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08/17/2016

Mock the dummy is back!!!

Donald Trump Dummy captures the Tea Party ...

01/06/2016

For decades -- that is, for the entire modern political era -- anyone with a dash or two of sense could usually make a reasonable guess about who would win the Republican presidential nomination. It wasn't tough to pick the winner. The conventional choice -- the expected choice -- tended to triumph.

01/06/2016

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress on Wednesday approved legislation dismantling President Barack Obama's signature health care plan, putting on his desk an election-year measure that faces a certain veto.

01/06/2016

* Trita Parsi has a fascinating take on the rising tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran. History teaches us that it is not rising states that tend to be reckless,...

01/06/2016

TransCanada is striking back.

The post TransCanada Announces It Will Sue U.S. Over Keystone XL Denial appeared first on ThinkProgress.

01/06/2016

A Texas grand jury declined to bring charges against any of the jail staff for Bland's death last month.

The post BREAKING: Officer Who Arrested Sandra Bland Charged For Lying In His Police Report appeared first on ThinkProgress.

01/06/2016

It's even worth listening to Rush Limbaugh's grating, pompous voice to hear this caller tell him he's full of lies on guns and gun safety.

Limbaugh was bloviating about how the Affordable Care Act means doctors can "rat out" their patients, a claim the right wing has been making since President…

01/06/2016

On January 9, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan will host a presidential candidate forum in Columbia, South Carolina focused on poverty. As media outlets prepare to cover the event, will they remember that despite Ryan's gentler language, he has a history of promoting budget and fiscal policies that…

01/06/2016

Discredited Republican lawyer Joseph diGenova is baselessly claiming that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and her staff will face criminal prosecution by the FBI over her use of private email as secretary of state, despite numerous media reports explaining that Clinton is not the…

01/06/2016

The Fed is going to keep repeating the same nonsense they've been saying for the last eight years, that everything is getting better and that prosperity is just around the corner. What a laugh. Meanwhile, the financial system continues to edge closer to its inevitable day of reckoning thanks in…

01/06/2016

Oklahoma City Council member David Greenwell said this week that he opposed housing protections for LGBT people because a Christian couple could be forced to rent their garage apartment to gay men. On Tuesday, the council debated adding sexual orientation and gender identity to an ordinance that...

01/06/2016

Before the NRA was convinced Obummer was going to take away everyone's guns and ammo and put them in FEMA camps, then NRA Vice President Wayne LaPierre testified before Congress about the importance of universal background checks.

He even called them "reasonable."

"Let's talk about what's…