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June 25
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The Supreme Court unanimously gets it right on cell phone privacy
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“Cell phones differ in both a quantitative and a qualitative sense from other objects that might be carried on an arrestee’s person. Notably, modern cell phones have an immense storage capacity.” [PDF]
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Did they get it right in ABC v Aereo, too?
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“For these reasons, we conclude that Aereo transmits a performance of petitioners’ copyrighted works to the public…” [PDF]
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ADL calls BS on Gary Oldman’s apology for apologizing for anti-semitism
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“While his apology may be heartfelt, Mr. Oldman does not understand why his words about Jewish control were so damaging and offensive, and it is therefore insufficient.”
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Meet Welfare Queen Jenny Beth Martin: Tea Party Patriot set to take in $450k this year
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“I was very frustrated by the TARP bill, because nobody bailed us out, and we weren’t looking for a bailout,” … It’s a message she uses often, saying that no one bailed out her husband’s company when it failed. … Martin has had to publicly contend with the fact that she and her husband filed for bankruptcy, a bailout of its own sort. Less well known is the fact that her husband accepted unemployment for a time, something else she has explained.
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Where to Hear Sam Today 12-3 ET (Will Update)
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Call into his show at 866-987-8466
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June 24’s Show
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Gary Oldman: Apologist for racists, anti-semites, homophobes
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“Alec calling someone an [sic] F-A-G in the street while he’s pissed off coming out of his building because they won’t leave him alone. I don’t blame him. So they persecute. Mel Gibson is in a town that’s run by Jews and he said the wrong thing because he’s actually bitten the hand that I guess has fed him…”
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SEC and Manhattan DA finding link between Christie and 2nd bridge fraud
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Check out New York State General Business Law Section 352(c)
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And Dechert’s primer on the Martin Act
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Dick Cheney of 1994 disagreed with Dick Cheney of 2003 (and today)
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“Once you got to Iraq and took it over and took down Saddam Hussein’s government, then what are you going to put in its place That’s a very volatile part of the world. And if you take down the central government in Iraq, you could easily end up seeing pieces of Iraq fly off. Part of it the Syrians would like to have, the west. Part of eastern Iraq the Iranians would like to claim. Fought over for eight years. In the north, you’ve got the Kurds. And if the Kurds spin loose and join with Kurds in Turkey, then you threaten the territorial integrity of Turkey. It’s a quagmire if you go that far and try to take over Iraq.”
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Mike Bloomberg, Hank Paulson and Bob Rubin say Climate Change is Risky Business
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“The Risky Business Project is designed to highlight climate risks to specific business sectors and regions of the economy, and to provide actionable data at a geographically granular level for decision-makers. It is our hope that it becomes standard practice for the American business and investment community to factor climate change into its decision-making process.”
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June 19’s Show
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Terry Bradshaw, Libya Expert, Opines on Hillary
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"I always say this: If you tell the truth, you don't have to worry about covering up with some other story. The truth sets you free."
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US wants Maliki out. Who does it want to replace him?
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Over the past two days the American ambassador … ha[s] met with Usama Nujaifi … and with Ahmad Chalabi, one of the several potential Shiite candidates for prime minister…”
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Megyn Kelly confronts Dick Cheney on Iraq. Forgets to mention Iraqis.
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tl;dr summary: Kelly accuses Cheney of being wrong. Cheney says “everyone thought…”. Kelly moves on.
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Jon Chait tells Dick Cheney to speak up. And James Fallows to shut up.
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“Demanding accountability for failed predictions is fair. Insisting that only your ideological opponents be held accountable is not fair.”
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Glenn Beck: I was wrong on Iraq. I kind of still am.
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“Now, in spite of the things I felt at the time when we went into war, liberals said: We shouldn’t get involved. We shouldn’t nation-build. And there was no indication the people of Iraq had the will to be free. I thought that was insulting at the time. Everybody wants to be free.”
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US Supreme Court to Argentina: suck lemons
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Brian Schweitzer on Eric Cantor: “Don’t hold this against me, but I’m going to blurt it out”
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"Don't hold this against me, but I'm going to blurt it out. How do I say this ... men in the South, they are a little effeminate,”… he added, "They just have effeminate mannerisms. If you were just a regular person, you turned on the TV, and you saw Eric Cantor talking, I would say—and I'm fine with gay people, that's all right—but my gaydar is 60-70 percent. But he's not, I think, so I don't know. Again, I couldn't care less. I'm accepting."
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June 13’s Show
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Meet Kevin McCarthy: the soon-to-be Majority Leader nobody likes
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Tea Party doesn't contest leadership, uninterested (‘in-fighting’) in taking on worst job in the Capitol
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Pew Poll demonstrates, again: most of us want to keep Social Security as is
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See the Poll Q: More want to provide additional benefits than want to reduce them (27-24%)
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Meet Scott Esk. He thinks folks who are homosexual should be stoned to death
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“I’m largely libertarian, but ignoring as a nation things that are worthy of death is very remiss.”
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Read Joe Biden’s plan to Federalize Iraq
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“First, the plan calls for maintaining a unified Iraq by decentralizing it and giving Kurds, Shiites and Sunnis their own regions. The central government would be left in charge of common interests, such as border security and the distribution of oil revenue.”
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Watch Josh Orton on NewsMaxTV
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Anchor & Co-Anchor ask Josh isn’t this a chance to show our strength?
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Josh: To who? By doing what?
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June 11’s Show
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Eric Cantor: Loser. Bitch Face. Quitting leadership position.
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Look at that face and tell me you won’t miss him
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See the results (7th District) from the VA Board of Elections
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Resignation from Majority Leader position effective July 31
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Cantor Challenger: Minimum wage? Um...
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“Um, I don't have a well-crafted response on that one.”
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Rep. Miller (R-FL): Global warming not really happening, “Foolish” to think we can do anything about it
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On dinosaur extinction: “Were there cars running around at that point, causing global warming?”
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The State of the Judiciary: Obama ups the pace on nominations
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June 6’s Show
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Meet the (probable) next Senator from Mississippi, Chris McDaniel
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“Why don’t we all immigrate south, let’s go to Mexico…You know, a dollar bill can buy a mansion in Mexico.”
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June 4’s Show
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FOX Psychiatrist: Sgt. Bergdahl is a narcissist because he lifted weights & took dance class
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“… unless it doesn't feed him narcissistically — you can’t give him a job unless you’re going to tell him you’re the star and we’re going to keep you at a throttle of twelve out of ten”
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Flip Flopping Conservatives can’t make up their mind on Bowe
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June 2’s Show
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Read the EPA’s new proposed Clean Power Plan
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Cuomo the Lesser gets Working Families Party endorsement
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Bill O’Reilly schools Megyn Kelly on income inequality
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US Soldier returns home. Republicans unhappy.
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“Soon after McCain hit the ground in Hanoi, the code went out the window. "I'll give you military information if you will take me to the hospital," he later admitted pleading with his captors. McCain now insists the offer was a bluff, designed to fool the enemy into giving him medical treatment. In fact, his wounds were attended to only after the North Vietnamese discovered that his father was a Navy admiral. What has never been disclosed is the manner in which they found out: McCain told them. According to Dramesi, one of the few POWs who remained silent under years of torture, McCain tried to justify his behavior while they were still prisoners. "I had to tell them," he insisted to Dramesi, "or I would have died in bed.””
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Watch Sen Warren and Prof Piketty on HuffPost Live
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Tonight at 8:30 tonight [warning: audio starts immediately]
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May
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May 23’s Show
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Josh Marshall on Bitch Slap Politics
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“One way -- perhaps the best way -- to demonstrate someone's lack of toughness or strength is to attack them and show they are either unwilling or unable to defend themselves -- thus the rough slang I used above. And that I think is a big part of what is happening here. Someone who can't or won't defend themselves certainly isn't someone you can depend upon to defend you.”
