He may still win the Republican nomination, but right now it can’t be a lot of fun being Mitt Romney. The former governor of Massachusetts has been running for president for about six years now, so it’s not like he’s waiting to be discovered. Still, he is essentially stuck with a polling ceiling of 25%, despite being the presumed nominee of his party by the media.
If anyone is going to try to use the victimization of at least ten boys at Penn State University to garner support for his anti-homosexuality agenda, it’s Peter LaBarbera, founder of the hate group Americans for Truth About Homosexuality.
A U.S. citizen originally from the Dominican Republic, was ‘plotting to bomb police patrol cars and also postal facilities as well as targeted members of our armed services returning from abroad.’
The social political right continues a self-serving and greedy agenda that benefits only those of higher incomes and those who want to see the nation turned into a 50 state oligarchy.
After centuries of seeing the good that comes from protest and civil disobedience, I find it unfathomable that the authorities still feel behavior such as the video spraying of peaceful protesters is effective.
In a time of unprecedented economic quality and unemployment (see Occupy Movements), in which the top one percent control 42 percent of financial wealth while 15 percent of the country is on food stamps and unemployment is still hanging at 9.1 percent.
America’s Right-wing, or at least its rank-and-file, fancies itself as patriotic, compassionate, law-abiding citizens upholding the traditional values that built this nation—essentially, they see themselves as the modern-day equivalent to say, Ethan Allen’s Green Mountain Boys. And in one respect, they may be correct.
Who could have ever predicted that Newt Gingrich would be leading the GOP Presidential field after his campaign was declared dead only a few months earlier? Well, since Gingrich leads the field, conservatives must really be desperate to elect anyone but Romney. But is Newt a winner?
Herman Cain began to speak and not just in vague political speak; he started answering questions regarding important issues that a candidate for the highest office in the land should concern himself with and at least know a little bit about.
It has happened many times. I meet someone. The person finds out that I am Jewish. The person then starts carrying on about how much they love Israel and hate President Obama because he doesn’t support Israel.
Prions, like Libertarians, were once healthy individuals. Theoretically, they could be again.
Homophobia and transphobia affect everyone; they have serious consequences for both LGBT and straight people.
The credit score (FICO) has gotten out of control. It was meant to assess risk when lending someone money. That’s it. It’s now morphed into assessing risk for renting apartments and getting a job. Two things a lot of people desperately need. The funny thing about FICO is that it failed miserably at what is was born to do.
George Washington understood that dealing with debt was the government’s responsibility, but leaders would be unlikely to make unpopular choices in a democracy unless the public was both enlightened and understanding: “The execution of these maxims belongs to your representatives,” he said — meaning the members of Congress.
It was a regular night at Zuccotti Park until New York Mayor, Mike Bloomberg, decided to use his power to create a “temporary” police state and force the movement to a breaking point. It bent, but it did not break. According to The Washington Post, demonstrators “should temporarily leave and remove tents and tarps,” New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s office said today on its Twitter feed. “Protesters can return after the park is cleared.”
By trespassing, we are saying that mega-corporate occupation of the power and wealth of this nation is illegitimate. We are here to take our power back and do our best to divest from an economic system that harms us and our fellow citizens
Since WWII, Republicans have occupied the White House a total of 36 years. That’s more than half of the 66 years since 1945. And during those 36 years of GOP rule, what have they ever cut from government?
It’s true that this movement is, in part, about handouts, but it’s not the Occupy Wall Street protesters who are seeking handouts.
Situated between Scotland and Iceland lies a small group of islands called the Faroe Islands. These islands belong to the nation of Denmark. But a dark shadow of shame shrouds the island. Since the 10th century, the young men of the islands participate in a yearly ritual to become an adult. This ritual involves the gruesome and bloody massacre of Calderon Dophins and Pilot Whales on the beaches.
Sometimes I just don’t understand why there is always a financially struggling college kid, a low wage worker, or a middle class citizen that feel as though they have to go out of their way to defend tax breaks for the rich. At least once a month I find one person that wants to argue against their own interests and it continues to baffle me.
