDGE THIS! SENATE OKs GOV. CHRISTIE’S OFFER TO DCJ CHIEF Report by Mark Lagerkvist

JUDGE THIS! SENATE OKs GOV. CHRISTIE’S OFFER TO DCJ CHIEF Report by Mark Lagerkvist

National Review: Victims Of Violent Military Rapes Struggle In Life Because Of ‘Their Own Bad Decision-Making’

National Review: Victims Of Violent Military Rapes Struggle In Life Because Of ‘Their Own Bad Decision-Making’

Idaho Lawmaker: Force All Adults Into Militias to Protect Gun Rights

Idaho Lawmaker: Force All Adults Into Militias to Protect Gun Rights

A Place at the Table: One Nation. Underfed.

A Place at the Table: One Nation. Underfed.

Steve Schmidt: CPAC is the 'Star Wars Bar Scene of the Conservative Movement'

Steve Schmidt: CPAC is the 'Star Wars Bar Scene of the Conservative Movement'

Police Chief Utterly Humiliates Lindsey Graham at Gun Hearing

Police Chief Utterly Humiliates Lindsey Graham at Gun Hearing

Gun Owner Fires at Walmart Shoplifter to 'Mark' Him for Police

Gun Owner Fires at Walmart Shoplifter to 'Mark' Him for Police

Anti-LGBT Leader: Schools Barring Discrimination Are Like 'Nazi Concentration Camps'

Anti-LGBT Leader: Schools Barring Discrimination Are Like 'Nazi Concentration Camps'

Anti-LGBT Leader: Schools Barring Discrimination Are Like 'Nazi Concentration Camps'

Anti-LGBT Leader: Schools Barring Discrimination Are Like 'Nazi Concentration Camps'

Economy | ThinkProgress

Economy | ThinkProgress

Federal Reserve Chairman Explains Why Looming Budget Cuts Could Be Bad News For Deficit Reduction

Federal Reserve Chairman Explains Why Looming Budget Cuts Could Be Bad News For Deficit Reduction

Fed Chairman: Unemployment To Remain Above 6 Percent For Three More Years

Fed Chairman: Unemployment To Remain Above 6 Percent For Three More Years

Econ 101: February 28, 2013

Econ 101: February 28, 2013

Bucking Responsibility: GOP’s History Of Demanding Obama Identify The Spending Cuts They’d Support

Bucking Responsibility: GOP’s History Of Demanding Obama Identify The Spending Cuts They’d Support

Voting Against the Violence Against Women Act Must Mean That You’re For Violence Against Women | The Political Carnival

Voting Against the Violence Against Women Act Must Mean That You’re For Violence Against Women | The Political Carnival

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Voting Rights Act: Section 5 Should Be Kept, Says Ben Jealous

Voting Rights Act: Section 5 Should Be Kept, Says Ben Jealous

Fox News Could Be Facing Extinction as 29% of Their Younger Viewers Drop Fox

Fox News Could Be Facing Extinction as 29% of Their Younger Viewers Drop Fox

80 Republicans Sign Supreme Court Brief in Support of Marriage Equality

80 Republicans Sign Supreme Court Brief in Support of Marriage Equality

Child stalking Michelle Malkin defends attacking 11-year-old girl: 'No Shame, No How'

Child stalking Michelle Malkin defends attacking 11-year-old girl: 'No Shame, No How'

The US Healthcare System - Government Sanctioned Extortion

The US Healthcare System - Government Sanctioned Extortion

Friend With Benefits: Did Herman Cain Have A 13 Year Affair? (Video) | The New Civil Rights Movement

Friend With Benefits: Did Herman Cain Have A 13 Year Affair? (Video) | The New Civil Rights Movement

VIDEO: N.H. state Rep. Mark Warden (R): Some people may “like being in abusive relationships”

VIDEO: N.H. state Rep. Mark Warden (R): Some people may “like being in abusive relationships”

“Our government is being held hostage by a small group of thugs utterly disconnected from real consequences.”

“Our government is being held hostage by a small group of thugs utterly disconnected from real consequences.”

VIDEO: Dear GOP, We are currently experiencing the fastest deficit reduction in several generations.

VIDEO: Dear GOP, We are currently experiencing the fastest deficit reduction in several generations.

VIDEO: Dear GOP, We are currently experiencing the fastest deficit reduction in several generations.

VIDEO: Dear GOP, We are currently experiencing the fastest deficit reduction in several generations.

The Nine Republican Men Who Won’t Consider Any Version Of The Violence Against Women Act

The Nine Republican Men Who Won’t Consider Any Version Of The Violence Against Women Act

SOS John Kerry urges EU to sign "free trade" pact SOS | MyFDL

SOS John Kerry urges EU to sign "free trade" pact SOS | MyFDL

Paid Sick Leave Pays for Itself: So Why Is NYC's Mayoral Hopeful Blocking It? | MyFDL

Paid Sick Leave Pays for Itself: So Why Is NYC's Mayoral Hopeful Blocking It? | MyFDL

The Immoral Minority: Things that you cannot get put in jail for in Alas...

The Immoral Minority: Things that you cannot get put in jail for in Alas...: I know that many of you read about that huge explosion near Riverbanks that happened earlier this month, because I received the link abou...

WATCH: Man Builds Little Free Library In Front Yard

WATCH: Man Builds Little Free Library In Front Yard

Sick House Tea Partiers Celebrate the Sequester’s Human Carnage

Sick House Tea Partiers Celebrate the Sequester’s Human Carnage

Rep. Keith Ellison Goes on Fox News and Absolutely Destroys Sean Hannity

Rep. Keith Ellison Goes on Fox News and Absolutely Destroys Sean Hannity

The Only Thing Worse than Sarah Palin is Todd Palin

The Only Thing Worse than Sarah Palin is Todd Palin

The Only Thing Worse than Sarah Palin is Todd Palin

The Only Thing Worse than Sarah Palin is Todd Palin

UPDATE: Top FRC Congresswoman Denies NYT Report She Supports Gay Marriage | The New Civil Rights Movement

UPDATE: Top FRC Congresswoman Denies NYT Report She Supports Gay Marriage | The New Civil Rights Movement

UPDATE: Top FRC Congresswoman Denies NYT Report She Supports Gay Marriage | The New Civil Rights Movement

UPDATE: Top FRC Congresswoman Denies NYT Report She Supports Gay Marriage | The New Civil Rights Movement

What Happens If The Voting Rights Act Loses In The Supreme Court

What Happens If The Voting Rights Act Loses In The Supreme Court

Fox Talking Impeachment Of 'President Panic' Over Sequester

Fox Talking Impeachment Of 'President Panic' Over Sequester

Montana Bill Offers Right To Vote To Poor Oppressed Corporations

Montana Bill Offers Right To Vote To Poor Oppressed Corporations

Alaska Lawmaker to GOP Colleagues: 'This is Secessionist Talk'

Alaska Lawmaker to GOP Colleagues: 'This is Secessionist Talk'

Conservative Justices Ask Deeply Skeptical Questions About Voting Rights Act

Conservative Justices Ask Deeply Skeptical Questions About Voting Rights Act

CPAC Insider says Chris Christie ‘not a conservative’

CPAC Insider says Chris Christie ‘not a conservative’

John Boehner Refuses to Allow the House to Vote on Sequester Replacement Bill

John Boehner Refuses to Allow the House to Vote on Sequester Replacement Bill

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Tom Cole (R-OK) Calls Fellow House Republicans 'Dangerous,' Likens Them to Suicide Gunmen

Tom Cole (R-OK) Calls Fellow House Republicans 'Dangerous,' Likens Them to Suicide Gunmen

Fox Talking Impeachment Of 'President Panic' Over Sequester

Fox Talking Impeachment Of 'President Panic' Over Sequester

Bill Black: Why Isn't Obama Calling For Bill To Stop Sequester?

Bill Black: Why Isn't Obama Calling For Bill To Stop Sequester?

Republicans Confront the Reality That America Just Isn’t That Into Them

Republicans Confront the Reality That America Just Isn’t That Into Them

Chris Christie Joins Growing Number Of GOP Governors Accepting Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion

Chris Christie Joins Growing Number Of GOP Governors Accepting Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion: pNew Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) has accepted Obamacare’s optional expansion of the Medicaid program, which will extend insurance coverage to an additional 300,000 low-income people in the state. As Republican opposition to the health care reform law finally begins to wane, Christie is the eighth GOP leader to agree to expand the Medicaid program [...]/p

Arkansas Governor Vetoes ‘Fetal Pain’ Bill

Arkansas Governor Vetoes ‘Fetal Pain’ Bill: pAs promised, Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe on Tuesday vetoed an anti-abortion “fetal pain” bill. The measure will likely be pushed through without his consent, however, since the Republican-controlled legislature is able to override vetoes through a simple majority vote. If overridden, the law will be among the most restrictive abortion bans in the nation. It [...]/p

Will The Obama Administration’s Efforts To Expand Medicaid In The States Lower Access To Care?

Will The Obama Administration’s Efforts To Expand Medicaid In The States Lower Access To Care?

Harry Reid Fires Back and Calls John Boehner a Do Nothing Speaker

Harry Reid Fires Back and Calls John Boehner a Do Nothing Speaker

Wall Street Records Biggest Profit Since Before The Financial Crisis

Wall Street Records Biggest Profit Since Before The Financial Crisis

http://malialitman.wordpress.com/2013/02/26/give-it-up-sarah-todds-not-dedicated-to-anything-but-prostitution/

http://malialitman.wordpress.com/2013/02/26/give-it-up-sarah-todds-not-dedicated-to-anything-but-prostitution/

“Conservatives: continuing the tradition of being selfish and self-serving.”

“Conservatives: continuing the tradition of being selfish and self-serving.”

Michele Bachmann: “I was very proud of the fact that I didn’t get anything wrong…” she said wrongly.

Michele Bachmann: “I was very proud of the fact that I didn’t get anything wrong…” she said wrongly.

Video: That Awkward, Cringeworthy Moment When Michelle Malkin tries to Dance and be funny

Video: That Awkward, Cringeworthy Moment When Michelle Malkin tries to Dance and be funny

VIDEO: “We worked hard to fight for queer youth.”

VIDEO: “We worked hard to fight for queer youth.”

