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By Raquel Brown, Media Consortium Blogger

By Nezua, Media Consortium Blogger

A Michigan woman threatened a Minnesota newspaper with mass murder for criticizing Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-MN)'s anti-health reform rally, reports Paul Schmelzer in the Minnesota Independent:

...A woman in Michigan, angered over a newspaper editorial criticizing Bachmann’s event, threatened to take a gun to the paper and “do what they did at Fort Hood” in response.

How pro-life.

By proposing financial reforms that won't curb Wall Street excess, U.S. policymakers have offered an unacceptably weak response to our enormous financial crisis. If voters don't demand that their elected representatives help workers and consumers instead of simply boosting corporate profits, the economic downturn will last for several more years and leave the economy vulnerable to another bank-induced meltdown.

By Raquel Brown, Media Consortium Blogger

By Nezua, Media Consortium Blogger

A clique of anti-choice Democrats in Congress joined forces with Republicans to write abortion access out of the House's health care reform bill last Saturday.

On Friday, we learned that the U.S. unemployment rate officially broke 10% for the first time since the early Reagan years.

By Raquel Brown, Media Consortium Blogger

By Nezua, Media Consortium Blogger