Today in things that are obvious but people pretend are not true. “Where Are All the Liberal Megadonors?”
Also: I meant to post this to my personal Tumblr but messed up. It’s still true, though. —Nick Baumann
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In a government where your dollar is stronger than your vote, you leave the poor open to systematic injustice. Of course there aren’t more super-wealthy liberals: liberal economic policy dictates that there shouldn’t BE people with enough money to sway the system in their favor.
(via stfuconservatives)US Rep Walter Jones (R-NC) introduces bill that would allow churches to engage “in partisan politicking,” such as endorsing candidates from the pulpit, “without losing their tax-exempt status”
Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC) appeared today on Truth that Transforms, the flagship radio program of Truth in Action Ministries, to push his Houses of Worship Free Speech Restoration Act, which the Interfaith Alliance notes would allow houses of worship to engage “in partisan politicking,” such as endorsing candidates from the pulpit, “without losing their tax-exempt status.” Truth in Action Ministries recently produced a film likening the rule to Nazism, and Jones told host John Rabe that the tax provision is like “communism” and “socialism.”
The congressman also conflated the risk of forfeiting tax-exempt status with losing civil rights, saying that the IRS has eroded the “freedom of speech” in the U.S. Jones also said that unlike liberals, “those on the conservative side believe in freedom of speech and therefore they’re not reporting anyone.”
The last church to have lost its tax-exempt status was Randall Terry’s church which took out an advertisement opposing the election of Bill Clinton in 1992.
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Seriously, fuck this. If you want to engage in the political process, that’s AWESOME - but you don’t get to be tax-exempt campaign headquarters.
This guy actually gets what the war on women is all about.
Good news! NH Senate kills abortion-waiting period bill
Oops.
Chris Floyd, Bringing It All Back Home: Occupied Chicago is America’s New Normal
From Bernard Harcourt:
“[All] of this is, sadly, here to stay. NATO will come and go, but the new anti-protest laws, the new riot-gear, the two LRAD sound cannons, and all the normalization of this police state … that will be with us for a long time.”
(via theamericanbear)
Paul Krugman (via azspot)
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Thou shalt not mess with a woman’s reproductive rights.” — Fallopians 4:28[Courtesy Arizona Women Unite Rally April 28th, 2012]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3dyfzz4sd1qbjc2ao1_500.jpg)
Thou shalt not mess with a woman’s reproductive rights.” — Fallopians 4:28
[Courtesy Arizona Women Unite Rally April 28th, 2012]
