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‘Freedom Watch’ Goes Dark

2012-02-14T17:42:04+00:00

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.

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Obama Begs Voters Not to Make His Daughters Switch Schools

2012-02-13T21:12:23+00:00

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.

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Obama: ‘We Can’t Just Cut Our Way Into Growth’

2012-02-13T20:54:47+00:00

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.

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A ‘Queer History’ of Rick Santorum and Proposition 8

2012-02-13T00:58:42+00:00

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.)

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‘Left, Right & Center’: Birth Control Concession

2012-02-11T17:15:35+00:00

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.

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Morris Berman and the Decline of America

2012-02-10T19:01:21+00:00

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.

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Contraception and Campaign 2012

2012-02-08T18:29:08+00:00

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.

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O’Reilly Defends DeGeneres, Ellen Chimes In

2012-02-08T17:08:43+00:00

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

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Report Contradicts Obama on Drone Casualties

2012-02-07T09:30:53+00:00

U.K.-based investigative reporters working with the Sunday Times have determined that “since Obama took office three years ago, between 282 and 535 civilians have been credibly reported as killed [by CIA drone attacks in Pakistan], including more than 60 children.”

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60 Years of Queen Elizabeth II

2012-02-07T00:55:50+00:00

Hey, everyone, it’s Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee! Even if you’re not much of a royal-watcher, a rather puzzling pastime for some Americans and a royal snooze as far as we’re concerned, the woman has reigned in the U.K. during a significant swath of recent history. Let’s review.

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