Texas Gov. Rick Perry to be Investigated for Abusing the Powers of His Office, Bribery and Coercion

Texas Gov. Rick Perry to be Investigated for Abusing the Powers of His Office, Bribery and Coercion Posted by: Sky Palma  on AATTP August 16, 2013 This week, a Texas judge said that he plans to have a special prosecutor look at charges that Gov. Rick Perry broke the law when he cut funding for state public corruption investigators.The watchdog group Texans for Public Justice filed a complaint that stems from an April drunk-driving...

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Arizona Violent Crime Down, Except Under Tough Anti-Immigration Sheriff

Arizona Violent Crime Down, Except Under Tough Anti-Immigration Sheriff First Posted: 07/14/10 03:34 PM ET Updated: 05/25/11 06:05 PM ET A chart circulated by a leading immigration reform organization makes a basic, but compelling case that the new law passed -- though not implemented -- in Arizona could cause an increase rather than a drop in crime. The non-profit group America's Voice...

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Right-Wing Christians Put Out Their Top-10 Favorite Racist Attacks on Obama (VIDEO)

 Right-Wing Christians Put Out Their Top-10 Favorite Racist Attacks on Obama (VIDEO)November 24, 2013 | Filed under: Barack Obama,Racial Issues,Videos | Posted by: Mindy Fischer The outright hatred for President Obama by right-wing groups who call themselves Christians and Patriots is just astounding. This website called “Americans Who Hate Obama” is one of many that proudly displays their racism and bigotry. Americans Who Hate Obama has put out a video with their top 10 favorite racist attacks on Obama.This video proudly features...

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Rush Limbaugh: “This Is Just Pure Marxism Coming Out Of The Mouth Of The Pope”

Rush Limbaugh: “This Is Just Pure Marxism Coming Out Of The Mouth Of The Pope” FreakOutNation opinionated politics | we inform, you decide. November 27, 2013By Anomaly We knew this would happen after Pope Francis called for renewal of the Roman Catholic Church and attacked unfettered capitalism as “a new tyranny”, while writing of income inequality, and urging global leaders to fight poverty. One by one Republican talkers will...

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Is a Neurotic Form of Christianity Destroying America?

Is a Neurotic Form of Christianity Destroying America? July 12, 2013  Posted by: Robert De Filippis   “The deconstruction of Christianity is not an attack on the church but a critique of the idols to which it is vulnerable – the literalism and authoritarianism, the sexism and racism, the militarism, and the love of unrestrained capitalism with which the church in its various forms has today and for too long...

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Religious Right Furious Pope Francis Wants Them To Follow The Bible

 Religious Right Furious Pope Francis Wants Them To Follow The Bible Written by: Sarah Wood Many on the religious right are livid that Pope Francis would have the audacity to want people to live up to the actual teachings of the Bible which fully negates their agenda of sweeping the poor under the rug and rewarding the already obscenely wealthy. “How dare he say trickle-down economics doesn’t work!” said Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX)....

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Michigan about to require women to buy "rape insurance" based on petition signed by 4.2% of voters

Michigan about to require women to buy "rape insurance" based on petition signed by 4.2% of votersby EclectablogFollow The War on Women continues...Graphic by Anne C. SavageCross-posted from Eclectablog. Thanks to a petition drive that resulted in 4.2% of Michiganders voicing their minority opinion, Michigan is about to become a place where women have to plan ahead for their abortions. If you become pregnant accidentally or if you are raped...

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Conversations With A Tea Party Patriot: Is Obama Bisexual Or Homosexual?

Conversations With A Tea Party Patriot: Is Obama Bisexual Or Homosexual? (VIDEO) June 16, 2013 | Filed under: Right wing hatred,Videos | Posted by: Kimberley JohnsonAre you a liberal? Well, according to this scholarTea Party person, you are brainwashed. That “Jewish guy,” what’s his name, is funding liberalism and we are all sheep.But the burning question, the real debate, is whether or not President Obama is homosexual or bisexual....

