February 2012
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WatchThe Purpose of Education
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Robert Reich: The Republican Myth of Obama's... →
robertreich:
One of the few things Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich agree on is that President Obama is turning America into “European-style welfare culture.”
In his standard stump speech Romney charges Obama with creating a nation of dependents. “Over the past three years Barack Obama has been replacing our…
January 2012
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Salman Rushdie: Christopher Hitchens (Vanity Fair,... →
salmanrushdie1:
On June 8th, 2010, I was “in conversation” with Christopher Hitchens at the 92nd Street Y in New York in front of his customary sellout audience, to launch his memoir, Hitch-22. Christopher turned in a bravura performance that night, never sharper, never funnier, and afterwards at a small,…
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December 2011
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November 2011
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October 2011
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It’s on: Republicans slam Elizabeth Warren for... →
It’s on: Republicans slam Elizabeth Warren for embracing Occupy Wall Street
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What You Don't Know Can Kill You →
September 2011
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August 2011
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WatchBeat Gets Louder
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TFDI cover of Conor Oberst’s Lover I...
Tomgram: Barbara Ehrenreich, On Americans (Not)... →
downlikehoney:
trouble, elliott smith covering...
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A timeline of events →
norcross:
Facts are…well…facts.
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alinasmith:
1980: Ronald Reagan runs for president, promising a balanced budget
1981 - 1989: With support from congressional Republicans, Reagan runs enormous deficits, adds $2 trillion to the debt.
1993: Bill Clinton passes economic plan that lowers deficit, gets zero votes from congressional Republicans.
1998: U.S. deficit disappears...
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July 2011
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Advice of the decade from Captain Awkward
Great advice for dealing with racist - or otherwise ists or toxic people. From Captain Awkward
It’s never going to be easy, and it’s never going to be comfortable, but if you stick up for yourself and she makes the choice to bail on the relationship then it was out of your hands, anyway – the right to say ignorant and racist crap was more important to her than her relationship with you...
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June 2011
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Robert Reich: The Stalled Recovery, Smoke and... →
robertreich:
The Dow ended the week below 12,000 for the first time since March. This is the sixth straight week of downs for the Dow. It’s almost as bad over at the Nasdaq. All the gains racked up in 2011 have now been erased.
What’s going on?
The real economy is catching up with the financial economy, as…
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May 2011
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bruinsofaces:
Beach Boys - Kokomo
I effin love...
The Angry Black Tumblr: Dear women that don't like... →
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azyrian:
shut the fuck up and enjoy it.
Just because it’s not a prettily-worded, fancy-pants compliment from some hoity-toity asshole doesn’t mean they don’t think you look good.
So take that rod out of that bodacious ass of yours and love…
E-mails Show Drug Company Used Third-Party Medical...
by Marian Wang ProPublica, May 25, 2011, 2:30 p.m.May 24, 2011
Brand-name drug manufacturers have long used controversial tactics [1] to keep their generic competitors off the market, but a new report by the Senate Finance Committee sheds light on how one firm leveraged hidden financial ties with reputable medical groups to undermine its...
April 2011
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