Recent Votes

• James O'Keefe's latest video debunked as fraud

  Source: Raw Story

  Conservative provocateur James O’Keefe and his handlers promised to “expose massive voter fraud” in his new video project, but according to Think Progress, the one-time right wing media sensation’s latest blockbuster scoop is more of a bust.  The vi …

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• Conservative nanny state: GOP billionaire has millions to smear Obama, yet demands over a hundred million in state handouts for his baseball stadium

  Source: Think Progress

  Ricketts moved quickly to publicly reject the plan after it leaked. His spokesman said it “reflects an approach to politics that Mr. Ricketts rejects and it was never a plan to be accepted but only a suggestion.” (The statement seems somewhat disingenuous as the Ric …

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• Top Right-Wing Group: Minority Births Are 'Not A Good Thing' Because They 'Don't Share American Values'

  Source: Think Progress

  Yesterday, the New York Times reported on new census data which showed, for the first time, that non-white births made up over 50 percent of all births in the United States last year.... if you’re the conservative, Phyllis Schlafly-backed Eagle Forum, it’s a cl …

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• Arizona's Republican Secretary of State says he may keep President Obama off the November ballot because he's not convinced Obama is an American

  Source: Talking Points Memo

  The man in charge of running Arizona’s elections has gone to the birthers. Secretary of State Ken Bennett now says he’s not convinced Barack Obama was really born in the United States and so he is threatening to keep the president off the ballot in November. Bennett& …

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• Pennsylvania Doctors Worry Over Frigging Fecking Fracking Gag Rule on Toxic Chemicals Used in Fracking

  Source: NPR

  Fracking exposes citizens to a wild mix of highly toxic chemicals and carcinogens. So when patients show up at their doctors' offices, the doctors need to figure out which chemicals are the likely culprits. The doctors of sick patients can, with great effort, access the names of …

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