The Public Interest Group Education Fund and the NGO Demos released a study in early August on the financing of the presidential campaign. They found that nearly 60% of the almost quarter of a billion dollars raised by Super PACs from individuals derived from just 47 people, who gave at least $1 million each (obviously […]
Uygur: Paul Ryan Created the Deficit
Cenk Uygur of Current TV takes on Paul Ryan’s claims to be a deficit hawk and for small government, showing all the ways that Ryan’s votes helped create trillions in deficits: See also my infographic, which makes many of the same points.
Arabs and the Olympics (Majid)
Anouar Majid writes in a guest column for Informed Comment The 2012 Olympics in London gave us a golden opportunity to assess the condition of the Arab world in its natural state. Sports is one occasion when political slogans and self-deception are useless. One either wins or loses. The performance of Arabs reflects the dismal […]
Really, America? Really? These are your Top Stories?
Top stories according to google news analytics, 2 pm Monday 8.13.12
You might be Paul Ryan if….
If you admitted that you got into politics because of the impact on you of the philosopher of personal greed and egotism, Ayn Rand, but later had to deny it because it was bad publicity, you might be Paul Ryan. If you want to destroy social security for others, but after your father died when […]
In Switch, Egypt’s Civilian President Makes Coup against Generals
This is BIG. The BBC says that Egypt’s elected president, from the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood, has just ordered the firing of Field Marshall Hussein Tantawi, the leader of the 23-member Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF). He also ordered the Army Chief of Staff and another SCAF stalwart, Gen. Sami Anan, to retire. The […]
Paul Ryan was for Big Deficits before he was against them (graphic)
Paul Ryan blames President Obama for the government’s budget deficits, and singles out the stimulus program as the culprit. But stimulus was one-time expenditures, not ongoing annual ones, and so over time will contribute little to the deficit. What does drive up the deficit annually is a series of Bush-era measures, including the Iraq and […]
Romney Hood and his Merry Band (Cartoon)
Two Ways Mitt Romney Really Will Kill lots of People
Controversy is swirling about a poorly argued attack ad done by a super PAC that is pro-Obama, which accuses Mitt Romney of being responsible for throwing a family where the wife had cancer out of health insurance when he closed the company. The case seems convoluted and the argument tenuous. Romney isn’t responsible for people […]
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