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William Rivers Pitt | Pudd'nhead Mitt and the Great Giveaway
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William Rivers Pitt | Pudd'nhead Mitt and the Great Giveaway
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10858-puddnhead-mitt-and-the-great-giveaway
William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: "The decision to add Paul Ryan to the Republican presidential campaign has, once and for all time, exposed the limp, rudderless vacancy that is the core essence of Willard Mitt Romney.... By tapping Ryan, and thus agreeing to take on the fourteen years of far-right baggage Ryan brings with him, Romney has all but announced to the world that he is folding his hand and ceding control of the party to the whacked-out denizens of his right flank."
Campaign for Paid Sick Days in New York Aims to Support Working Women
http://truth-out.org/news/item/10831-campaign-for-paid-sick-days-in-new-york-city-aims-to-help-empower-working-women
Yana Kunichoff, Truthout: "The lack of paid sick days affects all working people who are forced to ignore sore throats and runny noses for fear of being fired, but it disproportionately affects women. Concentrated in industries like caregiving and food service, and most likely to have to stay home if a child is ill, women also risk the most economically when forced to take an unplanned and unpaid sick day."
Chris Hedges | After Latest NDAA Challenge Hearing, Thoughts on the Criminalization of Dissent
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10861-criminalizing-dissent
Chris Hedges, Truthdig: "In last week's proceeding, the judge, who appeared from her sharp questioning of government attorneys likely to nullify [section 1021 of the NDAA], cited the forced internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II as a precedent she did not want to follow."
Casino Mogul and GOP Donor Sheldon Adelson's Frontman in China Is Focus of Inquiries
http://truth-out.org/news/item/10872-casino-mogul-and-gop-donor-sheldon-adelsons-frontman-in-china-is-focus-of-inquiries
Michael Luo, Neil Gough and Edward Wong, The New York Times News Service: "When Sheldon Adelson, the casino magnate, needed something done in China, he often turned to his company's 'chief Beijing representative,' a mysterious businessman named Yang Saixin.... But today, Mr. Yang ... is a focus of a wide-ranging federal investigation into potential bribery of foreign officials ... The investigations are unfolding as Mr. Adelson has become an increasing presence in this year's presidential election, contributing at least $35 million to Republican groups."
We All Need Heroes
http://truth-out.org/news/item/10737-we-all-need-heroes
Truthout's Leslie Thatcher interviews author Peter Dreier: "The radical ideas of one generation have become the common sense of the next.... Unless we know this history, we will have little understanding of how far we have come, how we got here, and what still needs to change to make America (and the rest of the world) more livable, humane, and democratic."
Romney's Death Squad Ties: Bain Launched With Millions From Oligarchs Behind Salvadoran Atrocities
http://truth-out.org/news/item/10876-romneys-death-squad-ties-bain-launched-with-millions-from-oligarchs-behind-salvadoran-atrocities
Amy Goodman, Democracy NOW!: "After initially struggling to find investors, Romney traveled to Miami in 1983 to win pledges of $9 million, 40 percent of Bain's start-up money. Some investors had extensive ties to the death squads responsible for the vast majority of the tens of thousands of deaths in El Salvador during the 1980s."
We're Still Arming the King of Bahrain? There Oughta Be a Law!
http://truth-out.org/news/item/10864-were-still-arming-the-king-of-bahrain-there-oughta-be-a-law
Robert Naiman, Truthout: "The Arms Sale Responsibility Act would prohibit US arms sales to a government unless the president certifies that the government is not engaging in gross violations of internationally recognized human rights, including the use of excessive force against unarmed protesters; systematic official discrimination on the basis of race, religion or ethnicity; or blocking the free functioning of human rights organizations."
Jim Hightower | Drone on the Range
http://truth-out.org/news/item/10859-drone-on-the-range
Jim Hightower, OtherWords: "The pilotless, remote-controlled planes that the CIA uses to spy on and bomb people in Pakistan and elsewhere are headed to our local police departments."
