In Tampa, Newt Gingrich, Scott Walker Plug Supply-Side Economics | Common Dreams

In Tampa, Newt Gingrich, Scott Walker Plug Supply-Side Economics | Common Dreams
"Wisconsin, along with the rest of the country, has experienced bad unemployment followed by a modest recovery. But during Walker's time in office, the state has hemorhaged jobs, leading the nation in job losses month after month. The recovery experienced by the rest of the nation, reflected in overall employment data, is significantly better than Wisconsin’s, which is a state that has historically had higher employment than most.

That's a clear warning sign about the Republican economic vision for America."

Sensata Workers React to Romney Bragging about Chinese Sweatshops

Sensata Workers React to Romney Bragging about Chinese Sweatshops
"Employees of the Bain-owned company Sensata, about whom Kenneth blogged about back in June trying to save their jobs from being outsourced, watched the video and were asked for their reactions."

When Will Nation's Most Powerful Show Regard for Nation's Most Vulnerable? | Common Dreams

When Will Nation's Most Powerful Show Regard for Nation's Most Vulnerable? | Common Dreams
"Economists demonstrate that 40 percent of the people who are born into poverty will stay in poverty, suggesting very low mobility for poor Americans, and especially women. Low mobility disproportionately affects African-American and Latina women. If one looks at their wealth—the total value of one’s assets minus debts—single African-American and single Latina women have a median wealth of about $100, while the median for single white women is $41,500. (This despite the fact that there were more white women in poverty in 2010 than African-American and Latina women combined; and white, African-American and Latina women participate in the cash assistance (TANF) program in equal proportions.) Around the world, leaders have recognized that investing in women and girls—through group microfinance programs and access to banking services, for example—helps not only to improve their lives but lift an entire nation and boost GDP."

GOP Platform Says ‘Impeachment’ Is A Solution To Judicial Decisions The GOP Opposes

GOP Platform Says ‘Impeachment’ Is A Solution To Judicial Decisions The GOP Opposes: Last year, former GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich delivered an authoritarian speech where he promised that if elected president he would ignore court decisions he disagrees with, wage a campaign of intimidation against judges, and even potentially impeach judges who interpret the Constitution in way he disapproves of. Gingrich lost the GOP primary, but his [...]/p

Chris Matthews Confronts RNC Chairman: ‘Obama Being A Foreigner Is The Thing Your Party Has Been Pushing’

Chris Matthews Confronts RNC Chairman: ‘Obama Being A Foreigner Is The Thing Your Party Has Been Pushing’: Chris Matthews tore into RNC Chairman Reince Priebus during an appearance on Morning Joe on Monday, accusing the Romney campaign of “playing that little ethnic card” in its false attacks against welfare reform and jokes about birtherism. “You can play your games and giggle about it….[but] Obama being a foreigner is the thing your party [...]/p

HuffPost: Romney asserted active role in Bain to claim half-million dollar tax deduction in 2010

HuffPost: Romney asserted active role in Bain to claim half-million dollar tax deduction in 2010
"In other words, if Romney's deduction was legal, it means his claim to have had no involvement with Bain after February of 1999 was pure fiction, because as late as 2010, he claimed more than $500,000 in expenses related to his Bain investments. Of course, if it wasn't legal, Romney has other problems."

The Republican "Small Goverment" Fraud | Common Dreams

The Republican "Small Goverment" Fraud | Common Dreams
"For those people who can see beyond the deluge of slick campaign advertisements, it should be clear enough that the Republican Party’s claim to support “small government” is a fraud. That claim is only an attractive mask, designed to disguise a party of privilege."

Four Ways the Ohio GOP is Already Stealing the 2012 Election | Common Dreams

Four Ways the Ohio GOP is Already Stealing the 2012 Election | Common Dreams
"Clearly the Ohio GOP is once again geared up to deny the vote---and vote count---to as many Democrats as it can.  If it succeeds, as it did in 2004, Barack Obama stands little chance of being re-elected."

Add It Up: Taxes Avoided by the Rich Could Pay Off the Deficit | Common Dreams

Add It Up: Taxes Avoided by the Rich Could Pay Off the Deficit | Common Dreams
"Conservatives force the deficit issue, ignoring job creation, and insisting that tax increases on the rich wouldn't generate enough revenue to balance the budget. They're way off. But it takes a little arithmetic to put it all together. In the following analysis, data has been taken from a variety of sources, some of which may overlap or slightly disagree, but all of which lead to the conclusion that withheld revenue, not excessive spending, is the problem."

