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Oklahoma Rep. Says Homosexuality Is A Choice Worth Being Fired For | Addicting Info

Seeded on Mon May 14, 2012 11:11 PM EDT ( Is Rick Santorum The Second Coming Of Bush/Cheney? | Addicting Info)

Is homosexuality a choice? Republican Congressman James Lankford of Oklahoma seems to think so. In a sidewalk interview with staff from the website thinkprogress.org, Lankford said that he not only believes homosexuality is a choice but that he also believes employers s …

politics, homosexuality

Ron Paul Effectively Ends Campaign - The Washington Post

Seeded on Mon May 14, 2012 11:06 PM EDT (The Washington Post)

On Monday, Rep. Ron Paul made clear that the last act of his presidential bid would be as unorthodox as all the rest of it. Paul, the Texas congressman and perennial GOP long shot, said he would stop spending money in the 11 states with upcoming party pr …

politics, washington-post, libertarian, rand-paul, post-writer-badge-this, mitt-romney-s, fact-checker-badge-fact-checkers, arkansas-gop, but-paulrsquo-s, but-vaughn

Mitt = Biff

Seeded on Fri May 11, 2012 7:28 AM EDT (The Washington Post)

Seeded by I'm God (Clipped by Dr. Reid)

I participated in a lot of hijinks and pranks. -- Mitt You're asking for it, and now you're going to get it. Hold him. -- Biff If Romney had not

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BREAKING: President Obama Announces Support For Same-Sex Marriage

Seeded on Wed May 9, 2012 3:21 PM EDT (The Huffington Post)

WASHINGTON -- In a nod to a dramatic shift in public opinion, Barack Obama on Wednesday became the first sitting president to announce his support for same-sex marriage. In a sit-down interview with ABC's Robin Roberts, Obama completed what has been a markedly long and oft-mocke …

politics, barack-obama, video, north-carolina, gay-marriage, african-american, politics-news, same-sex-marriage, house-democrats, marriage-equality

Rep. McCarthy: Pushing 300k Children Off Lunch Program To Protect Military Spending Is Trimming The Fat | ThinkProgress

Seeded on Tue May 8, 2012 12:04 PM EDT (Think Progress)

Seeded by T-800 (Clipped by Dr. Reid)

Yesterday, House Republicans moved legislation forward aimed at preventing any reductions in military spending, even if that means cutting much needed programs for the nation’s poorest.

politics, white-house, mitt-romney, house-republicans, congressional-budget-office, thinkprogress-terms, thinkprogress-privacy-policy, privacy-policies, american-progress, budget-control-act8217-s

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Adding to the deficit: Bush vs. Obama

Seeded on Thu May 3, 2012 2:31 PM EDT (The Washington Post)

Seeded by redsfan (Clipped by Dr. Reid)

Since President Obama became chief executive, the national debt has risen almost $5 trillion. But how much of that was because of policies passed by Obama, and how much was caused by the ﬁnancial crisis, the continuation of past policies and other effects? For this analysis, …

politics, war, president-obama, stimulus, deficit, right-wing-lies, president-bush, bush-tax-cuts, bush-recession

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Jon Stewart: Christian right 'hates Obama more than they love Jesus'

Seeded on Thu May 3, 2012 7:17 AM EDT (Raw Story)

Seeded by Soph0571 (Clipped by Dr. Reid)

The Daily Show host Jon Stewart mocked the debate surrounding Mitt Romney’s faith in Mormonism. Many conservative Christians — a major base of the Republican Party — see Mormonism as a heretical offshoot of their religion. According to a Pew Research Center&n …

politics, barack-obama, mitt-romney, religious-right, jon-stewart

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Chart: The illustrated history of you being screwed by people like Mitt Romney

Seeded on Wed May 2, 2012 1:11 PM EDT (Daily Kos)

Seeded by Roy Batty (Clipped by Dr. Reid)

Quick and dirty, folks. Basically, the upper line represents the value of your work. The lower line represents what you got paid for it. The empty space in between—the difference between what your work was worth and how much you got for it—represents the money the …

1, unions, pay, us-news, profit, inequality, productivity, equality, 99, pay-rate

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FCC urged to revoke Fox broadcast licenses

Seeded on Wed May 2, 2012 9:08 AM EDT (Raw Story)

Seeded by Soph0571 (Clipped by Dr. Reid)

A Washington-based ethics watchdog is calling on federal regulators to revoke News Corporation’s 27 Fox broadcast licences in the wake of the highly critical report on phone hacking from the UK parliament. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (Crew) has&n …

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The GOP: A Party Possessed

Seeded on Wed May 2, 2012 4:52 AM EDT (OpEdNews.Com Progressive)

Seeded by Joe-1680982 (Clipped by Dr. Reid)

