National Map of Donors to Restore Our Future, the Mitt Romney Super PAC

Anxious to know who’s been contributing a quarter million, a half million, an even million or more to Restore Our Future, the Super PAC sweeping up unlimited donations to the Mitt Romney campaign? For raw data, visit this web page …

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Health Care Advice From The One Percent

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Where’s that money I set aside to buy an extra house and land in case a family member has a health problem? Is it in my wallet? No. Is it on the bedside table? No. Is it in the kitchen next to the herbs and spices? No. Darn it, where could that money for an extra house and land be?

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What did $1.5 Billion in Lottery Investments Get You? What Could it Have Got You?

Thank you, Noreen Gillespie and Paul Wiseman. Finally, a newspaper article veers from the celebration of a lottery jackpot you didn’t receive to ask where that money might have gone instead: So what exactly would happen if the country spent …

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Climate Change Raises Stakes Of Economic Inequality

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The report notes that one of the major impacts of climate change has been and will continue to be extreme weather events. The report also points out that over 95% of deaths from natural disasters have taken place in “developing countries” – the poorer nations of the earth.

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Jill Stein Speaks As No Democrat Or Republican Will

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“We’re talking about putting a moratorium on foreclosures.” Which presidential candidate actually has the guts to say that?

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Research: Lucky People Feel More Lucky!

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Is it true that if we all would just do the work of cultivating a feeling of gratefulness, all our wages would go up, we would get sick less often, people would like us more, we would shake the monkeys off our backs, and sleep well at night?

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No Labels CoFounder Mark McKinnon: “We Don’t Have Any Special Interest Money.” Bullshit or No?

Since its founding in 2010, the 501c4 corporation called No Labels has refused to identify the names of its funders. Mock-interviewing No Labels co-founder Mark McKinnon on his comedy show this week, Stephen Colbert asked him about No Labels’ cash …

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Are Americans Really Fuming About Gasoline Prices?

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Consumption of gasoline increased by 200,000 barrels per day in just one week, during the same time journalists began to describe Americans as fuming about the cost of gasoline. If Americans are really fuming about gas prices, how come they’re buying more of it?

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Report: Inside the DC Beltway, Inequality is Even More Striking than Outside

Washington, DC has the 2nd highest average income among its richest 20% of all of America’s 50 largest cities. But the income of DC’s poorest 20% is far below the 50-largest-city average. The capital city of the United States of …

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68 People Arrested While Protesting Tuition Hikes In California

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Yesterday, huge numbers of students marched on the California state capitol in an Occupy Education protest, asking for an end to tuition increases. They were met by police in riot gear. 68 of the protesters were hauled off to jail.

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Poor Ann Romney

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If money isn’t really important to the Romneys, why have they collected so much of it? Why are they hoarding their wealth, instead of giving it away to people who need it?

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Mike Bloomberg Handing Over $80 Million to Peter Ackerman of Americans Elect

Peter Ackerman is the Founder, Chairman, apparent primary Funder and President of Americans Elect. Americans Elect is the first-ever privatized online presidential nomination with heavy control over nominee selection by a Board of Directors. That Board of Directors was appointed …

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Formal Call for Reversal of Americans Elect Board Of Directors Decision #2, Letting Just 5 People Fund All of Americans Elect

A formal request per Americans Elect Rule 12.2 for Americans Elect to reverse its decision to let just 5 people fully fund an entire privatized corporate presidential nomination system — in secret. Will Americans Elect respond according to its own rules by posting the full statement on its website for delegate support? Watch and see. Will Americans Elect get away with its new system for a Pentarchy? Watch and see.

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Breaking: Police Shut Down Nike Stores and Arrest Nike Store Managers Across the Country to preserve “Public Safety”

After crowds erupted into violent behavior in Richmond CA, Orange County FL, Lithonia GA, Hyattsville MD, Charlotte NC, Jersey City NJ, San Antonio TX and Seattle WA, police have shut down Nike shoe stores in malls across the country. Hundreds …

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The Myths in Robert Samuelson’s Campaign Finance Myths

Robert Samuelson’s syndicated column defending the deregulation of campaign finance has appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country this week. Samuelson has written down what he believes to be three “myths” regarding campaign finance law. Let’s look at each …

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Frank VanderSloot, Billionaire Finance Co-Chair of Mitt Romney Campaign, is an Anti-Free Speech Censorship Bully

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If you write anywhere on the web, you need to write out the words in the title. You need to write them because they are the truth. You need to write them because somebody is trying to squash that truth …

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Occupy DC in Freedom Plaza: Persistent and Specific

Two of the knocks given to the Occupy movement: 1. It’ll never last. 2. It has no demands. The first objection is really an empirical prediction. Is it bearing out? Partially — people are leaving and camps are disappearing across …

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Mitt Romney Headed up to Maine: Another Day, Another Campaign Event at a Yacht Club

Grosse Pointe Shores, Michigan, June 8 2011: Mitt Romney appears at Grosse Pointe Yacht Club private fundraiser. Sarasota, Florida, June 16 2011: Mitt Romney appears at Sarasota Yacht Club private fundraiser. Naples, Florida, November 28 2011: Mitt Romney appears at …

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