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A look at the day’s political happenings, including Paul Ryan’s extreme anti-abortion record and why the GOP’s “We Built This!” convention theme isn’t exactly correct—at least, not when it comes to the venue it chose.
Posted on Aug 22, 2012
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GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan is trying to distance himself from strict anti-abortion legislation he co-sponsored with embattled Missouri Republican Todd Akin. The bill Ryan supported would have banned federal funding for abortions except in cases of so-called forcible rape.
Posted on Aug 22, 2012
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By William Pfaff — Nobody in the U.S. and the allied countries, except for the relatives of the victims, gives a damn about Iraq. That will be true of Afghanistan, too, when it’s over. Or when it is replaced by war with Iran.
Posted on Aug 21, 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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Was Mitt Romney’s selection of Paul Ryan as running mate a smart pick? The candidates’ competing visions for the future of Medicare have eclipsed most of their other scenarios recently, and Romney told his inquisitors that he’d paid at least 13 percent in taxes in the past 10 years. The “Left, Right & Center” panelists debate these issues and more on this week’s show.
Posted on Aug 17, 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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Certain media pundits’ hearts are aflutter over how honest, intellectual and responsible GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan supposedly is. But not economics professor Bill Black, who shows that Ryan’s “Tinker Bell” budget proposal uses numbers that have nothing to do with the economy to achieve fiscal balance in the next few decades.
Posted on Aug 17, 2012
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Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan’s father, grandfather and great-grandfather all died of heart attacks before they turned 60, so the sense that his clock ticks faster than the average man’s has factored large in his drive to realize his ambitions.
Posted on Aug 17, 2012
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: There’s a reason one particular handgun keeps showing up at mass shootings: It works. Also: Paul Ryan and life after journalism.
Posted on Aug 17, 2012
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: There’s a reason one particular handgun keeps showing up at mass shootings: It works. Also: Paul Ryan and life after journalism.
Posted on Aug 17, 2012
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By David Sirota — Wisconsin congressman Paul Ryan admires Ayn Rand, and if you believe Republican Party mythology, Ryan is a messianic John Galt who will save America from a secret socialist conspiracy.
Posted on Aug 17, 2012
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By Joe Conason — By naming Paul Ryan as the Republican vice presidential nominee, Mitt Romney has endorsed what used to be known as “voodoo economics”—and restored that special brand of Republican superstition to the center of national debate.
Posted on Aug 17, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including Sen. John McCain’s advice to President Obama and Rep. Paul Ryan’s stimulus hypocrisy talk.
Posted on Aug 16, 2012
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By Bill Boyarsky — Contrary to Democrats’ hopes, Mitt Romney’s choice of House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan for his running mate might not be such good news for President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign.
Posted on Aug 15, 2012
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By Amy Goodman — The floundering Romney campaign was thrown a life ring of sorts last week, from aboard the USS Wisconsin, a decommissioned US Navy vessel based in Norfolk, Virginia.
Posted on Aug 15, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — There is the idea of having Paul Ryan on the Republican ticket, and then there is the reality.
Posted on Aug 15, 2012
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Bob Englehart, Cagle Cartoons, The Hartford Courant —
Posted on Aug 15, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including Romney budget specifics and why the 2012 Congress could be one of the worst ever.
Posted on Aug 15, 2012
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Thousands are still struggling in Paul Ryan’s hometown of Janesville, Wis., after General Motors shut down its century-old plant there in 2008. What economic recovery has occurred there is due largely to the federal stimulus programs so loathed by Republicans.
Posted on Aug 15, 2012
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The bright-faced boy from Janesville and avowed man of the people has taken money from banksters, big insurance and the Koch brothers throughout his career, and has $5.4 million in the campaign chest—$2 million more than the next highest House member.
Posted on Aug 15, 2012
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By William Pfaff — Foreign affairs will be the most important issue of all to address as the United States staggers forward into the void, yet the matter will seldom appear in what’s left of the presidential campaign.
Posted on Aug 14, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including the Republican National Convention keynote speaker revealed and Stephen Colbert offers some “praise” for Mitt Romney’s VP choice.
Posted on Aug 14, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — Mitt Romney’s selection of Paul Ryan as his running mate underscores the central question posed by this campaign: Should cold selfishness become the template for our society, or do we still believe in community?
Posted on Aug 14, 2012
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Are you poor? Female? A student? A veteran? Planning on growing old? Zach Woods of “The Office”? Well, congratulations! If Mitt Romney is elected president, then you’re definitely going to get screwed by his running mate Paul Ryan! Click below to find out how.
