Author Archives: Jim Vogas

About Jim Vogas

Texas A&M Aggie, Retired aerospace engineer, former union member, Vietnam vet, Demcratic Party organizer, husband and father.

Tracking the Growth of American Authoritarianism

“Can There Really Be Fascist People In A Democracy?”
Libertarians are stealthily taking over America.

Since the 1971 Powell Memo, America has moved closer and closer to Fascism.

 

Bad Deeds for 6-2-2011

  Republican Governor Who Tells People to Sacrifice Took $2,500 Helicopter Ride to Son’s Baseball Game – New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s image as a cost-cutter may have started cracking the moment he boarded a state police helicopter to get … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds Special: Texas Republicans Have Decided They Need to Do More Damage to Our Schools

  Texas Republicans Have Decided They Need to Do More Damage to Our Schools – The Texas Legislature convened Tuesday for a Special Session to try and pass the enforcement tools necessary to cut public education funding by $4 billion, … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 6-1-2011

  Republicans Hold America’s Financial Health and Credit Rating Hostage – In yet another act of political terrorism, the latest Republican plot is to hold our nation’s honor and good credit hostage until Democrats join the Republican assault on Medicare. … Continue reading

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Bad Deed for 5-29-2011: Texas Republicans Pass Budget That Hurts School Children and the Sick

  Not one cent of rainy day fund used despite critical situation for schools. – By a vote of 20 to 11 in the Senate and 97 to 53 in the House on Saturday evening, the Texas 82nd Regular Legislature … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 5-26-2011

Texas Republicans Want to Protect Big Insurance Companies and TWIA, But Not People – The Texas Legislature is considering passing two House bills that would give big insurance companies immunity for deceptive practices against you as a policyholder, are Rep. … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 5-22-2011

  Saturday Sneak Attack Would Hand Neighborhood Schools Over to Private Operators – State Rep. Mike Villarreal, Democrat of San Antonio, made a shockingly bad surprise amendment on Saturday afternoon to SB 738, a bill he’s sponsoring in the House … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 5-19-2011

  We Could Have Had Jobs for Every American, But Republicans Chose Gifts to the Rich – In December, Republicans demanded – and won – an extension of Republican tax cuts for the rich, costing $858 billion over two years. … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds of the Koch Brothers

The following is condensed from a ten-page, detailed article on the Koch (pronounced Coke) brothers, which appeared in the New Yorker magazine. It shows how much of the senseless noise we hear today is quietly funded and controlled by two … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds of Fox “News”

  FOX News broadcasts rightwing extremist slander, incitement to violence, political propaganda, and outright lies – to promote its rightwing political agenda. Here are some examples: 1. Slander – FOX ran at least 52 segments falsely accusing President Obama of … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 5-16-2011

  Big Oil Makes an Investment in Congress and It Pays Off – The CEOs from the five major oil companies — which together booked $36 billion in profits in the first quarter of 2011 alone — went to the … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 5-12-2011

  Boehner’s Policies Are “Anti-Life” According to Catholic Professors – But Mr. Boehner is coming in for a dose of harsh criticism for his policies that violate basic teachings of the Catholic church. More than 75 professors at Catholic University … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 5-10-2011

  The Republican Plan to Mess With Texas Teachers THE PLAN: Craft a budget that would lead to the layoffs of thousands of teachers and school employees. Cram more kids into classrooms by permanently getting rid of the 22:1 class-size … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 5-9-2011

  Hostage Situation: John Boehner Threatens to Severely Harm America Unless We Go on an Unhealthy Extended Starvation Diet – In a speech speech Monday night to the New York Economic Club, House Speaker John Boehner said that any legislation … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 5-1-2011

  Texas Schools Shortchanged in Proposed State Budget – The Texas Senate is heading toward a showdown on the state’s budget for 2012-2013. This budget proposal would impose harsh cuts on public education, health care, and other essential state services … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 4-25-2011

