barackobama:

Us v. them, in one bar chart.

sarahlee310:

“To tell you the truth, a lot of conservatives see Fox News as being somewhat skewed on certain issues,” said Patrick Brown, who runs Internet marketing for The Western Center for Journalism, a conservative nonprofit that features stories questioning the president’s eligibility for office. “We actually did a poll recently that said, ‘Is Fox News actually conservative, or has it moved left?’ And some 70 percent of our readers thought it had moved left.”

LOL!

benedictusantonius:

How do you compare to Mitt Romney? Click the image to find out.

thedailywhat:

The Bitter Taste Of One’s Own Medicine of the Day: The Tennessee state senator who sponsored the controversial “Don’t Say Gay” bill — which aims to prohibit teachers from discussing homosexuality in the classroom — was refused service at a Knoxville restaurant because of his anti-gay views.

“I hope that [Stacey] Campfield now knows what it feels like to be unfairly [discriminated] against,” The Bistro at the Bijou wrote on their Facebook page.

Reached for comment, Sen. Campfield, who just days ago defended his assertion that it is “virtually impossible” to contract AIDS “through heterosexual sex,” confirmed he was kicked out, saying “I went in there and the lady started calling me names and wouldn’t serve me.”

According to Campfield, the hostess called him a homophobe and accused him of hating homosexuals. “In my business I do rental properties and I’ve rented to homosexuals, mixed-race couples, black couples,” countered Campfield.

He believes the restaurant treated him unfairly. “If you don’t think the way certain people think, then they think you don’t have a right to be served,” he told Buzzfeed.

People denying other people rights simply because they have a different worldview? I agree, Senator. That’s unacceptable.

[buzzfeed / facebook / photo: ap via comapp.]

A private business can choose who to serve. You don’t have a right to service just because you want it.

Kids in public school, on the other hand, do have a right to unbiased education that prepares them for the real world. And the government does not have the right to discriminate, no matter how much individual members of the government may dislike some of this nation’s citizens.

truth-has-a-liberal-bias:

Happy birthday to Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

(Source: kileyrae)

You see the contrast: a doubling of family incomes in the post war generation compared with maybe 20 percent since, and family incomes growing in line with GDP before, lagging far behind since, with the difference basically being the rising share of the 1 percent. This is real stuff, not some trivial envy-driven concern. (via Things We’re Supposed To Be Quiet About - NYTimes.com)

ultralaser:

if you have nothing to hide, then you have nothing to fear.

motherjones:

Chart of the Day: Low-income people care about jobs. High-income voters care about the deficit. Guess which one Congress cares about?

YUP

occupyonline:

U.S. - home to 5% of the world’s population and 25% of the world’s prisoners. 

NPR - Prisons (retroactive “correction”) funded at the expense of education. [Listen Here]

newwavefeminism:

For poor communities of color, over policing and mass imprisonment is a reality that no one can afford to take for granted. To this day people of color are grossly over-represented in the population of incarcerated people. In Becky Pettit and Bruce Western’s study of mass imprisonment, they explain the significant, yet often ignored, relationship between mass imprisonment, race and class:

Street sweeps, undercover operations, and other aggressive policing efforts targeted poor black neighborhoods where drugs were traded in public and the social networks of drug dealing were easily penetrated by narcotics officers. If poor black men were attracted to the to illegal drug trade in response to the collapse of the low-skill labor markets, the drug war raised the risks that they would be caught, convicted and incarcerated… By the 1990’s race, class and drugs became intertwined… (Pettit, Western, 154).

Mass imprisonment is yet another strong example as to why post-race ideology is inherently flawed and illogical. Despite mounting evidence displaying a strong and dangerous correlation between race and imprisonment, Americans are slow to call for reform of the prison system as a whole. In a post race America, instead of recognizing how the criminal justice system has become racialized to the detriment of poor communities of color, these rates are dismissed as an inevitable likelihood regarding the underclass. We seem to fall back on the idea that criminality is somehow inherent in, and unique to, poor communities of color. Because of post race ideology, we do not allow ourselves to even entertain the idea that higher rates of incarceration for people of color have anything to do with racism, or racist stereotypes. More importantly, while we don’t say this explicitly, mass imprisonment of people of color is often taken as a sign that our police force is doing a good job at keeping us safe from perceived danger. In fact, as Pettit and Western further explain, “changes in criminal sentencing and supervision reflected a historic shift from a rehabilitative philosophy of corrections

- NewWaveFeminism - “The Dangers of Post-Race Rhetoric”