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Drone porn' videos of strike deaths may teach us to disconnect from reality of U.S. Attacks Cenk and a special extended Power Panel -- Stephanie Miller, Michael Hastings, Ana Kasparian and Michael Shure -- talk about the hidden truths of drone strikes. Hastings, who is working on a "Rolling Stone" investigation into drones, says, "As a country, are we doing more harm than good when we accidentally wipe out five, 10, 15 people who aren't going to come to our shores and attack us?" But "drone porn" -- videos that show the strikes and their lethal result -- may actually be teaching us to distance ourselves from the deaths, objectifying them almost as porn can do for sex, Hastings argues. "I worry about what that does to us as a nation," Cenk says.
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FDR Memorial: The Four Freedoms (Wikipedia) The Republican Presidential primary has unmasked one astonishingly ugly facet after another in the GOP’s character, leaving the party’s soul stripped bare of any moral pretense and revealing, at its core, an appalling indifference to — even a smug pleasure in — other peoples’ suffering. Consider what has been on display in just three months of debates and campaigning. We’ve watched a party driven by fear and greed, and more important, obsessed with feelings ranging from indifference to anger to hate for the “other.” The “other” objects of their hostility are women, blacks and latinos, the poor and uninsured, students attending college, gays, all government workers especially teachers, scientists, unions, liberals, environmental/health/safety advocates, and most of all, the not-really-true-Christians, especially that half-black unAmerican who presumes to be President of a country he stole from its true freedom-loving Christian stewards.
We continue our interview with ousted Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed and ask him if he plans to seek office again. "I will contest the coming elections," Nasheed says, noting that, "if the coup was so popular, we would have seen people coming out, rejoicing with the military." [includes rush transcript]
Democracy Now
April 3, 2012 Progressives adore her. Conservatives despise her. But it's Massachusetts' fickle independents who'll decide her high-stakes showdown with Scott Brown.
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Celebs in Hoodies From Jamie Foxx to Carmelo Anthony, athletes, musicians, and actors alike are putting their hoodies up to protest the killing of unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, who was wearing a hoodie at the time of his death. See photos.
Anyone who doubts that President Obama has a solid lead, should simply watch This Week this morning. The media desperately wants a close election, don't you think? Well, if you had any doubts ... by RASalvatore 2 Recs Actress Kirstie Alley is hosting a Twitter job Fair on her account. If you have a job opening post it there.
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Maureen Dowd Columnist Page - The New York Times
Maureen Dowd , winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary, became a New York Times Op-Ed columnist in 1995 after having served as a correspondent in the paper's Washington bureau since 1986. She has covered four presidential campaigns and served as White House correspondent. She also wrote a column, "On Washington," for The New York Times Magazine.
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Despite years of evidence that feeding antibiotics to farm animals can be dangerous to human health, the FDA has taken few steps to regulate the drugs. Last month, a federal judge ordered them to finally take some action. Here we trace the history.ThinkProgress
After almost a year and half in the majority “ House Republicans are still struggling to show they are able to get something done ,” as the GOP has few if any real accomplishments under their belt, NBC News notes . From fights over the debt limit to funding the FAA, House Republicans have made a lot of noise but little legislative progress, and Congress will be mostly focused on the election from now on. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) is releasing his much-anticipated budget today, but even fellow Republicans are slow to embrace the plan . Tea Party groups and hardline conservative representatives are balking at Ryan’s proposed spending ceiling. Without near-unified support from his own party, the budget may not even make it out of Ryan’s House Budget Committee.
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Search Options Rush Limbaugh Is Bad For Business Limbaugh Also Says President Obama "Put A Bounty Out On The Supreme Court, Figuratively Speaking" ...video The 2012 elections are not just a challenge for incumbent President Obama, but for a number of freshmen Congressmen swept into the House of Representatives by the Tea Party movement in 2010. On Fox News today, anchor Uma Pemmaraju hosted a panel featuring Tea Party Express leader Amy Kremer and Tea Party Rep. Mick Mulvaney in which they debate whether the campaign rhetoric matched the voting records of the Tea Party Republicans.
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