Super PACs have garnered a lot of attention lately, but they aren’t the real money in politics. Far worse are so-called “dark-money nonprofits”, which are allowed to keep their donors secret. The Citizens United decision not only allows corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money on politics, it gives the same right to nonprofits. However, […]
As if it weren’t bad enough that Republicans were deliberately blocking bills that would help the economy, in order to win elections. We almost expect that of them. But this is the height of cynicism and hypocrisy. Ohio’s Senate race is neck-and-neck, with progressive Sherrod Brown pitted against Republican Josh Mandel. Mandel vocally opposed raising […]
Even if you aren’t a Harry Potter fan, McSweeney’s has a hilarious article called “In Hindsight, Maybe We Shouldn’t Have Let Lord Voldemort Start His Own Super PAC”. Here’s just a short quote from it: I’m not saying that Super PACs are inherently evil or anything. After all, look how that Citizens United case turned […]
© Lee Judge I find this comic especially funny, since it came out before Mitt Romney’s disastrous attempt to be statesmanlike in England.
“A new CBS poll found that 47 percent of voters are supporting Mitt Romney, while 46 percent support Obama. Well, it makes sense, because if Romney wins, it’s definitely going to be thanks to the one percent.” – Jimmy Fallon “Jobless claims rose again by 35,000 last week. Not good. But it does show that […]
Lost in all the brouhaha about Mitt Romney’s gaffe-o-rama in England is the fact that one of the main things he did while in London is hold a fundraising dinner in a foreign city, where scandal-plagued international bankers paid $25,000 to $75,000 a plate to support his election campaign. That’s right. Romney is explicitly asking […]
© Ruben Bolling I said it already, but you really do need to read the article about Climate Change in Rolling Stone. There is absolutely no excuse for us not having the political will to do something about this.
“During a fundraiser a country club in Mississippi, Mitt Romney said the GOP is a party focused on helping the poor. See, his wife Ann is right, he is funny. He can make jokes.” – Jay Leno “In his new campaign ad, President Obama asks, ‘What is Mitt Romney hiding?’ My guess: a personality.” – […]
Despite my opinion of Mitt Romney, I always thought that at least he is more intelligent than our last Republican president. But now I’m not quite sure about that. Romney is in the middle of a trip to England, which is supposed to show him acting like a statesman. It also helps that the Olympics […]
Republicans have repeated the lie that Obama is a big spender so often, that even some democrats believe it. But the fact is that federal spending under Obama has increased at the lowest rate since Eisenhower wound down the Korean war. Adjusted for inflation, federal spending under Obama has gone down. Even not adjusted for […]
While I believe in the second amendment right to bear arms, even I am amazed that we can’t seem to have a reasonable conversation in this country about guns. Isn’t there anything we can do to reduce the insane amount of gun violence we have in this country, without infringing on people’s right to own […]
DC Douglas makes fun of Romney’s latest attack on Obama: As usual the Romney campaign edited Obama’s words (splicing out “roads and bridges”) to make it sound like Obama was dissing entrepreneurs and claiming that they didn’t build their own businesses (when he was actually saying that they didn’t build the roads and bridges they […]
Just a quick note about a really good article in Rolling Stone about the math of climate change. Don’t let the word “math” in the title scare you — this is a really easy to understand explanation of what is happening. And what we need to do about it — before it is too late. […]
As someone who has been working with the Internet since close to the beginning, I almost blew a gasket yesterday when I read an article in the Wall Street Journal by Gordon Crovitz claiming that “Contrary to legend, it wasn’t the federal government” who invented the Internet. The article was meant as a slap against […]
© Tom Tomorrow I guess I need to add one more category of people who like Mitt Romney — cartoonists. He’s like Dubya on steroids for them.
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