thinkprogress.org New TYT Network channels: www.youtube.com www.youtube.com New TYT Facebook Page(!): www.facebook.com Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com www.theyoungturks.com DISCOUNTS: www.theyoungturks.com FREE Movies(!): www.netflix.com Note: The above two links are for TYT sponsors. Read Ana’s blog and subscribe at: www.examiner.com TYT Network (new WTF?! channel): www.youtube.com Check Out TYT Interviews www.youtube.com In an age when far-right tea party activists have taken over the Republican Party and demanded lockstep allegiance, Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN) has been one of the few GOP lawmakers to step out of line. In particular, Lugar, the ranking GOP member on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has blasted his own party for relentlessly blocking ratification of the New START nuclear arms treaty with Russia, calling on his fellow GOP senators to “do your duty for your country” and complete the pact. Not surprisingly, this insubordination has earned Lugar significant scorn within the Republican base, which now seems to value blind obedience over principled independent decision-making. In a New York Times profile of Lugar published today, former GOP Sen. John Danforth feared that the backlash against Lugar from his own party signals that the GOP has gone “far overboard” with no hope of turning back “If Dick Lugar,” said John C. Danforth, a former Republican senator from Missouri, “having served five terms in the US Senate and being the most respected person in …

Addressing the Indian Parliamentarians, President Barack Obama said US welcomes India as it prepares to take its seat at the UN Security Council.

ANN COULTER: Sarah Palin Only Pretending To Run For President Because Newt Said Her Speaking Fees Would Go Up
Probably not what you were expecting to hear from Ann Coulter on Sean Hannity last night.

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Republican Sarah Palin to visit India next month
Washington, Feb 24 (PTI) Republican leader Sarah Palin will make her first trip to India next month to attend a conference and speak on her vision of America.

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‘Sarah Palin’s Alaska’ Named Worst
She lost the vice presidency and quit the governorship, but Sarah Palin can count herself as a winner as her one-season reality travelogue “Sarah Palin’s Alaska” was named worst reality show from the Hollywood Temp Diaries, bumping last year’s winner “Jersey Shore” as well as such deserving nominees as “Bridalplasty,” “Bad Girls Club” and “16 and Pregnant.” In addition, Palin won worst female in …

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Liberal leadership vote results
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Centre pushing neo-liberal policies: CPI(M)
NEW DELHI: The Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Monday said the Union budget failed to address the serious problems affecting the people and the economy, and charged the government with abandoning the aam aadmi agenda in pursuit of aggressive neo-liberal policies.

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B.C. Liberal leader vote will proceed, despite problems
The B.C. Liberal party says it’s going ahead with its leadership vote tomorrow despite problems with party members getting special ID numbers they need in order to vote.

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Obama has been making a ton of changes over the last 3 months. I think its time that people start realizing the effects of what is going on right now are because of the decisions he is making.

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, San Francisco, October 4, 2009 (accompanied by Great American Taxi) Best similar Todd storytelling intro I’ve noticed here on YouTube: Best similar Todd storytelling intro I’ve seen here on YouTube: www.youtube.com

Cenk Uygur (host of The Young Turks) breaks down comments by Rush Limbaugh comparing Democrats to mobsters and terrorists.

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Glenn Beck, a renowned Fox news TV presenter, and other leading US conservative figures including Sarah Palin, the former Republican vice presidential candidate, are set to address supporters at a rally in Washington DC. But the so-called Tea Party Movement gathering is being held where the African-American civil rights leader Martin Luther King gave his “I have a dream speech”, which called for equal rights for African-Americans, exactly 47 years ago. The place and date for the rally has been seen as inappropriate by many because Beck is widely criticised for his racially controversial statements. Civil rights campaigners are set to hold a counter rally in the district. Al Jazeera’s Nick Spicer reports from Washington. [August 28, 2010]