Digg: Politics
- The most hated person in America is....
Wednesday - 08/10/2011 - 12:40 PMThe E-Score Celebrity poll is carried out weekly among a representative sample of 1,100 respondents aged 13 and over. It ranks more than 6,000 celebrities in terms of public awareness, appeal and 46 other attributes.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Whatever You Do, Don't Call Michele Bachmann Crazy
Tuesday - 08/09/2011 - 03:31 PMIf you hate her politics, you should really hate Newsweek's "crazy-eyed" Bachmann cover, too.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - FreakOutNation » Fox Host States Obama Honored Slain SEALs today to Distract from the Economy
Tuesday - 08/09/2011 - 07:13 PMAccording to Fox News host, Andrew Napolitano, the President paid his respects to distract from the economy — imagine the outrage if instead, Obama had not honored the fallen – he would be demonized as un-American.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Al Gore: Climate Skeptics Are Peddling 'Bulls--t'
Tuesday - 08/09/2011 - 08:22 AMThe climate change movement is bigger than any one man or woman, but like it or not, no one is more associated with global warming than Al Gore.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - National Director of Koch's Americans for Prosperity Created Mysterious WI Gun Group, Coordinated on Misleading Absentee Ballot
Tuesday - 08/09/2011 - 03:36 PMCreator of 'United Sportsmen of Wisconsin, Inc.', John Connors, is a long-time AFP affiliate, has history of deceptive campaigns..
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Fiscal Hawks vs. Defense Hawks: The End of the Neoconservative Military Agenda?
Tuesday - 08/09/2011 - 08:55 AMDo the potential defense cuts in the debt deal spell the beginning of the end of the neoconservative military agenda?
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - House page program ends after nearly 200 years
Tuesday - 08/09/2011 - 10:57 AMThe decision was made to save money and because many of the duties have been made obsolete.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - We’ve run out of hope, Obama
Tuesday - 08/09/2011 - 09:49 AMDid you notice? This president — who once had a silver tongue, who promised us the world — looked left into his teleprompter yesterday. He looked right into his teleprompter.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- 6 Shady Right-Wing Groups Pouring Money Into Today's Wisconsin Recall
Tuesday - 08/09/2011 - 06:49 AMAs Wisconsin progressives fight to recall Scott Walker's allies in the state senate, here are some of the conservative groups funding their right-wing agenda.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Chaos after Downgrade: Dow closes down 633 points after final plunge
Monday - 08/08/2011 - 04:32 PMThank You Tea Party! You Wanted Chaos, You Got Chaos! In an interview on July 27, House Speaker Boehner confessed Republicans want to "force default" and "create chaos." Looks like the Tea Party got its wish.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Wisconsin news: Unions' recall drive falls short; GOP holds state Senate
Wednesday - 08/10/2011 - 10:25 AMWisconsin news: Republicans maintain control of Wisconsin state government despite union drive.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Photos of the Fallen: Americans shot down in Afghanistan
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More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Will Latinos Force White Republican Don Knabe off L.A. County Board of Supes, via 'Racial Gerrymandering'?
Tuesday - 08/09/2011 - 07:21 PMIs Don Knabe is on the verge of getting swallowed by L.A. County's rising Latino tide?
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Airplane Circles Wall Street With Banner: 'Thanks For The Downgrade. You Should All Be Fired'
Tuesday - 08/09/2011 - 09:39 PMOn Tuesday, less than a week after Standard and Poor's downgraded U.S. credit for the first time in history, a plane circled lower Manhattan with a banner that read: "Thanks for the downgrade.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- New Dem Poll Shows Good News for GOP in Wisconsin Recall
Tuesday - 08/09/2011 - 01:39 PMChristian Schneider writes on NRO: DailyKos just released a new poll they commissioned from Public Policy Polling that gives us one last snapshot of the Wisconsin State Senate recall elections tomorrow.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Inside Libya’s Most Notorious Prison
Tuesday - 08/09/2011 - 12:29 PMIt was a massacre at Abu Salim in Tripoli that sparked the Libyan uprising.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Slow economy is a worse problem than any downgrade
Monday - 08/08/2011 - 07:36 PMThe real risk to holders of U.S. debt is not the government's heavy reliance on borrowing or the deep political divisions in Washington. It's the weakening U.S. economy.
