“I’ve seen how these states are written off and ignored, and people are effectively disenfranchised in the presidential race. And I really do now think it is time to change that.” – Former Vice President Al Gore AMEN. …and hallelujah. If you don’t live in Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North [...]
Archive | August, 2012
Win Against Republican Efforts in Texas and Ohio to Disenfranchise Voters
IN CASE you missed it, more wins against the continual efforts by the right to disenfranchise voters. First, a word from Bill Clinton on voting rights. Taken together, such measures could significantly dampen the Democratic turnout next year – perhaps enough to shift the outcome in favor of the GOP. “One of the most pervasive [...]
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IF YOU haven’t been following along with Steve Benen’s “Mitt’s Mendacity” series over at The Maddow Blog, he did another one and it’s a doozy. He’s up to 32 in his series. image: Shutterstock
Mitt Shows Heart
“You know there’s something wrong with the kind of job he’s done as president when the best feeling you had, was the day you voted for him.” – Mitt Romney THE QUOTE above resonates with the situation the voter is in this year. It also goes to the one question Mitt Romney had to answer [...]
Poverty as a Bipartisan Nonissue
There are a few topics that I can be fairly certain that, when I write about them, I’m going to hear from a few people, almost always via FB or Twitter message, or through email. One of those topics was a focus in yesterday’s post, USA Ranks 28th Out of 29 for Income Equality. And [...]
Um… What Was That?
Judging an American icon like Clint Eastwood through a typical political lens doesn’t work. His ad libbing was a break from all the political speeches, and the crowd enjoyed it. He rightly pointed out that 23 million Americans out of work or underemployed is a national disgrace and it’s time for a change. – Romney [...]
The Paul Ryan Reviews are In
THIS POSTER is spreading across Facebook almost as fast as a picture of a politician caught with his pants down. It’s compliments of Fuse Washington.
GOP Convention ‘Mystery Speaker’ Will ‘Make My Day’?
Clint Eastwood. That’s the latest speculation about tonight’s “mystery speaker,” according to Christian Science Monitor. ‘It’s him,’ Romney family friend Paul Gilbert told the US News ‘Washington Whispers’ blog. ‘I can confirm that, 100 percent.’ … Fox News is also saying it’s Mr. Eastwood. … CNN is reporting the same. I’m still puzzled by this [...]
Republicans Screwed Ron Paul, So Paulites Should Do the Same to Them
AFTER DECADES in politics and amassing an army of young people, the best the Republican Party could do for Ron Paul is the video above. CNN played it, C-SPAN did too, but there wasn’t much discussion anywhere about what he’s done for politics and to bring a generation of young people, as well as people [...]
Top Story: Paul Ryan Lands, Received as New Conservative Leader
“A Romney-Ryan administration will protect and strengthen Medicare, for my Mom’s generation, for my generation, and for my kids and yours,” Ryan said. “My mom started a small business, and I’ve seen what it takes. Mom was 50 when my dad died. She got on a bus every weekday for years, and rode 40 miles [...]
Court Rejects Another Voter ID Law
Via Think Progress: With Thursday’s ruling that a Texas voter identification law violates the Voting Rights Act, a pattern continues to emerge of Republican legislatures and governors attempting to enact illegal voter suppression legislation and courts striking them down. Among the recently rejected laws are strict voter identification laws, provisional voting restrictions, limits on voter [...]
Queer Talk: ‘Personal Crusades,’ ‘Angelic Troublemakers,’ and Red and Blue Politics
In spite of the efforts to find ways to be supportive of the Romney / Ryan ticket (and related to LGBT equality, Log Cabin Republicans seem more excited about Ryan than Romney, because one time Ryan voted for the Employment Nondiscrimination Act), LCR hasn’t endorsed that ticket. They still could, of course. But why wait [...]
USA Ranks 28th Out of 29 for Income Equality
Via Real World Economic Review, the graph below is from Edward Fullbrook’s Decline of the USA. RWER quotes from an Al Jazeera review: Fullbrook’s book reminds us that there’s a rational order in the world – that countries can learn from one another’s experience in tackling social problems and challenges, and that by striving to [...]
Team Obama Fact Checks Paul Ryan’s Speech
THE OBAMA campaign gets busy.
