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Author Colin Woodard explains how these "11 nations" formed, and how they affect today's politics.
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It’s easy to understand why Republicans are comparing the Obamacare rollout to Hurricane Katrina. It’s still wrong.
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The debate over the health care law has been particularly messy and misleading in the past week, and there is plenty of blame to go around over who created the confusion. Let’s start with what is clear.
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More than half say it's bad for the country the GOP controls the House, a new national poll conducted after the end of the partial government shutdown finds.
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Michael Charney's insight:
There is some sanity in the world after all....
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I think there is a very deep denialism in the environmental movement among the Big Green groups. And to be very honest with you, I think it’s been more damaging than the right-wing denialism in terms of how much ground we’ve lost. Because it has steered us in directions that have yielded very poor results....
Michael Charney's insight:
One of the left's darlings dares iconoclastic thinking; I wonder if we can expect any backlash, the result of typically arrogant cognitive biases... Should be interesting.... (Personally, I think she's brilliant!) MC
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New York Daily News
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San Diego Mayor Bob Filner is officially banned from at least four Hooters locations in the city, with the restaurants prominently displaying anti-Filner posters originally created by conservative radio host Glenn Beck, The Blaze reported.
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Raising large sums of money is clearly one of the ways in which freshmen legislators can scare off potential challengers and prove their value to their party leadership. But this system allows wealthy interests to advance their own agenda.
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Though William Shakespeare regularly dominates surveys of the greatest literature of all time, he remains a surprisingly controversial figure of literary history — while some believe The Bard profoundly changed modern life, others question whether he wrote anything at all. Doubts of authorship aside, one thing Shakespeare most certainly didn’t write is the cult-classic Star Wars — but he, as Ian Doescher brilliantly imagines, could have: Behold William Shakespeare’s Star Wars (public library), a masterwork of literary parody on par with the household tips of famous writers and Edgar Allan Poe as an Amazon reviewer.
Party Recon's comment,
August 12, 2013 11:08 AM
Thanks for starting my week off with a laugh Michael! Brilliant stuff.
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by GREG RUSSAK <Insert snarky joke here.>
David Lawder’s article about what has happened and is happening now over this issue of Congressional health insurance premiums is more evidence of how completely dysfunctional our – rather, what used to be ‘our’ – Congress has become.
First, there’s Iowa GOP Senator Grassley. He writes an amendment to The Affordable Care Act demanding that Congress and their staff be forced to buy health insurance from the Obamacare exchanges. Forget the fact that the Act and its exchanges were designed for people without employer-sponsored healthcare insurance, not for people who already have it.
C’est la vie. Politics is politics.
Grassley and the GOP presumably felt compelled to obstruct and obfuscate yet again. That’s their modus operandi these days. They’re perfectly comfortable knowing that Grassley’s amendment made no sense and had no applicability in the real world of The Affordable Care Act. Politics in its purest form really.
Speaking of true-to-form politics, the Democrats next proceeded to cave on Grassley’s amendment. I’m sorry, they ‘comprised’ in order to…..what exactly? Not a single Republican voted for Obamacare and it seems they never will. The Democrats seem incapable of negotiating with anyone but themselves most of the time and the GOP knows it.
So now that they’re all facing the reality of actually having to pay much more for their own healthcare coverage under Grassley’s amendment, the Democrats are worried about a ‘brain drain’ from Capitol Hill?
Not to worry. Remember, this is politics. [MORE]
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"And taxes stayed pretty much just that way for the next 15 years, until the early 1960s. Importantly, this was one of the most successful eras in US economic history. The middle class boomed, the economy boomed, and the stock market boomed. And all with the top marginal income tax rate over 90%. This suggests that the Republican mantra about high marginal tax rates killing the economy is, well, a bunch of crap."
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From
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The American public is clearly ticked off. Between the government shutdown, the troubled rollout of the Affordable Care Act, and the pace of the economic
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We are in the midst of an epic battle between the people of the world and transnational corporations.
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Tom Steyer and Michael Bloomberg spent more than $2 million each to help elect Terry McAuliffe.
Liberals do it, too.
I believe we can #GetMoneyOut of politics faster than by amending the Constitution (although we still need to do that, too) by showing our support for the American Anti-Corruption Act.
Here's a link where anyone can become a Citizen Co-Sponsor of the Act. http://unitedrepublic.actionkit.com/event/cosponsor/9815/
Please sign on and spread the word.
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He's turning Japanese. Does the conservative movement have any mechanism whatsoever that would allow it to process this news? Or will Cruz and his allies end up like the Japanese soldiers still fighting on from remote outposts in the Pacific, unaware that the war has ended?
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As the government shutdown continues, the GOP's favorable rating is now 28%, the lowest Gallup has measured for either party in its trend since 1992. The Democratic Party's favorability of 43% is down slightly from last month.
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In the post-New Deal America of the 1950s and '60s, the idea of the United States becoming a banana republic would have seemed absurd to most Americans. Problems and all, the U.S.
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In his hilariously over-the-top, self-aggrandizing return to MSNBC's 5pm hour, Ed Schultz slammed the Republicans for spending the summer "lying." As I Want It All by Queen blared, Schultz could be seen giving high fives to adoring crowds. In full promotion mode for the President, the liberal host declared of Obamacare: "This is the most positive thing that this country has done since the civil rights legislation that was passed back in the '60s." (Apparently winning the Cold War didn't make the cut.)
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(CNN) – President Obama said Thursday the United States "deplores" the violence against civilians in the recent Egyptian military crackdown against protests in Cairo.
Michael Charney's insight:
Seems like a pretty meaningless pronouncement. We sit halfway between an elected democracy and a military coup, and are unwilling to declare it either....
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Michael Savage - Obama and Mao - National Civilian Security Force - Gestapo and Similarities. A very relevant monologue conducted by Michael Savage. Sound Cl...
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Lesley Stahl accurately and eloquently talks about the source of our major problems coming from our electoral system which distracts our leaders from solving...
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CNSNews.com was launched on June 16, 1998 as a news source for individuals, news organizations and broadcasters who put a higher premium on balance than spin and seek news that’s ignored or under-reported as a result of media bias by omission.
Greg Russak's comment,
August 11, 2013 1:30 PM
Not a real fan of mixing government and religion. History shows that it never works out well for non-believers.
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