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Searched LGF articles for: paul krugman (539 matches, in 22 pages)

Drudge Report is Pushing Yet Another Crackpot AAPS Doctor Making Claims About Ebola

Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 12:06:22 pm
Yesterday, I posted about how Drudge was spreading all kinds of misinformation about the current outbreak of enterovirus D68. That misinformation was courtesy of the AAPS, which is a crank organization with ties to both Rand and Ron Paul, filled with racists and xenophobes. Well, the AAPS is back in the ...

NBC Was Wrong: Federal Charges Have Not Been "Ruled Out" for Gov. Christie

Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 3:36:43 pm
You may have seen right wing sites trumpeting a report on last night's NBC Nightly News in which Brian Williams said that federal charges against New Jersey governor Chris Christie in the "Bridgegate" scandal had been ruled out. This report led to an orgy of football-spiking, all over the right ...

Drudge Touts Claims That Illegal Aliens Are Source of Enterovirus Outbreak

Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 10:21:23 am
Matt Drudge's website is nothing if not consistent; they tweet an endless stream of inflammatory and eye-catching claims/statements. A couple of these tweets caught my eye: Doctor: Feds 'Tight-Lipped,' May be From Illegals... http://t.co/L4nfmYYKpQ — DRUDGE REPORT (@DRUDGE_REPORT) September 17, 2014 Mystery illness spreads to Virginia... http://t.co/5mtQZ4TbOf — DRUDGE REPORT (@DRUDGE_REPORT) September 17, ...

Live Music: The 2014 Americana Music Honors & Awards

Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 5:35:52 pm
Video The 13th annual Americana Music Association Honors and Awards Show takes place on Wednesday, Sept. 17, at 8 p.m. ET, live from the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tenn. You can watch the entire event, including more than 20 performances by some of Americana's biggest acts, live on NPR.org and ...

Minnesota Police Tase and Arrest Black Man for Sitting in a Public Space

Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 10:07:29 am
This is wrong and just pisses me off, I can't watch it again. YouTube St. Paul Cops Allegedly Taser and Arrest Black Male for Sitting in Public Space | Twin Cities Daily Planet A video showing the arrest of a black St. Paul man for allegedly sitting in a public space and ...

Horrifying Photo From Ferguson: Police in Military Gear Aim Assault Rifles at Unarmed Man

Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 5:03:52 pm
Weapons safety rule #2: "Never point your weapon at anything you do not intend to shoot." http://t.co/tAtnqaOvW5 pic.twitter.com/Y3mdBsuiWZ — Paul Szoldra (@PaulSzoldra) August 12, 2014

Yes, It's Yet Another Deluge of Open Racism at Breitbart "News"

Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 11:05:47 am
Today Breitbart "News" is continuing the incitement of race-hatred in their white right wing audience, with yet another evil-minded post by Ben Shapiro titled: 5 RACE RIOTS IN OBAMA'S POST-RACIAL AMERICA. With a grotesque title like that, Shapiro is obviously appealing to the lowest common denominator knuckle-draggers, and you can probably ...

Reason Magazine Addresses That 1976 "Holocaust Denial Edition"

Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 11:16:20 am
Reason magazine's editor Nick Gillespie has an article up wherein he addresses that 1976 "special edition" featuring Holocaust deniers and contributors to neo-Nazi magazines. Let's see how he acquits the publication: If you want a preview of just how lame ideological mud-slinging is going to get [...] take a look ...

Buzzfeed Fires Former Breitbart/Glenn Beck Writer for Serial Plagiarism

Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 11:04:44 am
After being exposed as a serial plagiarist, Buzzfeed writer Benny Johnson has been fired; here's the post by Ben Smith: Editor's Note: An Apology to Our Readers. Starting this Wednesday, Twitter users began pointing out instances in which a BuzzFeed writer, Benny Johnson, had lifted phrases and sentences from other ...

The Koch Brothers Are Building a Network of Libertarian Hackers, Coders and Designers

Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 10:27:30 am
Worried that IT experts seem to typically vote Democratic, the Koch Brothers have spearheaded hackathons to lure techies into the conservatarian sphere. The gathering was the first inaugural conference put on by Lincoln Labs, a year-old club of politically-minded technologists started by three millennials with backgrounds in Republican politics: Garrett ...

This Is What Happens When Legislators Don't Learn Science in School

Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 3:56:30 pm
As a native Kentuckian who has also lived in several states in this wonderful country and now happily resides in the backwoods of eastern Kentucky, I want to say right off the bat that I love Kentucky. However, I do despair over the intellectual capacity of our elected officials. While Kentucky ...

Hilarious Short Film of the Weekend: The Gunfighter

Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 11:12:02 am
Vimeo Not really safe for work, but pretty gol-darned hilarious. Just another period western meta comedy short film. Featuring the mellifluous voice of Nick Offerman. I hope you enjoy it! WINNER Audience Award for Best Short Film - LA Film Fest Best of the Fest Selection - Palm Springs Short Fest Official Selection - Cleveland International ...

