April 2012 archive

Third-rate wingnut talkshow host

This supremely Republican supreme court

By Scott Lemieux, Friday 27 April 2012 15.41 EDT The 2008 elections represented a decisive repudiation of the policies of George W Bush and the Republican party. Yet, conservative Republicans still control the…  [more]

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Coordinated, systematic racial discrimination

Christians of the Holy Land

By Ben White, 26 Apr 2012 06:36 A recent report by CBS show 60 Minutes on “Christians of the Holy Land” has received a lot of attention, not least for the embarrassing contribution by…  [more]

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Flammable pool of toxic paranoia

The Ghost of Joe McCarthy in Today’s Republican Party

By Bill Moyers and Michael Winship, April 26, 2012 We’ve talked at times about George Orwell’s classic novel 1984, and the amnesia that sets in when we flush…  [more]

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An alternative vision of capitalism

The Self-Made Myth: Debunking Conservatives’ Favorite – And Most Dangerous – Fiction

By Sara Robinson, April 25, 2012 The self-made myth is one of the most cherished foundation stones of the conservative theology. Nurtured by Horatio Alger and…  [more]

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Climate change in Arkansas

[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aunab1wtUfY[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aunab1wtUfY The following was just emailed to John Lowery, a Democratic assemblyman for District 6 of the Arkansas State Legislature. – Monsieur d’Nalgar From: [Jacques d’Nalgar] Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012 1:04 PM To: loweryj@arkleg.state.ar.us Cc: dwain@crosslifechurch.net…  [more]

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Burying it in doo-doo

Why Anyone Should Care that Bill O’Reilly Calls Me A Communist

By Robert Reich, Monday, April 23, 2012 Bill O’Reilly, the tumescent personality of Fox News, said on his Friday show “Robert Reich is a communist who secretly adores  [more]

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Imagine an Arab’s point of view

Perhaps we should all move to Ohio

Maher Mughrabi, April 24, 2012 – 5:45PM “After the Holocaust, many Jews felt that they needed a  state of their own in order to provide security for the Jewish people. In 1948,   [more]

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