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Romantic Relationships Are Hotbeds for Serious Lies

Bella DePaulo | Posted 09.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Bill Clinton, Mark Sanford, Living a Lie, Friends, Relationships, Personality, Money, Clues to Deception, Kinship, Newt Gingrich, James McGreevey, Serious Lies, Lying, Infidelity, Rudy Giuliani, John Ensign, Silvio Berlusconi, Passions, Deception, Sex, Honor, Self-Presentation, John Edwards, Spouses, Romantic Partners, Identity, Nonverbal Behavior, Living News
Bella DePaulo

The BIG lies, the ones we consider most serious, are usually told by and to the people with whom we are most intimate.

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Gingrich vs. Greenpeace... with Bats

Kevin Grandia | Posted 09.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Newt Gingrich, Greenpeace, Green News
Kevin Grandia

There was a glimmer of hope that the planet may still be saved in a no-holds-barred softball match on the lawns of the Monument

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Dear President Obama: A Modest Medicare Proposal

Thom Hartmann | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Medicare, President Obama, Town Hall Debate, Obama Healthcare, Dick Armey, Healthcare System, Blue Cross, Medicare for All, Reagan Tax Cuts, Chuck Grassley, Medicare Bill, Sarah Palin, Max Baucus, Aarp, Universal Health Care, Healthcare Reform, Newt Gingrich, Town Hall Meetings, Healthcare, Politics News
Thom Hartmann

Most of us will do damn near anything to get out from under the thumbs of the multi-millionaire CEOs who are running our current insurance programs. Sign me up!

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Swiftboating

Norman Horowitz | Posted 09.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: And MSNBC, Abc, Nbc, Cnn, Fox, Cbs, Fnc, Lying, Rush Limbaugh, Swiftboat, Broadcast TV, Swiftboating, Cable Networks, Sarah Palin, Healthcare Reform, Newt Gingrich, Extreme Right Wing, Healthcare, Politics News
Norman Horowitz

Wikipedia defines this word as: "... American political jargon that is used as a strong pejorative description of some kind of attack that the speaker...

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Begala Rips Palin: She's "About Half A Whack Job" And A "Flaky Intellectual Lightweight" (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 09.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Video, Newt Gingrich, Paul Begala Video, Paul Begala Sarah Palin, Paul Begala, Sarah Palin, Politics News

Paul Begala and Newt Gingrich have decidedly different views on whether former Governor Sarah Palin can make a political comback. Gingrich outlined h...

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Sam Stein

GOPers Decrying Obama "Death Panels" Supported Intervention For Schiavo

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gingrich, Obama Death Panel, Terri Schiavo, Schaivo Death Panel, Michael Steele, John Cornyn Death Panel, Republicans Death Panel, Obama Health Care, Newt Gingrich, Politics News

On a conference call with reporters this week, Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas.) repeated what has become the most popular conservative canard about Preside...

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The Gorilla Dust of Health Care

Michael Winship | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dick Armey, Betsy Mccaughey, Lobbyists, Health Care Reform, David Frum, Chuck Grassley, Newt Gingrich, Bruce Bartlett, Town Hall Meetings, Sarah Palin, Health Care, Politics News
Michael Winship

What's interesting about the health care hullabaloo is that there appears to be an emerging backlash from some of the more reasoned thinkers of the conservative movement.

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Gingrich Supported So-Called "Death Panels" A Few Months Ago

TrueSlant | Matt Taibbi | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gingrich, Gingrich Palin Death Panels, Newt Gingrich Death Panels, Newt Gingrich, Newt Gingrich End of Life Care, Politics News

...[W]hat happens when suddenly the Republican party decides it wants to scare the shit out of a bunch of old people by telling them the new health ca...

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When Joe Scarborough Dragged Dick Armey Out of a Closet of Shame

David Fiderer | Posted 11.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Susan Molinari, Joe Scarborough, Dick Armey, Bill Paxon, Newt Gingrich, FreedomWorks Health Care, Freedomworks, Brit Hume, Politics News
David Fiderer

In his 2004 Washington memoir, Scarborough provides a chilling portrait of the man who leads FreedomWorks, the organization now promoting disruptions at town halls across America.

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Newt Gingrich's Health Care Strategy in 1994: "Bipartisanship"

Adam Green | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pccc, Newt Gingrich, Progressive Change Campaign Committee, Mark Warner, Politics News
Adam Green

History repeats itself, and Democrat after Democrat seems intent on playing right into the hands of Gingrich and other reform opponents.

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To Dick Durbin: Before Surrendering the Public Plan, Just Make It Optional

Paul Abrams | Posted 09.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Alaska, Public Plan, Montana, Healthcare Reform, Washington, Medicare, Durbin, Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin, Politics News
Paul Abrams

"The public plan is socialism." Okay, if that's what people in your state believe, disallow it in your state. The wingnuts could even declare victory. Who cares?

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Sam Stein

Gingrich Defends Palin's Obama "Death Panel" Claim

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Palin Gingrich, Palin Death Panels, Obama Death Panels, Newt Gingrich, Obama Health Care, Gingrich Palin, Politics News

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich defended the bizarre claim by former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin that the president's health care plan would result...

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Sam Stein

McConnell: Dem Reaction To Town Halls Shows We're Winning

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Town Halls, Town Hall Protests, Town Halls, Mitch McConnell, Demonize, Newt Gingrich, Mcconnell Health Care, Demonization Health Care, Politics News

Democratic grumbling about disruptive protests at health care town halls is simply an attempt at distraction and and admission of weakness, Senate Min...

