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Toyota

Since the Dilly, Dally, Delay & Stall Law Firms are adding their billable hours, the Toyota U.S.A. and Route 44 Toyota posts have been separated here:

Route 44 Toyota Sold Me A Lemon



Monday, March 24, 2014

RSN: Texas Barge Collision Spills Up to 168,000 Gallons of 'Sticky, Gooey, Thick, Tarry' Oil, Defending Joe McCarthy, et al

FOCUS: Robert Reich | The Real Truth About ObamaCare
Robert Reich. (photo: Getty Images)
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog
Reich writes: "Despite the worst roll-out conceivable, the Affordable Care Act seems to be working."
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FOCUS: Glenn Greenwald | Some Facts About How NSA Stories Are Reported
The New York Times building. (photo: Ramin Talaie/Getty Images)
Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept
Greenwald writes: "Echoing the script of national security state officials, these journalists argue that these revelations are unjustified, even treasonous, because this is the type of spying the NSA should be doing, and disclosure serves no public interest while harming American national security, etc. etc."
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Charles Pierce | Defending Joe McCarthy
Sen. Joe McCarthy makes a point, circa 1950. (photo: Corbis)
Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "Let's begin in Alabama, where the fish are very big, the barrels very small, and one brave man has stood up to defend Joe McCarthy against the depredations of Arthur Miller, even though they're both dead."
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Talking to Anita Hill | 'All These Issues Are Still With Us'
Dahlia Lithwick, Slate Magazine
Lithwick writes: "It’s fair to say that the target audience for the new documentary Anita, which opens Friday in theaters, is not Ginni Thomas."
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Hillary Clinton Wants 'Mass Movement' on Climate Change
Associated Press
Excerpt: "Hillary Rodham Clinton says young people understand the significant threat of climate change and that she hopes there will be a mass movement that demands political change."
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John Pilger | Another Stolen Generation: How Australia Still Wrecks Aboriginal Families
John Pilger, Guardian UK
Pilger writes: "The tape is searing. There is the voice of an infant screaming as he is wrenched from his mother, who pleads, 'There is nothing wrong with my baby. Why are you doing this to us?'"
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Juan Cole | Nancy Pelosi Admits That Congress Is Frightened of the CIA
Juan Cole, Informed Comment
Cole writes: "The intelligence community has lied repeatedly, has withheld documents and is generally nonresponsive to oversight attempts by Congress."
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Obamacare Goes Back to the Supreme Court
Mark Sherman, Associated Press
Sherman reports: "The Obama administration and its opponents are renewing the Supreme Court battle over President Barack Obama's health care law in a case that pits the religious rights of employers against the rights of women to the birth control of their choice."
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Texas Barge Collision Spills Up to 168,000 Gallons of 'Sticky, Gooey, Thick, Tarry' Oil
Kiley Kroh, ThinkProgress
Kroh reports: "A barge carrying 924,000 gallons of thick marine shipping oil collided with a ship near the Texas City dike on Saturday afternoon, spilling up to 168,000 gallons and forcing closures on the waterway."
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