Fox Host Rails Against GOPers Calling Ebola Czar A Political 'Hack'

"I have a message for Republicans who continue to attack Ron Klain: Shut up and save it for issues that matter," Cavuto said. "Okay, so the president's Ebola coordinator doesn't have any medical experience. Neither do a lot of you guys, but that hasn’t stopped you from pontificating as if you were Marcus Welby just the same."... Read more

How A Notorious Conservative Group Tricked A Scholar Into Joining Their Attack On Latino Voters

Citizens United is back, and they are spreading conspiracy theories about Latinos.The post How A Notorious Conservative Group ...  Read more

Fed Official To Big Banks: Change Company Culture Or Risk Being Broken Up

Unless bankers change the internal culture that rewards executives and employees for financial misdeeds, a top banking ...  Read more

‘It Will Never Be The Same’: North Dakota’s 840,000-Gallon Oil Spill One Year Later

One year ago, when more than 20,000 barrels (840,000 gallons) of crude oil spilled from a pipeline and soaked a wheat field in Tioga, North Dakota, the public almost never knew about it. After the spill was discovered by a lone farmer, it was not reported for nearly two weeks, and only after reporters from the The Associated Press asked about it specifically... The AP conducted an investigation after the spill, and found that nearly 300 oil spills and 750 “oil field incidents” had occurred in North Dakota since January 2012 — none of which were reported to the public. ...  Read more

Texas’ Top Toxicologist: EPA’s New Smog Regulations Unnecessary, Just Stay Indoors

“Since most people spend more than 90 percent of their time indoors, we are rarely exposed to significant levels of ozone.” He adds that those who are “near death” and thus more vulnerable to ozone spend even more time inside. ...  Read more

Tesla blocked from selling in Michigan

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder has signed a bill which Tesla Motors says will prohibit it from selling cars in the state that's home to the U.S. auto industry.
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Virtually All Americans’ Wealth Has Dropped To Where It Was Three Decades Ago

At the same time, the share of wealth owned by the 1 percent has tripled since the 1980s.The post Virtually All ...  Read more

Congressional Candidate Calls Same-Sex Couples Gremlins, Destructive Creatures In Bizarre Video

"...Same-sex couples that seek to destroy our way of life and the institution of marriage are NOT cute and cuddly but rather (for those of you that are old enough to remember the movie), Gremlins that will only destroy our way of life.” ...  Read more

Proof That Comprehensive Sex Ed Classes Actually Help Kids Put Off Having Sex

A new study finds that a curriculum emphasizing healthy relationships helps middle school kids wait until they're older to ...  Read more

Everyone In America Would Be Better Off If We Soaked The Rich

 A 90 percent tax rate on the richest Americans would reduce inequality, raise revenues, and improve everyone's welfare.The post ...  Read more

Fox News Admits GOP Is Trying To Increase Obamacare Premiums, Then Tries To Cover It Up

Fox News admitted on Tuesday that a conservative-led lawsuit against the Affordable Care Act would raise health care premiums for millions of Americans. But then in its on-screen chyron, the network sought to attribute the increases not to the litigants involved in the case, but to President Obama, potentially confusing viewers.
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We don't need Vatican affirmation, says gay Catholic congregation

"I think what we should do is to stop calling the American bishops 'bishops,' and start calling them homophobes," said the Rev. Joe Akus, a priest who ministers to a congregation called Dignity, a network of LGBTQ Catholics with dozens of branches and thousands of members across the country. 

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/we-dont-need-vatican-affirmation-say-gay-catholic-priests/

Fed official: Big banks should clean up their acts

The Fed official overseeing Wall Street says things need to change, and if the industry's risky culture isn't turned around, it may be time to break up the big banks.

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Bishops Actually Aren't So Open to Gays and Divorced Members

As a Vatican assembly on the family came to a close on Saturday, bishops ditched a document believed to signal a major shift in how the church views g...  Read more

"Vote Republican - IF..." by Old Fart Rants

"Vote Republican if you want another economic meltdown even bigger and more devastating than their last one. Vote Republican if you want full blown wars based on lies. Vote Republican if you never want to see the immigration issue fixed. Vote Republican if you want 50% of America not to have health insurance, and those that do barely being able to afford it. They have no plan for health care and never will, they have proven it with 50 votes to repeal Obamacare and no plan to back it up! Vote Republican if you want racial tensions to get out of control and see more bloody mass shootings. Vote republican if you want your taxes go up and the filthy rich's taxes go down. 

Vote Republican if you want the government to be shut down, again and again, whenever they don't get their way about something. Vote Republican if you want to get stuck with the bill after the wars they make billions off of. Vote Republican if you want them to block any and all bills to help the veterans when they come home. Vote Republican if you want your right to vote taken away. Vote Republican if you want to see women put in their place, and treated like breeding stock who are too stupid to make their own decisions. Vote Republican if you want every person to be armed and ready to kill you, and get away with it by saying you scared them. 

Vote Republican if you want Wall Street to handle your Social Security money which you paid in! Vote Republican if you want banks and credit card companies to keep ripping you off. Vote Republican if you want Medicare to be run by private for profit systems whose only concern is their bottom line, not your health! Vote Republican if you want students to be strapped with so much debt after they graduate they'll never pay it off, especially since they won’t be able to find a job! Vote Republican if you want women to die in back alleys and from self-induced abortions. 

Vote Republican if you want your boss to tell you what kind of healthcare you can have, and what you can do in your bedroom. Vote Republican if you want your children to be taught fairy tales in school instead of reality. Vote Republican if you want to see the environment destroyed by people who think a book full of nonsense gives them the right to. Vote Republican if you want to watch, and pay for, sham hearings about Benghazi for 2 more years! The mid-term elections are just a couple of weeks away - if you want all these things to happen in America, then vote Republican. If not, you know what you need to do. This might be the last chance to stop the cancer the GOP has become from destroying our country."
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Early morning at Lake Hintersee. Bavaria, Germany [1200x645] Photo by Armin Barth

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Do The Math, Rush!

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College Students Fight Catholic School’s ‘Unfair And Unjust’ Ban On Birth Control

Fordham University students are handing out condoms on campus, saying their administration's approach to contraception is ...  Read more

Earth Just Had Its Hottest September On Record

"If 2014 maintains this temperature departure from average for the remainder of the year, it will be the warmest calendar year ...  Read more

Politicians Who Say ‘I’m Not A Scientist’ On Climate Offer Their Advice On Ebola

On Saturday, political blogger Lee Papa made an interesting observation about Republicans who widely recommend panicking about Ebola. “Does any Republican talking about Ebola say, “I’m not a scientist” like they do with climate change?” he tweeted, referencing the long list of political figures who claim to not know the science behind climate change, even though they actively oppose any policy to fight it.
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