Recent Votes

• Court "Allows Re-copyright" of Public Domain Works

  Source: CBS News

  CBS/AP)  WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court upheld a law Wednesday giving U.S. copyright protection to paintings by Pablo Picasso, films of Alfred Hitchcock, music from Igor Stravinsky and millions of other works by foreign artists that had been freely available

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• Stimulus money helped Americans avoid homelessness, study finds

  Source: CNN

  Federal aid helped many cash-strapped Americans keep a roof over their heads during the prolonged economic slump, but the number of people living a step away from the streets has grown sharply, researchers reported Wednesday. The estimated U.S.

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• Republican Rhetoric About "the Politics of Envy" has Lincoln Spinning in his Grave

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  Mitt Romney is clearly taking his queues from Paul Ryan. First he embraced Ryan's plan to end Medicare (yes, I said end Medicare). Now he's adopted some of the Congressman's rhetoric, accusing President Obama of practicing the "politics of envy."

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• Republican Congressman Screams At Mother With Two Children, Tells Her To Join The Military Instead Of Using Pell Grants

  Source: Addicting Info

  When a mother with two children and two jobs expressed her concern about Pell Grants, which she relies on to pay for college, during a town hall held by Republican Congressman Steve Womack in Arkansas last week, she probably didn’t expect his reaction. According to Blue  …

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• If PBS Is Afraid of Moyers, Maybe It Needs a New Slogan

  Source: Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting

  Elizabeth Jensen has a preview (New York Times, 1/8/12) of the new Bill Moyers program coming to public television stations later this month--a show that is not being distributed by PBS. Why not? She reports:

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