  U.S. Income Inequality at Record Levels – Income inequality in the United States during the past decade has spiked to levels not seen since the Roaring ’20s that led to the Great Depression. The increase of income inequality leading … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 4-23-2011

  Republican “Medicare” Plan Will Cost an Additional $100,000 for Every Man, Woman, and Child in the Country – The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that under the Republican Budget plan authored by Rep. Paul Ryan, the increase in the … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 4-8-2011

  Republican Cuts to Community Health Centers Will Increase Federal Deficit by $15 Billion – The federal government could save $15 billion by reducing unnecessary emergency room visits through investment in community health centers. This week, new research, from the … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 4-4-2011, Volume 2

  Top 25 Hedge Fund Managers Make Almost $1 Billion Each – And Pay Less Taxes Than You Do – Ten years ago, when the hedge fund industry was much smaller than it is today, it took 25 hedge fund … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 4-4-2011

  Texas State Board of Education ‘Manipulated’ and ‘Politicized’ Texas Curriculum Standards According to Conservative Group – The conservative Thomas B. Fordham Institute released an analysis that says Texas’ new social studies curriculum standards are so politicized that they will … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 3-30-2011

  U.S. Corporations Not Paying Taxes, But Getting Paid by Taxpayers – America’s largest corporation, General Electric, did not pay any taxes on their $15 billion in profits last year and instead got a $3 billion tax refund.1 But it … Continue reading

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Bad Deed Special: Republicans are Transferring Wealth to the Rich

As seen below, if Republicans would stop giving our national wealth away to their rich friends, the majority of the people in this country would not have to suffer so much: Republicans want to cut $11.2 billion from early childhood … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 3-26-2011

  Republican Bill Would Shut Down Down Weather Satellites – The Republican-controlled Congress took steps to eliminate $700 million in funding for NOAA’s satellite program in its bill to fund the federal government for the remainder of the fiscal year … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 3-25-2011

  Indiana Prosecutor Told Wisconsin Governor to Stage ‘False Flag’ Operation – Emails show that an Indiana prosecutor and Republican activist suggested Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker stage a fake attack on himself to discredit unions protesting his budget repair bill. … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 3-24-2011

  House Republican Budget Cuts Would Strangle Innovation – Instead of proposing a budget that invests in future clean-tech jobs, the proposed House Republican budget turns back the clock to the Bush administration era when there was relatively little investment … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 3-18-2011

  Republican Plan to Sharply Cut Federal Spending Will Destroy 700,000 Jobs Through 2012 -A report, by Moody’s Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi says the Republican plan to sharply cut federal spending this year would destroy 700,000 jobs through 2012. … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 3-17-2011

  U.S Giving As Much As $62 Billion in Subsidies Each Year to Fossil Fuel Companies While We Complain About the Deficit – Estimates of the value of US federal subsidies to the domestic oil and gas industry alone (not … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 3-16-2011

  Republican View of the Mentally Ill: Ship Them to Siberia to Freeze to Death – New Hampshire Republican State SenatorMartin Harty told Sharon Omand, a Strafford resident who manages a community mental health program, that “the world is too … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 3-4-2011

  Texas State Senator Proposes Cuts for Public School Funding, But Proposes State Funded Textbooks for Private Schools – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Steve Ogden filed a constitutional amendment on Monday that, if approved, would make it the state’s responsibility … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 3-2-2011; Volume 2

  Fox News Reporter Lies About Being Punched During Protest – Fox News reporter Mike Tobin, reporting from amid the massive demonstration in Wisconsin on Friday, claimed that one of the protesters “punched” him in the arm. Tobin’s allegation that … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 3-2-2011

  The Koch Brothers Latest Acquisition: Wisconsin – Does Wisconsin have a short-term budget deficit? Yes, but only because of the $141 million in special-interest tax breaks that Governor Scott Walker pushed through in January. Does Wisconsin have a long-term … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 2-28-2011

