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Mitt Romney and the White Horse Prophecy
Seeded on Sun Jan 29, 2012 8:11 PM EST (Salon.com)
Romney avoids mentioning it, but Smith ran for president in 1844 as an independent commander in chief of an “army of God” advocating the overthrow of the U.S. government in favor of a Mormon-ruled theocracy.
New Data Not So Sunny on U.S. Natural Gas Supply
Seeded on Sun Jan 29, 2012 6:56 AM EST (The New York Times)
The difficulty and uncertainty in predicting natural gas resources was underscored last week when the Energy Information Administration released a report containing sharply lower estimates. The agency estimated that there are 482 trillion cubic feet of shale gas in the United St …
Liberals' Inequality Narrative Ignores Role of Free Trade, Unionbusting
Seeded on Sat Jan 28, 2012 10:12 AM EST (Common Dreams)
The Occupy movement forcefully injected a long-taboo topic—America’s appalling “banana republic”-level economic disparities—into the mainstream political debate. That inequality has immense implications, from falling wages, to deteriorating heal …
Obama Administration And Banks Near Deal On Mortgage Fraud Legal Liability
Seeded on Fri Jan 27, 2012 11:16 PM EST (The Huffington Post)
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration, state attorneys general, and, perhaps, the nation's largest banks are close to a final settlement on the years-long struggle over allegations of massive foreclosure fraud, according to several sources familiar with the talks.
FBI releases plans to monitor social networks
Seeded on Fri Jan 27, 2012 11:10 AM EST ()
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation has quietly released details of plans to continuously monitor the global output of Facebook, Twitter and other social networks, offering a rare glimpse into an activity that the FBI and other government agencies are reluctant to discuss pu …
Obama's Faux Populism Sounds Like Bill Clinton
Seeded on Thu Jan 26, 2012 2:56 PM EST (Truthdig)
I’ll admit it: Listening to Barack Obama, I am ready to enlist in his campaign against the feed-the-rich Republicans ... until I recall that I once responded in the same way to Bill Clinton’s faux populism.
Gary Marcus, Professor at N.Y.U., Picks Up a Guitar
Seeded on Thu Jan 26, 2012 12:53 AM EST (The New York Times)
At 13, an age when most boys want to learn the guitar, Gary Marcus, decided he wanted to be a scientist.
How Larry Summers' Memo Hobbled Obama's Stimulus Plan
Seeded on Wed Jan 25, 2012 10:04 PM EST (Common Dreams)
Those still wondering why the Obama administration surrendered so quickly on the drive for stimulus and joined the deficit reduction crusade, got the smoking gun in an article by the New Yorker's Washington correspondent Ryan Lizza.
Mormon Church's Prior Baptism Of Dead Jews Could Raise Concerns For Florida Voters
Seeded on Wed Jan 25, 2012 9:53 PM EST (The Huffington Post)
In 1994, an Israeli genealogist researching her family in the Mormons' computerized International Genealogical Index made a startling discovery. Her grandfather, a religiously observant Jew killed in the Holocaust, had been posthumously baptized as a Mormon.
WI-Gov: Walker Leads in First Head-to-Head Polls of Recall
Seeded on Wed Jan 25, 2012 6:40 PM EST (Firedoglake)
Despite the vulnerabilities of Scott Walker in the upcoming recall election, he also has plenty of advantages. It’s very difficult to recall a governor, it’s only been done twice in American history.
America Does Not Share South Carolina's Fondness for Gingrich
Seeded on Wed Jan 25, 2012 3:58 PM EST (Truthdig)
When the polls closed in South Carolina on Saturday, I happened to be in a Charleston hotel lobby where elegantly dressed couples were filing past on their way to a black-tie event.
Video - Dylan Ratigan: The United States of America is Being Extracted
Wed Jan 25, 2012 12:08 PM EST
The Intel Hub January 25, 2012 Recently on The Dylan Ratigan Show (MSNBC) Dylan dominated the global crime syndicate (made up of politicians and bankers) in the ultimate mainstream rant about the extraction of America. The rant is so impressive it almost gives you the goosebum …
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American Dreams: Brewster's Millions and Triumphant America (Book Review)
Seeded on Wed Jan 25, 2012 6:42 AM EST ()
Six weeks later McCutcheon submitted a manuscript. It was the story of a young man named Monty Brewster who, in order to inherit $7 million, must spend $1 million in a single year. There are, however, strings attached.
American Dreams: The 20th Century in Novels
Seeded on Wed Jan 25, 2012 6:38 AM EST ()
This monthly series will chronicle the history of the American century as seen through the eyes of its novelists. The goal is to create a literary anatomy of the last century—or, to be precise, from 1900 to 2012.
Eliot Spitzer on Mitt Romney's State of the Union Challenge on the Mortgage Crisis
Seeded on Tue Jan 24, 2012 10:07 PM EST (The Huffington Post)
Finally, a presidential candidate came out and honestly addressed the biggest problem in our economy, the enormous debt overhang in our mortgage market.
