Bernie Sanders On Welfare For Walmart

The Walton family–Walmart owners and heirs–boasts the same wealth as the bottom 40% of the American population. As it happens, this family is one of the nation’s wealthiest and one of the country’s largest welfare recipients, since employee wages are so low that they require state aid to live decently. Vermont firebrand Bernie Sanders and former labor secretary Robert Reich take the subject matter to task in this hearing with the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research.

Martin Luther King On Defense Spending

While the 2014 defense spending budget is well below the days of Bush (around $154 billion lower), as of 2013 the United States more than quadrupled China’s military expenditures, making it the world’s top military spender by a long shot.

How The Court Killed Free Speech On The Internet

The Article: Today, A Federal Appeals Court Killed Free Speech on the Internet by Ben Collins in Esquire.

The Text: Today, a federal appeals court handed over control of free speech on the Internet to a handful of companies. This is why it matters.

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Say you’re an NRA Republican. You’re from Tennessee. The websites you go to on a daily basis are Yahoo for your email and news, ESPN for your sports, and TNGunOwners.com, a message board to talk about your day at the range.

What if one day your access to your email is fine, your Tim Tebow coverage from ESPN is as loud as ever, and TNGunOwners.com inexplicably took 4-to-6 times longer to load? What if you called your Internet service provider and their answer was, “That’s just the way it is now”?

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Bruce Springsteen, Jimmy Fallon Rip Christie A New One

And in under four minutes, the Boss severs his relationship with Jersey “Boss” (more a la Tweed) Chris Christie. Righteous.

The Perks Of Drinking Poisoned Water

Quit being so concerned about your health and think about the economy for once: if you die drinking West Virginian water, you’re contributing to the solvency of local funeral homes and the welfare of their families. This increased revenue will find its way back into the community, which will incentivize business owners to hire an individual to fill the position you left open when you so selfishly decided to drink water and die. Deregulation: it creates jobs!