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    Vast Right Wing Conspiracy: Act Two

    MAY 19, 2013 10:29AM

    By Ted Frier


    Topics: politics, right wing, paranoid style in politics, republican party, democratic party, tea party, heritage foundation, irs scandal, karl rove, tax exempt social welfare organizations, donors list, political activity, president obama, ted cruz, speaker boehner, rand paul, fox news, sean hannity, michelle backmann, super pacs, citizens united, supreme court, scandal, congress, debt ceiling, impeachment, filibuster, revolutionary, liberalism, conservatism, reactionary, watergate, nixon enemies list, mitch mcconnell, neo-mccarthyism

    • 1 Ratings
    • 55 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Citizens United Decision Behind Current Political Problems

    MAY 18, 2013 12:26PM

    By Dicky Neely


    Topics: phony scandals, gop, politics, citizens united

    • 6 Ratings
    • 435 Views
    • 27 Comments
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    Ex-Reagan Budget Director Slams Crony Capitalism

    APRIL 22, 2013 8:29PM

    By Dr Stuart Jeanne Bramhall


    Topics: budget director, casino, citizens united, crony capitalism, david stockman, economic crisis, fed, federal reserve, financialization, imf, lobbying, public campaign financing, reagan, recession, the great deformation, wall street

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    • 12 Ratings
    • 1795 Views
    • 20 Comments
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    Dictatorship v. Democracy

    MARCH 10, 2013 7:54AM

    By Ted Frier


    Topics: politics, economics, democracy, dictatorship, walter lippmann, hitler, fascism, republican party, president obama, sequester, tax cuts, entitlement programs, partisan gridlock, german parliament, freedom, bob woodword, voting rights act, citizens united, constitution, governing class

    • 5 Ratings
    • 442 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    Emperor Antonin Scalia

    MARCH 6, 2013 6:23AM

    By Ted Frier


    Topics: founding fathers, the mob, atheist, election of 1800, alexander hamilton, medicare, social security, democratic party, voter suppression, citizens united, tea party, congress, racial spoils system, democracy, property requrements, women's sufferage, fox news, judicial activism, roberts court, aristocrisy, right wing, conservatism, voting rights act, civil rights, republican party, jeffersonian republicans, federalists, conservatism, george will, antonin scalia, supreme court, economics, poliitcs

    • 2 Ratings
    • 320 Views
    • 3 Comments
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    How to Fix Washington in Five Easy Steps

    FEBRUARY 14, 2013 4:29PM

    By Tom Magstadt


    Topics: politics, fiscal cliff, budget, deficit, defense spending, lobbying, filibuster, campaign finance reform, citizens united, supreme court, congress

    • 7 Ratings
    • 683 Views
    • 5 Comments
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    Restore the Talking Filibuster

    JANUARY 22, 2013 6:26AM

    By Kent Pitman


    Topics: inauguration, lautenberg, election funding, voter id, citizens united, focus, leadership, starry-eyed, fooled again, fool me twice, fool me once, lucy and the football, silent filibuster, talking filibuster, filibuster, fix the senate, politics

    • 1 Ratings
    • 874 Views
    • 3 Comments
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    Republican Donors: the Big Losers in 2012

    NOVEMBER 30, 2012 11:00PM

    By Dr Stuart Jeanne Bramhall


    Topics: american crossroards, bozell, campaign donations, center for media and democracy, citizens united, crossroads gps, donald drump, karl rove, republican, rick tyler, romney

    • 13 Ratings
    • 644 Views
    • 18 Comments
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    How the revolution will begin

    NOVEMBER 12, 2012 5:35AM

    By old new lefty


    Topics: ronald reagan, barack obama, rebuild the american dream, watershed elections, 1980, 2012, karl rove, koch brothers, citizens united, plutocracy, the 1%, the 99%, occupy wall street, van jones, community organizing, right wing conspiracy, tea party, labor unions, peace groups, environmentalists, lgbt, latinos, hispanics, naacp, aclu, planned parenthood, 2010 election, belief/religion, economy, gay/lesbian, health, news, politics

    • 1 Ratings
    • 285 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    Virginia's Wayne Powell: An Environmental Profile In Courage

    NOVEMBER 3, 2012 12:51AM

    By Marcia G. Yerman


    Topics: election2012, wayne powell, eric cantor, hurricane sandy, moms clean air force, congressional race in virginia, green environment, big oil, big coal, campaign contributions, citizens united, renewable energy, wind farms

    • 5 Ratings
    • 1953 Views
    • 12 Comments
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    How Citizens United Kept the Koch Brothers Out of Jail

