July 2012
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Bombshell: Koch-Funded Study Finds 'Global Warming... →
The careful analysis by our team is laid out in five scientific papers now online at BerkeleyEarth.org. That site also shows our chart of temperature from 1753 to the present, with its clear fingerprint of volcanoes and carbon dioxide, but containing no component that matches solar activity. Four of our papers have undergone extensive scrutiny by the scientific community, and the newest, a paper...
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Almost half of Philadelphia voters might be banned... →
tinfoilandtea:
Under a new voter ID law that may primarily affect minorities and elderly Americans, 43 percent of Philadelphia city voters may find themselves ineligible to vote when they try to cast their ballots this November.
Data obtained by the Philadelphia City Paper found that 1,636,168 PA voters might not have valid IDs to partake in the 2012 presidential election.
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Truth: yobaba: Repealing President Obama’s... →
yobaba:
Repealing President Obama’s healthcare law would let members of Congress keep their government-subsidized insurance coverage after they retire — a benefit they lost under the health law.
The Affordable Care Act — specifically, a Republican amendment to the Affordable Care Act —…
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Holder Calls Voter ID Laws ‘Poll Taxes’ |... →
justinspoliticalcorner:
Attorney General Eric Holder deviated from his prepared remarks during a speech before the NAACP on Tuesday and called voter ID laws “poll taxes.”
“Under the proposed law, concealed handgun licenses would be acceptable forms of photo ID, but student IDs would not,” Holder said. “Many of those without IDs would have to travel great distances to get them, and some would...
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Reality as Seen from the Right |... →
justinspoliticalcorner:
Earlier this year, a virus infected millions of computers around the world that caused the infected computers to visit fake websites and prevented owners from visiting security websites to remove it. In an effort to stop the virus, the FBI set up several clean servers so that those infected would still be able to access the internet and remove the virus from their...
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Without GOP, Unemployment Would be Under 6% |... →
The GOP has been on an economic wrecking mission ever since the election of Barack Obama - indeed we now know that leading Republican strategists and legislators met and planned a course of economic sabotage and complete obstruction on Obama’s very first day in office.
This obstruction has had a huge price - a deliberate price that the GOP is betting the American people will blame on President...
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“Politico released an interview in which I announced I wasn’t a conservative...”
– Jonathan Krohn, former “right-wing child star” (via aatombomb)
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Fox Guest's Voter ID Law Defense: "Voting Is A... →
pieceinthepuzzlehumanity:
I’m just going to leave this here.
SMH.
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Health-care law’s Medicaid provision too good to... →
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bohemiansouth:
Ezra Klein writes:
Over the coming weeks and months, you’re going to hear a lot of Republican governors fulminate against the Affordable Care Act and swear to do everything possible to stand in its way — including refusing to participate in the Medicaid expansion. In fact, the governors of Florida, South Carolina and Louisiana have already promised to do exactly...
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Investigation: Mitt Romney’s Offshore Accounts,... →
sarahlee310:
A person who worked for Mitt Romney at the consulting firm Bain and Co. in 1977 remembers him with mixed feelings. “Mitt was … a really wonderful boss,” the former employee says. “He was nice, he was fair, he was logical, he said what he wanted … he was really encouraging.” But Bain and Co., the person recalls, pushed employees to find out secret revenue and sales data on its...
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In totally obvious news today: The rich get richer... →
jaison96:
peachsss:
The rich are getting richer but the money is not trickling down. The wealthiest Americans are spending less of their money, reducing total U.S. consumption by $400 billion a year, according to Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Alan Krueger.
Its been obvious for well over a decade that this trickle down theory is NOT WORKING. Lets get back to tried and true fair...
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