America's Attention Deficit Disorder
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10865-americas-deficit-attention-disorder
David Korten, YES! Magazine: "The key point, which the deficit debates rarely address, is that one person or entity's financial debt is another person or entity's financial asset. We can only borrow money from each other. The idea that we borrow money from the future is an illusion."
Dean Baker | Paul Ryan's Far-Right Agenda: The Media Can't Take the Truth
http://truth-out.org/news/item/10860-rep-paul-ryans-far-right-agenda-the-media-cant-take-the-truth
Dean Baker, Truthout: "[T]o imply that Ryan is some sort of stringent free-market fundamentalist would be far too generous. Representative Ryan has never expressed any discomfort with the numerous forms of government intervention that redistribute income upward to those at the very top."
Bill Moyers | In Paul Ryan, the Right at Last Has Their Man
http://truth-out.org/news/item/10874-bill-moyers-in-paul-ryan-the-right-at-last-has-their-man
Bill Moyers, Moyers & Company: "This was never Romney's party, and without Karl Rove's shadowy money behind him, he would not have survived the primaries.... But in Paul Ryan, the Golden Boy from Janesville who schooled himself in the ideology of right-wing think tanks inside the Beltway, they finally have one of their own - a true believer for the new Gilded Age."
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Boston Airport Security Staff Instructed to Racially Profile Passengers, and More
http://truth-out.org/news/item/10879-on-the-news-with-thom-hartmann-logan-airport-security-staff-instructed-to-racially-profile-passengers-and-more
In today's On the News segment: The Department of Justice announced Friday it would not press charges against Goldman Sachs, the FBI is investigating another possible hate crime against Muslims in Chicago, a massive surveillance system known as "Trapwire" is up and running in major American cities, and more.
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
Government Programs and Taxpayers Financed Paul Ryan: He Didn't Make It on His Own
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/11664-government-programs-and-taxpayers-financed-paul-ryan-he-didn-t-make-it-on-his-own
Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: "Ayn Rand, Ryan's heroine, calls the poor parasites. Ryan champions the takers, sort of an adaptation of the master race as defined by whoever is a 'taker,' a crusher of those who get in one's way to the acquisition of vast wealth and power. Perhaps it is the supreme irony that Ryan is the ultimate leech and parasite, living off the taxpayers' hard-earned dollars."
Planned Parenthood Web Video Calls Romney-Ryan "Really Wrong for Women"
Read the Article at Talking Points Memo
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/exclusive-planned-parenthood-web-hit-calls-romney-ryan
Ryan Pick Could Hurt Romney in Crucial Fight for Florida
Read the Article at Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/13/us-usa-campaign-romney-florida-idUSBRE87C01A20120813
Evidence Shows Three-Star General Ordered Unlawful, Brutal Treatment of Pfc. Bradley Manning
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/11666-evidence-shows-three-star-general-ordered-unlawful-brutal-treatment-of-pfc-bradley-manning
Five Ways Privatization Degrades America
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/11665-five-ways-privatization-degrades-america
Ohio Limits Early Voting Hours in Democratic Counties, Expands in Republican Counties
Read the Article at ThinkProgress
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/08/10/670441/ohio-limits-early-voting-hours-in-democratic-counties-expands-in-republican-counties/
Afghan Policeman Opens Fire on Troops; No Deaths
Read the Article at CBS/AP
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57491840/afghan-policeman-opens-fire-on-troops-no-deaths/?tag=stack
Houston, We Have a Workers' Rights Problem
Read the Article at The Pump Handle
http://scienceblogs.com/thepumphandle/2012/07/09/houston-we-have-a-workers-rights-problem-profile-of-a-worker-justice-center-in-texas-biggest-city/
