“My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.” Grover Norquist, 20011 Despite his whoppingly wrong predictions...
“This is not what a real recovery looks like,” [Romney] said in a statement. “We created fewer jobs in September than in August, and fewer jobs in August than in July, and we’ve lost over 600,000...
Yes, Vin, you can buy a copy of mybook, but I only take cash.From you. A few minutes ago on Andrea Mitchell Reports,the discussion turned to the recent polls showing that President Obama is...
“The Truth Can Maim You, A Half-Truth Can Kill You” – Editor, TWSA! To paraphrase Joel Best, an author who dissects the political misuse of data, “Not all data starts out bad, but any data...
For the second time since February 2009, I’m republishing “Is The GOP Actively Courting a Depression?” Why? Recently, renewed speculation that this may indeed be the case reminded me that I’ve believed this was...
If we could harness it to good purpose, there’s enough gas in analysts of gasoline prices to run the world for a thousand years. Particularly gassy are the GOP presidential contestants who assert the...
In a fit of what can only be viewed as overconfidence after his win in the Florida primary, Mitt Romney accidentally told the truth on CNN this morning: “I’m not concerned about the very poor,”...
Mitt’s definitely winning the class war. Based on the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) 2011 Poverty Guidelines, last year, for example, he could have financed as many as 34 families of eight with his 2011 speaking fees income...
“Older Americans do not intend to ruin America, but as a group, that’s what they’re about.” Robert Samuelson, Washington Post, July 28, 2011, Why are we in this debt fix? It’s the elderly,...
Oppression is more easily endured than insult. Junius Indeed. Here’s an example of the GOP’s expertise with the insult as well as its talent for underestimating its country’s anger about our social and economic situation....