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Read Michael Kinsley dissing Glenn Greenwald in the New York Times
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“Greenwald was the go-between for Edward Snowden and some of the newspapers that reported on Snowden’s collection of classified documents exposing huge eavesdropping by the National Security Agency, among other scandals.”
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Watch Idaho’s nutty Republican gubernatorial primary debate
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Movie Suggestions
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May 21’s Show
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Pat Sajak: Comedic Genius or Nutjob?
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“I now believe global warming alarmists are unpatriotic racists knowingly misleading for their own ends. Good night.”
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House version of USA FREEDOM Act not so freedom-y
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Reopens door to picking targets using terms that define groups, not individuals (hotel guests, chatroom participants, etc)
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NSA recording all cell calls made in the Bahamas
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“SOMALGET is a cutting-edge tool that enables the NSA to vacuum up and store the actual content of every conversation in an entire country.”
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Chris Christie can’t balance his budget, so he’s stealing from pensions
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Will “grab, over two years, $2.43 billion meant for public workers’ pensions to balance New Jersey’s ailing state budget.”
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Polio cases spike in Pakistan. CIA promises it’s stopped using Polio vaccination programs as cover for spying
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"By publicising this policy, our objective is to dispel one canard that militant groups have used as justification for cowardly attacks against vaccination providers,"
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FL Rep Ted Yoho says voting should be restricted to property owners
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“I’ve had some radical ideas about voting,” Yoho adds. “You used to have to be a property owner to vote.”
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FCC Chairman confused about his net neutrality proposal
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“Wheeler responded that any fast lane arrangement that degrades service for others ‘would be commercially unreasonable under our proposal.’” [emphasis mine]
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Goes on to clarify that he means to inspect these arrangements on a case-by-case basis
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Neurosurgeon Ben Carson should stick to neurosurgery
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Tells David Gregory that ObamaCare is a neo-marxist plot, worst thing since slavery
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Writes that he wasn't aware gay activists would be offended by comparison to bestiality
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FBI Director can’t hire enough hackers without changing marijuana policy
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“I have to hire a great work force to compete with those cyber criminals and some of those kids want to smoke weed on the way to the interview,”
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Sen Sherrod Brown stands up for expanding Social Security
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“First, discussing Social Security in the context of the federal budget is incorrect from an accounting perspective as Social Security has its own dedicated source of funding.”
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May 15’s Show
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Scott Brown gets in the way of the business of the Senate
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Mitch McConnell adds poison pill Keystone XL amendment, then abandons Shaheen’s energy bill
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Alex Jones uncovers a bombshell
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The War on Male Vitality Exposed. Filmed with an iPhone 5. Maybe it was a 5C?
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Bill Scher: leave Barack Obama Alone!
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Harry Reid: No
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“Unless I have a better explanation. I can’t vote for him. This is a lifetime appointment. He’s said some things and made some decisions I think are not very good.”
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Scher: “And do you really think Barack Obama is going to nominate a racist?”
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Michigan GOP pushes back against minimum wage referendum
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May 9’s Show
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Michael Boggs, Obama district court nominee, under attack for anti-choice, anti-equality legislative record
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Voted to ban same-sex marriage and study effects of “post-abortion syndrome”
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Thom Tillis, right-wing North Carolina House Speaker, wins GOP primary to run against Kay Hagan
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Politico confused, calls this a loss for the Tea Party
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“Under his watch, the North Carolina statehouse has enacted strict voting laws and refused to expand Medicaid under Obama's Affordable Care Act, partly giving rise to the "Moral Mondays" protest movement by the NAACP that has spread across the South.”
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Koch Brothers: Our ideas aren’t that popular, so let’s spend more
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Top 25 Hedge Fund managers earned $21 Billion last year
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Isabel Gillies writes about her lunch habits
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And she vigorously suggests a streaming movie
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Bad Net Neutrality proposal causes internal dissent at FCC
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“I have real concerns about FCC Chairman Wheeler’s proposal on network neutrality. . . . His proposal has unleashed a torrent of public response. Tens of thousands of e-mails, hundreds of calls, commentary all across the Internet.”
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Charter school fraud and waste proliferates as oversight disappears
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Charter-based malfeasance burns over $100 million in funding
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May 7’s Show
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North Carolina GOP Senate candidate declares class war
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Stated in 2011 that we have to “ divide and conquer” the poor, pitting them against each other
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"My point was to say we need to make it very clear, government exists to help those who cannot themselves. And those who can need to let us do everything that they possibly can to let us free up those resources so we can do better things for those who desperately need it."
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Princeton student Checks his Privilege, realizes he must deserve it
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And read the unsurprising story of the funding The Princeton Tory and its brethren receive from the RW money machine
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Meet Turkey’s Deep Throat
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An Interview with the Twitterer dishing the deepest secrets of the Turkish government
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South Africans go to the polls
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Celebrities confirm: WH Correspondents dinner attendees are hacks
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Roy Moore: The First Amendment is for Christians
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“Everybody, to include the U.S. Supreme Court, has been deceived as to one little word in the First Amendment called ‘religion’ — they can't define it!”
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May 6’s Show
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Thomas Frank and Lewis Lapham discuss rebellion
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White House releases the 3rd National Climate Assessment
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Explore the report online, with focuses on trends, projections, prevention and potential adaptations
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Report Asks: does the mortality rate drop when people get insurance?
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RomneyCare residents see 3% drop in mortality rate, compared to no change for everyone else, pre-ACA
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Amtrak CEO: Clock is ticking on lifespan of Hudson River rail tunnels
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“I’m being told we got something less than 20 years before we have to shut one or two down,” said Amtrak C.E.O. Joseph Boardman at the Regional Plan Association’s conference last week at the Waldorf Astoria. “Something less than 20. I don’t know if that something less than 20 is seven, or some other number. But to build two new ones, you’re talking seven to nine years to deliver, if we all decided today that we could do it."
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Cecily McMillan convicted of being sexually assaulted, responding forcefully
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Guilty of assault on police officer - remanded to jail awaiting sentencing
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Supreme Court rules 5-4 that towns can open meetings with prayer
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Carlsberg workers once went on strike over limits on beer consumption
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May 5’s Show
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Gallup: Rate of uninsured drops significantly
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Oklahoma Satanists raise $30k to build statue for Oklahoma’s Statehouse
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Created in response to Ten Commandments statue sitting in front of Statehouse
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Boko Haram militia leader threatens to sell ~200 kidnapped Nigerian girls
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Nigerian Gov’t, meanwhile, arrests two anti-kidnapping protest leaders for making government & First Lady uncomfortable
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Joni Ernst - Crazy Lady for US Senate shoots stuff
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Does Fracking cause birth defects? It’s looking that way
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And Colorado Dept of Public Health & Environment’s response [PDF]: nothing to see here
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Listen Walter Block be a dick to Thom Hartmann in exactly the same way he was to Sam
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Rep Steven Horsford asks sheriff to listen to residents’ safety concerns, remove militia from Nevada land
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Did Lara Logan kill her career over her faux Benghazi report?
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Asshole Libertarians invade Keene, NH, threaten to “Free Keene” against community’s will
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Vatican insists is has no control over international hierarchy - rape of children doesn’t fall under its treaty obligations
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Envoy testifies to UN Committee Against Torture that Vatican only responsible for few hundred Vatican residents
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April
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Week of Apr 28
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May 2’s Show
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Speaker Boehner promises vote to establish Select Committee on Benghazi
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“I intend for this select committee to have robust authority, and I will expect it to work quickly to get answers for the American people and the families of the victims.”
