Best Selling Author Offers to Pay to have Florida Legislators Drug Tested

The highly unfavorable Governor of Florida, Rick Scott, whose self interests outweigh his constituents recently got owned and now it’s happened once more.

Will Budget Reality Finally Topple Right Wing Dogma?

In a recent Los Angeles Times piece, Washington Bureau reporter Lisa Mascaro offers a tantalizing peek into a Republican Party now fractured into two warring factions: conservatives, and paint-eating tea partiers.

PolitiFact | Unions don't have to comply with Obamacare, says Crossroads GPS

But there are additional problems with the ad. The ad doesn't mention that the waivers only apply to annual coverage limits, that they're intended to be in place only until 2014 and that many for-profit companies have received the same waivers.

SNL's Version Of The Republican Debate Is A Lot Crazier, And More Interesting, Than The Real One

Since last week's Republican presidential debate was filled with candidates almost nobody has heard of, SNL was forced to "switch from candidates you don't know much about to candidates you wish you knew less about" in their parody last night

How Slippery This Slope? « The Rational Middle

Over the decades, both sides of every major policy debate in our democracy have used the time-honored phrase, "a slippery slope".

Texas Cheerleader Who Was Assaulted Never Had A Chance

What is the background of this story out of Silsbee, Texas concerning a high school cheerleader ordered by Superintendent Richard Bain to cheer for her accused rapist?

Sorry, Republicans, The Economy Is Not Crappy Because Of "Uncertainty" About Taxes And Regulation

Business Insider is a healthy, growing business, and we can tell you from experience that, when we make our hiring and investment plans, we don't devote one single second to thinking about the possibility of "higher taxes." We also don't make decisions based on the likelihood tha …

A Special Comment: The Death of Osama bin Laden | Video Cafe

Keith's coming back on the air June 20th at Current TV, but for now he's posting at his blog and he had a Special Comment on the death of Osama bin Laden and whether this finally means the end of the talking point used by Republicans for ages that somehow they are the party to be …

Boehner's plan: Drill our way to recovery

House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said Thursday that sluggish first-quarter economic growth underscores the need for GOP offshore oil-and-gas drilling bills that will begin coming to the floor next week. The Commerce Department announced Thursday that gross domestic product …

Missouri Levee Failure Highlights Need For Increased Infrastructure Investments

For several days, the midwest and southern U.S. have been pounded by deadly storms, which have brought tornadoes and widespread flooding.

Conservative Media Bias: ABC Silently Abets Birther Franklin Graham

Conservative media bias reared its head today as Franklin Graham was allowed to go on ABC's This Week today and spout Obama birther theories unchallenged.

Why Amazon's cloud Titanic went down

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- This was never supposed to happen. Amazon Web Services is the Titanic of cloud hosting, designed with backups to the backups' backups that prevent hosted websites and applications from failing.

BP's Secret Deepwater Blowout | Truthout

Only 17 months before BP's Deepwater Horizon rig suffered a deadly blowout in the Gulf of Mexico, another BP deepwater oil platform also blew out.

The Contradictions Never Change « The Rational Middle

For the last two months, life has happened. Other priorities swamped my time for reading and writing about our democracy; far from a disaster, this has proven a wonderful detoxification from the pomp and plunder of American politics.

Extortion Politics: Why Won't American Business Stop the GOP From Threatening to Blow Up The Economy?

As the government approaches its borrowing limit of $14.3 trillion, Republicans are seeking political advantage over what conditions should be attached to raising that

U.S. drops to 3rd in clean-energy investment: Pew | Reuters

The United States fell one spot to third place in clean-energy investment last year as the lack of a national energy policy hurt purchases in wind and solar power and other technologies, a report said on Tuesday.

Bachmann/Ryan Overdrive: A High-Speed Escape From Economic Reality

I was on a talk radio show from St. Louis yesterday with a guy from the Heritage Foundation who used the same "history shows us" line. What history actually shows us is that we lost jobs after the Bush tax cuts, even before deregulation brought down the economy.

Time to retake the state - South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com

Florida Gov. Rick Scott doesn't just look scary; he is scary — and he does scary things.

Let's not break our social contract - St. Petersburg Times

I have spent my entire working life thinking that I had a solid foundation of government protection in old age, but it turns out that those promises exist only as long as Democrats are in power.

The Man Behind Paul Ryan's Budget Plan Got the Tax Cuts Wrong, Too - Tina Dupuy - Politics - The Atlantic

Ayn Rand fanboy and Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan (R) appears to have baffled the entire Beltway of blabbers into muttering monosyllabic loops of the words "brave" and "bold." Yes, the House Budget Committee Chairman released his plan, The Path to Prosperity, and it is a shocker...

Budget Battle Wounds Women; Wage Gap Remains Same | Womens eNews

It was another week of money discord as Democrats and Republicans continued to square off over vastly different budgets for 2012.

That's pricey: 13 items that cost more, or will soon - USATODAY.com

Four-dollar gasoline is just a part of it. As most any shopper knows, prices are climbing for everything from coffee and chocolate to tires and toilet paper.

Conan Video - Donald Trump Trashes Himself 04/07/11 - TeamCoco.com

Conan Video - Donald Trump Trashes Himself 04/07/11 - TeamCoco.com

David Barton Outlines His Plan for an American Theocracy

Given Mike Huckabee's support for historical revisionist David Barton, it is important that Americans understand exactly what it is they're getting when they consider a vote for Huckabee or any other conservative attaching his or her name to Barton.

Thom Hartman- What if there was a protest and no one came?

Thom Hartman- What if there was a protest and no one came?

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