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Timely Spoof Mocks Oil Drilling Front Group’s New Ads
“Energy Citizens,” a front group backed by the American Petroleum Institute (API), has launched a new national ad campaign in advance of the 2012 elections to try and make it sound like substantial …
Nuclear Regulator Adds Heat to 2012 Congressional Race
Congratulations go out this first week of the new year to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for giving Democrats in Ohio’s 9th congressional district a reason to come out and …
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Fifteen Things Old Boys Like Rick Santorum Don’t Want You to Know About Your Body and Your Contraception
Last month, the Associated Press distributed an article titled: Birth control: Lots of choices, but confusion is widespread. Good news: Even if you feel hazy or muddled right now, you likely …
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The Real “Winner” in Iowa: New “Super” Front Groups That Are Super Corrupting Our Democracy Thanks to “Citizens United“
“Citizens United” Case Wreaks Havoc
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Rancor Between Gingrich and Romney Spills Over in Debate
Manchester, New Hampshire - Tensions between Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney finally spilled onto the debate stage Sunday morning when moderator David Gregory gave Gingrich the opportunity to call …
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Ten Years of Guantanamo: What Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld Knew
The Bush administration deceived the American people about the certain danger posed by Guantanamo Bay detainees – the “worst of the worst” as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld called them …
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Report: 24 States Enacted 92 Abortion Restrictions in 2011
Lawmakers across the nation pursued a record number of reproductive health and rights-related provisions in 2011, a new report from the Guttmacher Institute finds, enacting 135 measures in 36 …
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As “Right to Work” Law Looms, Indiana Occupiers Join With Limestone Strikers
An unexpected alliance is blooming seven weeks into a hard winter strike by 50 Millworkers at the Indiana Limestone Company: The participants of Occupy Bloomington in that nearby college …
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New Hampshire’s New Scopes Trial
New Hampshire took an early lead this year in the effort to dumb down school students and erode the separation of church and state in the education system by …
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Dispatch from Detention: A Rare Look Inside Our “Humane” Immigration Jails
(Photo: Eric Thayer / The New York Times) Sam Kitching, a soft-spoken, round old man dressed in civilian clothes who works for the Sheriff’s department at the …