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01.26.12 - 9:49 PM

Al Levie is a social studies teacher and community activist in Wisconsin. He is also one brave and principled guy: When Rep. Paul Ryan tried to give him a Congressional certificate honoring a Martin Luther King humanitarian award Levie had just won, Levie refused it, calling out Ryan out as "a lackey for the 1%" whose policies are an insult to King's stands for civil rights and economic justice. Bravo. Video.

-Abby Zimet
01.26.12 - 6:15 PM

So Romney wasn't entirely honest when he released tax returns showing his daily "earnings" equal most people's yearly income. A review by the L.A. Times found he left out 23 funds - a discrepancy his campaign calls  “trivial,” but is fixing with “minor amendments.” The issue isn't simply that the guy is filthy rich; it's his two-faced, tone-deaf, arrogant sense of entitlement, and the slimy lies he ceaselessly tells. Just to be clear.

-Abby Zimet
01.26.12 - 12:02 PM

Stickers with an image of rifle crosshairs were found on the offices of six Missouri legislators - five of them Democrats, half black women. After staff removed them, larger ones turned up in their place. This, after a Democratic operative in Arkansas found his family cat killed with "LIBERAL" scrawled on the corpse. More, outraged and eloquent, on a violent climate and rhetoric fed daily by the likes of Limbaugh and Hannity - who have yet to take back, or own the repercussions of, any of it.

"They'll probably arrest some teenagers sooner or later. Just kids. Just kids who learned this behavior somewhere...Nothing to see here. Move along. It was an isolated incident."

-Abby Zimet
01.25.12 - 8:05 PM

As the sound and fury of election season looms, Democrats are trying to fight an unlevel playing field made worse by Citizens' United with new legislation to make Super PACs (more) transparent. But the numbers discourage. A new survey shows a majority of Americans believe we need new campaign laws, and charts on political donations and media influence - Republicans own the news cycle - back them up.

-Abby Zimet
01.25.12 - 12:22 PM

The NYPD has been caught in a mess of lies about their "training" using The Third Jihad, a vicious film that presents religious killings, car bombs and executed children as "the true agenda of much of Islam in America." When the Village Voice first broke the story, the NYPD spokesman dismissed it as a "wacky movie" mistakenly shown "a couple of times." Turns out the film was shown "on a continuous loop" for up to a year to 1,500 officers. This sure will help their already-strained credibility.

-Abby Zimet
01.25.12 - 11:01 AM

Man, what is it about Arizona and sheriffs? The new candidate for Pinal County is a neo-Nazi who has led armed volunteers and called for landmines to stop "illegals," and believes this country must be preserved as "a white European homeland." JT Ready vows, once elected, to name a street after George Lincoln Rockwell. The kicker: His hero is George Wallace, so he's running as a Democrat.

-Abby Zimet
01.24.12 - 9:41 PM

Irony Not Dead Yet: In its latest high-profile attack, Anonymous brought down OnGuardOnline.gov, a cyber security site managed by the Federal Trade Commission, to protest anti-piracy measures and the "corporate Internet." More on sites that their "allied armies of darkness" have (CBS, FBI) and, despite reports to the contrary, haven't (Sony, Facebook) hacked.

-Abby Zimet

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