ABC News has a shocking article about how Fire Departments are charging homeowners for the cost of the fire trucks and personnel used to fight their house fires — and how residents are “horrified” when they receive a bill for sometimes tens of thousands of dollars after their home burns down.
What does this have to [...]
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Saturday, February 6, 2010
Many of the Republican talking points during the Health care reform debate accused the Democrats of trying to ration health care, cut Medicare, and even institute “death panels” that would decide your granny didn’t deserve to live. Well, the death panels were a complete fabrication, and cutting Medicare turned out to actually be making [...]
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Two years ago, CBS refused to run ads created by Moveon.org during the Superbowl, claiming that “the spot violated the network’s policy against running issue advocacy advertising”. They also refused to run an ad from PETA, the animal rights group, because they do not accept advertisements on “controversial issues of public importance.” This year CBS [...]
Sometimes things get so hypocritical in politics that you can’t figure out where the cycle of hypocrisy begins or ends. Deceiver.com has an interesting article wonderfully titled “Alabama Anti-Gambling Task-Force Chief Wins Jackpot, Resigns. Then Things Get Weird.”
It seems that David Barber, the head of the Alabama Task Force on Illegal Gambling — yes, [...]
Since when is one parent complaining about a book enough to get it pulled from schools?
In seemingly unrelated incidents, a Virginia school district has yanked Anne Frank’s famous diary off its curriculum and shelves, because of a short passage about genitalia:
There are little folds of skin all over the place, you can hardly find it. [...]
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Jame O’Keefe became an instant conservative hero last fall when he released film allegedly showing ACORN employees advising him on how to break the law. In the video, he dressed up like a pimp in a cheap X rated movie. However it was later determined that O’Keefe edited the video footage to change appearances. For [...]
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Thursday, January 21, 2010
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 [...]
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Do you recognize any of the following quotes from Republican politicians?
“It will raise your taxes, increase the deficit, and kill over one million jobs.” – Joel Hefley (R-CO)
“This plan will not work. If it was to work, then I’d have to become a Democrat. … your economic program is a job killer.” – John Kasich [...]
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
One of Andrew Sullivan’s readers hits the nail on the head when he says that it is time for a different kind of rage. You should go read it, but I’ll give you a quote to whet your appetite:
Republicans lecturing the country about fiscal responsibilty, economic recovery, governing — or anything else, for that matter [...]
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Or maybe they just have Institutional Alzheimer’s disease.
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The propaganda technique of the “big lie” requires two things: that the lie be so outrageous that people don’t bother to rebut it, and that you keep repeating it so that people with impaired senses of reality start believing it.
And indeed, when former Dubya press secretary Dana Perino claimed that there were no terrorist attacks [...]
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Saturday, January 2, 2010
Fox News heavily promoted the “Tea Party Express”, a bus tour around the country of tea party events. But now, it turns out that over two-thirds of the money that was donated by Tea Partiers to this event was channeled back to Republican political operatives.
The Tea Party Express was organized by the political action committee [...]
