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Donald Trump - Mitt Romney is a Small Businessman and My Company is Bigger

Former Bush Adviser Mark McKinnon Calls Sen. John Kyl’s Remarks ‘Bullshit’ Live On CNN

More of the closed-door Obama audio released – expands on the president’s comments about GOP repealing heathcare and the hypocrisy of Paul “America’s Accountant” Ryan

Ryan responds: ‘stop bickering, respect me’

An Orange County, CA GOP official with a history of standing with racists, sends out a birther email depicting Obama as a monkey.

Andrew Breitbart tells union supporters in Wisconsin to “go to hell”

Sarah Palin's Speech in Madison, WI

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner on This Week – GOP leaders have already told Obama that they will not play with the debt ceiling

Donald Trump’s ‘brain power’ solution to oil prices: use the U.S. military to steal it

Robin Williams on Donald Trump’s hair/alien

War on Workers

Here we go – an “emergency manager” in Michigan has suspended a city’s decision making powers

The new viceroy’s official decree

Rick Unger: Gov. Scott Walker Reportedly Planning Financial Martial Law In Wisconsin

Walker has no problem raising taxes as long as it’s on the poor and middle class

SIDEBAR: Sarah Palin draws a pathetic crowd at her Koch Bros/Americans for Propersity visit to Wisconsin – at least as many protesters as supporters among the 6,500

45-year teacher: Sorry for bankrupting all of you

Hedge Fund Gamblers Earn the Same In One Hour As a Middle-Class Household Makes In Over 47 Years

The Debt Ceiling

S&P Affirms US AAA Rating, Cuts Future Outlook to Negative Based On U.S. Policymakers Inability To Agree On How To Handle Future Debt

Idiot Republicans Continue Playing Games With Debt Ceiling

The Debt Ceiling Train Wreck Coming At Us

Debt Ceiling FAQs

Raise the debt limit - or instantly cut or raise $738 billion

Politics

State By State, GOP Tearing Away at Rights

Racist Orange County Republican Email: President Obama and His Parents Are Apes

Paul Krugman: Let’s Not Be Civil

Tea Party Jesus: Koch's Americans For Prosperity Sidles Up to Religious Right for 2012 Campaign

Robert Parry: The rise of the Right in the post-WWII era through racism, media and sleeping/bickering liberals

Sure to drive the Tea freaks nuts, President Obama to ignore 'czar' ban

Teens — gay or straight — more likely to attempt suicide in conservative towns

Tax Day

Super rich see federal taxes drop dramatically

Taxes reach historic low

Prosecutions of tax evaders up 25%

EJ Dionne: America’s elites have a duty to the rest of us

Other

After Storms, a Widespread Path of Death and Damage

Machine arrives to aid rescuers at N. Idaho mine

U.S. and Allies Seek a Refuge for Gadhafi

Robot in Japanese reactors detects high radiation

Virginia Nuclear Plant Shuts Down After Tornado Strike

Millions of Gallons of Fracking Chemicals Were Injected Into Wells, Report Says

Braving the Atlas Shrugged Movie Crowd

Moms killing kids not nearly as rare as we think

Six racehorses burned to death after driver flicks a cigarette into their trailer