(In 2012, North Carolina gubernatorial nominee Patrick McCrory endorsed a Republican Party platform that called Agenda 21, a set of environmental proposals by the UN, a conspiracy to take over America. McCrory won and state Republicans carry on with the crazy, the author says. Image: Getty) Did you know America’s iconic small town, Mayberry, North Carolina, […]

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(The Congressional Budget Office released its latest debt and deficit projections for the next ten years. There’s no way any honest analyst could read them as anything but the official end to any rational concern about red ink, says Doug Henwood. Image source: CBO) Given that the phantasmic plays such a large role in politics, it’s […]

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(The Justice Department kept tabs on Associated Press reporters. If President Obama doesn’t drop the hubris and show real leadership, says Doug Daniels, the next three and a half years are going to stuffed with congressional hearings and hit-job investigations by giddy Republicans, and we can forgot about advancing any progressive agenda, like gun control. […]

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(BusinessWeek featured the above photo of billionaire Tom Steyer holding a jar of tar-sands oil. The article, titled “Tom Steyer: The Wrath of a Green Billionaire,” lauded his crusade to stop construction of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, which would transport tar-sands oil from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. As Darwin Bondgraham reports, part […]

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  (In January, Hillary Clinton gave testimony on the attacks on a U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, in which four Americans died. Republican Senator Jim Inhofe described the former secretary of state as having a “forceful attitude” that he wasn’t accustomed to hearing from women.) Some Republicans would like us to believe Benghazi is another Watergate. President Barack […]

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