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Thursday, 9 February 2012
New story: Would You Fuck My Son? by Hector Himeros
Congress
- Congress' Job Approval at New Low of 10%
- Poll: Random People In A Phonebook Would Do Better Than Current Congress
- G.O.P. Leaders in House Remove Part of Ethics Bill NYT
- Eric Cantor strips strict lobbying rules from STOCK Act
- It's deja vu as Congress tackles payroll tax cut extension again
- The Judicial Confirmation Crisis in One Easy Chart--Obstructionism at work.
- Increasing number of ethics probes rattles House Republicans--"An increasing number of House Republicans are getting wrapped up in allegations of ethics violations ahead of the November elections, handing Democrats easy campaign fodder and putting the GOP in an unexpected bind."
Earmarks
- Congress Appears to Be Trying to Get Around Earmark Ban NYT
- Congressional earmarks sometimes used to fund projects near lawmakers' properties
- Earmark investigation: Rep. Norm Dicks and Puget Sound
Public-Private Partnerships
- Oops: Florida Republican Forgets To Remove ALEC Mission Statement From Boilerplate Anti-Tax Bill
- Rep. Lamar Smith, Top Border Security Hawk, Invested In Border Monitoring Tech Company Before Gov. Grant
- $6 Billion for a Nuke-Building Shed?--"American taxpayers are getting fleeced for a New Mexico bomb facility we don't need."
Republicans
- President Obama Takes Republican Senator Mike Lee To The Woodshed Over His Threat To Obstruct--"Lee threatened to block all of President Obama's nominees if he doesn't remove Richard Cordray from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Republicans think the President violated the Constitution by appointing Cordray during the recess."
- Wisconsin releases recall petition names amid safety concerns--"Wisconsin released the names of more than 1 million people who signed a recall petition against Gov. Scott Walker, state officials said, despite safety concerns among petition signers."
- New Hampshire Republicans Propose Bill To Eliminate Workers' Lunch Breaks
Energy
- Auction 2012: Energy Lobby Finds Power In Money And Fear
- Landmark diesel exhaust study stalled amid industry and congressional objections--"Twenty-year investigation of miners exposed to toxic fumes still unpublished."
- 'Gasland' Journalists Arrested At Hearing By Order Of House Republicans
- Dangers of Fracking
- Why Is America's Transportation System Stuck in the 1950s?--An upcoming Republican transportation bill "zeroes out funding for biking and walking infrastructure and cuts Amtrak's budget by 25 percent, while lavishing care on cars and the highways that carry them using revenues from increased gas and oil drilling."
Alabama
- U.S.-Born Children Denied Food Stamps Under Alabama Immigration Law
- Alabama Immigration Law Costs $11 Billion, Study Shows
- This American Life: Reap What You Sow--"Alabama's new immigration law aims to make life so difficult for illegal immigrants that they will 'self-deport.' And in a way it's working. Immigrants are fleeing Alabama...but not just the undocumented ones."
Wednesday, 8 February 2012
New story: Titanification 8 by Jaypat
Proposition 8
- Gay-marriage ban unconstitutional, court rules--The court says that there's no rationale for denying same-sex marriages for the 18,000 who have obtained licenses.
- No Hollywood Endings--"Today, the most liberal judges in the most liberal state could have made history. Instead, they opted for much less."
- What Happens Next?
Politics
- Tennessee Restaurant Throws Out Anti-Gay Lawmaker--"I hope that Stacy Campfield now knows what if feels like to be unfairly discriminated against."
- Lakeland Same-Sex Couple's Adoption a First for Polk County
- Anti-gay Twitter hashtag hijacked by wit
Right-wing
- Gays "Make God Want to Vomit": Meet Santorum's Honorary Florida Chairman
- Conservatives and "homo-bestiality"--"Why do right-wing extremists keep linking gay sex to animal abuse?" Salon
- Group to ask senators to repeal sodomy law--"...on grounds that it cannot be enforced." Let's put cameras in every bedroom in America!
- Day after Gay Teen's Suicide, TN lawmaker says Gays are not "Mentally Healthy Adult Human Beings"
- Anti-Gay Alabama GOPer Secretly Donated Sperm To Lesbian Couples In New Zealand
School
- One Town's War on Gay Teens--"In Michele Bachmann's home district, evangelicals have created an extreme anti-gay climate. After a rash of suicides, the kids are fighting back."
- Fox News Whitewashes Student Essay Calling For Gays To Be Executed
- School outs gay teen; civil rights groups outraged
Intolerance
- 'I was doing my duty as a Muslim,' says father who handed out leaflets saying gay people should be hanged
- Putting a face to LGBT employment discrimination
- Janice Daniels, Troy Mayor, Slammed For Saying 'Disturbing Things' In Michigan Gay-Straight Alliance Meeting
- Bill O'Reilly Compares 'Witch Hunt' To Fire Ellen DeGeneres From JC Penney Ads To McCarthyism
- Brighton kisses goodbye to Banksy's kissing coppers
Religion
- What Jesus said about gay people
- At conservative church, once-shunned gays fuel growth
- Was the Apostle Paul Gay?