Doctorow: The Internet Privacy Bargain

Doctorow: The Internet Privacy Bargain

Boehner Tells Senate to 'Get Off Their Ass' This Time

Boehner Tells Senate to 'Get Off Their Ass' This Time

Black Lawmaker Receives Death Threat Over Gun Bill: ‘There Will Be Blood! I’m Coming For You, N—–’

Black Lawmaker Receives Death Threat Over Gun Bill: ‘There Will Be Blood! I’m Coming For You, N—–’: pLate last week, police arrested a man for allegedly sending threatening messages to Colorado state Rep. Rhonda Fields (D), a supporter of gun safety laws featured in a recent ThinkProgress video. Fields sponsored bills banning high-capacity magazines in Colorado and requiring universal background checks for gun sales and transfers. According to police, a man named [...]/p

The Immoral Minority: Study finds that most mass shootings target women ...

The Immoral Minority: Study finds that most mass shootings target women ...: Courtesy of Alternet : A new analysis of 56 mass shootings across America since 2009 finds women and family members are the most frequen...

The Immoral Minority: Stephen Colbert breaks character for a good cause,...

The Immoral Minority: Stephen Colbert breaks character for a good cause,...: Courtesy of Mediaite :   Discussing the “character Stephen Colbert” from The Colbert Report, he said, “He talks about politics all the t...

The Immoral Minority: Having Facebook friends from the Bible Belt can be...

The Immoral Minority: Having Facebook friends from the Bible Belt can be...: This is not from my Facebook account, fortunately I don't have anybody quite this nutty, but it apparently has shown up on numerous ot...

The Immoral Minority: Let's take a moment to look around and see how Rep...

The Immoral Minority: Let's take a moment to look around and see how Rep...: These examples come to us courtesy of Salon . First up criminalizing gun control:   In Missouri, state Rep. Mike Leara believes even p...

The Immoral Minority: Westboro "God Hates Fags" church decides to protes...

The Immoral Minority: Westboro "God Hates Fags" church decides to protes...: Courtesy of Americablog :   Rev. Fred “God Hates F-gs” Phelps was protesting Santa Monica High School in Santa Monica, California thi...

The Immoral Minority: Alaska lawmakers pass bill exempting Alaskans from...

The Immoral Minority: Alaska lawmakers pass bill exempting Alaskans from...: Courtesy of ADN :   In a chamber dotted with female legislators wearing new camo scarves, the state House on Monday passed a gun measure...

Boehner Says Obama Is Using the Troops as Props But His Sequester Will Leave Vets Homeless

Boehner Says Obama Is Using the Troops as Props But His Sequester Will Leave Vets Homeless

Top Senate Republican Throws National Security Under the Bus as He Flees the Sequester

Top Senate Republican Throws National Security Under the Bus as He Flees the Sequester

Defeat of Republican Efforts to Steal Elections Hinges on SCOTUS Voting Right Act Case

Defeat of Republican Efforts to Steal Elections Hinges on SCOTUS Voting Right Act Case

President Obama Tells House Republicans to Clean Up Their Own Sequester Mess

President Obama Tells House Republicans to Clean Up Their Own Sequester Mess

Supreme Court Turns Away ‘Citizens United On Steroids’ Case

Supreme Court Turns Away ‘Citizens United On Steroids’ Case: pIn 2011, a Reagan-appointed federal judge handed down a “Citizens United on steroids” decision, declaring that corporations had the right to give unlimited amounts of money directly to political candidates — rather than simply to outside groups such as super PACs. The decision was eventually reversed by a unanimous panel of the United States Court [...]/p

Federal Election Commission Republicans Block Enforcement Against GOP Donor

Federal Election Commission Republicans Block Enforcement Against GOP Donor: pThe Federal Election Commission deadlocked along party lines on whether to hold accountable a Republican contractor who blatantly circumvented campaign finance limits. While the three Democratic commissioners agreed that William A. “Aaron” Bennett had willfully violated federal election law by offering to reimburse friends if they donated to Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA), the three FEC [...]/p

Judges Refuse To Reappoint Top GOP Voter Suppressor To Election Board

Judges Refuse To Reappoint Top GOP Voter Suppressor To Election Board: pHans von Spakovsky may be America’s top expert on voter disenfranchisement. How to foster voter disenfranchisement, that is. As an official in the Bush Justice Department, Spakovsky pushed through gerrymandered maps benefiting Republicans, and was a driving force behind the effort to approve voter ID laws — a common voter suppression law targeting student, minority [...]/p

Justiceline: February 26, 2013

Justiceline: February 26, 2013: pWelcome to Justiceline, ThinkProgress Justice’s morning round-up of the latest legal news and developments. Remember to follow us on Twitter at @TPJustice A full year after his nomination, federal appeals court nominee Robert Bacharach was confirmed unanimously by a Senate that had previously filibustered his nomination. In spite of support from both of his home-state [...]/p

Congressional Republican Wants To Impeach Harry Reid

Congressional Republican Wants To Impeach Harry Reid: pA Republican congressman wants to impeach Harry Reid, and he might’ve gotten away with it too, if it weren’t for those meddling laws preventing Congress from impeaching senators. Speaking last week to the Mifflin County Tea Party, Rep. Tom Marino (R-PA) seethed with anger about budget negotiations between the House and the Senate. His preferred [...]/p

Congressional Republican Wants To Impeach Harry Reid

Congressional Republican Wants To Impeach Harry Reid: pA Republican congressman wants to impeach Harry Reid, and he might’ve gotten away with it too, if it weren’t for those meddling laws preventing Congress from impeaching senators. Speaking last week to the Mifflin County Tea Party, Rep. Tom Marino (R-PA) seethed with anger about budget negotiations between the House and the Senate. His preferred [...]/p

What Happens If The Voting Rights Act Loses In The Supreme Court

What Happens If The Voting Rights Act Loses In The Supreme Court: pWe do not have to guess what the states currently subject to a key provision of the Voting Rights Act will do if the Supreme Court grants their wish to have that provision declared unconstitutional — top Republicans in those states have already told us. In a brief filed last August, Republican attorneys general from [...]/p

Students Occupy University President’s Office To Protest Naming Stadium After Private Prison Company

Students Occupy University President’s Office To Protest Naming Stadium After Private Prison Company: pLast week, the administration of Florida Atlantic University raised eyebrows when officials announced that they had sold the naming rights to the school’s new football stadium to the GEO Group, the nation’s second-largest private prison company. And students aren’t taking the deal lying down. On Monday afternoon, dozens of activists staged a sit-in inside university [...]/p

February 26 News: AEP Will Close More Coal-Fired Power Plants

February 26 News: AEP Will Close More Coal-Fired Power Plants: pBy 2015, American Electric Power will stop burning coal at three power plants, thanks to a settlement agreement with the Environmental Protection Agency, several states and a handful of environmental and civil groups. [The Hill] The Sierra Club said Monday that 2,011 megawatts of coal-generated electricity will come offline at facilities in Indiana, Kentucky and [...]/p

Trial Starts for BP’s Deepwater Horizon Clean Water Act Violations

Trial Starts for BP’s Deepwater Horizon Clean Water Act Violations: pBy Shiva Polefka, Michael Conathan, and Kiley Kroh In November 2012, BP settled the Justice Department’s criminal case against it in the wake of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil disaster, agreeing to pay $4.5 billion in fines and admit it was guilty of 11 counts of manslaughter. But that 10-figure deal was just the tip [...]/p

The Navy Goes Green: Mother Jones And The Climate Desk Highlight A Major Energy Transformation In Our Military

The Navy Goes Green: Mother Jones And The Climate Desk Highlight A Major Energy Transformation In Our Military: pBy Chris Mooney and Julia Whitty The latest cover story of Mother Jones magazine — and, relatedly, the latest Climate Desk Live briefing, occurring this Wednesday in D.C. — are focused on one of the “good news” energy stories that we don’t hear often enough: How the U.S. military in general, and particularly the Navy, [...]/p

McKibben Must-Read: The Case For Fossil-Fuel Divestment

McKibben Must-Read: The Case For Fossil-Fuel Divestment: pHow Long Will Colleges Keep Investing in Companies Whose Stock Price Is Based on the Destruction of a Livable Climate? CO2 emissions by fossil fuels [1 ppm CO2 ~ 2.12 GtC, where ppm is parts per million of CO2 in air and GtC is gigatons of carbon (via Hansen). Significantly exceeding 450 ppm risks several severe [...]/p

Suppressed South Carolina Climate Change Report Warns of Big Impacts

Suppressed South Carolina Climate Change Report Warns of Big Impacts

Monday, February 25, 2013

The Immoral Minority: By the way speaking of awards, the Oscars weren't ...

The Immoral Minority: By the way speaking of awards, the Oscars weren't ...: Here is a picture of the Toad holding his trophy for coming in fifth place in the Iron Dog, that was found on Chuck Heath Jr's Faceboo...

5 things to know about the George Zimmerman-Trayvon Martin saga

5 things to know about the George Zimmerman-Trayvon Martin saga

Five States Taking Important Steps To Expand Access To Comprehensive Sex Ed

Five States Taking Important Steps To Expand Access To Comprehensive Sex Ed: p2012 was a banner year for new state-level abortion restrictions, yet not a single state enacted a law to improve access to family planning services or comprehensive sex education. Although the nation’s rate of unintended teen pregnancies is dropping, the U.S. still has the highest teen birth rate of any nation in the developed world [...]/p

Breakthrough In Breast Cancer Treatment Could Increase Life Expectancy, Reduce Side Effects

Breakthrough In Breast Cancer Treatment Could Increase Life Expectancy, Reduce Side Effects

Republicans Call For Government Study To Justify Their Efforts To Defund Planned Parenthood

Republicans Call For Government Study To Justify Their Efforts To Defund Planned Parenthood: pRepublicans have made Planned Parenthood into a top target in their ongoing War on Women, repeatedly attempting to strip funding from the national women’s health organization because some of its affiliates provide abortion services. Despite the fact that the Hyde Amendment already prevents taxpayer dollars from funding abortion — which means that Planned Parenthood’s federal [...]/p

University Of North Carolina Rape Victim May Be Expelled For Speaking About Her Case

University Of North Carolina Rape Victim May Be Expelled For Speaking About Her Case

VIDEO: Vietnam vet, hunter, gun owner supports assault weapon ban. “I know these guns. I know what they can do.”

