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NEW CONTENT MOVED TO MIDDLEBORO REVIEW 2

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, May 12, 2014

RSN: Greenpeace Director: Climate Action Is an All Hands on Deck Situation, Benghazi, Benghazi!, BENGHAZI!, The Day We Revealed Edward Snowden's Identity, How the Koch Brothers, Wall Street and Politicians Conspire to Drain Social Security, et al

FOCUS: Charles Pierce | Matt Bai, Liberal : Charles Pierce | Matt Bai, Liberal Bloggers and Benghazi, Benghazi!, BENGHAZI!
George W. Bush and Dick Cheney in 2007. (photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "This was the most dubiously elected president since Rutherford Hayes. Still, as soon as the planes hit the towers, the entire country rallied around him. (Dan Rather offered to salute!)"
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FOCUS: Glenn Greenwald | The Day We Revealed Edward Snowden's Identity
Edward Snowden. (illustration: Jason Seiler/TIME Magazine)
Glenn Greenwald, Guardian UK
Greenwald writes: "On Thursday 6 June 2013, our fifth day in Hong Kong, I went to Edward Snowden's hotel room and he immediately said he had news that was 'a bit alarming.'"
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Andy Borowitz | Poll: Millions of Americans Who Need Jobs Want Congress to Get to Bottom of This Benghazi Thing First
 (photo: The New Yorker)
Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
Borowitz writes: "Millions of unemployed Americans who have fruitlessly been looking for work for months are determined that Congress get to the bottom of what happened in Benghazi, a new poll indicates."
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How the Koch Brothers, Wall Street and Politicians Conspire to Drain Social Security
James W. Russell, Salon
Russell writes: "When Ronald Reagan came into office in 1981, Social Security was facing a shortfall in revenue necessary to meet expenses. Reforms of some type were necessary. Privatization, while undoubtedly attractive to Reagan and his inner circle, was not politically feasible."
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Eric Alterman | Obama's Pundit Problem
Eric Alterman, The Nation
Alterman writes: "It's hard to say that Maureen Dowd's column is an embarrassment to political punditry given the state of the profession, but it is rapidly becoming one to the still-great newspaper that carries it, The New York Times."
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Nate Silver | Fairness vs. Freedom: Is Politics Going Back to the 1970s?
Nate Silver, FiveThirtyEight
Silver writes: "Inequality is a hot topic these days — even on Fox News. This contrasts with most of the past decade, when the term was barely mentioned even on the liberal-leaning television network MSNBC."
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Our Shooting Double Standard: How Do We Decide Which Madmen Are Terrorists?
Sara Kamali, Salon
Kamali writes: "Despite the strikingly parallel narratives of both men forever linked as Fort Hood shooters, who were both ruled out as terrorists by law enforcement, the media coverage of Lopez and Hasan has been markedly different."
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Ruth Rosen | Leonard Cohen and 'A Broken Hallelujah'
Ruth Rosen, TruthDig
Rosen writes: '"'A Broken Hallelujah' is more of an exploration of the literary and spiritual traditions that shaped Cohen, as well as a portrait of a person who could be cocky and arrogant, witty and ironic, angry and tender, and quite often, the unfailingly polite gentleman."
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Greenpeace Director: Climate Action Is an All Hands on Deck Situation
Jason Schwartz, EcoWatch
Schwartz writes: "If you know the name Annie Leonard, it’s probably because you are one of the tens of millions of people who have watched her short film, The Story of Stuff. Now we’d like you to know her for another reason: she’s Greenpeace USA’s new executive director."
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