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All over the country Republicans are enacting draconian legislation designed to separate the people most likely to vote for Democrats from their right to vote. They scream of rampant voter fraud, even though a DOJ study documented voter fraud at under 3/10,000 of 1%, Republicans scream that the accuracy vote must be protected in every case. The problem is, there are cases in which they don’t seem to think so.All over the country Republicans are enacting draconian legislation designed to... more
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The news is good for the people of Oregon’s First Congressional District. In the race to fell the seat vacated by former Rep. David Wu, endorsements for Suzanne Bonamici (D) are pouring in, and she has opened a wide margin in the polls over faux-moderate Rob Cornilles (R), as this article by Kari Chisolm demonstrates.The news is good for the people of Oregon’s First Congressional District. In... more
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Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has told the BBC that she expects her country to hold democratic elections in her lifetime.
When questioned by the interviewer, Suu Kyi said: “I think there will be full democratic election in my lifetime. But then, of course, I don’t know how long I’m going to live. But if I live out a normal life span.”
Suu Kyi – who has spent 15 of the past 21 years under house arrest because of her political activity – made the comment in an exclusive interview with the BBC ahead of a meeting with William Hague.
She also talked about Burma’s political prisoners, saying they must all be freed, even if the government refused to admit the existence of up to 1,000 journalists, dissidents and monks who were involved in protests in 2007.
Though Suu Kyi officially registered the National League for Democracy as a political party in December 2011, she says she does not know when democratic elections will be held and whether she would run in them.
Speaking about Burma’s progress, Suu Kyi said: "I don’t think it’s as fast as a lot of us would like it to be. But on the other hand I don’t think it’s too slow."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16421610Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has told the BBC that she expects her... more
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Iowa is over, for all intents and purposes, and it did not matter who won. With 100% of the votes counted, the top two candidates are separated by only eight votes, so both will take six delegates in Iowa. Here are the final results:Iowa is over, for all intents and purposes, and it did not matter who won. With 100%... more
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The scene in the caucus looked like an outtake from a Ma and Pa Kettle movie. I lived in Ames proper and spent all my time either on campus or at the club where I DJed, so I had never seen the local white trashery in all its glory before. Sweet hell, you could have cast a sequel to Deliverance out of that room. Some speaking in tongues and serpent handling wouldn’t have been entirely out of place.The scene in the caucus looked like an outtake from a Ma and Pa Kettle movie. I lived... more
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Mr. Cohen clarifies the events in Russia in recent weeks. Just when you thought you knew all there was to know about that old cold war sleepy country.Mr. Cohen clarifies the events in Russia in recent weeks. Just when you thought you... more
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You may know that I have written several articles on the Republican war on voting, so I shall not go into the details of extreme tactics they use to separate minority, elderly, disabled, labor, and poor Americans from their right to vote. But a recent attempt has exposed a small glimpse at who is financing this effort.You may know that I have written several articles on the Republican war on voting, so... more
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Over in the Totalitarian Corporate Plutocracy of Fitzwalkerstan, formerly Wisconsin, Scott Walker has been sipping some heavy duty whine. He is claiming massive voter fraud, wasted resources and more in an attempt to discredit the snowballing recall effort from patriots trying to restore Wisconsin. Of course Walker is lying. In fact, there’s little Walker and his Koch sucking thugs won’t to save his job.Over in the Totalitarian Corporate Plutocracy of Fitzwalkerstan, formerly Wisconsin,... more
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So how did we do in predicting the field? If you exclude the entertainers like Rush Limbaugh that we included in that first bracket in an attempt to be funny, pretty good. We predicted twelve entrants. Of those twelve, ten took some sort of shot. Of the seven we deliberately left off the list, four stayed out and three came in: Huntsman, Paul, and Bolton. So of 19 potential candidates, we called 14 correctly, or 73%. We should also get some bonus points for also predicting that some off the radar candidates would emerge and those would include a Texan and a governor.
Our only big misses were Ron Paul and Rick Perry. To be fair, we thought the “Texan” would be someone from the Bush camp, like Jeb or Mitch Daniels (an honorary Texan.) To those of us not intimately familiar with Texas, Perry seems just like W. But I am told by my Texas friends they are very different. Eskimos have twenty words for snow. Texans must have twenty different types of asshole.So how did we do in predicting the field? If you exclude the entertainers like Rush... more
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New York - Real estate developer Donald Trump has announced that his planned presidential debate has been canceled due to lack of interest and replaced by a holiday special. The program is scheduled to feature all of the remaining Republican candidates for president.
“It’s gonna be awesome,” Trump said in a recent news conference. “It’s gonna be like ‘Dancing with the Stars’ but without the dancing and without the stars. But we’re gonna pack plenty of Christmas magic into this very, very special special.”
Called “Christmas with the Candidates,” the two-hour program will air on NBC, replacing the traditional Christmas Eve broadcast of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.”
“I say ‘bah humbug’ to that old ghost story,” Trump explained. “It doesn’t even take place in America.”
As an alternative to Dickens and conventional debating, each of the candidates will appear live from a special holiday location.
