Author - SK Ashby

Environment

Not Winning

Honestly I'm a little shocked we're still in third place and not fourth or fifth. (Reuters) - The United States fell one spot to third place in clean-energy investment last year as the lack of a...

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Elections

More Like This Please

This is good, but we need this across the entire country. No more beating around the bush. Call it exactly what it is -- open war on the poor and the middle-class. They don't care about you or your...

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Wingnuts

Calling Boehner’s Bluff

It's going to come down to this -- 87 Teabagger freshmen in the House who are willing to go down with the sinking ship as political martyrs if we don't cut nutritional aid to pregnant women and their...

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Ethics

Starving The Beast

When John Boehner spoke to the press to say "read my lips -- we're going to cut spending," he forgot to mention the part about implementing those cuts on the backs of families who depend on food...

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Economy

Shared Sacrifice

Can you imagine the Chamber of Commerce pledging to delay lobbying for corporate tax cuts until after the economy has recovered? Me neither. Hiromasa Yonekura, chairman of the Japan Business...

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Libya

The Plan to Pull Out

No, that's not the title of a new Catholic romance novel, its the plan for Libya. (Reuters) - The United States is planning to gradually remove some of the vessels it has in the Mediterranean now...

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Wingnuts

Worst Persons

Schuyler County Illinois Sheriff Don Scheiferdecker. An Illinois gay and lesbian advocacy group called for the resignation of Schuyler County Sheriff Don Scheiferdecker Saturday after he jokingly...

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Epic Fail

The KFC-Yum Rest Area

This is pathetic. ARLINGTON, Va (Reuters) - Driving through Virginia? You could soon be making a pit stop at the Geico Travel Plaza. The commonwealth is selling naming rights to its 42 rest stops and...

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Guns

Bring Your Guns

Not content with simply being the shinning beacon of racism and extremism in the country, Arizona lawmakers are now seeking to go a step further to become the epicenter of radical gun laws too by...

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Wingnuts

The Birther Campaign

It would seem as though Michele Bachmann really is going to run for president, or at least pretend that she's running, and one of her first official hires for her campaign is the author of birther...

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Civil liberties

Just Like Bush

The Obama administration has issued a joint statement with the United Nations opposing the criminalization of being a member of the LGBT community and this has angered certain Christian "rights"...

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Wingnuts

John Boehner is Troubled

House Speaker John Boehner says he is very troubled by U.S. involvement in Libya without a clear definition of the mission, even though the UN resolution, the president's words, and even the Chairman...

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