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- IT'S OFFICIAL: The Whole World Thinks Republicans Are Dangerous Maniacs Threatening Everyone (490 comments)
- Smacking Into the Debt Ceiling: the Day-by-Day Consequences (59 comments)
- Michele Bachmann's Church Says the Pope Is the Antichrist (13 comments)
- Getting to Crazy - If you find yourself surprised at the GOP's recent insanity... you're part of the problem (7 comments)
- BREAKING: Attorney General Says Justice Department Investigating News Corp (6 comments)
IT'S OFFICIAL: The Whole World Thinks Republicans Are Dangerous Maniacs Threatening Everyone
Seeded on Fri Jul 15, 2011 1:42 PM EDT (Silicon Alley Insider)
Yes, the rest of the world is watching this embarrassing debt ceiling nonsense, and it is growing dismayed.
BREAKING: Attorney General Says Justice Department Investigating News Corp
Seeded on Fri Jul 15, 2011 12:50 PM EDT (Think Progress)
On Tuesday, ThinkProgress launched a petition requesting a Department of Justice investigation into potential violations of U.S. law by News Corporation.
What "Mr. Obama is offering is quite close to, or perhaps even a little to the right of, what the average Republican voter wants, let alone the average American."
Seeded on Fri Jul 15, 2011 11:15 AM EDT (The New York Times)
With the important caveat that the accounting on both the spending and tax sides can get tricky, this seems like an awfully good deal for Republicans. Much to the chagrin of many Democrats, the mix of spending cuts and tax increases that Mr.
Getting to Crazy - If you find yourself surprised at the GOP's recent insanity... you're part of the problem
Seeded on Fri Jul 15, 2011 11:11 AM EDT (The New York Times)
There aren’t many positive aspects to the looming possibility of a U.S. debt default.
Tea Party Environmentalism: "If some of these environmental movements had been around in the days of the dinosaurs, we'd be living in Jurassic Park now."
Seeded on Thu Jul 14, 2011 3:43 PM EDT (St. Petersburg Times > Local News)
Everybody knows what the tea party members oppose. High taxes. Big government. Obama's health care plan.
Michele Bachmann's Church Says the Pope Is the Antichrist
Seeded on Thu Jul 14, 2011 10:50 AM EDT (The Atlantic — News and analysis on politics, business, culture, technology, national, international, and food – TheAtlantic.com)
Michele Bachmann is practically synonymous with political controversy, and if the 2008 presidential election is any guide, the conservative Lutheran church she belonged to for many years is likely to add another chapter due to the nature of its beliefs--such as its assertion, ex …
Rupert Murdoch, tax cheat [Not really, this story has been redacted]
Seeded on Wed Jul 13, 2011 9:30 AM EDT (Salon.com)
Funny story, from Reuters columnist David Cay Johnston: Over the past four years Murdoch's U.S.-based News Corp. has made money on income taxes. Having earned $10.4 billion in profits, News Corp. would have been expected to pay $3.6 billion at the 35 percent corporate tax rate.
Smacking Into the Debt Ceiling: the Day-by-Day Consequences
Seeded on Wed Jul 13, 2011 8:57 AM EDT (PBS)
If a deal isn't reached, the United States will continue paying interest on the national debt, thus avoiding anything that would constitute official default.
John Boehner: avoidable economic crash isn't my problem
Seeded on Tue Jul 12, 2011 3:07 PM EDT (Political Animal)
The correlation is probably not a coincidence: the more House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) loses control of his caucus, the more he loses his cool. Burned by the fact that their prescription for reducing the deficit and increasing the national borrowing limit either can’t …
Republicans Go After 'Voter Fraud'; Risk Minority Ire
Seeded on Sun Jul 10, 2011 3:40 PM EDT (Bloomberg.com)
Their latest misstep is a wave of voter identification laws sweeping Republican-dominated state legislatures.
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