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Andy Borowitz | Fact That No One Likes Him May Be Hurting Romney
Published Feb 8, 2012 - 6:58:12 AM
Exit polls from last night's Republican contests reveal that former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney's key obstacle to gaining the GOP nomination is the fact that voters cannot stand him.
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Dan Smith: New Legislation Would Close Corporate Tax Loopholes, Save Taxpayers $155 billion
Published Feb 8, 2012 - 6:28:17 AM
The CUT Loopholes Act goes a long way in making sure corporations play by the same rules as ordinary taxpayers. Our tax code is currently riddled with loopholes that serve no public purpose and allow wealthy special interests to shift their tax burden to the rest of us.
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Robert Reich | The Sad Spectacle of Obama's Super PAC
Published Feb 8, 2012 - 6:21:33 AM
It has been said there is no high ground in American politics since any politician who claims it is likely to be gunned down by those firing from the trenches. That's how the Obama team justifies its decision to endorse a super PAC that can raise and spend unlimited sums for his campaign.
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Liz Barratt-Brown | It's all about the framing: How polls and the media misrepresent the Keystone XL [tar sands][oil] pipeline
Published Feb 8, 2012 - 6:18:12 AM
First of all, you won't find tar sands mentioned in any of the polling. And in most polls, you won't even find oil. It's just the Keystone XL pipeline, no context, no mention of what it will carry, and certainly no mention of the environmental risks of building a massive pipeline to carry toxic tar sands sludge through the heartland of America to the gulf of Mexico, where it would be exported out of the U.S.
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Tina Dupuy | 'The Market' Has Chosen the Winner of the Culture Wars
Published Feb 8, 2012 - 6:01:28 AM
Here's how it works: Advertisers put out an image or an idea — the greater public concurs by buying those products. Successful ads equal agreed upon ideas. Marketing is, after all, the definitive pandering.
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Dahlia Lithwick: For Prop 8, No Hollywood Endings
Full story: Slate.com
George Monbiot: The right's stupidity spreads, enabled by a too-polite left
Full story: The Guardian UK
James Corless: Transportation for America coalition announces opposition to House energy and transportation bill
Published Feb 7, 2012 - 8:04:08 AM
Transportation for America Director, James Corless, offered this statement in response to last week's committee passage of the House American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act, along with a companion measure eliminating dedicated funding for public transportation:
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Robert Reich | The Downward Mobility of the American Middle Class, and Why Mitt Romney Doesn't Know
Published Feb 7, 2012 - 6:47:52 AM
January's increase in hiring is good news, but it masks a bigger and more disturbing story – the continuing downward mobility of the American middle class. Most of the new jobs being created are in the lower-wage sectors of the economy – hospital orderlies and nursing aides, secretaries and temporary workers, retail and restaurant. Meanwhile, millions of Americans remain working only because they've agreed to cuts in wages and benefits. Others are settling for jobs that pay less than the jobs they've lost. Entry-level manufacturing jobs are paying half what entry-level manufacturing jobs paid six years ago.
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Tiffany Williams: Those Bad Old Days Are Still with Us
Published Feb 7, 2012 - 6:44:26 AM
The Oscar-nominated film "The Help" has already earned armfuls of awards. But I'm not a fan.
The sentimental film reminds me how far the United States, and Hollywood in particular, has to go. When Hattie McDaniel became the first African-American actress to win an Oscar for her role as "Mammy" the house slave in "Gone with the Wind" 70 years ago, it was a bittersweet honor because no other kinds of roles were available for her in major movies. Viola Davis, an African-American Oscar nominee for Best Actress for her role as a maid in "The Help," almost declined to take the part.
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Mike Prokosch: Playing with Fire
Published Feb 7, 2012 - 6:42:19 AM
Some Americans want to starve our cities, close our schools, and knock away the ladder that our children are supposed to climb to economic security. Your lawmakers may be among them.
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Peter Funt | Surely They Jest
Published Feb 7, 2012 - 6:24:35 AM
"You can't make this stuff up," Johnny Carson used to say when truth trumped fiction in one of his monologues. The line is perfect for the current GOP presidential campaign, where the candidates' seemingly serious pronouncements leave joke writers with little to add.
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Bill McKibben: The Great Carbon Bubble: Why the Fossil Fuel Industry Fights So Hard
Full story: Tom Dispatch
Karl Braendel: 'Predator control' demeans us all
Full story: Anchorage Daily News
Joan Walsh: Karl Rove's hissy fit: "Offended" by Chrysler ad
Full story: Salon.com
Donald Kaul: 'Let a thousand super PACs bloom'
Full story: Des Moines Register
James Zogby: Dealing with Iran
Published Feb 6, 2012 - 6:42:04 AM
If we are to believe what we are hearing and reading from a variety of confirmed and unconfirmed sources, in Israel and the U.S., some day in the next few months we may wake up to the news that Israel has bombed Iran's nuclear facilities. Or maybe not.
