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By The Rev. Madison Shockley — My family survived the Great Recession because of the policies of the Obama administration. I suspect we were not alone in benefiting from one or another of the various relief programs.
Posted on Oct 15, 2012
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In his latest Op-Ed, the New York Times columnist rips the Republican presidential ticket for a health care plan that would deny potentially millions of Americans coverage in order to save money—all while proposing a trillion-dollar tax cut that would help the wealthiest Americans.
Posted on Oct 15, 2012
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By Chris Hedges — The planned route of this six-state, 1,700-mile proposed pipeline is fast becoming a flashpoint in the war of attrition against the corporate state.
Posted on Oct 15, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — As he tries to engineer a comeback in this week’s presidential debate, President Obama needs to recognize two things. First, when it comes to politics, Mitt Romney treats himself as a product, not a person. Second, Republicans cannot defend their proposals in terms that are acceptable to a majority of voters.
Posted on Oct 14, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Some have written that Biden was too hot and overreacted to Obama’s disengagement. But this misreads the net impact of the debate.
Posted on Oct 14, 2012
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Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Oct 14, 2012
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Pat Bagley, Cagle Cartoons, Salt Lake Tribune —
Posted on Oct 13, 2012
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Adam Zyglis, Cagle Cartoons, The Buffalo News —
Posted on Oct 13, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including a Wisconsin Republican who says “some girls rape easy,” why Todd Akin should never be allowed to weigh in on scientific matters again and two congressional candidates nearly come to blows at a debate.
Posted on Oct 12, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — If the question is who did more to help his ticket, Joe Biden won the vice presidential debate by a mile.
Posted on Oct 12, 2012
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Vice presidential candidates Cheri Honkala of the Green Party and Luis Rodriguez of the Justice Party, who were excluded from the official debate between Joe Biden and Paul Ryan last night, got the opportunity to weigh in on foreign and domestic policy issues on “Democracy Now!”
Posted on Oct 12, 2012
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Mitt Romney shares none of the libertarian Republican congressman’s misgivings about escalating war in the Middle East, and on the marijuana question, the “famously puritanical Romney would likely bring us back to the era of ‘Just Say No.’ ”
Posted on Oct 12, 2012
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Adam Zyglis, Cagle Cartoons, The Buffalo News —
Posted on Oct 12, 2012
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Mike Keefe, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Oct 12, 2012
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By Robert Scheer — Barack Obama must have done something right, or the hucksters at Goldman Sachs wouldn’t hate him so.
Posted on Oct 11, 2012
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By Bill Boyarsky — It’s not surprising that in Thursday’s vice presidential debate Paul Ryan didn’t mention the millions of working poor who would suffer should he and Mitt Romney win in November, but I expected more from Joe Biden.
Posted on Oct 11, 2012
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By David Sirota — When it comes to tax policy, Mitt Romney is not merely a spinner, an equivocator or a run-of-the-mill dissembler. He’s a liar.
Posted on Oct 11, 2012
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By Robert Reich — Joe Biden’s job during Thursday’s vice presidential debate is to smoke Paul Ryan out, exposing his fanaticism. And the best way to do this is to force him to take responsibility for the regressive budget he created as chairman of the House Budget Committee.
Posted on Oct 11, 2012
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Republican legislators called an emergency meeting to hold President Obama accountable for the lax embassy security that they claim led to the killing of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans in Libya last month. But the GOP itself has cut funding to protect diplomats around the world.
Posted on Oct 11, 2012
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Hint: If you read between the lines of the Obama team’s latest hit on Mitt Romney, you’ll find it’s less than one, and greater than any negative number.
Posted on Oct 11, 2012
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“I had a different reaction to that first debate than a lot of people did,” former President Bill Clinton said of the Obama-Romney face-off in Denver last week. “I thought: ‘Wow, here’s old Moderate Mitt. Where you been boy? I missed you all these last two years.’ ”
Posted on Oct 11, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Sen. Sherrod Brown’s uncompromising advocacy on behalf of workers, toughness on trade, and progressive policies on a broad range of other issues have allowed him to build a formidable organization across Ohio, and a large cadre of small donors.
Posted on Oct 11, 2012
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By Richard Reeves — The man is a serial liar in a society that increasingly tolerates lying and cheating.
Posted on Oct 11, 2012
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By Joe Conason — Unemployment is still too high, income is still too low and the recovery is still much too slow—but the United States is faring considerably better than other developed nations against the threat of a renewed recession.
Posted on Oct 11, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including details about a pro-life conservative who reportedly pressured his mistress to get an abortion, and a major case makes its way to the Supreme Court.
Posted on Oct 10, 2012
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David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star —
Posted on Oct 10, 2012
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Pat Bagley, Cagle Cartoons, Salt Lake Tribune —
Posted on Oct 10, 2012
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While admitting the gravest of the president’s left-wing betrayals, Kevin Baker over at Harper’s Magazine gives one of the more sober and compelling arguments for the continued support of Barack Obama in the 2012 election, but also raises the question of whether the man even wants the office.
Posted on Oct 10, 2012
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By William Pfaff — It is no surprise to find a businessman who is clueless with respect to America’s international relations, but when a businessman is running for the American presidency, you would expect an effort to read and learn.
Posted on Oct 9, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including Bain Capital and Mitt Romney’s connection to Big Tobacoo and why a Republican lawmaker thinks the death penalty is appropriate for kids who don’t respect their parents.
Posted on Oct 9, 2012
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In this Web-exclusive segment from Truthdig Radio, FAIR’s Peter Hart argues that the presidential debates are little more than theater and, “in reality, they don’t have much impact on voters.”
Posted on Oct 9, 2012
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In this Web-exclusive segment from Truthdig Radio, FAIR’s Peter Hart argues that the presidential debates are about theater and, “in reality, they don’t have much impact on voters.”
Posted on Oct 8, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — Mitt Romney claims to disagree with President Obama on many aspects of foreign policy. We’re still waiting to hear what those differences might be.
Posted on Oct 8, 2012
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By Joe Conason — “It’s not easy to debate a liar,” complained an email from one observer of the first presidential debate—and there was no question about which candidate he meant.
Posted on Oct 8, 2012
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Pat Bagley, Cagle Cartoons, Salt Lake Tribune —
Posted on Oct 8, 2012
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John Darkow, Cagle Cartoons, Columbia Daily Tribune, Missouri —
Posted on Oct 8, 2012
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The New York Times columnist takes on the conspiracy theorists—former General Electric Chairman Jack Welch (pictured) among them—who cried foul after the jobs report released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed that the unemployment rate dropped below 8 percent for the first time in nearly four years.
Posted on Oct 8, 2012
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The much-hyped political debate between cable personality heavyweights Bill O’Reilly and Jon Stewart turned out to be a very spirited—not to mention popular—affair. The Fox News and Comedy Central hosts squared off over the weekend in a 90-minute “Rumble in the Air-Conditioned Auditorium” at George Washington University that was streamed live online.
Posted on Oct 8, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — There are forces working to make the campaign about something more than a suffocating battle to influence tiny slivers of the electorate.
Posted on Oct 7, 2012
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Pavel Constantin, Cagle Cartoons, Romania —
Posted on Oct 7, 2012
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Olle Johansson, Cagle Cartoons, Sweden —
Posted on Oct 7, 2012
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“Democracy Now!” pulled off a broadcast first this week when it circumvented the anti-democratic structure that has formed around the election process and gave two third-party candidates the chance to represent the public interest during a national presidential debate.
Posted on Oct 6, 2012
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