    NOVEMBER 2, 2012 5:34PM

    By Dr Stuart Jeanne Bramhall


    Topics: triad, trent lott, ted olson, tea party, riady, realnews, palast, koch industries, koch brothers, heritage foundation, fred thompson, fbi, false claims act, don nickles, clinton, citizens united, cato, campaign for our children’s futures, campaign for america’s future, campaign for a fair economy, billionaires and bandits, billionaires, bill koch, astroturf, ashcroft, electoral reform alec

    • 1 Ratings
    • 195 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    For Sale: The White House

    OCTOBER 17, 2012 5:47PM

    By Tom Magstadt


    Topics: peter overby, npr, voter registration, aapc, crossroads america, crossroads gps, americans for prosperity, restore our future, tax exempt groups, 501(c)(4)s, superpacs, citizens united, campaign finance reform, 2012 election, politics

    • 0 Ratings
    • 32 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Vermonters Show Why Progressive & Liberal Mutually Exclusive

    SEPTEMBER 30, 2012 3:37PM

    By MrBillOfRights


    Topics: abdulrahman awlaki, authoritarian, barack obama, campaign finance reform, citizens united, civil union, gay marriage, liberal, progressive, vermont

    • 2 Ratings
    • 154 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    Yes, Virginia, there is no democracy in america

    SEPTEMBER 25, 2012 9:42AM

    By Tommi Avicolli Mecca


    Topics: belief/religion, gay/lesbian, news, politics, democracy, tom ammiano, super pac, citizens united, election fraud

    • 2 Ratings
    • 384 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    ROMNEY’S WEALTH REDISTRIBUTION SCARE TACTIC

    SEPTEMBER 20, 2012 12:36PM

    By Gordon Hilgers


    Topics: gordon hilgers, americans for tax reform, grover norquist, freedomworks, dick armey, american crossroads, crossroads gps, karl rove, money in politics, tea party express, tea party patriots, tea party nation, tea party, 99 percent, ronald reagan, borrow and spend, tax cuts, progressive taxation, franklin delano roosevelt, liberalism, democratic party, barack obama, wealth redistribution, wealth disparity, citizens united, sheldon adelson, americans for prosperity, david koch, charles koch, koch brothers, occupy wall street, one percent, offshoring income, united states debt, debtor nation, national sovereignty, republican party, corporatism, oligarchy, plutocracy, plutocrat, mitt romney

    • 0 Ratings
    • 71 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Mitt Needs Money

    SEPTEMBER 12, 2012 9:40PM

    By Roger G McCorkle


    Topics: satire, mitt romney, obama, paul ryan, fund raiser, swiss bank, citizens united, campaign donations, anonymous, benefactor, unions, tudents, retirees, kenyan, socialist, whitehouse, election, tan reduction, job creators, wealth creators, politics

    • 1 Ratings
    • 351 Views
    • 6 Comments
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    Corporate Freedom Of Speech Threatens Fair Elections

    SEPTEMBER 9, 2012 4:33PM

    By Howard Schneider


    Topics: pacs, karl rove, american crossroads, soft money, fec, mccain-feingold, citizens united, open call, open+call, politics

    • 3 Ratings
    • 538 Views
    • 10 Comments
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    Paul Ryan Gift Ideas

    SEPTEMBER 4, 2012 2:51PM

    By Daniel Rigney


    Topics: republican + rebranding, republican + love party, ryan’s birthday, romney’s birthday, satire, comedy, humor, daniel rigney, danagram, rimshot the sitdown comic, paulryangift, koch + adelson + supreme court, citizens united, citizens untied, gift ideas, birthday gift ideas, politics, entertainment, beliefs/religion, gop, noodling, jane fonda workout, semi-automatic hunting rifle, coolidge + hoover + 2012, humvee + carbon, humvee, carbon emissions amplifier, home lie detector, gerrymandering, poll tax, voter suppression, voter intimidation, mark twain + gilded age, coursera, social encyclicals, rerum novarum, leo xiii, ayn rand, virtue of selfishness, second half + second amendment, social science fiction, nuns on the bus, goddess of capitalism, philosophy

    • 0 Ratings
    • 90 Views
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    Money despoils so-called democracy

    SEPTEMBER 3, 2012 1:22PM

    By Jake Highton


    Topics: corporate, supreme court, zinn, citizens united

    • 3 Ratings
    • 413 Views
    • 4 Comments
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    Alternative Media is an Absolute Necessity!!

    AUGUST 28, 2012 2:52PM

    By zacherydtaylor


    Topics: project vote smart, ben bagdikian, robert mcchesney, alice miller, mark crispin miller, mass media, media reform, occupy wall street, tea party, centre for research on globalization, league of women voters, commission on presidential debates, citizens united, buckley v. valeo, mitch mcconnell, slotting fees, price fixing, sweat shops, mark whitacre, war profiteering, crime profiteering, election reform, democracy, war, msnbc, single payer system, propaganda, alternative media, health care, health, politics, television, news, environment, economy, business

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