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Rachel Maddow Explains our Health Care System

This video embodies why I love Rachel Maddow. As she says, don’t blame health insurance companies for our broken health care system — they are just doing what they are supposed to do:

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Solving Class Warfare

© Lloyd Dangle
Who says Republicans don’t want to solve the problems of small businesses, jobless people, below-water homeowners, the homeless, working poor, unwed mothers, and the destitute?
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Snow Job

© Matt Davies
The science behind global warming predicts that all the extra energy in the atmosphere will stimulate more extreme weather, both hot and cold. Just because it is snowing now doesn’t mean this hasn’t been the hottest decade in thousands of years. Likewise, just because it sometimes rains in the desert doesn’t mean that [...]

Who pays for all that corporate “free speech”?

Now that corporate spending to influence lawmakers has been declared to be protected free speech, who is going to end up paying for all those expensive ads and lobbyists, not to mention the cost of buying up the media so we never hear about it?

© Paul Fell
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So where are the conservative protests against activist judges?

Today, the US Supreme Court gave the US a giant push toward fascism (a corporatist economic system, which believes that the majority is unsuited to govern itself through democracy) by declaring that not only do corporations have free speech rights, but that corporations throwing barrels of money at politicians in order to buy legislation is [...]

Victory in the War on Terror

© Tom Toles
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The 9/11 of Layoffs

© Matt Bors
Many claim that WWII was the thing that ended the Great Depression, but I don’t think the current wars (Afghanistan, Iraq, Terror, Yemen, …) are making things better.
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The Decade of Fear

© Joel Pett
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2009 in Crazy

© Tom Tomorrow

© Tom Tomorrow
Added Bonus: The 12 Weirdest Right-Wing Conspiracies Of 2009.
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Republicans have some explaining to do

Republicans have often accused the Obama administration (and Democrats in general) of being soft on terrorism. Former VP Cheney even claimed that Obama’s policies were increasing the probability of a catastrophic nuclear or biological terrorist attack.
Indeed, in the wake of the recent attempted airline bombing over Detroit, Republicans have tried to blame the unsuccessful attack [...]

The Republican Christmas Wish List

© Lalo Alcaraz
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The Decade of Doom

© Jen Sorensen
Reality is definitely stranger than fiction.
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