VIDEO: Vietnam vet, hunter, gun owner supports assault weapon ban. “I know these guns. I know what they can do.”

GOP asks GAO for Planned Parenthood study, hoping to strip funding

GOP asks GAO for Planned Parenthood study, hoping to strip funding

Worrisome South Carolina climate change report kept secret for over a year

Worrisome South Carolina climate change report kept secret for over a year

Las Vegas Strip Shooting Is Just Latest in String of Recent Violence | TIME.com

Las Vegas Strip Shooting Is Just Latest in String of Recent Violence | TIME.com

Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us | TIME.com

Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us | TIME.com

40% Of Us Make Less Than 1968 Min Wage -- Who Got The Rest?

40% Of Us Make Less Than 1968 Min Wage -- Who Got The Rest?

Sequestration Cuts To Education Programs Threaten To Widen Education Gap Between Rich And Poor

Sequestration Cuts To Education Programs Threaten To Widen Education Gap Between Rich And Poor: pThe achievement gap between school districts in high-income neighborhoods and those in low-income ones is already more canyon than crack, and if $1.7 trillion in automatic sequestration cuts are allowed to go into effect on March 1, that gap could grow even wider. Dozens of education programs would face reduced funding, but three crucial programs [...]/p

Tea Party Governor Calls For GOP To Compromise On Taxes To Avert Sequester Cuts

Tea Party Governor Calls For GOP To Compromise On Taxes To Avert Sequester Cuts: pAutomatic sequester cuts originally meant to motivate Congress to pass a budget deal look like they may become reality on March 1. Congressional Republicans are refusing to consider new tax revenue as part of a deal; some GOP lawmakers even insist that the across-the-board sequester cuts should be allowed to kick in. Republican governors, however, [...]/p

VIEWPOINT: The Debt Everyone Is Freaking Out About Does Not Exist

VIEWPOINT: The Debt Everyone Is Freaking Out About Does Not Exist: pBetween the new-and-improved Simpson-Bowles plan, Joe Scarborough’s feud with Paul Krugman, the relentless drumbeat of the entire Republican Party, and the media blitzkrieg launched by the billionaire-driven “Fix the Debt” campaign, one might think no serious and responsible American can ignore the unassailable truth: America faces a debt crisis, which we must act on immediately [...]/p

Econ 101: February 25, 2013

Econ 101: February 25, 2013: pWelcome to ThinkProgress Economy’s morning link roundup. This is what we’re reading. Have you seen any interesting news? Let us know in the comments section. You can also follow ThinkProgress Economy on Twitter. The White House yesterday released a report detailing the consequences of budget cuts scheduled for March. [CNN] According to a poll, the [...]/p

How Looming Budget Cuts Will Hurt The GOP Leadership’s Home States

How Looming Budget Cuts Will Hurt The GOP Leadership’s Home States: pAllowing sequestration to occur on March 1 will have a devastating impact on states, the White House warned Sunday, when it released state-specific reports detailing the effects of the automatic budget cuts. States will lose funding for education, job training, health care, and a plethora of other services, jeopardizing assistance for low-income and middle class [...]/p

Poll Shows Americans Don’t Support Any Specific Spending Cuts

Poll Shows Americans Don’t Support Any Specific Spending Cuts: pAccording to a recent poll by the Pew Research Center, while Americans may support spending cuts and deficit reduction in the abstract, it’s awfully hard to find any specific cut that can garner majority support. Budget cuts scheduled under the so-called “sequester” are set to go into effect next week, but if the poll is [...]/p

5 Reasons Why The U.S. Needs A Financial Transactions Tax

5 Reasons Why The U.S. Needs A Financial Transactions Tax: pA duo of Democratic lawmakers have spent the years since the financial crisis calling for a financial transactions tax, a small fee on individual trades that would slow down markets and make them safer for investors and the country as a whole. Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) and Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR) introduced legislation that would [...]/p

Liberty Counsel To Gay Teens: You’re Depressed Because You’re Sinners

Liberty Counsel To Gay Teens: You’re Depressed Because You’re Sinners

Republicans Are Ready to Traumatize Poor Children

Republicans Are Ready to Traumatize Poor Children

Harry Reid Needs to Get Both a Spine and a Clue and Confront Republican Obstruction

Harry Reid Needs to Get Both a Spine and a Clue and Confront Republican Obstruction

The Immoral Minority: It is hard for me to imagine too many things more ...

The Immoral Minority: It is hard for me to imagine too many things more ...: Gee and look he also used my line that teaching Creationism to children is tantamount to child abuse. I will resist the urge to mentio...

The Immoral Minority: Four year old finds father's gun with predictable,...

The Immoral Minority: Four year old finds father's gun with predictable,...: Courtesy of Raw Story :  A 4-year-old boy in Houston died early Sunday morning after finding his father’s handgun and shooting himse...

The Immoral Minority: Michelle Obama steals the show at last night's Aca...

The Immoral Minority: Michelle Obama steals the show at last night's Aca...: I am sorry about showing you a video that comes from Glenn Beck's lunatic Right Wing website The Blaze , but sadly that was the best vid...

The Right-Wing Money Putting John Stossel In School Classrooms

The Right-Wing Money Putting John Stossel In School Classrooms

Cartoons of the Day- Knowing Where To Cut

Cartoons of the Day- Knowing Where To Cut

Glenn Beck Wants To Make Cable Subscribers Pay For His Conspiracy Theory Channel

Glenn Beck Wants To Make Cable Subscribers Pay For His Conspiracy Theory Channel: pSince Glenn Beck left Fox News in 2011 and founded his own web channel, TheBlaze, the former right-wing sensation has been less prevalent in the mainstream political conversation. Still, Beck has cultivated a substantial audience for his subscription-only programming, and is now using that following to pressure cable networks into carrying his channel. Beck started [...]/p

House Republicans Strip Protections From LGBT Victims In New Violence Against Women Act

House Republicans Strip Protections From LGBT Victims In New Violence Against Women Act: pThe Violence Against Women Act expired at the end of 2012 after House Republicans refused to accept the Senate bill’s protections for LGBT, Native American, and undocumented victims. Though the Senate passed another bipartisan VAWA reauthorization over a week ago, House Republicans may derail passage once again. On Friday, House GOP leaders released their own [...]/p

Montana Bill Would Give Corporations The Right To Vote

Montana Bill Would Give Corporations The Right To Vote: pA bill introduced by Montana state Rep. Steve Lavin would give corporations the right to vote in municipal elections: Provision for vote by corporate property owner. (1) Subject to subsection (2), if a firm, partnership, company, or corporation owns real property within the municipality, the president, vice president, secretary, or other designee of the entity [...]/p

South African Student Who Accidentally Shot Himself Allegedly Used School Guard’s Gun

South African Student Who Accidentally Shot Himself Allegedly Used School Guard’s Gun: pA 13-year-old student in Durban, South Africa accidentally shot himself in the leg at school this week – reportedly using a school security guard’s gun. Guards are not armed at the school, but this guard had allegedly brought his personal gun from home. IOL reports: A security guard was on duty at an oThongathi (Tongaat) [...]/p

13 GOP Pennsylvania Senators Introduce New Plan To Rig The Electoral College For Republicans

13 GOP Pennsylvania Senators Introduce New Plan To Rig The Electoral College For Republicans: pEarlier this year, Republican National Committee Chair urged Republican lawmakers in states “that have been consistently blue that are fully controlled red” — i.e. blue states with Republican legislatures and governors — to enact a plan rigging the Electoral College so that it would be almost impossible for a Democrat to win the White House. [...]/p

The Morning Pride: February 25, 2013

The Morning Pride: February 25, 2013: pWelcome to The Morning Pride, ThinkProgress LGBT’s daily round-up of the latest in LGBT policy, politics, and some culture too! Here’s what we’re reading this morning, but please let us know what stories you’re following as well. Follow us all day on Twitter at @TPEquality. – In Rhode Island, business leaders, rabbis, and the city [...]/p

British Anti-Gay Cardinal Resigns Amid Allegations Of Inappropriate Relationships With Priests

British Anti-Gay Cardinal Resigns Amid Allegations Of Inappropriate Relationships With Priests: pOver the weekend, allegations came to light that the United Kingdom’s most senior Catholic official, Cardinal Keith O’Brien of Scotland, had engaged in inappropriate behavior with priests over the past few decades. The full details of the allegations are not yet known, but one priest alleges that O’Brien had an extended relationship with him that [...]/p

Kansas Supreme Court Rules In Favor Of Same-Sex Adoption

Kansas Supreme Court Rules In Favor Of Same-Sex Adoption: pOn Friday, the Kansas Supreme Court issued a ruling protecting the rights of same-sex couples to both be recognized as the legal parents of the children they are raising together. The case involved two women, Marci Frazier and Kelly Goudschaal, who had been raising children together, but then faced a custody dispute after they separated. [...]/p

Texas Republicans Threaten Funding For Schools With Pro-LGBT Policies

Texas Republicans Threaten Funding For Schools With Pro-LGBT Policies

Robert Gibbs Admits He was Told to Act as if Drone Program did not Exist

Robert Gibbs Admits He was Told to Act as if Drone Program did not Exist

Billionaires Pouring Millions into LAUSD School Board Race

Billionaires Pouring Millions into LAUSD School Board Race

John McCain admits US under George Bush violated the Geneva Convention

John McCain admits US under George Bush violated the Geneva Convention

McCain: I'm 'Proud' of Debate at Town Hall Meetings

McCain: I'm 'Proud' of Debate at Town Hall Meetings

Former FBI profiler: 'Video Games Do Not Cause Violence'

Former FBI profiler: 'Video Games Do Not Cause Violence'

Texas 4-Year-Old Dead After Shooting Himself With Father's Gun

Texas 4-Year-Old Dead After Shooting Himself With Father's Gun

Reliable Sources Panel Continues Media Whinefest Over Lack of Access to President

Reliable Sources Panel Continues Media Whinefest Over Lack of Access to President

Reliable Sources Panel Continues Media Whinefest Over Lack of Access to President

Reliable Sources Panel Continues Media Whinefest Over Lack of Access to President

Sunday, February 24, 2013

Gun Fools Worry Obama Will Turn His Secret Black Army On Them

Gun Fools Worry Obama Will Turn His Secret Black Army On Them

Ted Cruz, Radical McCarthy Conservative, Accuses Harvard Law Of Harboring Communists On Faculty

