Recent Votes

• Looting the Lives of the Poor | Barbara Ehrenreich

  Source: TomDispatch

  Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month’s rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene. But as Business Week helpfully …

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• Top VAWA Opponents Partnered with Convicted Wife-Beater and Group Tied to Mail Order Bride Firm | rightwingwatch.org

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  The House of Representatives is poised to pass a hobbled version of the Violence Against Women Act Reauthorization (VAWA) later today. The House GOP version actually rolls back some current protections and excludes other key protections contained in the Sena …

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• Surprise Senate Candidate Deb Fischer: Destroy The Constitution Or I'll Destroy The Economy

  Source: Think Progress

  Yesterday, Nebraska GOP primary votersnominated dark horse candidate and state Sen. Deb Fischer as their candidate for an open U.S. Senate race this November. In choosing Fischer, the Nebraska GOP aligns itself with a candidate who recently called for a very high stakes ga …

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• GOTP imperialism in America :revelation

  Imperialism is loosely defined as follows "the creation and/or maintenance of an unequal economic, cultural, and territorial relationship, usually between states and often in the form of an empire, based on domination and subordination." " .... is primarily a Western undertaking …

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• Who Really Caused the Deficit?

  Source: Talking Points Memo

  As the chart below reveals, the main drivers of projected deficits over the next decade are the wars... in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Bush tax cuts and the so-called “automatic stabilizers” — unemployment insurance spending, lower tax burdens — built into e …

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