It's like the Republicans have built a scale where the fulcrum is so far to the right that conservatism would be in the center and issues most Americans support are "far left".
Romney’s callous disregard for families losing their homes through no fault of their own is bad enough but it’s also untrue that speeding foreclosures is good for the economy.
During and right after the mortgage crisis some were talking about the commercial crash and how that would soon hit. At the time I thought, in a tunnel vision sort of way, Commercial Real Estate, which could be partially true but...
Just off of proving themselves to be unreliable and misguided fear peddlers who got just about every prediction about the election wrong, the media dashes ahead today with a new set of false memes, brimming with the same unjustified confidence.
Cruz and the GOP are now offering their services to serial killers and terrorists under their new venture, "Core Republicans Ensuring Equality for People and Society" (CREEPS).
The truth is that I am not political, at least in the sense that I don't support any parties or candidates (though I did fight a zoning law once to be able to create the Earth in a non-residential area).
What if there was one vote that could be held, one campaign that could be focused on to pass one law that if passed, could help with many of our most serious problems? There is...
Well, Joe Biden was certainly right when he said that President Obama would be "tested" soon after taking office. The question is not so much "how did he do" on the test as it is, "when will the tests...
"Me know women get less pay for same job but speaking for all women as man, what feel worse to women is everyone knowing it. So me decree, on behalf of women, no one talk about it anymore." Problem solved!
Every Friday night, my Tivo fires up to save what is one of the best arguments for the existence of television, Bill Moyers Journal. As a human being and a journalist, Bill exudes the kind of integrity that has...
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