Sunday, September 30, 2012
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Bill Kristol: ‘Obama team turned around’ Bush’s financial meltdown | The Raw Story
Bill Kristol: ‘Obama team turned around’ Bush’s financial meltdown | The Raw Story
Vice President Joe Biden is the best on foreign policy, in other words 4 more for 44...
Vice President Joe Biden is the best on foreign policy, in other words 4 more for 44...
Saturday, September 22, 2012
Paul Ryan Tells Florida Seniors That Obamacare Includes Death Panels
Paul Ryan Tells Florida Seniors That Obamacare Includes Death Panels: pPaul Ryan likened a mechanism to control health care spending to “death panels,” during a town hall at the University of Central Florida in Orlando on Saturday. After listening to Ryan repeatedly call for the repeal of the Affordable Care Act, an elderly man asked the Republican vice presidential nominee about “the death panels.” Rather [...]/p
Friday, September 21, 2012
Thursday, September 20, 2012
How Romney’s Economic Plan Redistributes Wealth To The Wealthy
How Romney’s Economic Plan Redistributes Wealth To The Wealthy: pMitt Romney yesterday attempted to turn attention away from the fallout of his comments regarding the “47 percent” by pointing to a video from 1998 in which President Obama, then a state senator, says, “I actually believe in redistribution, at least at a certain level to make sure everybody’s got a shot.” The video was [...]/p
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Monday, September 17, 2012
Sunday, September 16, 2012
Saturday, September 15, 2012
Why Do Americans Have to Crush Others to Get Ahead? | Alternet
Why Do Americans Have to Crush Others to Get Ahead? | Alternet
We are Already Where We Were Afraid We Would Be
by:kdtroxel
I then boiled them all down to these 109 words:
Benito Mussolini said, “Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.”
Leon Trotsky, “The historic function of fascism is to smash the working class, destroy its organizations, and stifle political liberties when the capitalists find themselves unable to govern and dominate with the help of democratic machinery.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt, “The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism — ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.”
We are Already Where We Were Afraid We Would Be
by:kdtroxel
I then boiled them all down to these 109 words:
Benito Mussolini said, “Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.”
Leon Trotsky, “The historic function of fascism is to smash the working class, destroy its organizations, and stifle political liberties when the capitalists find themselves unable to govern and dominate with the help of democratic machinery.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt, “The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism — ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.”
Friday, September 14, 2012
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
poopsie: Carry On
poopsie: Carry On: Sacrifice is a part of life. It’s supposed to be. It’s not something to regret. It’s something to aspire to... And when i can't hold th...
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Cheney Smears Obama On 9/11, Claims He Took ‘Sole Credit’ For Bin Laden’s Death
Cheney Smears Obama On 9/11, Claims He Took ‘Sole Credit’ For Bin Laden’s Death: pOn the eve of the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, former Vice President Dick Cheney accused President Obama of taking “sole credit” for the killing of Osama bin Laden and ignoring his presidential daily intelligence briefings. “If President Obama were participating in his intelligence briefings on a regular basis then perhaps he would [...]/p
Monday, September 10, 2012
Sunday, September 9, 2012
Ryan: I Didn’t Vote For The Defense Cuts I Voted For
Ryan: I Didn’t Vote For The Defense Cuts I Voted For: pVice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan has gotten in hot water before for criticizing President Obama for the very same defense cuts that he voted for in 2011. When confronted with this incongruity today on Face The Nation, Ryan simply denied that he ever voted for the cuts, telling an incredulous Norah O’Donnell that he didn’t [...]/p
Saturday, September 8, 2012
GOP Congressman Wants Junk Food Back In Schools: ‘Kids Are Starving’
GOP Congressman Wants Junk Food Back In Schools: ‘Kids Are Starving’: pIn a recent speech, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) assailed new federal regulations that improve the nutritional standards of meals served in schools. He called the new standards, which come from the 2010 Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, rationing: “This is the nanny state personified,” the Republican from Kiron said during a noon speech to about 20 [...]/p
Friday, September 7, 2012
Unhappy Anniversary: Republicans Have Blocked The American Jobs Act For One Year
Unhappy Anniversary: Republicans Have Blocked The American Jobs Act For One Year: pOn September 8, 2011 — one year ago tomorrow — President Obama laid out a series of policy proposals known collectively as the American Jobs Act. The plan included stimulus spending in the form of immediate infrastructure investments, tax credits for working Americans and employers to encourage consumer spending and job growth, and efforts to [...]/p
Romney On Omitting U.S. Troops From RNC Speech: ‘You Talk About Things You Think Are Important’
Romney On Omitting U.S. Troops From RNC Speech: ‘You Talk About Things You Think Are Important’: pIn an interview with Fox News this afternoon, Mitt Romney shot back at critics who complained that he didn’t mention Afghanistan or praise U.S. troops in his convention speech last week, arguing that he focused on issues that are “important.” Fox News’s Brett Baier told Romney that “several speakers” at the Democratic National Convention in [...]/p
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Ohio Secretary of State Refuses To Comply With Early Voting Court Order
Ohio Secretary of State Refuses To Comply With Early Voting Court Order: pJon Husted, Republican Secretary of State in Ohio, is refusing to change his restrictive early voting schedule even after a federal court restored in-person early voting to all Ohioans during the three day period before the general election. Husted claims expanding hours before an appeals court hears his case will “only serve to confuse voters.” [...]/p
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
GOP Senate Candidate Supports Life Sentences For Rape Victims Who Obtain Abortions
GOP Senate Candidate Supports Life Sentences For Rape Victims Who Obtain Abortions: pRep. Rick Berg (R-ND), the candidate for Senate from North Dakota, once voted for a bill that would have made any woman who obtained an abortion guilty of a homicide crime — even if it were in the case of rape or incest. Indeed, the bill Berg supported does not even contain an explicit exception [...]/p
Monday, September 3, 2012
CNN Host Dismantles Grover Norquist’s Anti-Tax Argument: ‘This Is A Wish, Not A Plan’
CNN Host Dismantles Grover Norquist’s Anti-Tax Argument: ‘This Is A Wish, Not A Plan’: pCNN’s Fareed Zakaria challenged Grover Norquist’s opposition to tax increases during an interview on Sunday, insisting that the anti-tax zealot’s opposition to higher taxes — gospel which the GOP has adopted — could lead to financial collapse and turn the nation into “another Greece.” “In other words, I don’t like high taxes, but the question [...]/p
Sunday, September 2, 2012
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