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- Mike Huckabee, Morally Repugnant Phony Who Released Convicted Rapist for Political Revenge against Bill Clinton (12 comments)
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Little Green Footballs - Breitbart Editor John Nolte Calls for Right Wing 'Twitter War'
Seeded on Thu May 17, 2012 3:04 PM EDT (Little Green Footballs)
There is no such thing as right-wing violence. Not at all. Teachers who take kids to protests without parents’ permission should be murdered. — John Nolte(@NolteNC) November 5, 2011
Ordinary citizens protest fracking because it contaminates drinking water and spews carcinogens while President Obama cheers the frackers on
Seeded on Thu May 17, 2012 1:52 PM EDT ()
Fracking can provide massive amounts of methane gas to be used domestically and millions of gallons of wastewater containing carcinogens. There are roughly 400,000 of these wells across America and they have created a lot of committed opponents. During Obama's State of the Un …
Daily Kos: Mitt Romney tries to erase his Jeremiah Wright attack
Seeded on Thu May 17, 2012 12:53 PM EDT (Daily Kos)
I repudiate the effort by that PAC to promote an ad strategy of the nature they've described. [...] I think what we've seen so far from the Obama campaign is a campaign of character assassination. [...] I hope that isn't the course of this campaign. So in regards to that PAC, I …
Paul Krugman: Why We Regulate
Seeded on Thu May 17, 2012 12:14 PM EDT (The New York Times)
Why, exactly, are banks special? Because history tells us that banking is and always has been subject to occasional destructive “panics,” which can wreak havoc with the economy as a whole. Current right-wing mythology has it that bad banking is always the result of …
How the Christian Right's Homophobia Scares Away Religious Young People | Belief | AlterNet
Seeded on Thu May 17, 2012 11:07 AM EDT (AlterNet.org)
In response to the latest gay-bashing vote in North Carolina, evangelical writer and speaker Rachel Held Evans wrote an impassioned plea to her fellow Christians to just cut it out. She points to statistics showing how much damage the church has sustained because of i …
Mike Huckabee, Morally Repugnant Phony Who Released Convicted Rapist for Political Revenge against Bill Clinton
Thu May 17, 2012 10:17 AM EDT
There are too many different sources for this to be a seed. I'm posting this in response to several seeds that keep coming up about Mike Huckabee's "morally repugnant" comments. So let's talk about what's repugnant. In 1999, after heavy encouragement from Arkansas Gov …
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May 16 Fox News Poll Shows Obama 46, Romney 39
Seeded on Thu May 17, 2012 9:55 AM EDT (FOXNews.com)
Check it out before they bury it.
5 Things That Put America to Shame
Seeded on Thu May 17, 2012 1:14 AM EDT (AlterNet.org)
Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses...I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" These words, from poet Emma Lazarus, were inscribed on the Statue of Liberty over 100 years ago. Today the golden door has a lock on it, paid for with record profits from the health car …
How badly has fracking polluted drinking water in Dimock, Pennsylvania
Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 7:59 PM EDT (Truthout - All Articles)
The trouble started in 2008, when the wells used by several Dimock families were contaminated with methane. In 2009, fracking firm Cabot Oil & Gas was fined by state regulators for contaminating the wells with methane while fracking underground. Cabot routinely denies cau …
The Chamber of Commerce's Dark Money Days May Be Over | Mother Jones
Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 4:35 PM EDT (MotherJones.com)
In the annals of loopholes, one that the Federal Election Commission, the nation's election watchdog, created in 2008 could rank as one of the most absurd. The FEC's Republican commissioners decided that shadowy nonprofits running political ads (think: the US Chamber of Commerce) …
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