  The Superrich Have Grabbed Nearly Everything While Many Suffer – As seen in the graph below, the top 1% of earners are doing just great, the top 20 % are doing OK, and everyone else is losing ground. [more … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 2-24-2011 – Volume #2

Yes, there are so many Bad Deeds that it took two installments today.   Law Firm for U. S. Chamber of Commerce and Bank of America Planned Dirty-Tricks Campaign Against Journalists and Unions – Two weeks ago, 71,000 emails created … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 2-24-2011

  Wisconsin Governor Uses Middle-East Tactics; Blocks Website – Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker partially blocked a left-leaning website that union supporters used to rally protesters as demonstrators gathered in the state Capitol. The website, www.defendwisconsin.org could not be accessed in … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 2-23-2011

  Wisconsin Governor’s Plan Allows for the Selling of Energy Assets With No Bids – The fight in Wisconsin is over Governor Walker’s 144-page Budget Repair Bill. The parts everyone is focusing on have to do with the right to … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 2-21-2011

  Congress Says They Want to Reduce the Deficit, But They Keep Funding Military Programs That the Pentagon Doesn’t Want – With deficit hawks looking for spending areas to cut, the Airborne Laser would appear to be an easy target. … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 2-9-2011

  Republicans Trying to Make Legal Representation Available Only to the Rich – The Republican party’s “Spending Reduction Act of 2011” includes elimination of the Legal Services Corporation. The Congress of the United States authorized the Legal Services Corporation Act, … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 2-4-2011

  Happy Birthday Ronald Reagan, but Not for Us – Ronald Reagan made big government bigger; he never submitted a balanced budget; and his deficits piled up more government debt than in all the United States’ prior history, due precisely … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 2-3-2011

  No Money for Texas Teachers; Plenty for Football – A $60 million football stadium is being built at Allen High School, near Dallas, Texas. Residents voted 63 percent in favor of a bond issue in May 2009. This is … Continue reading

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Bad Deed: Dangerous People Can Easily Get Guns

  A Simple Fact: Dangerous People Can Easily Get Guns – Two weeks after the tragic shootings in Tucson, undercover investigators went to a gun show in Phoenix, Arizona and purchased guns – no background check, no questions asked. In … Continue reading

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Fwd: Bad Deeds for 1-29-2011

  Fox News’ Megyn Kelly Lies About Use of Nazi References on Fox News – Fox News’ Megyn Kelly claimed last week that her network doesn’t use Nazi references. Since that’s just flat out wrong, the ball was in Jon … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 1-25-2011

  Right Wing “Profit” Says Massive Bird Kill Was Result of Repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” – Have you been wondering about those thousands of birds that fell from the sky in Arkansas on New Years Eve? According to “respected … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 1-24-2011

  Republican House Leader Says He Backs Plan Which Will Slash Social Security and Medicare – House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) on Sunday threw a measure of support behind a key Republican lawmaker’s plan to dramatically cut Social Security … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 1-23-2011

  Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas Failed to Report His Wife’s Income from a Conservative Think Tank – Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas failed to report his wife’s income from a conservative think tank on financial disclosure forms for at … Continue reading

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Bad Deed: Pete Olson Votes for Pete Olson

  Pete Olson voted to end affordable health care for you, but not for himself – Who would have the audacity to vote for repealing affordable health care for 32 million Americans while gladly accepting generous, federally subsidized insurance for … Continue reading

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‘You’re going to have to shoot them in the head,’ Glenn Beck said of Democratic leaders Discussing Democratic leaders during a June broadcast for the Republican Fox News Channel, conspiracy host Glenn Beck told his followers they would have to … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 1-18-2011

  Tea Party Tries to Segregate North Carolina Schools – The new majority-Republican Wake County School District school board in North Carolina, backed by the national tea party groups want to concentrate poor children into just a few schools by … Continue reading

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  Rick Perry’s Big Donor Trying to Sneak Through a Nuclear Waste Dump Permit – The Texas Low Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission (TLLRWDCC) has proposed rules that would allow importation of nuclear waste from 36 states across the … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 12-11-2010

