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    • Editor's Pick
    • 16 Ratings
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    Dan Rather's Revenge

    MAY 30, 2012 5:55AM

    By Tom Degan


    Topics: politics, fred friendly, tom degan, jack kennedy, franklin roosevelt, george clooney, edward r. murrow, george w. bush, dan rather

    • 5 Ratings
    • 218 Views
    • 8 Comments
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    Barack Obama makes it easy to be Green

    MAY 28, 2012 6:19PM

    By Robert Crook


    Topics: gay/lesbian, working class, wisconsin gubernatorial recall election, wisconsin, war profiteers, war profiteering, war, vietraq war, u.s. military, same-sex marriage, saddam hussein, republican tea party, republican party, reichstag fire, presidential politics, politics, plutocrats, plutocracy, pepsi party, obama, nazis, nazi party, mittens romney, mitt romney, military-industrial-corporate complex, military industrial complex, middle class, memorial day, matt taibbi, labor unions, labor movement, labor, june 5 presidential primary election, john mccain, john kerry, jill stein, iraq war, iraq, halliburton, green party, gray davis, george w. bush, doma, democratic party, defense of marriage act, cruz bustamante, coke party, california gubernatorial recall election, california, bushcheneycorp, bill clinton, big oil, barack obama, arnold schwarzenegger, arnold

    • 1 Ratings
    • 86 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    GOP STRATEGY: Change The Subject

    MAY 22, 2012 6:06AM

    By Tom Degan


    Topics: politics, tom degan, george w. bush, al gore, john kerry, jeremiah wright, barack obama, lee attwater, mitt romney, karl rove

    • Editor's Pick
    • 6 Ratings
    • 1021 Views
    • 13 Comments
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    When it rains, it pours: NAACP now OK with same-sex marriage

    MAY 20, 2012 4:53PM

    By Robert Crook


    Topics: politics, family, gay/lesbian, belief/religion, william saletan, same-sex marriage, proposition 8, prop 8, president barack obama, politics, ohio, obama, national association for the advancement of colored people, naacp, marriage, lgbt, lesbians, jesse jackson, human rights, hope, homophobia, hiv, george w. bush, gays, gay rights, gay community, fourteenth amendment, equality, equal rights, equal protection clause, civil rights, change, california, black homophobia, black homophobes, black community, bigots, bigotry, benjamin todd jealous, barack obama, al sharpton, aids

    • 3 Ratings
    • 256 Views
    • 3 Comments
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    Katherine, Kenneth & Ken: 3 Ks make KKK

    MAY 19, 2012 5:21PM

    By Robert Crook


    Topics: white supremacists, white supremacist, white supremacism, voter suppression, voter disenfranchisement, united states supreme court, u.s. supreme court, south africa of the southwest, sb1070, russell pearce, racists, racism, politics, ohio 2004, ohio, obama, november 2012 presidential election, mormons are evil, mormons, mormonism, mormon cult, kenneth blackwell, ken bennett, ken, katherine harris, john mccain, joe arpaio, jeb bush, janet napolitano, jan brewer, hillary clinton, george w. bush, florida 2000, florida, fascists, fascism, election thievery, election theft, election stealing, clifton bennett, birther bullshit, billary clinton, barack obama, barack hussein obama, arizona, al gore, 2000 presidential election

    • 3 Ratings
    • 179 Views
    • 8 Comments
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    Fair Weather Dems will be the Death of Us Yet

    MAY 18, 2012 8:51AM

    By Ramonas Voices


    Topics: privatize, vast right wing conspiracy, republicans, ralph nader, presidential election, mitt romney, george w. bush, fair weather dems, democratic party, barack obama

    • Editor's Pick
    • 1 Ratings
    • 505 Views
    • 4 Comments
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    Open Primaries: We Need a Return to Voting By Party Members

    MAY 14, 2012 6:30AM

    By Michael Russnow


    Topics: news, politics, washington state, u.s. supreme court, u. s. senate, republican party, proposition 198, proposition 14, primary elections, peace and freedom party, pat buchanan, non-partisan blanket primary, michael russnow, louisiana, libertarian party, google, george w. bush, dianne feinstein, california democratic party, butterfly ballot, blanket primary system, american independent party, al gore, 2000 presidential election

    • 0 Ratings
    • 48 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Thanks to Obama, Nation and the World a Safer Place

    MAY 2, 2012 11:35PM

    By dcherry17


    Topics: george w. bush, foreign policy, flower garden, end game, democratic president, bill clinton, barack obama, bad kid, ally

    • 3 Ratings
    • 291 Views
    • 6 Comments
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    Desperately Denying Reality

    MAY 1, 2012 7:23PM

    By Steven J. Gulitti


    Topics: politics, saddam hussein, admiral mike mullen, new america foundation, peter l. bergen, dick cheney, donald rumsfeld, united states national counterterrorism center, michael e. leiter, david korn, al qaeda, jimmy carter, global war on terror, war in afghanistan, war in iraq, george w. bush, john kerry, osama bin laden, 2012 elections, mitt romney, barack obama

