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Anti-gay preacher Bradlee Dean stopped from speaking at Florida high school
A Florida high school barred controversial preacher Bradlee Dean from speaking on campus, reported Talking Points Memo. He was invited by a student school group. According to an attorney for Dean and his organization, the principal of the school in Boca Raton, Fla., held concerns over dean’s anti-gay stance and…
Tea party preacher: Sandy Hook massacre orchestrated to pass U.N. arms treaty
One of former Senator Rick Santorum’s (R-PA) new co-workers at conspiracy website World Net Daily insisted this week that the U.S. government orchestrated the Sandy Hook Elementary school massacre in order to support the United Nation’s Small Arms Treaty. Although he didn’t present any concrete evidence to support his allegation,…
Minnesota GOP warns of ‘consequences’ if college Republicans host anti-LGBT pastor
The state Republican party of Minnesota is warning a college Republican group not to host controversial anti-LGBT pastor Bradlee Dean, according to Talking Points Memo. Minnesota Republican Party chairman Pat Shortridge told the Minneapolis Star Tribune that college Republicans at St. Cloud State University could face “consequences” in the future…
China’s chopsticks made in America
The United States imports a substantial amount of its goods from China, but a small company in South Georgia has reversed that trend by manufacturing and exporting chopsticks. China uses approximately 45 billion wooden chopsticks a year, but the country’s wood supply is dwindling. Watch video, courtesy of CBS News,…
Stock trader: Europe will collapse because ‘Goldman Sachs rules the world’
Speaking to the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) this morning, independent stock trader Alessio Rastani predicted that a European market crash is imminent and many investors know it. “This problem cannot be solved,” he said. “I’m fairly confident that the Euro is going to crash, and it’s going to fall pretty…
Lindsey Graham worries cuts will ‘destroy the Defense Department’
Republican South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham is calling for cuts to Social Security and lower tax rates, but at the same time he worries that the Department of Defense will be “destroyed” by deficit reduction measures. If the Super Committee fails to find $1.2 trillion worth of deficit reduction by…
Bachmann proposes to eliminate all taxes
At Thursday night’s Republican presidential debate, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) proposed the elimination of all taxes, but then added that the government did need some money to run. “You earned every dollar, you should get to keep every dollar that you earned,” the candidate said. “That’s your money, that’s not…
Obama: I’m a ‘warrior for the middle class’
At a fundraiser in New York City Tuesday, President Barack Obama fired back at Republicans who have called his plan to raise taxes on the wealthy “class warfare.” “You already hear the Republicans in Congress dusting off the old talking points,” the president told a crowd of 400 supporters at…
Ralph Nader: Republican party indentured to corporations
On MSNBC’s The Last Word, consumer advocate Ralph Nader addressed criticism that by running as a third party candidate and pressuring Democrats to challenge Obama in 2012, he was helping Republicans get elected. “Nobody has criticized more profoundly in detail across 50 states the Republican Party’s indentured status to corporatism,…
Gore: Cenk Uygur joining ‘truly independent’ Current TV
Cenk Uygur and Al Gore announced this week that The Young Turks were taking their talents to Current TV. The show will air weeknights in the 7 p.m. ET hour prior to Countdown with Keith Olbermann. It is expected to launch in the fourth quarter of 2011. After leaving MSNBC…
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