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Friday, August 3, 2012

Chronicling Mitt's Mendacity, Vol. XXVIII

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Steve Benen notes  at Rachel Maddow's Blog another 26 of Mitt Romney's lies from the past week. This is Benen's 28th installmen...

2 studies suggest how much more of the wealth pie the rich take nowadays.

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Two studies released over the past few days both beg a simple question: what happened/happens to the money? In both cases, the answer is t...
Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Romney’s foreign faux pas suggest a lack of presidential timber.

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By Marc Jampole Of the four highly reported mistakes that Romney made on his foreign trip, two seem to have been calculated in advance,...
Monday, July 30, 2012

Hacker wants to cripple students by denying them basic tools of a complex society

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By Marc Jampole That Andrew Hacker would advocate ending the requirement to study algebra to get a four-year college degree is mildly s...
Saturday, July 28, 2012

Mitt's Mendacity, Vol. XXVII

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In the 27th installment in a weekly series, Steve Benen at Rachel Maddow's Blog  notes 72 lies told in the past week by the Republican p...

Selections from the August 15, 2012 issue

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COVER/Sara Robinson The New Corporate Totalitarianism EDITORIAL No time for gun reform LETTERS TO THE EDITOR  RURAL ROUTES/Margo...
Friday, July 27, 2012

Portable Internet Player Offers Progressive Lifeline

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By Jim Cullen For those of us who have resisted the siren call of smartphones — and we are still in the majority, although the gap is clo...
Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Consistent NCAA & Penn State decisions show that it’s always about the bucks

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By Marc Jampole The public argument over whether the NCAA was too harsh, too lenient or just right in punishing Penn State has replaced t...
Monday, July 23, 2012

Those who dream of cowboy justice wake up to the reality of mass murder at the movies.

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By Marc Jampole Facing the facts on guns in American society completely demoralizes me, and no more so than when I have to view those f...
Friday, July 20, 2012

Mitt's Mendacity Vol. XXVI

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See the 26th installment of Mitt's Mendacity , compiled by Steve Benen of The Maddow Blog, featuring the top 26 lies told by Mitt Romney...
Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Travelers wants us to channel our inner dog for lower insurance rates & the pride that comes of obedience.

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By Marc Jampole To say it’s a dog’s life once described a dreary, harsh and probably impoverished condition. Nowadays we would probably...
Sunday, July 15, 2012

The Big Squeeze

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Click to enlarge image / Graphic by Kevin Kreneck
Friday, July 13, 2012

Not releasing past tax returns is an enormous PR blunder by Romney campaign.

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By Marc Jampole Mitt Romney continues to refuse to release his past tax returns, while insisting that there’s “nothing hidden in them.”...
Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Obama plan to let temporary Bush II tax cuts expire but keep cuts for others will help weak economy.

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By Marc Jampole We start with the fact that we have both a weak economy and a heavy debt burden.   It would be great to reduce the deb...
Friday, July 6, 2012

Gas Price Conspirators

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Pete Kotz writes in Seattle Weekly about the forces in Wall Street and Washington who work to keep up the price of oil and gasoline at the ...

16 museums dedicated to teaching creationism pockmark the American landscape.

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By Marc Jampole Secular humanist that I am, I couldn’t contain a squeaky chortle of glee when reading that the Creation Museum in a K...