The Republican Party has come undone. They have overreached in nearly every area of law in our country. From outlawing collective bargaining in several states to passing voter suppression laws in over 30 states, and their current nationwide and unrelenting efforts to deny women a …

politics, republicans, gop, tea-party, conservatives, womens-health, social-security, paul-ryan, reproductive-rights, unemployment-benefits

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Suppressing the Vote is Harder Than it Looks

Seeded on Mon Apr 30, 2012 7:44 PM EDT (MotherJones.com)

Seeded by CuriousG (Clipped by Dr. Reid)

In the New York Times, Michael Shear explains how the Obama campaign is working to limit the damage from a wave of Republican laws that restrict voting rights: In Wisconsin, where a new state law requires those registering voters to be deputized in whichever of the state&rsquo …

obama, republicans, florida, ohio, wisconsin, voting, photo-id, voter-supression

Scott Walker's Austerity Agenda Yields 'Worst Job Losses in US'

Seeded on Sun Apr 29, 2012 12:59 PM EDT (OpEdNews.Com Progressive)

Seeded by Soph0571 (Clipped by Dr. Reid)

We've heard about Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's war on workers. We've heard about Scott Walker's war on women. But what about Scott Walker's war on Illinois. The governor -- who has made himself the face of an American austerity push that uses the fantasy of "shared sacr …

politics, scott-walker, labor-statistics, milwaukee-journal-sentinel, us-bureau, bloomberg-economic-evaluation, state-losses-worst

BREAKING: Bruins Fans Invade Washington After Loss

Fri Apr 27, 2012 9:53 PM EDT

By Leafydebater (Clipped by Dr. Reid)

Nearly 48 hours after a disappointing end to their beloved ice hockey team's season, Boston Bruins fans pulled their revolutionary-war era muskets off the wall, dusted their pitchforks, put down their beer cans, and, with shouts of "Thomas! Thomas!" in the air, stormed …

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sports, washington, hockey, violence, sport, ice, beer, fan, massachusetts, boston

Rubio: George W. Bush 'did a fantastic job as president' | The Raw Story

Seeded on Sun Apr 22, 2012 5:03 PM EDT (Raw Story)

Seeded by T-800 (Clipped by Dr. Reid)

Republican Florida Sen. Marco Rubio on Sunday refused to explain how a potential Romney administration would be different from George W. Bush’s administration, but insisted that the last Republican president “did a fantastic job” and his brother, former Gov. Jeb …

politics, north-carolina, secret-service, native-americans, marco-rubio, jeb-bush, obama-gop, hold-obama, obama-read-more-gop, how-wwii

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Sean Penn says he's in Haiti for the long haul

Sun Apr 22, 2012 12:00 AM EDT

By Ben Fox, Associated Press (Clipped by Dr. Reid)

Sean Penn no longer lives in a tent, surrounded by some 40,000 desperate people camped on a muddy golf course. And he no longer rushes about the capital with a Glock pistol tucked in his waistband, hefting bags of donated rice and warning darkly of a worsening humanitarian crisis.

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world-news, haiti, cb, sean-penn, bonjou-sean

What is Driving Republicans Crazy?

Seeded on Sat Apr 21, 2012 6:19 PM EDT (Daily Kos)

Seeded by redsfan (Clipped by Dr. Reid)

I think many people have asked this question. Last night Bill Maher did a masterful job of pointing out how the GOP has simply become the Anti-Common Sense Engine that Couldn't. If Obama were to say it's Raining the GOP would say it's Sunny.

politics, 1, right-wing-lies, tea-party-republicans, right-wing-extremism, crazy, class-warfare, theocracy

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Morris County Republicans' birther event an embarrassment

Seeded on Mon Apr 9, 2012 7:10 AM EDT (NJ.com)

Seeded by bonos_rama (Clipped by Dr. Reid)

Last Tuesday, 400 Republicans were in Morristown to listen to Jerome Corsi — author of “Where’s the Birth Certificate?” — revisit his race-baiting, made-for-the-internet theory that Barack Obama is ineligible for the presidency because he isn&rsquo …

politics, obama, gop, republican, president, tea-party, racism, conservative, race, new-jersey

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D.C. 'bronies' feel the love and friendship of 'My Little Pony'

Seeded on Sat Apr 7, 2012 2:44 PM EDT (The Washington Post)

The lights dim, and the crowd quiets. When a bright pink pony appears on the projection screen, the eight people onstage begin trotting along with it. One man, wearing a shiny pink hat shaped like a pony’s mane, leads the others in song: “Come on, every pony, smile, …

entertainment, silver-spring, all-i, in-october, my-little-pony, friendship-is-magic, little-pony, little-ponyrdquo, little-ponyrsquo-thinsp-dc-area, namby-pamby

POLITICAL INCEST: Justices Scalia, Thomas Honored at Fundraiser Sponsored by Health Care Reform Opponents

Seeded on Fri Mar 30, 2012 12:53 PM EDT (Truthout - All Articles)

Seeded by thisbusymonster (Clipped by Dr. Reid)

A few hours after the Supreme Court justices met last Thursday, November 10, to consider hearing challenges to the national health care overhaul, Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas were the honored speakers at a fundraiser for a conservative legal group that was sponso …

politics, corruption, bias, affordable-care-act, clarence-thomas, scalia, judicial-activism, ethics-problems

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House GOP votes down Dem amendment to ban employer requests for passwords from Facebook, Twitter, etc.