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10 Headlines Fox News Might Have Written Had They Existed During Key Points in U.S. History

10 Headlines Fox News Might Have Written Had They Existed During Key Points in U.S. HistoryNovember 27, 2013 By Allen Clifton I’m sure I’m not the only one who’s noticed the tendency for conservatives to have what can best be described as a foggy recollection of history.  While modern day right-wing media outlets like Fox News mostly paint the Republican party in a positive light, anyone with any kind of common sense knows that, while...

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Latest job numbers not good for Scott Walker — or those looking for work

Latest job numbers not good for Scott Walker — or those looking for workNovember 23, 2013 6:05 am  •  MIKE IVEY | The Capital Times | mivey@madison.comMike Ivey has been a reporter with The Capital Times for more than 25 years, covering business, the environment and politics. He was named the state's top business reporter in 2011 by the Wisconsin Newspaper Association.A new round of numbers show the pace of job creation in Wisconsin slowing by 37 percent for the one-year period ending in June — not good news politically for Gov. Scott...

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Black Friday Our Walmart Announces 1,500 Protests Across the Country

Black Friday Our Walmart Announces 1,500 Protests Across the Country Resist! Walmart, Workers Rights and Jobs By Staff, www.PopularResistance.orNovember 22nd, 2013Above: Walmart Associates across the country are stepping forward to share their stories about the reality of working for the world’s largest private employer. They are coming forth to share their experiences and ask community supporters to hold Black Fridayevents at...

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6 Outrageously Greedy Companies That Make Scrooge Look Like a Softie

6 Outrageously Greedy Companies That Make Scrooge Look Like a Softie AlterNet / By Lynn Stuart Parramore Meet the companies offering sh*t sandwiches to employees for the holidays. Photo Credit: shutterstock.comNovember 24, 2013  |   Ebeneezer Scrooge knew how a greedy capitalist deals with workers during the holiday season: Consider yourself cheated when they take a day off with pay...

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To quote from Sodom and Gomorrah: ” … So don’t be gay.”

 To quote from Sodom and Gomorrah: ” … So don’t be gay.”November 9, 2011 By John Shore  Is there some sort of resurgence happening around the idea that when it comes to proving that God condemns gay people, you just can’t beat the ancient story of Sodom and Gomorrah? Because lately I’ve been hearing from fundy-type Christians who want me to read S&G, so that I’ll understand that that’s the message of that story. So I just...

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Conservative Christian Leader Says Single Moms Should Put Their Kids Up For Adoption

Conservative Christian Leader Says Single Moms Should Put Their Kids Up For Adoption Author: Stephen D. Foster Jr. November 27, 2013 3:59 am In what sounds like a strong suggestion for taking kids away from single moms by force, a ‘Christian’ leader urges them to give their kids up voluntarily. Photo from JuicyEcumenism.Com.In what seems like a single step away from advocating that we take kids away from their single moms by force,...

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Cartoon Claims Obamacare Means Men Will Get STDs From Women Who Can Now Afford Birth Control

Cartoon Claims Obamacare Means Men Will Get STDs From Women Who Can Now Afford Birth ControlThe Huffington Post  |  By Paige Lavender  A cartoon is claiming men can thank Obamacare for getting sexually transmitted diseases from "women who now get free birth control."The cartoon depicts an angry man next to a woman holding...

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Why the Christian Right Believes It Has Once-in-a-Decade Chance to Impose Its Radical Worldview on America

Why the Christian Right Believes It Has Once-in-a-Decade Chance to Impose Its Radical Worldview on America A change to obscure procedural rules in the U.S. Senate and the upcoming 2014 elections could be a dangerous window of opportunity. November 26, 2013    AlterNet / By CJ Werleman Elections have consequences. The Senate Democrats’ detonation of the “nuclear option” has dramatically raised the stakes for secular progressives in 2014, because if there are two issues that...

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Asshat Limbaugh Falls For "White Males Should Kill Themselves" Satire Piece

Asshat Limbaugh Falls For "White Males Should Kill Themselves" Satire Piece by ProgLegsFollowConservative blogs have been abuzz the past few days over the latest round of bigotry against the oft-oppressed white male.   The "news" outlets are reporting that Noel Ignatiev, a real professor at Massachusetts College of Art, suggested in his final lecture that white males needed to kill themselves:"If you are a white male, you don’t deserve to live....

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