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Right-wing media continue their relentless campaign to undermine the Labor Secretary nomination of Thomas Perez , pushing the baseless claim that he acted unethically in his involvement with a withdrawn Supreme Court case that could have undone decades of civil rights precedent. The Wall Street Journal and the National Review Online have been at the forefront of allegations , most recently made by the WSJ on May 6 , that Perez perpetuated a ” shady quid pro quo ” with the City of St

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Fox Business’ Lou Dobbs hosted Cody Wilson – a self-described anarchist who was named one of Wired’s top 15 Most Dangerous People In The World  – to promote his 3D-printed gun, which has come under intense scrutiny. On March 5, Forbes reported that Wilson, a law student at the University of Texas, became the first person to fire a real bullet from a plastic gun made with a 3D-printer. The gun, named the “Liberator,” is made almost entirely of plastic, with the exception of a single nail used as the firing pin and a six-ounce piece of steel to comply with the Undetectable Firearms Act , which makes it illegal to manufacture or possess any firearm that is not detectable by a walk-through metal detector.

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John Bolton has long been the id of the conservative foreign policy movement — saying what all of his right wing brethren would not dare even mumble in polite company. He continued that trend yesterday on Neil Cavuto’s Fox News program, telling the host during a discussion of theadministration’s reaction to the September 11, 2012,attack on diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, Libya: I’d have to say for the good of the country, I hope it is a cover up rather than the alternative, which is the Obama administration was so blind to the reality of the threat of Islamic terrorism, the continued threat from Al Qaeda… If that’s the problem there’s no cure for it. If it was merely a political cover-up then there can be a political cost to pay

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Health and environmental advocates have fought for years for a federal labeling program for genetically engineered food. Now, for the first time , their battle has bipartisan support in Congress. On Wednesday, Sen

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Rush Limbaugh attacked the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as food stamps, as the “buy beer … with a government credit card” despite prohibitions on the purchase of alcohol with program funds

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Fox News hosts absurdly claimed that the opportunity to register to vote while applying for food stamps entrenches voters in a “cycle of dependency.” But most food stamp participants remain on the program for limited periods of time, and the voter registration inclusion is a national policy that has been in place for decades. On March 22, Fox hosts Stuart Varney and Steve Doocy used a discussion of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), previously known as food stamps, to forward the Republican myth  that the program generates a culture of dependency that locks liberal governments into positions of power

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Fox News ignored the facts on food stamps to praise Rep. Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) proposed budget for supposedly returning work requirements and time limits to the program, and for adding measures aimed at reducing food stamp enrollment. In reality, the food stamp program already requires work and has time limits for benefits, and enrollment in the program is projected to decline as the economy improves.

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Fox News ignored the facts on food stamps to praise Rep. Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) proposed budget for supposedly returning work requirements and time limits to the program, and for adding measures aimed at reducing food stamp enrollment. In reality, the food stamp program already requires work and has time limits for benefits, and enrollment in the program is projected to decline as the economy improves.

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On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear a 75-year-old soybean farmer’s appeal against biotech giant Monsanto , in a case that could permanently reshape the genetically modified (GM) crop industry. Victor “Hugh” Bowman has been battling the corporation since 2007, when Monsanto sued him for violating their patent protection by purchasing second-generation GM seeds from a grain elevator

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