Crooks and Liars
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Labor News and Notes Round-Up
The latest stories from the front lines of the labor fight across the country... There is widespread sexual abuse of women farmworkers U.S. House Oversight Committee members are asking Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker if he wants to recant h...
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Tony Blair Branded 'War Criminal' in Court; Pelted With Eggs While Leaving
Click here to view this media In a different country this would be the well deserved fate of George Bush, to be hounded by protesters for his warmongering in Iraq and his complete sellout to corporate interests, in this case JP Morgan bu...
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Romney Uses Memorial Day Event to Peddle “Hollow Military” Myth
On Monday, President Obama commemorated Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery, declaring “Today we come together as Americans to pray, to reflect and to remember these heroes.” But across the country in San Diego, his GOP rival M...
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IBEW Workers Wiring in A War Zone
Dozens of electrical workers and members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers are providing essential services in the war zone in Afghanistan and Americans know very little about the conditions they live and work in. ...
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Labor Unions and Progressive Groups Launch 'Americans for Tax Fairness'
At a time when politicians in both parties send signals that they favor extending the George W. Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy, more than 30 progressive groups have launched 'Americans for Tax Fairness', a group dedicated to ending ...
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Florida DEP Expert Suspended After Refusing To Approve Controversial Project
Wetlands are a vital part of the ecosystem, and there are all sorts of shenanigans that go on with the state mitigation programs - Florida being infamous for all kinds of backchannel practices: Florida's top state wetlands expert has b...
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One Week From Today: Super Tuesday... For Progressives
enlarge Next Tuesday, June 5th, is primary day in several states, including three where we have critical contests pitting progressive, dynamic leaders against, at best, garden variety Democrats. In California, two races stand out above a...
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Adviser Brags Romney Told Joke About Firing Hotel Maid
Click here to view this media A senior adviser to presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said refcently that an old joke about firing a hotel chambermaid proved that the candidate wasn't as stiff as he seems. At a Wash...
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Ethically-Challenged NLRB Member Terence Flynn Resigns
Conservatives howled loudly when Terence Flynn was appointed to the NLRB, falsely criticizing recess appointments, but are saying nothing about his ethical lapses, since they might've helped Mitt Romney. National Labor Relations Member...
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Meghan McCain On Receiving End of Right-Wing Misogyny
I disagree with Meghan McCain on many things, but I respect the way she stands up to the insanity within the party she belongs to. Last week she made an appearance on Al Sharpton's show to discuss the discont...
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Chris Hayes: I Am Deeply Sorry
We're not really allowed to have an adult conversion about war because political adversaries are so eager to use our words to polarize and attack -- which is what happened to Chris Hayes yesterday when he dis...
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Coming Soon: The Bipartisan Compromise That Will Erode Our Safety Net
What a long, strange trip it's been. Despite a decade of attempts by Pete Peterson and his accomplices to "re-educate" us about the necessity of slashing our social safety net, the public has politely refused to take the bait. So every...
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Mike's Blog Round Up
It's fun watching John McCain work as a surrogate for Mitt Romney. McCain must hate himself for it, but he'll talk up the Willard candidacy. It's not like he's a maverick or anything, Sandii Behrns: Alan Simpson is not a good person. Mug...
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Open Thread
The film Fray recently won the "Best Narrative Feature" award at the 21st Annual Arizona International Film Festival and will be showing at the Brooklyn Film Festival on June 2nd and 5th, and the Dances With Films festival in Hollywood,...
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C&L's Late Night Music Club With Ennio Morricone
Title: Death Of A SoldierArtist: Ennio MorriconeHere's to those who have sacrificed.
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Sunday Talkers Repeat Romney's Line About Obama Not Understanding How the Economy Works
Click here to view this media Whether it was NBC's Meet the Press, ABC's This Week, CNN's State of the Union, CBS's Face the Nation or Fox News Sunday, no matter which of the Sunday bobble head shows you might have been watching this wee...
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Texas Honor Student Gets Jail Time for Truancy
Click here to view this media Things that make you go "WTF?". An honors student in Montgomery County gets jail time for truancy. Seems the overzealous judge wanted to make an example of her. via WHOU-11 in Houston. HOUSTON—A judge threw ...
