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Worst Week Ever: Republicans Unhinged

Paul Jenkins | Posted 03.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Citizenship, Congress, Hiv, Tony Perkins, Al Franken, 9/11, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Clarence Thomas, Same-Sex Marriage, John Sununu, Rnc, Kenneth the Page, Norm Coleman, Nancy Pelosi, Republican Party, Michael Steele, Bobby Jindal, Michael Bloomberg, Mitt Romney, Alabama, Newt Gingrich, Stormy Daniels, Minnesota, Barack Obama, Christian Issues, Susan Collins, Olympia Snow, Jon Huntsman, 30 Rock, Tom Delay, Helicopters, Christianity, Utah, Senate, David Vitter, Family Research Council, Ronald Reagan, Vermont, Democratic Party, California, Bob Smith, Charlie Crist, Nrsc, Hip Hop, New Hampshire, Sara Palin, Richard Shelby, Stimulus Package, Northeast, Arlen Specter, John McCain, Florida, Louisiana, Rush Limbaugh, Kentucky, Porn, Marine One, New York City, John Cornyn, Stuart Rothenberg, Rudy Giuliani, Jim Bunning, Presidential Campaign, Columbine, San Francisco, Fox News, Evolution, Gay Issues, Republicans Unhinged, Socialists, Politics News
Paul Jenkins

This week, just like the stock market (funny how that goes), Republicans hit yet a new low.

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Holder, Race and Obama's 10% of the White Alabama Vote

Paul Jenkins | Posted 03.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Al Gore, Brooklyn, George W. Bush, Oregon, Colorado, Race, Missouri, Dc, Eric Holder, Rural Issues, Virginia, New Jersey, Oklahoma, John Kerry, Racism, Republican Party, Mississippi, Suffolk County, North Carolina, African-American Issues, Alabama, Massachusetts, Congress, Kendrick Meek, Minnesota, New York, Barack Obama, Education, Mexican-American Issues, South, Michigan, Arkansas, Tennessee, Jimmy Carter, Hillary Clinton, Senate, New Orleans, Palm Beach, Morris County, Washington, Immigration, Democratic Party, Pittsburgh, Artur Davis, California, Nashville, Jewish Issues, New Hampshire, Ohio, Boca Raton, Long Island, Northeast, Philadelphia, Anthony Weiner, Latino Issues, Florida, John McCain, Appalachia, South Central US, St. Louis, Kamala Harris, Louisiana, Montgomery County, Birmingham, Presidential Election, Kentucky, Texas, Queens, Pennsylvania, New York City, Deep South, Young Voters, Memphis, Governors, Cleveland, Iowa, Georgia, South Carolina, San Francisco, White Voters, Rnc, Michael Steele, Broward, Hip Hop, Duluth, Politics News
Paul Jenkins

The complicated picture of how America came to vote for its first black president reflects the country's multifarious attitude towards race

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It's Not Just Chimps: Americans Have 7,000 Pet Tigers

Keith Thomson | Posted 03.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Tigers, Animal Rescue, Exotic Animals, Taxidermists, Chinese Medicine, Humane Society, Tiger Attack, Lions, Congress, Internet, Education, Alabama, Cats, Beijing, Hunting, Chimpanzee Attack, Tennessee, Detroit, Apes, Cougars, Wildlife, Green News
Keith Thomson

The Captive Wild Animal Protection Coalition estimates that as many as 7,000 tigers are currently kept as pets in the United States--that's more tigers than currently inhabit all the wilds of Asia.

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Republicans Fiddle with Abortion While America Burns

Paul Jenkins | Posted 02.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Communism, Cultural Revolution, Mao, Ronald Reagan, Chicago, Economy, National Journal, Rahm Emmanuel, George W. Bush, Vermont, Gun Control, Colorado, Same-Sex Marriage, Dccc, Howard Dean, Virginia, Gay Rights, Rnc, Bailout, New Mexico, Maine, Nancy Pelosi, Travis Childers, Stimulus Package, Mississippi, Republican Party, Bobby Bright, Tarp, North Carolina, Abortion, Bill Clinton, Republican National Committee, Appalachia, David Paterson, Alabama, Congress, Democratic National Committee, Soviet Union, Jon Kyl, New York, Idaho, Recession, Barack Obama, Religion, Log Cabin, South, Marxism, Harry Reid, San Francisco, Hillary Clinton, Moderate Republicans, Dnc, Utah, Kirsten Gillibrand, Senate, Indiana, Stalin, Late Night Shows, Politics News
Paul Jenkins

The Republican strategy sounds like the demon child of Mao's Cultural Revolution and Stalin's five-year plans: a criminal intolerance of social differences combined with an outrageously failed economic policy.

