Friday, February 3, 2012
Santorum Tells Sick Kid Not To Complain About $1 Million Drug Costs Because People Pay $900 For An iPad
Santorum Tells Sick Kid Not To Complain About $1 Million Drug Costs Because People Pay $900 For An iPad: pWhile campaigning yesterday in Woodland Park, Colorado, GOP contender Rick Santorum told a sick child and his mother that they shouldn’t complain about the exorbitant cost of his medication because some people spend $900 on iPads. He appeared unmoved by the plight of the family, staunchly defending drug companies’ right to charge whatever they want. [...]/p
U.S. Corporate Tax Rate Plunges To 40 Year Low Of 12.1 Percent
U.S. Corporate Tax Rate Plunges To 40 Year Low Of 12.1 Percent: pIn recent decades, corporate tax revenue has plunged, falling from about 6 percent of gross domestic product in the 1950′s to less than 2 percent today, due to a proliferation of corporate tax breaks and the use of offshore tax havens. According to the Congressional Budget Office, in fact, corporate tax receipts as a share [...]/p
How Issa’s Paranoid ‘Fast And Furious’ Witchhunt Endangers America’s Law Enforcement System
How Issa’s Paranoid ‘Fast And Furious’ Witchhunt Endangers America’s Law Enforcement System: pYesterday, House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) convened the sixth hearing on one of a series of deeply misguided gun stings that began in 2006 under George W. Bush. Issa, however, has shown little interest in actually getting to the bottom of how these ill-conceived operations, which eventually led to illegal guns being turned against [...]/p
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Boehner Touts Yet Another Ridiculous Constitutional Objection To The Affordable Care Act
Boehner Touts Yet Another Ridiculous Constitutional Objection To The Affordable Care Act: pLast month, the Obama Administration approved important regulations under the Affordable Care Act requiring health plans to cover contraceptive services. Never one to miss an opportunity to falsely claim something related the the ACA violates the Constitution, Speaker John Boehner (R) said today that these regulations are unconstitutional: House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said that [...]/p
EXCLUSIVE: Major Romney Bundler Is Agent Of Foreign Government
EXCLUSIVE: Major Romney Bundler Is Agent Of Foreign Government: pIgnacio E. Sanchez is a lobbyist at DLA Piper, an influential global law firm and a major bundler for the Mitt Romney campaign. A ThinkProgress review of public records reveals Sanchez is also a registered foreign agent representing the interests of the United Arab Emirates and a former president of the Dominican Republic. While political [...]/p
REPORT: Seniors Saving On Prescription Drugs As A Result Of Health Reform
REPORT: Seniors Saving On Prescription Drugs As A Result Of Health Reform: pThe Affordable Care Act has produced $2.1 billion in prescription drug savings for nearly 4 million seniors and people with disabilities who were enrolled in Medicare Part D in 2011, a new Obama administration report finds. The savings are the result of a provision in the health care law that provides a 50 percent discount [...]/p
Global Warming Hates Groundhog Day: Punxsutawny Phil Sees A Year Without Winter
Global Warming Hates Groundhog Day: Punxsutawny Phil Sees A Year Without Winter: pThis morning, Punxsutawny Phil came out of his burrow on a unseasonably warm, sunny day, and predicted six more weeks of winter — but much of the United States has skipped the season entirely. Punxsutawny, like most of the United States, has been experiencing a freakishly warm winter, as our planet’s climate heats up from [...]/p
Billionaire Buddies: Adelsons Join Forces With Koch Brothers To Take Down Obama
Billionaire Buddies: Adelsons Join Forces With Koch Brothers To Take Down Obama: pIn recent years, billionaire oil magnates David and Charles Koch have bankrolled the Tea Party movement, Republican candidates, and efforts to deny the existence global warming. But less noticed have been their series of twice-yearly strategy coordination meetings for wealthy right-wing donors. These secret confabs have attracted Republicans like Govs. Rick Perry (R-TX) and Rick [...]/p
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
BREAKING: Washington State Senate Passes Marriage Equality
BREAKING: Washington State Senate Passes Marriage Equality: pA little more than an hour ago, a bipartisan group of Washington State Senators voted 28-21 in favor of marriage equality. The state senate was widely seen as the biggest hurdle to marriage equality and passage by the state house should follow. Gov. Christine Gregoire (D) urged the state house to pass the bill so [...]/p
New Hampshire Legislature Takes Another Step Towards Decriminalizing Marijuana
New Hampshire Legislature Takes Another Step Towards Decriminalizing Marijuana: pAfter previous attempts to decriminalize marijuana in New Hampshire were vetoed by Gov. John Lynch (D), the legislature in Concord will again take up two bills that would dramatically lessen the punishment for the possession, use, and cultivation of pot, this time with the hopes of securing a veto-proof majority: House Bill 1526 would make [...]/p
Two Years After Rescue, Chrysler Posts First Profit Since 1997
Two Years After Rescue, Chrysler Posts First Profit Since 1997: pPresident Obama’s plan to rescue Chrysler as part of a broader bailout of the American auto industry in 2008 came under fire from various Republicans who predicted the company would never return to profitability. “The government has forced taxpayers to buy these failing companies without any plausible plan for profitability,” South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint [...]/p
Climate Scientists Rebuke Rupert Murdoch: WSJ Denier Op-Ed Like ‘Dentists Practicing Cardiology’
Climate Scientists Rebuke Rupert Murdoch: WSJ Denier Op-Ed Like ‘Dentists Practicing Cardiology’: pIn a scathing letter to the editor, thirty-eight of the world’s top climatologists have rebuked Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal for its publication of a “scientist” op-ed denying the threat of manmade global warming. The letter, authored by climate scientist Kevin Trenberth and colleagues from the world’s top science institutions, tells the Wall Street Journal [...]/p
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