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Greg Palast: BP Covered Up 2008 Caspian Sea Deepwater Blowout and Already Knew Cap Wouldn't Work
Days after the Deepwater Horizon blow-out, a message came in to our offices in New York from an industry insider floating on a ship in the Caspian Sea. He stated there had been a blow-out, just like the one in the Gulf, and BP had cove...
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Mitt Romney Doesn't ♥ Massachusetts
There's an old saying that "you can't go home again." Especially if you're Mitt Romney and home is Massachusetts. After all, Governor Romney ended his tenure with a dismal 34 percent approval rating and now trails President Obama by a...
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Memorial Day Open Thread
Via Boing Boing: Isaac wanted to propose to his girlfriend, so he enlisted over 60 friends to stage a Busby Berkeley street-show lip-dub extravaganza ambush. What follows is five minutes of heart-stoppingly sweet and romantic wedding pr...
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Gillespie Defends Romney Only Doing Fox News: He Spoke 'to Schoolchildren Last Week'
Click here to view this media Ed Gillespie, a senior adviser to presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, on Sunday fended off accusations that his boss had only made Sunday morning appearances on Fox News. "Do you think...
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What This Election Is Really About
enlargeIn Ohio, students who register to vote as Democrats are seeing their voter registrations routinely challenged by right wing groups for bogus reasons. This is intentional. When a voter registration is challenged, the county registr...
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New Bill Would Allow States To Build Own Single-Payer Systems. Will GOP Support It?
It is highly unlikely, I think, that the Republicans will back this bill - but wouldn't it be great if they did? I'll keep an eye out for flying pigs: Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA) will soon introduce legislation that would allow states to...
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Liz Claman of Fox Business: Criticizing Romney's Record at Bain Capital is Like Birtherism
Click here to view this media Liz Claman hosts a show on the Fox Business Network, the Murdoch outfit that exists solely to carry the water for the MOTUs on Wall Street. And on "This Week" Sunday morning, she did just that -- suggesting ...
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Mike's Blog Round Up
Fact: If elected, Mitt Romney will force 99.9 percent of Americans to work in the mayonnaise mines of Salt Lake City, all the while forcing them to watch an endless loop of "Dorf on Golf" videos. Ok, that's not an actual fact. But now it...
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Open Thread
Charles Barkley, providing color commentary for a Celtics game, doesn't sugarcoat his opinion of Mitt Romney and a costumed Celtics fan. Open thread below.
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C&L's Late Night Music Club With Lynyrd Skynyrd
Title: Am I Losin'Artist: Lynyrd SkynyrdWhat's your favorite song about friends?
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Got Talking Points?
Carly Fiorina on the Meet the Press panel: I find the attack surprising from many perspectives. First of all, capitalism has lifted more people out of poverty than any other economic system in the history o...
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Howie Kurtz Rehabs Roger Ailes, Overlooks Ailes' Outright Lies
In case you missed it, this week Roger Ailes claimed Fox News employs 24 liberal contributors and 1 conservative contributor to two separate college audiences. As Media Matters points out, this just doesn't w...
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Anti-Contraception Cardinal Refuses to Say Romney Is a Christian
Click here to view this media A Catholic cardinal who is supporting a lawsuit against the Obama administration's mandate that all health insurance cover female contraceptives refused on Sunday to say whether presumptive Republican presid...
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This Week: In Memoriam
Click here to view this media (h/t David at VideoCafe) This Week with George Stephanopoulos notes the deaths of nine service members in Afghanistan this week: US Army Sgt Michael J Knapp, 28, Overland, KS US Marines Sgt Jabraun S Knox, ...
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Even George Will Thinks Donald Trump Is A 'Bloviating Ignoramus'
video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player So even George Will, who has never seen a Republican he couldn't somewhat support, wonders why Mittens is being seen in public with circus clown Donald "Gee My Hair Looks Terrifi...
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Gingrich: 'Highly Implausible' He'd Be Selected as Romney's Choice for Vice President
Click here to view this media I'm not sure what David Gregory has been smoking that he felt the need to ask former Speaker of the House and presidential candidate Newt Gingrich if he a: had any advice for Gov. Martin O'Malley should he r...
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The Origins of Memorial Day
Chris Hayes opens his Sunday show with the origins of Memorial Day. Funnily enough, this is the first time I've heard the freed slaves aspect of its inception. The history I've always been told revolved aro...
