Millions of Europeans are protesting spending cuts and tax increases during a continent-wide general strike that comes days after a 53-year-old woman in Spain committed suicide as she was about to be evicted.
Posted on Nov 14, 2012
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Brian Beutler at Talking Points Memo seems to have coined the term last spring. Paul Krugman thinks it’s a better way to talk about the coming budget crisis, as it asserts that too little spending—rather than too much—is the the cause of the danger.
Posted on Nov 14, 2012
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There are some valid reasons to keep our disliked method of selecting the president; apparently Obamacare will be a “gold mine” for those willing to invest; meanwhile, the NYPD has decided to racially profile Caucasian men. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Nov 14, 2012
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In the 2012 elections, it appears that Democrats won the popular vote for House seats by a narrow margin, 49 percent to 48.2 percent, according to The Washington Post. So how did Republicans expand their margin to win the “second-biggest House majority in 60 years and their third-biggest since the Great Depression”?
Posted on Nov 14, 2012
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By Tim Riley —
“The John Lennon Letters” collects and reproduces 285 postcards, telegrams, to-do lists and other writings from the former Beatle’s early childhood to Dec. 8, 1980, hours before he was killed.
Posted on Nov 14, 2012
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By Peter Z. Scheer — There is a growing and idiotic movement by people dissatisfied with American democracy in the form of President Obama’s re-election to secede from the union. I have a better idea: Just move.
Posted on Nov 14, 2012
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The conservative televangelist isn’t blaming ex-CIA Director David Petraeus for his affair with Paula Broadwell because “he’s lonely” and she’s a “good-looking lady throwing herself at him.”
Posted on Nov 13, 2012
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By Tracy Bloom — A look at the day’s political happenings, including Paul Ryan’s election loss blame, Nancy Pelosi’s future in the House and a Republican lawmaker’s unusual pay request.
Posted on Nov 13, 2012
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By William Pfaff — As a former serviceman, I have been long bemused by the proliferation of ribbons and other decorations on the chests of today’s high-ranking army officers, now mired in scandal.
Posted on Nov 13, 2012
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By Robert Reich — When he meets with congressional leaders to begin discussions about avoiding the “fiscal cliff,” Obama should make clear that America faces two big economic challenges ahead: getting the economy back on track and getting the budget deficit under control.
Posted on Nov 13, 2012
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Residents from nearly 40 states have filed petitions to secede from the United States on the White House’s “We The People” site since President Obama’s re-election.
Posted on Nov 13, 2012
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The pregnant Arizona woman “hated” President Obama and was upset by last Tuesday’s election result.
Posted on Nov 13, 2012
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While same-sex marriage is gaining acceptance in the U.S., most states still prohibit gay couples from getting hitched.
Posted on Nov 13, 2012
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Were you a target of any of the nearly 21,000 requests made by governments worldwide in the first half of 2012 for access to search results, Gmail accounts and other data Google holds for its users?
Posted on Nov 13, 2012
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Members of New York City’s Occupy movement are waging an expanding relief effort for tens of thousands of people who remain without heat, power or hot water in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. Observers are calling it Occupy’s finest hour.
Posted on Nov 13, 2012
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Newer, more complete scientific models suggest that the worst predictions of man-made global warming—an average global temperature increase of 8 degrees Fahrenheit by 2100—may be the most accurate.
Posted on Nov 13, 2012
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The Petraeus scandal has expanded to involve another high ranking military officer: Gen. John R. Allen, the commander of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan.
Posted on Nov 13, 2012
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By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch —
The United States is slowly hollowing out. The global economy is up for grabs. And the planet’s average temperature rise could mean an almost unimaginable disaster for humanity. But not a single one of these matters came up in any meaningful way in the election campaign. In other words, election 2012 boiled down to little more than a massive and dangerous case of Washington-style denial.
Posted on Nov 13, 2012
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Have we humans been getting dumber since we put down the hunting spear and picked up the trowel? Gerald Crabtree, a geneticist at Stanford University, believes so.
Posted on Nov 13, 2012
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Nobody fights better than writers, so it’s a little sad that novelists Salman Rushdie and John le Carré have agreed to stop hating each other.
Posted on Nov 13, 2012
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Kyrsten Sinema will represent the good people of Phoenix in the House after emerging victorious from an election-night squeaker. And thanks to the 36-year-old former state senator, the next Congress will feature its first openly bisexual member, as well as its first lesbian senator and first openly LGBT person of color.
Posted on Nov 13, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — The one familiar aspect of the David Petraeus scandal is that he had an affair. Everything else about this story is weird.
Posted on Nov 12, 2012
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The Weekly Standard editor is breaking with the Republican Party on the issue of taxes, telling “Fox News Sunday” that the GOP shouldn’t “fall on its sword” defending against a tax increase for millionaires.
Posted on Nov 12, 2012
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By the end of the decade, the United States will produce more barrels of oil per day than Saudia Arabia and more gas than Russia, according to a report by the intergovernmental International Energy Agency.
Posted on Nov 12, 2012
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By Naomi Klein —
Less than three days after Sandy made landfall on the East Coast of the United States, Iain Murray of the Competitive Enterprise Institute blamed New Yorkers’ resistance to big-box stores for the misery they were about to endure.
Posted on Nov 12, 2012
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By Robert Reich — Assuming the goal is $4 trillion of deficit reduction over the next decade (that’s the consensus of the Simpson-Bowles commission, the Congressional Budget Office, and most independent analysts), here’s what the President should propose.
Posted on Nov 12, 2012
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By Tracy Bloom — A look at the day’s political happenings, including a possible surprise pick to replace Hillary Clinton as secretary of state and a conversation David Petraeus’ mistress had about him during a January appearance on “The Daily Show.”
Posted on Nov 12, 2012
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Nearly 400,000 people have signed a petition asking Macy’s to end its association with the conservative loudmouth and billionaire business mogul after he made a birther joke in one of the retailer’s holiday ads.
Posted on Nov 12, 2012
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The presidential election can officially be put to rest now that “Saturday Night Live” has had the chance to weigh in.
Posted on Nov 12, 2012
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It appears modern technology and a jealous lover cost the ex-CIA director his job.
Posted on Nov 12, 2012
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