Forget the laid-off workers, disabled veterans and elderly retirees. Pentagon contractors are far more dependent on taxpayers to pay their way than Mitt Romney’s fabled 47 percent; and rest assured, Mitt can count on their support. Mitt Romney’s recently-exposed statement disparaging nearly half of all Americans as hopelessly dependent on government may actually make a valid…
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Paul Ryan — What He Said and What I Saw
The really frightening thing about totalitarianism is not that it commits “atrocities” but that it attacks the concept of objective truth: it claims to control the past as well as the future. — George Orwell, “As I Please,” Tribune, February 4, 1944 We’re not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact checkers. — Neil…
#GOPFuture: Tempt me back to the old GOP
Published August 28, 2012 Link to article The GOP should cease to be a pseudo-church and once again become a broad-based organization like the party of Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower. We have seen how the mixture of politics and religion debases both pursuits, turning the Republican Party into an apocalyptic sect that indulges birthers, candidates who talk about “Second Amendment remedies,”…
A Devil’s Dictionary
Here’s a new book based on an exclusive Truthout commentary that became a national media sensation. Inside the front cover, publisher Viking Press (Penguin) even mentions that this bombshell insider’s view of Capitol Hill began as a professional and personal confession that “was posted on Truthout and read by millions.” Receive a copy of Mike…
Borrowing and spending the GOP way
Published in the Los Angeles Times, June 26, 2012 Link to Article The big deficit facing the U.S. is mostly Republican in origin, the Congressional Budget Office says. The Bush tax cuts alone have added $3 trillion in red ink, yet the party wants to double down on its failed policy. President Obama’s fiscal policies are…
Iran and the Shape of Things to Come
It is hard not to think of that Gallic witticism when observing recent international events. Aside from almost daily threats from the governments of Israel and the United States to attack Iran – a violation of the United Nations Charter – Iran has been subject to sabotage, violations of its airspace by military drones and…
Iran and the Shape of Things to Come
Cet animal est tres mechant; quand on l’attaque, il se defend. (This animal is very wicked; when you attack it, it defends itself) – French proverb It is hard not to think of that Gallic witticism when observing recent international events. Aside from almost daily threats from the governments of Israel and the United States to attack Iran —…