Front runner Newt Gingrich will showcase his volunteer work at the McLean, Virginia Animal Shelter, where he operates a post-holiday euthanization line. “We get tons of unwanted puppies and kittens as soon as those trees come down. I know it sounds like a bah humbug job. But it’s really a lot of fun.”
Mitt Romney is still trying to decide whether he wants to be home with his family in Boston or singing with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir in Salt Lake City. “I can see the pros and cons of both options,” the candidate said. “I’m just wondering what the voters would like their leader to do in this situation.”
To emphasize the inclusive nature of Christmas, Michele Bachmann is going to attend a class at a yeshiva in Brooklyn, and try to learn how to pronounce the word “chutzpah” correctly.
Rick Perry will be out somewhere along the Texas/Mexican border with a 12-gauge shotgun and a bucket of shells.
Ron Paul is going to do his segment from the National Institute Of Standards and Technology, where he will figure out the exact point at which he became too smart to be President of the United States.
The remaining candidates will play a round of ‘The Apprentice’ with Donald Trump. The winner will be crowned as the Republican’s vice presidential contender. Check your local listings for times and channels.New York - Real estate developer Donald Trump has announced that his planned... more
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Let’s not muddle the messaging by suggesting Cain failed because of unconventionality. He broke under the weight of his own conventionalism. Even innocent of the allegations, some of his most damning character flaws showed through very clearly in his responses. His only failure in “unconventionalism” was lack of the necessary political savvy to slap the right lipstick on the right pig at the right time. Sadly, we have too much of that conventionality at hand. If only more candidates would collapse from such a lack of savvy.Let’s not muddle the messaging by suggesting Cain failed because of... more
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If you have a ton of cash and a political agenda, it's easier than ever to make powerful friends and influence people. Here's a handy how-to guide to the complex, cash-drenched world of federal campaign finance.If you have a ton of cash and a political agenda, it's easier than ever to make... more
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Republican lawmakers in Congress introduced legislation on Wednesday that would require the Obama administration to issue a construction permit for the controversial Keystone XL pipeline within 60 days unless the president decided the project was not in the national interest.
Sponsored by Senator Richard G. Lugar, Republican of Indiana, the legislation is a sharp rejoinder to the State Department’s recent decision to delay a verdict on approval of the $7 billion project for at least a year while it considers alternative routes that bypass environmentally sensitive areas in Nebraska.
That announcement enraged supporters of the pipeline, who have accused Mr. Obama of seeking to placate his supporters until after next year’s presidential election in lieu of signing off on a project that will create jobs.
“Building the TransCanada Keystone pipeline now is a dramatic opportunity to change that energy and national security equation,” Mr. Lugar said in a statement. “President Obama has the opportunity of creating 20,000 new jobs now. Incredibly, he has delayed a decision until after the 2012 election apparently in fear of offending a part of his political base and even risking the ire of construction unions who support the pipeline.”
Dozens of Republican senators and leaders of the party are backing the legislation, which seems unlikely to pass in the Democratic-controlled Senate unless Mr. Lugar can muster bipartisan support for the bill.
The State Department put off the Keystone XL decision because of mounting pressure from lawmakers in Nebraska and from environmental groups that pleaded with the Obama administration not to allow the pipeline to traverse the delicate Sand Hills region of the state.
Soon afterward, the pipeline company, TransCanada, agreed to route the pipeline around the Sand Hills area. But the State Department has said it must nonetheless initiate a fresh environmental review process for any new route, a process that could take 12 to 18 months.
Opponents of Keystone XL condemned the Republican bill, pointing out that the State Department’s inspector general had opened an inquiry into the federal government’s handling of the environmental review of the pipeline proposal, which has been faulted by critics as lax.
“I will vigorously oppose any efforts by Republicans in Congress to legislate a rubber-stamp approval for the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline,” Senator Bernie Sanders, Independent of Vermont, said in a statement. “At a time when the State Department inspector general is conducting a special inquiry into possible conflicts of interest related to the State Department’s handling of this project, it is completely inappropriate to try to short-circuit the thorough environmental review process federal law requires.”
House Republicans with the Energy and Commerce Committee have said they will discuss the Keystone XL delay at a hearing on the project on Friday.Republican lawmakers in Congress introduced legislation on Wednesday that would... more
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Put another way, evangelicals would rather have a liar and a hypocrite and has been married three times than a Mormon. And if anyone seriously believes Gingrich has repented, I’ve got a beautiful orange bridge in San Francisco to sell you.Put another way, evangelicals would rather have a liar and a hypocrite and has been... more
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An Italian radio program’s story about Iceland’s on-going revolution is a stunning example of how little our media tells us about the rest of the world. Americans may remember that at the start of the 2008 financial crisis, Iceland literally went bankrupt. The reasons were mentioned only in passing, and since then, this little-known member of the European Union fell back into oblivion. As one European country after another fails or risks failing, imperiling the Euro, with repercussions for the entire world, the last thing the powers that be want is for Iceland to become an example. Here’s why: http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/recent-news/43029-why-iceland-should-be-in-the-news-but-is-notAn Italian radio program’s story about Iceland’s on-going revolution is a... more
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