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A Quantum Theory of Mitt Romney - NYTimes.com
Seeded on Mon Apr 2, 2012 6:48 PM EDT (The New York Times)
The basic concepts behind this model are: Complementarity. In much the same way that light is both a particle and a wave, Mitt Romney is both a moderate and a conservative, depending on the situation (Fig. 1). It is not that he is one or the other; it is not that he is one and t …
Diagnosing the Republican Brain | Mother Jones
Seeded on Fri Mar 30, 2012 2:25 PM EDT (MotherJones.com)
Insanity has been defined as doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome, and that's precisely where our country stands now with regard to the conservative denial of reality. For a long time, we've been trained to equivocate, to not to see it for …
Yes, There Is A Republican War On Women Voters | Fox News
Seeded on Thu Mar 15, 2012 6:30 PM EDT (FOXNews.com)
I got a serious case of whiplash when I realized I was reading this article about the GOP War on Women on the Fox News site. Please help me, I have fell into an alternative universe where Fox News is "Fair and Balanced"
Lead Plaintiff In Health Care Reform Case Filed Bankruptcy With Medical Debt | ThinkProgress
Seeded on Sun Mar 11, 2012 2:21 PM EDT (Think Progress)
The lead plaintiff in the legal case against the Affordable Care Act filed for bankruptcy after accruing nearly $5,000 in medical debt. According to the Los Angeles Times, plaintiff Mary Brown was uninsured last fall when her husband’s medical bills stacked up to $4,500.
Wesley Clark: Make Solar Energy A Military Mission - Forbes
Seeded on Tue Feb 14, 2012 4:37 PM EST (Forbes)
General Wesley Clark lays out a remarkably clear picture of what Solar Energy can mean for our country. Environmentalists need to pay attention here, he never mentions climate change or any of the usual 'tree hugger' reasons.
Low IQ & Conservative Beliefs Linked to Prejudice | Racism, Bias & Politics | Right-Wing and Left-Wing Ideology | LiveScience
Seeded on Thu Jan 26, 2012 7:22 PM EST (Live Science)
There's no gentle way to put it: People who give in to racism and prejudice may simply be dumb, according to a new study that is bound to stir public controversy. The research finds that children with low intelligence are more likely to hold prejudiced attitudes as adults.
Offsetting global warming: Molecule in Earth's atmosphere could 'cool the planet'
Seeded on Fri Jan 13, 2012 5:02 PM EST (Science Daily)
In a breakthrough paper published in Science, researchers from The University of Manchester, The University of Bristol and Sandia National Laboratories report the potentially revolutionary effects of Criegee biradicals. These invisible chemical intermediates are powerful oxid …
BBC News - Crossrail's giant tunnelling machines unveiled
Seeded on Mon Jan 2, 2012 8:30 PM EST (BBC News - Japan hit by massive earthquake)
Engineers are getting ready to start tunnelling beneath London in what has become Europe's biggest construction project. Crossrail will cost almost £15bn and by linking areas east and west of the capital, will increase the city's rail capacity by 10%. The company has jus …
Prejudice comes from a basic human need and way of thinking, new research suggests
Seeded on Wed Dec 28, 2011 6:49 PM EST (Science Daily)
People who are prejudiced feel a much stronger need to make quick and firm judgments and decisions in order to reduce ambiguity.
Google mulls divorcing Chamber of Commerce - Jennifer Martinez - POLITICO.com
Seeded on Mon Dec 5, 2011 7:14 PM EST (Politico)
Google is considering ditching the U.S.
GOP Taking Away Billionaires' Food Stamps
Seeded on Mon Dec 5, 2011 3:28 PM EST (Wonkette » top)
Now this isn’t a thing we have very much to say about, mostly just a thing we’d like to share, because it’s easily the funniest thing we’ve read all day: “In addition, Senate Republican leaders would go after ‘millionaires and billionaires,&r …
Why aren't the bottom 99 percent marching in the streets? Sept 22, 2010
Seeded on Fri Oct 7, 2011 12:58 AM EDT (Slate)
Why aren't the bottom 99 percent marching in the streets? Why income distribution can't be crowd-sourced. By Timothy Noah|Posted Monday, Sept.
