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Randall Enos, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Oct 5, 2012
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By Robert Scheer — The presidential debate this week was much ado about nothing, and Mitt Romney beat Barack Obama because he was more energetic in distorting the significance of their miniscule differences.
Posted on Oct 5, 2012
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By David Sirota — If we can’t have a debate about Social Security before we make a presidential choice, at what point can we ever have such a debate in a way that honors our democratic ideals?
Posted on Oct 4, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — I would be careful about declaring the presidential contest “a whole new race” following Wednesday’s debate.
Posted on Oct 4, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — The strangest aspect of Wednesday night’s debate was Mitt Romney’s decision to change his tax policies on the fly.
Posted on Oct 4, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including Romney tax double-speak, a shift in strategy for the Obama campaign and Al Gore’s latest “theory.”
Posted on Oct 4, 2012
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By Amy Goodman — A few miles south of the campus arena in the Mile High City where Barack Obama and Mitt Romney met in their first debate, “Democracy Now!” news hour broke the sound barrier by expanding their gated debate to include two third-party presidential candidates.
Posted on Oct 4, 2012
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By Robert Reich — In Wednesday night’s debate, Romney won on style while Obama won on substance. Romney sounded as if he had conviction, which means he’s either convinced himself that the lies he tells are true or he’s a fabulous actor.
Posted on Oct 4, 2012
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By Bill Boyarsky — Massachusetts Mitt is back. The right-winger of the Republican primaries is gone. And the mainstream media couldn’t be happier.
Posted on Oct 3, 2012
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Mitt Romney came prepared, Barack Obama looked like he didn’t want to be there and Jim Lehrer probably wishes he hadn’t agreed to moderate Wednesday night’s debate.
Posted on Oct 3, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Although the Electoral College usually gives Republicans an advantage, the system is working in President Obama’s favor in 2012.
Posted on Oct 3, 2012
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The airline is raffling off 1,000 free tickets to foreign destinations for sore losers who can’t stand the idea of living under the other guy’s rule.
Posted on Oct 3, 2012
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By Bill Blum — Four of the sitting justices are 74 or older. Each can be expected to step down over the next four to eight years.
Posted on Oct 3, 2012
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By Robert Reich — A sampling of questions you should not expect debate moderator Jim Lehrer to ask during Wednesday’s night highly anticipated showdown between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.
Posted on Oct 3, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including how Paul Ryan’s 30 percent compares with Mitt Romney’s 47 percent and a Pennsylvania judge decides the fate of the state’s voter ID law for the 2012 election.
Posted on Oct 2, 2012
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Randall Enos, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Oct 2, 2012
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Daryl Cagle, Cagle Cartoons, MSNBC.com —
Posted on Oct 2, 2012
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Adam Zyglis, Cagle Cartoons, The Buffalo News —
Posted on Oct 2, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — It promises to be an epic clash: Mitt Romney vs. Mitt Romney. Oh, and President Obama will be there, too.
Posted on Oct 1, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including Paul Ryan offers a reason why he would not give details of Mitt Romney’s tax plan in a TV interview over the weekend, the GOP tries to explain why its presidential candidate is probably winning and the 2012 election gets the video game treatment.
Posted on Oct 1, 2012
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By Robert Reich — The biggest election news this week won’t be who wins the presidential debate Wednesday night. It will be how many new jobs were created in September, announced Friday morning by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Posted on Oct 1, 2012
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Dr. Martin Makary blows the whistle on hospital horror stories, Paul Ryan’s “secret” tape, women hand it to Obama and Nato Green says the left will never be happy.
Posted on Sep 30, 2012
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Dr. Martin Makary blows the whistle on hospital horror stories, Paul Ryan’s “secret” tape, women hand it to Obama and Nato Green says the left will never be happy.
Posted on Sep 30, 2012
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John Cole, Cagle Cartoons, The Scranton Times-Tribune —
Posted on Sep 30, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including more bad news for Mitt Romney, Claire McCaskill’s response to Todd Akin’s sexist remarks and further Republican charges about President Obama’s religion.
Posted on Sep 28, 2012
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Pat Bagley, Cagle Cartoons, Salt Lake Tribune —
Posted on Sep 27, 2012
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David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star —
Posted on Sep 27, 2012
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Pat Bagley, Cagle Cartoons, Salt Lake Tribune —
Posted on Sep 27, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — Conservative activist circles are abuzz with a new conspiracy theory: Polls showing President Obama with a growing lead over Mitt Romney are deliberately being skewed by the Liberal Mainstream Media so that Republicans will be disheartened and stay home on Election Day.
Posted on Sep 27, 2012
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By David Sirota — Ask corporate executives what they really want in a legislator, and they probably won’t use words like “principled” or “well-informed.”
Posted on Sep 27, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including the surfacing of another potentially damaging Mitt Romney video, the latest election forecast and Bill Clinton mulls his election options.
Posted on Sep 27, 2012
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By Ralph Nader —
President Obama should send this open letter to his GOP opponent—pronto!
Posted on Sep 27, 2012
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Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Sep 27, 2012
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Daryl Cagle, Cagle Cartoons, MSNBC.com —
Posted on Sep 27, 2012
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By Peter Z. Scheer — A new poll shows that Obama will likely win re-election thanks overwhelmingly to female voters. Fight a war with women and you’ll lose, because women have always had to fight harder.
Posted on Sep 27, 2012
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By Amy Goodman — You may never have heard of Sensata Technologies, but in this election season, you’ve probably heard the name of its owner, Bain Capital, the company co-founded and formerly run by Mitt Romney.
Posted on Sep 26, 2012
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By Robert Reich — Romney’s stories on the campaign trail have been about business successes—people who started businesses in garages and grew their companies into global giants, millionaires who began poor. Curiously absent from these narratives have been the stories of ordinary Americans caught in an economy over which they have no control. At least until now.
Posted on Sep 26, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including why Mitt Romney says his heart aches, the GOP is back to supporting Todd Akin and his ridiculous “legitimate rape” comments, and the latest Fox News failure.
Posted on Sep 26, 2012
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Pat Bagley, Cagle Cartoons, Salt Lake Tribune —
Posted on Sep 26, 2012
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Christopher Weyant, Cagle Cartoons, The Hill —
Posted on Sep 26, 2012
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By Bill Boyarsky — In many states, the number of eligible Latino citizens that could be affected by barriers to voting exceeds the margin of victory of the 2008 presidential election.
Posted on Sep 26, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including the real percentage of Americans who receive financial help from the federal government and the Massachusetts Senate race between Republican Scott Brown and Democrat Elizabeth Warren gets nasty.
Posted on Sep 25, 2012
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By Ivo Mijnssen — For motives that are not entirely clear, Vladimir Putin’s Russia has overcome stiff opposition at home and in the United States to take its place in the World Trade Organization.
Posted on Sep 25, 2012
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With the signature of Gov. Jerry Brown secured, California became the 11th state to allow voters to register on Election Day. Just not this Election Day. Or the next one, if officials can’t launch a statewide database that is part of the deal and not expected to be ready until 2015.
Posted on Sep 25, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — When Michelle Obama called voting rights “the movement of our era” in a speech Saturday night, she didn’t specifically mention the Republican-led crusade for restrictive voter identification laws. She didn’t have to.
Posted on Sep 24, 2012
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By Joe Conason — Watching him on video, the Republican nominee sounds not only vulgar and arrogant, but profoundly ignorant about the nation he hopes to govern.
Posted on Sep 24, 2012
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