- SMBC: "Do unto others..."
- SMBC: Genesis 2: 21-24
Tuesday, 7 February 2012
New story: A Musclegod Trucker Named Charlie Wade by R Christoopher Cooper
Occupy Movement
- 'Where Is the Uprising from the Left?'--"Political scientist Francis Fukuyama was once the darling of American neo-conservatives. In a SPIEGEL interview, the author of "The End of History" explains why he now believes that the excesses of capitalism are a threat to democracy and asks why there is no 'Tea Party on the left.'"
- Occupying Corporations: How to Cut Corporate Power
- The Dems Now Know How To Deal With OWS: Embrace It
- JPMorgan chief's sympathy for Occupy
- Pepper-sprayed UC Davis activists won't be charged
- Occupy New Zealand: Police keep ID secret--"Protesters claimed this morning that up to four officers in Aotea Square were wearing the same badge number - Z557. Photographic evidence partially backs those claims, with one photograph showing two officers wearing the same number."
- Occupy London: evicted protesters criticise bailiffs' 'heavy-handed' tactics
Class War
- Sen. Bernie Sanders blasts U.S. wealth gap
- Philanthropy is the enemy of justice--"The world's poor are not begging for charity from the rich – they're asking for justice and fairness."
- Sen. Whitehouse To Introduce 'Buffett Rule' Bill To Raise Taxes On Millionaires
- Trillions in tax cuts--"The Republican presidential candidates claim to abhor debt, yet propose tax cuts that would add trillions more."
- Trickle Down Economics: The Biggest Con In Politics
- The Big Lie: "Rich People Create Jobs"
- Priscilla Of Boston Spray-Paints Unsold Wedding Gowns To Keep Them From Grubby Poor People
Income Inequality
- Income Inequality Can Be Fought With Policies That Simultaneously Spur Growth, Report Finds
- State of Thought: Debunking the Notion that Inequality Wouldn't Impact the Economy
- Why economic inequality leads to collapse
In Bad Company
- The 10 Most Hated Companies in America
- Public Eye Awards: Mining Giant Vale and Barclays Top Corporate Villian List
- The Privatization Trap: From schools to prisons, outsourcing government's works typically ends with cronyism, waste and unaccountability Salon
- Corporatism Is Not the Free Market
- Bankruptcy a reprieve for some companies--"But the many losers in bankruptcy — fired workers, retirees, shareholders, the landlord — have reason to think the system isn't fair."
- Obama’s high-tech labor lies--"We have no shortage of skilled engineers. Corporations would just rather import foreign ones on lower wages." Salon
- Apple’s iPad and the Human Costs for Workers in China NYT
Protests
- Doll 'protesters' present small problem for Russian police--"Police in Siberian city ask prosecutors to investigate legality of protest involving display of toy figures holding miniature placards"
- 30 Unintentionally Hilarious Political Signs
- xkcd: Wake Up Sheeple
Monday, 6 February 2012
New story: Transforming You to Your Wishes 2 by Titan
Prison Privatization
- U.S. Prison Business: Privatize Profits, Socialize Losses--"Getting rich off taxpayers by building cages"
- US judges tragic kickback greed exposes prison system profiteering--"With well over 2 million people in jail - the U.S. has the world's biggest prison population. But some are seeing the inside of a cell because dodgy judges are getting payback from the private sector."
- Florida Republican Stripped Of Senate Chairmanship For Opposing Prison Privatization Scheme
- Florida Republicans' Plan to Block Out the Sunshine --"In their longstanding fight to privatize the state's prison system—and a lot of other public services—Republican lawmakers in Florida are trying a new angle: doing it in secret."
- Gaming the System: How Political Strategies of Private Prison Companies Promote Ineffective Incarceration Policies
Incarceration Nation
- The Caging of America: Why do we lock up so many people?
- The Return Of Debtor's Prisons: Thousands Of Americans Jailed For Not Paying Their Bills
- Nearly 1 in 3 will be arrested by age 23
- We're Number One in the World in Putting People in Prison: Shameful
- One Nation, Under Guard
Jail Tales
- Alcatraz fighting tourists trying to break INTO historic prison in search of fictional room seen in TV show
- North Carolina Death Row Inmate Writes Letter About Life of 'Leisure'
- Man spends 2 years in solitary after DWI arrest--"A New Mexico man who said he was forced to pull his own tooth while in solitary confinement because he was denied access to a dentist has been awarded $22 million due to inhumane treatment by New Mexico's Dona Ana County Jail."
