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Chomsky Book Banned From Guantanamo

By | 10.12.09 | 11:16 am

The donation of an anthology of post-9/11 commentary by Professor Noam Chomsky has been rejected from the library at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp, reports The Miami Herald.

While the prison offers inmates books and videos on Harry Potter and the World Cup, which are among the more More…

Bachmann Perpetuates Boehner’s Refuted $3000 Light-Switch Tax Myth

By | 04.08.09 | 12:30 pm

Last week, MIT professor John Reilly called out Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) for intentionally misrepresenting Reilly’s cap-and-trade study to claim that President Obama’s emissions reduction scheme would cost American families more than $3,000 a year. “It’s just wrong,” Reilly told the St. Petersburg Times in reference to Boehner’s More…

The ‘$3,000 Light-Switch Tax’ Myth

By | 04.02.09 | 12:22 pm

House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) has been pushing the notion that President Obama’s cap-and-trade proposal (which he dubs a “light-switch tax”) will “cost every American family up to $3,100 per year in higher energy More…