A NYPD narcotics detective has testified in federal court that it is common practice to fabricate drug charges against innocent people in order to meet their arrest quotas. “It was something I was seeing a lot of, whether it was from supervisors or undercovers and even investigators.” When asked by the judge whether he was […]
© Jen Sorensen House Majority Leader Eric Cantor expresses his concern about the Occupy Wall Street “mobs”. Unfortunately, in the wake of Citizen’s United, the free speech of ordinary citizens (even expressed as protests) is dwarfed by the “free speech” of unlimited corporate cash. Not only that, but since it is corporate cash (in the […]
The Democratic National Committee has created a brutal website WhichMitt.com that shows up some of Mitt Romney’s more egregious flip-flops, using only his own words (including video). As Politico puts it “It’s not just what he says, but the total forcefulness and sincerity with which he says it.” Here’s just one example — Romney on […]
© Matt Wuerker Not to mention gladly taking Stimulus funds and bragging about the projects after voting against them.
When will her fans figure out that she is just ripping them off, over and over and over again?
Republicans have finally kept their promise from the 2010 elections to focus on jobs. Yes, they got distracted by other pressing issues (like trying to outlaw abortion and repealing health care reform, not to mention destroying unions, Planned Parenthood, and NPR) but they finally released a draft budget proposal that does something about jobs, just […]
© Joel Pett Saying that the Solyndra scandal proves that green energy is a failure is the height of hypocrisy. How many wars have we fought, trillions of dollars have we wasted, and pristine environments have we destroyed just to keep getting our oil fix? We are like alcoholics who say “I tried drinking water, […]
If anyone doubts that corporations control our media — either on purpose or by neglect — Keith Olbermann points out the hypocrisy of the almost complete lack of coverage of the “Occupy Wall Street” protests. These protests have been going on in New York, and yet even the local newspapers (including the New York Times) […]
Congressman John Fleming (R-LA) appeared on MSNBC to talk about Obama’s new deficit reduction plan. Or rather, to argue against Obama’s plan to make the rich pay as much in taxes as the middle class do (Fleming is a multi-millionaire business owner). Fleming actually complained that after paying expenses and feeding his family “I have […]
Yesterday, I posted a video from the Daily Show talking about the Solyndra “scandal”, but it is not at all clear that it is really a scandal at all as most of the scandalous aspects of the situation are actually lies. For example, conservative media repeatedly claims that “a major Solyndra investor is also a […]
Steven Pearlstein has an great column on the self-contradictory economic claims of the current crop of GOP presidential candidates. Here’s two examples: Theirs is a magical world in which the gulf oil spill and the Japanese nuclear disaster never happened and there was never a problem with smog, polluted rivers or contaminated hamburger. It is […]
© Matt Wuerker My main question is whether Cheney believes the things he says in his book, or if he just doesn’t know how to tell the truth any more.
A few days ago I reported on the Justice Department filing suit to block the merger of AT&T with T-Mobile, but there is more news about how much AT&T has been lying about the benefits of their proposed merger. In order to promote the merger, AT&T announced that they would be moving 5,000 call center […]
© Stuart Carlson The GOP wants you to think that they are against raising taxes, so much that they claim that letting a tax cut expire counts as raising taxes (for example, in the case of the Bush tax cuts for the rich). So why are the Republicans trying to stop Obama from extending the […]
© Ben Sargent Perry continues to give high-level government jobs to his big campaign donors, despite the fact that he just announced he is running for president, and despite the fact that the New York Times just published a front page article about how Perry hands out tax breaks, contracts, and appointments to his strongest […]
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