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TED Finally Posted The Income Inequality Speech You Weren't Supposed To See

Seeded on Thu May 17, 2012 8:39 PM EDT (Silicon Alley Insider)

TED finally posted a video of Nick Hannauer's TED talk on income inequality this afternoon, caving to media pressure and criticism that the organization was trying to placate its elite audience. As we noted earlier, Hannauer's presentation is actually pretty underwhelming …

politics, taxes, economics, middle-class, wealthy, ted, trickle-down-economics, job-creators, nick-hanauer

Marquette Poll Results Changed Because They Changed Their Sample: More Conservatives, Fewer Liberals & Moderates

Seeded on Thu May 17, 2012 8:09 PM EDT (Uppity Wisconsin)

Many in Wisconsin are shocked that Tom Barrett somehow went from being up by a point to being down by six points in a span of only two weeks. Have voters suddenly taken a sharp disliking to Tom Barrett? No. The poll numbers have changed because they significantly ch …

politics, conservatives, liberal, wisconsin, governor, recall, independent, walker, moderate, john-nichols

Misogynistic minister preaching patriarchy

Seeded on Sun May 13, 2012 12:35 PM EDT (Daily Kos)

You know there are times that I simply want to cuss. This is one of them. The Reverend Jesse Lee Peterson tops my cuss-meter charts this week as the winner for utter tomfoolery in the scramble to be at the top of the "find a black face to spout idiocies" sweepstakes. Lord kno …

politics, women, vote, misogyny, voting-rights, jesse-lee-peterson

Barney Frank Criticizes House Republican On Jobs, Wall Street Reform

Seeded on Sun May 13, 2012 12:09 PM EDT (The Huffington Post)

Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) lit into Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) on Sunday, when both appeared on ABC's "This Week." The show started off civilly, with Frank responding to host George Stephanopoulos' questions about the political implications of President Barack Obama's en …

politics, obama, women, jobs, recession, regulations, jp-morgan, george-stephanopoulos, this-week, dodd-frank

Governor's work time declines as national presence grows

Seeded on Sun May 13, 2012 12:02 PM EDT (Lacrosse Tribune)

On Jan. 28, 2011, two weeks before Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker unveiled his plan to slash public employee unions’ powers, he dined at the Washing-ton, D.C., area home of Fred Malek, a wealthy Republican power broker. It was a taste of what would become routine for Walker. …

politics, republican, wisconsin, governor, unions, protests, recall, scott-walker, calendar, collective-bargaining

WATCH: Why Austerity Won't Fix Europe [Fiore Cartoon]

Seeded on Sat May 12, 2012 4:29 PM EDT (MotherJones.com)

Mark Fiore is a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist and animator whose work has appeared in the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Examiner, and dozens of other publications. He is an active member of the American Ass …

politics, europe, economy, recession, cartoon, government-spending, austerity, spending-cuts, mark-fiore

Map: The State of Marriage Equality in America

Seeded on Sat May 12, 2012 4:10 PM EDT (MotherJones.com)

It's been a week of wins and losses no matter which side you're on in the gay-marriage debate. On Wednesday, President Barack Obama finally announced that he supports gay marriage. He emphasized that this is his personal opinion, and that he still thinks states should decide t …

politics, obama, gay, marriage, north-carolina, lgbt, same-sex-marriage, constitutional-amendment, sodomy, cousins

Romney Remains Firm On 'Right' Of Gays To Adopt For Almost Entire Day

Seeded on Sat May 12, 2012 2:30 PM EDT (Wonkette » top)

Mitt Romney has a thing (one) he has stood firm on, and that is that he is against gay marriage. Sure, there was a time as governor of Massachusetts when he managed to be on both sides of the issue simultaneously, both directing his administration to comply with state judges&rs …

politics, marriage, mitt-romney, gay-marriage, massachusetts, adoption, ted-kennedy, anti-bullying

Chamber Continues to Mislead on Health Care Law

Seeded on Sat May 12, 2012 2:18 PM EDT (FactCheck.org)

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s latest onslaught of television ads continues to miseducate voters about the potential impact of the health care law. Ads attacking Sen. Bill Nelson and former Rep. Alan Grayson claim that the health care law “could” cause 20 mil …

politics, health-care, republican, obamacare, democratic, cbo, chamber-of-commerce, aca, alan-grayson, sen-bill-nelson

