Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Salon.com: Tea Party’s “intensified war”: Why the GOP’s happy time is about to end

October 28th, 2014
Tea Party supporter William Temple

Tea Party's "intensified war": Why the GOP's happy time is about to end

Celebrated Harvard professor says that even if they win the Senate, GOP leadership has a problem on the horizon

Kara Stein, Luis Aguilar

Big banks' stunning setback: Meet two officials saying no to Bank of America

After relying on out-of-court settlements to skirt big consequences, banks have finally met their match. Here's why

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New Alaska polls scramble Senate calculus

Plus: Dems fear GOP wave in House, Kansas rebels against conservatism, and the Senate races that got away

David Bossie

GOP's shady partisan hit man: How dirty trickster David Bossie is ruining politics

David Bossie isn't famous, but his shady work in the trenches is altering democracy -- and there's more to come

Tessa Thompson in "Dear White People"

5 reasons everyone needs to see "Dear White People"

The Indiegogo-funded flick is a landmark depiction of race in America, a "Do the Right Thing" for Gen Y

Thom Tillis, Scott Walker, Jony Ernst

Wingnuts' stunning new lie: 5 far-right Republicans now pretending to be pro-choice

GOP Senate candidates have taken up a fun new campaign tactic: Lying about their positions on reproductive health

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Stop thanking me for my service

As a veteran, I'm tired of being blindly celebrated. Good intentions aren't a substitute for good politics

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7 cities that are playgrounds for the rich and nightmares for the poor

Nowhere is the planet's exploding income inequality on more vivid display than these major metropolises

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"A billion husbands are about to be replaced": Imagining the wildly effective vibrators of the future

In dude-king Chuck Palahniuk's latest, men are made obsolete by sex toys -- but ultimately, the women get punished

Claire Danes and Mandy Patinkin in "Homeland"

"Homeland"s antiheroine problem: How mentor-mentee relationships are ruining the show

"Homeland" and "How to Get Away With Murder" both feature queasy mentoring dynamics, but one's a lot more troubling

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What's the matter with Kansas? A dispatch from the front lines of its fight for marriage equality

Despite the state's fiercely conservative politics, its LGBT movement is slowly but surely gaining traction

Kylie Minogue in BBC Music's "God Only Knows" cover

Must viral videos be so bad? Admit it, "God Only Knows" is the worst

Celebrity viral videos explode online so quickly that we've forgotten this truth: Most of them are unbearably awful

A gun rights supporter openly carries two pistols strapped to his leg during a rally in support of the Michigan Open Carry gun law in Romulus, Michigan April 27, 2014.

Gun extremists' ghastly new low: A fight over "open carry" turns vulgar and scary

Nuts fighting to save their "rights" aren't just demonstrating or issuing propaganda. Now they're getting personal

Bill Maher in "Real Time with Bill Maher"

Bill Maher under fire: UC Berkeley students petitioning against comedian's commencement address

More than 1,700 people have signed the Change.org petition

Sam Brownback

The Wall Street Journal's shameless dishonesty: What its defense of Kansas' tax cuts says about the right's real agenda

Paper claims Kansas' tax cuts are working just fine -- any problems are the liberals' fault!

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Researchers: A massive amount of BP oil is coating the bottom of the Gulf

Oil is splattered for miles surrounding the spill's source, a new study finds (updated0

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Diminishing sea ice doubles chance of colder winters in Europe and Asia

The finding is consistent with recent articles linking sea ice decline and extreme weather

Ray Rice

Dressing up as Ray Rice for Halloween: Sexist, racist, terrifying and trendy

The "joke" costumes really get in the spirit of the holiday -- because they're horrifying

Andrew Cuomo, Chris Christie

"History repeating itself": AIDS activists slam Cuomo for "stigmatizing" Ebola quarantines

Advocates and public health experts cite troubling similarities between the AIDS crisis and Ebola panic

Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift's "Welcome to New York" is the worst ode to NYC ever

"NYC is unlike anywhere else in the world," Swift says. Oh really? Because we wouldn't know it from your new song







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