Paul Ryan And The Fountainhead : Information Clearing House: ICH

Uri Avnery:    Paul Ryan And The Fountainhead    :    Information Clearing House: ICH
"Ayn Rand, it was said, was one of the main inspirations for his particular philosophy. Since Ryan is being represented not as an ordinary, run-of-the-mill politician, like Mitt Romney, but as a profound political and economic thinker, the inspiration deserves some scrutiny."

Teaching People to Hate Their Own Govt. Is at the Core of the Project to Destroy the Middle Class | Alternet

Teaching People to Hate Their Own Govt. Is at the Core of the Project to Destroy the Middle Class | Alternet
"Your goal for this step is to figure out how to teach the middle class to hate their own government using a strategy that takes into consideration the political climate of the United States of thirty years ago.

Teaching the middle class to hate their government was an essential part of the plan to implement Corporate Feudalism. A middle class cannot exist without a strong government. This is because only a government has the power to stand up to the giant corporations of today’s world, or the powerful individuals and private armies of earlier times. It is the government that enforces the laws to protect the middle class from those who would like to become their economic rulers. That is why prior to the Industrial Revolution and the creation of the middle class all economies were run according to some version of the feudal system. If you want to put an end to the middle class and replace it with a feudal republic, you would need to change people’s perception of their government."

The Billionaires Bill of Rights | Alternet

The Billionaires Bill of Rights | Alternet
"Billionaire corporate interests and other well financed anti-labor forces are waging a major drive to stifle the political voice of workers and their unions in California that is certain to spread nationwide if not stopped - and stopped now.

At issue is a highly deceptive measure, Proposition 32, on the state's November election ballot, that its anti-labor sponsors label as an even-handed attempt to limit campaign spending. But actually, it would limit - and severely - only the spending of unions while leaving corporations and other moneyed special interests free to spend as much as they like."

Paul Ryan Struggles With the Inconvenient Demands of Democracy | Common Dreams

Paul Ryan Struggles With the Inconvenient Demands of Democracy | Common Dreams
"Ryan and Zerban have fundamentally different positions on the issues. Ryan wants to undermine Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid with what former House Speaker Newt Gingrich refers to as “right-wing social experimentation,” while Zerban would preserve these programs. Ryan opposes meaningful healthcare reforms that would expand access to care while cutting costs, while Zerban supports the real reform of a “Medicare for All” program. Ryan supports free-trade deals and manufacturing policies that have led to the shuttering of major industrial facilities in Janesville (a General Motors plant), Kenosha (a Chrysler plant) and Oak Creek (a Delphi plant) during the course of his Congressional tenure, while Zerban favors fair trade policies designed to protect jobs, communities and the environment. Ryan advocates for narrowing the definition of rape as part of an aggressive push to limit reproduction rights, while Zerban supports a woman’s right to choose."

Romney's Racism: In the Gutter with Gingrich | Common Dreams

Romney's Racism: In the Gutter with Gingrich | Common Dreams
"Although every fact-check has shown he’s wrong, Romney and the Romney-phile propaganda groups keep pounding away at their message with ads like this one"

Paul Ryan hates babies

Paul Ryan hates babies
"The future of our nation is on the table in the next election. I'm voting to put food on that table."

CHART: How Ending The High End Bush Tax Cuts Saves Nearly $1 Trillion

CHART: How Ending The High End Bush Tax Cuts Saves Nearly $1 Trillion: President Obama has promised to end the Bush tax cuts on income in excess of $250,000 when they expire at the end of the year, with his aides saying that he is “100 percent committed” to preventing another extension. Of course, Republicans are again saying that all of the cuts should be extended, even as [...]/p

U.S.-Funded War in El Salvador Casts Shadow over Romney/Ryan Campaign

U.S.-Funded War in El Salvador Casts Shadow over Romney/Ryan Campaign
"Even if Romney can distance himself from the death squad-linked Salvadoran investors that provided the seed money for his vast wealth, Ryan's political upbringing and his being mentored by a man of Abrams' pedigree makes it clear that the tragedies of El Salvador's civil war and this dark chapter in U.S. history will continue to cast a shadow over the Romney - Ryan campaign."

Romney’s Blood Money » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names

Romney’s Blood Money » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
"Recent revelations about Mitt Romney’s highly profitable company Bain Capital help connect the dots between offshore tax shelters, shady investors; and the role that ill-gotten gains plays in today’s casino-like finance capital.

Both the Los Angeles Times and Huffington Post published investigations in the last month showing that over a third of the $37 million raised by Romney to launch Bain Capital in the mid-1980s came from rich Latin Americans, the bulk of it from Salvadoran families linked to death squads."

