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The Real Fraud: Second 'Non-Citizen' In James O'Keefe Voter Fraud Video Naturalized In 2011

Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 2:11 PM EDT (Think Progress)

In conservative filmmaker James O’Keefe’s latest video, he features two “non-citizens” who have supposedly committed voter fraud in North Carolina. As ThinkProgress reported yesterday, one of the men, Zbigniew Gorzkowski, has actually been an American ci …

elections, fraud, privacy, politics, voting, 2012, supression, jmaes-okeefe

James O'Keefe's "Dead" NC Voter Isn't Dead

Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 12:31 PM EDT (Media Matters for America)

In his newest video, conservative videographer James O'Keefe claims that during his organization's latest inept voter fraud sting in North Carolina, "we found ballots being offered out in the name of the dead." Unfortunately for O'Keefe, the person whose ballot his operative so …

elections, politics, voter, lying, criminal, voter-fraud, supression, jmaes-okeefe

770 HP, 74 MPG, Looks That Can Kill

Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 11:13 AM EDT ()

Releasing these new photos of the Porsche 918 Spyder, the company has announced some exciting development news: with the aid of its electric motors, the plug-in hybrid prototype is currently developing 770 HP and returning up to 74 MPG. Also, ummm...I messed my pants.

technology, ford, toyota, hybrid, porsche, prius, spyder, 918

Facebook Unfriends Uncle Sam: Mark Zuckerberg's Plan To Avoid Taxes

Seeded on Tue May 15, 2012 3:15 PM EDT (Think Progress)

The right-wing has been lauding Facebook co-founder Edward Saverin for his decision to renounce his U.S. citizenship in order to avoid taxes. But he isn’t the only one who’s going to slash his tax bill in the wake of Facebook’s upcoming initial public offering …

business, facebook, taxes, irs, dodge, ecomony, zukerberg

Watch in horror as zombie Ayn Rand eats Rachel Maddow’s brains

Seeded on Mon May 14, 2012 7:26 PM EDT (Raw Story)

In the latest video by progressive comedy troupe The Partisans, zombie Ayn Rand rises from the grave to feed on the brains of American college students, stopping briefly to much on the gray matter of one MSNBC news anchor along the way.

politics, paul-ryan, rachel-maddow, zombies, ayn-rand, barack-obama8217-s

Mitt Happens « Margaret and Helen

Seeded on Mon May 14, 2012 2:21 AM EDT ()

Margaret, I just called my friend Patricia to apologize for dipping her hair into that inkwell back in grade school. I feel bad that I did it and I feel even worse that she no longer remembers who I am or that she one time had hair long enough to put in pig tails. W …

politics, romney, ink, ladies, bully, inkwell

Saudi Arabia Unveils $100 Billion Plan To Make Solar 'A Driver For Domestic Energy For Years To Come'

Seeded on Sun May 13, 2012 4:10 PM EDT (Think Progress)

Even the world’s largest producer of oil understands the value of developing renewable energy. A few months after Saudi Arabia’s oil minister called global warming “among humanity’s most pressing concerns,” the country is rolling out an ambitious …

technology, oil, saudi-arabia, republican-party, solar, alternative-energy, dependency, climate-progress

Pander Weekly Volume 21

Fri May 11, 2012 5:13 PM EDT

Be a Panderer! For past issues, check out the Pander Weekly Archive.