Ted Cruz, Radical McCarthy Conservative, Accuses Harvard Law Of Harboring Communists On Faculty

Low Capital Gains Tax Rates Fuel Record Income Inequality

Low Capital Gains Tax Rates Fuel Record Income Inequality

FBI Agent: 'Zero Dark Thirty' Used By CIA Torture Promoters

FBI Agent: 'Zero Dark Thirty' Used By CIA Torture Promoters

McConnell Staffer Falls For Stupid Parody Blog Post

McConnell Staffer Falls For Stupid Parody Blog Post

Weekly Address: 'Congress Must Act Now to Stop Sequester'

Weekly Address: 'Congress Must Act Now to Stop Sequester'

Video- Fox’s Huckabee Compares Insurance For Pre-Existing Conditions To Insurance For Burnt-Down House, Totalled Car

Video- Fox’s Huckabee Compares Insurance For Pre-Existing Conditions To Insurance For Burnt-Down House, Totalled Car

Video- State of the Union: Grampy McCain Defends Bigot at Arizona Town Hall

Video- State of the Union: Grampy McCain Defends Bigot at Arizona Town Hall

5 Reasons Why Looser Gun Laws Won’t Guarantee Women’s Safety

5 Reasons Why Looser Gun Laws Won’t Guarantee Women’s Safety: pIn the wake of the tragedy at Newtown and the growing bipartisan support for sensible gun safety regulations, the gun manufacturing lobby has advanced a particularly noxious lie: that an unchecked, free-for-all gun market could guarantee women’s safety. In reality, gun violence has a particularly devastating impact for women, who suffer from domestic violence at [...]/p

Oklahoma May Deny Women Affordable Birth Control Because It ‘Poisons Their Bodies’

Oklahoma May Deny Women Affordable Birth Control Because It ‘Poisons Their Bodies’: pOklahoma already prevents women from using their insurance plans to help cover abortion services, but Republicans aren’t stopping there. One state lawmaker wants to continue stripping insurance coverage for reproductive health services, advancing a measure that would allow employers to refuse to cover birth control for any reason — based solely on the fact that [...]/p

What One ‘Conservative’ Approach To Health Care Reform Looks Like — And Why It’s A Bad Idea

What One ‘Conservative’ Approach To Health Care Reform Looks Like — And Why It’s A Bad Idea: pAvik Roy — who advised Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on health care policy — and Doug Holtz-Eakin published an op-ed for Reuters earlier this week in which they outlined their vision for a “free market” approach to health care reform. It’s a serious proposal, albeit one that makes the same fallacious argument as Whole [...]/p

Top Republican: Obama Should Avoid Looming Budget Cuts By Delaying Health Care To Millions

Top Republican: Obama Should Avoid Looming Budget Cuts By Delaying Health Care To Millions

The Immoral Minority: Two reporters discuss the end of Sarah Palin. Outraged Palin-bots with pitchforks in 3..2..Oh wait they already responded.

The Immoral Minority: Two reporters discuss the end of Sarah Palin. Outraged Palin-bots with pitchforks in 3..2..Oh wait they already responded.

The Immoral Minority: Today's example of a man with an arsenal of weapon...

The Immoral Minority: Today's example of a man with an arsenal of weapon...: Courtesy of Raw Story : A convicted felon and alleged neo-Nazi amassed 40,000 rounds of ammunition and planned to kill black and Jewish ...

The Immoral Minority: Pro-wrestlers break character in order to lecture ...

The Immoral Minority: Pro-wrestlers break character in order to lecture ...: So the other day I wrote a post about some pro-wrestlers that were doing this anti-immigrations, racist, teabagger shtick and how upset t...

Saturday, February 23, 2013

Chick-Fil-A President On Alleged Anti-Gay Stance: 'Guilty As Charged'

Chick-Fil-A President On Alleged Anti-Gay Stance: 'Guilty As Charged'

Sarah Palin's Film Tax Credit Costs Alaskans 20 Million Dollars!!!

Sarah Palin's Film Tax Credit Costs Alaskans 20 Million Dollars!!!

Sarah Palin's Film Tax Credit Costs Alaskans 20 Million Dollars!!!

Sarah Palin's Film Tax Credit Costs Alaskans 20 Million Dollars!!!

Sarah Palin's Film Tax Credit Costs Alaskans 20 Million Dollars!!!

Sarah Palin's Film Tax Credit Costs Alaskans 20 Million Dollars!!!

The Immoral Minority: Republican reformation is a fantasy.

The Immoral Minority: Republican reformation is a fantasy.: Courtesy of the Daily Beast : As I’ve written many times, the conventional view of what’s wrong with the GOP gets at only a portion of t...

The Immoral Minority: Alaska Senator wants to have the state pay $100 fo...

The Immoral Minority: Alaska Senator wants to have the state pay $100 fo...: "Wait, there's a bounty on who's head?" Courtesy of ADN (Link was originally incorrect, but fixed now.): An Alaska state senator is p...

The Immoral Minority: Since you all seemed to enjoy that clip this morni...

The Immoral Minority: Since you all seemed to enjoy that clip this morni...: Part One:   Part Two: Doesn't it seem that Jimmy Fallon and Michelle are like best girlfriends or something? I mean here they are dis...

The Immoral Minority: Sobering checklist of the day.

The Immoral Minority: Sobering checklist of the day.: Trying not to panic here.

Firefighters under investigation by department for appearing with Pres. Obama. “It leads us to question the chief’s motives.”

Firefighters under investigation by department for appearing with Pres. Obama. “It leads us to question the chief’s motives.”

Sheriff’s pro-gun radio ads to be paid by taxpayers. “This has nothing to do with public safety and everything to do with self-promotion.”

Sheriff’s pro-gun radio ads to be paid by taxpayers. “This has nothing to do with public safety and everything to do with self-promotion.”

Something Stinks — Oh Yeah, it’s Congress

Something Stinks — Oh Yeah, it’s Congress

“Staunchly Republican, conservative Catholic” Pa. Supreme Court justice convicted of corruption

“Staunchly Republican, conservative Catholic” Pa. Supreme Court justice convicted of corruption

The Political Carnival

The Political Carnival

Afghanistan vaults past US on civil liberties and human rights! It comes to this! | MyFDL

Afghanistan vaults past US on civil liberties and human rights! It comes to this! | MyFDL

The tyranny of the new philistines. | MyFDL

The tyranny of the new philistines. | MyFDL

Video- President’s Weekly Address: Congress Must Act Now to Stop the Sequester

Video- President’s Weekly Address: Congress Must Act Now to Stop the Sequester

Indiana Bill Would Force Women to Endure Two Medically Unnecessary Transvaginal Probes

Indiana Bill Would Force Women to Endure Two Medically Unnecessary Transvaginal Probes

Texas Bans Shooting Immigrants From Helicopters

Texas Bans Shooting Immigrants From Helicopters

Stephen Colbert Takes Apart Breitbart for 'Friends of Hamas' Debacle

Stephen Colbert Takes Apart Breitbart for 'Friends of Hamas' Debacle

The Immoral Minority: Who needs China?

The Immoral Minority: Who needs China?: It's less funny because it's true.

The Immoral Minority: Gun nut posts "hit list" on Facebook of all the liberal politicians he wants to kill. You're not helping.

The Immoral Minority: Gun nut posts "hit list" on Facebook of all the liberal politicians he wants to kill. You're not helping.

The Immoral Minority: Gun nut posts "hit list" on Facebook of all the li...

The Immoral Minority: Gun nut posts "hit list" on Facebook of all the li...: Courtesy of Raw Story :   Police in Clarkstown, New York have confiscated a cache of high-powered weapons and body armor from a man who...

Friday, February 22, 2013

Daily Show: Hagel With a Smear - Country First

Daily Show: Hagel With a Smear - Country First

The Immoral Minority: Mother of Aurora shooting victim upset with John M...

The Immoral Minority: Mother of Aurora shooting victim upset with John M...: As reported yesterday , John McCain made some rather insensitive remarks to a woman who attended one of his town halls, essentially tellin...

Friday Talking Points -- So What Would You Cut Instead?

Friday Talking Points -- So What Would You Cut Instead?

Texas GOP Chairman: State could become a battleground in 2016. | The Political Carnival

Texas GOP Chairman: State could become a battleground in 2016. | The Political Carnival

California Democrats lose supermajority

California Democrats lose supermajority

Video Overight Thread- One baby band | The Political Carnival

Video Overight Thread- One baby band | The Political Carnival

Global Warming is Here and Now – Climate Change a Step Behind

Global Warming is Here and Now – Climate Change a Step Behind

Torture at Gitmo: Lt. Col. Couch on His Refusal to Prosecute Abused Prisoner

Torture at Gitmo: Lt. Col. Couch on His Refusal to Prosecute Abused Prisoner

IRS Should Bar Dark Money Groups From Funding Political Ads, Lawsuit Says

IRS Should Bar Dark Money Groups From Funding Political Ads, Lawsuit Says

Gun Liability Insurance Now Proposed In At Least Six States

Gun Liability Insurance Now Proposed In At Least Six States

Stupid Right-Wing Tweets: Joe Scarborough Edition

Stupid Right-Wing Tweets: Joe Scarborough Edition

NY Man With Liberal 'Hit List,' Tank-Piercing Ammo Arrested

NY Man With Liberal 'Hit List,' Tank-Piercing Ammo Arrested

Hey, CNN, Why Is Soledad O'Brien Losing Her Morning Show?

Hey, CNN, Why Is Soledad O'Brien Losing Her Morning Show?

Billionaires 'Losing Hope' For Lower Taxes. Waaaahmbulance Alert!

Billionaires 'Losing Hope' For Lower Taxes. Waaaahmbulance Alert!

Why Progressives Should Boycott Whole Foods

Why Progressives Should Boycott Whole Foods

VIDEO– “NOT included in sequestration were those mandatory programs: Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, Pell grants.” | The Political Carnival

VIDEO– “NOT included in sequestration were those mandatory programs: Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, Pell grants.” | The Political Carnival

GOP Rep. Dismisses Violence Against Women Act As A 'Bill With A Motherhood-And-Apple-Pie Title' | ThinkProgress

GOP Rep. Dismisses Violence Against Women Act As A 'Bill With A Motherhood-And-Apple-Pie Title' | ThinkProgress

North Korea Launches Mobile Internet Service For Foreigners, Blocks Access For Citizens | ThinkProgress

North Korea Launches Mobile Internet Service For Foreigners, Blocks Access For Citizens | ThinkProgress

Meet The Congressmen Who Favor A Broken Plane Over Saving The Economy

Meet The Congressmen Who Favor A Broken Plane Over Saving The Economy

The Immoral Minority: Unrecognized tax burden that gun owners put on our...