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HHS announces over 8 million signed up for Affordable Care Act plans
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Gun shop owner backs down from carrying Smart handguns
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Received threats from gun owners, pressure from lobbyists
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Canadian gov’t considers suing US over failure to accept Keystone XL Pipeline
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Former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney: “A negative verdict by the U.S. government would contravene a a major tenet of NAFTA under which the U.S. was guaranteed unfettered supply in exchange for unfettered access by Canadian exporters to its market”
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Ice - By Robert Kramer
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South Dakota State House Rep Steve Hickey is confused about homosexuality
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“Pardon a crude comparison but regarding men with men, we are talking about a one-way alley meant only for the garbage truck to go down. Frankly, I’d question the judgment of doctor who says it’s all fine.”
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Shep Smith kept in the closet by Fox News executives
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Angered Exec VP for Programming, homophobe, Bill Shine
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Shine claimed FNC audience ‘not ready’ for gay anchor, convinced Ailes to demote Smith
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Shine apparently Coached Ailes on denying Smith’s request
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Rate Professor Block
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A Matter of Faith. The Trailer.
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May Day’s Show
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Hey hey hey hey Shut Up!
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Apr 30’s Show
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Supreme Court rules in favor of EPA’s coal regulations
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Clean Air Act provides Good Neighbor Provision, allowing regulation of pollutants crossing state lines
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Read the 6-2 decision [PDF] - Alito recused himself
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Alito *may* have recused due to holdings in Black Hills Corp, owner of oldest operating US surface coal mine
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Read his 2012 financial disclosure form here [PDF]
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NBA bans Donald Sterling, racist, from “any association with the Clippers or the NBA”
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The Commissioner shall, wherever there is a rule for which no penalty is specifically fixed for violation thereof, have the authority to fix such penalty as in the Commissioner’s judgment shall be in the best interests of the Association. Where a situation arises which is not covered in the Constitution and By-Laws, the Commissioner shall have the authority to make such decision, including the imposition of a penalty, as in his judgment shall be in the best interests of the Association. The penalty that may be assessed under the preceding two sentences may include, without limitation, a fine, suspension, and/or the forfeiture or assignment of draft choices. No monetary penalty fixed under this provision shall exceed $2,500,000.
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Board of Governors (owners) to vote on forcing Sterling to sell Clippers (3/4 vote required)
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Federal Judge strikes down Wisconsin’s Voter ID law
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“But no matter how imprecise my estimate may be, it is absolutely clear that Act 23 will prevent more legitimate votes from being cast than fraudulent votes.” [PDF of Ruling]
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Oklahoma tortures a man to death
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Execution began at 6:23 pm; Clayton Lockett died of a massive heart attack at 7:06 pm
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State Supreme Court backed down under impeachment threats and political pressure after staying execution
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New drug cocktail was untested, supplier not revealed
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Statistical analysis finds at least 1 in 25 death row inmates are innocent
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GDP growth slowed to 0.1% in 1st Quarter of 2014 - down from 2.6% in 2013 Q4
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Read the Bureau of Economic Analysis report [PDF]
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Media Matters fights unionization of its employees
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Apr 29’s Show
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Kindergarten play shut down to make way for college prep
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“The reason for eliminating the Kindergarten show is simple. We are responsible for preparing children for college and career with valuable lifelong skills and know that we can best do that by having them become strong readers, writers, coworkers and problem solvers.”
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Meet the man who almost died, believing the lies about the Affordable Care Act
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“‘I don't read what the Democrats have to say about it because I think they're full of it,’ … That refrain changed this year when a faulty aortic valve almost felled Angstadt. Suddenly, he was facing a choice: Buy a health plan, through a law he despised, that would pay the lion's share of the cost of the life-saving surgery - or die. He chose the former.”
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“January came, and Angstadt's health continued to decline. His doctor made it clear he urgently needed valve-replacement surgery. Leinhauser had seen enough and insisted his friend get insured.
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Leinhauser went to Angstadt's house, and in less than an hour, the duo had done the application. A day later, Angstadt signed up for the Highmark Blue Cross silver PPO plan and paid his first monthly premium: $26.11.”
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Bill Kristol predicted this is how health care legislation would work
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1993 memo insisted Clinton Health Care proposal had to be killed, or it would quickly take root in popular consciousness
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Georgia gunman wounds six, kills self at FedEx facility
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Senator Feinstein removes drone disclosure language from intelligence authorization bill
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Supreme Court heard arguments this morning on warrantless cellphone searches
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John Kerry backtracks on telling harsh truth about Israel’s future
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“…if I could rewind the tape, I would have chosen a different word to describe my firm belief that the only way in the long term to have a Jewish state and two nations and two peoples living side by side in peace and security is through a two state solution.”
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Medical board requiring that high risk patients take drug tests, sign waivers to receive pain medication
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Apr 28’s Show
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Low wage jobs increased beyond 2007 levels - high wage jobs still lagging
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While employment gains in recovery have been concentrated in low-wage jobs
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Clippers owner Donald Sterling proves what a post-racial society we live in
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Read about Sterling's nasty history, from Dave Zirin’s 2010 book, “Bad Sports: How Owners are Ruining the Games We Love”
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Michael Grimm indicted for fraud (and bad spelling?)
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John Kerry - Israel headed toward apartheid if it stays on this path
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“A two-state solution will be clearly underscored as the only real alternative. Because a unitary state winds up either being an apartheid state with second-class citizens—or it ends up being a state that destroys the capacity of Israel to be a Jewish state,”
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NYTimes finds that Affordable Care Act stigma ‘depressing participation’ in poorest states
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“and even people who did enroll paused in their excitement to ask, “Wait — this isn’t that Obamacare, is it?””
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The Tea Party Grift: how PACs are spending tens of millions but spending only a fraction on candidates
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“Out of the $37.5 million spent so far by the PACs of six major tea party organizations, less than $7 million has been devoted to directly helping candidates”
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Sarah Palin: still a creepy, hilarious idiot
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Guns at Georgia Little League games: this is what it looks like when open carry is allowed everywhere
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"He's just walking around [saying] 'See my gun? Look, I got a gun and there's nothing you can do about it.' He knew he was frightening people. He knew exactly what he was doing,"
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A Libertarian FAQ
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Hillary Clinton attacks Edward Snowden
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"When he emerged and when he absconded with all that material, I was puzzled, because we have all these protections for whistleblowers," [YouTube]
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Week of Apr 21
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Apr 25’s Show
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Cliven Bundy: I did wonder if slaves were better off, but no, I’m not racist
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“ If I say Negro or black boy or slave, if those people cannot take those kind of words and not be (offended), then Martin Luther King hasn't got his job done yet," [YouTube]
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Sam was on All In with Chris Hayes last night [MSNBC Video]
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Cliff Schecter on Guns in Bars
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FCC to spike net neutrality
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Brendon Sasso says this was the FCC’s only choice before acknowledging there was another choice
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Matt Walsh’s bad movie Recommendations
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BingoMosquito offers a better Recommendations.
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And Matt Walsh’s next movie
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Watch Matt Walsh’s Ass Pennies sketch
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Sandy Springs, GA - the city that privatized everything
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The NYTimes new project, The Upshot, explained
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Lupita Nyong’o’, star of 12 Years a Slave, is someone Cliven Bundy should meet
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Apr 24’s Show
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FBI ‘Anonymous’ informant, Sabu, directed hacking of foreign FBI targets
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Gave target list to Jeremy Hammond, who received 10 yr sentence for hacking Stratfor, a private consultancy
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Translation: while investigating & pushing prosecution of hackers, FBI directed them to hack FBI targets
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Nobody on Jeopardy remembers Herman Cain
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“This pizza magnate & 2012 Presidential candidate was a math major at historically black Morehouse College”
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Cliven Bundy, racist, comments on “one more thing I know about the Negro”
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“They abort their young children, they put their young men in jail, because they never learned how to pick cotton. And I’ve often wondered, are they better off as slaves, picking cotton and having a family life and doing things, or are they better off under government subsidy? They didn’t get no more freedom. They got less freedom.”
