Jim Greer, Former Florida Republican Chairman, Says Party Officials Discussed Suppressing Black Vote

Although I think of Florida as separate from the rat race that is the South, it seems they are as corrupt as the rest of the Bible Bib states.
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Ed Gillespie: Mitt Romney 'Retired Retroactively' From Bain Capital

So, I guess this is an admission that Romney accepted compensation for work he did not do? Isn't that some sort of fraud? Or, on the other hand, he was RESPONSIBLE for putting thousands of Americans out of work because he was IRRESPONSIBLY not at the helm of the company he was supposed to be responsible for? He still must take responsibility for everything that happened while he was captain of the ship. Here's another failure by business types to do their jobs responsibly and with the best interests of the citizens of this land foremost.
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Churches, Religious Officials Ramp Up Political Speech While IRS Remains Silent

It's okay. I'll gladly let them speak their minds as long as my tax dollars (i.e. their tax breaks) aren't affected. We could use the taxes those churches ought to be paying. I'm tired of having my share of taxes increased so that they may ride free. I think the concept I just stated is probably beyond the mental capacity of an evangelical minister. But, hey, he knows he's got a partisan and activist Supreme Court to back him up. That makes me nervous.
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Conservative Agenda In GOP-Controlled Statehouses Runs Into Hurdles

The consistent underlying theme of the Republican Party is to destroy the last of the union jobs which create all that is left of a truly middle class, living wage electorate. I'm scared because somehow they have been able, in the South, to convince the average male worker that it's better to work 60 hours a week to earn what a union worker can make in 40 hours than it is to work 40 hours a week and make what a dimmer worker earns in 60 hours. How they have manipulated those Southern workers I don't know. The one clue I do have is that between 1 and 3 percent of any population are conscienceless sociopaths. Since about 1 to 3 percent of Americans are at the top of the capitalistic system, I see a connection. Sociopaths are extreme adroit at getting whatever they want. They can be charming when they need to be and they are ruthless if charm doesn't work. In the South, charm still seems to be working. But under that silk glove is a fist of iron. Most Southerners are pretty beaten down. Under their Southern hospitality lurks a self-loathing psyche. Religion helps the wealthy to control the Southern voter, by teaching them to be humble and to LOOK UP ABOVE themselves to get direction. That "looking up" attitude makes them easily manipulated by the sociopaths who control religion and finance in the South.
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Venomous Spiders Invade Indian Town, 2 Dead

Every once in awhile, Nature is for the birds, and strikes back. Maybe a species has learned to identify the human smell with actions and activities (cities?) that are harmful to it. Then they come in their millions to kill the enemy.
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Black-on-White Crime and the Reasons for a Media Double-Standard

The main problem is that there aren't enough news sources to feature all the hot items the fringes of America create every day.
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Employers Not Obligated To Ensure Workers Take Lunch Breaks: Court

Problem with this is that it will become routine that suck ups can use their non-lunch breaks to curry favor with their employers. Thus, slowly but surely, the law mandating lunch breaks will be ineffective, and people with dietary needs that require lunch will stand out like sore thumbs and be labelled as lazy.
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CNN Apologizes After Second Reporter Uses N-Word Unbleeped (VIDEO)

Look. In this case she was reporting the facts. One does not alter the facts when reporting the news. When news people start tailoring the facts to suit the prejudices of any one group, then they all become Glenn Becks and are commentators rather than news reporters. Dictators often suppress the language that offends them. Take how Reagan used the word "misspoke" to cover up the times when he "lied" to the American people. We cannot be dictators when it comes to the facts.
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Joe Walsh: Tammy Duckworth A 'Wounded Veteran -- What Else Has She Done?'

How often these members of the Republican Tea Party are not veterans. Like John Wayne who also never served, they are big on talk and nothing on service. Who would expect a party controlled by the wealthiest and most selfish Americans to ever put service ahead of racking up the dividends and profits they sweat out of the labor of working class Americans? Too many Americans just aren't aware of the BIG LIES they are being told through the expenditures of rich Republicans recently allowed by the Republican Supreme Court. Never in my lifetime have a seen such a BIG LIE so boldly and forcefully being told to the American electorate. We'll soon see if a lie told often enough can cause the average American to vote against his own best interests and vote for the Republican Tea Party.
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Portions Of Scott Walker's Anti-Union Law Struck Down By Federal Court

Actually, to disempower public employee unions while allowing the SuperPacs of the wealthy free reign shows just how much the Republican Tea Party and the Republican Supreme Court have gone in destroying any counterbalance to the wealthy ruling America as a Plutocracy. It's very scary that so many average American workers don't see this and applaud destroying public unions.
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