It’s Wednesday! Today is the last Wednesday that many a turkey will see…Yum.
Post Election Mitt Romney Pumping His Own Gas (IMAGE) by Wendy Gittleson:
It could be argued that the most democratic institution in the United States is the gas pump. Gone are the days (in most states and in most gas stations) where a more financially flush person can opt for full service over the ostensibly less pricey self serve. That’s why this picture of Mitt Romney, looking haggard and (dare I say) human is so plausible. Read more
Obama Campaign Not Done Yet – Website Survey Points To 2014 Effort Underway (VIDEO) by Nathaniel Downes:
The President, and the Democratic Party in general, has learned the lessons of 2010 very well. Keeping their base motivated through messages and surveys is a first step. They seem to be setting up the groundwork for a major get out the vote effort for the midterms. Read more
Scott Walker Gets Head Start On 2014 Wisconsin Voter Suppression by Jack Watkins:
On the heels of President Obama’s decisive win in Wisconsin—by over 200,000 votes (nearly 7-percentage points)—Republican Governor, Scott Walker has now signaled his desire to implement new restrictions on voting, by eliminating that state’s historic first; their same-day voter registration law. Read more
Financial Suicide – Privatizing Social Security by E.L. Beck:
The clatter is starting up again over the privatization of Social Security. With this plan, the individual gets to decide how to invest their Social Security funds, something akin to a public 401k program. The bulk of this new-found investing activity, however, will go towards Wall Street and the stock exchanges. Read more
What Fiscal Cliff? President Reagan Raised Taxes, So Should We (VIDEO) by Teeluck Sooknarine:
President Reagan learned his lesson when it came to the (many) mistakes he made in his tax reforms. He famously tried to cut taxes and walk away without raising revenue to cover those cuts… but learned the hard way that you can’t have cuts in some areas and not raise revenues to cover it. So a few months after he cut taxes he had to start raising them again…an amazing 11 times!! Read more
Tinfoil Hat Alert — Obamacare Will Not ‘Take Away Your Guns’ by Justin Acuff:
Is it any wonder that lower class conservatives are so opposed to something that they are constantly and directly lied to about? Read more
Claiming Election Fraud, ‘Unskewed Polls’ Founder Just Makes Stuff Up by Justin Acuff:
Dean Chambers, founder of ‘Unskewed Polls’ and a firm conservative proponent of accusations of mythical voter fraud, has unleashed a new website — Barack O’Fraudo — explaining how 80 electoral votes were stolen by voter fraud in Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia. Or so he says. Read more
Women Rule In New Hampshire’s Election by Deborah Montesano:
A woman with political aspirations could do much worse than hailing from New Hampshire. After all, the state just elected the nation’s first all-female delegation to Congress, as well as voting in a female governor. Read more
‘Ding Dong The West Is’…NOT The Congressman From Florida by Lorraine Devon Wilke:
Sometimes it takes a village. Or a court motion. Or a recount demand. Or a dismissal of voter fraud accusations. Or, finally, the cold-water dip realization that no matter how many times one taps his well-heeled heels together, he’s not going back to Kan– well, in this case, Florida. Not to the House of Representatives, anyway. Read more
Whether there will be any long-term consequences for those in the group revealed, or the gentleman who did the revealing, has not yet been determined. But clearly the ease with which sensitive, private information can be accidentally exposed by even a group as secretive and controversial as the Taliban makes it clear just how vulnerable we all are with the power of the Internet at our fingertips. Read more
