August 16, 2013
Police State: Journalists, Photographers Beware The Growing Domestic Army
If you’re building a “domestic army,” then what is one thing you need to crack down on? — Information — Or in other words, journalists and photographers.
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August 15, 2013
A Marine Who Served In Iraq Says ‘We’re Building A Domestic Army’ In America
During a local council meeting in Concord, New Hampshire, Marine Colonel Peter Martino offered his insight on what he sees as Homeland Security’s initiative to build a domestic army.
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August 15, 2013
Congressman: No White Collar Crime On Wall Street Because There Are No Guns Involved
According to representative Tom McClintock (R-CA), there is no financial crime on Wall Street because nobody forced you to buy a bad mortgage. Nobody was holding a gun to your head.
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August 13, 2013
Stop And Frisk: New York Mayor Bloomberg Cites Anecdotal Evidence In Support Of Unconstitutional Practice
Federal Judge Shira Scheindlin ruled that New York City’s controversial “Stop and Frisk” program violated the constitutional rights of thousands of residents. In response, NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg holds a press conference to blast the ruling, citing anecdotal evidence in support of the unconstitutional policy.
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August 13, 2013
Why Republicans Must Repeal Obamacare
Because if they don’t, they know they’re fucked.
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August 12, 2013
Wringing Texas Dry: How Oil, Gas Fracking Steals Water From Citizens
Fracking boom sucks away precious water from beneath the ground, leaving cattle dead, farms bone-dry and people thirsty
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August 12, 2013
Conservative Bubble: Republican Congressman: We Probably Could Get The Votes To Impeach Obama
Speaking in Luling, Texas on Saturday, Republican Representative Blake Farenthold said Republicans could probably get the votes to impeach Obama. He apparently ignored the small detail that President Obama is in his second term, and that’s because more Americans voted for him over Romney. That doesn’t phase these Republicans. They live in their own little world, and world we affectionately call the conservative bubble. They talk like they speak for all Americans. — Well of course Obama is a joke, and we need to do something about it. And so yeah, we could impeach him if we decided to vote on it.
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August 12, 2013
Attorney General Eric Holder Announces Major Curtailment Of ‘Mandatory Minimum’ Sentences For Non-Violent Drug Offenses
In episode 4 of Left Call Radio, I spoke about America’s “prison-industrial complex” and how mandatory minimum sentences take discretion away form judges and juries. Mandatory minimum sentences do not make us safer. What these unnecessary and harsh sentences do is ruin the lives of people who commit low-level, non-violent drug offenses, while the rest of us can revel in our own righteous indignation. — Hey, I wouldn’t have committed that crime. So what do I care?
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August 11, 2013
Meet the Press asks: Is America ‘Living In Fear Of Terror?’
Are we living in fear of terror? What an insipid question. What is terror? It’s extreme fear. So did Meet the Press really ask if we are living in fear of fear? — I think through reduction we could simply say, we are indeed living in fear.
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August 10, 2013
Harry Reid Says Obamacare Puts U.S. On Path To Single-Payer Health Care System
On a local PBS program “Nevada Week in Review,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said, “What we’ve done with Obamacare is have a step in the right direction, but we’re far from having something that’s going to work forever.” Reid said ultimately they had to drop the idea of a public option during health care legislative negotiations in 2009. “We had a real good run at the public option,” said Reid. He said Senator Joe Lieberman was the main opposition to a public option, at least among those who would otherwise support health care legislation. Because of course no Republicans supported health care reform. But Reid also acknowledged their was support for a true single-payer system saying, “Don’t think we didn’t have a tremendous number of people who wanted a single-payer system.”
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