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Michael Moore says the real IRS scandal is corporations not paying taxes (via Mlive.com ) FLINT, MI -- The real IRS scandal is the agency allowing General Electric "and 50 other corporations" not to pay any taxes, Flint native and filmmaker Michael Moore said on HBO's “Real Time With Bill Maher."  According to a report in the Huffington Post, Moore said Americans are focusing on the…

How New International Food Aid Rules Could Save Millions — In Lives And Dollars : pThe Somali famine of 2011 was a massive, monstrous failure on the part of the international community at almost all levels. A new report released on Thursday indicates that the crisis took the lives of a far greater number than many experts predicted: Up to 260,000 Somalis died that year, over half of them children, [...]/p

If you can't do the time, don't do the crime." So goes the old saying. Yet conditions in some American facilities are so obscene that they amount to a form of extrajudicial punishment. Doing time is not supposed to include being raped by fellow prisoners or staff, beaten by guards for the slightest provocation, driven mad by long-term solitary confinement, or killed off by medical neglect. These, however, are the fates of thousands of prisoners every year—men, women, and children housed in lockups that give Gitmo and Abu Ghraib a run for their money. The United States boasts the world's highest incarceration rate, with close to 2.3 million people locked away in some 1,800 prisons and 3,000 jails. Most are nasty places by design, aimed at punishment and exclusion rather than rehabilitation; while reliable numbers are hard to come by, at  last count  81,622 prisoners were being held in some form of isolation in state and federal prisons. Thousands more are being held...

MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell extended sympathy to who he called “honest Libertarians” on Tuesday, while picking apart the flaws in recent statements by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) and retired Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) over authorities’ tactics during the search for and capture of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects. “You deserve better spokesmen than Ron and Rand,” O’Donnell said. “But until you get better Libertarian advocates, you’re going to have to continue to endure paranoid, lying politicians in the Paul family.” O’Donnell began his account by focusing on  Rand Paul’s April 23 statement  that, “If someone comes out of a liquor store with a weapon and 50 dollars in cash I don’t care if a drone kills him or a policeman kills him.” O’Donnell tells Libertarians: You deserve better spokesmen than Ron and Rand Paul | The Raw Story

Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death  and founding director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. He said today: “The tenth anniversary of the Iraq invasion comes at a time of chilling statements from the top of the U.S. government. Days ago, speaking of possible actions against Iran, President Obama told an Israeli TV reporter: ‘I continue to keep all options on the table.’ Earlier this month, Vice President Biden told the AIPAC annual conference that Obama ‘is not bluffing’ and declared that ‘all options, including military force, are on the table.’ These statements are similar to the threats uttered by President Bush and Vice President Cheney prior to the invasion of Iraq.” Solomon added: “Despite the myth that just about everyone believed there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, many experts and independent groups in the United States — including the Institute for Public Accuracy — thoroughly debunked such claims during the year before the invasion...

How many candidates for Congress last year won on the following platform? 1. That Social Security cost-of-living adjustments are too generous. Social Security should be cut over the next two decades by more than $1,000 a year for 85-year-old widows living on $1,200 a month.  2. That benefits earned by disabled veterans as a result of losing their arms, legs or eyesight in Iraq and Afghanistan are too generous. Disabled veterans’ benefits should be cut over the next 15 years by more than $1,400 a year. Chained CPI: An economic, moral disaster - The Hill

en  on Mar 7, 2013 at 3:00 pm The US Supreme Court seems poised to invalidate a key section of the Voting Rights Act after last week’s  hostile oral argument . Conservative justices insisted that special protections for minority voters in historically discriminatory districts are now obsolete. While Justice Antonin Scalia brashly attacked the law as  “a perpetuation of racial entitlement,”  Chief Justice John Roberts attempted a more measured statistical argument. Roberts claimed that Section 5′s focus on southern states was outdated because Mississippi has the highest black voter turnout, while Massachusetts has the lowest. Statistics guru Nate Silver  dismantled  Roberts’ argument in his New York Times column today, pointing out that Roberts cherry-picked two states outside the norm: In fact, it would be dangerous to infer very much from Massachusetts and Mississippi.  In 2004, for instance, while Mississippi was reported to have strong black turnou...

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