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Anthony Weiner talks sarcastically about the Republican Party’s vote to...
Anthony Weiner is a delight and his dripping sarcasm is a balm to my soul: “Crisis averted ladies and gentlemen! What a relief. What. A. Relief. I’m glad we got the economy back going. I’m glad we...
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Racist?! How dare you!
Congressional candidate Jack Davis said in a Republican Party endorsement meeting that Latino farmworkers should be deported and that inner-city African-Americans should be bused to farms to pick...
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Bill Moyers: “without public radio, the reactionaries among us will hold a...
Bill Moyers argues that stripping public radio of funding will only contribute to the final FoxNews-ification of our country’s corporate owned ‘news’ system. Because journalism is dead: It’s also...
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SIX ISSUES the Teaparty-Republicans consider more important than jobs
Because there has been NO JOBS’ BILL created or even discussed, the House Republicans’ supposed “mandate” last November apparently meant they should spend 3 months on the following cultural / societal...
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Mother Jones: Andrew Breitbart / James O’Keefe stings to date
Breitbart-O’Keefe know that even if their ‘stings’ are nothing more than creative video cut jobs. But by the time the truth is revealed, the damage they hoped for is already done: Click to see the...
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This will be the teaparty’s moment, the teaparty’s government shutdown
The Republicans have been so busy trying to push teaparty social conservatism on America that they haven’t yet considered real budget issues or felt the need to “negotiate.” Charles Johnson remarks:...
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The growing income gap, stalled economic growth, and financial deregulation
“The idea that people make the same or less today than they made 40 years ago is a stunning historical fact.” — Author Jeff Madrick NPR: As income gap balloons, is it holding back growth? “This...
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The income gap, illustrated
via Related: The growing income gap, stalled economic growth, and financial deregulation The American Dream: we’ve gone from ‘prosperity for all’ to ‘the rich takes all’ Middle America since 1979:...
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#OccupyWallStreet overhead photo of the LARGE NUMBER of demonstrators
UPDATE 10:18 AM MST: I’ve just been told this is a fake photo, and may be from the 2004 demonstrations against the GOP. If you know for sure or have links, please comment. Thanks! jonathan-cunningham:...
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OWS: Looking for a radio station with a backbone? You won’t find it at NPR
CHARLES JOHNSON ELABORATES on NPR’s recent Fail: NPR has now totally caved in and stopped carrying [World of Opera] in response to the right wing media’s call for her personal destruction: NPR dumps...
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Tim Dickinson, who wrote “How the GOP became the party of the rich” was on...
Tim Dickinson, who wrote How the GOP Became the Party of the Rich, from the November 24, 2011 edition of Rolling Stone, was the guest on NPR’s Fresh Air today. You might want to listen… (audio link)...
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Thursday morning’s 9 remotely interesting things
1) Obama ‘confident’ of keeping to Afghan pullout plan - President Barack Obama said he was “confident” the United States could stick to its Afghan drawdown timetable despite a week of deadly unrest...
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Journalism from journalists? What kind of futuristic sci-fi world is this?
Because so many of us are tired of the “both sides do it, he said she said” meme in today’s media… Via: jayrosen – Actually Governor Romney, what you just said is completely incorrect… This is NPR....
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Juan Williams hates working for Fox News
Williams says he misses the “informed and influential” audience at NPR ‘big time.’ I take it that Juan is just now figuring out that the Fox News audience, for whom he chose to dance, is the opposite...
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Listen to David Sedaris read from “The Santaland Diaries”
“I’ve spent the last several days sitting in a crowded, windowless Macy’s classroom undergoing the first phase of elf training. You can be an entrance elf, a water cooler elf, a bridge elf, train elf,...
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