The Lisbon Reporter

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Friday, March 21, 2014

TMB: How Democratic Donors Benefit Financially from Climate Policy‏ and More

How Democratic Donors Benefit Financially from Climate PolicyBy Matthew Continetti
Some lies just won’t go away. In February the Washington Post published an article with the following headline: “Why There’s No Democratic Version of the Koch Brothers’ Organization.”

Bureaucratic Backlog
By Elizabeth Harrington
In 2010 a Swiss company successfully completed Phase III trials for a groundbreaking vaccine to fight a rare but deadly strain of meningitis. Four years later, outbreaks of Meningitis type B (MenB) are spreading in college campuses across the United States, though the product still awaits approval by the Food and Drug Administration.

Echoes of the Past
By Anna Borshchevskaya
Analysts drew comparisons between Vladimir Putin and Adolf Hitler following the Russian president’s speech announcing the annexation of Crimea March 18.

Lawmakers Call for State Department Action on Nicaraguan Regime
By Daniel Wiser
A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers is raising concerns about Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega’s efforts to undermine democracy and the rule of law in the Central American country.

Who Said It—Putin or Hitler?
By Andrew Stiles
Russian president Vladimir Putin on Wednesday followed in the footsteps of history’s most notorious power-mad dictators by formally endorsing the armed invasion and annexation of Crimea in the name of ethnic solidarity.

50 States, 50 Stories

Why does Harry Reid call these Obamacare victims liars?

BY: David Rutz
March 20, 2014 10:44 a

Whether it’s been soaring premiums, insurance cancellations, frustrations with the state and federal exchanges, cutting employee hours or even daycare centers closing down, the Affordable Care Act’s negative effects have touched all 50 states.
Sen. Harry Reid (D., Nev.) saw it a different way in a strange outburst on the floor Feb. 26, calling all Obamacare horror stories “lies” and “stories made up from whole cloth.”
Here are 50 states worth of Harry Reid’s liars.