Tag: politics
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Joseph Cirincione DUMP THE NUKES Barack Obama needs to get real about actual cuts in America’s still-enormous stockpile of nuclear weapons — or his nuclear legacy won’t even match that of Ronald Reagan or George H.W. Bush. So far, the president has made modest progress shrinking stockpiles and…
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ThinkFast: October 13, 2010 A News Corporation shareholder has written a letter to the company’s board objecting to the company’s political donations, like the recent $1 million contribution to the Republican Governor’s Association, and demanding full disclosure of all the company’s political spending by Friday. The shareholder warned in the…
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When Nixon tried to deport John Lennon and Yoko Ono, the country’s cultural elites started a campaign to keep them in the country. October 10, 2010 | LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: Sign up to stay up to date on the latest Media and Culture headlines…
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Ads for the DVD show Jones’ eyes above the words, “Death camps Are Real.” Jones’ Obama Deception film claims that “Obama is continuing the process of transforming America into something that resembles Nazi Germany, with forced National Service, domestic civilian spies, warrantless wiretaps, the destruction of the Second Amendment, FEMA…
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Glenn Beck’s view of American history stems from the paranoid politics of the fifties. via newyorker.com A few months ago, the cable-television and radio host Glenn Beck began his Fox News show with one of his favorite props: a pipe clenched between his teeth. “I’ve got my pipe,” he told…
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Neither the Times nor the Post appear to have pressed the Chamber to answer two critical questions: 1) How many foreign sources of funding does the Chamber have? The Washington Post’s Greg Sargent received this statement from a Chamber spokeswoman: “[Of] the Chamber’s 300,000 members, a relative handful are non-U.S. based companies.”…
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WASHINGTON—Citing a desire to gain influence in Washington, the American people confirmed Friday that they have hired high-powered D.C. lobbyist Jack Weldon of the firm Patton Boggs to help advance their agenda in Congress. Known among Beltway insiders for his ability to sway public policy on behalf of massive corporations…
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via en.wikiquote.org Much that was called religion has carried an unconscious attitude of hostility toward life. True religion must teach that life is filled with joys pleasing to the eye of God, that knowledge without action is empty. All men must see that the teaching of religion by rules and…
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(Editor’s note: Whatever your political beliefs, we can all agree that people say the dumbest things. Below, you’ll find some some stupid conservative quotes put together by Sasha Brown-Worsham. For equally stupid — and funny — gaffs made by their liberal counterparts, read 50 Dumb Liberal Quotes.) When politicians and…
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Let’s Get Our Priorities Straight Focus on Helping the Middle Class, Not Tax Cuts for the Rich SOURCE: AP/Marcio Jose Sanchez A woman stocks up on bread at Sacred Heart Community Center in San Jose, CA, on September 16, 2010. The percentage of people living in poverty jumped for the…
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via americanprogress.org
