Sunday, March 16, 2014

RSN: Paul Ryan's Zombie-Eyed, Granny-Starving Tap Dancing,Obama's Plan to Pay People Enough to Eat Stirs Controversy, et al



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FOCUS: Charles Pierce | Paul Ryan's Zombie-Eyed, Granny-Starving Tap Dancing
Rep. Paul Ryan, biggest fake in American politics? (photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)
Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "Oh, Paul Ryan. Your zombie-eyed granny starving won't get you into heaven any more."
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Andy Borowitz | Obama's Plan to Pay People Enough to Eat Stirs Controversy
President Obama signs executive order. (photo: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty)
Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
Borowitz writes: "President Obama has sparked outrage in Congress and renewed calls for his impeachment by signing a daring Presidential memorandum that would pay workers enough to eat."
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Glenn Greenwald | Foreign Leaders in Dark About Their Spies Cooperation With NSA
Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept
Greenwald writes: "One of the more bizarre aspects of the last nine months of Snowden revelations is how top political officials in other nations have repeatedly demonstrated, or even explicitly claimed, wholesale ignorance about their nations' cooperation with the National Security Agency, as well as their own spying activities."
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Indiana Legislature Votes to Allow Guns in School Parking Lots
Ian Millhiser, ThinkProgress
Millhiser reports: "Both houses of the Indiana legislature voted Thursday night to approve a bill permitting guns on school grounds."
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Medea Benjamin | Why I Didn't Make It to Gaza for International Women's Day
Medea Benjamin, Common Dreams
Benjamin writes: "When I boarded the plane to Cairo, Egypt, to make sure everything was in place for the women's delegation headed to Gaza, I had no reason to think I'd end up in a jail cell at the Cairo airport and then violently deported."
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The CIA As Its Own Worst Enemy
Ruth Marcus, The Washington Post
Marcus writes: "Watching Dianne Feinstein tear into the Central Intelligence Agency on the Senate floor the other day brought to mind a 1970s-era television commercial about a margarine supposedly indistinguishable from butter."
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West Virginia's Grassroots Response to Water Crisis: A Movement in the Making?
Dana Kuhnline, YES! Magazine
Kuhnline writes: "In January, an estimated 10,000 gallons of the coal-processing chemical MCHM, along with an unknown amount of a second substance called PPH, spilled into West Virginia's Elk River - just upstream from a municipal water intake that serves nine counties."
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