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By Robert Reich — Unemployment is still above 8 percent, job gains aren’t even keeping up with population growth, the economy is barely moving forward. And yet, according to most polls, the Romney-Ryan ticket is falling further and further behind.
Posted on Sep 17, 2012
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By Scott Tucker — Democratic and Republican politicians keep each other in business.
Posted on Sep 16, 2012
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Bob Englehart, Cagle Cartoons, The Hartford Courant —
Posted on Sep 14, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — Romney’s rushed statement Tuesday night calling the Obama administration’s response to the violence in the Middle East “disgraceful” was a new low in a campaign already scraping bottom.
Posted on Sep 13, 2012
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By Bill Boyarsky — These community organizers, mostly Latino and African-American, are practical working people who like the president and aren’t fixated on his shortcomings. They want solutions now, and they’re working to get them.
Posted on Sep 13, 2012
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By Ralph Nader —
Did you know that taxpayers helped fund these conventions at a level of $100 million for logistics and police sequestrations of demonstrators in Tampa and Charlotte and an additional $18.2 million each for general convention expenses?
Posted on Sep 12, 2012
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Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is drawing heat for controversial remarks he made about President Barack Obama in response to attacks on the U.S. embassies in Libya and Egypt.
Posted on Sep 12, 2012
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By Mark Heisler — This isn’t just a choice of philosophies, but the long-awaited showdown between post-FDR Democrats and post-Reagan Revolutionaries.
Posted on Sep 11, 2012
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Christopher Weyant, Cagle Cartoons, The Hill —
Posted on Sep 10, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including August fundraising totals for both presidential candidates and Jon Stewart’s latest epic takedown of Fox News.
Posted on Sep 10, 2012
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Students all over America are defaulting on their student loans, especially those who attended private, profit-making institutions; Democrats’ chants about Osama bin Laden’s death take us back to George W. Bush’s boasts about Saddam Hussein; meanwhile, new scientific studies prove organic produce contains fewer pesticides and bacteria. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Sep 10, 2012
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Martin Sutovec, Cagle Cartoons, Slovakia —
Posted on Sep 9, 2012
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Nate Beeler, Cagle Cartoons, The Columbus Dispatch —
Posted on Sep 9, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Normally, a president presiding over 8 percent unemployment and a country that sees itself on the wrong track wouldn’t stand a chance. But then a candidate with Mitt Romney’s shortcomings, including his failure to ignite much enthusiasm within his own party, wouldn’t stand a chance, either.
Posted on Sep 9, 2012
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Pat Bagley, Cagle Cartoons, Salt Lake Tribune —
Posted on Sep 8, 2012
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David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star —
Posted on Sep 8, 2012
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AP/Chuck Burton
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By Alan Minsky —
It’s fine to catalog the sins of Obama, but it’s a largely meaningless parlor game unless we offer a coherent vision that outlines a winning strategy.
Posted on Sep 6, 2012
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Obama for America/Christopher Dilts
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By Eugene Robinson — Judging by the party conventions, you’d wonder why this election is even close.
Posted on Sep 6, 2012
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Patrick Chappatte, Cagle Cartoons, The International Herald Tribune —
Posted on Sep 6, 2012
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Pat Bagley, Cagle Cartoons, Salt Lake Tribune —
Posted on Sep 5, 2012
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Highlights of the first day of the Democratic National Convention, including speeches by first lady Michelle Obama and keynote speaker Julian Castro, plus a video tribute to Ted Kennedy that included a not-so-subtle swipe at Mitt Romney.
Posted on Sep 4, 2012
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John Darkow, Cagle Cartoons, Columbia Daily Tribune, Missouri —
Posted on Sep 4, 2012
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Monte Wolverton, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Sep 4, 2012
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John Cole, Cagle Cartoons, The Scranton Times-Tribune —
Posted on Sep 3, 2012
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By Richard Reeves — I once wrote, about Gerald Ford, that an honest politician is one who lies only when he has to. Ford, a pretty straight shooter, is gone now. He has been replaced by Mitt Romney the ignorant and Paul Ryan the liar.