Super weeds no easy fix for US agriculture-experts

Seeded on Sat May 12, 2012 10:53 AM EDT (Reuters)

A fast-spreading plague of "super weeds" taking over U.S. farmland will not be stopped easily, and farmers and government officials need to change existing practices if food production is to be protected, industry experts said on Thursday. "This is a complex problem," said wee …

environment, not-news, organic, monsanto, dow, usda, corn, cotton, roundup, resistant

Catholic Church Investigating New Threat To Humanity: The Girl Scouts

Seeded on Fri May 11, 2012 3:26 PM EDT (Wonkette » top)

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We wonder if there is anything the Catholic Church could be investigating besides the Girl Scouts of America? NO. There is NOT. Nothing at all, move along, move along! Yes, Mother Church is busy investigating whether it should … well, not sure. Thunder from the pulpit ab …

us-news, catholic-church, girl-scouts

Romney's 'Gross' Exaggeration on 'Obamacare'

Seeded on Thu May 10, 2012 7:07 PM EDT (FactCheck.org )

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Mitt Romney falsely claims government will “constitute … almost 50 percent” of the U.S. economy when the new federal health care law takes full effect. But Romney gets to 50 percent by erroneously counting all health care spending — private and public &md …

politics, mitt-romney, healthcare-law, romney-not-telling-the-truth-on-how-much-healthcare-law-would-cost

The future is brighter than you think

Seeded on Sun May 6, 2012 2:15 PM EDT (CNN)

I've been talking to corporate groups a lot lately about the idea that the future is going to be better than many of us think -- that we will live in a world of abundance made possible by new technology. Repeatedly, I'm thanked by the audiences for giving them a positive outloo …

technology, water, violence, poverty, future, cell-phones, abundance, standard-of-living

George 'Goober' Lindsey dead at 83

Seeded on Sun May 6, 2012 2:09 PM EDT ()

Actor and comedian George "Goober" Lindsey died early Sunday morning after a brief illness, according to his publicist. He was 83 years old.

entertainment, andy-griffith-show, goober, gomer-pyle

Scott Walker is talking a lot less now about his pledge to create 250,000 new jobs

Seeded on Sun May 6, 2012 2:02 PM EDT (Madison.com)

Gov. Scott Walker is downplaying his pledge to create 250,000 new private-sector jobs by the end of his term, a review of his official pronouncements suggests. Walker’s office and campaign staff members say he remains committed to this goal, a staple of his campaign and e …

politics, republican, jobs, wisconsin, governor, recall, scott-walker

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This week in the War on Voting: Don't mess with 93-year-old ladies in Pennsylvania

Seeded on Sun May 6, 2012 12:20 PM EDT (Daily Kos)

Viviette Applewhite is 93 years old and has voted in nearly every election for the last 60 years. She marched with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in Georgia. She has tried for years to obtain photo ID to no avail. Under Pennsylvania's new voter ID law, Ms. Applewhite's vote will …

politics, voting, pennsylvania, aclu, pittsburgh, martin-luther-king, voter-id, disenfranchisement, rock-the-vote, league-of-women-voters

Dumbing democracy down: Leadership is not a drinking game

Seeded on Sun May 6, 2012 12:06 PM EDT (Daily Kos)

I don't know about the rest of you, but when I'm looking for a new doctor the first thing I consider about the candidates is whether or not I'd like to have a beer with them. When I was diagnosed with cancer, I immediately headed out to a bar to find an oncologist. I use the sa …

politics, obama, bush, romney, leadership, beer, al-gore, drinking, scott-brown, lincoln

What Everyone Should Know About The Secretive Group Trying To Swift Boat Barack Obama

Seeded on Sun May 6, 2012 11:29 AM EDT (Think Progress)

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A secretive right-wing group, Veterans For A Strong America, is attempting to do to President Obama what the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth did to Sen. John Kerry. And they aren’t shy about it.

politics, barack-obama, special-forces, osama-bin-laden-s, osama-bin-laden8217-s, common-defense, koch-brothers8217, south-dakoa, strong-amerca, strong-american

Wisconsin Recall: How Scott Walker's Fundraising Could Decide the Race

Seeded on Sat May 5, 2012 12:40 PM EDT (TIME)

