November 16, 2012
Careful, Confirmation Bias Can Be Contagious
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November 15, 2012
CEOs and Obamacare: Why it Proves We Need Medicare for All
What you need to understand about the CEOs who are firing employees and cutting back on hours and pay because of “Obamacare”…
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November 13, 2012
Voter ID Would Have Allowed Romney To Win Wisconsin Says Campaign Co-Chair
Romney campaign co-chair and Wisconsin state senator, Alberta Darling, said that voter ID would have allowed Mitt Romney to win her state. TPM reports:
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November 13, 2012
So You Want Your State To Secede From The United States?
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November 12, 2012
Fact of the Day: Presidents Who Won 50 Percent Of Vote Twice
This is a bonus Fact of the Day and it comes from a conservative commentator.
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November 12, 2012
Conservatives, It’s Not Your Country To Take Back
If there was one phrase heard most often during the health care debate in 2009 and 2010 it was “I want my country back.” This phrase, used exclusively by white conservatives, encapsulates the palpable fear felt by a shrinking white majority. This is not a phrase that would be uttered by African-Americans or Latinos, for good reason, and let’s not mince words. — White conservatives are talking about an increasingly diverse country with many more brown and black people, and it scares them to the core.
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November 12, 2012
Fact of the Day: Mitt Romney Received Less Votes Than John McCain
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November 11, 2012
The ‘Fiscal Cliff’ That Isn’t
On today’s Up on MSNBC, Chris Hayes said if the debt and deficit were really a major concern in Washington, we would not have a debate framed around a fictional “fiscal cliff.” Hayes said that it is neither fiscal or a cliff. At best it’s a fiscal curb, but even that isn’t correct because on the fiscal side, the “fiscal cliff’ is actually a major dose of austerity.
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November 9, 2012
Reminder To Self: Stop Engaging In Political Debates On Facebook
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November 9, 2012
The Romney Campaign Believed Its Own BS
Putting politics aside for a moment, on a human level I do kind of feel bad for Mitt Romney. I mean, anybody who puts in that kind of effort to win something and then come up short, that’s really going to sting.
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