Recent Votes

• The Third Party Fantasy

  Source: The New York Times

  “Third parties are like bees,” the intellectual historian Richard Hofstadter wrote in 1955. “Once they have stung, they die.” It’s an aphorism that aptly describes the anti-slavery and anti-immigrant parties of the mid-nineteenth century, the Popul …

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• Mitt Romney Debt Speech Ignores Key Facts

  Source: The Huffington Post

  WASHINGTON (AP) — When Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney decried the "prairie fire" of U.S. debt Tuesday, he ignored some of the sparks that set it ablaze.

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• Elisabeth Hasselbeck gets smacked down by the President

  Source: Daily Kos

  I love The View with one exception. That exception is Elisabeth Hasselbeck.

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• REPORT: FBI May Charge George Zimmerman With Hate Crime, Could Face Death Penalty

  Source: Think Progress

  The State of Florida has charged George Zimmerman with murdering Trayvon Martin. But that might not be the end of his legal problems. According to WFTV, an affliate of ABC in Orlando, Zimmerman may soon be charged with a hate crime by the FBI: WFTV has learned charges against …

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• 5 Things That Put America to Shame

  Source: AlterNet.org

  "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses...I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" These words, from poet Emma Lazarus, were inscribed on the Statue of Liberty over 100 years ago. Today the golden door has a lock on it, paid for with record profits from the health ca …

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