If you thought abortion couldn’t possibly find its way into a debate about extending rights to disabled people, especially after the clobbering Republicans took from women last month, you would be wrong. Yesterday 38 GOP senators, including Fla. Senator Marco Rubio, further betrayed themselves as part of a dying tribe of obtuse goons by voting down ratification [...]
You certainly know this by now — OK, for fuck’s sake, you SHOULD know this by now — but Pres. Barack Obama has won election to a second term in office. Partisan politics aside, there is a strong argument to be made that Obama is objectively the better choice for America. (I am saying this [...]
Todd “legitimate rape” Akin is back at it again, this time claiming that employers should have the “freedom” to discriminate against women. At a campaign event Friday — the video of which seems to have been released Monday afternoon — a male attendee asked the rep: “You voted against the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. [...]
Last time, we talked about the losing campaign of Mexican-American presidential candidate Willard M. Romney. This time, let’s look through the other losing prospect facing Republicans — control of the U.S. Senate. Over the summer, especially prior to the conventions, back in June and July, all the speculation was that the GOP would wrest control [...]
By now, anyone who follows politics has heard the “47 percent” gaffe of Mexican-American presidential candidate Willard M. Romney. Posted Monday afternoon by David Corn of Mother Jones, the story features Romney saying some shockingly stupid things. But one thing, one beautiful, shiny, crystalline phrase, so overwhelmed the stupid found elsewhere in the video that [...]
When Michelle Obama spoke at the DNC earlier this week, I got more than a little pissed off by her remarks. Sure, both Dems and GOPers are courting the much-coveted “mom” vote, but I felt alienated — and almost betrayed — by the seeming emphasis on traditional family roles from the U.S.’s more liberal political [...]
We’re back at the head-to-head matchups on day two, with a tied game following yesterday’s amazing 5-5 tie. In case you missed it, I’m looking at the final 10 speakers from each night of the convention, comparing their speeches, deciding who did better, and then adding up the scores and seeing who had the better [...]
There’s not a lot I can say about day one of the Democratic National Convention that hasn’t been written about in a million places already. All the ups and downs, highlights and lowlights. But how did the RNC compare to the DNC on each of their first days? I’ve put together a head-to-head list of [...]
Seventy-two hours before the Republican National Convention kicked off at the Tampa Bay Times Arena, I decided that I had to be there. Not because I wanted to go party for Mitt Romney, of course, but because it appeared that a movement of people, many anti-Republican, and others just anti-Romney, would be prepared to make [...]
You already know this: while earning your college degree was informative and pleasant enough, plenty of us head in a different direction. Or maybe the experience wasn’t so awesome or helpful, but we’re sticking, steadfast and stubborn, to what we set out for in the first place. Joshua Miller, the executive director and founder of [...]
Venezuela has been in the media lately: following the death of Hugo Chávez, his chosen successor, Nicolas Maduro, beat challenger Henrique Capriles in the current election for presidency. It was a miniscule margin of a win—about 50.7%–and as of this write-up, a contested verdict. But if you’re the average United Statesian, you are less aware [...]