Glenn Greenwald and IAVA's Paul Rieckhoff Get Into a Shouting Match on "Real Time"

Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 4:22:24 pm
YouTube Last night's Bill Maher show featured a panel with Paul Rieckhoff of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) and the Mighty Glenn Greenwald, who got into a very heated exchange beginning when Greenwald asserted that US troops in Iraq should be considered terrorists. It turned into a full-blown yelling match ...

Photo of the Day: At Faith and Freedom Conference, Obama in a Toilet

Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 10:08:10 am
The Huffington Post's Igor Bobic is covering the Faith and Freedom Coalition's Road to Majority Conference, one of the highest profile religious right events of the year featuring the likes of Sen. Rand Paul and Gov. Chris Christie as speakers, and snapped this photo in the mens' restroom outside the ...

And Now, L. Paul Bremer Wants to Send More US Soldiers Into Iraq

Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 10:41:01 am
The latest public figure who was utterly horribly wrong in almost everything he did in Iraq but now wants us to send more US soldiers to die for a neocon pipe dream is L. Paul Bremer, the guy who dissolved the Iraqi Army and very possibly engendered the situation Iraq ...

Dave Brat's Batshit Wingnut Twitter Feed

Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 6:56:35 pm
This guy just defeated Eric Cantor. Here we see the Bad Crazy. pic.twitter.com/50MhdN0NpB — Dave Brat VA 7th (@DaveBratVA7th) May 29, 2014 pic.twitter.com/8Rm7ESxnsW — Dave Brat VA 7th (@DaveBratVA7th) June 2, 2014 Unlike Eric Cantor, Dave is focused on the issues that are affecting Virginian's, not mud-slinging #tcot #tlot pic.twitter.com/PglwKALnkB — Dave Brat ...

Rand Paul: "Let's Trade 5 Democrats to the Taliban"

Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 1:14:42 pm
Here's Senator Rand Paul speaking at the Republican Party of Texas state convention today, then proudly broadcasting his "joke" over Twitter. Because there's nothing funnier than sending Democrats to be killed by the Taliban, is there? I'm sure it brought the house down. "Mr. President, let's set up a new trade. ...

Is Rand Paul Really Against Voter ID Laws? Well, Actually...

Tue, May 13, 2014 at 10:00:02 am
Remember just a few days ago, when libertarian extremist Rand Paul got some press for telling a group of black pastors in Tennessee that the GOP needed to stop pushing voter ID laws? And remember how I scoffed at his statement? Well, today the director of Rand Paul's PAC "clarified" the ...

Rand Paul, Libertarian Extremist in Moderate's Clothing

Fri, May 9, 2014 at 10:23:37 am
Rand Paul, the extreme right wing libertarian who has said more than once that he wouldn't have voted for the 1964 Civil Rights Act and doesn't believe the government should try to prevent discrimination, is now trying to dress himself up as that most rare of species, a "moderate Republican." He's ...

Anti-Science House Republicans Introduce Bill to Gut National Science Foundation

Tue, May 6, 2014 at 11:33:24 am
The party that denies climate change and still refuses to accept the theory of evolution after more than a century is now planning to gut the National Science Foundation. Because of course they are. WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration and the scientific community at large are expressing serious alarm at ...

Kremlin Accidentally Posted the Real Crimean Annexation Vote Results on their Site

Tue, May 6, 2014 at 10:37:17 am
The website of the "President of Russia's Council on Civil Society and Human Rights" posted a blog that was quickly taken down as if it were toxic radioactive waste. According to the Council's report about the March referendum to annex Crimea, the turnout was a maximum 30%. And of ...

Rand Paul: "You Go to a Republican Event and It's All White People"

Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 6:08:25 pm
Video Apparently, we're now supposed to forget that Rand Paul once said he would have opposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act. And we're not supposed to draw the obvious conclusion that he's trying to capitalize on the Bundy Ranch mess, either. Making the GOP slightly more libertarian is just part of Paul's ...

Right Wing Heads Explode as Video of Rand Paul Bashing Ronald Reagan Surfaces

Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 10:32:34 am
YouTube YouTube David Corn has discovered video of Rand Paul, the crypto-libertarian Republican chip off of Ron Paul's block, bashing the Republican Party's most revered icon: WATCH: Rand Paul Says Jimmy Carter Was Better on the Budget Than Ronald Reagan. As Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) ponders a presidential bid, he has lately ...

Ron Paul Denounces US Government in Bundy Ranch Moronic Convergence

Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 12:32:18 pm
Ron Paul comes out in support of the far right "sovereign citizen" loons at the Bundy Ranch moronic convergence, because of course he does: The Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity : Nevada Standoff a Symptom of Increasing Authoritarianism. A still from this videoA government that continually violates our ...

Right Wing Bloggers Immediately Started Portraying the Kansas Neo-Nazi Shooter as a "Democrat"

Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 1:16:39 pm
One of the bizarre exercises right wing bloggers love to engage in after a far right nutjob kills some people: find some way to paint the killer as a "liberal" or a "Democrat." If the criminal in question ever registered as a Democrat in his/her life, they'll dig it up; ...

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