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- 5 Things That Put America to Shame (97 comments)
- Alabama's Disgrace: Alabama still has a chance to undo the malignant anti-immigrant law (14 comments)
- The Third Party Fantasy (7 comments)
- Public Order Act: Free speech 'strangled by law that bans insults' (3 comments)
- Gay Donor Dumps Romney, Donates To Obama Over Gay Marriage (5 comments)
Bill Clinton, Boehner, And Some Other Rich White Guys Had A 'Summit' and Agreed: It's Your Fault
Seeded on Thu May 17, 2012 8:15 AM EDT (AlterNet.org)
This week a bunch of rich white guys held a "Fiscal Summit" and agreed that: 1. Despite the fact that unemployment is causing untold suffering for millions of people, it's not very important. 2. Despite the fact that wage stagnation is destroying the middle class, that's not …
Alabama's Disgrace: Alabama still has a chance to undo the malignant anti-immigrant law
Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 7:14 AM EDT (The New York Times)
Alabamians should see on Wednesday, the last day of the legislative session, just how badly the Republicans who control the Statehouse want to continue down the path of anti-immigrant extremism. The lawmakers’ challenge was to fix last year’s terrible immigration l …
The Third Party Fantasy
Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 7:09 AM EDT (The New York Times)
“Third parties are like bees,” the intellectual historian Richard Hofstadter wrote in 1955. “Once they have stung, they die.” It’s an aphorism that aptly describes the anti-slavery and anti-immigrant parties of the mid-nineteenth century, the Popul …
Gay Donor Dumps Romney, Donates To Obama Over Gay Marriage
Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 7:00 AM EDT ( Is Rick Santorum The Second Coming Of Bush/Cheney? | Addicting Info)
Mitt Romney just found out that sometimes bigotry just doesn’t pay off. Bill White, a registered Independent and head of a consulting firm in NY has asked for his donation back so he can give it to President Obama’s reelection campaign instead. Bill White is openly …
Public Order Act: Free speech 'strangled by law that bans insults'
Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 6:31 AM EDT (the Mail online)
Theresa May is being urged to reform a controversial law which bans ‘insulting words or behaviour’ amid mounting evidence that it is strangling free speech. Campaigners say the Public Order Act is being abused by over-zealous police and prosecutors to arrest Christ …
The Real Death Panel: For-Profit Healthcare
Seeded on Tue May 15, 2012 7:06 AM EDT ( Is Rick Santorum The Second Coming Of Bush/Cheney? | Addicting Info)
With great emotion and hyperbole, supporters of private healthcare have passionately advocated that a not-for-profit healthcare system would decrease the quality of care patients receive and create an environment where healthcare professionals would not have adequate tools and …
5 Things That Put America to Shame
Seeded on Tue May 15, 2012 6:49 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 ca …
Tale of Two Cities: NYPD's Racist Arrests Create Class War in New York
Seeded on Mon May 14, 2012 8:17 AM EDT (AlterNet.org)
This Saturday, May 12, in New York City, an alliance of more than 100 community activists, mothers, city councilmembers and religious leaders marched from Foley Square to One Police Plaza, demanding an end to police tactics they say have resulted in two New Yorks -- or as the a …
New Anti-Romney Obama Ad Contrasts Stark Gay Rights Differences (VIDEO)
Seeded on Fri May 11, 2012 8:31 AM EDT (Politics | The New Civil Rights Movement)
The Obama For America campaign team wasted no time in putting GOP presumed nominee Mitt Romney in the hot seat over his positions on civil rights for gay people. Comparing and contrasting President Obama‘s positions to Mitt Romney’s positions, the new ad touts Obama …
How the Corporate Right Hijacked America's Courts to Enrich the Top 1 Percent
Seeded on Fri May 11, 2012 6:57 AM EDT (AlterNet.org)
For a generation, America's political-economy has been gripped in a vicious cycle. Those at the top of the economic pile have taken an ever-growing share of the nation's income, and then leveraged that haul into ever-greater political power, which they have in turn used to rewr …
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