T. Boone Pickens: Koch Industries to Blame for Lack of US Energy Policy - T Boone Pickens - Fox Nation

Wow.  I'm no big fan of T. Boone, but talk about taking on the dragon.  I wish him well on this, realizing, of course, that his goal is not really a rational energy plan but bigger profits for himself.

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Eurozone crisis live: UK sinks into double-dip recession | Business | guardian.co.uk

Another FAIL brought to you by economic conservatism.

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Taxes and growth - The Washington Post

These two graphs completely destroy the twin right wing economic myths that high taxes hinder our economy and low taxes stimulate it.   IOW, everything that the von Mises Institute teaches and its loudest mouthpieces like Norquist and Armey propagandize is completely wrong.  U …

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Down the Insurance Rabbit Hole - NYTimes.com

We don't need no stinkin' universal health care coverage, right? 

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U.K. Conservatives Come Up Short in Austerity Experiment - Bloomberg

If there was one single thing we could point to as very likely President Obama's greatest achievement to date, it's that he didn't let this happen here.

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Government Jobs Buoyed Bush's Economy And Sunk Obama's (CHART)

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Imposing 'Sharia': Roman Catholic Version

I may have to rethink my ideas on these anti-Sharia laws.  Of course, they have to be written in a general way so as not to pick out any one particular religion, so it may be that our right wingnut friends have hit on a way to challenge any law that would even hint at using  …

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Virginia ultrasound law: women who want an abortion will be forcibly penetrated for no medical reason - Slate Magazine

Remember, the people who are pushing this through are the same people screaming about government forcing people to buy insurance.  This law is basically rape by government order.

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Iowa GOP Proposal Would Ban All Abortions, Sentence Doctors To Life In Prison

Of course, "any person" could also be the woman who sought out the procedure voluntarily.  Everyone needs to know this law could put the doctor and the woman away for life.

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Stealth Jobs Boom: 6 Months, 2 Million Jobs

This IS good news.

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GOP Caves on Tax Cut

Isn't that one of the sweetest headlines you've ever seen? 

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GOP Rep Introduces Measure To Prohibit Detaining American Citizens Without Due Process

While I haven't read details of this bill, it sounds right on the mark to me so far.  No one could ever accuse me of having any love for Republicans but this is one who deserves my respect and support for this particular effort.

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ACORN? No, GOP

While it's been well known for some time now that accusations against ACORN for voter fraud were bogus and real voter fraud was constantly going on under the aegis of the Republican Party, it's nice to have yet another conviction on one of the latter's scumbags as a reminder.&nbs …

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Bachmann: I Would Close Our (Non-Existent) Embassy In Iran

The stupid.....it burrrrrrnnnnnnssssssss

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Some News Leaves People Knowing Less

This is a new twist on very old information.  We already long knew that people who watched FalseNews were misinformed and  uninformed relative to people who got their news from almost any other source.  This now shows that people who don't pay attention to much of  …

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GOP's Job-Killing Balanced Budget Amendment Fails In House |

A bill so bad that even Ryan and Gomert voted against it.  Another horrible teabagger idea to go down in flames.  The Republic is safe for the moment.

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The DC Circuit Court has unanimously upheld President Obama's health care reform law, the Affordable Care Act.

"unanimously"

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The '47 Percent' Pay Their Fair Share

This chart pretty much demolishes the Republican/Right Wing lie that somehow people not paying income tax are not carrying their fair share of the tax burden.  As we've all known, though, the 47% really carry in inordinately excess burden of taxation compared to the wealthy  …

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