First Man on Moon Neil Armstrong Dead at 82 | Common Dreams

First Man on Moon Neil Armstrong Dead at 82 | Common Dreams
"ormer U.S. astronaut, Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon, has died at the age of 82, U.S. media reported on Saturday. His family reported the death at 2:45 p.m. ET."

New Mexico RNC Committeeman Is Custer's Last Fan

New Mexico RNC Committeeman Is Custer's Last Fan
"A RNC National Committeeman told Governor Susana Martinez's staff that her agreeing to meet with Native Americans is disrespectful to the memory of Col. George Armstrong Custer, the infamous cavalry officer who killed thousands of Native Americans in the 1800s, according to emails obtained by ProgressNow New Mexico."

Conservatives' New Plan to Radicalize America Even Further Right

Conservatives' New Plan to Radicalize America Even Further Right
"I gave you a few good examples of how conservative crackpots planned to turn the US into their libertarian/evangelical utopian dream and lo and behold, after decades of futility, they finally have the GOP, hook line and sinker. They understand that by repeating the same lies and propaganda over and over again, eventually (even if it takes thirty more years) fiction will be turned into fact in the echo chamber of the navel-gazing commentariat. With no real fourth branch of government left to be actual watchdogs of democracy and a working class struggling to pay their bills, they feel nobody can stop them.

Whenever I hear politicos say the tea party, birthers or the newly-created legitimate rape believers will now destroy the GOP forevah because of their lunacy, I laugh out loud. We've had sixty years of history to disprove that opinion. Are you really surprised the GOP national party platform reads like a who's who list from the John Bircher Society?"

GOP: A Party That Hates Women | Alternet

GOP: A Party That Hates Women | Alternet
"Missouri GOP senatorial candidate Todd Akin's absurd comment that women's bodies can prevent pregnancies in cases of "legitimate rape" is disgusting. It also points to a deeper problem within the GOP.

Plainly, this is a party that hates women."

Will Romney say anything about GOP platform's embrace of Arizona immigration law?

Will Romney say anything about GOP platform's embrace of Arizona immigration law?
"Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, informal Romney adviser and co-author of the Arizona law, introduced this section of the official Republican Party platform, which was easily approved."

Fox News' Selfish Partisan Evil Endangers Navy SEAL

Fox News' Selfish Partisan Evil Endangers Navy SEAL
"On Thursday, Fox News outed the identity of a Navy SEAL who co-wrote a book on the Osama bin Laden raid. I won't link you to the article nor will I tell you the name they published, but their abject evil in promoting the OpSec group as endangering national security while outing the name of one of the people actually involved in the mission should be obvious."

The Major Economic Ideas We Live By Are Shockingly Flimsy | Alternet

The Major Economic Ideas We Live By Are Shockingly Flimsy | Alternet
"Economists’ insistence that their discipline is like physics sounds a little nervous. Did you ever hear a physicist boast to the world that physics is like economics?"

Romney goes birther

Todd Akin Isn't the Problem: It's the GOP That's the Problem

Todd Akin Isn't the Problem: It's the GOP That's the Problem
"So when Republicans start kicking out members like Broun, Kingston, Bachmann, Shimkus, Barton, Gohmert and Allen West -- just to name a few -- I'll know they're serious about cleaning up their party.

Until then, they should stop picking on Todd Akin. He's just playing by their rules. And they're only making noise about it because he may cost them the Senate."

Romney Invested In Company That Is Outsourcing Jobs, Forcing Workers To Train Their Chinese Replacements

Romney Invested In Company That Is Outsourcing Jobs, Forcing Workers To Train Their Chinese Replacements: Workers at Sensata Technologies, a business based in Freeport, Illinois, have been protesting Mitt Romney’s campaign stops across the country all summer because the company, which is owned by Bain Capital, is laying off workers in order to hire employees in China. Bain took control of Sensata in 2006; last year, it took over the [...]/p

Can Republican get elected without fraud and treason?

Since Dwight Eisenhower left the presidency in 1961 - 5 different Republicans have been President of the United States. And every single one of them - from Richard Nixon to George W. Bush - have been illegitimate - ascending to the highest office in the land NOT through small-D democratic elections - but instead through fraud and treason.

RNC speaker's business experience blows holes in party's 'We built it' theme

RNC speaker's business experience blows holes in party's 'We built it' theme
"Since it began operations, FSM has received $15 million in federal contracts two-thirds of which were obtained non-competitively. In fiscal 2012 alone, the company has received more than half a million dollars in government contracts with the Air Force and defense contractors such as Lockheed Martin. Valenzuela's business thrives on government help. Couldn't live without it. She also obviously believes that it's not just the federal government that helps business, but local as well since she is chairwoman of the Economic Development Advisory Panel for the City of Milford."

