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Thursday June 28, 2012 · 5:15 AM PDT

2012/06/28 · 05:15

David Shuster (Emmy-award winning former host on MSNBC) and Mark Levine (Constitutional and Congressional Lawyer) are video casting live from the Supreme Court the decision on the Affordable Health Care Act starting at 9am ET. These progressive radio talk show hosts on We Act Radio will get the opinion FIRST from its official source at the Court and will break the news and explain the decision.

Watch here.

So much for loving thy neighbor: DC's "Marriage Initiative"

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Friday November 06, 2009 · 8:44 AM PST

2009/11/06 · 08:44

So much for loving thy neighbor
Unintentional irony at the heart of D.C. ‘Marriage Initiative’

By MARK LEVINE
Nov. 06, 2009

THE FIVE-HOUR hearing last Monday before the D.C. Board of Elections & Ethics seemed interminable, and the arguments from proponents of the so-called Marriage Initiative ranged from the absurd to the offensive to the pathetic. The question before the board was whether a proposal by a Maryland pastor to deny gay people the right to civil marriage (and forcibly divorce those D.C. couples already married) violated District law, which prohibits any referendum that would have the effect of "authorizing discrimination" against D.C. residents on the basis of their sexual orientation or gender.

Seemingly oblivious to the legal standard — that the D.C. Code, unlike, say California’s laws, actually bars a majority vote on a minority’s civil rights — person after person rose to testify to the patient, if astonished, board that gay people deserved no more civil rights than a "goldfish," a "cobra," or a "family pet."

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Friday December 12, 2008 · 10:44 AM PST

2008/12/12 · 10:44

Just 20 days left in office after being booted out in a landslide, Republican Members of Congress used their last dying grasp on power today to strangle the shameless voters who dared end the Republicans’ Economic Reign of Terror.

Even as they were being unceremoniously showed the door, Republicans today filibustered a bridge loan of $15 billion (about 2% of the Wall Street bailout) to American auto companies, insisting first and foremost that unions workers who had worked hard, played by the rules, earned a pension, and retired must forfeit that hard-earned pension and die as penniless and without health care as possible.

Thus the Republican Beast in its dying breath — slain but not yet dead — forged its last economic suicide attack to terrorize its greatest enemy: the American Worker

"If we’re going down, we’ll take American workers with us!" Senator Corker of Tennessee cried. "Workers must die so that those of the nobler class who inherited their wealth may have more yachts!" screamed Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, as Capitol Police attempted to pry McConnell’s death grip from the necks of those benighted, wretched souls who dared to attempt to work for a living rather than making money the Republican way: by marrying a beer heiress.

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Thursday November 20, 2008 · 4:14 PM PST

2008/11/20 · 16:14

My prior diary proposing a new California Proposition 9 to ban southpaw marriage was well received here. Now I've gone on television to extend my crusade. And I caught a fish! A caller to my show who thought it was silly to ban left-hand marriage but still wanted to ban gay people from marrying. Check out the exchange:

Above was a ten-minute excerpt. The full one-hour show, along with comments on my website (including some who attack my crusade against the sinister left-handers), is here.

Mark Levine
www.RadioInsideScoop.com

Ban Left-Hand Marriage!

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Saturday November 15, 2008 · 3:40 PM PST

2008/11/15 · 15:40

I have a new proposition for the California ballot: Ban Left-Hand Marriage!

I know there are some who say that being left-handed is not a choice...
That people are "born" that way.
That’s ridiculous.
We all know we choose which hand to write with and feed ourselves.
And this disgusting abnormal perversion of this radical minority cannot be the will of God.
After all, in every human society from the beginning of time,
Right is "right"! It says so in every language.
Left is sinister, evil, gauche, maladroit.
Right is "droit", right, correct, the Law!

And left-handed people, unlike gay people, are more likely to propagate.
Do you want your child taught by a left-handed teacher?
Taught that it’s OK to be left handed?
Taught that left-handed people are "normal" and "creative" and "healthy, functioning human beings"?
Do you want YOUR child to be left-handed and unable to use common tools and machinery?

