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Oklahoma Senators Jim Inhofe, Tom Coburn, Face Difficult Options On Disaster Relief

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Christina Wilkie - May. 21 (News Analysis) - Sens. Jim Inhofe and Tom Coburn, both Republicans, are fiscal hawks who have repeatedly voted against funding disaster aid for other parts of the country. They also have opposed increased funding for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which administers federal disaster relief. Late last year, Inhofe and Coburn both backed a plan to slash disaster relief to victims of Hurricane Sandy. In a December press release, Coburn complained that the Sandy Relief bill contained "wasteful spending," and identified a series of items he objected to, including "$12.9 billion for future disaster mitigation activities and studies."

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Being a Democracy Hating, Corporate Power-Defending Newspaper Owner Runs Deep in the Koch Family

Sun, 19 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Yasha Levine - May. 19 (Opinion) - There’s a rumor going around that the Koch brothers are interested in buying up the Tribune Company, which includes the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, the Baltimore Sun… And there’s a lot of speculation about what would happen if they did. Some worry, and rightly so, that the Kochs—whose combined wealth makes them the biggest billionaires on the planet—would integrate the Tribune Co. with the rest of their free-market thinktank-industrial complex, and turn its newly acquired news media property into a gigantic business propaganda machine. Half the reporters at the Los Angeles Times even took a vote saying they’d quit if the Kochs bought the paper

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Outrageous Attacks on Supporters of Church-State Separation: Death Threats, Murdered Pets, and Vandalized Property

Sun, 19 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Adam Lee - May. 19 (Special Report) - The religious right despises the First Amendment, since it's constantly foiled their efforts to inject Christian doctrine into government. And when they've lost in court, religious conservatives in the U.S. have often waged campaigns of threats, harassment and outright violence against First Amendment plaintiffs, in the hopes of intimidating them into backing down and achieving by mob violence what they can't achieve under the law

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Austerity Kills: How Harsh Budget Cuts Increase Suicide, Infant Mortality, HIV Infections

Mon, 13 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Alex Kane - May. 13 (Review) - Austerity doesn’t just hurt economies--it contributes to rising suicide rates, infant mortality and H.I.V. infections. That’s the message of a New York Times Op-Ed written by David Stuckler and Sanjay Basu, authors of a new book titled The Body Economic: Why Austerity Kills.

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The Facts Are In and Paul Ryan Is Wrong

Fri, 10 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Magazine - By Jonathan Chait - May. 10 (News Analysis) - Changes in the way we think about the world are not “news” in the classic sense — they occur gradually, without discrete events to signal them. But they matter. Two such developments have come together recently, both reported in the New York Times. The f

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Deficit Reduction Is Seen by Economists as Impeding Recovery

Thu, 09 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Ackie Calmes, Jonathan Weisman - May. 09 (News Report) - After two years of stalemate on how to spur job creation and slash deficits, the consensus is that fiscal tightening has been a drag on economic recovery.

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10 Reasons Austerity Is a Crock

Wed, 08 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Stephanie Kelton - May. 08 (News Analysis) - When we allow our economy to operate below full employment (as now), we are sacrificing trillions of dollars in lost output and income each year. We can never go back and recover it. It is gone forever. You’ve seen the debt clock? Here’s the lost output clock.

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Krugman Exposes the Hypocrisy of Fiscal Conservatives

Tue, 07 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

TruthDig - By Tracy Bloom - May. 07 (News Analysis) - In his latest column for The New York Times, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman writes that the case for economic austerity has collapsed, though that hasn’t stopped the pro-austerity faction from continuing to push for deep spending cuts.

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Colbert Mocks Right-Wing Conspiracy Theory That Government Is Buying Up Bullets (VIDEO)

Tue, 07 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Stephen Colbert - May. 07 (Comedy News) - Have you heard that the government is buying up billions of bullets in bulk so that when the feds inevitably go to war with the American citizenry, we'll be totally unarmed?

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The Hollowing Out of Government

Sun, 05 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

nationofchange.org - By Robert Reich - May. 05 (Opinion) - OSHA and its state partners have a total of 2,200 inspectors charged with ensuring the safety of over more than 8 million workplaces employing 130 million workers. That comes to about one inspector for every 59,000 American workers. There’s no way it can do its job with so few resources, but OSHA has been systematically hollowed out for the years under Republican administrations and congresses that have despised the agency since its inception. In effect, much of our nation’s worker safety laws and rules have been quietly repealed because there aren’t enough inspectors to enforce them.

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Inside the Collapsing Media Empire of Deceased GOP Sleaze-Peddler Andrew Breitbart

Sun, 05 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Mark Ames, Max blumenthal - May. 05 (Special Report) - Breitbart, the adopted son of a wealthy West Los Angeles restauranteur, used his privilege to immiserate the most marginalized, impoverished, widely demonized groups of Americans. He was a faithful errand boy for rich, Scrooge McDuck tycoons like Peter Thiel, Foster Friess, and the Koch Brothers, wielding smear journalism against anyone or any interest that threatened their power — usually African-Americans or groups like ACORN, serving impoverished, neglected inner city communities.

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Climate change hurts women. Wall Street Journal sneers. - Grist

Thu, 02 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Grist - By John Upton - May. 02 (News Report) - Women in the developing world, many of whom work in agriculture, are vulnerable to climate change. Apparently the idea of girls being sold off into early marriage and women being pushed into prostitution is fucking hilarious.

