Recent Votes

• Obama Winning Investors by 49%-38% Against Romney in Poll

  Source: Bloomberg.com

  Global investors increasingly prefer President Barack Obama to Republican challenger Mitt Romney and most say they believe the incumbent will remain in the White House for another four years. Asked who would be the better leader for the global economy, 49 p …

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• Bernie Sanders Warns Republicans that Sarkozy's Fate Will Soon Be Theirs

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  Sen. Bernie Sanders told the Republican Party today that if they continue to push austerity, they will suffer defeat just like Nicolas Sarkozy did. In a statement about Sunday’s elections in Europe, Sanders said, In the United States and around the world, the middle cla …

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• It was the BANKS!!! Lehman E-Mails Show Wall Street Arrogance Led to the Fall

  Source: Bloomberg.com

  If one wants to understand the full complicity of Wall Street in the Great Recession, look no further than the voluminous package of pre-collapse Lehman Brothers documents that have been made available by the law firm Jenner & Block LLP, which has acted as the coroner in the  …

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• Atheist Gets Kooky and Threatens to Complain to the Human Rights Commission Over a Prayer

  This is going way too far. Ashu Solo is an atheist who was at a volunteer appreciation dinner. The city councilor was also at the dinner and he said a prayer before eating. Keep in mind, this wasn't a council meeting or official government business - it was a supper to thank volu …

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• The Bible Belt's Love Affair With (Gay and Straight) Porn

  Source: AlterNet.org

  The adult entertainment industry has long been one of the favorite whipping boys of social conservatives, who have argued that porn and other forms of adult entertainment (including strip clubs, swing clubs, phone sex and BDSM) are incompatible with the moral values of the He …

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