Posted on Sep 2, 2012
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Christopher Weyant, Cagle Cartoons, The Hill —
Posted on Aug 31, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — Has there ever been a more dishonest presidential campaign than the one Republicans are waging right now?
Posted on Aug 31, 2012
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By Joe Conason — On the same day that Mitt Romney cracked his birther “joke,” new evidence indicated that he and his partners at Bain Capital have used questionable methods to avoid federal taxes.
Posted on Aug 31, 2012
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David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star —
Posted on Aug 30, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including the latest possible feud between Sarah Palin and Fox News and what was possibly the biggest lie in Paul Ryan’s very misleading convention speech.
Posted on Aug 30, 2012
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By Alan Minsky —
The tea partyers are useful hucksters, but those barbarians are not yet at the gate. The real fear and loathing rest where they have always been, in the familiar guise of freshly tailored suits, cigar-chomping patriarchs with their women trailing five steps behind.
Posted on Aug 29, 2012
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By Amy Goodman — Four hardy souls from rural Illinois joined tens of thousands of people undeterred by threats of Hurricane Isaac during this week’s Republican National Convention.
Posted on Aug 29, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — In 1964, George Romney, then the governor of Michigan, walked out of the Republican National Convention during Barry Goldwater’s acceptance speech. He was protesting his party’s sharp turn rightward and its weak platform plank on civil rights.
Posted on Aug 27, 2012
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By Ellen Goodman — So, dear friends, we gather again to celebrate Aug. 26, the anniversary of the passage of women’s suffrage. We honor our foremothers in our special way by handing out the Equal Rites Awards for those who have done the most to slow down progress.
Posted on Aug 26, 2012
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By Richard Reeves — As he became president in 1981, Ronald Reagan called in a 34-year-old congressman from Michigan named David Stockman, considered by many to be the most articulate and intellectually imposing Republican of the moment.
Posted on Aug 26, 2012
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The Republican Missouri Senate candidate has a message for conservatives and Democrats who have called for him to exit the race after his controversial statement that pregnancy rarely results from “legitimate rape.”
Posted on Aug 24, 2012
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By Bill Boyarsky — If the election is tight, two Republican tactics—one well known and the other just emerging from the political sewer—could be enough to defeat President Barack Obama.
Posted on Aug 24, 2012
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By Joe Conason — Defending himself against the perception that he has no significant foreign policy experience, Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan has drawn fresh attention to one of the most controversial acts of the past decade.
Posted on Aug 24, 2012
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By David Sirota — It seems no matter the arena, the most cliched move in corporate and political combat is to co-opt an opponent’s message, expecting nobody to notice or care.
Posted on Aug 24, 2012
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David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star —
Posted on Aug 23, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Elizabeth Warren is the kind of person Massachusetts has always liked to send to the U.S. Senate. So why hasn’t one of this year’s most exciting Senate candidates put the election away?
Posted on Aug 22, 2012
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Rick McKee, Cagle Cartoons, The Augusta Chronicle —
Posted on Aug 22, 2012
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By Amy Goodman — People remember 1929 as the year of the stock-market crash and the beginning of the Great Depression, the global economic disaster which remains the only one in history that dwarfs the one in which we now find ourselves. It was also the year Martin Luther King Jr. was born, who wouldn’t live to see 40 years.
Posted on Aug 22, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including what Mitt Romney may be hiding in his tax returns and Fox News’ coverage of a controversial “legitimate rape” comment by Rep. Todd Akin, shown above.
Posted on Aug 20, 2012
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Adam Zyglis, Cagle Cartoons, The Buffalo News —
Posted on Aug 18, 2012
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Pat Bagley, Cagle Cartoons, Salt Lake Tribune —
Posted on Aug 18, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including how Paul Ryan’s budget hurts the poor and Geraldo Rivera’s latest controversy.
Posted on Aug 17, 2012
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