The Immoral Minority: Unrecognized tax burden that gun owners put on our...: Sounds reasonable. Lets start charging gun owners for the legal bills that result from them exercising their 2nd Amendment rights. Oh an...

The Immoral Minority: Investigating "The Good News Club." A fundamentali...

The Immoral Minority: Investigating "The Good News Club." A fundamentali...: Here is a portion of the post I wrote about the book which inspired this investigation:   In 2009, the Good News Club came to the publ...

The Immoral Minority: Entering into sequester negotiations, new Bloomber...

The Immoral Minority: Entering into sequester negotiations, new Bloomber...: Courtesy of Bloomberg : President Barack Obama enters the latest budget showdown with Congress with his highest job- approval rating in ...

The Immoral Minority: Ted Nugent goes after Democrats for destroying his...

The Immoral Minority: Ted Nugent goes after Democrats for destroying his...: "No this hand gesture has NO relation as to why I own so many guns." In Nugen'ts latest crayon drawing that he submitted to Wing Nut Dai...

The Immoral Minority: Police officer fired for reporting that police ass...

The Immoral Minority: Police officer fired for reporting that police ass...: Courtesy of Raw Story :   A Richmond police officer who reported fellow cops for allegedly threatening President Barack Obama and First...

White House Wants Everyone to Know Obama Supports Cutting Social Security Benefits | FDL Action

White House Wants Everyone to Know Obama Supports Cutting Social Security Benefits | FDL Action

After Hagel’s Ordeal, Why Would Anyone Want to Serve in Washington? | FDL Action

After Hagel’s Ordeal, Why Would Anyone Want to Serve in Washington? | FDL Action

When It Comes to Specifics, Spending Cuts Are Very Unpopular | FDL Action

When It Comes to Specifics, Spending Cuts Are Very Unpopular | FDL Action

The Raw Story

The Raw Story

'I don't want to go to Disney World anymore': Parents' fury as TSA agents detain their crying wheelchair-bound daughter, THREE, and confiscate her stuffed animal

'I don't want to go to Disney World anymore': Parents' fury as TSA agents detain their crying wheelchair-bound daughter, THREE, and confiscate her stuffed animal

Tea Party: Disorganized, Divided, or Disruptive?

Tea Party: Disorganized, Divided, or Disruptive?

Biden Smacks Down NRA In Fiery Speech

Biden Smacks Down NRA In Fiery Speech

David Sirota: Warren Shows No Interest In Laying Low In Senate

David Sirota: Warren Shows No Interest In Laying Low In Senate

New Polls Show Americans Prefer Obama Positions to GOP's

New Polls Show Americans Prefer Obama Positions to GOP's

Trump Threatens $25 Million Lawsuit To Squelch Citizen's Free Speech

Trump Threatens $25 Million Lawsuit To Squelch Citizen's Free Speech

Limbaugh Says He's 'Ashamed' of U.S. for First Time Over Sequester

Limbaugh Says He's 'Ashamed' of U.S. for First Time Over Sequester

Econ 101: February 22, 2013

Econ 101: February 22, 2013: pWelcome to ThinkProgress Economy’s morning link roundup. This is what we’re reading. Have you seen any interesting news? Let us know in the comments section. You can also follow ThinkProgress Economy on Twitter. President Obama renewed talks with Republican leaders over looming budget cuts. [Reuters] Economists predict the Eurozone economy will shrink again in 2013. [...]/p

GOP Rep. Open To Closing Loopholes To Avoid Defense Cuts

GOP Rep. Open To Closing Loopholes To Avoid Defense Cuts: pVirginia Rep. Scott Rigell (R) would consider raising new revenue through the closure of tax loopholes in order to avoid part of the automatic budget cuts that will take effect March 1, he said Thursday. Rigell was among the Republicans who hinted at support for ending the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy during debate [...]/p

Police Pull Over Couple For Buckeye Bumper Stickers They Mistook For Marijuana Leaves

Police Pull Over Couple For Buckeye Bumper Stickers They Mistook For Marijuana Leaves: pA middle-aged couple driving through Tennessee on their way home from a funeral were pulled over by a police officer who mistook their Ohio Buckeye bumper stickers for marijuana leaves. The Columbus Dispatch reports: Two officers approached, one on each side of the car. “They were very serious,” [the driver, Bonnie Jonas-Boggioni] said. “They had the [...]/p

Report: Ending Same Day Wisconsin Voter Registration Would Cost $14.5 Million

Report: Ending Same Day Wisconsin Voter Registration Would Cost $14.5 Million: pWhen Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI) announced he would no longer support his own plan to do away with same day voter registration in Wisconsin, he struck a blow to voter suppression and may have saved millions of taxpayer dollars in the process. A new report from the Government Accountability Board suggests that ending the state’s same [...]/p

Supreme Court Won’t Raise Standards For Drug-Sniffing Dogs

Supreme Court Won’t Raise Standards For Drug-Sniffing Dogs

Congressman Considers Gabby Giffords A ‘Prop’ For Gun Regulations

Congressman Considers Gabby Giffords A ‘Prop’ For Gun Regulations: pCongressman Joe Heck (R-NV) on Tuesday agreed that he considers former Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-AZ), who was a victim of an assassination attempt two years ago, a “prop” in the debate over gun regulations. Jon Ralston of Ralston Reports, uncovered the audio of Heck, speaking with conservative radio talk show host Alan Stock, agreed that [...]/p

New Jersey Legislators Will Vote To Override Chris Christie’s Marriage Equality Veto

New Jersey Legislators Will Vote To Override Chris Christie’s Marriage Equality Veto

Ann Coulter: Gays ‘Have To Marry A Member Of The Opposite Sex’ | The New Civil Rights Movement

Ann Coulter: Gays ‘Have To Marry A Member Of The Opposite Sex’ | The New Civil Rights Movement

Thursday, February 21, 2013

Successful U.S. Businesswoman Forced to Commute to Los Angeles While Family Lives in Exile | MyFDL

Successful U.S. Businesswoman Forced to Commute to Los Angeles While Family Lives in Exile | MyFDL

Blue Jersey:: Gun Safety Bills Pass in #NJAssembly

Blue Jersey:: Gun Safety Bills Pass in #NJAssembly

Three Problems Contributing To Americans’ Sky High Medical Bills — And Three Ways To Fix Them

Three Problems Contributing To Americans’ Sky High Medical Bills — And Three Ways To Fix Them: pThis week’s issue of Time Magazine takes a deep dive into Americans’ medical bills and the roots of the U.S. health care industry’s rampant inflation — costs that force one in four American seniors into bankruptcy and over one in three Americans to forgo care. The investigative piece highlights the exorbitant costs of the most [...]/p

How Your Household Products May Be Contributing To A Global Health Threat

How Your Household Products May Be Contributing To A Global Health Threat: pMore than 800 man-made chemicals found in everyday products — in your household cleaners, makeup, electronics, canned food, and clothing — are becoming “a global threat that needs to be resolved,” according to a new report from the World Health Organization and United Nations Environment Program. Research links these hormone-disrupting chemicals to a host of [...]/p

New Discoveries May Help Treat Blood Disease That Plagues African-Americans

New Discoveries May Help Treat Blood Disease That Plagues African-Americans: pScientists may be close to finding a cure for sickle cell anemia, a blood disease that disproportionately affects African-Americans. One in 500 African descendants born in the United States suffer from sickle cell; one in 12 carry the gene for it. The disease can cause symptoms as minor as fatigue, or as major as organ [...]/p

Medicare’s Projected Spending Has Dropped $500 Billion Without Lawmakers Cutting A Dime

Medicare’s Projected Spending Has Dropped $500 Billion Without Lawmakers Cutting A Dime: pMedicare will spend $511 billion less between now and 2020 than was predicted two and a half years ago, according to the latest number crunching by the Center On Budget and Policy Priorities. More importantly, this drop occurred completely separate from any changes in government policy — rather, it resulted from an overall slowdown in [...]/p

CFPB Announces New Push To Alleviate Mounting Student Loan Debt

CFPB Announces New Push To Alleviate Mounting Student Loan Debt: pThe Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Thursday unveiled a new initiative to help the nation’s 37 million former college students who are struggling to pay off a combined $1 trillion in student loans. In a press release, CFPB Director Richard Cordray said he is instructing his agency to begin drafting possible proposals aimed at lowering [...]/p

Big Banks Still Exploiting The Foreclosure Fraud Settlement

Big Banks Still Exploiting The Foreclosure Fraud Settlement: pThe banks involved in last year’s foreclosure abuse settlement are spending more money to get bad loans off of their books than they are on directly reducing the amount homeowners owe on their mortgages, according to a new report from the settlement’s overseer released Thursday. Five large banks reached a $25 billion settlement with the [...]/p

Scott Walker Proposes Budget That Cuts Taxes While Reducing Funding For Public Schools

Scott Walker Proposes Budget That Cuts Taxes While Reducing Funding For Public Schools: pGovernor Scott Walker (R-WI) is proposing a budget that would fund a variety of right-wing priorities by slashing support for public services and local communities, according to an outline of the plan given in Walker’s “State of the State” address Wednesday night. Walker, who had already cut taxes significantly in his first term, proposed an [...]/p

Oscar-Nominated Palestinian Filmmaker Detained At Customs

Oscar-Nominated Palestinian Filmmaker Detained At Customs: pEmad Burnat — the director of the Oscar-nominated documentary “5 Broken Cameras” — landed in Los Angeles yesterday ahead of Sunday’s awards ceremony to a less than pleasant welcome. Rather than the easy transit he had experienced during his previous five visits to the U.S., customs officials detained him, his wife, and six-year old son [...]/p