Seeded on Thu Mar 29, 2012 5:38 AM EDT (DemocraticLeader.gov)

Seeded by Carloz (Clipped by Dr. Reid)

By being asked to disclose passwords to their personal social networking accounts, job seekers and others are put in the unfair position of having to choose between handing over private information and violating a website’s terms of service or forgoing a new job opportuni …

politics, us, online, internet, republicans, gop, democrats, republican, usa, democrat

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Top 5 Supreme Court Health Care Moments - CNN

Seeded on Tue Mar 27, 2012 5:36 PM EDT (CNN)

Washington (CNN) – The Supreme Court arguments Tuesday may be the most pivotal 120 minutes of judicial interaction in decades. (Nit-pickers: Bush v. Gore was 90 minutes.) But not everyone has two hours to listen to the full audio. Thus, we've edited and compiled …

politics, chief-justice-roberts, justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg, justice-kennedy, but-roberts, donald-verrillis, follow-lisa-desjardins, opening-arguments-there, paul-clements, skeptic-as

In Republican Politics Truth Is a Non-Existent Concept

Seeded on Sat Mar 24, 2012 10:38 AM EDT ()

Seeded by redsfan (Clipped by Dr. Reid)

There are myriad reasons why Republicans lie as a first resort, and it is possible they have lost the ability to ever speak the truth. The terror attacks of 9/11 marked an increase in the severity and frequency of Republican lies, but they reached a fevered pitch with the elect …

politics, fox-news, right-wing-lies, lies, tea-party-republicans, ignorance, obama-derangement-syndrome

As Santorum Shoots Gun at Firing Range, Woman Shouts 'Pretend It's Obama'

Seeded on Fri Mar 23, 2012 1:29 PM EDT (ABC News)

Seeded by Carloz (Clipped by Dr. Reid)

WEST MONROE, Louisiana – At a campaign stop at a firing range, while Rick Santorum was firing off some rounds, a woman shouted, “pretend it’s Obama.” Santorum, who was far from the woman, couldn’t hear the comment as he proceeded with his target p …

politics, us, barack-obama, usa, rick-santorum, louisiana, 2012-elections, presidential-candidates, video-links, incivility

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Soldier shot and killed for being an Atheist

Seeded on Fri Mar 16, 2012 3:10 PM EDT (Examiner)

Seeded by Grisham (Clipped by Dr. Reid)

The tipster that helped authorities break this missing person turned murder case said the alleged killer, Justin Green, described Ramirez as "a hateful man" because he "did not believe in the Lord."Thankfully, being killed for being an atheist is not a common occurrence in Amer …

religion

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Jon Stewart: Fox, Shut the F*&k Up About How Victimized You Are

Seeded on Wed Mar 14, 2012 8:52 AM EDT (Raw Story)

Seeded by Robert Bartholomew (Clipped by Dr. Reid)

Daily Show host Jon Stewart on Tuesday night took Fox News to task for responding to the controversy surrounding Rush Limbaugh by claiming he was just a comedian. “Nobody is hiding behind comedy,” he noted. “And there are repercussions for what comedians say …

politics, fox, jon-stewart

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Oklahoma Rep. Says Homosexuality Is A Choice Worth Being Fired For | Addicting Info
Source: Is Rick Santorum The Second Coming Of Bush/Cheney? | Addicting Info
Is homosexuality a choice? Republican Congressman James Lankford of Oklahoma seems to think so. In a sidewalk interview with staff from the website thinkprogress.org, Lankford said that he not only believes homosexuality is a choice but that he also believes employers s …
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Ron Paul Effectively Ends Campaign - The Washington Post
Source: The Washington Post
On Monday, Rep. Ron Paul made clear that the last act of his presidential bid would be as unorthodox as all the rest of it. Paul, the Texas congressman and perennial GOP long shot, said he would stop spending money in the 11 states with upcoming party pr …
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George W. Bush, Dick Cheney Convicted Of War Crimes | Addicting Info
Source: Is Rick Santorum The Second Coming Of Bush/Cheney? | Addicting Info
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It Doesn't Matter What the Bible says About Homosexuality
Source: Daily Kos
This is not a theocracy. The bible should not in any way inform our laws. Nor should the Qur'an. Nor the Torah. Nor the Bahagavad Gita. Nor the Jain Agamas. Nor the Book of Mormon. Nor any other religious text. Period. Taking the argument to the bible misses the point. Every i …
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