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'Do Nothing F@#ktards' Just Fix The Cuts That Affects Them (VIDEO)

Wed, 01 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Jon Stewart - May. 01 (Comedy News) - In a show that focused largely on the sequester cuts, Jon opened with a segment on legislators coming together to fix the one problem that affects them... more specifically, their vacations.

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The Right Wing Cult Machine Exposed

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Thom Hartmann - Apr. 28 (Opinion) - a cult is a group or sect bound together by adoration of the same thing, person, ideal, etc. A cult promises you redemption. It tells you that if you do what it says, and as it believes, you will be protected from the evil people that are out to get you and the rest of society. A cult purges the non-believers. And it actively tries to vilify all those who are not part of the cult

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The Economic Argument Is Over — And Paul Krugman Won

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

finance.yahoo.com - By Henry Blodget - Apr. 24 (News Report) - discovery of this simple math error eliminated one of the key "facts" upon which the austerity movement was based. It also, in my opinion, settled the "stimulus vs. austerity" argument once and for all. The argument is over. Paul Krugman has won. The only question now is whether the folks who have been arguing that we have no choice but to cut government spending while the economy is still weak will be big enough to admit that.

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Koch Brothers Making Play for Tribune's Newspapers

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Amy Chozick - Apr. 21 (News Report) - Three years ago, Charles and David Koch, the billionaire industrialists and supporters of libertarian causes, held a seminar of like-minded, wealthy political donors at the St. Regis Resort in Aspen, Colo. They laid out a three-pronged …

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Leonard Pitts: Rand Paul’s ‘outreach’ at Howard University a missed opportunity

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Miami Herald - By - Leonard Pitts Jr. - Apr. 21 (Opinion) - would someone please tell Paul and any other Republican planning “outreach” to African Americans that if you must go back 104 years (the NAACP was founded in 1909) for examples of solidarity with black folks, it kind of illustrates the problem?

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Chris Nogy, Arkansas Republican, Floats Idea Of Shooting Lawmakers

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 20:01:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By The Huffington Post News Team - Apr. 21 (News Analysis) - Chris Nogy, the husband of a Republican Party official in Arkansas, suggested it was a shame that voters couldn't just threaten to shoot GOP state legislators who voted for the state's Medicaid expansion.

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American Right-Wingers Are No Longer Conservative — They're Extremists

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Joshua Holland, Ian Millhiser - Apr. 21 (Interview) - when North Carolina says they are not bound by the First Amendment, what they’re saying is that this -- and this is the most revolutionary moment in American history – it changed our conception of what it means to be a person living under a government. No longer are we saying that there are these governments and they have different powers and they fight out amongst themselves and that’s how we figure out what our liberties are. Now, we live in a world where everyone has rights just because they are a human being, and that’s what North Carolina is rebelling against.

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Chechen Terrorists and the Neocons

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

readersupportednews.org - By Coleen Rowley - Apr. 20 (News Analysis) - "the leading group which pleads the Chechen cause is the American Committee for Peace in Chechnya (ACPC). The list of the self-styled 'distinguished Americans' who are its members is a roll call of the most prominent neoconservatives who so enthusiastically support the 'war on terror.'

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Paul Ryan's Austerity Agenda Relies on Bad Math, Coding Errors and a 'Significant Mistake'

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The Nation - By John Nichols - Apr. 18 (News Analysis) - The paper the House Budget Committee chairman has used as the intellectual and statistical underpinning for his austerity agenda has been significantly discredited by the revelation that essential data was excluded from the study, leading "to serious errors that inaccurately represent the relationship between public debt and growth." The Harvard professors who produced the paper—which Ryan cited as recently as last month—have acknowledged their mathematical error. Now, the question is whether Ryan and

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To reinvigorate Republican Party, tea party takes page from Occupy

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - Apr. 16 (Special Report) - Tea party activists have come up with 10 bills that they call the New Fair Deal – a nod to ending special interests in D.C. The plan includes privatizing Social Security and replacing Obamacare. ...

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California's Dark-Money Investigation Is Making Conservatives Sweat

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Mother Jones - By Andy Kroll - Apr. 15 (Opinion) - Investigators with California's election watchdog and attorney general's office are hot on the trail of the true source of millions in dark money spent to defeat two hard-fought ballot propositions last fall. The wide-ranging probe has conservatives worried that a network of nonprofit groups used to move secret money around the country could be in for some unwanted exposure. The investigation, led by the state's nonpartisan Fair Political Practices Commission, has already done more than most watchdogs to pry open the black box of the conservative dark-money groups that spent freely in 2012 without disclosing the sources of their money. Last fall, the FPPC revealed what it called "the largest contribution ever disclosed as campaign money laundering in California history" after it discovered that three nonprofits had funneled $11 million from Virginia to Arizona to California. As the probe progresses, some conservatives are nervous that more details—such as the identities of actual ...

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Republicans Have Drooled Over the Idea of Slashing Social Security for Years, and They've Found Their Ideal Partner in Obama

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Robert Reich - Apr. 14 (News Analysis) - The Republican leadership is already salivating over the president's proposed Social Security cut. They've been wanting to cut Social Security for years. But they won't agree to close tax loopholes for the rich.

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Five senators to watch on immigration bill

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Chris Cillizza - Apr. 14 (News Analysis) - After years of false starts, the Senate appears ready to introduce a bipartisan immigration bill this week — a piece of legislation that has massive policy and political implications attached to it. A bill being introduced isn’t the same thing as a deal that passes the Senate, of course. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio (R), a member of the bipartisan “Gang of 8” crafting the legislation, acknowledged as much in an interview Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “It is not the take-it-or-leave-it offer,” he said. “It is a starting point of reform.” ...

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