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McCain on Romney's Bain Record: 'Free Enterprise System Can Be Cruel'
Click here to view this media Former Republican presidential nominee John McCain on Sunday walked back on his 2008 attacks on current GOP hopeful Mitt Romney for his record of killing jobs as the head of Bain Capital. During a 2008 camp...
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JPMorgan's Risk Committee Members Had No Experience in Banking Or Financial Risk Management. Who Could Have Predicted Problems?
You really have to wonder why a huge company like JPMorgan would want people like this sitting on their risk committee: The three directors who oversee risk at JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) include a museum head who sat on American Int...
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John Stossel Runs Hour Long Program Attacking the Poor and Our Social Safety Nets
Click here to view this media As Media Matters reported, Fox's John Stossell went on Fox & Friends to discuss his special Rich Man, Poor Man which aired on both of their networks, and made some dubious claims about what's happened to...
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During Debate, Scott Walker Says He'll 'Continue To Have High Integrity.' Oh, Is That What You Call Lying?
The race has tightened up and Barrett's within striking distance, so hopefully this recall election will pull it off and kick Walker out: MADISON — Democratic Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, down in the polls to Gov. Scott Walker, aggress...
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Demonizing Teachers' Unions
If there is any particular Republican framing that grinds my teeth to see the left adopt--other than the term "entitlements" to refer to Medicare and Social Security--it is the pointing the finger at teachers...
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Rove: Blaming Bush for Current Economic Woes is Not a Good Message for Obama to Run On
Click here to view this media After bringing in former Bush adviser Karl Rove for some free air time on his Super PAC, Crossroads GPS and their latest attack ad on President Obama for not cleaning up his former boss' mess quickly enough,...
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Mike's Blog Round Up
Alright, that's it for me this week. It's been a pleasure, as always. See you soon. (And to you Americans out there, which is most of you, have a pleasant Memorial Day tomorrow.) I invite you to check out our comprehensive election cove...
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Sunday Morning Bobblehead Thread
Randy Newman - It's Money That I Love Wouldn't it be refreshing to have Newt Gingrich--currently on his reputation repair tour, enabled by Dancin' Dave Gregory--just be honest about his ill-fated campaign? Or frankly, any of these polit...
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Open Thread: C&L's Saturday Night Podcast Round Up
enlarge Happy Saturday night, folks! It's Blue Gal from The Professional Left Podcast, bringing you this week's podcast round up. Be aware that these podcasts are also available on i-Tunes, and may not be safe for work. Citizen Actio...
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C&L's Late Night Music Club With The Who
Title: Armenia City In The Sky Artist: The WhoHappy long weekend Saturday. How many songs can you come up with about the sky? And our sister site Newstalgia has music from 1965, The Steampacket, with some musicians you might have heard o...
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Bill Maher Takes a Shot at the Birthers With Parody on Romney's 'Wiferism' Scandal
Click here to view this media Bill Maher did his best with this parody on Mitt Romney's Mormon church and their history of polygamy to take a shot at the crazy Republican birthers who were still out there this week pretending they are no...
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Top CEO Pay Equals 3489 Years for Typical Worker
Ever have one of those days when you wonder why you even bother trying? Via: David Simon of Simon Property received a pay package worth more than $137 million for last year, and the typical CEO took home $9.6 million, according to an an...
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For Each Death, A Hole In The World
enlargeI found this picture online, but no information about it. It's one of the most powerful pictures I've seen. This is something I wrote for Memorial Day 2005 and I run it every year: Soldiers are not chunks of identical clay; each o...
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TEPCO: You Know That Initial Radiation Estimate? Multiply It By 2.5
It's deeply disturbing to see that Fukushima's plant operators never bothered to prepare for the worst-scenario, and that their backup plans were so inadequate. And now we learn that the people exposed to this radiation are guinea pigs, ...
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Mid-Day Open Thread
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Obama Presided Over a Tax Revenue Drought, Not a Spending Binge
enlargeCredit: Marketwatch This week, Rex Nutting of the MarketWatch caused a stir with his analysis correctly showing that federal spending has hardly budged under President Obama, rising at the slowest pace since the Dwight Eisenhower ...
