Gov. Jerry Brown: Republican Party like a cult | The Raw Story

On CBS News' Face the Nation Sunday morning, California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) said that politics had changed a "hell of a lot" since he started his career as a public official. "It's more polarized, the money is more centrally collected and distributed by the two ma …

Let’s just say it: The Republicans are the problem. - The Washington Post

We have been studying Washington politics and Congress for more than 40 years, and never have we seen them this dysfunctional. In our past writings, we have criticized both parties when we believed it was warranted. Today, however, we have no choice but to acknowledge that the  …

Europe's austerity recession - European Union - Salon.com

Why should we care? Because a recession in the world’s third-largest economy, combined with the current slowdown in the world’s second-largest (China), spells trouble for the world’s largest. ... That means that notwithstanding their efforts to dress up balanc …

Mitt Romney: Candidate or Motivational Poster? - Bloomberg

"I am being sunk by a society that demands success when all I can offer is failure,” says the ruined theater impresario Max Bialystock in Mel Brooks’s “The Producers.” Mitt Romney sees things differently: He is offering success to a society …

PHOTO: Obama Seated In Rosa Parks Bus | TPM Livewire

This is going to drive the right absolutely nuts. Just how far will they contort themselves to bend this into an Obama fueling of racist passions issue. I predict a throwdown of "the racist card card" in three, two,... one.    

Fox News Viewers Know Less Than People Who Don't Watch Any News: Study

And in the totally NOT NEWS department, we offer: Fox News viewers are less informed than people who don't watch any news, according to a new poll from Fairleigh Dickinson University.

‘Homeless Halloween’ Firm Goes Under

And in the "Karma is a Bitch Department", we offer: The 89 employees of a New York law firm specializing in foreclosures who dressed as homeless people during an office Halloween party last year have been thrown out on the street.

Recording Cain: What's he afraid of?

Cain continues to do television and radio. He’s not afraid of being recorded. He just doesn’t want to be recorded while newspaper journalists are interviewing him. We are hardly offended by that decision, as some might think.

Are Followers of GOP Ideology Fools and Clowns?

On one of the Sunday conservative trope-fests known as the Sunday morning news talk shows, "This Week with Christiane Amanpour", Economist and Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman made some rather pointed comments regarding Newt Gingrich, the field of 2012 GOP presidential candidate …

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American Exceptionalism is a Myth

Well, ok, it's not exactly a myth. It's more of a lie.

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WTF: Man calls Obama Communist, then complains he's not receiving enough Social Security

You simply can't make this @!$%# up.  During a small town hall meeting in Iowa yesterday, 2012 GOP Presidential hopeless Rick Santorum reacted as expected to a comment from a clueless old @!$%# that called the President a "Muslim Communist".

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Poll: Which GOP candidate will commit the most embarrassing gaffe of the day?

You know it's going to happen. It happens every day. I realize, sometimes it's sometimes truly difficult to choose the, uhm, winner, but let's try.   Based on past patterns, I think Michelle is due.

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Hillary Clinton To Visit Myanmar; First Secretary Of State To Travel To Long-Shunned Nation In Over 50 Years

BALI, Indonesia — Seizing an opportunity for historic progress in repressive Myanmar, President Barack Obama is dispatching Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to the long-isolated nation next month in an attempt to accelerate fledgling reforms. The move is the most  …

Foreclosure Fraud: First Criminal Charges Filed In Nevada Over Robo-Signing

The Nevada attorney general has indicted two midlevel staffers at a mortgage document company, Lender Processing Services, on a whopping 606 counts of felony and gross misdemeanor for directing employees to forge signatures and falsely notarize documents used to illegally foreclo …

More than 1,000 MF Global workers let go

(Reuters) - The brokerage arm of collapsed futuresfirm MF Global Holdings Ltd has terminated its 1,066-member workforce, according to the trustee in charge of liquidating its assets.   The workers were notified their employment has ended immediately, though they will  …

Herman Cain: We all KNOW he did it.

We do. When it comes to politicians and sex scandals, they're always guilty, because all clichés are true.

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Sarah Palin - Unshackled Dope

I never really envisioned this column as a forum for harping on a particular individual, day after day, after all, the far right wing (and in all fairness, the far left too) offers far too many dopes to choose from on a daily basis. Yet here I am again focused on Sarah Palin.

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Ron Paul: 'I'm A Threat To The Establishment' (VIDEO) | TPM LiveWire

"Some people don't want to hear the message," Paul said, "because it's a threat to them. I'm a threat to the establishment." Uh-huh. And like all "threats to the establishment", you've been completely marginalized and are, therefore, not really a threat.

Jim DeMint: Washington threatens 3 private sector jobs for every $200K in taxes to create 1 gov't job

In comparison, it takes the private sector only $63K to create a middle-class job http://washingtonexaminer.com/ opinion/op-eds/2011/09/soaking -rich-always-dries-middle-clas s "The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that it costs businesses about $63,0 …

The President's Press Conference - No, it wasn't a lecture...

I do like watching our President be President. Before all of the usual suspects begin hurling the usual pejoratives (lecturer in chief, etc.) and before the all of the standard media hypes begin (trying to be the adult in the room, etc.), I just wanted to go on record and say I w …

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Newt Gingrich – Megalomaniacal or Narcissistic Dope?

As Bertrand Russel famously quoted: The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.  

Software Company Removes LBGT "Booby Trap" from School Internet Filtering Program

Earlier this week, we were thrilled to announce that California-based software company Lightspeed Systems agreed to remove a web filter that had been blocking public school students' access to LGBT information websites (like It Gets Better and Day of Sil …

Even When He Wins, Boehner is a Crying Dope

They just can't help themselves.

The dead infant and the birth-certificate mystery

NEW YORK – Amid questions about the authenticity of Obama's posted birth records raised by the registration number, a researcher has discovered a possible explanation. The Post and Email blog, which has focused on the Obama eligibility controversy, features a …

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