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Team Boehner's Hypocrisy
The Speaker’s response epitomized a disease floating mostly around GOP circles as the U.S. careens toward default. John Avlon on the double-standards holding the country hostage.

Tea Party Hypocrisy?
Freshman Rep. Allen West, a Tea Party favorite, electrifies the conservative base with his impassioned arguments to cut federal spending...



West has been confronted before about his anti-government spending advocacy and the federal dollars spent in his home district. In March, The Wall Street Journal reported that West had taken credit for a new runway at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. The project was funded by a $21 million federal grant through the government’s Airport Improvement Program...

Debt Ceiling Crisis: Boehner's Hypocritical Response

The GOP's War Hypocrisy
Romney, Cain, Perry, and other Republican presidential candidates are quick to assail Obama’s Afghanistan policy, but are silent or incoherent on what to do about the war.

Behind Defense Hawks' Budget Hysterics
Watch out when defense hawks get hysterical about how much military cuts could hurt the economy. New York Times columnist Paul Krugman calls them “weaponized Keynesians”—politici ans who seem to believe only war spending, and not building bridges and roads, stimulates the economy. Keynes himself explained this preference for wasteful spending over constructive spending: spending on tangible projects often invokes business principles, while no one expects weapons and warfare to be a good business deal. But the real motive behind this double standard is politics: “To admit that public spending on useful projects can create jobs is to admit that such spending can in fact do good, that sometimes government is the solution, not the problem.”

The Right's Hypocrisy on Freedom
Obama’s decisive response to the protests across the Middle East—and the conservative backlash—have exposed the hypocrisy of the right's shallow rhetoric on liberty and human freedom. Peter Beinart on why the supposedly idealistic American right turns out to be pretty pessimistic.



Fiscal Conservatives With A Taste For Pork: The Letters Oct 31, 2011
A Newsweek investigation unveiled hundreds of letters sent by Tea Party lawmakers.

The Tea Party Pork Binge
A Newsweek investigation into Tea Party pork.

Cain's Tax Delinquency

Herman Cain, who’s been surging with his 9-9-9 tax plan,
lapsed in his own tax payments in 2006.



Hypocrisy & American Drug Policy

Busht Hypocrisy & Double Standards

The Hypocrisy of the NFL

Fellow Conservatives: Our Position Is Hypocritical

Latest Hypocritical GOPerversion, another Prohibition!



Ah... Reinforcement... Flat out fucking staaarange how far these worms have crawled into the soul of America.... Asshat patents Ayahuasca then tells natives they have to pay after thousands of years of use. They tried patenting bhang... We know barthwell and the ondcp hold patents on cannabinoids. One cancer drug went from $30 a treatment to $30,000. Crazy. Monsanto bilking the most impoverished Haite, India, Colombia. Terminator technology.(sterile seeds). Tholidomide--- Never Again... Ooops FDA approved it, on the market for cancer treatment. But Ganja might cause excessive laughter and munchies so lets not even discuss it in Congress. Nice when Science catches up... Not ready for primetime I guess.

"Deadly Monopolies":
Medical Ethicist Harriet Washington on How Firms are Taking Over Life Itself

One of the major themes raised by the Occupy movement is the increasing power of large corporations over more and more aspects of our lives. We spend the hour looking into the issue of the corporate control of life itself. Our guest, Harriet Washington, is a medical ethicist and has just published a book that examines the extent to which what she calls the medical-industrial complex has come to control human life. In the past 30 years, more than 40,000 patents have been granted on genes alone—many more patents are pending. Washington argues that the biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies patenting these genes are more concerned with profit than with the health or medical needs of patients. Her new book is called "Deadly Monopolies: The Shocking Corporate Takeover of Life Itself—And the Consequences for Your Health and Our Medical Future."
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Drug War Profiteers:
Book Exposes How Wachovia Bank Laundered Millions for Mexican Cartels

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