  Republicans Out-of-Touch with Americans on Programs and Taxes – A Bloomberg National Poll taken on December 4-7 shows that, “The public wants Congress to keep its hands off entitlements such as Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. … They oppose … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 11-22-2010

  Rick Perry, Who Doesn’t Like Federal Involvement, Wants the Federal Government to Invade Mexico – Speaking on MSNBC, Texas Governor Rick Perry said the United States ought to consider a military invasion of his neighbor to the south, Mexico, … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 11-21-2010

  SMU’s George W. Bush Institute to put retired military personnel and others with no teacher training or experience as principals in U.S. public schools – The Bush Institute, the policy-making arm of the Presidential Library Center planned for Southern … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 11-20-2010

  Richest Americans could buy a $83,000 Mercedes every year if Bush tax cuts are extended – Just how much money the top one percent of earners would keep if the Bush tax cuts were allowed to continue? $83,347 each … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds: Republicans Want an Extra-Big Tax Cut for Millionaires

The President and Democrats Want to Give a Permanent Tax Cut to Everyone, but Republicans Want an Extra-Big Tax Cut for Millionaires Under President Obama’s plan, all Americans would receive a tax cut on the first $250,000 of their income. … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds: The Four Dirtiest Opponents of Clean Energy

  Massey Energy – This spring, a coal mine explosion killed 29 people in a West Virginia mine owned and operated by Massey Energy, in the worst coal mine disaster since 1970. The mine where the disaster occurred, Upper Big … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 11-15-2010

  House Republicans Warn SEC Against Implementing Financial Reform Regulations – Republicans on the House Financial Services Committee have been warning regulators implementing the Dodd-Frank financial reform law that the GOP is in no mood to see regulations that actually … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 11-11-2010

  Business May Soon be Allowed to Run Even Wilder – Today the Supreme Court heard arguments from AT&T that, if they adopt, would grant corporations the right to prevent consumers from joining class-action lawsuits. The case has so far … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds: Money Over Health

  Texas School District Prefers Money Over Children’s Health – In some Texas districts, school is also a place children go to get sick. Several schools—located on a figurative gold mine over the gas-rich Barnett Shale formation—are accepting money from … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds: The Cost of War on Our Veterans

  Veterans fighting the enemy within – It seems a pity that during months of mid-term campaigning marked by heated battles over the size of government, there was no mention of the staggering costs, fiscal and otherwise, of two enduring … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 11-1-2010

  Top 1 Percent of Americans Reaped Two-Thirds of Income Gains in Last Economic Expansion (and you got nothing!) – If you are in the bottom 80 percent of American households, you’ve gained essentially no economic ground in the past … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 10-18-2010

  Five Lies That Republicans Are Spreading About Social Security – Some powerful people keep spreading lies about the program to scare people into accepting benefit cuts: Lie #1: Social Security is going broke. Reality: There is no Social Security … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 10-15-2010

  Rick Perry Puts Up “For Sale’ Sign on Texas – The former director of Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s technology fund office has joined with a controversial beneficiary of the fund to seek meetings with current and former state officials … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 10-13-2010

  In Rick Perry’s Texas, Schoolchildren Are Tracked Like Cattle – Two school districts in the Houston area have begun monitoring students’ whereabouts on campus by issuing them identification badges with radio frequency identification technology — the same technology used … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 10-12-2010

  Rick Perry Using Taxpayer Resources and Time to Conduct His Political Campaign – A leak from the governor’s office revealed that Rick Perry has been hiding a secret schedule from Texans and using state employees to work on his … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 10-11-2010 – Everyone Loses If We Don’t Vote

Do you have Democratic (or at the very least, non-crazy) friends and family members who say they’re not gonna vote this November because they’re disappointed with Congress or Obama or something? Make sure they watch watch the video at the … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 10-4-2010