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Marcus Schrenker, Hedge Funder Who Allegedly Tried To Fake His Own Death, Is In Custody (VIDEO)

AP | By RICK CALLAHAN and JENI O'MALLEY | Posted 02.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Video, Alabama, Faking Your Own Death, Hedge Funds, Marcus Schrenker, Motorcycles, Faked His Own Death, Schrenker, Marcus Schrenker Wife, Mrs. Marcus Schrenker, Mrs Marcus Schrenker, Business News

Scroll down for video UPDATE, 1/14/09, 1:59 PM CNN is reporting: Schrenker was found at a campsite near Quincy, Florida, with "deep cuts on his wr...

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TVA: Water Tests From Second Spill Show No Major Problems

AP | JAY REEVES | Posted 02.13.2009 | Green

Read More: TVA Spill, Second Tva Spill, Water, Water Pollutants, Coal, Energy, Gypsum, Alabama, TVA Alabama Spill, Tennessee Valley Authority, Green News

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The nation's largest public utility said Monday tests showed slightly elevated levels of contaminants in the Tennessee River ...

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Coal Ash Crisis Management: What's It Going to Take -- Dead Bodies?

Jeff Biggers | Posted 02.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Dirty Coal, Barbara Boxer, Carol Browner, Coal, Senator, Tennessee, Clean Water, Alabama, Water, Tva, TVA Disaster, Energy Policy, Energy, Barack Obama, Green News
Jeff Biggers

Instead of crisis management, we need to phase-out all wet storage of toxic coal ash, inspect all toxic coal ash storage and disposal units and enact federal regulation of all toxic coal ash storage and disposal.

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SECOND TVA SPILL: Dam Breaks At Alabama Coal Plant

AP | Posted 02.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Coal Byproducts, Water Pollutants, Water, Alabama, Tva, Coal Spill, Pollution, Coal, Tennessee Valley Authority, Widows Creek Waste, Alabama Coal Spill, Tva Widows Creek Plant, Second Tva Spill, Tva Spill Alabama, TVA Spill, Green News

AP reports on a second TVA spill: The Tennessee Valley Authority says a waste pond at its Widows Creek power plant in northeast Alabama has ruptured ...

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Coal Ash Piling Up Most In Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Georgia And Alabama

AP | DINA CAPPIELLO | Posted 02.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Where Are Coal Ash Piles, Coal Ash Piles, Georgia, Ohio, Alabama, Environment, Kentucky, Coal Ash Spill, Pollution, Coal, Indiana, Green News

WASHINGTON — Millions of tons of toxic coal ash is piling up in power plant ponds in 32 states, a situation the government has long recognized a...

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The GOP's White Supremacy

Paul Jenkins | Posted 01.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama, Supreme Court, Mckinsey, George W. Bush, Lyn Westmoreland, Clarence Thomas, Sarah Palin, Same-Sex Marriage, Redistricting, Virginia, Condoleezza Rice, Mel Martinez, Republican Party, Minneapolis, Agnosticism, North Carolina, African-American Issues, Michael Steele, Colin Powell, Bobby Jindal, Alabama, Congress, Catholicism, Christian Issues, Midwest, Kansas City, JC Watts, Tennessee, Christianity, Senate, New Orleans, Gop, Palm Beach, Kkk, Cuban-American Issues, Maryland, Mel Watt, Arizona, Democratic Party, California, Evangelicals, Ken Blackwell, Jewish Issues, Ahn Cao, Ohio, Latino Issues, Islam, John McCain, Florida, Appalachia, House, Asian-American Issues, White Supremacists, Sanford Bishop, Hispanic Issues, Milwaukee, Deep South, Memphis, Religion, Segregation, Georgia, Southern Issues, Charles Barkley, David Duke, Gay Issues, White Voters, Lousiana, Barack the Magic Negro, Gop White Supremacy, Politics News
Paul Jenkins

Like a restricted country club that would rather die than change, the Republican Party is marginalizing itself for the sake of the white men who run it.

