AlterNet Newsletter May 20

AlterNet Newsletter

MAY 20TH, 2011

<---> Guess What? Despite What Republicans Say, the U.S. Isn't Actually Broke
By digby | Hullabaloo
Colbert Report: John Lithgow Gives Dramatic Reading of Newt Gingrich's Absurd, Hilarious, "Epic" Press Release
By Lauren Kelley | AlterNet
Jon Stewart Obliterates Ben Stein's DSK Defense: "Economists Are the Rapiest Profession"
By Lauren Kelley | AlterNet
Boeing Busts Unions, Claims Government "Conspiracy" Against Businesses (Also Called Upholding the Law)
By Dave Johnson | Campaign for America's Future
Surprise, Republicans Lied to Us: Private Prisons Don't Save Money
By Lauren Kelley | AlterNet
Beyond the Headlines: Obama's Mideast Speech Included More Than Talk of 1967 Borders
By BooMan | Booman Tribune
Second Major Poll Finds That Most Americans Want Same-Sex Marriage to Be Legal
By Lauren Kelley | AlterNet
House Dems: Give Struggling American Families a Chance; Support Elizabeth Warren
By Joan McCarter | Daily Kos
Jon Stewart and Actual Historian Refute Beck Fave, David Barton, on Religion and Law
By Brian | Right Wing Watch
Gingrich Denies Dissing Ryan's Budget Plan; Says "Right-Wing Social Engineering" Barb Meant Something Else
By Judd Legum | ThinkProgress
The Madness of Regressive Budget Cuts
By James K. Galbraith | New Deal 2.0
_PROGRESSIVE WIRE
GOP Governors See Popularity Plummet
By The Huffington Post News Editors | Huffington Post
Miss. Farm 'Looks Like A 12,000 Acre Lake'
By NPR Online
The latest in a long line of manufactured outrages
By Steve Benen | Washington Monthly
Democrats Challenge GOP's "Super-Duper PAC"
By Andy Kroll | Mother Jones Online
US senator calls for free trade pacts in Middle East
By Agence France Presse
_BEST OF THE WEEK
1. The 5 Worst States to Get Busted With Pot
By Paul Armentano | AlterNet
2. 10 Great Things About America That Drive Conservatives and the Religious Right Insane
By Rob Boston | AlterNet
3. The Right's 'Big Lie' Strategy: When Losing, Simply Rewrite History
By Chauncey DeVega | AlterNet
4. Insider: "The Christian Right is Aiming to Destroy All Things Public"
By Frank Schaeffer | De Capo Press
5. Atheists Do It Better: Why Leaving Religion Leads to Better Sex
By Greta Christina | AlterNet
6. 3 Fatal Flaws in Ayn Rand's Perverse 'Moral Philosophy'
By Catherine Burke | AlterNet
7. Get Up, Stand Up: Uniting Populists, Energizing the Defeated, and Battling the Corporate Elite
By Bruce E. Levine | Chelsea Green Publishing
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