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Keystone XL decision delayed again
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State Department says it will wait for end of Nebraska legal dispute over pipeline’s route
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Judge ruled in February that Nebraska mishandled attempt to transfer authority away from Public Service Commission
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FBI uses no-fly list to blackmail Muslims into being informants
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US permanent resident alleges in lawsuit [PDF] that FBI offered citizenship & compensation
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Lawsuit alleges he was kept on list when he refused to cooperate
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Dept of Justice announces new review of clemency requests
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Served 10+ yrs
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Non-violent, no significant criminal history, good prison conduct
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“…would have received a substantially lower sentence if convicted of the same offense(s) today.”
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IRS documents obtained by ThinkProgress FOIA request show more progressive, medical pot, ACORN groups targeted
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Apr 23’s Show
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Jonathan Cohn wins Hillman Price for Magazine Journalism
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Supreme Court allows Michigan to ban Affirmative Action
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Why is Affirmative Action fair? [hat tip to Jay]
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Tim Wise discusses everything [YouTube] from the Homestead Act to FHA loans to contemporary hiring discrimination
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US Middle Class no longer world’s richest
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While US wealthy are still richest, other income brackets fall behind
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Canada beating US
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Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century makes inequality okay to talk about
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Says we’re simply reverting to form - capital investment gets better returns than general economic growth
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James Galbraith reviews the book in Dissent
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Singapore’s government owns a whole bunch of the biggest companies. Not so libertarian.
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After breaking campaign finance law, Dinesh D’Souza pled innocent so he could “get his story out there”
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Media Matters covers how conservative media helped him
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The Poisoner’s Handbook describes NYC’s first medical examiner’s work
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And how it “helped lay the groundwork for the creation of the Food and Drug Administration
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Week of Apr 14
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Tax Day w/ (MB)2
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IPCC chair says cost of Climate Change mitigation could be “relatively modest”
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Woman calls police to report homeless Jesus [statue], fearing for safety of wealthy community
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“Jesus is not a vagrant, Jesus is not a helpless person who needs our help. We need someone who is capable of meeting our needs, not someone who is also needy.”
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Two cathedrals turned it down (claiming renovations). Episcopal Church in Davidson, NC houses it
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Billy Tauzin quit Congress, was paid $11.6M to get PhRMA the deal it wanted, then quit
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Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America paid Tauzin for his congressional connections
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Peter Singer believes in marriage equality.
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So Washington Post kinda glosses over his jingoistic views on the Middle East
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Gives multi-million dollar contributions to (and sits on board of) groups supporting “crippling sanctions” against Iranian people
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Matt Ford proves that Nevada’s own Constitution specifically outlaws attempts to resist federal authority
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“The Constitution of the United States confers full power on the Federal Government to maintain and Perpetuate its existence, and whensoever any portion of the States, or people thereof attempt to secede from the Federal Union, or forcibly resist the Execution of its laws, the Federal Government may, by warrant of the Constitution, employ armed force in compelling obedience to its Authority.”
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NV Constitution passed in 1864 (look at Article 1 Sec 2), years before Cliven Bundy’s family settled in area
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The Boston Globe offers extensive coverage of “Boston Marathon bombings — One year later”
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Former Stefan Molyneaux cultists unite
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Check out FDR Liberated “Whether you found this blog as a parent or family member wondering what happened to your loved one…”
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Scott Brown “virtually born” in New Hampshire, denigrates current NH Senator as “senator from Massachusetts”
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Apr 14’s Matt & Mike Monday
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CIA lied about extent of torture program, even to Bush White House
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McClatchy says Senate report finds program wasn’t “targeted”, reached far beyond 30 cited victims
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Used methods unapproved by CIA headquarters and DOJ
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Actively evaded oversight from both White House and Congress
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Andrew ‘Weev’ Auernheimer released from prison
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Spent much of his prison time in solitary confinement
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Case dismissed because servers weren’t in New Jersey, where case brought [PDF]
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DOJ claimed this was proper venue because data of NJ residents was obtained
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Check out Matt’s interview with Weev’s lawyer, Tor Ekeland
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And have a look at Weev’s Twitter feed. See his prolific trolling back in action.
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Brit Hume, racist, calls Eric Holder a crybaby
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“ My sense about this is that both Eric Holder and Barack Obama have benefited politically enormously from the fact that they are African-American and the first to hold the jobs that they hold and this -- I don't know if he specifically meant race or not, I suspect perhaps he did. But to those two men race has been both a shield and a sword that they have used effectively to defend themselves and to attack others.”
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Speaker for Tea Party Express says White Supremacists weren’t as bad as homosexuals
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Leader of Conservative Moms for America: “gay supremacy is becoming a monster that carries greater evils than white supremacy ever did.”
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“Gay Supremacy's hate reaches much farther than a specific group of people.”
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Neo-Nazi kills 14 yr old boy auditioning for play at Jewish Community Center and his grandfather, then an occupational therapist at Village Shalom retirement community
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“ Raging anti-Semite”, former KKK leader, killed Reat Griffin Underwood, William Corporon, Terri LeManno
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Koch Brothers playing quiet role in promoting Nevada ‘Bundy’ Standoff
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Week of Apr 7
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Apr 11’s Show
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Martin Gilens on Plutocracy
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Affluence and Influence : Economic Inequality and Political Power in America
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Upper Big Branch Mine explosion killed 29 in 2010
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Read the Mining Safety and Health Administration report on the explosion [PDF]
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Check out CEO/Chairman of Massey Energy Don Blankenship’s ‘documentary’ response [YouTube]
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Read about Eleanor Roosevelt in West Virginia
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Her plan to help resettle laborers to Arthurdale and help them become self-sufficient
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Apr 10’s Show
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Sam reports Live from the Mass Torts conference
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Check out the Mass Torts Made Perfect Schedule [PDF]
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Robin Dunbar proposed a limit on the number of people with whom we can maintain a cohesive social group
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100-230 people - “This is the number of people you can have a relationship with involving trust and obligation – there's some personal history, not just names and faces.”
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“I was working on the arcane question of why primates spend so much time grooming one another, and I tested another hypothesis – which says the reason why primates have big brains is because they live in complex social worlds. Because grooming is social, all these things ought to map together, so I started plotting brain size and group size and grooming time against one another. You get a nice set of relationships.
It was about 3am, and I thought, hmm, what happens if you plug humans into this? And you get this number of 150. This looked implausibly small, given that we all live in cities now, but it turned out that this was the size of a typical community in hunter-gatherer societies. And the average village size in the Domesday Book is 150 [people].
It's the same when we have much better data – in the 18th century, for example, thanks to parish registers. County by county, the average size of a village is again 150. Except in Kent, where it was 100. I've no idea why.”
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Why was Tom Perkins so angry, making Holocaust remarks?
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Because the SF Chronicle critiqued his Ex’s hedges
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“A limestone confection that now pushes us away, the beguiling architecture thwarted by a comically off-putting hedge.”
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“Reading the latest vitriolic article about the hedge around my house, my reaction was enormous sadness for a city I fell in love with long ago.”
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"Sometimes I think San Francisco hates successful people," she mused. "No matter what I do, people say nasty stuff. I mean, the world is falling apart and people complain about my hedge. It's a mystery."
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Yes, they really allowed flame-throwers under cars in South Africa
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The US Chamber of Commerce doesn’t care about the Pebble Mine in Alaska
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But they’re fighting for the mine anyway, to keep precedent from being set
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Threatens $500 million fishery in a seismically active region
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But Public pressure works! Rio Tinto, owner of 19.1% stake in mine, gifts ownership to 2 Alaskan charities
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Check out the EPA’s writeup of the mine, citing Clean Water Act Section 404(c)
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And see the movie, Red Gold, about the fight
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Mark Begich (D-Alaska) uses Koch spending against the Kochs
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Noting that a Koch commercial actress isn't Alaskan actually works in Alaska, home to 700,000
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Apr 8’s Show
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President signs two Equal Pay Executive Orders today
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Second instructs Labor Secretary to require federal contractors to submit data on compensation to Dept of Labor
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Manhattan US Attorney still appears to be investigating Christie
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Had issued (then revoked) subpoena in early March (see March 11s Show Notes)
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Democracy Corps Poll: 64% Rising American Electorate likely to vote in 2014
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Versus 79% of non-Rising American Electorate [PDF]
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60% of unmarried women say national political debate doesn’t reflect issues important to them
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Defined as unmarried women, non-whites and 18-29 year olds
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Sean Hannity, Islamophobe, is a dick to a Muslim on-air
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5% of Mississippi women age 15-19 get pregnant, compared to 3.1% nationally
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“To participate in sex education classes, students must get a signed permission slip from their parents, which some districts that don't support the law have made especially challenging. In some classes, the only discussion about condoms focuses on their failure rates. And the law requires that students be taught that homosexual activity is technically illegal in Mississippi.”
