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Kicking Ass (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
The Call 'Em Out series continues this week -- and this time we’re calling out the House GOP . All but one Republican member of the House voted against health insurance reform last Saturday. During the 12-hours preceding the vote, GOP members stood at the podium spouting lie after lie in a last ditch effort to kill reform. Watch our video showing all of the outrageous lies from the House debate...
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Cowfish Blog (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
This evening I went to see Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus at Nicko and Joe’s Bad Film Club . I was quite fortunate to see it with Nicko and Joe talking over it, as the visuals combined with small amount of original dialogue that I did hear were enough to cause a minor nosebleed and I can only just imagine the total exsanguination that may have resulted from actually watching the film ‘as...
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Daily Kos (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Perhaps pointing out hypocrisy from the GOP is akin to letting people in on the secret that the sky is blue, but what the heck ... Over the past nine months, House Republicans have worn their Party of No badge with pride, opposing every spending bill to come down the pike and littering the airways to moan about America's descent into socialism. And while no one is arguing that an entire state should...
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They gave us a republic (Free subscription) | 08/07/2009
Pro Publica Journalism in the Public Interest has performed an outstanding service by breaking the entire $750 billion stimulus package down to the county level, making it easy to compare states and counties by per capita spending against unemployment rates and by type of project. Here's the state-by-state breakdown. The big winners are not who you might expect. Kentucky, for example, ranks 34th in...
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DownWithTyranny! (Free subscription) | 07/22/2009
Last year I was in New Delhi for a couple weeks and I was stunned by how much cleaner the air was from when I first started visiting that city-- one the World Bank ranked as the second most polluted in the world as recently as 2004. It's noticeably less polluted now because autos and buses are required to use natural gas. Yesterday Congress passed a bill, H.R. 1622 that directs the Secretary of Energy...
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Kentucky Club for Growth (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
Government Bytes has lists of earmark requests for three spending bills in the US House. Here are Kentucky's: KY 01 - Ed Whitfield Bill Recipient Project Amount HR 2996 City of Tompkinsville, KY water treatment plant backwash lagoon $189,000 HR...
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Townhall.com (Free subscription) | 06/24/2009
Guest blog post by Rep. Ed Whitfield (Kent.)While I am committed to improving the nation's health care system and providing affordable health care to all Americans, I have some very serious concerns with this draft...
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