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Bush Punts Auto Industry to Team Obama; UAW Concedes Even More

Steve Parker | Posted 01.19.2009 | Business

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Steve Parker

This "agreement" is just another part of the recent "Bush/Cheney Revisionist History Farewell Tour." It was created to fail, just as long as that failure didn't happen while Bush was still president.

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Auto bill clears House; Should it pass the Senate, too?

Steve Parker | Posted 01.10.2009 | Business

Read More: Aclu, White House, Congress, 1979 Chrysler Bailout, Brooklyn, George W. Bush, Honda, Mercedes-Benz, Cars, Mazda, Mark Fields, Cerberus Capital Management, Energy Department, General Motors, Buddhist, Hyundai, Nancy Pelosi, Washington, US Senate, Richard Shelby, Barney Dog, Silver Arrows, Uaw, California, Toyota, Bernard Cahier, Detroit Three, John Snow, Democrats, Barack Obama, Ford Motor Co, Robert F. Kennedy, Chrysler, Alabama, Ross Perot, Bush White House, Detroit Three Loans, Roger Penske, Car Czar, Harry Reid, Allard Lowenstein, French Grand Prix, Republicans, Detroit Auto Show, Business News
Steve Parker

And now, it's on to the Senate! The House today passed, 237 to 170, HR 7321, the automotive loan bailout bill, and has sent it on to the Senate. H...

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GOP: Imploding, Meaningless, and Run by Crazies, But not Dead

Paul Jenkins | Posted 01.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Suburbs, Proposition 8, Latinos, Atlanta, District of Columbia, Chicago, Connecticut, Oregon, Colorado, Missouri, Same-Sex Marriage, Nevada, Virginia, Montana, New Mexico, Margaret Thatcher, West, Walnut Creek, Mississippi, Republican Party, Detroit, African-American Issues, Kansas, North Carolina, Abortion, Election 2008 Coverage, Citigroup, Alaska, Alabama, Congress, Barack Obama, Idaho, New York, Midwest, Bill Clinton, South, Great Britain, Wyoming, David Cameron, Utah, Hawaii, Nebraska, United Kingdom, Washington, Immigration, Iraq, Arizona, Democratic Party, Dallas, Maine, New Hampshire, Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Houston, Long Island, New England, Philadelphia, John McCain, Contra Costa, Peggy Noonan, Louisiana, Chris Shays, Hispanic Issues, Asian-Americans, Ross Perot, Georgia, Environment, San Francisco, Gay Issues, English-Only, Calfironia, Politics News
Paul Jenkins

Beyond its regional concentration, the Republican Party's face is from another time. Indeed, nearly half of the Republican caucus is composed of Southern white men.

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Alabama County Passes Annual Obama Holiday

AP | Posted 01.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama Day, Obama Holiday, Alabama, The Barack Obama Day, Alabama Obama Holiday, Perry County, Barack Obama, Politics News

MARION, Ala. — In central Alabama's Perry County, government workers already get a day off for President's Day, Martin Luther King Day, and Vete...

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October car/truck sales reports - Fuel for Obama campaign

Steve Parker | Posted 12.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iowa, Chrysler, George W. Bush, Cars, Detroit News, Detroit Auto Show, Ford, Democratic Party, Robert Lutz, Mississippi, Bailout, New Jersey, General Motors, Paris Car Show, Tennessee, Nissan, Michigan, Renault, John McCain, California, Gm, Cnbc, Indiana, Detroit Three, Ohio, French, Washington DC, Chrysler Nissan Deal, Barack Obama, New York, Texas, Chevrolet Volt, Chevrolet Cruze, Alabama, Politics News
Steve Parker

This Monday, the new car and truck sales reports for the month of October will be announced, and are expected to be the worst in 25-or-more years. T...

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Alabama Dems Benefit From GOP Congressman's Toxic Ties To Saddam

Nathaniel Bach | Posted 10.26.2008 | Home

Read More: Iraq Study Group, Tull Chemical Company, Mike Rogers, Poison, Alabama, Josh Segall, Saddam Hussein, Campaign Contributions, Sodium Fluoroacetate, Peter DeFazio, Alabama House Races, Compound 1080, Home News
Nathaniel Bach

GOP candidate Mike Rogers took money from a donor whose poison was found in the hands of Hussein's regime. The poison-maker also contributed to Roger's personal PAC shortly after a bill to ban the substance was introduced to a House Committee on which Rogers sits.

