Good News You People! Ryan Only Thinks 30% of You Are Moochers, Losers and Welfare Queens!

In a newly unearthed video of his keynote speech at an American Spectator dinner last year, Paul Ryan offers an eerie preview of Romney's now-infamous 47% remarks, charging that 70% of the country still "want the American Dream" but 30% are lousy lazy malingerers who "want a welfare state." America, he worries, is turning into "takers, not makers." Yeah, we kinda know what he means. Wow. What a pair of mean-spirited, arrogant, entitled creeps. Bonus video.

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Murder, Environmental Devastation and Human Rights Abuses Are Bad, Even In Nigeria

Embroiled in a pivotal Supreme Court case in which they are charged with complicity in killings, torture and other crimes that left 800 dead and 30,000 displaced from their homes, all in the name of suppressing peaceful opposition to their development plans, Shell Oil has blocked news of the case from over 70,000 employees who heard about it from Shell's "Grassroots Employee Empowerment Division" - which, as it turns out, doesn't exist. From The Yes Men and People Against Legalizing Murder.

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Oops: WSJ Forgot to Tell Us Most of Its Op-Ed Writers Are Romney Advisers

In a lapse of journalistic ethics deemed inexcusable by pretty much anyone who knows anything about journalistic ethics, the Wall Street Journal failed to disclose that ten of its op-ed writers - John Bolton, anyone? - who regularly, unsurprisingly write anti-Obama screeds are also advisers to Mitt Romney. Media Matters suggests you tell the WSJ this is not okay.

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The Throwaway People

With the calamitous "war" on drugs claiming its three latest hapless victims - a border patrol agent in Arizona, a mother of five in California, a guy in Tennessee who lived in the house next to an alleged drug dealer - an in-depth look at the controversial, often fatal use of untrained, unregulated, often woefully ill-equipped young offenders as informants in up to 80% of drug busts in this country. From The New Yorker. “They can get us into the places we can’t go. Without them, narcotics operations would practically cease to function.”

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Just Get In

Colbert blasts the "liberal hacks" at Fox News for asking Ryan to explain how across-the-table tax cuts will save, not bankrupt, the economy. Peasants don't need math, he insists - just trust.

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