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By Dale Wright
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By Michael Paul Mason
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On this week’s “Moyers & Company,” Kathleen Hall Jamieson of FactCheck.org and FlackCheck.org says “we’re at a very, very critical time right now” and must try to block “visceral” political advertising at the local level.
Posted on Feb 20, 2012
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Ian Masters investigates Montana’s rejection of corporate personhood, a decision that is under review by the Supreme Court.
Posted on Feb 19, 2012
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What is it about this particular election cycle that’s causing Republican candidates’ fortunes to rise and fall so rapidly the pundits are practically getting whiplash? And does our nation’s debt problem have more to do with defense spending or so-called entitlement programs?
Posted on Feb 17, 2012
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Fashionistas are a funny lot, sometimes unintentionally so, and often given to talking about the rag trade and all things stylish in highfalutin’ terms. Here we have some from that set—and a couple of outliers, including Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges—holding forth about the nuanced relationship between fashion and OWS.
Posted on Feb 17, 2012
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Some crafty editing has put Russian President Vladimir Putin behind bars and awaiting trial in a viral YouTube video that ought to excite tens of thousands of Muscovites who took to the streets in recent months to protest legislative elections and Putin’s upcoming attempt to preserve his office.
Posted on Feb 15, 2012
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Being a Catholic himself, Stephen Colbert is able to break down for the layperson (read: godless liberal) the Vatican’s stance on contraception, which recently became a hot-button (read: wedge) issue for Campaign 2012.
Posted on Feb 15, 2012
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To hear House Speaker John Boehner tell it, as he does in this clip, the “political games” that were clearly happening in recent months over the payroll tax cut and jobless benefits bill that’s now en route to passage were all coming from the Democratic side.
Posted on Feb 15, 2012
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In this clip from his axed Fox Business show, “Freedom Watch,” Judge Andrew Napolitano asks some questions that may be too advanced for the average viewer of the Murdochian network—or any habitual viewer of any major network looking to absorb the latest talking points and get on with her day.
Posted on Feb 14, 2012
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Let’s see which gullible politician might pick up this little satirical number from The Onion News Network and think it’s for real. Meanwhile, the rest of us can enjoy a good spoof on campaign ads at President Obama’s expense.
Posted on Feb 13, 2012
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No doubt anticipating the pointed criticism soon to follow from Republican ranks, President Obama weighed the short term against the long view in the speech he gave Monday at Northern Virginia Community College about his $3.8 trillion budget plan.
Posted on Feb 13, 2012
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Last week on Truthdig Radio: Robert Scheer on the mortgage settlement, MLK in his own words, and “A Queer History of the United States” author Michael Bronski on Rick Santorum, Proposition 8, Ellen DeGeneres and gay marriage in Washington state. (This is a pledge show.)
Posted on Feb 12, 2012
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The White House called for a health insurance rule change that will allow religious employers to avoid covering workers’ birth control costs. Also, Santorum’s surge; the $26 billion banking industry mortgage settlement; the 9th Circuit blows down California’s gay marriage ban; and new details about JFK and a White House intern come to light.
Posted on Feb 11, 2012
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American cultural historian and social critic Morris Berman shared the findings in his new book “Why America Failed: The Roots of Imperial Decline” with an audience at Seattle’s Elliot Bay bookstore last fall. Like much of the tidings brought to us by the best of our sober-eyed critics, his forecast for the future of the republic and the welfare of its coming generations is not hopeful.
Posted on Feb 10, 2012
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President Obama’s controversial mandate to require religious organizations to include contraception in their health care coverage has already become fodder for his conservative opponents’ campaigns as they round the bend to their final run on the White House.
Posted on Feb 8, 2012
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Once in a while, Bill O’Reilly strays from the expected Fox News formula and surprises us with his politics, as he did in this clip from Monday’s “O’Reilly Factor,” in which he compares the bid by the conservative women’s group One Million Moms to boycott J.C. Penney for picking Ellen DeGeneres as its spokeswoman to McCarthyist witch hunts of the ’50s. Updated
Posted on Feb 8, 2012
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