New UN Report Adds To Worries Ahead Of Renewed Iran Talks

New UN Report Adds To Worries Ahead Of Renewed Iran Talks

Nation of Inmates: The Impact on Poor and Minority Communities

Nation of Inmates: The Impact on Poor and Minority Communities

The Robin Hood Tax and the Banker

The Robin Hood Tax and the Banker

Lee Camp's Moment of Clarity Show - Episode 1: Billionaires

Lee Camp's Moment of Clarity Show - Episode 1: Billionaires

This is Not a Good Thing: Big Banks 'Helping' Troubled Homeowners

This is Not a Good Thing: Big Banks 'Helping' Troubled Homeowners

Cenk: Wall Street Setting Up Financial Armageddon

Cenk: Wall Street Setting Up Financial Armageddon

TSA Says Woman Has 'Cute Figure,' Asks for Three Body Scans

TSA Says Woman Has 'Cute Figure,' Asks for Three Body Scans

Blue Jersey:: Sequester: For NJ Republican Congressmen Dogma Trumps Devastation

Blue Jersey:: Sequester: For NJ Republican Congressmen Dogma Trumps Devastation

It's Time for America To Come Out of the Closet

It's Time for America To Come Out of the Closet

DEMomentum: Democrats Target 27 House Tea Partiers with New Ads

DEMomentum: Democrats Target 27 House Tea Partiers with New Ads

Jerk Meet Jerk: McCain Refuses to Apologize for Calling Constituent a Jerk

Jerk Meet Jerk: McCain Refuses to Apologize for Calling Constituent a Jerk

Jobs And Debt Ceiling: Hey, Eric Cantor, That’s Not A Laser, It’s A Fly Swatter | The New Civil Rights Movement

Jobs And Debt Ceiling: Hey, Eric Cantor, That’s Not A Laser, It’s A Fly Swatter | The New Civil Rights Movement

The Immoral Minority: Is Joe Miller really delusional enough to once aga...

The Immoral Minority: Is Joe Miller really delusional enough to once aga...: Courtesy of Politico :   Joe Miller, the tea party favorite who was backed by Sarah Palin when he roiled GOP politics in the 2010 midter...

The Immoral Minority: Chris Matthews: Republicans are using "Cold War CI...

The Immoral Minority: Chris Matthews: Republicans are using "Cold War CI...: Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news , world news , and news about the economy Courtesy of Raw Story :   “If they didn’t like a governme...

The Immoral Minority: Just a simple picture of our First Lady to end the...

The Immoral Minority: Just a simple picture of our First Lady to end the...: This is the First Lady's new official portrait. Is it disrespectful if I just say, "Damn!"

The Immoral Minority: Oklahoma where facts are not facts if you don't be...

The Immoral Minority: Oklahoma where facts are not facts if you don't be...: Courtesy of Addicting Info :   Well, the Sooner state is at it again. The latest in their continuing series of “academic freedom” bills...

The Immoral Minority: Teabaggers upset that even pro wrestling is now mo...

The Immoral Minority: Teabaggers upset that even pro wrestling is now mo...: Courtesy of the You Tube site : World Wrestling Entertainment has jumped on the bandwagon of demonizing Tea Party Americans as racists b...

The Immoral Minority: Alaska Senate passes resolution "urging" the Feder...

The Immoral Minority: Alaska Senate passes resolution "urging" the Feder...: Sen. Fred Dyson Courtesy of ADN :   The Alaska Senate has passed a resolution urging the federal government to protect the Second Ame...

The Immoral Minority: Alaska Senate passes resolution "urging" the Feder...

The Immoral Minority: Alaska Senate passes resolution "urging" the Feder...: Sen. Fred Dyson Courtesy of ADN :   The Alaska Senate has passed a resolution urging the federal government to protect the Second Ame...

The Immoral Minority: Ashley Judd moves just that much closer to taking ...

The Immoral Minority: Ashley Judd moves just that much closer to taking ...: Courtesy of Politico :   Actress Ashley Judd privately met with officials at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee in Washington...

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

John McCain Faces the Consequences of His Party’s Fear-Mongering at Town Halls

John McCain Faces the Consequences of His Party’s Fear-Mongering at Town Halls

When Faced With New Evidence That the Sequester Was His Idea, Boehner Blames Obama

When Faced With New Evidence That the Sequester Was His Idea, Boehner Blames Obama

Conservatives Convince Themselves Obama Would be in Jail if He Wasn’t President

Conservatives Convince Themselves Obama Would be in Jail if He Wasn’t President

Worried Too Many Minorities Are Voting Republicans Try To Rollback the Constitution to 1913

Worried Too Many Minorities Are Voting Republicans Try To Rollback the Constitution to 1913

Republican Fiscal Concerns are a Canard to Cover Their Inhumanity

Republican Fiscal Concerns are a Canard to Cover Their Inhumanity

The Secrets of the Secret Service: "Referred-No Reply"

The Secrets of the Secret Service: "Referred-No Reply"

How Do You End a Culture of Corruption in the Secret Service?

How Do You End a Culture of Corruption in the Secret Service?

Daily Show: The Bangover - Women in the Secret Service

Daily Show: The Bangover - Women in the Secret Service

How Summit Entertainment Will Handle Orson Scott Card’s Homophobia And ‘Ender’s Game’

How Summit Entertainment Will Handle Orson Scott Card’s Homophobia And ‘Ender’s Game’: pI wrote last week about how to respond to the hiring of notorious homophobe Orson Scott Card by DC Comics to write Superman. Today, Andy Lewis and Borys Kit at the Hollywood Reporter explore how Card’s noxious, anti-gay views pose a challenge to the movie adaptation of his most famous work, Ender’s Game: Now Summit [...]/p

Nielsen Ratings Will Add Streaming Data For Fall 2013: Here’s What We Need To Ask About The Changes

Nielsen Ratings Will Add Streaming Data For Fall 2013: Here’s What We Need To Ask About The Changes

Open Thread

Open Thread

The Dissenter

The Dissenter

Restricting Drones Before Use of the Technology for Total Surveillance Becomes Normal | The Dissenter

Restricting Drones Before Use of the Technology for Total Surveillance Becomes Normal | The Dissenter

VIDEO– The sequester: It breaks my heart. “They’re choosing between life and death.”

VIDEO– The sequester: It breaks my heart. “They’re choosing between life and death.”

Audio- Limbaugh: Obama Doesn’t Care About Legacy Of Bad Economy Because “A Bad Economy Is What He’s Aiming For”

Audio- Limbaugh: Obama Doesn’t Care About Legacy Of Bad Economy Because “A Bad Economy Is What He’s Aiming For”

Video- Chuck Grassley Bumbles Through Response To “Microchip” Conspiracist

Video- Chuck Grassley Bumbles Through Response To “Microchip” Conspiracist

Privatizing cops: Because of budget cuts, “even police protection is more accessible to those with cash.”

Privatizing cops: Because of budget cuts, “even police protection is more accessible to those with cash.”

Heartland’s James Taylor Falsely Claims New Study Rejects Climate Consensus

Heartland’s James Taylor Falsely Claims New Study Rejects Climate Consensus: pClimate scientists and publishing earth scientists overwhelmingly understand humans are causing global warming (via CSW) By Brian Angliss via Scholars and Rogues. [For another debunking, see Climate Nexus‘s “James Taylor misinterprets study by 180 degrees”] James Taylor, managing editor of The Heartland Institute’s Environment & Climate News, recently wrote a Forbes blog post about a [...]/p

March For A Solution To Climate Chaos: Sustainable, Renewable Passion

March For A Solution To Climate Chaos: Sustainable, Renewable Passion: pby Dominique Browning Via from Slow Love Life Depending on who is counting, about 35,000 to 50,000 people showed up in a freezing cold and windy Washington D.C. for the largest climate march in history on Sunday, February 17. It was one of the most inspiring events I have ever attended, and I’ve been trying [...]/p

March For A Solution To Climate Chaos: Sustainable, Renewable Passion

March For A Solution To Climate Chaos: Sustainable, Renewable Passion

Big Oil Mocks Climate Action With Help From Big Media

Big Oil Mocks Climate Action With Help From Big Media

Faith Groups Add Their Voices To The ‘Forward on Climate’ Chorus

Faith Groups Add Their Voices To The ‘Forward on Climate’ Chorus

Secretive Donors Trust Pumps Far More Money Into Climate Denial And Inaction Than Kochs And Exxon Mobil Combined

Secretive Donors Trust Pumps Far More Money Into Climate Denial And Inaction Than Kochs And Exxon Mobil Combined

February 20 News: China Will Introduce A Carbon Tax

February 20 News: China Will Introduce A Carbon Tax

Econ 101: February 20, 2013

Econ 101: February 20, 2013: pWelcome to ThinkProgress Economy’s morning link roundup. This is what we’re reading. Have you seen any interesting news? Let us know in the comments section. You can also follow ThinkProgress Economy on Twitter. Greek workers held a general strike today to protest against austerity. [Bloomberg] Bank of America’s CEO is receiving a 73 percent pay [...]/p

Union Busting 2.0: Wisconsin Republicans Target Private Sector Unions They Previously Praised

Union Busting 2.0: Wisconsin Republicans Target Private Sector Unions They Previously Praised

Fox Turns Democratic Gun Regs Supporter Into Todd Akin

Fox Turns Democratic Gun Regs Supporter Into Todd Akin

Fox Turns Democratic Gun Regs Supporter Into Todd Akin

Fox Turns Democratic Gun Regs Supporter Into Todd Akin

Blue Jersey:: Slow and Steady Wins the Race

Blue Jersey:: Slow and Steady Wins the Race

Israeli President To Award Obama With Medal Of Distinction

Israeli President To Award Obama With Medal Of Distinction

How An Over-The-Top Joke Became A Republican Talking Point Against Chuck Hagel

How An Over-The-Top Joke Became A Republican Talking Point Against Chuck Hagel

The Immoral Minority: Teabagger offers $10,000 for idea to help him "tak...

The Immoral Minority: Teabagger offers $10,000 for idea to help him "tak...: Richard A. Viguerie about to blow $10,000 on nothing. Courtesy of Conservative HQ :   Today, I'm announcing “The Liberty Prize,” a con...

Speaking of Hubris, This is the Reason Why Republicans Hate Chuck Hagel

Speaking of Hubris, This is the Reason Why Republicans Hate Chuck Hagel

Shhh, Don't Tell Anyone! Mandiant Credits Anonymous with Helping Uncover China Hacking | MyFDL

Shhh, Don't Tell Anyone! Mandiant Credits Anonymous with Helping Uncover China Hacking | MyFDL

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Poll-itics: Congress approval at 15%. Shhhh… They’re in recess, they’ll never know!

