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The 9 Biggest Conservative Lies About Taxes and Public Spending
Seeded on Mon Dec 27, 2010 8:06 AM EST (AlterNet.org)
It's difficult to know where to begin deconstructing conservative rhetoric on taxes and spending.
A Simple Explanation for a Strange Paradox: Why the US Economy Grew Faster When Tax Rates Were High, and Grew Slower When Tax Rates Were Low
Seeded on Tue Dec 21, 2010 8:29 AM EST (presimetrics.com)
If you are familiar with my writing, you know that for years I've been covering the proverbial non-barking dog: the textbook relationship between taxes and economic growth, namely that higher marginal rates make the economy grow more slowly, is not borne out in real world US da …
Using A Virtual Chalkboard, Zakaria Crunches Beck's Numbers (Video)
Seeded on Sun Dec 12, 2010 8:51 AM EST (Political Animal)
That Glenn Beck has a propensity to inflate numbers for ideological purposes is well documented. [...]
1860 Map Put Southern Slavery Into Perspective
Seeded on Sat Dec 11, 2010 11:02 AM EST (The New York Times)
The 1860 Census was the last time the federal government took a count of the South's vast slave population.
Nobel Prize Winning Economist: We Have To Throw Bankers In Jail Or The Economy Won't Recover
Seeded on Tue Nov 30, 2010 7:53 AM EST (Silicon Alley Insider)
As economists such as William Black and James Galbraith have repeatedly said, we cannot solve the economic crisis unless we throw the criminals who committed fraud in jail. And Nobel prize winning economist George Akerlof has demonstrated that failure to punish white collar crim …
Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans | New York Journal of Books
Seeded on Sat Nov 20, 2010 12:16 AM EST (nyjournalofbooks.com)
Wendell Potter, the author of Deadly Spin, is a former head of public relations at CIGNA; Potter was one of those "spin-meisters." In the position at CIGNA, Potter's job was to create and perpetuate myths that any law passed by Congress was a "government takeover of the h …
Wall Street quietly seeks to undo new financial rules
Seeded on Thu Nov 18, 2010 8:51 AM EST ()
The heavy hitters of finance lost big battles earlier this year during the overhaul of financial regulation, but they're working hard to win the war. They're quietly trying to soften, if not kill, some of the more controversial provisions.
"Conservatives dupe themselves. They wrap themselves in closed information systems based upon pretend information."
Seeded on Tue Nov 16, 2010 8:15 AM EST (The New York Times)
Republicans lost the presidency in 2008 in large part because of the worst economic crisis since World War II. Republicans have now regained the House of Representatives for the same reason.
Insurance Company Profits Up 41 Percent
Seeded on Tue Nov 16, 2010 7:44 AM EST (Healthinsurance.org)
Stark reported Wednesday that the collective $9.3 billion in profits for the first nine months of 2010 is up an average of 41 percent over the same period last year.
To What Shrinking Extent Do the Rich Any Longer Need the Rest of Us?
Seeded on Thu Nov 11, 2010 8:45 AM EST (OpEdNews.Com Progressive)
"If this were a functioning democracy, our financial institutions would be helping everyday Americans and businesses get the mortgages and loans -- the capital -- they need to keep going; but they're not doing that, even as the financiers are reaping robust rewards.
Fact Checking GOP Claims On the Nov 7, 2010 Sunday Talk Shows: Eric Cantor, Mitch McConnel, Jim DeMint, Mike Pence, Rand Paul, and Rick Perry
Seeded on Mon Nov 8, 2010 1:12 PM EST (Political Correction)
Fox News Sunday CLAIM: Rep. Cantor Claimed President Obama "Has Killed Jobs" Rep.
Poll: Most voters don't know taxes fell, economy improved
Seeded on Sat Oct 30, 2010 6:19 AM EDT (The Austin American-Statesman)
he Obama administration cut taxes for middle-class Americans, expects to make a profit on the hundreds of billions of dollars spent to rescue Wall Street banks and has overseen an economy that has grown for the past four quarters.
Republicans who backed Obama say they may vote for him again - TheHill.com
Seeded on Fri Oct 29, 2010 7:26 PM EDT (TheHill.com)
It's very hard to get political credit for the terrible things that you've averted," said Fried, a Harvard law professor.
Relatives Says Man Arrested For Threatening Democratic Senator Was 'Under The Spell That Glenn Beck Cast'
Seeded on Fri Oct 29, 2010 10:20 AM EDT (Think Progress)
In April, a Washington man named Charles Alan Wilson was arrested for threatening Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) for her vote to pass health care reform. He left a series of threatening messages on her voicemail, saying "It only takes one piece of lead.
Obama says most job losses occurred before his economic policies took hold [Truth-o-Meter says: TRUE]
Seeded on Fri Oct 29, 2010 7:50 AM EDT (Politifact.com Truth-O-Meter rulings from National)
President Barack Obama had jobs on his mind when he sat down Oct. 27, 2010, for a pre-election interview on Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Under questioning from Stewart, Obama came back to a familiar theme: When he took office, he inherited a mess.
Chris Matthews Makes Right Wingers Heads Explode for Suggesting Right Wing Thuggery is Akin to 1930's Fascism ~~~ VIDEO
Seeded on Thu Oct 28, 2010 9:03 PM EDT (Crooks and Liars)
the right is akin to the tactics used by the Fascists in the 1930's.
Supreme Court surprised by anonymity of post-Citizens United campaign spending
Seeded on Thu Oct 28, 2010 8:19 AM EDT (Chicago Tribune)
Companies and unions have been able to avoid the transparency called for in the court's landmark ruling. Spending on next week's midterm election has been exorbitant.
"Beneath contempt": Tucker Carlson: "Real poor people don't eat out of dumpsters," those who do have no "dignity" | Media Matters for America
Seeded on Tue Oct 26, 2010 4:23 AM EDT (Media Matters for America)
Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson (born May 16, 1969) is an American political news correspondent and conservative commentator for the Fox News Channel. ... His mother is Patricia Caroline Swanson (born 1945), former wife of Howard Feldman and an heiress to the Swanson food-conglom …
Candidates Should Address the Income Gap - The Great Divergence
Seeded on Sun Oct 24, 2010 10:20 PM EDT (CBS News)
Here's another number, one the candidates don't talk about so much: 80 - out of every $100 that the nation's collective income increased between 1980 and 2005, $80 went to the people who needed it least, the richest 1 percent.
Bob Cesca: The Republican Swindle About 'Obamacare and Stimulus'
Seeded on Sun Oct 24, 2010 11:45 AM EDT (The Huffington Post)
If you happen to be a swing voter who's considering the Republican slate next month, you're being tricked.
Memo LEAKED! Beck, Koch bros, Chamber coordinated with Banks & Insurers on 2010 election strategy
Seeded on Thu Oct 21, 2010 8:38 AM EDT (Daily Kos)
While the Koch brothers — each worth over $21.5 billion — have certainly underwritten much of the right, their hidden coordination with other big business money has gone largely unnoticed.
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