DNA
- The Prosecution’s Case Against DNA NYT
- Skinner receives execution stay, court will consider further DNA testing--He was days away from dying.
- California attorney general says DNA backlog is gone--"The California Department of Justice will be able to analyze routine DNA evidence in only 30 days, up to four times faster than before...."
Injustice
- Man gets $25,000 after 10 years in state prison
- Cory Maples case: Can a man be executed even if he has no lawyer?
- Rick Perry exonerates Timothy Cole, an innocent prisoner who died behind bars, only to claim "declared his absolute faith in the Texas justice system" 18 mo. later.
- Justices rule for death row inmate after legal mistakes
- A Vindictive Decision: The Supreme Court sends a grandmother back to prison to teach the 9th Circuit a lesson.
False Witness
- Italian girl's rape claim sparks arson attack on Gypsy camp
- Fairfax teacher Sean Lanigan still suffering from false molestation allegations
- Sex Crime Charges Are Dropped After Victim Recants Identification NYT
- Woman gets prison for false rape claim
- Dailin Pico Rodriguez Sentenced to 50 Months for Lying About the Semen on Her Jail Uniform
Sunday, 5 February 2012
New story: Transform: Bully Boy by AKA
Religion and Politics
- Obama: Jesus would back my tax-the-rich policy
- Mitt and the White Horse Prophecy Salon
- Year Of The Bible?: Pa. House Urges ‘Faith In God Through Holy Scripture’
- Catholics hear anti-Obama letter in church
- Judge orders prayer banner removed
- Federal court blocks Oklahoma ban on Sharia
- Va. judge rules against conservative churches in property case
Komen
- Did Susan G. Komen turn itself into a lightning rod?--Its anti-choice VP, a GOP Senator, right-wing groups pressured the group to drop its support to Planned Parenthood.
- Top Susan G. Komen Official Resigned Over Planned Parenthood Cave-In
- Komen Foundation In Contortions Over Justifying Planned Parenthood Decision
- Komen's $7.5 Million Grant To Penn State Appears to Violate New Policy
- An Inside Look at Susan G. Komen for the Cure's Spin Machine
- Komen Halted Funding for $12 Million in Stem Cell Research Like We Wouldn’t Notice
- Komen Foundation reverses funding decision of Planned Parenthood--But there's more to this than meets the eye.
Planned Parenthood
- Planned Parenthood raises $400,000 in 24 hours--The controversy "gave new life to women's health advoacy." (Salon)
- What Planned Parenthood actually does, in one chart
- Planned Parenthood and the Culture Wars--"The right's recent jihad against Planned Parenthood is about as loathsome as anything I've ever seen come out of them. They simply don't care anymore how many people they hurt or how much harm they do to anyone they disapprove of."
- The Politics of Planned Parenthood and Women's Rights
- Remembering Stephen Colbert’s Legendary Defense of Planned Parenthood
Abortion and Birth Control
- Why New Birth Control Benefits are the Right Choice and Why Religious Conservatives Have it Wrong
- Abortion safer than giving birth: study
- VA state senator attaches rectal exam amendment to anti-abortion bill
Marriage Equality
- Washington state Senate approves same-sex marriage bill
- Christian Pastor Calls For Starbucks Boycott Over Gay Marriage Support
- NC Elections official resigns over gay marriage ban
- Home-schooled girl to lawmakers: Vote down same sex marriage for my birthday
- 15-Year-Old Pleads With New Jersey Lawmakers For Marriage Equality: 'Help Me Feel Equal'
- Cuyahoga Falls: Gay couple denied family membership at natatorium--"She proceeded to look me in the face and tell me my marriage wasn't real."
- Gay couples to receive 'no impediment' certificates
Saturday, 4 February 2012
New story: Leather Lovers 4 by Iainlthr
Vote Machinations
- Virginia GOP flexing muscle to advance legislation: Voter ID is latest loss for Democrats
- Virginia Officials Confirm Criminal Election Fraud Investigation of Gingrich Campaign
- Obama DOJ Protects Military Voters From Texas Republicans
- Gingrich and Romney Want to Say Adios to Bilingual Ballots
- Diebold Accidentally Leaks 2012 Election Results The Onion
Gerrymandering
- U.S. Supreme Court pets the gerrymander--"The Republican strategy to lock down the White House and Congress this year, called RedMap, is brilliant, legal and disturbing."
- How the GOP Is Resegregating the South
- Pennsylvania Supreme Court tosses revised legislative districts
- Texas GOP aide warned of ‘really bad’ judges in redistricting memo--"During a court hearing in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, an attorney for Texas Democrats who are opposing a voting district map redrawn by Republicans revealed an email from a key GOP staffer who proposed an alternative strategy for pushing the map through if it ended up going before “a really bad panel” of judges."