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76% of Mississippi teens have had sex by the end of High School
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Chicago Charter schools not doing any better on standardized tests
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“On the math portion of the Illinois Standards Achievement Test, 7.3 percent of CPS neighborhood school students exceeded standards, while 5.3 percent of kids at the privately run schools did so.”
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“Among charter or contract elementary students, 7.9 percent exceeded standards on the ISAT for reading, compared with 9.8 percent of students at neighborhood schools. The ISAT in math and reading is given to third- through eighth-graders.”
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Live in Baltimore?
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Jacobin Reading Group Meetup on April 18 at Red Emma's
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Senate passes Unemployment Benefit Extension
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So he’s not gonna bring it to a vote
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Louisiana Family Values Republican caught making out with staffer
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Yup. Rush Limbaugh really ‘wrote’ a children’s book
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Louie Gohmert doesn’t want to talk about James Clapper’s lies to Congress
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Holder: “You don’t want to go there, buddy”
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Federal Judge rules North Carolina legislators must release emails to DOJ
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Diminished Voting Rights Act requires that prosecutors show intent to racially discriminate
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NC law eliminated same-day registration, reduced early voting, restricted acceptable IDs
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Apr 7’s Show (sorry for the late update!)
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Jeb Bush discusses how he’d lose the Republican Primary
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Michael Hayden, former CIA director and apparent sexist, calls Feinstein too “emotional" about torture
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Seeks to discredit Torture Report: “that motivation for the report – may show deep, emotional feeling on the part of the senator, but I don't think it leads you to an objective report.”
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Referring to Feinstein’s statement on Senate floor, that declassification would “ensure that an un-American, brutal program of detention and interrogation will never again be considered or permitted.”
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Sen Angus King calls BS on Cheney’s claim water boarding isn’t torture
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“If he doesn't think that was torture, I would invite him anywhere in the United States to sit in a waterboard and go through what those people went through, one of them 100-plus-odd times.”
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David Wildstein “was camped at the US Attorney’s office” last week
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“The U.S. Attorney in New Jersey has convened a grand jury to investigate the involvement of Governor Chris Christie’s office in the George Washington Bridge scandal, ABC News has learned. Twenty-three jurors convened in a federal courthouse in Newark today to hear testimony from a key staff member, Christie press secretary Mike Drewniak”
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Mozilla - Firefox developer - fires CEO over anti-gay marriage political donations
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Andrew Sullivan says CEO has been “scalped by some gay activists”
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Nassim Taleb, Black Swan author, says we should apply Precautionary Principle to GMOs [PDF]
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“…the PP is meant to help make decisions that ensure survival when statistical evidence is limited because it has not had time to show up, by focusing on the adverse effects of “absence of evidence”.”
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“Genetically Modified Organisms, GMOs fall squarely under the PP not because of the harm to the consumer [but] because of their systemic risk on the system. Top-down modifications to the system (through GMOs) are categorically and statistically different from bottom up ones (regular farming, progressive tinkering with crops, etc.) There is no comparison between the tinkering of selective breeding and the top-down engineering of arbitrarily taking a gene from an organism and putting it into another. Saying that such a product is natural misses the statistical process by which things become ”natural”.”
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White House calling Cuban Twitter system “discreet”, not covert
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“In implementing programs in non-permissive environments, of course the government has taken steps to be discreet. That’s how you protect the practitioners and the public. This is not unique to Cuba.”
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Afghanistan defies Taliban threats, votes in large numbers
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39 suicide attacks in months leading to election, but no major attacks during election
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Seattle City Council finds 66% low wage workers have some college education
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Even Denver, lowest among researched Western cities, finds 39% have some college education
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Herman Cain has a radio show
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Week of March 31
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Apr 4’s Show
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MLK Jr was killed this day, 1968
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What happens after McCutcheon?
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Expansively written decision points to future effort to end all campaign finance restrictions
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Gov Cuomo’s Chief of Staff owns $4 Million home, makes $300k with wife, calls himself Middle Class
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"I would consider someone making up to $500,000 as upper middle-class, I wouldn't classify them as rich”
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NY State calls their Chief of Staff, “Secretary to the Governor”
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Gov Cuomo (NY) throws weight behind charter schools
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Played ‘ pivotal role’ in blocking de Blasio’s effort to reign in handouts to charter school corporations
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“I am committed to ensuring charter schools have the financial capacity, the physical space and the government support to thrive and to grow.”
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Brooklyn principal says she’s never seen a worse standardized test
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“Our teachers and administrators feel that this test is an insult to the profession of teaching…”
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From another principal: “The third grade test includes an excerpt from a book that, according to Scholastic, is written at a Grade Level Equivalent of 5.2.”
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“The same third grade test asks students to identify how specific paragraphs support the organizational structure of a selected piece of literature”
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Federal judge: all aspects of Ohio’s gay marriage ban unconstitutional
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Isabel’s movie picks
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My take: He didn’t really want to run for President, but felt an almost-religious obligation to run.
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Manhattan Dunkin Donuts shuttered due to rat infestation
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Koch Bros work to ban new mass transit projects
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Apr 3’s Show
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Henry Giroux on Democracy
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Changed scripts to protect the FBI’s image
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The Powell Memo (pdf), which started the backlash against the 60s
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Allen West links Ft Hood shooting to President Obama’s Crimea stance
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67% of Arkansas voters support expanding Social Security
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Note to Homeless women with children: don’t get a job
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du Pont heir ‘will not fare well’ in prison
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Charles Koch fighting to restore freedom
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Suey Park interviewed by Salon
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Boy Scouts fire gay scoutmaster
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Came after NBC News profile - no complaints from Scouts or parents
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Senate Intel Committee votes today on Torture Report declassification & release
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Maine Senators, Collins (R) & King (I) call it what it is (Torture), say they’ll vote for declassification
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Iraq Vet kills three, wounds sixteen, then kills self at Ft Hood
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US secretly created its own Cuban Twitter to foment (counter-)revolution
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Apr 2’s Show
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Supreme Court strikes down total campaign contribution limits
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Eliminates $48k cap on an individual’s donations per 2-yr election cycle
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And $75k cap on total contributions to party committees
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Means you can give $2600 to every single federal candidate, $10k to every State party, $32k to both national parties
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Pat Robertson totally isn’t anti-semitic
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“What is it about Jewish people that make them prosper financially? You almost never find Jews tinkering with their cars on the weekends or mowing their lawns.”
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Mike Rogers, House Intel Cmte. Chair, calling it quits
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Said Ed Snowden to blame for Crimea incursion
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District voted for Obama in 2008 - redistricting turned the district pro-Romney in 2012
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Fellow Michigander Dave Camp retiring, too
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Washington Post predicts his seat stays in GOP hands
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Yemenis launch drone victims’ union
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Yemen is poorest Arab country. Most target communities receive little support from weak one-party government.
