June 19, 2013
Conservatives Need To Explain Their Contempt For Americans
If there are conservatives in your family, this may sound all-too-familiar.
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June 18, 2013
CHART: Republican Trickle-Down Poppycock: Unemployment Rate vs. Top Marginal Income Tax Rate
Trickle-down economics — It’s easy to say tax cuts lead to jobs and then offer no proof. It’s easy to say those at the top of the economic ladder are the job creators and then award them with tax cuts. But when do we analyze the data?
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June 17, 2013
SNAP: Food Assistance: These Simple Charts Could Prove You’re An Ass
Many conservatives have no problem showing their disdain for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), previously known as “food stamps.” In December 2011, then Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum asked, “If hunger is a problem in America, then why do we have an obesity problem among the people who we say have a hunger program?” This is the kind of unthinking “wisdom” that emanates from the conservative bubble.
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June 17, 2013
Positive Same-Sex Marriage Media Coverage Is Not Bias
Conservative opponents of same-sex marriage will likely point to a new Pew study as evidence of liberal media bias.
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June 6, 2013
NSA Spying: Hey Conservatives, I Got Your Tyranny Right Here!
The Guardian’s Glenn Greenwald reports that Verizon phone records as well as the data systems of major internet companies are being tapped by the National Security Agency (NSA) to mine data, apparently at will.
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June 5, 2013
Quote: The Next Generation Of Conservatives Are Gonna Be Fine With Same-Sex Marriage
“The next generation of conservatives are gonna be fine with same-sex marriage.” – Chris Mooney (The Republican Brain)
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June 5, 2013
IRS Scandal – More Like: Paranoid ‘Persecuted’ Conservative Delusion
Washington Representative Jim McDermott (D) was right to call yesterday’s IRS hearing “political theater.”
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June 4, 2013
Conservatives Love When Big Government Legislates Morality
I’ve said this before, conservatives are all for big government. Conservatives are all for making government more intrusive. But I do need to add a slight clarification. Conservatives are fine with overreaching government as long as that government interference only impacts the lives of people who conservatives judge as different or immoral.
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June 4, 2013
Conservatives Resent ‘Other’ People, Liberals Resent Bygone Policy
If there is a fundamental reason to attack false equivalence, it would be the difference between what fuels conservatives and what fuels liberals. There are no shortage of personal attacks lobbed from both sides, but there is one key difference — conservatives resent “other” people; liberals resent bygone policy (usually supported by conservatives).
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June 2, 2013
Climate Change: The False Assertion Of ‘The Science Is Not Settled’
I have to get this out-of-the-way right off the top: In science, nothing is ever “settled” in the sense people think when using that word. It’s the nature of science to always question, but there are things for which there is overwhelming evidence and we might sometimes refer to these things as facts. But if you’ve heard conservative media reports on climate change, then surely you must “know” the science on climate change is not yet settled. Fox News pundits and other right-wing hacks point to scientists who say humans are not responsible for global warming, or that the globe isn’t actually warming at all, its cooling.
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