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lenin, lennon, clinton, politics, guns, supreme-court, justice-department, obama, satire, homosexual

Mitt Romney's defenders speak out

Seeded on Fri May 11, 2012 2:38 PM EDT (Daily Kos)

According to Ann Romney, Mitt is still the "crazy" guy from high school who loves "playing jokes" on people. And according to his high school friend Gregg Dearth, Romney probably was merely acting "jokingly" when he bullied John Lauber. Dearth, who didn't witness the attack, im …

politics, republican, president, 2012, hair, campaign, romney, attack, joke, haircut

Here's the Disney-fied Version of Taxi Driver You Didn't Know You Needed to See

Seeded on Tue May 8, 2012 8:00 PM EDT (Gawker)

Bay Area "film recycler" Bryan Boyce unleashes upon an invariably unprepared world his "re-imagineering" of Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver that tracks a "Mickey Mouse-obsessed Travis Bickle as he looks for love in a rapidly transforming New York City." Patton Oswalt calls Walt …

entertainment, satire, disney, taxi-driver, patton-oswalt, creative-class, martin-scorseses, first-showing, mouse-obsessed-travis-bickle, seuss-kotaku-double-rainbow

Health Care Fraud Prosecutions Up 78% Since Launch Of Affordable Care Act

Seeded on Tue May 8, 2012 2:21 PM EDT (Consumerist)

It's been more than two years since the Affordable Care Act was signed into law, and while the Supreme Court mulls over the reform's future, a look back over the last couple years shows a sharp increase in health care-related criminal fraud charges. According to numbers compil …

us-news, supreme-court, affordable-care-act, health-care-fraud, health-care-fraud-prevention, enforcement-action-team, abuse-control-program

Al Qaeda Documents Shed New Light On Tense Relationship With Iran

Seeded on Sun May 6, 2012 1:02 PM EDT (Think Progress)

But a batch of documents seized from Osama Bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, and analysis of them released today by West Point’s Combatting Terrorism Center (CTC) show a tense relationship between Iran and Al Qaeda — a far cry from breathless hawks …

us-news, al-qaeda, shia-muslims, iranian-consulate, abu-abd, osama-atiyyat-allah

Watch this: NASA's latest promotional video will melt your face

Seeded on Fri May 4, 2012 8:18 PM EDT (io9)

NASA just released a promotional video featuring some absolutely gorgeous space imagery. You should watch it. Right now. Full screen, HD, sound up. You know the drill.

arts, nasa, goddard-multimedia

FBI: We need wiretap-ready web sites -- now

Seeded on Fri May 4, 2012 6:05 PM EDT (CBS News)

The FBI is asking Internet companies not to oppose a controversial proposal that would require firms, including Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo, and Google, to build in backdoors for government surveillance.

technology, privacy, personal, overlords, cyber-intelligence-sharing, spying-intelligence

Daily Kos: Will the real capitalists please step forward?

Seeded on Fri May 4, 2012 4:03 PM EDT (Daily Kos)

Shhhh. Don't tell anybody on the political right about this, but with today's jobs report, private sector employment has now finally moved into net positive territory under President Obama. When President Obama took office, there were 110,985,000 workers in the private sector, …

politics, democrat, 2012, warren-buffett, romney-campaign, jed-report, wh-policy

Escort in Secret Service scandal says her life is 'ruined by this'

Seeded on Fri May 4, 2012 2:30 PM EDT (CNN)

She retold the story of the disagreement in the hallway of the Hotel Caribe, of her fear after the fallout and what she envisions for herself in the future. Her days of selling her body are over, she said, but she is open to appearing nude in men's magazines. "My life is …

business, secret-service, dania-londono-suarez

Enraged Ted Nugent threatens to 'f*ck' female CBS producer

Seeded on Fri May 4, 2012 12:40 PM EDT (Raw Story)

I’m a damn nice guy! And if you can find a screening process more powerful than that, I’ll suck your @!$%#ing dick!” Or @!$%# you!” he said, turning to Glor’s female producer. “How’s that sound?”

politics, women, mitt-romney, hate, secret-service, ted-nugent, jeff-glor

Charlotte Observer Rescinds Endorsement After GOP Candidate Goes Birther

Seeded on Fri May 4, 2012 12:33 PM EDT (Think Progress)

