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Republican Candidates: If You Don't Want To Be Attacked, Stop 'Selling Body Parts'
Three days ago, a white right-wing Christian terrorist took the lives of three people, including a police officer, in what has been universally declared a domestic terrorist attack. But instead of taking responsibility for the vitriol that caused the senseless murders of two civilians and a police officer, the right-wing has deflected the blame away…
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Study Proves Republican "Welfare Queen" Narrative Is Just A Poor-Shaming Lie
For decades, the Republican Party has woven a tale of poor people sitting at home and living large on the taxpayer’s dime. In 1976, Ronald Reagan toured the country as a presidential candidate and told his supporters a story about a fictional “welfare queen” who did just that. In the ensuing years, many members of the…
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Top Fed Economist: Republicans Were Dead Wrong, Obamacare Is No 'Job-Killer'
In spite of conservative doomsday prophecies that the Affordable Care Act would be fiscally devastating, resulting in both job cuts and reduced hours, the reality is that this universal insurance actually helps the market function more efficiently. Dr. Maxim Pinkovsky, a leading economist from the Federal Reserve Bank of NY, has published a research paper that explores…
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Ex-HP Employees Laid Off By Carly Fiorina: You Shipped My Job To China And Made Off With Millions!
Carly Fiorina is running for president, and as CNN points out “it’s hard to run for president when your name is synonymous with massive layoffs.” Fiorina was CEO of Hewlett-Packard in 2002 when she insisted, over the objections of the Hewlett and Packard families, to merge with Compaq. The merger was a disaster, and it…
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Bernie Sanders: Bigot Donald Trump Is An "Embarrassment To Our Country"
Donald Trump is notorious for uttering all kinds of discriminatory nonsense during his tenure as a businessman-turned-reality-TV entertainer, turned presidential candidate. In a recent Q&A with The New York Times, in response to a question about Trump’s surge in the polls, Bernie Sanders commented: “Not much (my emphasis). I think Donald Trump’s views on immigration and his…