September 24, 2012
Stories You Should Be Reading, September 24, 2012
Union of Concerned Scientists says Fox News misleads its viewers on climate change. — Say it ain’t so?
September 24, 2012
Union of Concerned Scientists says Fox News misleads its viewers on climate change. — Say it ain’t so?
September 15, 2012
Highlights from Real Time with Bill Maher – Episode 259, September 14, 2012
September 12, 2012
Tax cuts for high-income earners, who Republicans call “job creators,” is not only wasteful, it doesn’t work. Today we are given two more reasons why.
September 2, 2012
Republicans and conservatives have this idea that until government stops wasting money, they aren’t going to pay anymore in taxes. Since when did people get the idea that they have a line-item veto when it comes to their tax dollars? This is an argument used to deflect away from their real position; they simply don’t want to pay more taxes. So why do the feel the need to clarify it with an illogical excuse?
September 2, 2012
Robert Wolf, former President of UBS Investment Bank, was on Up with Chris Hayes this morning and said the following about taxes:
August 30, 2012
THE LIE
August 27, 2012
Republicans exist in their own special place and time. A place that is loose with facts, stuffed with contradictory statements and topped off with hyperbolic rhetoric. Whatever will get the job done. Their soon-to-be nominee for president, Mitt Romney is the poster child of Republican duality. For Republicans this is simply a state of mind. The goal is to win the White House and take full control of U.S. government. Convictions are less important than ultimate power, and so Republicans willingly trample on their own statements and previous policy positions. It’s a means to an end.
August 19, 2012
Grover Norquist, the “tax pledge” guy, called former president George H.W. Bush a liar this morning on This Week. “When George Herbert Walker Bush ran for president, he promised the American people he wouldn’t raise their taxes,” said Norquist. “He lied to them. He broke his commitment to them and they threw him out of office four years later.” For some history here, Bush famously said “read my lips – no new taxes” during his run for president in 1988.
August 17, 2012
Mitt Romney has some bad ideas and some worse ideas for America. Here are 5 broad issues where Mitt Romney has it all wrong.
August 9, 2012
There is a lot of nonsense bouncing around the conservative echo chamber. Below I present “facts” that conservatives love to repeat over and over even though they have no grounding in reality. And while this is clearly far from a complete list, it offers a glimpse into the fact-starved void that is the conservative bubble.