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From: Hans Rosling’s 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes – The Joy of Stats – BBC Four

It’s fun to see what whacko conspiracy theory the right wing comes up with. (Same for the far left, I suppose.) Here’s one that’s making the rounds. I saw it on a conservative email list I monitor. According to sources in the State Department and the CIA, and intercepted communications from the Muslim Brotherhood, Obama…

Stand Strong. Add your name here: http://bit.ly/WipgS1 But the Tea Party contingent is even worse than Boehner.

Having won re-election thanks to the strenuous efforts of millions of Democrats and progressives, President Obama is now freed from the pressures of campaigning. I fear that he will do what he really wants to do:  serve the interests of Wall Street and the military-industrial complex. Last year he volunteered to cut Social Security and…

Twenty years ago, smoking was permitted in most restaurants and public buildings. Nowadays, smokers have accepted that they have no right to force nonsmokers to put up with secondhand smoke. In a similar way, society needs to make the transition to a mindset in which driving a single-occupancy, non-electric passenger car is viewed as selfish,…

Right wing website Newsmax held a survey in which they asked whether to cut Medicare.  Respondents overwhelmingly responded, No, don’t cut Medicare.  So Newsmax removed those results and replaced them with results of a question founded upon a lie. Below are the original results (copied from here). First they asked a question about cutting the…

Analysis from Princeton finds GOP kept control of House but lost popular vote

Democrats flirt with Socialism. Progressives neck with Socialism. Only Socialists go all the way. (BTW, I’m not a Socialist, but I wrote that because I thought the metaphor is cool.)