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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Radiation Levels at Fukushima Have Reached Their Highest Point Yet
In today's On the News segment: The Supreme Court has finished hearing arguments about the constitutionality of Obamacare, new study finds only 56 percent of students who enter American …
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District Court Permanently Blocks Oklahoma Ultrasound Law, Expect A Supreme Court Battle
The 10th Circuit Federal Court has just issued a permanent injunction on a 2010 Oklahoma law that would require all women terminating their pregnancies to first undergo a mandatory …
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Few Minds Are Changed by Arguments in Court
Ronald Henderson, a financial planner who supports President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act, watches news coverage on the Supreme Court's morning arguments about the health care law on a …
Creating the Muslim Manchurian Candidate: The Right Wing’s Election-Year Islamophobia
Those who fervently believe that Barack Obama is a Muslim generally practice their furtive religion in obscure recesses of the Internet. Once in a while, they’ll surface in public …
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The Moderate Republican Fades Into History
Rick Santorum came out to greet his supporters around PM as the results came in for a for the former Pennsylvania senator, in what was for most of the …
War With Iran? Sen. Rand Paul Calls the Question
Before we have a war with Iran, shouldn't the Senate and the House have at least one debate and vote on it? Isn't that what the Constitution demands? Isn't …
Industry Whistleblower Wendell Potter: However Court Rules on Healthcare, Solution is Single Payer
As the Supreme Court examines whether Americans can be penalized if they lack medical coverage, we're joined by health industry whistleblower, Wendell Potter. A former spokesperson for CIGNA and …
Lawsuit Seeks Halt to TSA’s Use of Full-Body Scanners at Airports amid Safety Concerns
s Congress asks if full-body scanners are “Effective Security or Security Theater?” we examine safety concerns at the heart of a lawsuit that seeks a freeze on the use …
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The Supreme Court’s Five Hypocrites
The Supreme Court is so full of it. The entire institution, as well as its sanctimonious judges themselves, reeks of a time-honored hypocrisy steeped in the arrogance that justice …
UPDATED: Why the Huffington Post Needs to Immediately Retract Mark Benjamin’s Afghanistan Massacre Report
A March 25 article by Mark Benjamin at The Huffington Post seriously misled readers about a link between the controversial antimalarial drug mefloquine and the mass murder in Afghanistan …