Tax experts find shady, possibly illegal, dealings in documents related to Romney's Bain investments

Tax experts find shady, possibly illegal, dealings in documents related to Romney's Bain investments
"As if there weren't enough reason to demand that Romney show us his tax returns, the Bain documents show the kinds of things that such disclosure might shed some light on. And these are, of course, just what one website has been able to get its hands on."

Looking for Kids' Books? Avoid This Propaganda

Looking for Kids' Books? Avoid This Propaganda
"Monsanto and its cohorts among the "Big 6" pesticide and GMO companies -- Monsanto, Dow Chemical, Bayer, Syngenta, Dupont, and BASF -- are fighting a battle with California voters on whether or not GMO foods should be labeled. In the meantime, the trade group CBI, whose membership consists solely of those six corporations, is busily educating children on the supposed benefits of GMOs."

Ryan Abortion Extremism Missing In WI's Biggest Newspaper

Ryan Abortion Extremism Missing In WI's Biggest Newspaper
"We are inclined to blame their editors, who must not be encouraging --if not actively discouraging -- their people from doing the real reporting they are capable of. That's a shame, asWisconsin, a battleground state, gets a sanitized version of the news from its biggest circulation newspaper."

Risk of Voter Suppression Resurfaces: Wisconsin Attorney General Seeks to Reinstate Voter ID Law | Common Dreams

Risk of Voter Suppression Resurfaces: Wisconsin Attorney General Seeks to Reinstate Voter ID Law | Common Dreams
"Wisconsin's Republican Attorney General is fighting to get vote-suppressing laws in place for the November election, asking the Wisconsin Supreme Court to reinstate the voter ID law that has been found unconstitutional by two separate state judges, despite that Court rejecting a similar request in recent months"

GOPer Says Medicare And Social Security Are Unconstitutional Then Whines When He’s Attacked For It

GOPer Says Medicare And Social Security Are Unconstitutional Then Whines When He’s Attacked For It: Indiana GOP U.S. Senate candidate Richard Mourdock thinks that Medicare and Social Security are unconstitutional. We know this because there is video of Mourdock expressing his incredulity at the idea that the Constitution permits the safety net for seniors to exist — in Mourdock’s words, “I challenge you in Article I, Section 8 of the [...]/p

7 Birthers Speaking At The Republican Convention

7 Birthers Speaking At The Republican Convention: Mitt Romney’s invocation of birtherism on Friday took his campaign to a new level of involvement with the bogus idea that President Obama is actually Kenyan-born and therefore ineligible to serve as Commander-in-Chief. But that dog-whistle theory has already been embraced by many major Republicans with whom Romney has long been happy to consort. Indeed, [...]/p

Al-Qaeda Websites Post Bin Laden Raid SEAL’s Name And Photo, Vowing Revenge

Al-Qaeda Websites Post Bin Laden Raid SEAL’s Name And Photo, Vowing Revenge: NBC News reports that users on websites affiliated with al-Qaeda have posted the name and photo of an American Navy SEAL who led the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. The New York Times reported this week that the SEAL, writing under the pseudonym Mark Owen, wrote a book documenting the events of the raid [...]/p

Borrowing Tactics From Big Tobacco, Indoor Tanning Industry Undermines Doctors To Argue Tanning Is ‘Healthy’

Borrowing Tactics From Big Tobacco, Indoor Tanning Industry Undermines Doctors To Argue Tanning Is ‘Healthy’: In 2009, the World Health Organization reported that regular indoor tanning before age 30 increases the risk of melanoma — one of the fastest-growing rates of cancer by 75 percent. Facing criticism and increasing state restrictions on youth tanning, the $4.8 billion tanning industry is pursuing a misinformation strategy borrowed from the tobacco industry, according [...]/p

US: Israel's Inquiry Into Rachel Corrie's Death Not 'Thorough, Credible and Transparent' | Common Dreams

US: Israel's Inquiry Into Rachel Corrie's Death Not 'Thorough, Credible and Transparent' | Common Dreams
"23-year-old Rachel Corrie was killed in 2003 while in Rafah, Gaza while attempting to stop the destruction of a Palestinian home, when a Caterpillar bulldozer crushed her to death.  The IDF has claimed that the driver of the bulldozer didn't see Corrie, who was wearing a fluorescent orange jacket."

Anti-Abortion Group Backs Scott Brown

Anti-Abortion Group Backs Scott Brown: Massachusetts Citizens for Life announced Thursday it plans to back Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA) in his reelection bid against Elizabeth Warren. Brown has been attempting to portray himself as pro-choice to win over moderate Massachusetts after the “legitimate rape” comments by Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO) drew attention to his party’s extreme anti-abortion positions. But Anne [...]/p