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“Torture is illegal, both in the U.S. and abroad. So - and that is true for the Bush administration and for any other administration.” quote by Jane Mayer — Download Open image

“Torture is illegal, both in the U.S. and abroad. So - and that is true for the Bush administration and for any other administration.”

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“David Brock, a conservative apostate who became a liberal activist, described the Heritage Foundation, where he was a young fellow, as almost completely under the thumb of its wealthy sponsors. In his tell-all book Blinded by the Right, he writes, “I saw how right-wing ideology was manufactured and controlled by a small group of powerful foundations” like Smith Richardson, Adolph…

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“When Barack Obama took office, the fossil fuel industry was not only eager to preserve its perks but also more militant in its opposition to climate change science than ever. Skocpol notes that 2007 had been a turning point in the fight. That year, Al Gore was awarded both a Nobel Peace Prize and featured in an Academy Award–winning documentary…

If you have an informed electorate, it makes great choices.

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One of the oddities of this election is the man that [Donald] Trump chose as his vice-president, Mike Pence, is one of the Kochs'…

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“The candidates promised to cut taxes for those in the highest brackets, preserve Wall Street loopholes, tolerate the off-shoring of manufacturing jobs and profits, and downgrade or privatize middle-class entitlement programs, including Social Security. Free trade was barely debated. These positions faithfully reflected the agenda of the wealthy donors, but studies showed that they were increasingly out of step with…

“Amway in fact was structured to avoid federal taxes.”

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“radicals in Congress refused to back down, bringing virtually the entire federal government to a halt for sixteen days in October, leaving the country struggling to function without all but the most vital federal services. In Meadows’s district, day-care centers that were reliant on federal aid reportedly turned distraught families away, and nearby national parks were closed, bringing the tourist…

What I write about is how much influence it's had in things like state legislatures and governorships and congressional races. The other thing that's…

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[The Kochs] they hate big government.

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We need a system that serves our needs, not the needs of others. Remember, under a Trump administration it's called America first. Remember that.

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