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Report: Sexual abuse of female farmworkers common

Female farmworkers across the United States are commonly sexually harassed and assaulted, in part because their immigration status makes them fearful of calling police, according to a report being released Wednesday by Human Rights Watch. The survey by the international ri …

Why Republicans Are Flirting With Debt Limit Debacle 2.0

Whether or not he can make it stick in any meaningful way, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) revealed on Tuesday that Republicans still have an appetite for debt limit brinksmanship — even after the last round nearly crippled the economy, and left the GOP’s congr …

School starting age 'should be raised to six to prevent long-term damage to brighter children'

Children should not have to start school until they are six to prevent early 'adultification', an academic has claimed. Going against conventional wisdom that their intellect should be fed and stimulated early on, education expert Dr Richard House says that over-emphasis on th …

Chris Christie jokes about VP talk in 'I Got This'

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie put on his acting hat and joked around about receiving a call from Mitt Romney about the vice president spot, saying, "I got this." The web video plays off of Democratic Newark Mayor Cory Booker, who is a vocal supporter of President Obama, an …

Watch "How to Act Human: James Lipton's Advice for Mitt Romney" Video

This is flat out hysterical. James Lipton, who can undoubtedly be called an expert on acting, nails why Mitt Romney fails to connect with us on a personal level. Not only is he acting, he's doing it badly.

Rush Limbaugh Inducted into Hall of Famous Missourians Behind Locked Doors

Missouri Republicans decided to shame and embarrass our state yesterday with the induction of Rush Limbaugh into the Hall of Famous Missourians: Doors Locked, Dems Banned As Missouri Honors Limbaugh:

It's time to break up the big banks

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 …

Billionaire Facebook Co-Founder Flees to Repressive Country to Avoid Taxes: What an Insult to Hard-Working American Families

The recent announcement that Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin had renounced his U.S. citizenship to avoid future capital gains taxes on the fortune he’ll make from Facebook’s initial public offering upset quite a few people. More than anything, it’s an …

Wells Fargo Has Blood on Its Hands: Desperate Man Commits Suicide After Shocking Foreclosure Mistreatment

The quick version of this terrible story is that Norman and Oriane Rousseau of Newbury Park, California were scammed into a predatory mortgage. But they made their payments anyway, always paying with a cashier’s check in person at the same branch. Then one day the bank mi …

Paul Begala: Dick Lugar's Fate Shows GOP Puts Party First

As the poet predicted, the center cannot hold. But it’s not because both the right and left are tearing at it equally. In an age in which journalism and punditry are terrorized by the demands of false equivalency, it is time to speak a simple truth: conservatives are to b …

Former National Review Writer Claims White Supremacy Is "One Of The Better Arrangements History Has Come Up With"

Last month, the conservative National Review fired its longtime contributor John Derbyshire after Derbyshire published a column in another publication instructing parents on how to train their children to be racists. Although the National Review did the right thi …

Daily Kos: Massive Whooping Cough Epidemic In Washington State Related to Severe Budget Cuts

Whooping cough had been believed by public health officials to be a thing of the past in the United States , since for decades almost all children have been vacinated, just as they receive vaccinations for measles, diphtheria, etc.  Prior to use of the vaccine the US had&n …

Warren: Bank self-regulation "wrong and dangerous"

JPMorgan Chase's admission last week that it lost more than $2 billion in one set of trades should be used as a wake up call to end the practice of banks regulating themselves, Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren said on Monday. Warren repeated her call for th …

Poll: Most Americans support same-sex unions - Political Hotsheet

A new CBS News/New York Times Poll shows a solid majority of Americans support legal recognition for same-sex couples - though not necessarily through the official act of marriage - and the number of people who do support full marriage rights for gay and lesbian couples is sign …

Leo W. Gerard: What's It All About, Romney?

As Mitt Romney laughs while "apologizing" for bullying a fellow high school student and mocks NASCAR fans' plastic rain slickers, he seems unaware that he comes off as Richie Rich's evil twin. Part of Romney's image problem is that he leads not as a selfless Lincolnesque state …

Mitt Romney's Foreign-Policy Disarray Reflects GOP Disconnect

Once upon a time, leading figures in the GOP foreign-policy establishment thought a lot about the limitations on American power. The guiding assumption of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger’s foreign policy was that the United States no longer had the money or will to wage …

Romney's Shady Connections From Salt Lake Olympics Still Paying Off

Last month, The Daily Beast recounted the tale of one circle of Romney donors tied to a tainted Olympic contractor who has given more than a million dollars in campaign donations. After being granted immunity by prosecutors, the contractor, Sead Dizdarevic, admitted mak …

Mitt Romney led gang assault of presumed gay student in prep school because of his hair style, which they cut off when they pinned him to the ground as he screamed for help

"He can't look like that. That's wrong. Just look at him!" an incensed Romney told Matthew Friedemann, his close friend in the Stevens Hall dorm, according to Friedemann's recollection. Mitt, the teenaged son of Michigan Gov. George Romney, kept complaining about Lauber's l …

Ultra-Orthodox Jews Shun Their Own for Reporting Child Sexual Abuse

The first shock came when Mordechai Jungreis learned that his mentally disabled teenage son was being molested in a Jewish ritual bathhouse in Brooklyn. The second came after Mr. Jungreis complained, and the man accused of the abuse was arrested. Old friends started walking st …

Scott Brown Goes Birther on Elizabeth Warren

On Tuesday, Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) went birther on Elizabeth Warren. "Serious questions have been raised about the legitimacy of Elizabeth Warren's claims to Native American ancestry," Brown said in a statement released to the press. (...) What's known is this: As th …

Rep. Johnson calls for probe into disinformation campaign targeting journalists

On the House floor Wednesday, Rep. Hank Johnson (D-CA) called for an investigation into an alleged disinformation campaign targeting journalists who reported on Department of Defense spending on Information Operations. “We face the disturbing possibility that a federal d …

Florida foreclosure case could slam banks

The Florida Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments Thursday in a lawsuit that could undo hundreds of thousands of foreclosures and open up banks to severe financial liabilities in the state where they face the bulk of their foreclosure-fraud litigation. The court is deci …

Indian Activists Visit Appalachia To Build Global Coalition Against Coal Industry

The forest-shaded hills of the Appalachian Mountains near Charleston, WV, may seem an unlikely place for Indian activists to campaign against a destructive coal plant being built 8,000 miles away in Gujarat state in India.  But that is where Soumya Dutta of the People&rsqu …

Pregnant Workers Fairness Act Protects Mothers-To-Be

Yesterday, Congress took up legislation that could significantly impact women’s health — and no, it doesn’t limit contraception or force anything into their vaginas. The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act aims to protect pregnant women in the workplace from common …

14 Steps That Will Evolve Your Views On Gay Marriage

Attention! People who don't like gay people! Read this! ****Be forewarned, the video is a tear-jerker****

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