Republican Sen. John McCain on Friday blasted President Barack Obama for casting doubt on whether Mitt Romney would have ordered the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, calling it "a cheap political attack." The Obama campaign leveled its attack in a new campaign ad. "No on …
Rick Santorum is lying ... again ... about President Obama. This time it's his bogus claim that the President is undermining the institution of marriage.
Every 2012 contender attended college. They all graduated. They went to schools like the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia, Texas A&M, Morehouse, Penn State and Emory.
Right-Wing Propagandists Exploit Americans' Fears Deep-rooted, growing public distrust of government in the modern era began during the Vietnam War, and spread generally with the Watergate scandal. Despite the efforts of Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, both of who …
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VINEGAR JOE STILLWELL'S LEGACY:PROVERBIAL WARNING THAT ACTIONIS ALWAYS THE CHALLENGE General "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell's office during his years as America's lead military man in China before and during World War II, according to historian Barbara Tuchman, displayed a framed print o …
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It's not only the traditional unemployed who fret about jobs. It's college students. Seniors. Military veterans. Single parents. The middle class. It's Americans of all backgrounds, and they all will listen closely to President Obama's jobs speech Thursday evening.
For days, the flip-flopping GOP/TP right wing has been criticizing the President's handling of Libya. The critics are literally full of manure. CNN's Fareed Zakaria writes:
About 60 percent of the members of the House of Representatives are not holding free and open town hall meetings during the six-week congressional recess this summer, a survey by the nonpartisan group No Labels has found. No Labels called 430 active House members, and found that …
Professor originally from the Middle East explains why no foreign troops were wanted or needed in Libya, the role of the U.S. and Europe in the conflict, and significant background about the country and its past.
“Tear It Down and Start over” – But the Tea Party’s Methods Are Proven Disasters – WHY Try It in America?
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Economist argues that a new stimulus program is essential to growth and job development.
Blaming the poor for just about any problem is a pretty ancient tactic. In the conservative, slow-developing societies of pre-Biblical times, poverty was addressed by enslaving the poor. In early modern England of the 16th and 17th centuries - in a system that persist …
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In a very short time, the issue of the national debt, the budget deficits, and presumably a real budget for 2011-2012 will be back before Congress. As long as the rabid unelected masters of the right wing, folk such as Grover Norquist and the Heritage Foundation, among …
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Credit rating firms, watching the debt ceiling increase turn into a serious crisis, have warned that the American credit rating is at risk. Although they also cite the size of U.S.
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I WANT It! How the “Acquisition Society” Turned Into the Tea Party When the world collapsed in September, 2008, Americans were already angry and bereft – their happy spending spree on houses, luxury cars, expensive purses, overpriced shoes, boats, steaks and lob …
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Regardless of the economy and other worries, President Obama enjoys double-digit leads over the GOP candidates for 2012, says new Reuters poll. Within the ranks of Republican candidates, Sarah Palin now leads.
IRRESPONSIBLE GOP POSITION ON DEBT CEILING COUNTS ON PUBLIC IGNORANCE OF WHAT IS AT STAKE While House and Senate Republicans continue to pursue their bait-and-switch strategy of pretending the debt and deficit are the priorities instead of their regressive ideological political g …
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"BIRTHERS," THE ULTRA-RIGHT AND LIBERTARIANS NEED THIS HISTORY LESSON "Birthers" and ultra-right politicians and voters do more than imitate the zany, malicious rumors about a "suppositious prince" that helped force England's King James from the throne in 1688. …
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GOP Strategists Using “Birthers” in High-Risk 2012 Election Ploy? There once was a “suppositious” prince whose birth guaranteed the end of an English royal dynasty – and 324 years later, political strategists hope the same scenario might help bring …
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PAUL RYAN'S "BUDGET" USES THE POPULIST VENEER OF "DEBT AND DEFICIT REDUCTION" TO COVER OVER A MUCH MORE SIGNIFICANT POLICY OBJECTIVE:Ryan’s budget is the mechanism for obdurate anti-government factions to eliminate a major portion of American public institutions long desp …
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Truth-checking Trump's bogus "birther" remarks, Alan Greenspan's just-about-bogus anti-regulation statement, and BP's entirely bogus claim it spilled less oil last year than before.
Nobel winning economist slams Bowles-Simpson budget plan. Not only will it "wreck the economy," says Joseph Stiglitz, but it harms the nation's development and future.