In 2008, I voted for Barack Obama............Why?............Two reasons. One, I did not like the way the last eight years went. The stock market took the deepest dive in our history, the unemployment rate was going up, we saw the highest price for a...
When Paul Krugman was confronted with the right wing myth that lower business taxes create jobs on ABC’s This Week, the Nobel Prize winner pounced a delivered some economic straight talk. ...
From a newspaper letter to an editor today: Not a literal copy: 'If you meet a pure liberal - you meet an idiot. If you meet a pure conservative - you meet a monster." When I think of Romney, Boehner, McConnell, Ryan - I think of pure...
Article @ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/21/fort-knox-ted-nugent-concert-anti-obama-comments_n_1443077.html After catching the Secret Service's attention with some inflammatory remarks about President Barack Obama, Ted...
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Seems like a 'fresh, new' approach for Romney to suggest admiring the successfully rich. It goes along with admiring Capitalism. But, think about that for a minute or two. What other economic system besides Capitalism can create comparatively...
Today, Congress will vote on keeping the interest rates on student loans at what they are now, 3.5%, rather than what the republicans wanted, 6.5%. Why they would have wanted to attack another voting group, the young college educated, is beyond me....
Underpaying the labor force of America makes no sense. Labor is driving force of the economy. Without demand there is no market. I am not saying overpay, but I am saying let's get real and end income descrepencies. ...
GOP speaker of Kansas House prays for Obama’s death, calls First Lady “Mrs. YoMama” Posted on January 9, 2012 at 8:52 am by Pat Cunningham (Note: This post, which was published on Saturday morning and has gained...
www.democracynow.org News Corp. chief executive Rupert Murdoch appeared before a British inquiry on Wednesday to face new questions on the phone-hacking scandal that has engulfed his media empire. Under questioning from inquiry chair...
The United States have become such a different place than what it used to be. This was once a God fearing nation, now people have no fear of God and sin. The sinners sin right in the open, and almost dare anyone to say what they are doing is sin or...
Republicans want to double the interest rate on student loans, unless they can 'fund the cost of keeping the loan interest the same.' This exposes a kind of insanity in Congress. While banks are happy to provide their customers with a 1% interest...
As I've grown suspect people who publish outside of the media that has given us stories of how great Stalin was as he was starving thousands of Ukrainians, that the Tet Offensive was a defeat, that the narrative (party line) was more important than...
A man with good morals who falls short and becomes a hypocrite is still a far better man than a man who can never be called a hypocrite because he has no morals at all.
The juxtaposition is too precious: in a talk show yesterday, Scott Walker talked about the “failed policies” of Illinois and the next day figures came out which showed that state fared exceptionally well, with job growth and the reduction of debt,...
With Santorum ending his campaign, and Gingrich not really being a conservative, does Romney satisfy his party nomination as a real conservative? He has a lot of baggage about his MA health plan that is the basis of Obamacare. He may have some appeal...
This is a simple question. Have tax cuts aimed at the very wealthy stimulated the economy? We've had those tax cuts for a decade now. Also, GOPers won the 2010 election by a landslide on the promise of "jobs"....what happened? ...
The US Communist party was an extension of the Soviet Union during the 'cold war'. Since the Soviet Union no longer exists, no longer pays US communists, what their party affiliation to any other country is unknown. "In 2002, the Communist Party...
The USDA has confirmed a case of Mad Cow disease in California. Too bad we have regulators like the USDA.................All they do is cause trouble and cost the tax payers money. Right! Had the USDA not identified that cow, it would have...
You don't have a "right" to anything that other people have to pay to provide for you.
If Republicans win this next election, you'll have to make decisions: If they get rid of the Affordable Health Care Act (ObamaCare), women will again be dropped or pay twice as much for health premiums, children less than 26 years old will be...
(aside from when he is a lawyer and/or his mouth is moving.) The 'UNFUNDED LIABILITY' scam is very popular during this election cycle. Most Americans have no clue what it means, they hear it said and accept that the politician is using the words...
Does North Korea mean it this time? If they do, then what?
When the Founding Fathers were actually around, there were official state religions and the Bible was used as a textbook in schools. The so-called "wall of separation between church and state" has absolutely nothing to do with the Constitution and...
I had to condense this down, as if I listed all of the reasons why the GOP would lose, it would be way too long and most republicans couldn't stay focused long enough to read it. So, the condensed version. The GOP, and I include republicans,...