  Rick Perry Trading Favors for Cash – Rick Perry has taken over one and a quarter million dollars ($1.266 million) in campaign contributions from donors who were significant investors or officers in companies that Perry chose to receive more … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 10-1-2010

  Republicans Pledge Would Slash Spending for Education, Cancer Research and Aid to Local Police and Firefighters – U.S. House Republicans’ pledge to cut $100 billion from the federal budget next year would slash spending for education, cancer research and … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 9-30-2010

  Rick Perry: Odd Man Out – There’s going to be a Texas gubernatorial debate in Austin after all, but Rick Perry won’t be there. Democrat Bill White last month accepted the invitation, which was initially extended just to Perry, … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 9-29-2010

  Conservative Creep Tries to Pull Another Video Con; This Time on CNN – James O’Keefe, best known for hitting the community organizing group ACORN with a heavily edited and misleading undercover video, hoped to get CNN Investigative Correspondent Abbie … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 9-28-2010

  Republican “Pledge to America” Fails National Security Test – The national security portion of the Republican “Pledge to America” (buried away on page 37 of the 45-page document) fails to address any of America’s immediate security challenges. Neither Al … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 9-27-2010

  Rick Perry Has a Problem with the Truth – The non-partisan Politifact.org has graded 40 of Rick Perry’s campaign statements and has found that only 13% of them are true, and only 10% are mostly true.   Republican Mike … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 9-24-2010

  Rick Perry Doesn’t Take Questions – Letter to Rick Perry from the President of the National Conference of Editorial Writers: September 23, 2010 Dear Gov. Perry: The National Conference of Editorial Writers was stunned and disappointed today when you … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 9-23-2010

  Republicans Doing Voter Suppression in Wisconsin – According to the statements made on recordings of a meeting of Wisconsin Tea Party leaders, Here’s the plans between the Republican Party of Wisconsin Chair and the state director of Americans for … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 9-20-2010

  Rick Perry is So Proud; State May Have to Lay Off 9,800 Workers – 9,800 workers could likely be laid off as the state grapples with a projected two-year budget shortfall approaching $21 billion. Mike Gross, vice president of … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 9-19-2010

  Christine O’Donnell in 1999: ‘I dabbled into witchcraft’ – The story of Christine O’Donnell’s past got a little stranger Friday. Bill Maher — on whose former show, “Politically Incorrect,” O’Donnell appeared repeatedly in the late 1990s — showed a … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 9-17-2010

  Republican Lies About Public Employees – In August, the New Republic, the New York Times and others warned, “There’s a class war coming to the world of government pensions.” Of course, there’s only one problem with Rush Limbaugh’s claim … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 9-16-2010

  Republicans Have Been Lying About the Deficit – The Treasury says that the deficit for August of this year is 13% lower than that of the August of last year, and 8% lower than the first 11 months of … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 9-13-2010

  Republican House Leader is Big Tobacco’s and Wall Street’s Best Friend – House Democrats were preparing late last year for the first floor vote on the financial regulatory overhaul when Representative John A. Boehner of Ohio and other Republican … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 9-10-2010

  Save NASA From the Tax-Sucking, Pork-Eating, Dream-Murdering Monster – House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer is considering placing HR5781, a NASA reauthorization bill that awards billions to traditional defense-industry corporations, on the House floor for a vote. If enacted, HR5781 … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 9-9-2010

  How This Past Monday Became the Worst Labor Day in the Memory of Most Americans – Economists Emmanuel Saez and Thomas Piketty examined tax returns from 1913 to 2008 and discovered an interesting pattern. In the late 1970s, the … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 9-8-2010

  Confused Tea Party People – The Tea Party people say they’re angry about socialism, but maybe they’re really angry about capitalism. If there’s a sense of being looked down upon, it’s that sense of failure that’s built into a … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 9-3-2010

  Fewer Jobs, Larger Deficits if Republicans Were in Charge – According to a study in Newsweek, the things that Republicans have said they want to do won’t actually boost employment or reduce deficits. In fact, much the opposite. If … Continue reading

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