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Republicans Work To Sweep The Leg Of Health Care Reform (VIDEO)

Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 09.07.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Karate Kid, Cobra Kai, Ninja, Public Option, Rush Limbaugh, Jim Demint, Karate, Mr Miyagi, Dojo, Single Payer, Michelle Bachman, Ralph-Machio, Daniel, Michelle Bachmann, Cobra, Sweep the Leg, Bill Kristol, Satire, Parody, Health Care Reform, Michael Steele, Political Satire, Newt Gingrich, Body Bag, Health Care, Humor and Satire, Jim DeMint Waterloo, Comedy News
Matthew Filipowicz

There are actual facilities where right wingers can go to practice and hone their yelling and disrupting skills. We have obtained footage from one such facility. Take a look.

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Townhall Mobs -- Brought to You by Big Oil and Dirty Coal

Josh Dorner | Posted 09.07.2009 | Green

Read More: Dick Armey, Dirty Coal, Clean Coal, Freedomworks, Exxon Mobil, Accce, Tea Parties, Coal, Hawthorn Group, Harry Reid, American Solutions for Winning the Future, Sierra Club, Front Groups, Americans for Prosperity, Big Oil, Bonner and Associates, Rachel Maddow, Exxon, Koch Industries, Paul Kurgman, Townhall Mobs, Newt Gingrich, Health Care, Astroturf, Green News
Josh Dorner

There's considerable evidence that these astroturf corporate lobbying operations are also trying to derail clean energy jobs legislation.

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Newt Gingrich: Born in Kenya?

Keith Thomson | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Newt Gingrich, Kenyan Birth Certificate, Kenya, Obama Kenyan Birth Certificate, Birthers, Joseph McCarthy, Politics News
Keith Thomson

There are three reasons to believe this Kenyan birth certificate for Newt Gingrich is real, or, at the very least, smoke indicative of fire.

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Sam Stein

Gingrich: Obama Should Humbly Admit He Blew Gates Reaction

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Skip Gates House Arrest, Obama Gates, Obama Press Conference, New Gingrich Arrest, Newt Gingrich, Skip Gates, Gingrich Obama, Obama Humble, Gates Arrest, Politics News

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich Friday morning ventured into the racial and political debate over the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates...

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Hypocrisy in High Places

Ruth Bettelheim | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Mark Foley, Mark Sanford, Ted Haggard, Rob Livingston, Hypocrisy, Larry Craig, Newt Gingrich, Sexual Misconduct, Henry Hyde, John Ensign, Jimmy Swaggart, Family Values, Chip Pickering, David Vitter, Sexual Infidelity, Politics News
Ruth Bettelheim

When we repress important needs and desires so severely that we are unable to accept them as a part of ourselves, we give up the possibility of a controlled, thoughtful response to them.

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Newt Gingrich: We Need To Kill Health Care Reform

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 08.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Voinovich, Bill Kristol, Newt Gingrich, Voinovich Health Care, Health Care, Kristol Gingrich, Voinovich, Politics News

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich concurs with his 1994 compatriot Bill Kristol: It's time to kill health care reform, again. Asked by Think Progre...

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Republicans and Immigration

The Progress Report | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Immigration, Newt Gingrich, Sonia Sotomayor, Republicans, Judge Sonia Sotomayor, Sen. Lindsey Graham, Pat Buchanan, Pat Buchanan Racism, Mitt Romney, Al Punto, Jeb Bush, Jorge Ramos, Pat Buchanan MSNBC, July 4th Tea Parties, GOP Anti-Immigration, Joe the Plumber Anti-Immigrant, Sarah Palin, Joe the Plumber, Sen. Jeff Sessions, Gop, Senator Jeff Sessions Attacks Sotomayor, Judge Sonia Sotomayor Confirmation Hearings, Politics News
The Progress Report

Republicans are still finding their "way out of the wilderness" when it comes to immigration.

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It's Time to Spay and Neuter the Blue Dogs on Health Care

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Blue Dog, Hmos, Ronald Reagan, Blue Dogs and Health Care Reform, President Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Newt Gingrich, Democratic Party, Democrats, Health Care Bill, Insurance Corporations, Blue Dog Coalition, Tom Delay, Congressional Democrats, Blue Dogs, Health Care, Health Care Reform, Pharmaceutical Corporations, Blue Dog Democrats, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

The Blue Dog coalition loved spending lavishly on the Iraq war only to rediscover the evil of budget deficits as soon as Obama was elected.

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Romney For President, But Palin More Popular: Poll

The Huffington Post | Susan Crile | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Republican Party, Gop, Haley Barbour, Gallup Poll, 2012 Presidential Election, Mike Huckabee, Sarah Palin, Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty, Newt Gingrich, Palin, Republicans, Politics News

Republicans would like to see Mitt Romney run for president again in 2012, a new poll suggests. The Gallup poll, released on Wednesday, asked Republ...

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American Ignorance

Isabel Kaplan | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Citizenship, Immigration Reform, Immigration, Fourth of July, Newt Gingrich, Global Citizens, Politics News
Isabel Kaplan

What does it say about our country if, as I certainly believe might be the case, America's newest citizens know more about American civics and history than many native born Americans?

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Newt Gingrich Starts Twittering In "Ghetto" Spanish

Think Progress | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gingrich, Republican Party, Gop, Twittering, Twitter, Nancy Pelosi, Sotomayor, Sonia Sotomayor, Wise Latina, Spanish, Gingrich Espanol, Bilingual Education, Newt Gingrich, Politics News

Former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich is notorious for his active -- and sometimes controversial -- musings on Twitter. But not only does he h...

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Health Care Reform to Destruction

Stanton Peele | Posted 08.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Health Care Reform, Glenn Beck, Sicko, Newt Gingrich, Sean Hannity, Michael Moore, Universal Healthcare, Living News
Stanton Peele

Americans will always demand the most treatment, at any cost. For them, good health care means someone else -- insurance companies, employers, the government -- will pay for it.

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