Jim Vogas

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…

13 years ago

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…

13 years ago

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…

13 years ago

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…

13 years ago

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…

13 years ago

Bad Deeds for 5-22-2011

  Saturday Sneak Attack Would Hand Neighborhood Schools Over to Private Operators - State Rep. Mike Villarreal, Democrat of San…

13 years ago

Bad Deeds for 5-19-2011

  We Could Have Had Jobs for Every American, But Republicans Chose Gifts to the Rich - In December, Republicans…

13 years ago

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…

13 years ago

Bad Deeds of Fox “News”

  FOX News broadcasts rightwing extremist slander, incitement to violence, political propaganda, and outright lies - to promote its rightwing…

13 years ago

Bad Deeds for 5-16-2011

  Big Oil Makes an Investment in Congress and It Pays Off - The CEOs from the five major oil…

13 years ago

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…

13 years ago

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…

13 years ago

Bad Deeds for 5-9-2011

  Hostage Situation: John Boehner Threatens to Severely Harm America Unless We Go on an Unhealthy Extended Starvation Diet -…

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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…

13 years ago

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…

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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…

13 years ago

Bad Deeds for 4-8-2011

  Republican Cuts to Community Health Centers Will Increase Federal Deficit by $15 Billion - The federal government could save…

13 years ago

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 -…

13 years ago

Bad Deeds for 4-4-2011

  Texas State Board of Education ‘Manipulated’ and ‘Politicized’ Texas Curriculum Standards According to Conservative Group - The conservative Thomas…

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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…

13 years ago

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…

13 years ago

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…

13 years ago

Bad Deeds for 3-25-2011

  Indiana Prosecutor Told Wisconsin Governor to Stage ‘False Flag’ Operation - Emails show that an Indiana prosecutor and Republican…

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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,…

13 years ago

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…

13 years ago

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…

13 years ago

Bad Deeds for 3-16-2011

  Republican View of the Mentally Ill: Ship Them to Siberia to Freeze to Death - New Hampshire Republican State…

13 years ago

Bad Deeds for 3-4-2011

  Texas State Senator Proposes Cuts for Public School Funding, But Proposes State Funded Textbooks for Private Schools - Senate…

13 years ago

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…

13 years ago

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…

13 years ago

Bad Deeds for 2-28-2011

  The Superrich Have Grabbed Nearly Everything While Many Suffer - As seen in the graph below, the top 1%…

13 years ago

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…

13 years ago

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…

13 years ago

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…

13 years ago

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…

13 years ago

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…

13 years ago

Bad Deeds for 2-4-2011

  Happy Birthday Ronald Reagan, but Not for Us - Ronald Reagan made big government bigger; he never submitted a…

13 years ago

Bad Deeds for 2-3-2011

  No Money for Texas Teachers; Plenty for Football - A $60 million football stadium is being built at Allen…

13 years ago

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…

13 years ago

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…

13 years ago

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…

13 years ago

Bad Deeds for 1-24-2011

  Republican House Leader Says He Backs Plan Which Will Slash Social Security and Medicare - House Majority Leader Eric…

13 years ago

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…

13 years ago

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…

13 years ago

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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…

13 years ago

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…

13 years ago

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  Rick Perry's Big Donor Trying to Sneak Through a Nuclear Waste Dump Permit - The Texas Low Level Radioactive…

13 years ago

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,…

13 years ago

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…

13 years ago

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…

14 years ago

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…

14 years ago

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…

14 years ago

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…

14 years ago

Bad Deeds for 11-15-2010

  House Republicans Warn SEC Against Implementing Financial Reform Regulations - Republicans on the House Financial Services Committee have been…

14 years ago

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,…

14 years ago

Bad Deeds: Money Over Health

  Texas School District Prefers Money Over Children's Health - In some Texas districts, school is also a place children…

14 years ago

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…

14 years ago

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!) -…

14 years ago

Bad Deeds for 10-18-2010

  Five Lies That Republicans Are Spreading About Social Security - Some powerful people keep spreading lies about the program…

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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…

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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…

14 years ago

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…

14 years ago

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…

14 years ago

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…

14 years ago

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…

14 years ago

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…

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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…

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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"…

14 years ago

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…

14 years ago

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…

14 years ago

Bad Deeds for 9-23-2010

  Republicans Doing Voter Suppression in Wisconsin - According to the statements made on recordings of a meeting of Wisconsin…

14 years ago

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…

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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…

14 years ago

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…

14 years ago

Bad Deeds for 9-16-2010

  Republicans Have Been Lying About the Deficit - The Treasury says that the deficit for August of this year…

14 years ago

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…

14 years ago

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…

14 years ago

Bad Deeds for 9-9-2010

  How This Past Monday Became the Worst Labor Day in the Memory of Most Americans - Economists Emmanuel Saez…

14 years ago

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…

14 years ago

Bad Deeds for 9-3-2010

  Fewer Jobs, Larger Deficits if Republicans Were in Charge - According to a study in Newsweek, the things that…

14 years ago