How the healthcare industry discredited universal care
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Bachmann’s back: “We’re running out of rich people in this country.”
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Oh my. On stump, McCain addresses “my fellow prisoners”
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by Paul Schmelzer • 10/8/08 • At a rally today, John McCain addressed “my fellow prisoners.” I mean, it’s kinda true, but could that really be what he meant?
D’oh: Homer tries to vote for Obama
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by Paul Schmelzer • 10/2/08 • In its annual Halloween episode—this year falling just two days before the presidential election—The Simpsons will feature a segment where Homer heads into a “double-wide” voting booth in an attempt to cast his vote for Barack Obama. But the electronic voting booth ends up tallying not one, but six votes for John McCain. As a door in the machine opens to start sucking Homer into what looks like a paper shredder, he screams: “This doesn’t happen in America! Maybe Ohio—but not in America!”
A historic first: Army Combat Team assigned to domestic “civil unrest”
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by Paul Schmelzer, 9/24/08 • Starting in October, the US Army will station active-duty troops inside the US for the first time, Democracy Now reports. Here’s what the 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team may be up to:
After being blasted by pepper spray, RNC protester not angry at Minneapolis cops
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by Paul Schmelzer, September 15, 2008 • One of the more disturbing clips, of way too many, from the Republican National Convention, is this one showing Leah Lane being repeatedly blasted with pepperspray by Minneapolis police officers who knock her down with their bikes. Continue Reading