Check out the web sites for the major Tea Party umbrella groups. They had nothing to say about the NDAA and now they have nothing to say about SOPA. They are really upset about the Obama recess appointment for a head of the CFPA. That’s the big outrage story in Tea Party land. Amazing how… Continue reading The Tea Party. Silent on NDAA, Silent on SOPA.
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Chris Hedges: Why I’m Suing Barack Obama
Chris Hedges: Why I’m Suing Barack Obama
Attorneys Carl J. Mayer and Bruce I. Afran filed a complaint Friday in the Southern U.S. District Court in New York City on my behalf as a plaintiff against Barack Obama and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta to challenge the legality of the Authorization for Use of Military Force as embedded in the latest version of the National Defense Authorization Act, signed by the president Dec. 31.
I’d like to see more challenges to the NDAA related detention provisions. Why the ACLU is dropping the ball on this is a mystery to me.
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as just two recent examples, both Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel have championed massive cuts to public education while sending their kids to private school. America’s dangerously removed elite – Salon.com
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is there anything at all in Romney’s stump speech that’s true? It’s all based on attacking Obama for apologizing for America, which he didn’t, on making deep cuts in defense, which he also didn’t, and on being a radical redistributionist who wants equality of outcomes, which he isn’t. When the issue turns to jobs, Romney… Continue reading Untitled
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what the story of Romney and the auto bailout actually shows is something we already knew from health care: he’s a smart guy who is also a moral coward. His original proposal for the auto industry, like his health reform, bore considerable resemblance to what Obama actually did. But when the deed took place, Romney… Continue reading Untitled
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Have any Republicans been blocked from voting in the primaries because they didn’t have proper id?
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Romney expected to win New Hampshire, sun expected to rise in east.
Do you support continuing Pell grants?
Do you support continuing Pell grants?
Ron Paul avoids telling room of college kids that he doesn’t want to extend Pell grants.
Ron Paul Style Libertarianism and Reversing Mass Incarceration
Ron Paul Style Libertarianism and Reversing Mass Incarceration
Mike Konczal has mostly positive things to say about Paul. Worth a read.
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though Rasmussen did find that 57 percent of likely voters agreed with the gold standard after they were asked this follow-up question: “Many say that adopting the gold standard would dramatically reduce the power of central bankers and political leaders to steer the economy. If you knew that returning to the gold standard really would… Continue reading Untitled