Poll-itics: Congress approval at 15%. Shhhh… They’re in recess, they’ll never know!

Massachusetts GOP demands Ed Markey cancel “disgusting” fundraiser with Eliot Spitzer. Double standard much?

Massachusetts GOP demands Ed Markey cancel “disgusting” fundraiser with Eliot Spitzer. Double standard much?

The Immoral Minority: Man sends pictures of his arsenal to news outlet a...

The Immoral Minority: Man sends pictures of his arsenal to news outlet a...: The Saiga-12 Shotgun. Nobody's penis can be THAT small, can it? The man above is a frequent visitor to the Business Insider news site a...

The Immoral Minority: Man sends pictures of his arsenal to news outlet a...

The Immoral Minority: Man sends pictures of his arsenal to news outlet a...: The Saiga-12 Shotgun. Nobody's penis can be THAT small, can it? The man above is a frequent visitor to the Business Insider news site a...

DOD Superior Civilian Service Medal

DOD Superior Civilian Service Medal

Blue Jersey - New Jersey progressive politics and news

Blue Jersey - New Jersey progressive politics and news

The Immoral Minority: In case you missed it here is "Hubris: The Selling...

The Immoral Minority: In case you missed it here is "Hubris: The Selling...: If you did not get the chance to watch this last night I urge you to take the time to watch it here, It is too important to miss in my op...

The Immoral Minority: Colorado, home of the deadly Aurora theater shooti...

The Immoral Minority: Colorado, home of the deadly Aurora theater shooti...: Courtesy of MSN News :   Lawmakers in Colorado, where a gunman burst into a theater last year for a deadly shooting, narrowly passed a h...

The Immoral Minority: Sarah Palin a visiting scholar at Harvard? Is such...

The Immoral Minority: Sarah Palin a visiting scholar at Harvard? Is such...: "Me a professor? Who in their right mind would try to learn anything from me?" The Daily Currant has put out another of its parodies, an...

Alabama Lawmaker Thinks a Fetus is 'Largest Organ in the Body'

Alabama Lawmaker Thinks a Fetus is 'Largest Organ in the Body'

Van Jones: 'Keystone XL Pipeline Would Wipe Out Anything Positive Obama Has Done on the Environment'

Van Jones: 'Keystone XL Pipeline Would Wipe Out Anything Positive Obama Has Done on the Environment'

Tea Party Group Pictures Karl Rove In Nazi Uniform

Tea Party Group Pictures Karl Rove In Nazi Uniform

Stupid Right-Wing Tweets: Laura Ingraham Edition

Stupid Right-Wing Tweets: Laura Ingraham Edition

GOP Decides to Use Filibuster Power Democrats Gave Them | FDL Action

GOP Decides to Use Filibuster Power Democrats Gave Them | FDL Action

GOP Decides to Use Filibuster Power Democrats Gave Them | FDL Action

GOP Decides to Use Filibuster Power Democrats Gave Them | FDL Action

Every Day the Senate Gets More Idiotic: Chuck Hagel Edition | FDL Action

Every Day the Senate Gets More Idiotic: Chuck Hagel Edition | FDL Action

Bowles and Simpson Still Want to Cut Your Medicare and Social Security | FDL Action

Bowles and Simpson Still Want to Cut Your Medicare and Social Security | FDL Action

Boehner Is in No Mood to Reach a Sequester Compromise | FDL Action

Boehner Is in No Mood to Reach a Sequester Compromise | FDL Action

Sen. Ron Johnson Joins The Violence Against Women Act Is Unconstitutional Club

Sen. Ron Johnson Joins The Violence Against Women Act Is Unconstitutional Club: pFour senators, Jim Risch (R-ID), Rand Paul (R-KY), Mike Lee (R-UT), and Ted Cruz (R-TX) previously suggested that any effort to prevent violence against women exceeds the federal government’s power under the Constitution. Earlier this week, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) joined their club of senators who think legislation reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act is [...]/p

Virginia Pizza Shop Offers A Discount To Anyone Who Carries A Gun

Virginia Pizza Shop Offers A Discount To Anyone Who Carries A Gun: pAt one Virginia pizza shop, customers who bring in a gun or show a gun permit get 15 percent off their order. The pro-gun owner of All Around Pizzas and Deli claimed that 80 percent of his customers have walked in carrying a gun since he offered the discount last week, including one carrying an [...]/p

The Supreme Court Will Hear A Republican Party Lawsuit To Make Citizens United Even Worse

The Supreme Court Will Hear A Republican Party Lawsuit To Make Citizens United Even Worse: pThe Supreme Court’s election-buying decision in Citizens United v. FEC enabled wealthy corporations to spend unlimited money to change the course of American elections, and a subsequent lower court decision gave the green light to super PACs funded by unlimited donations from millionaires, billionaires and corporations. Today, the Supreme Court announced it would hear another [...]/p

POLLS: DOMA Is Discrimination, Equality Is Inevitable

POLLS: DOMA Is Discrimination, Equality Is Inevitable

POLLS: DOMA Is Discrimination, Equality Is Inevitable

POLLS: DOMA Is Discrimination, Equality Is Inevitable

The Sequester Cuts are the Latest Crime in the Republican War on America

The Sequester Cuts are the Latest Crime in the Republican War on America

Video- President Obama Spanks Congress on the Sequester

Video- President Obama Spanks Congress on the Sequester

SNL’s ‘Djesus UnCrossed’ Video Making Conservative Groups Apocalyptic | The New Civil Rights Movement

SNL’s ‘Djesus UnCrossed’ Video Making Conservative Groups Apocalyptic | The New Civil Rights Movement

http://malialitman.wordpress.com/2013/02/18/the-culture-of-corruption-in-the-secret-service-is-documented-and-available-to-the-public/

http://malialitman.wordpress.com/2013/02/18/the-culture-of-corruption-in-the-secret-service-is-documented-and-available-to-the-public/

While Republicans Focus on Public Debt, the Real Issue is Private Debt

While Republicans Focus on Public Debt, the Real Issue is Private Debt

Paul Ryan Calls Eliminating Food and Healthcare for 600,000 Kids ‘Smarter Cuts’

Paul Ryan Calls Eliminating Food and Healthcare for 600,000 Kids ‘Smarter Cuts’

Rush Limbaugh Smears President Obama by Suggesting He is Cheating on His Wife

Rush Limbaugh Smears President Obama by Suggesting He is Cheating on His Wife

Mark Sanford Once Offered the Unemployed Only Prayer, But Now He’s Begging for a Job

Mark Sanford Once Offered the Unemployed Only Prayer, But Now He’s Begging for a Job

House Democrats Crush Republicans With Their Best Fundraising Month Ever

House Democrats Crush Republicans With Their Best Fundraising Month Ever

White House Tasks Itself With Controlling Speech On The Internet | FDL News Desk

White House Tasks Itself With Controlling Speech On The Internet | FDL News Desk

Aaron Swartz’s FBI File | FDL News Desk

Aaron Swartz’s FBI File | FDL News Desk

Goldman Sachs Back To Hurting Clients As Firm Is Targeted In Insider Trading Probe | FDL News Desk

Goldman Sachs Back To Hurting Clients As Firm Is Targeted In Insider Trading Probe | FDL News Desk

Elizabeth Warren Upsets Beltway At First Committee Hearing | FDL News Desk

Elizabeth Warren Upsets Beltway At First Committee Hearing | FDL News Desk

Gov. Scott Walker’s budget: Planned Parenthood closes 4 locations; funds school vouchers, charter schools “leaving public schools on life support”

Gov. Scott Walker’s budget: Planned Parenthood closes 4 locations; funds school vouchers, charter schools “leaving public schools on life support”

Gov. Scott Walker’s budget: Planned Parenthood closes 4 locations; funds school vouchers, charter schools “leaving public schools on life support”

Gov. Scott Walker’s budget: Planned Parenthood closes 4 locations; funds school vouchers, charter schools “leaving public schools on life support”

Supreme Court will hear appeal of campaign donation limits

Supreme Court will hear appeal of campaign donation limits

The Immoral Minority: Top Chicago cop blames gun lobbyists and Sarah Pal...

The Immoral Minority: Top Chicago cop blames gun lobbyists and Sarah Pal...: Courtesy of Fox News (Yep you read that right, Fox News.): Facing a surging homicide rate and several headline-grabbing murders, Chic...

The Immoral Minority: Open thread for MSNBC's "Hubris: Selling of the Ir...

The Immoral Minority: Open thread for MSNBC's "Hubris: Selling of the Ir...: Here is just one except courtesy of Mother Jones :   One chilling moment in the film comes in an interview with retired General Anthony...

The Immoral Minority: FINALLY! A pledge that I can take without reservat...

The Immoral Minority: FINALLY! A pledge that I can take without reservat...: I am one of those people who has simply never understood the point of taking a pledge of allegiance to a country. The idea that you would ...

The Immoral Minority: The great Carl Sagan completely debunks Creationism using something they call "science."

The Immoral Minority: The great Carl Sagan completely debunks Creationism using something they call "science."

What Does Congress Do Ten Days Before a Devastating Blow to the Middle Class?

What Does Congress Do Ten Days Before a Devastating Blow to the Middle Class?

Teen Shot Dead Same Day Sister Hears Obama Speak on Gun Violence

Teen Shot Dead Same Day Sister Hears Obama Speak on Gun Violence

Exxon Pressures Network Into Pulling Climate Change Ad

Exxon Pressures Network Into Pulling Climate Change Ad

My Recent Arrest While Driving the Illuminator Van

My Recent Arrest While Driving the Illuminator Van

Report: Chinese Army Unit Tied to Cyber Attacks on U.S.

Report: Chinese Army Unit Tied to Cyber Attacks on U.S.

Sunday, February 17, 2013

Blue Jersey:: FBI Finds No Evidence To Support Menendez Allegations

Blue Jersey:: FBI Finds No Evidence To Support Menendez Allegations

John Fund helps cover Lou Dobbs' extremist tracks after 'Reliable Sources' panel skewers 'they shot at my wife' tale

John Fund helps cover Lou Dobbs' extremist tracks after 'Reliable Sources' panel skewers 'they shot at my wife' tale

Paul Ryan Gets Caught In His Budget Hypocrisy

Paul Ryan Gets Caught In His Budget Hypocrisy

Zero Dark Thirty: Hijacking History | MyFDL

Zero Dark Thirty: Hijacking History | MyFDL

New radioactive waste leak found at nuclear site, and clean-up could be halted by sequestration.

