It’s open warfare within the GOP – and all of America is caught in the crossfire From Rolling Stone: Partisan gerrymandering of 2012 locked in the Republican electoral gains of 2010. In redrawing congressional districts following the census, the GOP focused its efforts on protecting House incumbents – making their…
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View Interactive: Who’s pulling the strings? Illustrations by Joe Fournier. From left to right: Jim DeMint(Heritage Foundation); David Bossie (Citizens United); Ginni Thomas, Spouse of SCOTUS Justice Clarence Thomas (Liberty Consulting); Edwin Meese (Heritage Foundation); Chris Chocola (Club for Growth); Matt Kibbe (FreedomWorks); Michael Needham (Heritage Action for America); Erick…
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FASCISM ANYONE? THE 14 DEFINING CHARACTERISTICS OF FASCISM by Laurence W. Britt Originally published in the Spring 2003 edition of Free Inquiry Magazine (21)
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From NBC News: The Republican Party has been badly damaged in the ongoing government shutdown and debt limit standoff, with a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finding that a majority of Americans blame the GOP for the shutdown, and with the party’s popularity declining to its lowest level. By…
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From NYT: House Republicans, facing the ninth day of a government shutdown, appeared increasingly isolated on Wednesday from even their strongest backers, with business groups demanding the immediate reopening of the government and benefactors such as Koch Industries publicly distancing themselves from the shutdown fight. Republican and Democratic leaders met…
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A Federal Budget Crisis Months in the Planning, New York Times To many Americans, the shutdown came out of nowhere. But interviews with a wide array of conservatives show that the confrontation that precipitated the crisis was the outgrowth of a long-running effort to undo the law, the Affordable Care…
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Hermans’ House Obituary/Press Statement at Angola 3 News: The Muhammad Ali of Criminal Justice (30)
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