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Arguably the biggest lie coming from the Republicans and the Romney campaign is that President Obama is a tax and spend liberal who’s responsible for record deficits and a crushing national debt. Not only is Mitt Romney telling his supporters that President Obama contin …

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Shocking GOP. 'Super PAC' Plan Leaked - Plans Hard-Line Attack on Obama

A group of high-profile Republican strategists is working with a conservative billionaire on a proposal to mount one of the most provocative campaigns of the “super PAC” era and attack President Obama in ways that Republicans have so far shied away from.

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Ordinary citizens protest fracking because it contaminates drinking water and spews carcinogens while President Obama cheers the frackers on

Fracking can provide massive amounts of methane gas to be used domestically and millions of gallons of wastewater containing carcinogens. There are roughly 400,000 of these wells across America and they have created a lot of committed opponents. During Obama's State of the Un …

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How badly has fracking polluted drinking water in Dimock, Pennsylvania

The trouble started in 2008, when the wells used by several Dimock families were contaminated with methane. In 2009, fracking firm Cabot Oil & Gas was fined by state regulators for contaminating the wells with methane while fracking underground. Cabot routinely denies cau …

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The Chamber of Commerce's Dark Money Days May Be Over | Mother Jones

In the annals of loopholes, one that the Federal Election Commission, the nation's election watchdog, created in 2008 could rank as one of the most absurd. The FEC's Republican commissioners decided that shadowy nonprofits running political ads (think: the US Chamber of Commerce) …

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The George Carlin & Scott Walker Clip Every American Needs To See - Democratic Underground

The George Carlin & Scott Walker Clip Every American Needs To See It’s almost like George had a pair of magic, look-into-the-future glasses.Warning: A little bit NSFW.

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The Real Fraud: Second 'Non-Citizen' In James O'Keefe Voter Fraud Video Naturalized In 2011

In conservative filmmaker James O’Keefe’s latest video, he features two “non-citizens” who have supposedly committed voter fraud in North Carolina. As ThinkProgress reported yesterday, one of the men, Zbigniew Gorzkowski, has actually been an American citi …

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BREAKING: The Third Party National Group "Americans Elect" drops out: Is this a Sign of the Demise of Democracy in America?

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Subverting the Statehouse: Uncovering the Other ALECs

Taxpayer-subsidized stealth lobbyists: Lobbyists who circumvent normal lobbying regulations and procedures to advance the corporate agenda in statehouses nationwide on the taxpayer dime. If Washington DC is the new Versailles, run by corporate overlords and their lobbyist-hired  …

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President Obama's Wealth Level Makes Him One of the Elite 1%

President Barack Obama has $500,001 to $1 million in a JPMorgan Chase private client asset management checking account.  "This is a checking account used by the president and the first lady," said White House spokeswoman Amy Brundage. The president's other principal assets …

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