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Until very recently, most forecasters were expecting the pace of economic growth to pick up in the second half of the year. - Allen West Reacts to Democrats Blaming Tea Party for U.S. Credit Downgrade (video)
Tuesday - 08/09/2011 - 08:28 AMSome are pointing fingers at the Tea Party for the U.S. downgrade, saying their refusal to allow higher taxes kept Congress from reaching an even larger debt agreement. Even Massachusetts Senator John Kerry (D) had some harsh things to say on NBC’s ‘Meet the Press.’
After listening to those comments, Florida Congressman Allen West (R) says, “I find those comments to be the absolute most insidious thing I’ve ever heard.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Find out which type of Republican best suits you.
Monday - 08/08/2011 - 02:37 PMWould be even funnier if it weren't so scary!
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - After Downgrade, Americans Must Drive Tea Party From Power
Monday - 08/08/2011 - 08:10 PMThe world's most powerful country was brought to the edge of financial chaos by Mrs. Bachmann and her Tea Party cohorts. Americans should never forget the damage that the Tea Party radicals have caused the whole nation.
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- Recall Fraud: Wisconsin Democrats Accuse Republicans of Vote Tampering
Wednesday - 08/10/2011 - 01:44 AMAs Yogi Berra once said its déjà vu all over again as for Wisconsin Democrats as they allege that the Waukesha County clerk is once again tampering with votes to hand an election to the Republicans.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Democrats Voted On Wednesday: Only Two Seats Flip in WI Recall
Wednesday - 08/10/2011 - 07:30 AMIn the historical recall elections in the Wisconsin state senate, two seats held by Republicans turned blue on Tuesday. While not enough to place a bipartisan check on ALEC‘s corporate agenda favored by Gov.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- VIDEO: The United States Debt Crisis Explained in the Simplest Way Possible
Tuesday - 08/09/2011 - 05:56 PMA must watch video for all specially for those who are considering going to US in future!!
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Bachmann's Views On Slavery Are Worse Than You Thought
Tuesday - 08/09/2011 - 03:23 PMRyan Lizza's profile of Bachmann reveals that Bachmann's odd perspective on slavery isn't a series of gaffes, but rather "a world view." Lizza explains that Bachmann is a believer in a kind of Christian conservative reimagining of slavery, where "many Christians opposed slavery" but owned them anyway and didn't free them because "“it might be very difficult for a freed slave to make a living in that economy; under such circumstances setting slaves free was both inhumane and irresponsible.” How charitable of them!
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Obama attends dignified transfer of service members from downed copter
Tuesday - 08/09/2011 - 01:45 PMPresident Barack Obama and top Pentagon officials including Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen are attending Tuesday's dignified transfer ceremony for 38 U.S.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- It's Europe's fault. I inherited this problem': Obama refuses to accept responsibility for financial crisis
Tuesday - 08/09/2011 - 01:05 PMPresident Barack Obama has refused to accept responsibility for fresh economic panic on Wall Street, insisting market freefall was sparked in Europe and that the debt crisis was one he inherited.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Real world shows flaws of liberal state
Tuesday - 08/09/2011 - 10:38 AMWhy aren’t voters moving to the left, toward parties favoring bigger government, during what increasingly looks like an economic depression? That’s a question that was addressed with characteristic thoughtfulness by Democratic pollster Stanley Greenberg in The New York Times [NYT] last week.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Leaving Behind No Child Left Behind
Monday - 08/08/2011 - 11:54 AMU.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan has announced that he will unilaterally override the No Child Left Behind law.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Standard & Poor's Credit Downgrade: A Mandate for Moderation.
Monday - 08/08/2011 - 08:45 AMThe S&P downgrade is the beginning of the end of the left-right war. And both sides will lose.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Sarah Palin a grandma again! Son Track's wife of three months gives birth to baby girl
Monday - 08/08/2011 - 07:39 PMSarah Palin's oldest son Track, 22, and his wife Britta, 21, celebrated the arrival of their first child Kayla Grace only three months after they got married.
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