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Just when you thought the supermajority could not perform any worse, this past week demonstrated again that Tennessee's fear-based politics may have no bottom: Even more rejections of health care coverage for poor Tennesseans, and as many votes for gun bills that are certain to cause harm. 
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Kansas' schools were already underfunded by hundreds of millions of dollars before Gov. Sam Brownback (R) initiated significant mid-year cuts this spring. Now, a pair of districts in north-central Kansas are ending the school year early.
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A new archive created by the Center and two universities will feature a trove of previously secret industry documents on toxic chemicals.
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KCAW Senators cut statewide domestic violence prevention funding KCAW Smith noted that the shelter and services for victims of domestic violence would not be affected, but she stressed that programs for kids and teens can stop violence from...
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What's worth less than a representative in Congress who won't listen to you, or won't tell you the truth? Not much.
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TEPCO's paid consultant from the US, Dale Klein is pushing TEPCO's continuing quest to dump contaminated water into the ocean. The reason given today is that he claims it is harmless if you dilute ...
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Thanks to a ridiculous law passed in 2006 requiring the post office to prefund retirement benefits for employees who haven't been born yet, the USPS is facing an entirely manufactured crisis. Via Operation Deja Vu
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The justification for going to war in Iraq thirteen years ago, was based on a 93-page classified document that allegedly contained 'specific information' on former Iraqi
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Liberty University students may have appeared to be enthusiastic supporters of Ted Cruz, but their conversations on social media reveal otherwise. Via Operation Deja Vu
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Imagine: A major university willingly holds students hostage to a member of the #47Traitors, hoping that no one will notice the entire event is staged. However, no one likes to be used in such a demeaning fashion, and students across the country are sick of being sold out by campus administrators who, like Sen. Cruz, are mere five-star freeloaders with six-figure salaries.
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Nevada's legislature is debating a voter ID law, and one GOP lawmaker seemed to get upset at some of her colleagues and witnesses at the hearing for bringing up the "race card." She proceeded to ...
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This type of leadership is why our nation's status in the world is diminished. It is as if the party of Abraham Lincoln & Dwight D. Eisenhower has devolved into a cesspool of incivility that knows not the difference between honor and disgrace..
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In timing, tone and substance, it raises questions about Republicans’ capacity to govern.
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What is worth less than members of Congress who knowingly break the law by attempting to undermine delicate negotiations without consulting the White House?
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Joni Ernst, a Lt. Col. in the Iowa National Guard, may have broken a key military law when she signed an open letter to Iran along with 46 other senators.
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Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo took another shot at Fox News in an interview that aired this week, saying the channel's reporting that there were Muslim "no-go zones" in her city was "a lie at a very, very serious time."
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There's nothing worth less than a bunch of village idiots and shameless propagandists, under the employ of a phone-hacking scandal monger, telling bold-faced lies about our long-time friends across the sea.
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What is worth less than government officials who refuse to protect the citizens of their state? Not much.
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House Republican leaders are alarmed that they’ll be unable to corral a majority to pass a budget in the coming weeks, a failure that would cast serious doubts about the ability of the new GOP-controlled Congress to advance its agenda and likely dash hopes of overhauling the Tax Code this year.
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Governors in nearly a half-dozen states want to cut state spending on colleges and universities to help close budget shortfalls, often sparking vehement opposition among state lawmakers of both parties.
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Instead of being leaders and statesmen, Republicans in Congress seem to think their role is outside the American government.
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Merchants of Doubt is a documentary about fuel industry-backed climate change research. This film describes how the energy industry is promoting junk science about climate change similar to how Big Tobacco promoted junk science about cigarettes. The Guardian wrote that the “film exposes the tactics of climate change ‘experts,’ who are often in the employ...
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When it comes to gifts, they say it’s the thought that counts, but when politicians get involved, things are rarely so simple. This month’s crop of Scoundrels demonstrates that in the halls of power, everybody wants something for free. But which Scoundrel was February’s worst? Your vote will decide.
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Daily Show host Jon Stewart piled on to the wave of ridicule on Wednesday against the alleged ban on Florida officials using the phrases “global warming” or “climate change.”
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What is worth less than an elected official who wants employees, who are paid to tell the truth & warn citizens of danger, to lie to you about the dangers of global warming? Not much really.
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Senate Republicans have acted to protect a few millionaires at the expense of millions of students by voting to block Sen. Elizabeth Warren's student loan bill.
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This move comes as no surprise to anyone who watches a Senate GOP leadership that has bent over backwards to kiss up to the backsides of double-dealing bankers, but regularly turn their backs on aspiring, hard-working college students.
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California Gov. Jerry Brown on Sunday called Sen. Ted Cruz not qualified to be president, citing what he called his ignorance on climate change. Brown, a Democrat, was appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press” to discuss California’s severe drought. His appearance coincided with news that Cruz, a Texas Republican, will announce his candidacy for president Monday at Liberty University in Virginia.
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The last thing the American people need is a member of the #47Traitors in the Oval Office of the White House.
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The ruling also allowed corporations to spend directly on election ads, rather than funding ads through PACs. Yet direct corporate spending has remained a relatively minor factor in recent campaigns. The explosion in outside spending has come almost entirely from Super PACs and nonprofits, so far.
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Questions about Hillary Clinton’s use of private email and a letter from 47 Republican senators to Iran have pundits talking about 2007 again. Fox News host Sean Hannity said on his March 10 show that Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., acted counter to President George W. Bush’s strategy of diplomatically isolating Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad, by traveling to Syria in 2007 to open up relations. Pelosi was then the House speaker. Yet this barely caused a ripple at the time, Hannity suggested.
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In January, a 12-inch pipeline owned by Bridger Pipeline LLC burst in Montana, spilling 30,000 gallons of oil that leaked into the Yellowstone River ...
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"What Sen. Cotton did is a gross breach of discipline."
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"Congress simply has no business conducting foreign policy with a foreign government, especially an adversarial one. Every Republican who pictures his or her feet up on the Resolute Desk should fear this precedent." - Michael Gerson
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An outcry against political corruption in Tennessee that victimizes the elderly, and leaves children unprotected in streets awash with guns after a tidal wave of gun lobby money reaches the pockets of state legislators.