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Unskewing the Affordable Care Act numbers
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Signups couldn't be very high, because Obama bailed-out GM, has a coke problem, and didn’t get everyone a k=job
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Dean Chambers claimed pro-Romney polling was only wrong because of IRS and vote fraud
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California State Senator, gun-control advocate, indicted on firearms trafficking
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Good governance advocate sought cash and campaign donations for Sec. of State campaign
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Introduced undercover FBI agent to San Francisco political consultant who set up deals
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Offered everything from cocaine to murder-for-hire
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April Fools’ Day
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Ken, Ken & Ken take over the Majority Report
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Deuce, Scottzo & the Dork
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567 Days since Benghazi
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Freedom-hater Bill de Blasio’s paid sick leave law kicks in today
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Tina Dupuy: Christians aren’t being persecuted
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‘Dallas’ TV Show takes a stand against fracking
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James Moore, CPA, doesn’t want insurance
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Doesn’t care that you’ll pay for his Emergency care
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NewsBusters editor Tim Graham says media isn’t covering bad ObamaCare news
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HHS Secretary Sebelius speechless after reporter’s nonsense
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The Better Half
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Affordable Care Act Open Enrollment ended yesterday
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Michael Lewis on the opponents of high-frequency trading
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Redskins’ owner Dan Snyder’s Original Americans Foundation gives out coats
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Also ‘assisted in the purchase of’ a backhoe for a Nebraskan tribe
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Patrick Howley is a terrible first date
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“He didn't talk to me for like an hour, he barely said anything. I had no idea he was interested. He wouldn’t even look at me for like an hour.”
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Mar 31’s Show
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Majority Report’s 10th Anniversary feat. Janeane Garofalo
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Cadillac says Americans like Stuff, without liking Stuff
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Chris Christie kisses the ring in Vegas
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New Gingrich says the solution is to let candidates take the same dark money SuperPACs get
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Accidentally uses the correct term for the Palestinian Territories
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Has to apologize to Billionaire Sheldon Adelson
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Shocking: Food4Patriots is a scam
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#CancelColbert trends
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Explaining Walking Dead hair
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Norman Reedus: “It’s so not perfectly coiffed,” he laughs. “I just let it grow. I’m going for the wild animal look. I wanna find some time to just take a knife and cut holes in my hair, just go nuts. I just don’t cut it — this is just where it goes.”
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On the Beards:
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Andrew Lincoln: “I think I trained at the Steven Yeun School for Beard Growth. So, basically it goes to the point at which it just stops growing, or very little grows. So, Steven Yeun trained me.”
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Reedus: “This is six months’ worth of growth right here. So if we shave this, it won’t come back till next Christmas. This is the beard of a 14-year-old.”
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Steven Yuen: “They won’t let me [grow a beard]! They won’t let me do it. I come in with whatever I can grow, and they say no, because it probably does look disgusting. It gets stringy, and I don’t think anybody wants that.”
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NY State’s Budget close to passing
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March
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Week of March 24
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Mar 25’s Show
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Links will be intermittent this week as I help family move
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Thanks for your patience
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President to propose shut down of NSA’s bulk phone record collection
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Doesn’t cover other bulk collection programs
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Chris Christie’s friend says he’s innocent. NYTimes confused.
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$650/hr firm also hired by Christie to tackle subpoenas from US Attorneys and NJ Legislature
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Don Rumsfeld, murderer & torturer, turns out to be a racist, too
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Citing President Obama’s unwillingness to bribe his way into Hamid Karzai's heart : [WARNING: FOX NEWS LINK]
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“A trained ape can get a status of forces agreement. It does not take a genius.”
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Also comments on the first black President’s tone:
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“The president has been unpleasant to [Karzai].”
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Shocking study finds oil spills bad for fish
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Causes heart failure in embryonic fish floating near oil slicks on surface
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Mortgage-interest deduction leads to bigger houses, not more homeownership
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Koch-friendly Right Wing think tank finds $100 Billion/year subsidy lead to 18% larger houses
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Mar 24’s Show
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Saving Africa Gone Wrong
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) sues ITT Tech for bilking students
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Pretended students were getting 0% loans.
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Senator David Vitter: “God Bless the Koch Brothers”
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Creationists want to be discussed on Tyson’s Cosmos
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Jimmy Carter only uses snail mail to communicate to foreign leaders
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“As a matter of fact, you know, I have felt that my own communications are probably monitored. And when I want to communicate with a foreign leader privately, I type or write a letter myself, put it in the post office, and mail it.”
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Our human rights abuses impact the fight for human rights globally, he said in 2012
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You can’t turn off Twitter
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Turkey’s PM, Erdogan, continues to use it
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President Gul also on Twitter
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John Oliver skewers new RNC Ads
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Mt Gox BitCoin exchange reopens. Sort of.
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“This balance confirmation service is provided on this site only for the convenience of all users.”
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UK bans sending small items, including books and underwear, to inmates
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“The rules apply to clothing too. Prisoners are no longer permitted to have underwear sent in and so have to wear pants and socks worn by many other people. Women prisoners are particularly hard hit by this rule as they are not provided with a uniform and are dependent on family for underwear and outerwear. If underwear cannot be sent in, women are forced to wear the same pants and bras for months.”
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Week of March 17
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Mar 21’s Show
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Bernie Madoff speaks
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“He’s extremely intelligent and … whenever I hear an issue and he comes up, it seems to be something that I agree with”
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Politico can’t bring itself to broadcast full interview
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Bill Donohue says “Straight is Great”
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Boycotting Guinness over pro-equality policy
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Patrick Howley, Sexist
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Movie Suggestions (all streaming on Netflix)
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Honolulu PD insists on need to have sex with prostitutes
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Mar 20’s Show
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Tom Friedman says Suck on This. Sam says it back to him.
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Matt Miller was full of crap on Iraq
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“At some point - three months or six months or 12 months from now - indisuputable proof of Saddam's weapons will emerge. When that happens, what will shrill, wrongheaded liberals who weirdly sound as if they're staking everything on Saddam Hussein's honesty seem to be but ... a bunch of shrill, wrongheaded liberals!” - July 2003
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Boehner says no to Unemployment Benefit Extension
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NSA Lawyer insists tech companies knew about surveillance programs
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“Prism was an internal government term that as the result of leaks became the public term,” De said. “Collection under this program was a compulsory legal process, that any recipient company would receive.”
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But Dept of Defense Inspector General says he knew nothing of the program
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NSA is a division of the Department of Defense
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Paul Ryan would’ve favored the potato famine that pushed his family out of Ireland
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“The Irish national character, [Sir Charles] Trevelyan confided to a fellow aristocrat, was “defective.” The hungry millions were “a selfish, perverse, and turbulent” people, said the man in charge of relieving their plight.”
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Jared Bernstein: helping the poor is an investment, not charity
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“But if we want to correctly understand and evaluate the impact of policies currently helping poor families, we need to recognize that often what looks like consumption is actually investment”
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NY State Senate falls just short of passing DREAM Act
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Two Democrats voted no in unscheduled vote
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“Thank God for ObamaCare!”, Republican says to Scott Brown
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South Dakota lawmaker wants to protect race-based discrimination
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" If someone was a member of the Ku Klux Klan, and they were running a little bakery for instance, the majority of us would find it detestable that they refuse to serve blacks, and guess what? In a matter of weeks or so that business would shut down because no one is going to patronize them"
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Crazy lady wins GOP Primary for Illinois 9th District
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“ God is angry. We are provoking him with abortions and same-sex marriage and civil unions,” she said. “Same-sex activity is going to increase AIDS. If it’s in our military it will weaken our military. We need to respect God.”
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Top 50 US Firms hoarding $889 Billion overseas
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All overseas cash totals $1.45 Trillion
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Touré has nothing to say in support of Hillary
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NASA-funded climate report: complex civilizations can collapse
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"Technological change can raise the efficiency of resource use, but it also tends to raise both per capita resource consumption and the scale of resource extraction, so that, absent policy effects, the increases in consumption often compensate for the increased efficiency of resource use."
