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Gallup Poll: Americans See Obama as Solid Favorite to Win Election

Fifty-six percent of Americans think Barack Obama will win the 2012 presidential election, compared with 36% who think Mitt Romney will win. Democrats are more likely to believe that Obama will win than Republicans are to believe Romney will. Independents are nearly twice as li …

The Founding Liberals

Today is the Fourth of July, a time when we as Americans celebrate our nations independence. Conservatives across the country are pretending to be patriotic. Liberals on the other hand are celebrating the biggest achievement that appears on their resume’: the founding of Am …

Unprecedented Maya Mural Found, Contradicts 2012 "Doomsday" Myth

In the last known largely unexcavated Maya megacity, archaeologists have uncovered the only known mural adorning an ancient Maya house, a new study says—and it's not just any mural.    In addition to a still vibrant scene of a king and his retinue, the walls are …

Fake Outrage of the Day: Obama Campaign 'Tried to Bribe Rev. Wright'

Here’s today’s blatantly dishonest post at Breitbart.com by one of their hackiest writers, Ben Shapiro: WRIGHT: OBAMA TRIED TO BRIBE ME TO KEEP QUIET IN 2008. No, Ben, that is not what Rev. Wright said to the New York Post. The Post [owned by Rupert Murdoch's News  …

Why the Right Really Hates Obama --

And why ‘that hopey changey stuff’ is the only true antidote to Tea Party cynicism. Obama is a deeply familiar figure among tea partiers and conservative Christians. He has the energy and charisma of a pastor—but the context is all wrong. He's black....

Bachmann On Face The Nation: Women 'Overwhelmingly Support The GOP'

If Ted Nugent is the motor city madman, then Michelle Bachmann must be the Minnesota madlady. Even though she didn’t win a single state and was among the early presidential wannabee drop-outs, batsh#t Bachmann has been sounding off on the 2012 election and the role tha …

How to Insult Your Political Opponents

Let’s say that you are a public figure, and in that capacity, you sometimes want to express your moral disapproval for behavior that is not illegal, perhaps, but is, in your estimation, gross. The art of the political put-down involves some simple rules. You need a stingi …

VIDEO: President Obama and First Lady knock it out of the park at Ohio rally campaign opener

Out. Of. The. Park. They killed it.       Consider, then address specific arguments and ideas put forth by others, intelligently, rather than taking the easy route and attacking them personally. A "personal attack" is defined as directly or indirectly insult …

Rachel Maddow Makes History and Triumphs over the War On Women

The interruption by Castellanos was significant, because Republicans don’t want to talk about the war on women. They have adopted the same position towards the rights of women that they long ago adopted towards issues like poverty and racism. It doesn’t exist. Caste …

Aww: Obama Frustrated Americans Don't Appreciate His Awesomeness More

Think about it; all this griping came before the unwanted Obamacare push, before the midterm "shellacking," and before his approval rating started to hit new lows with some regularity. Obama, Inc. must really detest Americans by this point. The quote in bold perfectly encapsula …

House Committees Propose Huge Cuts To Health Services, Food Assistance And Other Child Programs

Congress would permanently repeal the Social Services Block Grant under a plan passed by the House Ways and Means Committee Thursday, slashing $1.7 billion a year that goes to help fund daycare, protective services for children, special services to persons with disabilities, ad …

Debunking the GOP: Negative ad blatantly ignores promises the President has kept &mdash

he Republican National Committee is launching a misleading, negative ad that distorts or blatantly ignores President Obama’s record. The ad is entirely based on the false claim that the President has not kept any of the promises he made four years ago.

If Health Insurance Mandates Are Unconstitutional, Why Did the Founding Fathers Back Them?

Time for the wingnuts to smear and discredit George Washington...

Witches don't exist, you know. | Radfem News Service

Poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy has been commissioned to write a tribute to ten women who were executed for being witches four hundred years ago. Guardian’s Martin Wainright has some rather…interesting… things to say on the matter.

New Low in Support for Health Law; Half Expect Justices to Go Political - ABC News

Last month’s hearings on the constitutionality of health care reform didn’t help its popularity: Public support for Barack Obama’s signature domestic legislation has hit a new low in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, with criticism of the individual ma …

Poll: Half Of Democrats Want To Get Rid of Individual Mandate

And polls continue to show it has little popular support either. For example, a poll just conducted for IBD by TechnoMetrica Market Intelligence found that only 22% said they wanted the justices to uphold the entire law, while 37% said strike down the whole thing and 30% said to  …

Santorum pulls out of presidential race

Former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) announced during a Tuesday news conference that after a prolonged battle for the Republican nomination to the presidency, he would pull out of the race and abandon his bid for the nation’s highest office.

Maddow to GOP: Women notice when you try to take away our rights

On Thursday, current RNC Chairman Rance Priebus said that the perception that Republicans are waging a war on women is as absurd as declaring that they have declared a “war on caterpillars.” On Friday, RNS spokesperson Sean Spicer said that for t …

Gumbel: I Was Embarrassed by Today 'Co-Host' Palin - What happened to 'gravitas,' he wants to know

Former Today show anchor Bryant Gumbel was "embarrassed" when NBC named Sarah Palin co-host for a day last week. Hosts “used to be judged not just on their popularity, but the extent to which they were capable of interviewing someone or reporting on a situation, or able t …

Economy has grown the most when Democrats have been in power

Earlier today, I linked to a Goldman Sachs research note arguing that the most fiscally conservative outcome in the 2012 election would be an Obama victory and Republican control of Congress. But their analysis was limited to deficit reduction. Last week, JPMorgan looked at thi …

Once more: Ryan has not produced a serious budget

Ryan’s budget — which is now the House Republican budget — entirely wipes out the federal government in the longer run. By 2050, assuming that military spending holds at current levels (and Ryan and especially Mitt Romney are against any cuts), there won&rs …

Think You Have the Right to Vote? Not so Much!

Voter Suppression is happening across the U.S. as restrictive voting laws are being both introduced and passed. 164 laws were introduced in states that would restrict U.S. Citizens from voting in the 2012 U.S. Election. Restrictive voting has taken these forms:

Corporations Flee Right-Wing ALEC: Yet Another Win for Progressives

Recently, activist site ColorofChange.org launched a campaign targeting corporations that fund the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the right-wing group that has played a key role in the passage of loathsome voter ID and "stand your ground" laws around the country. A …

Really, Mitt?

Never a big one for self awareness, Mitt Romney has accused Barack Obama of being out of touch. No, really.

45 Signs That America Will Soon Be A Nation With A Very Tiny Elite And The Rest Of Us Will Be Poor

The middle class is being systematically wiped out of existence in the United States today.  America is a nation with a very tiny elite that is rapidly becoming increasingly wealthy while everyone else is becoming poorer.  So why is this happening?  Well, i …

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