The GOP War on Voting

Ari Berman, Rolling Stone
 As the nation gears up for the 2012 presidential election, Republican officials have launched an unprecedented, centrally coordinated campaign to suppress the elements of the Democratic vote that elected Barack Obama in 2008. Just as Dixiecrats once used poll taxes and literacy tests to bar black Southerners from voting, a new crop of GOP governors and state legislators has passed a series of seemingly disconnected measures that could prevent millions of students, minorities, immigrants, ex-convicts and the elderly from casting ballots. "What has happened this year is the most...

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/09/01/the_gop_war_on_voting_262704.html

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More Fighting Over FEMA Disaster Relief Funds

Despite preliminary damage estimates for Hurricane Irene ranking in the billions of dollars, additional funding for the Federal Emergency Management Agency could get caught up in the gridlock of partisan budget battles. A Democratic leadership aide said today that it is ?highly unlikely? Congress will...

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Rep. Carson: Tea Party Wants To See Blacks 'Hanging On A Tree'

House Democrat claims Tea Party wants blacks to be second class citizens.

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Qadhafi: Let Libya burn

"Let Libya be engulfed in flames," he tells his supporters, vowing that he will never surrender.

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Senate still wrangling over spending bill

Senate leaders delayed until Wednesday consideration of a bill to fund the government through Sept. 30, as Democrats accused Republicans of reneging on an agreement to stage side-by-side votes on two competing plans to cut spending.

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The New Resentment of the Poor

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/08/31/the_new_resentment_of_the_poor_262599.html

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