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rachel maddow explains how republicans broke the senate
Bookmarked 795 weeks ago on her msnbc program rachel maddow recently sat america down and tried to explain to them how republicans have managed to break the us senate by abusing the filibuster maddow said since they lost the senate they have turned it into a stronghold for their own party by using power the senate minority is usually entrusted not to abuse they |
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can romney win only by lying
Bookmarked 721 weeks ago mitt romney has a real easy campaign strategy leading up to the november election - lie lie and lie some more is there a way to stop all of the lies - or will romney lie himself right into the white house |
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have you heard these stories in the corporate news media
Bookmarked 721 weeks ago with endless investments from wall street and corporate powers - the us government no longer works for the people - but for those with the biggest wallets is there a way to change this - or have we the people permanently lost our say in america039s government and democracy |
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lone liberal rumble - more hostage taking p1
Bookmarked 721 weeks ago dustin stockton chief strategist-the tea partynet ampamp marc harrold libertarian commentator join thom hartmann should millionaires and billionaires be able to buy us senators - and when will america create a sensible drug policy those questions and more in tonight039s lone liberal rumble |
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us-colombia trade deal a new low for workers
Bookmarked 721 weeks ago lori wallach director-public citizen039s global trade watch joins thom hartmann on tuesday - a trade deal between the us and colombia went into effect - and - according to estimates - the deal will kill american jobs and increase the deficit why does our government keep signing trade deals that harm the economy and american jobs |
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why common cause is suing the us senate
Bookmarked 721 weeks ago steve spaulding staff counsel-common cause joins thom hartmann the senate republican039s love of the filibuster is under attack by a lawsuit claiming current filibuster rules are unconstitutional could this lawsuit put an end to the republican039s games - and bring democracy back to us senate |
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the good the bad and the very very unguiculateously ugly
Bookmarked 721 weeks ago the good josef miles the nine year-old boy was walking with his mother on the campus of washburn university in topeka kansas on saturday when he noticed a group of infamous westboro baptist church members protesting and holding up signs that read quotgod hates fagsquot the bad oklahoma governor mary fallin fallin signed oklahoma senate bill 1733 into law tuesday - which allows oklahomans to openly carry firearms and the very very ugly florida governor rick scott scott039s war on education in florida is taking a toll |
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lone liberal rumble - end the death penalty p2
Bookmarked 721 weeks ago dustin stockton chief strategist-the tea partynet ampamp marc harrold libertarian commentator join thom hartmann should millionaires and billionaires be able to buy us senators - and when will america create a sensible drug policy those questions and more in tonight039s lone liberal rumble |
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rand paul quotthe senate majority leader came to the floor and attacked mequot
Bookmarked 772 weeks ago may 25 2011 news corp http:moxnewscom |
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will controversial ndaa be overturned
Bookmarked 720 weeks ago on new year039s eve last year - president obama quietly signed into law the national defense authorization act containing a provision giving the president and the military the power to indefinitely detain americans who are suspected of associating with terrorists on wednesday night though - that very same indefinite provision was struck down by a federal judge so for now - until another court hears the case - and until the supreme court eventually has the final say - our nation has once again found its values we are for the moment not a frightened nation that indefinitely detains people without due process of the lawwe are for the moment not a frightened nation that gives up our values as soon as the going gets tough and in the midst of all of this - george w bush left office - and president obama moved in and when a still-frightened congress tried to enshrine bush-era indefinite detention into law - president obama pushed back arguably - he didn039t push back near hard enough - and ended up signing into law the national defense authorization act including indefinite detention but he did so with a signing statement reading: quoti want to clarify that my administration will not authorize the indefinite military detention without trial of american citizens indeed i believe that doing so would break with our most important traditions and values as a nation my administration will interpret section 1021 in a manner that ensures that any detention it authorizes complies with the constitution the laws of war and all other applicable lawquot but there is a major problem with signing statements - they039re not binding law just because president obama promised that his administration would not indefinitely detain americans - there was nothing to stop future administrations from doing so thus it was up to the american people to take action and they did led by a group of journalists whistleblowers and activists like chris hedges noam chomsky and daniel ellsberg - a lawsuit was filed against president obama arguing that the indefinite provision was unconstitutional specifically - the lawsuit argued that journalists and whistleblowers - operating well-within their first amendment rights to a free press - could be locked up forever if they interviewed or associated with terrorist networks while covering a story and it was on these grounds that judge katherine forrest agreed - and struck down the provision saying quotthe statute at issue places the public at undue risk of having their speech chilled for the purported protection from al-qaeda the taliban and039foreign terrorist organizations039quotso for now - indefinite detention is dead but if quotwe the peoplequot who are not terrified little men like bush and cheney - don039t keep the pressure on our lawmakers - then indefinite detention will surely return right now - a new version of the ndaa is being debated in congress - and brave members on both sides of the aisle are arguing that there should be no indefinite detention provision in it that039s the good news and ironically we all have to depend on the same guy who signed indefinite detention into law - president obama - to eventually see it repealed that039s because this case will eventually work its way up to the supreme court - where five right-wingers will likely rule in favor of indefinite detentionbut four of the justices are over seventy-years-old - including two republican appointees - meaning whoever is the next president will be able to change the make-up of the high court we can039t trust mitt romney to select a court that upholds our national values and the rule of law - he039s already said that he039ll appoint more scalia039s thomas039s and alito039s - who would shred our constitutional protections instead since the supreme court is even more powerful than the president we need a president in office who will appoint thoughtful and honest and uncorrupted jurists like elena kagin and sonya sotamayor last night was a victory - but this battle is just beginning we need to return to the values our nation was founded on which include bravery and due process - and not fear and medieval imprisonment techniques and we need to do everything we can to prevent the supreme court from becoming even more hard-right than it already is |
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is nuclear catastrophe imminent at san onofre ca
Bookmarked 720 weeks ago paul gunter beyond nuclear joins thom hartmann there is troubling news out of japan - where there039s now more signs now that the fukushima nuclear crisis is still ongoing sludge samples taken from tokyo bay reveal that radioactive cesium contamination has increased in some areas by 13-times since measures were taken last august health officials claim the radiation levels pose no immediate risk to the population - but could get worse as contaminated fish filled with radioactive isotopes travel up the food chain into the world039s restaurants and dinner tables meanwhile in the united states - the associated press is reporting that nuclear regulators have quietly watered-down us planning for nuclear emergencies despite nuclear plants all around the nation ageing beyond their recommended operational lives - nuclear regulators have reduced evacuation zones around them required fewer exercises for accidents and relaxed training for emergency officials in other words we039re less prepared today to deal with a nuclear disaster than we were before fukushima happened |
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the right039s obsession wfemale body parts
Bookmarked 720 weeks ago lizz winstead political satirist co-creator of the daily show author-quotlizz free or die - essaysquot joins thom hartmann republicans in congress are trying to take away the rights of women - and silence them while they do it what happened to a prominent us representative yesterday - and what does it say about the right039s war on women |
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the role media played in austerity as a necessary evil
Bookmarked 720 weeks ago professor william quotbillquot black author of the best way to rob a bank is to own one joins thom hartmann as greeks withdraw their money from the banks - and the spanish enter a second recession - republicans in congress are still applauding austerity what039s the austerity endgame - and when will world leaders finally realize austerity is not the way to rebuild an economy |