Earlier today, the Senate and the House passed a bill that would give the new government in Ukraine $1 billion in loans and $100 million in direct aid. Today's vote came just a day after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced that he would drop controversial IMF reforms from the Ukraine aid bill, guaranteeing Republican support. Ukraine's new government has been in power a little over a month, and now it's secured itself a nice little lifeline from Washington. That was fast.

 

Meanwhile, more than 2 million jobless Americans are still struggling to pay their bills after losing their unemployment benefits three months ago at the end of December. Sure, a group of Senators have agreed to a plan to extend unemployment benefits by another five months, but there's really no guarantee that Republicans in the House will, you know, do their job and pass that extension.

 

Those Republicans are apparently all for forking over billions of dollars to an unelected government in Ukraine, but when it comes to helping out unemployed Americans, they're suddenly up in arms screaming about the debt and the deficit. If you think this is insane, you're not alone.

 

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Article: "BP, not Exxon, caused the Exxon Valdez disaster" by Greg Palast.

Article: "When the Government Outsources to Private Companies, Inequality Gets Worse" by Michelle Chen.

Article: "Intel panel seeks to end NSA data storage" by Julian Hattem.

 

Article: "This Conservative Myth About Birth Control Could Sway A Supreme Court Case " by Hannah Groch-begley.

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Case: "First National Bank Of Boston V. Bellotti", 1978.

Article: "5th Amendment" (double jeopardy, witness against self, due process, due compensation).

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Article: "Justice Kennedy Thinks Hobby Lobby Is An Abortion Case - That's Bad News For Birth Control" by Ian Millhiser.

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Article: "Hope Dies Last" by Thom Hartmann.

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Article: "US House readies Ukraine bill, no IMF reforms" by AFP.

 

Law: "HR 1627 To amend title 38, United States Code, to furnish hospital care and medical services to veterans who were stationed at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, while the water was contaminated at Camp Lejeune, to improve the provision of housing assistance to veterans and their families, and for other purposes.".

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The good: "Two Dozen Business Leaders To Storm Capitol Hill For Minimum Wage Increase" by Shadee Ashtari.

The bad: "Anti-gay zealot Scott Lively: Gays are Marxist Freemason 'foot soldiers' for New World Order" by David Ferguson.

The very, very ugly: "Christian School Tells Eight-Year-Old Girl She Looks Too Much Like A Boy" by Tom Kludt.

Article: "IMF Announces Staff Level Agreement with Ukraine on US$14-18 Billion Stand-By Arrangement" by IMF.

 

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Article: "Sweeping Supreme Court ruling will help keep guns out of the hands of domestic abusers " by Katie Mcdonough.

Article: "2nd Amendment".

Article: "President Obama Denounces Russia, Defends Iraq War As Legal" by DSWright.

Article: "Oklahoma law allowing execution drug secrecy ruled unconstitutional" by Katie Fretland.

Hour Three: How to resurrect the dead 101
- Tyler Johnson, Dead Raising Team.

Article: "Evangelical group that claims to resurrect the dead hunts for more corpses" by Travis Gettys.

 

PLUS, Exxon Valdez disaster...25 years later
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Movie: "Salt of the Earth".

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Article: "No, Cutting Off Unemployment Benefits Hasn't Pushed North Carolina's Unemployed To Get Jobs" by Bryce Covert.

Article: "New 'Southern Strategy'? Waves of Liberal Protest Ripple Across South" by Lauren McCauley.

  

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Thom talks with Investigative Journalist Greg Palast on BP's role in the Exxon Valdez oil spill disaster and with the Government Accountability Project's Kathleen McClellan on the competing NSA reform bills in Congress. Tonight's "Lone Liberal Rumble" discusses the push to privatize public utilities across the country, push back from U.S. Attorneys on AG Eric Holder's plan to overhaul mandatory minimum sentences on drug crimes and Bill O'Reilly's defense of Rep. Paul Ryan. In tonight's "Daily Take" Thom discusses how we need to be honest about the possibility that climate change may lead to the end of humanity.

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Billions for Ukraine, but Screw the Poor at Home!

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Shouldn't There be a Separation of Corporations and Religion?

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