Gas Price Gouging - Bernie Sanders Proposes Bill to Rein In Speculators

Seeded on Tue Apr 3, 2012 4:37 PM EDT (Senate.gov)

Last year, the CEO of Exxon Mobil testified at a Senate hearing that excessive speculation contributed as much as 40% to a barrel of oil.Gary Gensler, the Chairman of the CFTC has stated publically that oil speculators now control over 80 percent of the energy futures market, a f …

commodities, energy, gas-prices, politics, goldman-sachs, gasoline, obama, republican, speculation, bernie-sanders

Bottom Line - Limbaugh calls totals of fleeing advertisers 'misinformation'

Seeded on Wed Mar 7, 2012 4:28 PM EST (msnbc.com)

Rush Limbaugh called reports of advertisers dropping his show contain “misinformation” and, in fact, said Wednesday new sponsors are lining up. Separately, a web site that facilitates extramarital affairs has offered to buy up any time vacated by any sponsors who m …

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Ten Signs the Tea Party is Dead

Seeded on Wed Mar 7, 2012 2:32 PM EST (politic365.com)

When the Tea Party-fueled GOP took over the House by storm in January of 2010 there was high talk of huge change. Exactly a year later, there are signs that the underlying political force behind the House flipping in 2010, the Tea Party, is all but dead.

congress, politics, 2012, obama, republican, libertarian, ron-paul, tea-party

Stop Wall Street Speculators From Driving Up Gas Prices, Lawmakers Say - Newsroom: Bernie Sanders - U.S. Senator for Vermont

Seeded on Tue Mar 6, 2012 5:40 PM EST ()

According to the Energy Information Administration, the supply of oil and gasoline is greater today than it was three years ago, when the national average price for a gallon of gasoline was just $1.90.

energy, gas-prices, politics, gasoline, obama, republican

Model Says Huge Breasts Saved Her Life in Car Crash

Seeded on Fri Feb 10, 2012 10:56 AM EST (msnbc.com)

Oh, why not...

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Nancy Brinker, Komen Foundation Fell Victim to the Great Texas Echo Chamber

Seeded on Fri Feb 3, 2012 3:30 PM EST (Dallas Observer)

If there's a pattern, it has to do with the Texas echo chamber. What happens in Texas needs to stay in Texas. Otherwise, duck and cover. Nancy Brinker, impresario of the Great Komen Cancer Show, obviously suffers the same Texas echo chamber syndrome.

abortion, politics, breast-cancer, conservative, right-wing, planned-parenthood, brinker, komen, karen-handel

Ron Paul's Neo-Nazi, White Supremacist, Stormfront Ties

Seeded on Wed Feb 1, 2012 3:42 PM EST (International Business Times)

Members of the nationalist American Third Position Party (A3P), whose website was defaced by Anonymous, organised Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul's meetings and campaigns, according emails hacked by the collective. Chairman of the British National Party (BNP) Nick G …

politics, white-supremacists, neo-nazi, right-wing, ron-paul

Ten Conservatives vs. Newt

Seeded on Thu Dec 15, 2011 4:05 PM EST (New Yorker)

Conservative opinion writers are competing in something of an arms race to see who can describe Newt Gingrich, whom most of them despise, in the most apocalyptic terms.

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Wright: Congress' choice: Improve the economy or blame Obama

Seeded on Sat Oct 22, 2011 11:31 AM EDT (star-telegram.com)

Has America's carefully cultivated and long-cherished political system become victim to some self-imposed paralysis? And, if so, to what purpose? Simply to spite the president? Do GOP and tea party spokesmen dislike and resent Obama that harshly? Or is it mainly to pamper and …

economy, jobs, politics, obama, republican, filibuster

Koch brothers accidentally fund study that proves global warming - CSMonitor.com

Seeded on Sat Oct 22, 2011 11:00 AM EDT (Christian Science Monitor)

Money for the new study, dubbed the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project, came from five foundations, including one established by Microsoft founder Bill Gates and another from the Charles Koch Charitable Foundation, widely seen as a source of money for conservative organ …

global-warming, politics, koch, republican

Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult | Truthout

Seeded on Thu Sep 29, 2011 7:55 AM EDT (Truthout - All Articles)

A couple of years ago, a Republican committee staff director told me candidly (and proudly) what the method was to all this obstruction and disruption.

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'Family Guy' Does the Tea Party
Source: Crooks and Liars
Peter joins the Tea Party to get rid of the annoying government, only to find the "grassroots" organization run by his billionaire father-in-law Cater Pewterschmidt for his own evil ends. (SPOILER ALERT: After dispensing with their local government and the ensuing chaos the res …
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Mitt Romney apologized Thursday to classmates he may have offended by "hijinks and pranks during high school" and insisted he didn't know that some were gay.
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Family Research Council Warns that 'Radical' Girl Scouts are out to 'Get Our Kids'
Source: rightwingwatch.org/
The Family Research Council recently called for boycotts and prayer requests against the Girl Scouts, typically by pushing a false and misleading claim that Girl Scouts are distributing brochures from Planned Parenthood and suggesting tha …
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Obama: Same-Sex Marriage Should Be Legal
Source: Talking Points Memo
In an exclusive interview with ABC News, President Obama said that same-sex marriage should be legal, per Yahoo News’ Rick Klein: In an interview with ABC News’ Robin Roberts, the president described his thought process as an “evolution” that led him to …
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Poll shows Obama increasing lead over Romney, helped by independents
Source: Reuters
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