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Government Programs and Taxpayers Financed Paul Ryan: He Didn't Make It on His Own </strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: normal;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.2"><strong>Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: </strong>"Ayn Rand, Ryan's heroine, calls the poor parasites. Ryan champions the takers, sort of an adaptation of the master race as defined by whoever is a 'taker,' a crusher of those who get in one's way to the acquisition of vast wealth and power. Perhaps it is the supreme irony that Ryan is the ultimate leech and parasite, living off the taxpayers' hard-earned dollars."</p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=NgkYh1nuLjOe0vhXJY%2BBnwd3EaSkegSD"><strong>Read the BuzzFlash Commentary</strong></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Planned Parenthood Web Video Calls Romney-Ryan "Really Wrong for Women"</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=KihpT9EUvt%2BxHtHqJo%2FmFvIUDNsP7KUr"><strong>Read the Article at Talking Points Memo</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Ryan Pick Could Hurt Romney in Crucial Fight for Florida</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=6aUT%2BwFUPSI%2BxmIW0fcXvgd3EaSkegSD"><strong>Read the Article at Reuters</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Evidence Shows Three-Star General Ordered Unlawful, Brutal Treatment of Pfc. Bradley Manning</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=g0ROUnd7rIi0sDW%2Bx%2BL8wvIUDNsP7KUr"><strong>Read the Article at BuzzFlash</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Five Ways Privatization Degrades America</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=aJ%2BmfaBcXhTlbBbpnz1XFfIUDNsP7KUr"><strong>Read the Article at BuzzFlash</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Ohio Limits Early Voting Hours in Democratic Counties, Expands in Republican Counties</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=slj3PggvA9K1c%2BrZBAXb2vIUDNsP7KUr"><strong>Read the Article at ThinkProgress</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Afghan Policeman Opens Fire on Troops; No Deaths</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=evM67myFDWwAUIHPM5bLCvIUDNsP7KUr"><strong>Read the Article at CBS/AP</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Houston, We Have a Workers' Rights Problem</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=2ZW1XY0WEgJhg88ehwRh%2BQd3EaSkegSD"><strong>Read the Article at The Pump Handle</strong></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=zFRpJIh7GuvRaDyEXj%2Fc%2BPIUDNsP7KUr"><strong>William Rivers Pitt | Pudd'nhead Mitt and the Great Giveaway</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>William Rivers Pitt, Truthout:</strong> "The decision to add Paul Ryan to the Republican presidential campaign has, once and for all time, exposed the limp, rudderless vacancy that is the core essence of Willard Mitt Romney.... By tapping Ryan, and thus agreeing to take on the fourteen years of far-right baggage Ryan brings with him, Romney has all but announced to the world that he is folding his hand and ceding control of the party to the whacked-out denizens of his right flank."</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=uJTU%2FXxMsnLfl%2BoprVLQrPIUDNsP7KUr"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Sw6rPi6WvZdMRhY%2Ft0rRkPIUDNsP7KUr"><strong>Campaign for Paid Sick Days in New York Aims to Support Working Women</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Yana Kunichoff, Truthout:</strong> "The lack of paid sick days affects all working people who are forced to ignore sore throats and runny noses for fear of being fired, but it disproportionately affects women. Concentrated in industries like caregiving and food service, and most likely to have to stay home if a child is ill, women also risk the most economically when forced to take an unplanned and unpaid sick day."</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=M9TPGgZ8m%2BjeFZxXVpns4vIUDNsP7KUr"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=YzFY9y1bkPpHioqqmme18vIUDNsP7KUr"><strong>Chris Hedges | After Latest NDAA Challenge Hearing, Thoughts on the Criminalization of Dissent </strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Chris Hedges, Truthdig:</strong> "In last week's proceeding, the judge, who appeared from her sharp questioning of government attorneys likely to nullify [section 1021 of the NDAA], cited the forced internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II as a precedent she did not want to follow."</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=KT%2B7G%2FrbOfzXXD%2B8O4%2Bxp%2FIUDNsP7KUr"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=bjNqv85o2W6hezPICM6%2B5fIUDNsP7KUr"><strong>Casino Mogul and GOP Donor Sheldon Adelson's Frontman in China Is Focus of Inquiries</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Michael Luo, Neil Gough and Edward Wong, The New York Times News Service:</strong> "When Sheldon Adelson, the casino magnate, needed something done in China, he often turned to his company's 'chief Beijing representative,' a mysterious businessman named Yang Saixin.... But today, Mr. Yang ... is a focus of a wide-ranging federal investigation into potential bribery of foreign officials ... The investigations are unfolding as Mr. Adelson has become an increasing presence in this year's presidential election, contributing at least $35 million to Republican groups."