President Obama The Tax Cutter

by Stuart Shapiro

As President Obama, for the first time in his presidency, campaigns actively for an increase in taxes on the wealthy, it is worthwhile to note his record to date.  If you listen to the Republican talking points, you would think that there is nary a tax cut to be found in that record.  Steve Benen (with some help from the graphic here from the Center for American Progress) explains why Republicans have trouble understanding the data.

For the right, this is somehow a subjective question. Whether Obama cut taxes seems to be a matter of opinion. Sure, …

FRC: Obama “More Interested In Appeasing Sexual Revolutionaries Than In Fighting America’s Enemies”

The Family Research Council, which presents itself as a beacon of morality, headlines a news release, “Don’t Keep Your Gay Job,” and warns about an increase in sexual harassment in the military now that gays can serve openly.

Expect to see celebrations from homosexual groups and fawning stories in the media about how “the sky has not fallen.” That’s only because there will be no press releases from the new victims of sexual harassment or assault, the soldiers exposed to HIV-tainted blood, the thousands of servicemembers who choose not to reenlist rather than forfeit their freedom of speech and …

Add Troy Davis To The List Of Possible Innocent Men Sent To Their Deaths

As Georgia prepares to execute Troy Davis for a crime he may not have committed, Global Grind looks at other cases where likely innocent people were sent to die.

Davis has claimed his innocence from day one and this is where the problems lie when it comes to capital punishment. Since 1971 to 2010, there have been 17 cases in which DNA played a substantial factor in establishing innocence. So it stands to reason that it is possible Georgia maybe executing an innocent man tomorrow.…

On Tuesday’s Radio Show…

• U.S. Air Force 1st Lt. Josh Seefried, who no longer needs to hide his sexual orientation, joins Alan to discuss the end of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.

• The Rogue author Joe McGinniss defends his controversial new book on Sarah Palin.

• Alan explains why the tax debate really is a case of class warfare — but not in the way that Republicans claim.…

Supreme Court Stays Texas Execution

Former Army recruiter Cleve Foster’s execution was stayed for the third time.

“I did not do this crime,” Foster [said]. “I know there are those out there who have hard feelings against me, but I did not do this.”

Foster was one of two men convicted and sent to death row for fatally shooting a 30-year-old woman whose body was found in a ditch by pipeline workers in Fort Worth in February 2002. His partner died last year of cancer.…

Bill Clinton: GOP Opposition To Climate Change Makes America “Look Like A Joke”

Bill Clinton says the lack of debate on climate change is “really tragic.”

“If you’re an American, the best thing you can do is to make it politically unacceptable for people to engage in denial” about climate change, the former president said on the first day of the Clinton Global Initiative’s seventh annual meeting in New York City.

“I mean, it makes us — we look like a joke, right? You can’t win the nomination of one of the major parties in the country if you admit that the scientists are right? That disqualifies you from doing it? …

Rick Santorum Can’t Get Google To Fix His “Google Problem”

It’s not fun when your name conjures a graphic image
Asked Google to fix it; thinks they would have done it for Biden…

Lots Of Special Crying At THIS Wedding

Submitted by William

Navy officer and partner wed in Vermont as “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” ends…

Rapper MrEBT’s Great Satire On Misuse Of The EBT Card

Stanley LaFleur and producer Jermaine Gomes star in this going-viral-video, but will conservatives use it to make a case against EBT’s and food stamps?

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Rock band “The Tea Party” Could Get Rich Sellling Teaparty.com

Submitted by Dan Weymouth

Domain name could go for more than a million dollars…

Eric Holder Aims To Have Gitmo Closed Before Election Day

“We will press for closure [even after the] election”…