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3 Corporate Myths that Threaten the Wealth of the Nation

Shoq — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 00:30:23 +0000

It’s time to restore corporate power to the people by blasting through the myths about how corporations should be run, and for whom.

This article, by an economist who specializes in corporate wealth, with two talented journalists sitting-in, absolutely destroys one of the most enduring and rapacious myths to be found anywhere: that public corporations

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BREAKING: Rush Limbaugh Charged With Womanslaughter!

Shoq — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 16:39:46 +0000

See important update at the end.

Forgive my link-baited title, but it was just as contrived, gamed, and inaccurate as this one from Paul Farhi in today’s Washington Post:

Limbaugh sees heat over comments turn down to a simmer

That awful bit of non-reporting spawed these (and other) derived items from so-called “journalists” sucking

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Republicans: A Curse To America, Reality TV To Everyone Else

Shoq — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 19:03:17 +0000

An old and dear Candian friend of mine wrote this to some of his inner circle. I thought I'd share,

Dear Americans, We have been so entertained over the years by your television broadcasts, but never more so than the past few months with your election primaries. We find ourselves huddled by the TV each night,

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The Psychology of Right-Wing Identification Unpacked

Shoq — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:32:12 +0000

Note: This article, by Retired Republican House and Senate staffer Mike Lofgren wrote a piece in 2011 called “Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult,” went viral, drawing over a million unique views on Truthout, whose reporter, Jason Leopold has widely documented ethical issues.
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Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult

Shoq — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:27:39 +0000

Note: This article, by Retired Republican House and Senate staffer Mike Lofgren went viral, drawing over a million unique views on Truthout, whose reporter, Jason Leopold has widely documented ethical issues. Not wanting to reward any site that would employ such reporters, I must repost Loftgren's work here under Truthout's Creative Commons license.

by: Mike

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Help Reverse Susan G. Komen’s Decision About Funding Planned Parenthood

Shoq — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:35:26 +0000

Backstory on this issue

Progressives MUST push back against this kind of political tampering or the Right wing will learn to apply it wherever they can. Please take a few minutes and help to reverse this obscene development.

Ways You Can Help: 1) SWAMP Komen's contact form with your protest messages.

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Some Essays That Every Progressive Should Read

Shoq — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 22:53:38 +0000

I'm collecting articles and videos that examine many of the key problems facing Progressivism in the United States. I grow weary of tweeting them individually, so I thought I would combine them here. Where appropriate, I sometimes link to introductory blog posts which I felt might properly frame or augment the work. I also toss

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Like Him or Not, This Ain’t The Same Old David Frum

Shoq — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 20:09:04 +0000

Three weeks ago, I tweeted this:

@shoq: Somewhere, deep inside @DavidFrum, there’s a useful progressive yearning to be free: j.mp/tcQXDr #p2

I was being a bit glib about it, but I was trying to express an intuition about a sense I’ve had about a slow and sometimes erratic transformation

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Grey Parker Educates Breitbart’s Dana Loesch: Because Someone Had To

Shoq — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 13:55:05 +0000

Grey Parker is one of those bloggers you stumble upon when someone in your stream says "you gotta read this." I did that some months ago, and ever since, I eagerly snap at his posts like a Venus Fly Trap that just got lucky. Today, Grey decided to respond to the execrable new Tokyo Rose

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“I Can Hire One Half of the Working Class To Kill The Other Half”

Shoq — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:40:38 +0000

I quibble over some of his choices at times, but as my readers know, I've been a big fan of the @punkPatriot since I first came across him. If I had the spare change, I'd be putting him up in house somewhere, and pay him to make these videos all day long, so he didn't

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