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94 votes Show Results

Should Southpaw Marriage Be Banned?

94 votes Vote Now!

Should Southpaw Marriage Be Banned?

It makes as much sense as banning gay people from marrying

45 votes

Shakespeare was Right! Left-handed people are sinister!

9 votes

It's next on the Religious Right-Hand Agenda

8 votes

Left-handed people are people too.

15 votes

I know someone who's an Ex-Lefty. We can save their souls!

9 votes

I could deal with Obama being Black, but I WILL NOT vote for a southpaw!

5 votes

What's a southpaw?

3 votes

Republicans Think You're Stupid!

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Monday September 08, 2008 · 8:24 AM PDT

2008/09/08 · 08:24

And, sadly, they're probably right.

Not about you who read Daily Kos, but about most Americans.

Democrats have run a positive campaign, giving detailed proposals about the need for change in this country, which 80% of Americans think is going in the wrong direction.

Republicans, the party of the Government--the people who gave us the corruption, lawlessness, and lies that is causing our economic mess, massive deficits, perpetual war, cronyism, incompetence, and addiction to oil--have a plan to give you more of the same.

Republicans know they can't run on their plan which devastates America, forcing a real decline both in our country's well-being and in our standing in the world for the first time since....well, for the first time really ever, so they instead have an empty convention, where they don't tell you that they want "four more years." Instead, they bleat "change" without telling you what they'd change. (Hint: they won't change anything.)

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Saturday September 06, 2008 · 7:48 AM PDT

2008/09/06 · 07:48

When you are being tortured, there are two lessons you can learn:

I'll do my damnedest NEVER to allow this to happen to anyone else; or

I'll fight my heart out to torture, abuse, and lie. If I had to suffer, everyone else has to as well. I'm so angry, I'll destroy everything I can in my path.

It's clear that John McCain learned lesson 2.

It's not just that McCain is now for torture after once being against it and that he refused to join the Democrats in a bill that would ban torture by the CIA.

It's more than that. John McCain is a vicious, vicious! dirty campaigner. He approved a message with lie after lie after lie. And McCain knew that every word in that ad is a lie.

I guess we shouldn't be surprised. The extremely few specifics in his RNC speech were specifically lies.

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Friday September 05, 2008 · 9:48 AM PDT

2008/09/05 · 09:48

John McCain voted only 95% identical to Bush this year and only 90% over his career. So if you mostly like the Bush/Cheney regime but want to tweak 5-10% of it, you'll like John McCain.

But what if you LOVE Bush/Cheney? What if you think those were the best eight years of American history? What if you think the secrecy, cronyism, censorship, lying to the American People, big spending, big debt, and transfers of wealth from poor to rich were awesome? Then you'll LOVE Sarah Palin, who is MORE Bush/Cheney than Bush/Cheney!:

Read this letter from a woman who knows her well from Wasilla, AK and can document everything she says.

How is Sarah Palin like Bush Cheney? Let me Count the Ways:

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Tuesday September 02, 2008 · 5:18 AM PDT

2008/09/02 · 05:18

I have taken all of the various charges and missteps of Sarah Palin and her family and consolidated them (with supporting links) in one easy-to-read document. Want the "inside scoop" on Sarah Palin? An all-in-one outline of the many, many things she's messed up and the details of McCain's failure to vet? You've come to the right place.

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427 votes Show Results

Is Sarah Palin the nail in McCain's coffin?

427 votes Vote Now!

Is Sarah Palin the nail in McCain's coffin?

Yes. She's taking a dying campaign and leading it to rigor mortis.

239 votes

Yes. McCain might have won if he had not chosen her.

69 votes

No. Palin's a drag on the ticket but McCain will still win.

13 votes

No. Palin will deliver more votes than she takes away.

62 votes

No. I'm a Hillary Clinton supporter, and the choice of Palin will lead me to vote McCain.

29 votes

Undecided

15 votes

Goodbye Lebanon

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Friday May 23, 2008 · 8:16 AM PDT

2008/05/23 · 08:16

The only Arab democracy in the world could not last even three years.

