Mitch McConnell insists lady Republicans 'don't see any evidence' of War on Women
by Kaili Joy Gray, Daily Kos
on April 10, 2012
Wow. Continuing the Republican Party's failtastic theme of insisting that there is no War on Women (or caterpillars), except that there is a War on Women, but President Obama started it, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell decided to keep digging during an appearance on a radio show when he was asked to comment about the Republicans' War on Women:
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Corporations Plan for Post-Middle-Class America
by Bernard Starr, Algemeiner
on April 10, 2012
American corporations have pretty much written off the middle class. Their actions declare that the middle class is moribund.
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Daily Show: Supreme Court Ruling Allowing Stripsearch
by The Daily Show
on April 04, 2012
Jon Steward on The Daily Show discusses the Supreme Court decision to allow stripsearches in any arrest.
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How American Corporations Transformed from Producers to Predators
by William Lazonick, Alternet
on April 02, 2012
Over the last 30 years, corporations have turned on the 99 percent. Here's how it happened and how to fight back.
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Truthout: All Parties Ignore the One Way to Reduce Health Care Costs: Single-Payer
by David U. Himmelstein MD and Steffie Woolhandler MD, MPH, Truthout
on April 02, 2012
In a recent full-page newspaper advertisement, IBM touted massive medical savings through computerization. It's a promise they've made before, starting with a report issued in 1961. If only these promises were true.
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NY Times Op-Ed Warns Unaccountable Super-PACS Likely to Be Used for Voter Suppression in 2012
by BradBlog
on April 01, 2012
In today's New York Times, Jim Arkedis and Lindsay Mark Lewis of the Progressive Policy Institute (Lewis also previously worked for the DNC), warn that Super-PACS aren't just perverting the electoral system through millions in deceptive ads for or against the candidates they are secretly funded to support, but they may also pose an even more direct, more insidious threat to our democracy.
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Poll: Voters want super PACs to be illegal
by Chris Cilliza, Washington Post
on March 29, 2012
Nearly seven in 10 registered voters would like super PACs to be illegal, including more than half who feel that way strongly, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
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Nine Strategies to End Corporate Rule
by Robert Weissman, YES! Magazine
on March 21, 2012
The last few years have seen a series of corporate catastrophes, for which the perpetrator companies have escaped any meaningful accountability. Big banks and giant Wall Street firms tricked and ripped off homeowners and investors, and crashed the national and global economy. BP’s reckless operations poisoned the Gulf of Mexico in one of the worst oil disasters in history. Massey Energy’s cost-cutting led to the Upper Big Branch coal mine collapse that killed 29 workers.
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Andrew Bacevich on Changing Our Military Mindset
by Bill Moyers
on March 26, 2012
Nine years after Baghdad erupted in "shock and awe," we're once again hearing in America the drumbeat for war in the Middle East. Now, the bull's-eye is on Iran. But what we need more than a simple change of target is a complete change in perspective, says Andrew Bacevich, a West Point graduate and Vietnam veteran-turned-scholar who's become one of the most perceptive observers of America's changing role in the world.
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Congress Takes a Step or Two Forward, Two Steps Back
by Michael Winship via CommonDreams
on March 26, 2012
Watching some of the news coming from Capitol Hill last week, two old music videos started buzzing around in our heads. One was the classic “I’m Just a Bill,” from Schoolhouse Rock, in which a beleaguered piece of legislation sits outside on the marble steps hoping to someday become a law. The other was that Paula Abdul “Opposites Attract” number from 1989 with the sleazy cartoon cat and the chorus that starts, “I take two steps forward, I take two steps back.”
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