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September 21, 2012
Let's take a look at what Mitt's charitable giving goes to, shall we?
Digby | Hullabaloo
Posted on Friday, September 21, 2012 @ 2:35 PM
September 21, 2012
When Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney found himself in hot water for saying that nearly half of the American people "think of themselves as victims," his running mate, Rep. Read more 
Adele M. Stan | AlterNet
Posted on Friday, September 21, 2012 @ 2:33 PM
September 21, 2012
On September 21st activists across the world are rising up against the proliferation of the shale gas drilling practice of hydraulic fracturing or fracking. As Mark Schlosberg writes for Food and Water Watch: Read more 
Tara Lohan | AlterNet
Posted on Friday, September 21, 2012 @ 12:51 PM
September 21, 2012
Senior citizens: wise to the Ryan plan? The VP Candidate, most well known for his desire to privatize medicare, was soundly booed--repeatedly--at an appearance today before the senior citizen lobbying group AARP.
From the Washington Post's writeup here's what happened after the first round of boos came in response to Ryan's avowal to repeal "Obamacare": Read more 
Sarah Seltzer | AlterNet
Posted on Friday, September 21, 2012 @ 11:31 AM
September 21, 2012
Two scientists at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco have found that cannabidiol (CBD), a non-toxic marijuana compound that delivers many of weed's benefits without the high, might stop metastis in aggressive cancer, "potentially altering the fatality of the disease forever." Read more 
Kristen Gwynne | AlterNet
Posted on Friday, September 21, 2012 @ 12:09 PM
September 21, 2012
Well, the headlines on this one kind of wrote themselves after the right wing host went on a very Freudian and not very nice tirade about shrinking member size.
Here's Wonkette, which gives you a sense of all of them: At Last, Rush Limbaugh Knows Who To Blame For His Tiny Penis Read more 
AlterNet Staff | AlterNet
Posted on Friday, September 21, 2012 @ 11:52 AM
September 21, 2012
Steven Rosenfeld | AlterNet
Posted on Friday, September 21, 2012 @ 10:47 AM
September 21, 2012
Ann Romney has been derided as being out of touch and inaccessible, but her recent comments seem to indicate that she is very in touch with the current temperature of the election--in Iowa today she reacted to the naitonal pile-on of pundits, even conservatives saying her husband has to get his campaign together.
Here's the report from Radio Iowa:
Sarah Seltzer | AlterNet
Posted on Friday, September 21, 2012 @ 8:40 AM
September 21, 2012
Last night Stephen Colbert took on the Romney camp's desperation for the Latino vote--while refusing to endorse policies that would actually help Latinos.
Watch this trenchant, irony-steeped segment on Romney's failed effort at reaching out to Latinos uses the words of both Romneys against them:
Sarah Seltzer | AlterNet
Posted on Friday, September 21, 2012 @ 8:10 AM
May 29, 2013
The video of Beyonce getting butt slapped while performing in her concert at Copenhagen has gone viral.
If you haven’t seen it, here it is, but it's a little difficult to discern, so here's what goes down: While singing “Irreplaceable,” Beyonce reaches her hand down for fans to touch, then turns around and gets slapped in the butt by a male fan in the audience. Read more 
Alyssa Figueroa | AlterNet
Posted on Wednesday, May 29, 2013 @ 3:18 PM
September 21, 2012
Let's take a look at what Mitt's charitable giving goes to, shall we?
Digby | Hullabaloo
Posted on Friday, September 21, 2012 @ 2:35 PM
September 21, 2012
When Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney found himself in hot water for saying that nearly half of the American people "think of themselves as victims," his running mate, Rep. Read more 
Adele M. Stan | AlterNet
Posted on Friday, September 21, 2012 @ 2:33 PM
September 21, 2012
On September 21st activists across the world are rising up against the proliferation of the shale gas drilling practice of hydraulic fracturing or fracking. As Mark Schlosberg writes for Food and Water Watch: Read more 
Tara Lohan | AlterNet
Posted on Friday, September 21, 2012 @ 12:51 PM
September 21, 2012
Senior citizens: wise to the Ryan plan? The VP Candidate, most well known for his desire to privatize medicare, was soundly booed--repeatedly--at an appearance today before the senior citizen lobbying group AARP.
From the Washington Post's writeup here's what happened after the first round of boos came in response to Ryan's avowal to repeal "Obamacare": Read more 
Sarah Seltzer | AlterNet
Posted on Friday, September 21, 2012 @ 11:31 AM
September 21, 2012
Two scientists at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco have found that cannabidiol (CBD), a non-toxic marijuana compound that delivers many of weed's benefits without the high, might stop metastis in aggressive cancer, "potentially altering the fatality of the disease forever." Read more 
Kristen Gwynne | AlterNet
Posted on Friday, September 21, 2012 @ 12:09 PM
September 21, 2012
Well, the headlines on this one kind of wrote themselves after the right wing host went on a very Freudian and not very nice tirade about shrinking member size.
Here's Wonkette, which gives you a sense of all of them: At Last, Rush Limbaugh Knows Who To Blame For His Tiny Penis Read more 
AlterNet Staff | AlterNet
Posted on Friday, September 21, 2012 @ 11:52 AM
September 21, 2012
Steven Rosenfeld | AlterNet
Posted on Friday, September 21, 2012 @ 10:47 AM
September 21, 2012
Ann Romney has been derided as being out of touch and inaccessible, but her recent comments seem to indicate that she is very in touch with the current temperature of the election--in Iowa today she reacted to the naitonal pile-on of pundits, even conservatives saying her husband has to get his campaign together.
Here's the report from Radio Iowa:
Sarah Seltzer | AlterNet
Posted on Friday, September 21, 2012 @ 8:40 AM
September 21, 2012
Last night Stephen Colbert took on the Romney camp's desperation for the Latino vote--while refusing to endorse policies that would actually help Latinos.
Watch this trenchant, irony-steeped segment on Romney's failed effort at reaching out to Latinos uses the words of both Romneys against them:
Sarah Seltzer | AlterNet
Posted on Friday, September 21, 2012 @ 8:10 AM
May 29, 2013
The video of Beyonce getting butt slapped while performing in her concert at Copenhagen has gone viral.
If you haven’t seen it, here it is, but it's a little difficult to discern, so here's what goes down: While singing “Irreplaceable,” Beyonce reaches her hand down for fans to touch, then turns around and gets slapped in the butt by a male fan in the audience. Read more 


