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Fla. Tea Party convention will feature Gov. Scott, AG Bondi, and John Birch ‘life member’

By | 09.22.11 | 9:27 am | More from The Florida Independent

The agenda for this year’s Tea Party Florida Convention lists Gov. Rick Scott and Attorney General Pat Bondi as slated to appear at a dinner event with a “life member” of the radical John Birch Society.

The event, held in Daytona Beach Nov. 4-6, will feature G. Edward More…

The Blaze, CNSNews mislead by comparing Aug. 2-5 debt increase to that of the 1950s

By | 08.11.11 | 1:59 pm

The Blaze, the conservative news and opinion website founded by former Fox News host Glenn Beck, reports on a claim that the Obama administration increased the national debt more in four days than the Truman and Eisenhower administrations did during the entire decade of the 1950s. 

Unpopular Photography

By | 08.12.09 | 5:11 pm

Daphne Eviatar is guest-blogging for Glenn Greenwald today. The following is cross-posted at Salon.

If, as the latest reports indicate, Attorney General Eric Holder is serious about prosecuting the worst torture and abuse of “war on terror” prisoners that occurred during the Bush administration, then More…

Obama Fends Off Bush’s Embrace

By | 11.11.08 | 3:45 pm

And now comes the transition. After winning his historic victory last Tuesday, the nation’s first African-American president –and the first non-white chief executive elected in a white majority nation — President-elect Barack Obama has earned an interlude for celebration and relaxation.

But he has barely paused to breathe. Having reconceived More…