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Selling the Store: Why Democrats Shouldn’t Put Social Security and Medicare on the Table

Selling the Store: Why Democrats Shouldn’t Put Social Security and Medicare on the Table

March 22, 2013 9:09 am
by Robert Reich Prominent Democrats — including the President and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi — are openly suggesting that Medicare be means-tested and Social...

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Hard To Believe: Romney Lies Like Bush

by Charley James When George W. Bush was president, comic genius Harry Shearer wrote and recorded Songs of the Bushmen that included “Who Is Yoo? (He’s The Torture Memo Man)” and “Turd Blossom Special” about Karl Rove. Also on the album was “935 Lies,” which chronicled the number of times Bush & Friends lied about the Iraq [...]

T H E Heart I Hold – For God’s Sake

by The Reverend Dr. Britt Minshall Last week Congressman Todd Akin made the most important statement I’ve heard in the past two years. After telling the world of his views of “universal abortion denial” he said” “in the heart I hold,” meaning these are his bedrock beliefs and deep conviction. He was being honest and [...]

The GOP Wants Fewer People to Vote for Them

by Tina Dupuy The Republican primary has been over for months now but it’s hard to tell. The presumptive nominee (I’ll get to stop writing that phrase in a couple of weeks … hopefully), Mitt Romney, is still campaigning like he’s trying to convince his own party he’s Mr. Right, Mr. Right-Enough—or in his case [...]

The Monday Line: The Frog in Warming Water: Harry vs Mitt

by Denis G. Campbell Mitt Romney’s a frog in a pot of water. It’s slowly being warmed and he can’t jump out to save himself. We’re all watching him slowly boil. Harry Reid is the US Senate Majority Leader, a Democrat who is a very quiet man. He spent last weekend being demonised by the [...]

GOP: Boldly Offering Solutions to Our Nation’s Symptoms

by Tina Dupuy Nothing says leadership more than bravely standing up against a concern that’s not actually a problem. We’ve had a one-sided battle with Sharia Law in the U.S. No one is fighting for replacing U.S. law with an Islamic moral code, but nonetheless Republicans are heroically fighting against it. Same with aborted fetuses in commercial [...]

Excluding Outsiders or Coming Together for the Common Good: What’s the True Meaning of Patriotism?

Recently I publicly debated a regressive Republican who said Arizona and every other state should use whatever means necessary to keep out illegal immigrants. He also wants English to be spoken in every classroom in the nation, and the pledge of allegiance recited every morning. “We have to preserve and protect America,” he said. “That’s [...]