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Not EVERY Millionaire Is A Social Parasite-- But Ayn Rand Certainly Was And GOP Policy Is Predicated On Enabling Them

Down With Tyranny!

Perhaps you never made time to read Ayn Rand's adolescent novels glorifying greed and selfishness-- books that have had far more to do with animating modern Republicanism than anything written or stated by any Founding Fathers, outside of Alexander Ham... »

Being a rising right-wing pol means finding that line between the merely preposterous and the too-preposterous

Down With Tyranny!

Governor Bob, that cagy pol, knows there'sa line in there somewhere that got crossed.by KenJust last week we were talking about the runaway craziness exploding in the Virginia legislature, now fully Republican thanks to the old principle applied to the... »

AM Alert: Tobacco tax proponents gear up June ballot campaign

Sacramento Bee Capitol Alert

There's another battle brewing in this year's California ballot wars: The Yes on Proposition 29 campaign is cranking up. Prop. 29 -- called the California Cancer Research Act -- would hike tobacco taxes by $1 per pack of cigarettes to fund research and... »

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Nothing has come under fiercer scrutiny in recent months than California's high-speed rail proposal, and Brown went to bat for the project. He used his state of the state address to make the case for California's high-speed rail plan, a $100 billion pr... »

The Noah Diaries 2011 (9): Why do Republicans love the idea of royalty and all its trappings?

Down With Tyranny!

Mob mentality, dumb in Dixie, water! water!, AP punked, Jesse Ventura makes sense!, Repugs & government, and moreWhy do righties love royalty? Simple: status. And since to Bushies and their kind status is all about how you were born, is it any wonder t... »

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AM Alert: California Assembly remembers the Holocaust

Sacbee.com Capitol Alert

Dan Walters, in today's video report, lays out how wealthy civil rights lawyer Molly Munger could play havoc with Gov. Jerry Brown's ballot tax campaign. The Legislature has floor sessions today, with the Senate meeting at 2 p.m. and the... »

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