When the Iranian-trained terrorist group Hezbollah invaded Lebanon and used it as a staging ground to attack Israel, the world solemnly promised Israel and Lebanon that Hezbollah would be stopped. The United Nations Security Council voted to disarm Hezbollah and sent in tens of thousands of troops to Lebanon in order to convince Israel to give up its right of self defense under international law.

Israel accepted the word of the world. Boy was that a mistake. Israel knows better than to trust the United Nations or the world. But the Bush Administration forced it to do so.

The real victims: the Lebanese. This week, in a stunning coup d'etat, Hezbollah killed just enough Lebanese to take over the Government and ensure the end of democracy in Lebanon forever. And those tens of thousands of UN troops stood by blankly. I guess they were too busy playing in their bunks than fulfilling their UN mandate.

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43 votes Show Results

Should the United Nations disarm Hezbollah?

43 votes Vote Now!

Should the United Nations disarm Hezbollah?

Yes, the Security Council voted to do so. The UN sent thousands of troops. To refuse to carry out their mission is a mockery of international law.

13 votes

Yes, the majority of the Lebanese People deserve democracy. They should have it.

7 votes

No, it's too difficult. Let Hezbollah have Lebanon.

4 votes

No, Israel is the root of all evil in the Middle East.

15 votes

No. I only care about Lebanon when Israel is fighting back. When Arabs kill Arabs, it's not news.

3 votes

I don't know. I don't care.

1 vote

Where Wright Went Wrong

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Saturday May 03, 2008 · 3:12 PM PDT

2008/05/03 · 15:12

Going beyond the obvious (AIDS conspiracy, Farrakhan...)

I have no problem with Reverend Wright's argument that "difference does not mean deficient" nor his cogent analysis of African and European rhythm and music patterns.

But when Wright suggests that Black children need to learn differently from Whites, he brings us periously close to a reversal of Brown v. Board of Education.

Poll

62 votes Show Results

Do you think African-Americans and Whites have different learning styles?

62 votes Vote Now!

Do you think African-Americans and Whites have different learning styles?

Yes, and teachers should teach differently to Blacks and Whites

2 votes

Yes, and therefore I support segregated schools

5 votes

Yes, but children should be taught in the same manner

1 vote

No, the very notion is racist

14 votes

Who cares? If we're going to live together, we have to live together, we have to treat students equally

2 votes

Who cares? Teachers should teach to each student's invidual needs, regardless of their race or background

37 votes

Petraeus: Rinse and Repeat for 100 Years

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Wednesday April 09, 2008 · 1:47 PM PDT

2008/04/09 · 13:47

Yesterday, General Petraeus wouldn't budge from his position, which was really quite simply stated:

We have no idea how long we'll be fighting in Iraq.
We have no idea how much it will cost.
We have no idea whether we'll win or lose.
We have no idea how many will die.
We have no idea how to define victory.

Oh, and our enemies keep changing.

First we give money and arms
to the Sunnis (supported by Al Qaeda)
against the Shia (supported by Iran).
And lo and behold, the Sunni become more powerful and dangerous!

Then we gave money and arms
to the Shia (supported by Iran)
against the Sunni (supported by Al Qaeda).
And lo and behold, the Shia are becoming more poweful and dangerous.

Maybe we should help the Sunni (Al Qaeda in Iraq) again?

Rinse and Repeat for 100 years.

And don't forget the intra-Sunni and intra-Shia battles too, upon which we have to take sides!

Rinse and repeat for 100 years.

(Tune in at 5 pm EST for live discussion of this at RadioInsideScoop.com)

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So much for loving thy neighbor: DC's "Marriage Initiative"

"Death to America!" Corker Screamed

Ban Left-Hand Marriage (Update w/ VIDEO debate w/ caller)

Ban Left-Hand Marriage!

Republicans Think You're Stupid!

McCain's Lost Every Ounce of Honor He Once Had

Palin: Worse than Cheney!

The Downfall of Sarah Palin

Goodbye Lebanon

Where Wright Went Wrong

Petraeus: Rinse and Repeat for 100 Years