New radioactive waste leak found at nuclear site, and clean-up could be halted by sequestration.

VIDEO: ABC News’ Jonathan Karl calls out Paul Ryan’s hypocrisy on the sequester

VIDEO: ABC News’ Jonathan Karl calls out Paul Ryan’s hypocrisy on the sequester

California’s numbers strongly indicate that gun regulation works

California’s numbers strongly indicate that gun regulation works

'Biggest Climate Rally In History' In D.C. Today

'Biggest Climate Rally In History' In D.C. Today

Wisconsin GOP Lawmakers Make Mandatory Transvaginal Ultrasounds 'Top Priority'

Wisconsin GOP Lawmakers Make Mandatory Transvaginal Ultrasounds 'Top Priority'

For Some, the Civil War Rages On

For Some, the Civil War Rages On

McCain Attacks Gregory For Questioning Benghazi Conspiracy Theories

McCain Attacks Gregory For Questioning Benghazi Conspiracy Theories

Saturday, February 16, 2013

The Immoral Minority: "Is that your nipple I see?" Those words spoken by a North Carolina police officer might soon mean jail time, as a new bill is set to make a woman's areola indecent.

The Immoral Minority: "Is that your nipple I see?" Those words spoken by a North Carolina police officer might soon mean jail time, as a new bill is set to make a woman's areola indecent.

Trudy Lieberman: Is Obama Going To Cut Medicare? Probably

Trudy Lieberman: Is Obama Going To Cut Medicare? Probably

SC Gov. Nikki Haley Named As Other Woman In Divorce Case

SC Gov. Nikki Haley Named As Other Woman In Divorce Case

VIDEO: Watch Florida Gov. Rick Scott dance around the issues… literally

VIDEO: Watch Florida Gov. Rick Scott dance around the issues… literally

VIDEO– Gun owner: “After the Newtown massacre and the NRA’s disgusting response, I’ve had enough.”

VIDEO– Gun owner: “After the Newtown massacre and the NRA’s disgusting response, I’ve had enough.”

PhotOH! How pathetic is it that this Fox chyron could be real?

PhotOH! How pathetic is it that this Fox chyron could be real?

Jets Escort Plane From Where Obama Is Vacationing

Jets Escort Plane From Where Obama Is Vacationing

Anti-Gay Preacher Bradlee Dean’s Lawyer Demands Florida School Allow Him To Speak To Kids | The New Civil Rights Movement

Anti-Gay Preacher Bradlee Dean’s Lawyer Demands Florida School Allow Him To Speak To Kids | The New Civil Rights Movement

Anti-Gay Preacher Bradlee Dean’s Lawyer Demands Florida School Allow Him To Speak To Kids | The New Civil Rights Movement

Anti-Gay Preacher Bradlee Dean’s Lawyer Demands Florida School Allow Him To Speak To Kids | The New Civil Rights Movement

The Immoral Minority: Make sure you clear your calendars for the premiere of the documentary "Hubris: The Selling of the Iraq War." Which is scheduled for Monday on MSNBC, and will be hosted by our own Rachel Maddow.

The Immoral Minority: Make sure you clear your calendars for the premiere of the documentary "Hubris: The Selling of the Iraq War." Which is scheduled for Monday on MSNBC, and will be hosted by our own Rachel Maddow.

VIDEO: “We’ve been told not to be in Congress. Speaker Boehner controls the agenda… and he sent us home.”

VIDEO: “We’ve been told not to be in Congress. Speaker Boehner controls the agenda… and he sent us home.”

The Hagel Filibuster Shows Republicans Hate America Almost as Much as They Hate Obama

The Hagel Filibuster Shows Republicans Hate America Almost as Much as They Hate Obama

Robert Reich: Breaking up the Big Banks

Robert Reich: Breaking up the Big Banks

Wal-Mart Execs Panic Over Falling Stock

Wal-Mart Execs Panic Over Falling Stock

New Ad Highlights Efforts of Corporate Polluters to Weaken Clean Air Act

New Ad Highlights Efforts of Corporate Polluters to Weaken Clean Air Act

Eliot Spitzer: 'Wayne LaPierre is a Complete Lunatic'

Eliot Spitzer: 'Wayne LaPierre is a Complete Lunatic'

The Immoral Minority: How are you feeling this morning? Do you want to h...

The Immoral Minority: How are you feeling this morning? Do you want to h...: See if you can guess the song. Is there a smile on your face? Good, now it is up to you to keep it there.

The Immoral Minority: President Obama's Pre-K plan. Enough to make an ea...

The Immoral Minority: President Obama's Pre-K plan. Enough to make an ea...: Courtesy of The Washington Post : President Obama used his State of the Union address to launch a push for massively expanding pre-K a...

The Immoral Minority: David Chappelle IS Nostradamus.

The Immoral Minority: David Chappelle IS Nostradamus.: Okay you have to admit, that is one bizarre coincidence. (For those who don't know who David Chappelle is .)

The Immoral Minority: West Virginia Professsor hands out syllabus forbid...

The Immoral Minority: West Virginia Professsor hands out syllabus forbid...: Image courtesy of Fox News . Courtesy of Yahoo News :   A syllabus for a political science course at West Liberty University instruct...

LAPD High Crimes

LAPD High Crimes

Déjà vu vingt-deux: Are Iranian Magnets The New Aluminum Tubes? | MyFDL

Déjà vu vingt-deux: Are Iranian Magnets The New Aluminum Tubes? | MyFDL

Dems Warn Obama: We'll Oppose Any Social Security Cuts

Dems Warn Obama: We'll Oppose Any Social Security Cuts

Video- On Fox, Steve Hayes Refuses To Deny Benghazi Conspiracy Theory, Then Forwards Another Conspiracy

Video- On Fox, Steve Hayes Refuses To Deny Benghazi Conspiracy Theory, Then Forwards Another Conspiracy

VIDEO: “Wayne LaPierre & NRA exist to make you think of anything other than gunmakers when you feel outraged by gun violence.”

VIDEO: “Wayne LaPierre & NRA exist to make you think of anything other than gunmakers when you feel outraged by gun violence.”

Praising Money Tonight in the House of the Lord | MyFDL

Praising Money Tonight in the House of the Lord | MyFDL

Cardinal Mahony Turns Water Into Whine | Firedoglake

Cardinal Mahony Turns Water Into Whine | Firedoglake

Michelle Rhee Allies With Corporate Pals To March On LA Schools

Michelle Rhee Allies With Corporate Pals To March On LA Schools

Yet Another Reason Why The Pope Might Be Resigning

Yet Another Reason Why The Pope Might Be Resigning

Glenn Beck: It's 'Plausible' John Brennan Secretly Converted To Islam

Glenn Beck: It's 'Plausible' John Brennan Secretly Converted To Islam

http://malialitman.wordpress.com/2013/02/16/the-ultimate-insult-to-sarah-palin-fox-news-hires-a-black-man-as-her-replacement/

http://malialitman.wordpress.com/2013/02/16/the-ultimate-insult-to-sarah-palin-fox-news-hires-a-black-man-as-her-replacement/

A Dozen Dodgers - Newsroom: Bernie Sanders - U.S. Senator for Vermont

A Dozen Dodgers - Newsroom: Bernie Sanders - U.S. Senator for Vermont

Friday, February 15, 2013

“Stuff happens. But take faith boys, We have come to save what’s left of Christianity.”

“Stuff happens. But take faith boys, We have come to save what’s left of Christianity.”

“Is it any wonder that the American people have such a low regard for members of Congress?”: Special Comment by my 72-year-old friend

“Is it any wonder that the American people have such a low regard for members of Congress?”: Special Comment by my 72-year-old friend

Lawmakers Introduce Sweeping Sex Ed Bill To Mandate LGBT Inclusive, Gender Balanced Health Classes

Lawmakers Introduce Sweeping Sex Ed Bill To Mandate LGBT Inclusive, Gender Balanced Health Classes: pJust this week, the CDC released new data pointing to the United States’ “ongoing, severe epidemic” of sexually transmitted infections, which incur the country an estimate $16 billion each year in medical costs. That public health crisis is partly fueled by the lack of comprehensive, medically accurate sexual health instruction in classrooms across the country [...]/p

GOP ‘Savior’ Marco Rubio Falls Back On The Same Old Anti-Woman Policies

GOP ‘Savior’ Marco Rubio Falls Back On The Same Old Anti-Woman Policies: pIn an interview on Thursday with conservative magazine Newsmax, Tea Party standard-bearer and so-called ‘savior’ of the Republican party Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) revealed that he will become a cosponsor of the “Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act.” The bill is a concerted effort to prevent girls in dangerous family situations from going across state lines [...]/p

Wisconsin Republicans: Forcing Women To Undergo Transvaginal Ultrasounds Is Our ‘Priority’

Wisconsin Republicans: Forcing Women To Undergo Transvaginal Ultrasounds Is Our ‘Priority’: pAt the Wisconsin Right to Life Legislative Conference this week, the state’s top Republican lawmakers assured attendees that they will do everything in their power to enact a forced ultrasound bill, which would mandate an invasive transvaginal probe for some women seeking first-trimester abortions. “This bill is a priority,” Wisconsin Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald [...]/p

Fox News: Obama Proposed ‘Free’ Preschool To Toddlers So They Can Vote For Him ‘In The Future’

Fox News: Obama Proposed ‘Free’ Preschool To Toddlers So They Can Vote For Him ‘In The Future’: pIn his State of the Union address, President Obama made the case for universal early childhood education — an idea that isn’t sitting well with conservatives. On Friday, Fox Business host Stuart Varney and Fox News host Steve Doocy attacked preschool access as a government handout intended to extend “literally, the nanny state.” Varney echoed [...]/p

65 Republicans Supported Increasing The Minimum Wage When Bush Was President

65 Republicans Supported Increasing The Minimum Wage When Bush Was President: pPresident Obama’s call for a minimum wage increase in Tuesday’s State of the Union address — like nearly all of his proposals — was met with immediate opposition from Congressional Republicans. But six years ago, many of the same Republicans supported a similar proposal backed by Republican President George W. Bush. A ThinkProgress analysis finds [...]/p