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Mar 19’s Show
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Warning to fellow Millennials: you may become Republican after watching these ads
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You know he's cool because he won’t look at you
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Home Depot billionaire: sorry ‘bout the Nazi thing. If it was inappropriate. And you were offended.
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“ If my choice of words was inappropriate — and they well may have been that — I extend my profound apologies to anyone and everyone who I may have offended.”
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NSA stores and collects 100% of a single country’s phone calls
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Expanding to additional countries
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Is Libertarianism a religion?
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Modernity: ma-der-ni-tee
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Mar 18’s Show
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Home Depot Founder: populism is like Naziism
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Prof. Dacher Keltner explains “They tend to think that they have their tons of money because they have a stronger genetic profile”
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Netflix Billionaire: Citizens like democratically elected school boards. That’s a problem.
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“Now if we go to the general public and we say, ‘Here’s an argument why you should get rid of school boards’ of course no one’s going to go for that.”
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Congress responds to climate report
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Rising sea-levels? What rising sea-levels?
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Al Jazeera has inside scoop on Senate’s still-classified torture report
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At least one instance of torture performed prior to any authorization
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Health and Human Services approves medical marijuana PTSD study
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University of Arizona study had been approved by FDA
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Gravitational ripples in space/time reveal insights into Big Bang
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Don Lemon has nothing to talk about
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Week of March 10
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Mar 14’s Show
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Pre-Show
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Scott Brown on the verge of forming exploratory committee in New Hampshire
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BP allowed back in the Gulf
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Will get to bid on new leases starting next Wednesday
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Produced 63M barrels in Gulf last year
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But had been suspended from competing for new leases
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Will be independently audited in yearly review
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Oil cleanup incomplete
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Still washes ashore during heavy storms
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Tony Benn, British Labor hero, dies at 88
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“There is no moral difference between a stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. Both kill innocent people for political reasons.”
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“If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people.”
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Austin Ruse gets cut loose. Sort of.
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Calls his comments “un-Christian”
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Georgia’s State Motto: “Wisdom, Justice, Moderation”
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Stand Your Ground expanded to protect (pdf) killers who don’t have a license (like, y’know, felons)
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Corporatist Democrat loses to Lobbyist in Florida
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Sam says Alex Sink didn’t motivate voters to show up
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Sen. Merkley (D-OR) says: increase social security
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Senate Republicans agree on jobless benefits
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Pres. Obama promises to treat immigrants more like humans
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" He has asked Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson to do an inventory of the Department's current practices to see how it can conduct enforcement more humanely within the confines of the law,"
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Sam turned down a role on Ally McBeal
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He His agent kicked himself for turning down this role (WARNING: SCHLOCK ALERT) for years
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But he didn’t turn down According to Jim. He just got himself fired before it aired.
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Andy Kindler doesn’t like Jay Leno
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Andy’s movie pick
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The Evolution of God
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Go read Michael’s suggested book. It’s good.
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Lindsey Graham primary challenger calls him “ambiguously gay”
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“ It's about time that South Carolina (says) hey, We're tired of the ambiguously gay senator from South Carolina.”
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Mar 13’s Show
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Austen Roos doesn’t like professors very much
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“I do hope that they go to a Christian college or university and to keep them so far away from the hard left, human-hating people that run modern universities, who should all be taken out and shot”
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“These people, these dumb leftists, are really smear merchants, they’re out to hurt, to harm, to isolate,” Ruse said. “They don’t like me, they don’t like you, they don’t like your children, they don’t like anything about you and they want you to basically shut up and go away…. It’s quite astounding what these folks are able to get away with and it’s also astounding how dumb they are.”
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Progressive Caucus Budget calls for exposure of classified budget
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Summary (pdf): ends Social Security cap, public campaign finance, ends oil subsidies, etc
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Algerian at GITMO released
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Sold by Pakistan to US Military for bounty
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Never accused of violence
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Death Row inmate exonerated, released after 30 yrs
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Accused two brothers of the crime. Brother’s girlfriend accused Ford.
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Once on the stand, she admitted to lying
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But jury convicted anyways
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Holder works to reduce low-level drug sentencing
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Average sentence for dealers would drop from 5 yrs to just over 4 yrs
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Follows recommendation of US Sentencing Commission
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The War on the Poor with Paul Ryan (R(acist)-WI)
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Thinks it’s caused by a “tailspin of culture, in our inner cities in particular, of men not working and just generations of men not even thinking about working or learning the value and the culture of work.”
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Mar 12’s Show
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David Gergen & Republicans: Humorless Asses
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Daily Beast: No Laughing Matter
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FOX: Not Funny or Die
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NewsMax: Galifianakis Shows Obama No Mercy
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Gergen cites Ronald Reagan, actor, as proper paradigm to follow
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Obama to expand Overtime Pay
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Reverses 2004 Bush policy exempting ‘executive, administrative or professional’ employees
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Which was designed to exempt fast food managers, etc.
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List of Maker Community Groups
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Sen. Ron Wyden (that’s my Senator!!) talks about CIA Torture Report
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CIA is “ Simply Fearful” (video) of its torture practices going public
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GITMO force feeding in the Courts
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Emad Abdullah Hassan, cleared for release in 2009, hunger striking since 2007
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Government says nobody is on hunger strike
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Donor v Constituent access
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Study finds (pdf) 3x increase in access to members of congress and top staff
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Democrat loses in FL
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Because Chuck Todd says so?
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Huckabee at CPAC on running against women
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“I treat my wife very differently than I treat my chums and my pals. I wouldn’t worry about calling them on Valentine’s Day, opening the door for them, or making sure they were okay.”
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Chris Christie sinks deeper
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Did you know PBS’s NewsHour has been owned by Liberty Media since the mid-90s?
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How much of public donations went to the conservative media conglomerate?
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Kevin D Williamson: No, really, stop being poor
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“Earlier in our national history, confidence in access to basics such as food and shelter was by no means certain for many Americans. But then they stopped being poor.”
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Mar 11’s Show
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Zach Galifianakis (kinda) interviews Barack Obama
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7:1 vote for Funny over Die
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2M views already
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Randy Weber (R-TX) tweets “President shouldn’t be wasting time on a parody interview”
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Benghazi, ObamaCare, Benghazi, Benghazi
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Christie used Port Authority as wide-ranging tool
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Used funds from cancelled NYC/NJ Tunnel to avoid raising gas taxes
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Used alternative projects to garner favor w/ unions that opposed him in ‘09
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Insisted WTC rebuilding matched by $1B in NJ project
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Christie buddy David Samson gets kinda subpoenaed
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NYC Feds withdraw their subpoenas, let US Attorney in NJ keep case
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Samson hadn’t received subpoenas from NJ Feds.
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Was NYC’s US Attorney just turning up heat?
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Feinstein v. CIA (video + transcript)
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Is my insurance really that cheap?
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Koch ad cancer patient responds to her cheap ACA coverage
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“When advised of the details of her Blues’ plan, Boonstra said the idea that it would be cheaper ‘can’t be true.’
‘I personally do not believe that,’ Boonstra said.”
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95% of ATMs run Windows XP. Srsly
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Some talk of moving to Windows 7 (not 8)
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Plan Limiting Medicare Coverage of Prescription Drugs spiked
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Medicare Part D requires “all or substantial all” drugs in these and three other areas
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Mar 10’s Show
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Bernie Sanders “Prepared to Run”
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Snowden Testifies to EU
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Says NSA made deals with some countries not to use in-country equipment on citizens
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Then made similar deal with neighbor, allowing equipment in each country to spy on neighbor’s citizens
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And speaks at South x SouthWest
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John Kiriakou’s letters from Prison
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Similar to GITMO “frequent flyer” program
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Constantly moves inmate from prison to prison
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Never at any prison long enough to gain any privileges
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CIA Spying on Senate
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DOJ loses right to store metadata indefinitely
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“Stop being poor” says FOX Business commentator [Link Fixed]
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Fault lines for GOP between young and old
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Politically and socially more liberal
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53% of Millenials favor (pdf) bigger government
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Smallest increase in Health Care costs for business in 15 years
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Calculate your ACA non-compliance penalty
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Senate Talk-a-Thon on climate change tonight
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Week of March 3
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Mar 7’s Show
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Paul Ryan: Sociopath
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Obama Nominee spiked by Senate
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Saul Turns One
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Long days, short year
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Punk Rock Libertarians who quote Vince Vaughn
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“I think that when you get older, you just get less trust in the government running anything.”