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William A. Collins: Whistle-Blowing Takes Guts
Published Feb 6, 2012 - 6:41:33 AM
As activist Medea Benjamin has said, "You are better off committing a war crime than exposing one" in the United States.
No government cares to be accused of a war crime. If you happen to commit one, your military bosses will move heaven and earth to cover for you and pretend it didn't happen. However, if you should instead expose a war crime, they will hunt you down like a dog and make sure you never again see the light of day. After all, reputations and careers are at stake.
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Jim Hightower: Save the Babies
Published Feb 6, 2012 - 6:40:25 AM
Why do the Republicans in Congress hate unborn babies?
Yeah, I know they profess to love the unborn. They even consider them to be "persons" from the very moment of conception.
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Daphne Wysham: Fracking Perils
Published Feb 6, 2012 - 6:39:20 AM
Folks, I've got some good news and some bad news about the nation's ever-elusive quest for a sound energy policy. The good news: Finally there's some under-the-radar bipartisan consensus in Washington. The bad news: Both parties are dead wrong.
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Marc Morial: Distorting Civil Rights History
Published Feb 6, 2012 - 6:38:03 AM
Many prominent conservative politicians are making outrageous statements targeted at minority citizens this campaign season. They're saying spurious things, like implying that African Americans prefer food stamps over paychecks, or that black people use "other people's money" to get ahead.
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Terry O'Neill: Komen Backtracks, But Questions Remain
Published Feb 6, 2012 - 5:23:32 AM
After an overwhelming nationwide reaction to the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation's decision to cut grant funds from Planned Parenthood, the board of directors announced today a new revision to its funding policy. NOW applauds all of the activists around the country who stood up for women in the past 72 hours, forcing Komen to re-think its transparently political move. But important questions remain.
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Will Durst | The GOP Soap Opera
Published Feb 4, 2012 - 8:58:04 AM
It's been more exciting than a zip-line over crocodile-infested streams watching the Republican reality TV show currently playing across the nation. Specifically talking about their grueling marathon gladiator contest where the last person voted off the island becomes Red American Idol and wins the opportunity to oppose Barack Obama in the grudge match this fall, not to mention grab all the money they can from the Koch Brothers' secret PAC account money machine. Let's Make a Deal.
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Boxer Statement on Susan G. Komen for the Cure Announcement on Continuing Planned Parenthood Breast Cancer Screenings
Published Feb 3, 2012 - 9:26:00 AM
It's a great day when our deeply held belief that breast cancer can only be wiped out if we all work together has triumphed over right-wing politics.
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Michael Keegan: People For the American Way Calls on Susan G. Komen for the Cure to Restore Funding to Planned Parenthood
Published Feb 3, 2012 - 8:22:10 AM
Susan G. Komen for the Cure has done important work over the last three decades raising awareness of breast cancer, funding important research and promoting public health. Unfortunately, this week Komen chose to place partisan politics over women's health, thereby fundamentally altering its mission and betraying the trust of the women it purports to serve.
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Ellen Sweet | Komen vs. Planned Parenthood - What's Going On?
Published Feb 3, 2012 - 8:15:50 AM
Immediate outrage in the social media greeted the Komen foundation after it defunded breast cancer screening by Planned Parenthood. Ellen Sweet explores what's behind its puzzling turn-about.
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Women's Media Center | The Komen Foundation & Abortion Politics
Published Feb 3, 2012 - 6:19:21 AM
The Women's Media Center is deeply disappointed with the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation's decision to cease funding breast cancer prevention, education, and screenings at Planned Parenthood health centers. We urge our friends and supporters to join us by standing in solidarity with Planned Parenthood Federation of America and all of the women and families they serve to ensure that almost 750,000 women in rural, underserved, and low-income communities continue to receive comprehensive and accessible preventative care.
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John Aravosis: Komen caves, kinda, but still refusing to approve Planned Parenthood's funding next year
Full story: America Blog
Robert Reich | The Republican Myth of Obama's "Entitlement Society"
Published Feb 2, 2012 - 7:17:36 AM
One of the few things Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich agree on is that President Obama is turning America into "European-style welfare culture."
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Jodi Jacobson: Susan G. Komen: Can You Trust a Breast Cancer Organization Whose Staff and Board Members Lie About Breast Cancer?
Full story: RH Realitycheck
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