© Mike Luckovich The Obama campaign has created an interesting website — http://romneyplan.org — which allows you to type in your income and see what would happy to your taxes under Obama’s and Romney’s tax plans. Of course, the website makes lots of assumptions, but the basic point is still true. Obama has already cut […]
Under the tax plan promoted by Paul Ryan — Mitt Romney’s Vice Presidential running mate — Romney would pay almost nothing in federal taxes. How do we know this? Because Romney himself told us! In Ryan’s plan, he wants to eliminate income taxes on capital gains, interest, and dividends entirely. That means that the vast […]
© Ruben Bolling I love Tom the Dancing Bug. In fact, I just joined his Inner Hive (less than $10 — cheap!). You can too. UPDATE: Good article on how the rich avoid paying taxes. “Our tax code has a number of flaws, one of which is that it doesn’t do a very good job […]
By selecting Paul Ryan as his running mate, is Romney giving in to the most strident conservatives and giving up on moderates and independent voters? UPDATE: This person definitely thinks so: After a blasting in the polls and a haranguing by right-wing pundits, Mitt Romney decided that he should use the biggest statement of his […]
So, why is it that Romney is so adamant about not releasing his tax returns? He doesn’t seem like the kind of guy who is embarrassed about being rich. So it seems safe to assume that he is deliberately hiding something. One theory concerns the fact that back in 2009, the IRS did a massive […]
Scotts Miracle-Gro is making headlines because they publicly donated $200,000 to Romney’s SuperPAC “Restore Our Future”. Yes, that is the same Scotts Miracle-Gro that pleaded guilty to selling birdseed that was coated with a pesticide toxic to birds, even after their own scientists warned them of the problem. And in a separate case, falsified documents […]
Fox News has a “voter fraud unit”? Have they no shame?
Good luck pinning him down. And even if you do, he’ll just say the opposite in a day or two. He’s the ultimate generic candidate. And he loves everything, except vampires.
Mitt Romney has earned a full-throated endorsement from famous porn star Jenna Jameson. While sipping champagne in the VIP room of a gentlemen’s club in San Francisco, Jameson told a television reporter: I’m very looking forward to a Republican being back in office. When you’re rich, you want a Republican in office. This endorsement is […]
© Ruben Bolling Believe it or not, this really is pretty much how recessions work. And how anyone thinks that austerity will help jumpstart an economy is beyond me.
If your house was foreclosed on in 2009 or 2010, you can ask for a free review and receive compensation if there were any errors made: The bottom line is there is a website you can visit to see your options. Try to ignore the fact that the website looks pretty cheesy — it is […]
© Ben Sargent Richard Muller, one of the most widely quoted climate change deniers, who even directed a climate change project funded by the Koch brothers, has done what he calls a “total turnaround”. In an editorial in the NY Times, Muller calls himself a converted skeptic. Muller now says that global warming is real, […]
Last night a fake op-ed piece purporting to have been written by NY Times columnist (and former Executive Editor) Bill Keller was tweeted. The fake article discussed rumors of a “potential financial blockade against the New York Times by Visa, Mastercard, and American Express for hosting U.S. government cables published by WikiLeaks”. The hoax was […]
© Jim Morin That’s right, Britain’s largest selling newspaper, The Sun, called Mitt Romney “Mitt the Twit” in its headline. Ironically, The Sun is owned by conservative Rupert Murdoch. Other British newspapers were equally unkind. The hard-conservative Daily Telegraph called him a wazzock and said that while he was in Britain, Romney could learn “some […]
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, […]
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