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Tea With the Mad Hatter: Musings on Politics, The Tea Party, and America's Rampant Electile Dysfunction: Michael Charney, Michael Stafford: Amazon.com: Kindle Store
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Anat Shenker-Osorio from Closing Plenary, Netroots Nation 2013, San Jose, CA June 22, 2013
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(CNN) - House Speaker John Boehner is mocking fellow House Republicans for saying that it's too hard to tackle the controversial issue of immigration reform.
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(CNN) - Amid backlash for tweeting out an article with inflammatory language, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn's campaign said Thursday it didn't thoroughly read the story before blasting it out to its Twitter followers.
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Daily Mail
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I'll admit, I've never worked inside a political campaign or for any politician. That being said, I do know that they often have a team of people working for them assigned to various roles, helpin...
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The partisan blogosphere is filled with arguments over whether liberal or conservative policies are better for states. No matter what is proposed -- cutting the sales tax, raising the minimum wage, etc.
Michael Charney's insight:
The problem I always have with things like this is that too many will take correlation for causation. There could be a host of reasons for why this is true. It also forgets that a "red state" could be one with less than 50% registered GOP'ers (in fact, it probably is). It could also mean that the poor aren't able to vote "blue" because they've been disenfranchised or gerrymandered out of significance.... Many possiblities exist, but I fear that most on the far left will see only the one that Occupy wanted us to see....
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'I Just Freaking Answered It!' Mary Katharine Ham Clashes with O'Reilly Again ...
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Through historical narrative, Jonathan Rauch explains that GOP infighting with the Tea Party was one of the most important developments of 2013.
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When Rick Scott took office in 2011, Floridians had serious doubts about their new governor and as it turned out, those concerns were well founded.
Michael Charney's insight:
Take a minute and ask yourself this question: Once you saw the name of the author's article, did you doubt for a moment what the content was going to be? Reminds me of this piece I wrote a while back.... http://www.chasingglennbeck.com/homeblog/2012/2/14/crying-wolf-with-crystal-ball.html#.UrCGFbgo76U
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David Silverman holds his own against Sean Hannity and the alleged "war on christmas"
Michael Charney's insight:
Once more, the strange and wonderful "War on Christmas," in which those who feel abused are themselves taking the joy out of the holiday... There's no "war" on Christmas, Sean.... just look around....
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Republican N.C. Sen. Bob Rucho was unapologetic Monday after his controversial tweet sparked a firestorm of criticism online, on national television – and even from his state party chairman.
Michael Charney's insight:
Here's what he wrote: “Justice Robert’s pen & Obamacare has done more damage to the USA then the swords of the Nazis, Soviets & terrorists combined.”
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Fox News host Megyn Kelly on Wednesday assured children viewing her program that both Jesus Christ and Santa Claus were white men even though some liberals were trying to make them black. In a column for Slate ...
Michael Charney's insight:
Megyn Kelly proves once again how easy it is to Palinize facts....
Greg Russak's comment,
December 13, 2013 7:43 PM
The video is priceless. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdkGA_rgHRY
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My Dad changed from a country-club Republican voter (although he was registered as a Democrat his entire life) into a FOX news addict who wholeheartedly bought into the Bill O'Reilly/Sean Hannity line of disinformation.
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Money is not speech, and the Supreme Court’s decisions Citizens United and McCutcheon have perverted our democracy.
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Washington (CNN) – It's been widely reported. The Republican Party is locked in battle. Establishment Republicans are being challenged by insurgents hoping to purify the brand and return the GOP to small government, free market principles.
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He won a small battle with his debt limit gambit, but also made the GOP's extortion tactics much harder. Here's why
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"Can't tell the players without a scorecard!"
Who are the people and groups behind the TV ads in the 2014 federal elections? Below is a list of organizations that have been active or are expected to be active in raising and spending money to influence voters in 2014. Click on the links to read profiles of each organization. The groups were selected based on the amounts they have spent, or say they plan to spend, or the media attention they have attracted. It is not a comprehensive list, and additional groups will be added as the campaign season unfolds.
Many of these groups may legally raise and spend unlimited amounts of money. They are known as super PACs and must register with the Federal Election Commission. Others may legally raise unlimited donations and avoid disclosing their donors. Those groups do not file with the FEC, but register rather with the IRS under Section 501(c).
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Increasing the minimum wage wouldn’t lead to a wages blowout and cutting it would just mean more working poor (Sensible piece about min wage by @GrogsGamut debunking ideology of the Business Council & Tea Party in the Govt
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation didn’t find the kind of political bias needed to file criminal charges over the Internal Revenue Service’s heightened scrutiny of tea party groups, law enforcement officials told the Wall Street Journal.
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A new poll by a pro-voter suppression group asked 1,000 American adults about the issue of voter fraud in the United States.
Greg Russak's curator insight,
January 15, 2014 12:38 PM
What the results tell me is that some Americans are woefully misinformed.
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Megyn Kelly and Bill O'Reilly's white Christmas war at Fox News IrishCentral Accurately sensing a threat to their 16-year-old news channel, Fox pulled Brigadier General of the War on Christmas Bill O'Reilly out this week, who gallantly sprang to...
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Limbaugh and Pope Francis could not be more diametrically opposed when it comes to issues of money and poverty. Whereas Francis has been known to don "regular priest" duds and sneak out of the Vatican to minister to ...
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December 13, 2013 11:42 AM
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America has been on pins and needles waiting to find out who Glenn Beck regards as the person who had the most impact on the world in 2013. Suffice to ...
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What's behind the Ryan-Murray bipartisan budget deal which one news site called "a new era in cooperation"? Is it all about preventing the Tea Party from ever using the government shutdown as a weapon?
"If you are fed up with our dysfunctional political system, the two parties which control it and with media shrillness and banality you will like Michael Charney's clever essays on our 'Electile Dysfunction." This book will make you smile, make you think, and it might just make you even angrier about the sorry state of American politics. We need more voices like Michael Charney's calling for change."
--Linda Killian, author of
The Swing Vote: The Untapped Power of Independents