Recent Votes

• The evidence is out. Here's the "smoking gun" in the Trayvon Martin shooting. Spoiler: It's not good for Zimmerman.

  The media has gotten hold of (and previewed for our armchair quarterback analysis) the evidence in the Trayvon Martin case, and it's chock full of photographs of a wounded George Zimmerman, revives the "did Trayvon Martin experiment with pot like virtually every other high school …

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• The Inequality Speech That TED Won't Show You - A super-rich venture capitalist tells the truth about "job-creation" and the importance of the middle class

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  It is astounding how significantly one idea can shape a society and its policies.  Consider this one. If taxes on the rich go up, job creation will go down.   This idea is an article of faith for republicans and seldom challenged by democrats and has shaped much of  …

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• How Mitt Romney gets away with his lying

  Source: The Washington Post

  Yesterday, Mitt Romney gave a big speech in which he accused Obama of lighting a “prairie fire of debt.” It’s a good line, and it has received widespread media coverage. Romney’s speech has already been dissected by Jonathan Chait and Steve Benen. They  …

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• America's Future Under 'Drill, Baby, Drill'

  Source: Center for American Progress

  The promise of abundant oil jobs was dangled before us as an incentive—despite the fact that clean energy industries were some of the only sectors to show strong growth at the height of the Great Recession, and 3.1 million jobs in the United States were associated with th …

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• It's time to break up the big banks

  Source: The Washington Post

  Consider $2 billion lost on a bad bet, plus billions more as investors dumped the stock, a providential warning. When Jamie Dimon, the imperious head of JPMorgan Chase, revealed that the bank had lost so much on a derivatives trade gone bad, it was clear war …

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