- The Plan To Keep Charlie Rangel In Washington--"The contours of Charlie Rangel’s congressional district are expected to change dramatically this year... that would set up Mr. Rangel to win a 22nd term in the House of Representatives."
Super-Rich
- In Nevada, Sheldon Adelson Gets His Very Own Caucus--"[W]ith the caucuses scheduled for a Saturday morning, Adelson, an observant Jew, originally would not have been able to participate. So, largely at his urging, the state's Republicans will hold a special extra caucus, hours after the rest of the state has finished voting and reporting its totals."
- Republicans Start To Unite Around Call To Allow Billionaires And Corporations To Directly Fund Campaigns
- G.O.P. Donors Showing Thirst to Oust Obama in November NYT
- Mitt Romney relying heavily on small group of super-rich donors
- 'Super PACs' largely funded by a wealthy few--"A few super-rich individuals are using their personal and corporate wealth to influence American politics in an unprecedented manner."
Citizens United
- New Mexico Legislators vote to oppose Citizens United decision--"The House of Representatives on Tuesday voted 38 to 29 to support a memorial opposing the Citizens United decision by the U.S. Supreme Court."
- Harvard Prof.: Congress will not fix Citizens United--"The "cancer" of money and corruption in Washington has grown to such a degree that the Congress will refuse to make such a change...."
- The 18 Most Secretive Corporations in the Citizens United Era
Campaign Finance
- US elections: no matter who you vote for, money always wins
- The Darkest Day in the History of American Super PACs--"When it comes to campaign spending, we know only a fraction of the information we have the ability to know."
- Mushrooming super PAC spending leaves mark on Fla. ads
- Reining in Super PACs Won't Be Easy
- Citizens United Lawyer: I Hate Super PACs Too
Making a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow
- Colbert's Super PAC Raises More Than $1 Million
- What did Stephen Colbert super PAC spend its money on?
- Stephen Colbert is winning the war against the Supreme Court and Citizens United
- Beneath a Deeply Silly Campaign, a Deeply Serious Performer NYT
- Mock the Vote: How Pat Paulsen Paved the Way for Colbert--Some of his quotes are hilarious such as: "I've upped my standards. Now up yours."
Friday, 3 February 2012
New story: After Massium: Enough for Three by Xyggurat
Iran
- Sanctions v. negotiations on Iran Salon
- Canceling the Mullahs' Credit Card: How to sever Iran's financial lifeline.
- Mossad chief holds secret U.S. meetings on Iran nuclear threat, Senate panel reveals
- Risk of 'Accidental' Gulf War on the Rise
- Destination Persian Gulf? US nuclear sub and destroyer enter Red Sea
Middle East
- Afghanistan: Leon Panetta signals end to US combat role
- Did Obama Just Declare Victory in Afghanistan?
- Afghanistan: Violating the prime directive again--"Violating the prime directive was, in fact, the entire mission: we wanted to fix Afghanistan. We were willing to spend a lot of money as long as it produced results. What we've learned is that development aid doesn't work this way."
- U.S. Drones Patrolling Its Skies Provoke Outrage in Iraq NYT
- Pakistan is helping Afghan Taliban, says Nato report
War on Terror
- ACLU Wants Obama To Release Targeted Killing Records--"The ACLU filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit... seeking not only the legal justification for America's targeted killing program, but the process by which US citizens suspected of terrorism are placed on its so-called 'kill list.'"
- US 'no-fly' list of suspected terrorists doubles in 12 months
- Gary Johnson calls for repeal of the Patriot Act
- CIA Claims Publication of Bin Laden Death Photos Would 'Trigger Violence'
- Congress Woman Outraged as she is Wiretapped...but voted for the Patriot Act
Military
- Pentagon budget will shrink next year for the first time since 1998
- Real Time Panel Embarrasses Dana Rohrabacher After He Claims Obama Wants 'To Gut The Military'
- Republican Senators: Slash jobs instead of defense spending
- U.S. Defense Department can't account for billions for Iraq, audit finds
- NATO allies grapple with shrinking defense budgets
- Working in the US for .23 cents/hour--"Mike Elk, labor journalist explains how major defense corporations are benefiting from prison labor and undercutting wages for millions in the country."
- Quietly, U.S. Moves to Block Lawsuits by Military Families--"Why is the Justice Department trying to make it more difficult for service members and their families to sue the government for medical malpractice?"
TSA
- The TSA's War on Innocent Travelers--"The threat of terrorism has radically diminished. So why is Obama trying to expand the TSA's reach?"
- 'I'm going to destroy America and dig up Marilyn Monroe': British pair arrested in U.S. on terror charges over Twitter jokes
- The TSA Left Suspected 'Pipe Bombs' Lying Around for Six Hours
- TSA agent at D/FW Airport suspected of stealing iPads
- TSA agent at JFK stole $5K from passenger