New York Rent Control: US Supreme Court Might Hear Landlord's Case In Harmon V. Kimmel (VIDEO)
Seeded on Tue Jan 24, 2012 4:30 PM EST (The Huffington Post)
Were the United States Supreme Court to hear the case, the debate would likely focus on interpreting the "takings clause" of the 5th amendment, which reads, "No person shall be...deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be t …
Newt Gingrich and the Politics of Resentment
Seeded on Tue Jan 24, 2012 10:49 AM EST (The Huffington Post)
Evangelicals in the heyday of the Moral Majority would never have gone for someone with Gingrich's tangled (to put it politely) personal past.
I'm Senator Al Franken of MN and you should remind me who I represent.
Seeded on Mon Jan 23, 2012 10:04 PM EST ()
Hi. My name is Al Franken. I am a Senator from Minnesota. A proposed bill in the Senate, PIPA, threatens to treat the concept of free speech in much the same way that totalitarian regimes in China, Iran and North Korea do.
Obama's Mixed Messages
Seeded on Mon Jan 23, 2012 4:51 PM EST (The Huffington Post)
This president would be far more believable with a populist message if he had been walking the talk since he first took office. We are all the political hostages of Obama's mixed messages. We have no choice but to go all out for his re-election.
Does Online Piracy Hurt The Economy? A Look At The Numbers
Seeded on Mon Jan 23, 2012 12:03 PM EST (Forbes)
Julian Sanchez has an excellent piece in Ars Technica which takes a look at the claim that content creators are being discouraged from creative pursuits due to online piracy – a claim that has fueled the recently stalled anti-piracy legislation in congress. Whether SOPA …
Van Jones: Obama Must Choose on Housing: A Sweetheart Deal for the 1% or a Fair Deal for the 99%
Seeded on Mon Jan 23, 2012 6:39 AM EST (The Huffington Post)
Rumor has it that on Monday, after months of negotiation with big banks, the White House may announce a settlement that would let the banks off the hook for their role in the foreclosure crisis -- paying a tiny fraction of what's needed in exchange for blanket immunity from fut …
Let's Be Clear, Ron Paul @!$%#ing Sucks. Here Are 20 Reasons Why
Seeded on Sun Jan 22, 2012 7:00 PM EST ()
Every single one of the candidates currently running for the Republican nomination is a walking disaster. But one of them, Texas congressman Ron Paul, seems to be getting a disturbing amount of support from liberals.
Fake AT&T Service Truck Was Delivering A Ton Of Marijuana
Seeded on Sun Jan 22, 2012 6:40 PM EST ()
Two men were jailed after law enforcement found more than a ton of marijuana aboard a fake AT&T service truck in Texas. A Texas state trooper pulled over what looked like an AT&T work truck for going 72 miles per hour in a 60 zone, just west of the Hidalgo County commu …
G-Spot Does Not Exist, 'Without A Doubt,' Say Researchers
Seeded on Sun Jan 22, 2012 10:36 AM EST (The Huffington Post)
Many women swear they have one, but a new review of 60 years of sex research shows science still can't definitively find the G-spot. Researchers have used surveys, imaging scans and biopsies of women, all trying to locate and define the presumably orgasmic area on the vaginal …
Constitutional Law Prof Blog: Occupy Jacket-wearer Arrested at Supreme Court Building
Seeded on Sun Jan 22, 2012 8:36 AM EST ()
The video below is entitled "Man Arrested for Wearing Occupy Jacket at Supreme Court" (h/t Virginia Wilber) and the title seems accurate. Although we don't have a good view of the jacket, the officer clearly refers to it (and asks the wearer to remove it); the officer also …
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Mitt Romney and the White Horse ProphecyRomney avoids mentioning it, but Smith ran for president in 1844 as an independent commander in chief of an “army of God” advocating the overthrow of the U.S. government in favor of a Mormon-ruled theocracy.
- TN State Senator says "AIDS caused by gay pilot having sex with monkey"
um - No. Hat tip to Wonkette for this story and to Michelangelo Signorile from Sirius radio who conducted the interview with this bigoted ignoramus. Tennessee State Senator Stacey Campfield said: Most people realize that AIDS came from the homosexual comm …
- New Data Not So Sunny on U.S. Natural Gas Supply
The difficulty and uncertainty in predicting natural gas resources was underscored last week when the Energy Information Administration released a report containing sharply lower estimates. The agency estimated that there are 482 trillion cubic feet of shale gas in the United St …
- Fox's Wallace says number of GOP debates 'insane,' they're 'all stupid' | The Raw Story
Apparently even the people facilitating and participating in the Republican debates are getting tired of them.
- Liberals' Inequality Narrative Ignores Role of Free Trade, Unionbusting
The Occupy movement forcefully injected a long-taboo topic—America’s appalling “banana republic”-level economic disparities—into the mainstream political debate. That inequality has immense implications, from falling wages, to deteriorating heal …
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