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Rep. Jose E. Serrano (D-NY) released a statement today praising former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, despite the latter’s record of harsh crackdowns on his political opponents and state-sanctioned persecution against Venezuela’s Jewish population

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Bill McKibben has a letter responding to an error-riddled Wall Street Journal op-ed — though I guess that’s redundant . This one attacks clean energy and the fossil-fuel divestment effort McKibben supports. McKibben writes: Robert Bryce’s Dec.

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A Wall Street Journal op-ed pushed discredit smears to claim that Senator John Kerry is anti-military and not fit for a possible cabinet post.

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FoxNews.com is trying to dispute President Barack Obama’s accurate assertion during the second debate that gasoline prices plummeted right before he was inaugurated due to the broader economic downturn, citing experts that “question” his claim. But one expert’s argument has been called “ridiculous,” and the other two did not dispute Obama’s main point – that market factors, not U.S. energy policy, have propelled oil and gasoline prices upward since a temporary lull in early 2009.  In last week’s presidential debate, Mitt Romney misleadingly claimed that gas prices have doubled during Obama’s tenure. Obama correctly responded that gas prices plummeted just before he took office as the global economy experienced a massive recession

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As part of their ongoing effort to smear Massachusetts U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren, Fox News and others in the right-wing media are claiming that in a recent ad, Warren said she wanted the United States to be “like China” and that she may have “call[ed] for America to go communist.” In fact, Warren said that the U.S. should increase its infrastructure spending in order to compete with countries like China, echoing a similar observation from former Fox employee Newt Gingrich.

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Despite Mitt Romney insulting the British , demeaning the Palestinians , irritating Polish Solidarity , and ignoring the traveling press corps , Romney’s campaign and its Republican allies are hailing the presumptive GOP presidential nominee’s recent trip abroad a smash hit. “I think it was a great success,” Romney adviser Stuart Stevens said

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Photo: Roger Nomer/Associated Press The House passed a Republican-sponsored bill (H.R. 8) this afternoon that would extend all the Bush tax cuts for one year, including those on income above $250,000 — and fast-track “tax reform.” Almost all House Republicans and a 19 Democrats voted for the measure. The bill would also actually raise taxes on about 25 million Americans because it reduces some tax credits.

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Hugo Chavez In an interview with a Miami-based Spanish-language media outlet, President Obama gave this banal answer to a question about the supposed “threat” Venezuela poses to America: “what Mr. [Hugo] Chávez has done over the last several years has not had a serious national security impact on us.” Right-wing hawks immediately jumped on the line as evidence of the President’s supposed naïvete on foreign policy. Mitt Romney — who doesn’t really have much of a foreign policy game this election season — got in on the action too , claiming Obama’s statement shows “weakness”: This is a stunning and shocking comment by the President.

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Gabriel Hetland One town’s participatory budget has attracted activists and officials from around the world.

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The real impact of the billions we’re throwing at the region? Everyone hates the U.S.

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