Condoleezza Rice Enters Politics, Just Don’t Tell Her
CLASS ACT alert. Condoleezza Rice should prepare herself, because the Republican Party in California has been comatose since Pete Wilson’s governorship. She’s just the woman who might bring it back. She’s an abortion rights advocate, incredibly adept, with her domestic passion education, which she calls the civil rights issue of our time. Who can argue [...]
TM Must Reads
THE 21st century world offers ways to tweak your appearance, or alter it altogether, with women finally able to combat directly the comparison that’s always been around. Men look distinguished as they age, while women look old, unattractive, or to use Rush Limbaugh’s favorite comment, who wants to look at a woman with wrinkles? The 2012 plastic surgery statistics are out and the American Society of Plastic Surgery tells the story.
The real question about Hillary is this: When people take a new look at her in the coming years, will they see the past or the future — Mrs. Clinton or Madam President? – Maureen Dowd IT’S A classic front page from Huffington Post, coupled with a post by Jason Linkins, which details what’s been going on.
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy “Here’s what nobody is telling you: Find a husband on campus before you graduate. Yes, I went there.
“Norma Rae is a survivor and for the first time in her life she’s got a chance to become something more… a winner.” – Promo for “Norma Rae” CRITICS like Anne-Marie Slaughter, but especially Maureen I-Love-My-Pearls Dowd, and others [most of whom didn't read the book or do their homework] who are blaming Sheryl Sandberg for being a billionaire Ivy League graduate, while accusing her of letting corporations and government off the hook, are missing a major point.
Great sex doesn’t always just happen. Sometimes, it takes a little planning, especially if — like many Americans — you’ve been in a bit of a sex rut. Do some prep work by turning your bedroom into a love nest: Make the bed (with new, or at least clean, sheets), tidy up, light a candle or two, and queue up a sexy playlist on your iPod.
“You Don’t Own Me” PSA -Official from You Don't Own Me on Vimeo. WHO DOESN’T know the song “You Don’t Own Me,” sung by Leslie Gore? The movie First Wives Club helped to reignite the relevancy of the song.
“Last night I interviewed Jill Stein the presidential candidate for the Green Party on this show. And I confess right now, I should have asked her to just get out of the race.” – Jennifer Granholm, “The War Room” [Current TV] THE ARGUMENT Jennifer Granholm makes above is a tactic that no longer fits the times.
“With that drum magazine, he could have gotten off 50, 60 rounds, even if it was semiautomatic, within one minute,” Chief Oates said. [New York Times] IN THE GAPING MAW of our leadership vacuum stands Aurora Police Chief Daniel Oates, whose resolve, vulnerability and humility inside the vortex of a man made hell revealed what nobody in Congress or either political party has shown in decades. Leadership without regard to anything but his own duty to the people, which included the cops in the eye of volcanic carnage.
“Rick Doblin has done a lot for the field, but he is more of a populist,” Grob says. “We need careful and controlled scientific studies showing the efficacy of these drugs so funding can continue.” Broader awareness of these sorts of end-of-life psychedelic studies could be good for everyone, the researchers say.
*updated below* So much for keep calm and carry on, what Joe Scarborough proclaims to be his motto. It was the weirdest one-on-one back and forth with a high profile talking head imaginable. It makes high school look mature.
**UPDATED** Would we be any worse off with Stephen Colbert as president? I doubt it. Politifact has watched the video “(repeatedly!
Despite rising public concern about the federal budget deficit, Americans favor keeping Social Security and Medicare benefits as they are rather than taking steps to reduce the budget deficit (by 60% vs. 32%). – Public Wants Changes in Entitlements, Not Changes in Benefits This is starting early, so it’s time to revisit the facts.
“If we can prove that a biological attack originated in a country that attacked us, then all bets are off.” – Sect. Hillary Clinton Women can do it, too.
The interview with Obama by George Stephanopoulos wasn’t nearly as contentious as the interview with the Edwardses. No Republican talking points from Stephanopoulos yesterday, like when he accused Edwards of abandoning the troops with this beauty: “Do you think the Democrats should be saddled with the idea of completely cutting off funding for the troops?” Or this one: “You know, a lot of Democrats still in the Senate think that your position here is cynical political theater.
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