Obama Finally Wages Class Warfare | Mother Jones
Seeded on Fri Sep 30, 2011 2:58 PM EDT (MotherJones.com)
He was, after all, half right when suggesting that class warfare makes for rotten economics. As beautifully demonstrated in a recent set of charts from Dave Gilson and Carolyn Perot, the American wealthy class has been engaging in class warfare since the mid-70's when the rich …
GOP: Party of Predators Urges Bernanke and Fed to Stifle Job Creation - The Daily Beast
Seeded on Wed Sep 21, 2011 6:16 PM EDT ()
Meeting today’s GOP halfway is like letting a sexual predator take your clothes off. You haven’t been touched yet, but things are unlikely to end happily for you.
HOME - PolicyShop
Seeded on Tue Sep 20, 2011 1:24 PM EDT ()
This article is an opinion piece that suggests that President Obama may be injecting the current wealth inequality in our country into a campaign issue.
Why Scientists suck at selling ideas
Sun Sep 11, 2011 5:20 PM EDT
Why Climate Change Scientists suck at sales. How can so many in our society bury their collective heads in the sand and ignore the facts of science? How can science be so successful at unraveling the secrets of the universe and fail so miserably in motivating humanity into …
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Political Animal - Boehner's functionally illiterate on economic policy
Seeded on Thu Sep 1, 2011 1:20 PM EDT (Political Animal)
Political Animal Blog May 11, 2011 10:40 AM Boehner’s functionally illiterate on economic policy By Steve Benen Facebook Twitter Digg Reddit StumbleUpon Delicious House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) appears to have made a terrible error in his speech to the Economic Club o …
Wisconsin recall fight ends where it began: With a Big Lie - The Plum Line - The Washington Post
Seeded on Tue Aug 9, 2011 9:09 PM EDT (The Washington Post)
Whatever happens tonight in Wisconsin, it has been a constant of this fight that Republicans have consistently falsified the reason labor and Dems have waged this battle so bitterly.
The worst thing the GOP has ever done?
Seeded on Sun Aug 7, 2011 4:10 PM EDT (Political Animal)
The worst thing the GOP has ever done? Steven Benen writes: And while I’m open to suggestion on this, I still think there’s something unique about the Republicans holding the full faith and credit of the United States hostage, threatening to impose a catastrophe on …
Obama Turns 50 Despite Republican Opposition | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
Seeded on Thu Aug 4, 2011 1:32 PM EDT (The Onion)
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Defense Spending-The real Cut Cap and Balance
Thu Jul 21, 2011 6:31 PM EDT
Who is after us that we need to spend more on defense the the rest of the world combined? Just who do we fear? Aren't we the shining light on a hill that the world admires and respects? Have our friends deserted us and while our enemies joined forces to destroy us?&nb …
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Congress may force release of NLRB Boeing records - seattlepi.com
Seeded on Mon Jul 18, 2011 9:33 PM EDT (Seattle news, sports, events, entertainment | seattlepi.com - Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
GOP's Issa violates Attorney Client privilege to support big business in a NLRB case.
TRENDING: Cain: I'm more qualified than Bachmann – CNN Political Ticker - CNN.com Blogs
Seeded on Mon Jul 18, 2011 5:49 PM EDT (CNN)
So what is the point, so am I and the majority of Americans?
House Dems Slam 'Racist,' 'Rovian' Voter ID Laws; Says DOJ Isn't Doing Enough (VIDEO) | TPMMuckraker
Seeded on Thu Jul 14, 2011 10:58 PM EDT (Talking Points Memo)
No major news broadcasters covered this. The GOP felt strongly enough about this to pass restrictive rights across the country but the main stream media ignores this coordinated attack on voter rights.
Political Animal - When there's no method to the madness
Seeded on Wed Jul 13, 2011 8:47 PM EDT (Political Animal)
Article discusses whether Republicans are shrewd negotiators or 'just barking mad'
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Daily Kos: Massive Whooping Cough Epidemic In Washington State Related to Severe Budget CutsMix two parts of austerity with one part of uninformed vaccine hysteria, and you get a plague. Lovely.
Girl Scouts caught in a culture war (again)
Conservatives' antipathy towards the Girl Scouts used to be found on the fringes. In 1994, for example, James Dobson's Focus on the Family published a memorable attack on the Girl Scouts, insisting the group "lost their way" after the Scouts made a religious oath optional for me …
Wednesday's Mini-Report
Today's edition of quick hits: * In an awful new controversy, some U.S. paratroopers took photographs of themselves posing with Afghan human body parts.
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