The battle of Wisconsin was never going to be cheap. Scott Walker, the Republican governor facing a landmark recall election next month, is perhaps the most polarizing politician in the country not named Obama. The June 5 election in a bitterly divided swing state is seen by bo …

politics, republican, wisconsin, recall, scott-walker, david-koch, tom-barrett, kathleen-falk, kich-brothers

David Cay Johnston: Social Security Is Not Going Broke

Seeded on Sat May 5, 2012 12:06 PM EDT (Truthdig)

Seeded by chitownty (Clipped by CuriousG)

The lie that Social Security is going broke must be challenged every time the issue is raised.

us-news, social-security, retirement

Paul Abrams: Governor Romney's Job Growth Record -- Worse than Obama and Carter's

Seeded on Sat May 5, 2012 11:55 AM EDT (The Huffington Post)

Mitt Romney's sole claim to the presidency is that his business experience will enable him to accelerate job growth in America. The GOP debates revealed that Romney was a failure as governor, with Massachusetts 47th in the nation in job growth, and only one of the four states …

politics, obama, republicans, gop, recession, romney, recovery, massachusetts, job-creation, bush-cheney

New Poll: Majority of North Carolina Voters More Idiotic Than Previously Thought

Seeded on Sat May 5, 2012 11:32 AM EDT (Wonkette » top)

Your Wonkette editor was happily trawling polling data on her Friday afternoon — how else do you get a wild weekend started — when she belatedly noticed a fun head-scratcher in a recent Public Policy Polling item about the upcoming vote on North Carolina’s Ame …

politics, north-carolina, gay-marriage, same-sex-marriage, civil-unions, constitutional-amendment

The White House Situation Room during the killing of Bin Laden

Seeded on Thu May 3, 2012 8:42 PM EDT (msnbc.com)

President Barack Obama describes the killing of Osama bin Laden as the “most important single day” of his presidency and said that the decision to carry out the raid was one that he had to ultimately make alone. “I did choose the risk,” the president sa …

politics, obama, bush, pakistan, clinton, osama-bin-laden, kabul, brian-williams, karzai, situation-room

Ann Romney's $990 T-shirt is indicative of a tone-deaf campaign

Seeded on Thu May 3, 2012 7:19 PM EDT (The Washington Post)

The very wealthy Mitt and Ann Romney have often been painted as out of touch with average Americans. Ann’s pricey shirt will not help her husband change those perceptions, no matter how many Laundromat photo ops are on the campaign’s daily itinerary. On Tuesday Ann …

politics, romney, t-shirt, ann-romney, 990

May 1, 2003, Mission Accomplished

Seeded on Tue May 1, 2012 9:35 PM EDT ()

"Mission Accomplished" refers to a banner titled "Mission Accomplished" that was displayed on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln during a televised address by United States President George W. Bush on May 1, 2003 and the controversy that followed. Bush stated at the time …

politics, obama, afghanistan, iraq, republicans, bush, war, bin-laden, may-day, mission-accomplished

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In recent months a growing chorus of commentators has begun to dismantle the notion that the current polarization of American politics is equally the fault of “both sides.” Most notably, two old Washington hands and collaborators, the Brookings Institution’ …
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Daily Kos: Refute This, Republicans!
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The graphic says it all. Republican policies in the last 50 years have been a disaster for Americans. Democratic Presidents create more than twice the jobs than their Republican counterparts. Democratic Presidencies result in NINE TIMES greater growth in the stock m …
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Family values ex-Nevada lawmaker appears in bikini for Maxim
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A former Nevada state Senator who ran on a Christian family values platform has posed in a bikini as a write-in candidate for the men's magazine Maxim's "Hot 100" contest. .... Halseth ran as a political unknown in 2010, surprising observers by winning as a Republican in …
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TED Finally Posted The Income Inequality Speech You Weren't Supposed To See
Source: Silicon Alley Insider
TED finally posted a video of Nick Hannauer's TED talk on income inequality this afternoon, caving to media pressure and criticism that the organization was trying to placate its elite audience. As we noted earlier, Hannauer's presentation is actually pretty underwhelming …
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Marquette Poll Results Changed Because They Changed Their Sample: More Conservatives, Fewer Liberals & Moderates
Source: Uppity Wisconsin
Many in Wisconsin are shocked that Tom Barrett somehow went from being up by a point to being down by six points in a span of only two weeks. Have voters suddenly taken a sharp disliking to Tom Barrett? No. The poll numbers have changed because they significantly ch …
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