Mitt Romney: Last Clown Standing
The 2012 GOP Presidential race has been a clown comedy cavalcade: Michele Bachmann and her warped takes on liberty and history; Rick Perry with his… with his… Nope. Don’t got it; … Continue reading
Inside the Investigation of Leading Republican Money Man Sheldon Adelson
by Matt Isaacs, Lowell Bergman and Stephen Engelberg July 16, 2012, 11:30 a.m. Reprinted with kind permission by ProPublica.org This story was co-published with PBS’ “Frontline.” A decade ago gambling … Continue reading
Romney Would Accelerate America into the Rearview Mirror
Mitt Romney is a creature of Wall Street. Mitt Romney is, as I mentioned in my last article, is an Internationalist. Mitt Romney is gasoline on the burning embers of … Continue reading
Mitt Romney: To Whom Will the Off-Shore President Sell Off America?
If elected, Willard “Mitt” Romney would be the first President in U.S. history who has routinely bet against his country. Beyond the off-shore bank accounts in the Caribbean that would … Continue reading
As Much Education as they Can Afford – Romney Remark Renews a Different Kind of Voter Suppression
Curbing access to higher education may be as, if not more significant, than voter disenfranchisement. Mitt Romney’s stump comment that students should “get as much education as they can afford,” soaring … Continue reading
Why Negative Political Attack Ads Work: 5 in 10 Americans Can’t Read, 8 in 10 Can’t Process
Negative political ads work. A majority of Americans form political opinions from ads in their entertainment programming. 51% of the adult population of the United States is barely functionally literate. … Continue reading
The Trojan Library: Is Lying Like Republicans a Path to Progressive Victory?
Should Democrats use the same tactics as Republicans, employ deceptive negative advertising? American voters seem Pavlovianly conditioned to respond to it after two generations. The modern tale of the Trojan Library, … Continue reading
Citizens United Breaches the Levees of Democracy: Will We, the People Defend America?
The American political system has been breached like the Ninth Ward in New Orleans by a judicial-activist Katrina: The Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision. Super PACs and billionaires are flooding … Continue reading
Five Things You Can Do to Take America Back from Tea Party Teahadis
It is fashionable to say that you’re so frustrated with the way things are going. So quit complaining and DO SOMETHING. Teahadis rail about their Constitutional Rights, but what … Continue reading
When You See… Who’s Who in Right-Wing Republican Political Propaganda 2012 (Pt. 1)
You will be hit with a lot of anti-Obama ads from large political Super PACs, think-tanks, and other astroturf grass rights groups that have been cooked up by the far … Continue reading
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