After winning the Observer’s endorsement in his bid for Congress, he has done nothing but embarrass us and himself. By buddying up to one of America’s more hateful egomaniacs and then joining with fringe “birthers” to question President Obama’s ci …

politics, north-carolina, sheriff-joe-arpaio, congressional-district, charlotte-observer, edwin-peacock

RNC campaign parodies Obama '08 sticker - Washington Times

Seeded on Thu May 3, 2012 1:38 PM EDT (The Washington Times)

The Republican National Committee is getting ahead of President Obama's official campaign kickoff in Ohio and Virginia on Saturday with a media blitz labeling his re-election drive the "Hype & Blame" tour. The RNC will sell "Hype & Blame 2012" bumper stickers — a …

politics, obama, white-house, mitt-romney, michelle-obama, republican-national-committee, bumber-sticker

Chart: The illustrated history of you being screwed by people like Mitt Romney

Seeded on Wed May 2, 2012 1:11 PM EDT (Daily Kos)

Quick and dirty, folks. Basically, the upper line represents the value of your work. The lower line represents what you got paid for it. The empty space in between—the difference between what your work was worth and how much you got for it—represents the money the …

us-news, 1, unions, pay, profit, equality, productivity, inequality, 99, pay-rate

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Santorum, Gingrich put price tags on their endorsements

Seeded on Tue May 1, 2012 4:23 PM EDT ()

Former GOP Presidential candidates Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich are offering endorsements of presumptive nominee Mitt Romney but the nods will come at a price. Santorum wants a GOP convention platform riddled with right-wing dogma. Gingrich’s price is more basic: He w …

politics, gingrich, extortion, santoru, team-player, ramney

Way Back When "Politicizing" Terrorist Deaths Was OK | Media Matters for America

Seeded on Tue May 1, 2012 2:22 PM EDT (Media Matters for America)

It would be nice if the press, when wrestling with this narrative, could dive deep into their memories and travel all the way back to June 2006, when the government of Iraq announced that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the head of Al Qaeda in Iraq, had been killed in an airstrike. The B …

politics, obama, republican-party, romney, new-hampshire, osama-bin-laden, bush-white-house

Right-Wing Claims Obama's New Campaign Slogan Reveals His Secret Communist And/Or Fascist Allegiances

Seeded on Tue May 1, 2012 2:15 PM EDT (Think Progress)

One word; seven letters; so much nefarious hidden meaning. The Obama campaign’s new slogan, “Forward,” may seem like a typically oblique and anodyne piece of political branding — but thankfully, right-wing bloggers are here to reveal its true meaning, an …

politics, mitt-romney, scott-walker, washington-times, jim-hoft, hitler-youth, european-marxism, tags-adolf-hitler-barack-obama

Apple pays lower corporate tax rate than Wal-Mart: report

Seeded on Mon Apr 30, 2012 1:55 PM EDT (Raw Story)

Former Treasury Department economist Martin A. Sullivan recently produced a report, cited by the Times, which concludes that Apple skipped out on more than $2.4 billion in taxes (PDF) in 2011 by moving nearly 70 percent of its profits through overseas tax havens and using other t …

business, apple, california, taxes, ipod, ipad, irs, corporate-tax, cuppertino

The United States is a low-wage nation

Seeded on Sat Apr 28, 2012 7:02 PM EDT (Daily Kos)

The United States is a low-wage country. (Here a chorus of Republicans pipes up: Yes, but it's the greatest low-wage country in the world, and don't you forget it!) In fact, in 2009 the United States led developed nations, with 24.8 percent of workers earning less than two-thir …

us-news, world, jobs, low-income, ocnomy

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The Real Fraud: Second 'Non-Citizen' In James O'Keefe Voter Fraud Video Naturalized In 2011
Source: Think Progress
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James O'Keefe's "Dead" NC Voter Isn't Dead
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Bill Clinton: Hike taxes across the board - "tax me 100% and wouldn't balance budget"
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770 HP, 74 MPG, Looks That Can Kill
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