Over the weekend I read Lee Fang’s expose of the “Romney Family Business” in the latest issue of The Nation. All this time I thought that the only thing Mitt Romney really cared about was lowering taxes on the wealthy. It turns out he plans to peddle influence and sell off the government to cronies […]
The reaction to the vice presidential and the second presidential debates reminds me of a mirror. When you look in a mirror you see yourself. In the case of these debates, it appears that opinion writers, pundits, political advisors and bloggers are all seeing what they want to see. Yes, I believe that both the […]
The statistic has been around for a few months now, but I just stumbled upon it and was amazed: Wal-Mart workers collectively receive $2.66 billion a year in food stamps, or $420,000 per Wal-Mart store in food stamps. Year after year, low Wal-Mart wages lead to the government providing food stamps and other assistance to […]
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What could be more innocent and more reflective of basic American values than a program that encourages school children to have lunch with kids with whom they usually don’t associate? It’s a wonderful way to encourage children to learn about people outside their small circle of friends, who might come from a different ethnic or […]
Let’s take a break from the presidential election campaign to discuss a topic that both candidates seem to be largely ignoring: the environment – specifically the enormous amount of carbon wastes that human are spewing into the environment by burning fossil fuels. The funny thing is that in long term, the rapid warming of the […]
I normally associate fear with many conservative positions: Fear of minorities and the poor. Fear of losing a job or a home. Fear of terrorist attack. Fear of cities and those that have different lifestyles and backgrounds. This fear of the other that haunts U.S. culture through history. But what I’m feeling from the right […]
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I wrote the other day that we wouldn’t know who really won the first presidential debate until the next polls of likely voters came out. That verdict is in, and it seems as if the pundits were right and Romney won by the only criterion that counts: a change in the polls in his favor. […]
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News flash! On last night’s “Sean Hannity Show,” Mitt Romney admitted that his comments about “the 47 percent” of Americans who don’t pay federal income taxes were “just completely wrong.” Mitt doesn’t apologize, but he does say he was wrong. Better late than never. Romney explains away his harsh and dismissive comment by asserting that […]
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Despite the efforts of pundits and politicians to spin last night’s debate in favor of one or the other candidate, we won’t really know who won until we see the next set of polls of likely voters nationwide and in the swing states. Many pundits and politicians say that Mitt Romney won because he was […]
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This year’s liberal stand-in for the devil incarnate are the Koch Brothers, who have forked over millions of dollars to establish the Tea Party, push Tea Party candidates, raise doubts about climate change and promote legislation that guts environmental regulations and reduces taxes on the wealthy. It’s hard to vote against Dave and Charles when […]