The headlines about the Petraeus affair in the Arab world this morning almost universally read something like “Lebanese woman brings down CIA.” The woman who seems to have destroyed three careers and kicked off the FBI investigation of Gen. David Petraeus, ex-director of the CIA, goes by Jill Kelley. But her maiden name is Gilberte […]
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US politics
Why Bill O’Reilly is Wrong about Minorities ‘Wanting Things” & the Election
Bill O’Reilly set the frame for an “angry white male” understanding of the bath Mitt Romney took at the polls Tuesday night, even before it was entirely clear to Fox Cable News that their guy was going down. O’Reilly, for all the world like a liberal arts assistant professor, explained it in terms of class, […]
Top Ten Wish List Progressives should Press on President Obama
President Obama’s reelection should mean more to progressives than simply dodging the bullet of a Romney presidency indebted to the Tea Party. Democratic politics has to be more than relief, while playing Russian Roulette, that this time we got the empty chamber. Progressives are a significant wing of the Democratic Party, and if we continue […]
Top Ten Coming Disasters: Romney’s America 2016
What will the United States look like in 2016 if Mitt Romney wins? While predicting the future is of course impossible, actually my experience is that if you play out known possible scenarios in your mind, you can often get a fair idea of the likely course of events. 1. Austerity does not work– it […]
Top Five Signs of Capitalist Dictatorship in the Romney Campaign
The mainstream media and even Democrats have been slow to call Mitt Romney’s deliberate falsehoods “lies.” But after just calling them what they are, it is also important to analyze their meaning. Lies on Romney’s scale do not simply show contempt for the intelligence of American voters. They show contempt for democracy, and display some […]
Romney Ridiculed ‘Rising of Seas,’ Pledged Deep cuts to FEMA (Videos)
Mitt Romney makes fun of President Obama’s pledge to slow the rising of the world’s oceans, caused by climate change, and his Republican audience tittered. Instead, Romney pledged to “help you and your families.” In general, more moisture in the air and higher ocean temperatures, both of which help hurricanes be more damaging, result from […]
A vote for Romney is a vote for Zombies: Joss Whedon of the Avengers (Video)
Director and screenwriter Joss Whedon (The Avengers, The Cabin in the Woods (2012), suggests that a vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for the Zombie Apocalypse, and that learning Parkour (obstacle and speed training) would be an appropriate response to a Romney victory.
Jon Stewart: Romney/ Bain record on Picking Winners much Worse than Obama’s
Wherein Jon Stewart of the Daily Show on Comedy Central examines the proposition that Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital can pick winners and losers among investment prospects better than Obama and the Federal government. Turns out, not so much. !!!! The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Picking Winners & Losers […]
Romney’s Major Flip-Flops in the Third Debate
Gov. Mitt Romney continued his amazing chameleon act in the third presidential debate, apparently reversing several of his earlier talking points on foreign policy in the game’s ninth inning. On Israel-Palestine Romney said Monday, ” Is — are Israel and the Palestinians closer to — to reaching a peace agreement? No, they haven’t had talks […]
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