Post Overview
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Expression
8 years ago+8 8 0Reinventing Democracy in America Starts by Voting, Then Building an Accountability Movement
We, the people, have more power than we think. To exercise our power, we must insist that our elected representatives serve us. If they don’t, we need to vote them out as quickly as possible.
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8 years ago+29 29 0Claims That Clinton Lied About Emails Dissolve Under Scrutiny
Clinton has made misstatements regarding the presence of classified information on her server. But did she lie? Not only is there no convincing evidence that she has lied, but there is also considerable reason to believe that Clinton thought she was ...
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8 years ago+8 8 0Republican talk of holding a Supreme Court seat vacant for four years is without precedent
Given the likelihood (albeit a slightly diminishing one) of a Hillary Clinton victory next week, Senate Republicans are starting to shift the goalposts by suggesting they might opt to leave Scalia's seat open indefinitely if Clinton takes the Wh ...
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8 years ago+9 9 0Iraq's new atheism in the shadow of Islamic State
Shaho is 29, a government employee. He hunches over some tea, chain-smoking throughout our three hours together. He is this group's founder, and his natural confidence makes him something of a spokesman, too. Several years ago, stuck between the ...
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8 years ago+38 38 0 x 1Russia gets voted off UN Human Rights Council
The General Assembly voted Russia off the UN Human Rights Council on Friday, a stunning rebuke to the country which is increasingly being accused of war crimes over its atrocities in Syria.
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8 years ago+21 21 0City ISP makes broadband free because state law prohibits selling access
A municipal ISP that was on the verge of shutting off Internet service outside its city boundaries to comply with a state law has come up with a temporary fix: it will offer broadband for free.
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8 years ago+12 12 0Asymmetric Warfare: The Fight Against Conservative Smear Campaigns
The right wing has attacked Hillary with the equivalent of “Chinese water torture” using the slow drip of unsubstantiated innuendo to drive sane people mad. Let’s together dive into this deep and troubled ocean of conservative misrepresentation, fabl ...
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8 years ago+24 24 0No prayer, no meal: Shelters turning away government food due to new worship rules
Bethesda Mission in Harrisburg does not believe the government should regulate how it worships and gives food to the homeless. So the Christian-based organization and others are refusing to accept food from the federal government. The U.S. Departmen ...
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8 years ago+5 5 0The Hillary Clinton Recession Is Going to Be Ugly
It won't be her fault: Republican obstructionism, internal divisions, and austerity fetishism will leave the next president no good options for dealing with a downturn.
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8 years ago+10 10 0The Ideology of the Anti-Gay Movement Is an Ideology of Inconsistency and Hypocrisy
Regardless of the fact that they trip over themselves insisting that their actions and words are not “hatred” or “bigotry”, the anti-gay crusade that calls much of the world home persists in its state of naivety, intolerance, and outright denial of r ...
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Review
8 years ago+7 7 0Americans would take these 4 steps to fix Social Security
Results from a new survey of more than 8,600 registered voters across the country, conducted by the Program for Public Consultation at the University of Maryland, suggest that a large majority of Americans are ready for a plan that would deal with mo ...
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8 years ago+11 11 0 x 1The Progressive Tax Reform You’ve Never Heard Of
Put simply, if Congress were to adopt a territorial system to tax only U.S.-originated revenue without addressing profit shifting, corporations would continue to artificially book income in tax havens. Tax revenue would continue to plummet. There is ...
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8 years ago+4 4 0Even Hillary Clinton’s victory rally is trolling Donald Trump
Hillary Clinton finally has a venue for her victory rally: the Jacob V. Javits Center, overlooking the Hudson River in Manhattan. The venue, with its soaring glass ceiling, comes with obvious symbolic value for a candidate vying to become the first w ...
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8 years ago+14 14 0There was some rare good news about abortion rights this week
On Monday, Virginia became the latest state to feel the ripple effects of the landmark June Supreme Court decision that struck down two common types of abortion restrictions in Texas. The Virginia State Board of Health, after hours of comments and d ...
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8 years ago+2 2 0ACLU Files Complaint Against Catholic Health System For Denying Care to Pregnant Woman With Brain Tumor
The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Michigan today filed a government complaint against a Catholic health care provider that refused medically necessary treatment to a pregnant woman on religious grounds.
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Review
8 years ago+13 13 0More coal plants will deepen - not cut - poverty, researchers warn
Building just a third of planned new coal-fired power plants around the world would push hundreds of millions of people into poverty as it accelerates climate change past an agreed limit of 2 degrees Celsius of warming, development experts warn.
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8 years ago+4 4 0Jack Chick has died
At least I think he has. This from his company Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/chicktracts/photos/a.437041710057.374027.436937560057/10157595360455058/?type=3&theater
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8 years ago+20 20 0The “432 Hz vs. 440 Hz” conspiracy theory
Would you believe that there is a conspiracy theory about the way we tune musical instruments? And that this theory even involves the Nazis, chakras, and whatnot? No? Then sit down and enjoy perhaps the most ridiculous conspiracy theory of all times.
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Analysis
8 years ago+4 4 0Debt, Diversion, Distraction
** Submitter's Note: browse this site in Incognito/Privacy mode. ** So, about that supposed debt crisis: right now we have a more or less stable ratio of debt to GDP, and no hint of a financing problem. So claims that we are facing something ter ...
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8 years ago+16 16 0Ancient atheism
I enjoy reading about the metaphysical beliefs of pre-modern peoples, especially those that are iconoclastic with regards to their time period and lay adjacent to the current scientific conception of reality. Roughly contemporary with the Pre-Socrati ...