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The Obesity Epidemic and Health Care Reform

Jeffrey Levi | Posted 09.27.2008 | Living

Read More: Childhood Cbesity, Trust for America's Health, Alabama, Medicaid, Health Care, Health, Obesity Epidemic, Living News
Jeffrey Levi

Kids today aren't getting enough physical activity in schools. They are bombarded with ads for junk food, and at the same time fruits and vegetables are increasingly unaffordable.

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A Historical Perspective On Divided Democratic Conventions

Chris Weigant | Posted 09.25.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

Don't buy into the media narrative that this is some sort of "divided party" -- because today's Democrats aren't. All true Democrats are pulling hard to defeat the legacy of George W. Bush.

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The John Edwards Story Invites Us to Seek Out the Skeletons In Republican Closets

David Fiderer | Posted 09.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: John Edwards, Troy King, Alabama, Edwards Affair, Troy King Gay, Alabama Attorney General, Troy King Gay Affair, Troy King Attorney General of Alabama, John Edwards Story, Politics News
David Fiderer

The private life of Edwards, who currently neither seeks nor holds public office, is a legitimate story for the media because he was a hypocrite and because he lied. So now we know the new ground rules.

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The New South and Obama: An Interview with Josh Segall, Alabama Democratic Candidate for Congress

Nathaniel Bach | Posted 07.29.2008 | Home

Read More: Mike Rogers, Joshua Segall, Independent Voters, Alabama, Howard Dean, Alabama 3rd District, Red to Blue, Don Cazayoux, Offthebus, Politics, Josh Segall, 50-State Strategy, Emerging Race, Dccc, Cafta, Alabama House Races, New South, Breaking Politics News, Travis Childers, Obama Effect, Al-03, Obama South, Obama Coattails, Barack Obama, Senator Obama, Obama Fifty State Strategy, Home News
Nathaniel Bach

Obama's fifty-state strategy is not about his winning these states in this election. It's about "trickle up" politics and grassroots efforts on a national scale, all of which will help sow the seeds of future Democratic majorities.

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Young Voters, Identity Politics

Ben Terris | Posted 07.29.2008 | Home

Read More: Youth Vote, John McCain, Youth, Barck Obama, Identity Politics, Alabama, Young Voters, Obama, Mccain, Racism Obama, Mississippi, Barack Obama, Home News
Ben Terris

"McCain understands people like him better than he does people like us, so his tax plans will help the rich, not the people who need it the most. I want to vote for someone who will look out for me."

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Sacrificing Car Windows For Obama In Alabama

Mark J. Hainds | Posted 05.01.2008 | Home

Read More: South, Support, Obama '08, Alabama, Obama 08, Obama, Voter, Obamatron, Race, Intimidation, Home News
Mark J. Hainds

People are surprised to see the Obama bumper sticker next to an Alabama license plate on a Ford F150, four-wheel drive pickup. So surprised down here that one of them broke my window.

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Sam Stein

New Evidence In Siegelman Case Points To Republican Cabal

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Censorship, Karl Rove, Bill Canary, Rob Riley Richard Scrushy, Don Siegelman, George W. Bush, Alabama, Bob Riley, Rob Riley Don Siegelman, DOJ Corruption, Don Siegelman Case, Scott Norton and Rob Riley, Big Brother, Politics News

A new review of evidence suggests that an aligned group of Republican interests were pressing for -- and seeking to profit financially from -- the tri...

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FCC Official Wants Investigation Of "60 Minutes" Rove Blackout

Reuters | Peter Kaplan | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

Read More: Censorship, Karl Rove, Bill Canary, Don Siegelman, Michael Mukasey, George W. Bush, Alabama, Bob Riley, Larisa Alexandrovna, DOJ Corruption, 60 Minutes Blackouts, Don Siegelman Case, 60 Minutes, Big Brother, Media News

U.S. Federal Communications Commission official is seeking an inquiry into the blacking out of a politically charged segment of the CBS News magazine ...

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CBS Local Station Claims Equipment Failure For Blackout During Karl Rove Story

Huffington Post | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

Read More: Censorship, Don Siegelman Case, Karl Rove, Bill Canary, Don Siegelman, Michael Mukasey, George W. Bush, Alabama, Bob Riley, DOJ Corruption, Larisa Alexandrovna, 60 Minutes, 60 Minutes Blackouts, Big Brother, Media News

Blogger Larisa Alexandrovna wrote about the blackouts that occured during a 60 Minutes story on how Karl Rove had helped to put Alabama's democratic G...

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