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LaPierre Lies at CPAC
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Mar 6’s Show
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Weird Cadillac Ad
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DOJ backs broadcasters against Aereo
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Mar 5’s Show
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Pre-Show
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Short MSFT stock
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Mark Penn Moves from senior advisor role at Microsoft to Chief Strategy Officer
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Loses control over ad budget, gains influence over broader portfolio
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Gave Winning Advice to Hillary
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“I cannot imagine America electing a president during a time of war who is not at his center fundamentally American in his thinking and in his values. He told the people of NH yesterday he has a Kansas accent because his mother was from there. His mother lived in many states as far as we can tell - but this is an example of the nonsense he uses to cover this up.”
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Mayor de Blasio fights charter schools
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Gets pushback from Bloomberg ‘darling’, charter school leader
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Gov Cuomo wades in, favors charter schools
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Apple tells Profit-Only Activists to calm down
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Tim Cook lectures free marketeers about a minimal sense of responsibility
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Banks use lawyers as investigators for legal priveleges
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JP Morgan Chase audited itself regarding Madoff
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Today’s Show
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Elijah Cummings lets Darrell Issa have it
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Lindsey Graham: Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi
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Sen Graham discovers grand unified theory of Benghazi
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Minimum Wage vs. Jobs
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McDonald’s speculate about having to hike wages in latest SEC filing
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Sees risks from “campaigns by labor organizations and activists”;
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“the impact of events such as boycotts or protests, labor strikes”;
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“The impact on our margins of labor costs that we cannot offset through price increases, and the long-term trend toward higher wages and social expenses in both mature and developing markets, which may intensify with increasing public focus on matters of income inequality”
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CIA spying on its oversight committee
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CIA Inspector General refers case to DOJ
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US Attorney needs a chill pill
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Sending marijuana dispensary worker to prison
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Chipotle takes Guacamole hostage in climate change debate
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Happy Birthday Julie!
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Age TBA
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Mar 4’s Show
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Putin Threatens Crimea
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CPAC’s Global Warming Panel vs. Keystone Protesters
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From the Center for Media and Democracy
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CPAC’s Panel, titled “Whats the Deal with Global Warming?”
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Paul Ryan’s War on the War on Poverty
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Releases his Report: The War on Poverty: 50 Years Later
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Matt Miller Runs for Henry Waxman’s CA Senate Seat
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Miller Previously Supported Andrew Cuomo’s bid to Cut Social Security
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Quadriplegic Arkansas Lawmaker Fights Medicaid Expansion
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Flexcoin Closes After Being Hacked
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Closes with no reserves to cover losses
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BitCoin FAIL (pdf reports)
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Doesn’t serve women
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British GCHQ Capturing Yahoo Video Chat
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Scott Brown: Democratic Attacks May Force Me to Run in New Hampshire
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Brother Pleads Guilty to Being an Asshole (and impersonating a Federal law enforcement officer)
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Swiss Banks Still Hiding Cash. DOJ Still Doing Nothing
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GOP Talks Rape (Hits from the 80s & 90s)
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LaRouche Democrat says Simpson-Bowles policies are Genocidal
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The Working Families Party Works
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Rachel Maddow on Why We Did It
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Snowden Speaks at South by SouthWest
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Watch After March 10 @ ACLU
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Sam Leaves Manhattan
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Myla Switches Schools
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Unhappy with New School’s Lunches
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Living out of Boxes
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Has no Internet
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Mar 3’s Show
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Pre-Show
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Kai Newkirk speaks up at the Supreme Court
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Watch his groundbreaking video of Oral Arguments
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Note: Video Mixes footage from McCutcheon v. FEC (10/8/13) with footage of Kai's speech (2/26/14)
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All Footage from Supreme Court Oral Arguments
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Faux Pot Overdoses
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Tucker Carlson talks Race w/ Alex Jones
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Watch the whole interview
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Stephen Cohen on Ukraine
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February
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Feb 28th’s Show
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Cliffy
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Scalia’s DOMA Dissent Predicts Future
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“In sum, that Court which finds it so horrific that Congress irrationally and hatefully robbed same-sex couples of the “personhood and dignity” which state legislatures conferred upon them, will of a certitude be similarly appalled by state legislatures’ irrational and hateful failure to acknowledge that “personhood and dignity” in the first place. As far as this Court is concerned, no one should be fooled; it is just a matter of listening and waiting for the other shoe.” (Emphasis Mine)
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“Indeed, Justice Scalia stated that Windsor indicated the way the Supreme Court would view future cases involving same-sex marriage ‘beyond mistaking.’” (pg. 11, footnote 14)
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Bye Bye Chained CPI
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The Bureau of Labor Statistics explains the Chained Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (C-CPI-U)
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Senate’s Blue Slip Tradition
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The Senate’s Explanation
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“In light of their interest in nominees from their home state, and to encourage consultation, Senators from a nominee's home state are also invited to participate in the process. They are provided a "blue slip" by the Committee, by which they can approve moving the nominee through the Committee process. It is important to note, however, that the return of a positive "blue slip" is not a commitment by either home state Senator to support or oppose, a pending nomination. “
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Crédit Suisse Lies
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Chris Christie Lies, Too
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Film Guy Matthew
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Noah Gittell
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Oscars Increase Studio Revenue
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Holocaust & Oscars - Point-Counterpoint
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Don’t Watch the Academy Awards
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Funner Half
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Bill O’Reilly vs Valerie Jarrett
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Seth Rogen
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Nintendo v. Sega Movie
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On Alzheimer’s and Shitty Congress
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BitCoin
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What was Mt Gox?
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Remember: It used to be a club for Magic the Gathering
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Mt Gox CEO Bowing in Apology (pics + vid)
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WTF is BitCoin?
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Quadriplegic Medicaid Recipient votes to end Arkansas Medicaid Expansion
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Interview from All In w/ Hayes
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Feb 27th’s Show
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Postal Banking
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1966 Legislation Ends US Postal Savings System (pdf)
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Meet the British Post Office
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Elizabeth Warren’s Article
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Inspector General’s White Paper (pdf)
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Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006
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Section 803
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The Funner Half
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Cuomo
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Sam on a Dylan Ratigan panel w/ Pataki
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Cuomo tries to shape his GOP Challenger
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Ken Langone takes on the Pope
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AZ Gov Brewer’s Veto Letter RE: SB 1062 (PDF)
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Homo-Fascist Thugs
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Bryan Fischer’s Rant
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Crazy Colorado Baker
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Crazy Kentuckian T-Shirt Maker
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Kshama Sawant’s $15/hr campaign
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Wikileaks on Low Wages in Haiti
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Advantages to State Banks
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Albany’s Tar Sands Future
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Feb 25th’s Show
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From the First Half:
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What does Patrick Henry College think about Rape?
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Der Zeit masterfully covered how nutty Patrick Henry College is from the POV of an outsider (no homeschooling in Germany)
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From the Funner Half:
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Republican Boobs
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The Voice of the Majority Report
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LaRouchies in TX
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LaRouchies are a cult. Srsly.
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Basic Income
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Covers both Switzerland & Hayek
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SodaStream Alternatives
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Limbaugh Agrees w/ Putin: Being Gay = Propaganda (transcript, clip)
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Hugo? Where are You?
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HAIM - Forever (Video)
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Nixon-Ailes plan for Fox
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Suggestions Appreciated (formatting, content, anything)
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