Daily Kos Recommended 15-21MAR14

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• An open letter to the people who hate Obama more than they love America


• How the Irish became white: Paul Ryan's ugly public embrace of anti-black racism and eugenics


• Rep. Cummings catches Issa in a lie regarding his non-existent House Counsel Memo


• The most shared political post across all of Facebook in 2011 was this amazing Daily Kos letter to a conservative poster boy


• INAPPROPRIATE CAPS: Misleading title 4 exclamation points


• Again? Another Koch 'victim,' another lie


• Cartoon: The anti-gay law in Uganda and the miracle of denial


• John Boehner's ready to pop an orange aneurysm over states 'cheating' to preserve food stamp cuts
• • NASA: Civilization headed for collapse
  
  
  • Cartoon: The woman who took birth control
  
  
  • Vergara v. California: The most dangerous lawsuit you probably haven't heard of
  
  
  • Bill Maher attacks Noah's Ark story
  
  
  • Fred Phelps (of Westboro Baptist protests) near death
  
  
  • Amazing photos show us why the American transportation network has fallen off the rails!
  
  
  • Pelosi refuses to apologize to Cantor for saying Republicans are ‘mean’
  
  
  • SATELLITE MAPS: Changing snowfall patterns
  
  
  • We are close to eating bait and jelly fish as big fish numbers plummet
  
  
  • Republicans force black, brown, female and poor to pay an opportunity premium
  
  
  • This week in the War on Workers: Huge Amazon wage theft case goes to Supreme Court
  
  
  • South Carolina House punishes two public colleges for assigning books about gay people
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  • If our Founding Fathers were all Christians, why did they say this?
  • Cartoon: The Republican lifeguard
  • CNN asks whether maybe God stole Flight 370
  • Boehner fact checked on Obamacare: Yeah, he lied
  • California hits huge Obamacare landmark
  • Republicans are angry about the poor getting food ... so, who are these people?
  • FreedomWorks announces new list of preferred Freedom Morons
  • Cartoon: Corporate Cosmos
  • Christiegate: Christie Campaign Manager Stepien was in on lane closure plan
  • 'Earthquake! We're having an earthquake!' (VIDEO)
  • Obamacare officially hits 5 million enrollees
  • FDR's Economic Bill of Rights could be the Democratic platform every American needs to hear again
  • • Sarah Palin's new 'Murica show looks amazing
    
    
    • Cartoon: Lindsey Graham, True Detective
    
    
    • Kansas moves to legalize police retaliation
    
    
    • Chick-fil-A CEO now regrets dragging the company into anti-equality morass
    
    
    • Obamacare in a Red State
    
    
    • Cartoon: War time classic
    
    
    • Students kicked out of Christie town hall for asking about Sandy aid
    
    
    • Want to build an F-rated charter school? WITHOUT approval? Only in Florida
    
    
    • What do Hitler, the super-rich and journalistic hackery have in common?
    
    
    • Military recruiters behaving badly
    
    
    • Massachusetts becomes the latest state to piss off John Boehner by blocking food stamp cuts
    
    
    • Every Democrat who wants to win should memorize Rick Ungar's piece on the FACTS about Obamacare
    • • Cartoon: Healthcare.gov goes viral
      
      
      • Craziest person in Illinois wins Republican primary
      
      
      • McConnell fundraiser: Wives owe their husbands sex even if they're not in the mood
      
      
      • Mitch McConnell campaign bans reporter from their events. It isn't going well.
      
      
      • Paul Ryan's disqualifying dog whistle
      
      
      • StopRush has pot-phobic Limbaugh pimping medical marijuana
      
      
      • If appalling Hitler comparisons offend you, this billionaire is sorry ... ish
      
      
      • Christie apparently hoping scandals go away
      
      
      • Darrell Issa returning to HealthCare.gov security scandal that doesn't exist
      
      
      • New York McDonald's workers to get $500,000 wage theft settlement
      
      
      • The Medicaid millions—enrollees, that is
      
      
      • Bill Kristol confuses fiasco-fatigue with war-weariness
      • • Cartoon: Paul Ryan tours the 'inner city'
        
        
        • Scott Brown gets an awkward lesson about Obamacare
        
        
        • Scientists identify protein that protects aging brains from Alzheimer's and dementia
        
        
        • Fox commentator admits America has Third World health care
        
        
        • How I chose to remember Fred Phelps
        
        
        • Cartoon: All fracked up
        
        
        • CNN asks questions: Did a black hole take Flight 370?
        
        
        • Spring Break, 2014: Girls gone to the hospital! GunFAIL LXI
        
        
        • Sen. David Vitter: Koch brothers 'most patriotic Americans in the history of the Earth'
        
        
        • Tennessee attorney general: Bill banning union picketing is unconstitutional
        
        
        • Guess who's the major stakeholder in Canada's oil sands? Of course, it's the Kochs
        
        
        • Boehner's mad states are 'cheating' to block food stamp cuts, but he's not doing much about it