Posted on Aug 13, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including more Romney hypocrisy about tax returns and Sarah Palin’s Republican National Convention announcement.
Posted on Aug 13, 2012
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Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize-winning New York Times Op-Ed columnist, explains why he believes we should not take Paul Ryan’s budget proposal seriously.
Posted on Aug 13, 2012
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Count Paul Ryan among the legions of Jon Stewart admirers in the U.S. While it’s unclear just how much Ryan actually watches “The Daily Show,” what is clear is the vice presidential contender is on the record as having called Stewart the funniest man in America.
Posted on Aug 12, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — In the late 1960s and ’70s, liberals ran into trouble because they were easily mocked as impractical ideologues with excessive confidence in their own moral righteousness.
Posted on Aug 12, 2012
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Monte Wolverton, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Aug 12, 2012
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Daryl Cagle, Cagle Cartoons, MSNBC.com —
Posted on Aug 11, 2012
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“Few media behaviors are more pitiful than the intense fixation over the ‘Veepstakes,’ a word that is at once nauseatingly vapid and yet incomparably valuable as a symbol of our nation’s pointless, juvenile political media,” Glenn Greenwald writes in Salon.
Posted on Aug 11, 2012
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The Mitt Romney VP Guessing Game is officially over now that the Republican presidential candidate has chosen Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin to be his running mate.
Posted on Aug 11, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including a new tax defense from Mitt Romney and what is possibly the most ridiculous claim ever about President Obama.
Posted on Aug 9, 2012
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The New Yorker has published an insightful, if unsurprising, profile of Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, detailing how the young lawmaker became a champion of today’s form of arch-libertarianism and how he’s worked to push that ideology into the mainstream of the Republican Party.
Posted on Aug 9, 2012
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This might be the week we find out who Mitt Romney is choosing as his running mate. Or not. A top campaign aide said Romney “could” name his vice presidential pick by week’s end. Of course, could is by no means a definite assessment.
Posted on Jul 16, 2012
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By Bill Boyarsky — Now that the Supreme Court has reprieved the Affordable Care Act and Mitt Romney has renewed his pledge to dismantle it, let’s try again to pierce the Republican presidential candidate’s protective coat of vagueness and think about where he would take the country.
Posted on Jul 4, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including the buzz surrounding Romney’s latest VP candidate, the bill for Sheriff Arpaio’s birther investigation and a look at how much gas might cost around Election Day.
Posted on Jun 22, 2012
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By William Pfaff — A novel aspect of the Republican campaign for the party’s presidential nomination has been the importance placed by some candidates, their admirers and some voters on the Catholic religion and certain claims to formal academic certification or endorsement.
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President Obama shifts into full campaign mode as Romney inches closer to inevitability in his race to become the Republican nominee. In his day job as sitting president, Obama faced some setbacks from SCOTUS and a weaker-than-expected jobs report.
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In case Paul Krugman’s comparison between the GOP’s prized budget plan and pink slime wasn’t a strong enough indication of its reception among the opposition, here comes President Obama with a descriptive attack of his own.
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By Eugene Robinson — The problem for Mitt Romney, assuming he eventually wins the GOP nomination, is that a general election campaign isn’t really like an Etch A Sketch. Alas, traces from the primaries linger.
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Imagine the shock when conservative Supreme Court justices repeatedly spouted views closely resembling the tweets and talking points issued by organizations of the sort funded by the Koch brothers.
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The Supreme Court took on a doozy of a case this week in its deliberations over Obama’s prized health care reform law. Do the top court’s conservative justices have it in for the law? Guest panelist David Frum joins regulars Robert Scheer and Matt Miller to take on Obamacare, plus the Trayvon Martin case and Paul Ryan’s budget plan.
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It’s been quite the eventful week in Washington, no? In case the health care hullabaloo at the Supreme Court didn’t bring enough action to our nation’s capital, over in the halls of Congress there was an equally heated debate about Rep. Paul Ryan’s Republican-backed budget plan, which the GOP-heavy House passed Thursday.
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Clarifying moments are rare in politics. Over the last week, Americans were blessed with three.
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By Bill Boyarsky — What’s a pittance for a super PAC can buy a state senator, beginning with financing a campaign and continuing support into the statehouse. These campaigns to take over state governments will grow as business sees the possibilities.
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By Joe Conason — If the foreign adversaries and competitors of the United States imagined a future that would fulfill their most ambitious objectives, it might begin with a government crippled by the House Republican leadership’s “Ryan budget” released on Tuesday.
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