</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=%2FHs%2B8O%2BZyIZA0vekywmatvIUDNsP7KUr"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=clhEtJgoFfdUlS31yM6Xhwd3EaSkegSD"><strong>We All Need Heroes</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Truthout's Leslie Thatcher interviews author Peter Dreier:</strong> "The radical ideas of one generation have become the common sense of the next.... Unless we know this history, we will have little understanding of how far we have come, how we got here, and what still needs to change to make America (and the rest of the world) more livable, humane, and democratic."</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=elXPfdTyrv%2F02WJCmMVLjfIUDNsP7KUr"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ZQ%2B0R%2BFI0OyIeuizSXupmfIUDNsP7KUr"><strong>Romney's Death Squad Ties: Bain Launched With Millions From Oligarchs Behind Salvadoran Atrocities</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Amy Goodman, Democracy NOW!:</strong> "After initially struggling to find investors, Romney traveled to Miami in 1983 to win pledges of $9 million, 40 percent of Bain's start-up money. Some investors had extensive ties to the death squads responsible for the vast majority of the tens of thousands of deaths in El Salvador during the 1980s."</p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=CFw8hJe9CYDtlmK%2BzmeibPIUDNsP7KUr"><strong>We're Still Arming the King of Bahrain? There Oughta Be a Law!</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Robert Naiman, Truthout:</strong> "The Arms Sale Responsibility Act would prohibit US arms sales to a government unless the president certifies that the government is not engaging in gross violations of internationally recognized human rights, including the use of excessive force against unarmed protesters; systematic official discrimination on the basis of race, religion or ethnicity; or blocking the free functioning of human rights organizations."</p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=UpOfMCOnYtqP3DhOBnSTDfIUDNsP7KUr"><strong>Jim Hightower | Drone on the Range</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Jim Hightower, OtherWords:</strong> "The pilotless, remote-controlled planes that the CIA uses to spy on and bomb people in Pakistan and elsewhere are headed to our local police departments."</p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=17%2BAMJ3bZITP9xnEIeV0cvIUDNsP7KUr"><strong>America's Attention Deficit Disorder</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>David Korten, YES! Magazine:</strong> "The key point, which the deficit debates rarely address, is that one person or entity's financial debt is another person or entity's financial asset. We can only borrow money from each other. The idea that we borrow money from the future is an illusion."</p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=22iokBdXrmQ9svF3QnV4vfIUDNsP7KUr"><strong>Dean Baker | Paul Ryan's Far-Right Agenda: The Media Can't Take the Truth</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Dean Baker, Truthout:</strong> "[T]o imply that Ryan is some sort of stringent free-market fundamentalist would be far too generous. Representative Ryan has never expressed any discomfort with the numerous forms of government intervention that redistribute income upward to those at the very top."</p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=kKRYKM8RT95IandKCOdbWPIUDNsP7KUr"><strong>Bill Moyers | In Paul Ryan, the Right at Last Has Their Man</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Bill Moyers, Moyers & Company:</strong> "This was never Romney's party, and without Karl Rove's shadowy money behind him, he would not have survived the primaries.... But in Paul Ryan, the Golden Boy from Janesville who schooled himself in the ideology of right-wing think tanks inside the Beltway, they finally have one of their own - a true believer for the new Gilded Age."</p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ZeiuIL0NaTuxdWCwY8llFvIUDNsP7KUr"><strong>On the News With Thom Hartmann: Boston Airport Security Staff Instructed to Racially Profile Passengers, and More</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>In today's On the News segment:</strong> The Department of Justice announced Friday it would not press charges against Goldman Sachs, the FBI is investigating another possible hate crime against Muslims in Chicago, a massive surveillance system known as "Trapwire" is up and running in major American cities, and more.</p>
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