    • 19 Ratings
    • 1925 Views
    • 74 Comments
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    Why I don’t blog for the baby boomers

    APRIL 23, 2012 11:42PM

    By Robert Crook


    Topics: madonna, baby boomer, baby boomers, baby-boom generation, boomers, bushcheneycorp, dick cheney, gen x, gen xers, generation x, george h. w. bush, george w. bush, halliburton, i hate baby boomers, iraq, medicare, social security, student-loan debt, ted rall, vietnam, vietnam war, vietraq war

    • Editor's Pick
    • 23 Ratings
    • 2652 Views
    • 40 Comments
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    Romney Goes Ugly Early

    APRIL 19, 2012 8:31AM

    By Steve Klingaman


    Topics: politics, presidential election 2012, mitt romney, barack obama, negative campaigns, a failed president, war on women, george w. bush, romney attacks obama, who is mitt romney really?

    • 0 Ratings
    • 90 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Instruments of Fear: America and the War Machine

    APRIL 6, 2012 11:15AM

    By dcherry17


    Topics: iraq, iran, huge contracts, great deal, george w. bush, america, al-qaeda, afghanistan

    • 5 Ratings
    • 313 Views
    • 6 Comments
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    Obama’s ‘Etch-A-Sketch’ moment?

    MARCH 26, 2012 4:06PM

    By Robert Crook


    Topics: barack obama, bush, dmitri medvedev, etch-a-sketch, etch-a-sketch moment, george w. bush, hurricane katrina, missile defense, mitt romney, mittens romney, obama, politics, president barack obama, president obama, presidential politics, prick santorum, rick santorum, romney, russia, santorum, vladimir putin

    • Editor's Pick
    • 19 Ratings
    • 2910 Views
    • 36 Comments
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    Mitt Romney and GOP: Wiping the Slate Clean

    MARCH 22, 2012 10:19AM

    By Ted Frier


    Topics: politics, republican party, mitt romney, eric fehrnstrom, etch-a-sketch, conservatism, george w. bush, gaffe, president obama, ohio art, rachel maddow, timothy noah, cnn, massachusetts, mike dukakis, social media, going viral, fraud, november election, massachusetts state house press gallary

    • 0 Ratings
    • 79 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Starting the War in Iraq: An Anniversary-Bleeding in Babylon

    MARCH 19, 2012 10:59AM

    By HL Lee


    Topics: the fleeting world, iran, protest march, politics, news, bleeding in babylon, weapons of mass destruction, wmd, religion, fiction, current events, george w. bush, war in iraq

    • 1 Ratings
    • 453 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    A Vulgar Twilight Zone

    MARCH 15, 2012 1:53AM

    By John Hamilton


    Topics: andrew bacevich, afghanistan, newt gingrich, george w. bush, osama bin laden

    • 1 Ratings
    • 156 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Would a Koch Takeover of Cato Make War with Iran More Likely

    MARCH 12, 2012 6:07PM

    By Robert Greenwald


    Topics: open call, war, robert greenwald, libertarian, koch brothers exposed, koch brothers, john hinderaker, iran, george w. bush, david koch, conservatives, charles koch, cato institute, brave new foundation, bob levy, alex pareene, afghanistan

    • 10 Ratings
    • 638 Views
    • 17 Comments
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    Time to reel in our stormtroopers and shrink the Death Star

    MARCH 11, 2012 7:12PM

    By Robert Crook


    Topics: politics, warfare, war profiteers, war profiteering, war, vietraq war, united states military, u.s. military, treason, traitors, terrorism, stupid white men, stormtroopers, sgt. gary stein, samuel wurzelbacher, pentagon, pat benatar, national security, national interests, muslims, military spending, military overspending, military industrial complex, middle east, marine sgt. gary stein, looting the u.s. treasury, israel, islam, iraq war, iraq, hero worship, halliburton, george w. bush, gary stein, federal budget deficit, fascists, fascism, dick cheney, death star, collapse of the american empire, china, bushcheneycorp, bogus warfare, bogus war, bill clinton, armed forces tea party patriots, afghanistan

    • 8 Ratings
    • 565 Views
    • 15 Comments
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    MISSION ACCOMPLISHED! (Russian Style)

    MARCH 6, 2012 12:25AM

    By old new lefty


    Topics: george w. bush, iraq war, vladimir putin, russian elections, green revolution, ayatollahs, the price of oil. botox, plastic surgery, occupy russia, kgb, fsb, russian political murders, chechnya, news, politics

    • 7 Ratings
    • 910 Views
    • 13 Comments
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    Are Right Wing Conservatives Hypocrites By Nature?

    FEBRUARY 23, 2012 12:23PM

    By Ted Frier


    Topics: george w. bush, reinhold neibuhr, newt gingrich, rick sandorum, franklin graham, community-building, liberalism, military industrial complex, washington monthly, alan wolfe, conservatism, e.j. dionne, family values, religious right, hypocrisy, rachel maddow, right wing, republican party, politics

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