TM NOTE: I’d like to introduce you to England’s own AA Birch, who will be writing periodically here at TM about British politics, as well as sports. The turn of the year in Britain has delivered the country a big landmark. A halfway point of something extremely important to the country. To do with an [...]
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Exhausted, Obama Opens Up and His Cool Cracks
“Thank you. This is your victory.” – Words posted beneath the video above on Barack Obama’s YouTube channel ONE THING people who never get close to campaigns or ever meet candidates, including those who lose, ever get to see is the toll of a long election cycle. What candidates go through on the presidential level [...]
Trending: The Most Popular Tweet In History
AFTER A historic election victory, planned and executed by the most effective political team ever assembled in American history, the reelected President blasted out the news to the world. ..and it just keeps reverberating. I’m a flaming liberal, as I told one Obama Team member on Twitter today. But my job now is to tell [...]
Top Story — Move to Stop Obama’s Bad Lame Duck Entitlement Deal has Already Begun
But President Obama has consistently refused to rise to the defense of social security. In fact, in the first debate, he explicitly took the issue off the table, telling the American people that there is not much difference between his position on social security and Romney’s. – Why even President Obama won’t champion social security, [...]
George McGovern Told the Truth About Nixon and Still Lost
THE MAN who couldn’t beat a lying, felonious crook like Richard Nixon is dead. Headlines blared, but the voter wouldn’t listen. Just look at the ad above and marvel at the willful ignorance of the American people. It illustrates that a man speaking the truth can still lose whenever the American voter chooses to ignore [...]
Liberalism Brings Happiness in Massachusetts
Mr. Frank, famous for his tirades, appeared close to tears as his sister, Ann Lewis, walked him down the aisle. He was trailed by a few hired photographers and by Ms. Kucinich, who leapt with joy as the bridegrooms appeared and snapped dozens of photos for an album that she planned to present as a [...]
Studies Are Wrong, Happiness Isn’t About Conservative Or Liberal
CONSERVATIVES ARE happier than liberals? That’s the analysis offered here. Wrong. Scholars on both the left and right have studied this question extensively, and have reached a consensus that it is conservatives who possess the happiness edge. Many data sets show this. For example, the Pew Research Center in 2006 reported that conservative Republicans were [...]
TED Censors Nick Hanauer Talk on Income Inequality
THE MIDDLE CLASS AS JOB creators is too controversial an idea to broadcast widely, at least that’s the verdict of TED. From the National Journal: There’s one idea, though, that TED’s organizers recently decided was too controversial to spread: the notion that widening income inequality is a bad thing for America, and that as a [...]
The Political Elite Fête Pete Peterson, the Man on a Mission to Gut Social Security
IT’S NICE TO be Pete Peterson. But who is this guy? Besides the man who can get all the cool millionaires into a room to bargain away the U.S. social safety net? Read Ryan Grimm and Paul Blumenthal, consider it your assignment today. But if you haven’t figured it out by now why Pres. Obama [...]
Dimon’s Disgrace is on Congress
The biggest blow-up between Wall Street and Washington since 2010, when Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Act to tighten oversight of the financial industry, comes just as regulators are drafting new rules governing banks. A signature feature of the law is the Volcker Rule, a prohibition on banks engaging in speculative bets. The authors of the [...]
Obama Slams Budget as ‘Laughable’ on Romney’s Big Wins Day
Mitt Romney won Maryland, D.C. and Wisconsin, then delivered a speech that began lifelessly when he said Paul Ryan won’t ever replace Ann when it comes to introductions. But the end of his remarks held something on which the team could build. Mr. Romney talked about “the dreamers,” though it’s too bad he can’t play [...]
Keith Olbermann and Al Gore’s Unseemlyly Dog Fight
Okay, boys, zip it up. No one cares who did what to whom. There’s too much at stake to fuel energy into an oxygen suck that makes everyone look petty at a time when things are fairly serious. There’s nothing from the outside that could possibly break in at this point, with Olbermann’s legal trigger [...]
UK Guardian Interview with TM
Last week was busy for me. One interview I did was for the UK Guardian, which is up today: Does the GOP have a woman problem? They have a nice ending quote buy me, but also give a shout out on my book The Hillary Effect, complete with a purchase link, which is fantastic for [...]
A Little Love Over to Rocky Anderson & the Justice Party
Pres. Obama’s getting a challenger from his left today when Rocky Anderson announces the creation of the Justice Party at 2:00 p.m. No one thinks it will challenge Obama in a serious way for election results, but it might give some Democrats, progressives and liberals a way to vote that won’t require them to hold [...]
BARNES & NOBLE Chooses THE HILLARY EFFECT in ‘NOOK First’ Featured Authors Campaign
It’s incredibly exciting to announce that The Hillary Effect has been selected as one of two non-fiction e-books in the Barnes and Noble “NOOK First” featured authors campaign, just launched. Being selected as part of this “NOOK First” Barnes and Noble project was an incredible honor and opportunity. Now you know why we waited until [...]
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