Tag: politics
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http://www.theonion.com/video_embed/?id=21130 GOP Supports Obama For 2012: ‘We Need More Time To Completely Ruin His Life’ via theonion.com Truth in satire.
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David Bowie – Heroes – Live Aid 1985 – YouTube. I, I will be king And you, you will be queen Though nothing will drive them away We can beat them, just for one day We can be heroes, just for one day And you, you can be mean And…
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via youtube.com ‘Highlights of Physicist Neil Degrasse Tyson’s appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher on 8/5/2011. He talks about our future and what’s left for the youth of today to have The talk about what our tomorrow looks like. Check out our facebook.page and support our tomorrow: http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Future-of-the-US-Stand-UP/148185588594587‘
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via americanprogress.org ‘House Republicans continue to stonewall on revenues. But some Senate Republicans have signaled a willingness to cut special tax breaks and subsidies. And poll after poll has shown that vast majorities of Americans—in fact strong majorities of Republicans—support a balanced approach that includes cuts to spending programs and…
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via democracynow.org Republicans have retained control of the Wisconsin State Senate following a series of historic recall elections organized in response to their support of Gov. Scott Walker’s union-busting bill this spring. Democrats needed to win three of the six Republican seats up for grabs in order to gain a…
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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/08/08 ‘Despite the GOP’s ideological claptrap about corporate executives being “job creators,” it’s ordinary Americans who actually create jobs.’ See this Amp at http://bit.ly/nUhfE9
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via i.imgur.com Sounds about right …. via Reddit Politics
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via thinkprogress.org The bottom line is that the United States continues to run 2+ wars and be policemen to the world while conservatives insist that we must not have millionaires spend a dollar more in taxes to pay for any of that. At the same time, the real long-term threat…
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via commons.wikimedia.org Reagan had been backed by Wall Street in his run for the White House and they, along with right-wing Christians, wanted to restructure America and turn back the tide that President Franklin D. Roosevelt started — a tide that was intended to make life better for the average…
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via democracynow.org Many of the toughest sentencing laws responsible for the explosion of the U.S. prison population were drafted by the American Legislative Exchange Council, which helps corporations write model legislation. Now a new exposé reveals ALEC has paved the way for states and corporations to replace unionized workers with…
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via theatlantic.com Any discussion of the causes of America’s public-debt problems, or any discussion of the solutions to it, that is “spending only,” and excludes the role of revenues — for instance, the discussion that raged through Congress last week — is a pointless and unrealistic discussion. It is historically…
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http://videos.mediaite.com/embed/player/?layout=&playlist_cid=&media_type=video&content=6BFSG00KK3KWVG48&read_more=1&widget_type_cid=svp In Bill Maher’s final New Rule of the night, he suggested that if tea partiers get to control the Republican party and act like hostage negotiators, the Democrats should have their own branch party that would be just as ridiculously partisan as the tea party, because the only thing…