Mitt Romney flipped on major positions and President Obama failed to call him out – so Romney won the 1st debate bigtime. This HuffingtonPost headline tells the story. Salon, Slate, theDailyBeast, theAtlantic, theNewRepublic joining a chorus of other media in which all agreed – by flipping and walking back from his own positions for the last 2 years, […]
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Source: Salon.com What is fascinating to watch is how the Deep South changes and the Left Coast. South Dakota appears to be true Republican redfor the longest span while Also watch Indiana and Ohio change allegiances like a chameleon with indigestion.
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There is a great contrast today in the NYTimes Opinion Section. n one hand David Brooks speaks of the need for the audacious, Ayn Randian Job Creators championed by the Republican Party. In contrast, Paul Krugman argues that Republican policies are designed for the almost exclusive benefit of the wealthy with lower taxes on corporate
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There are three good report at theDailyBeast and CNN on the attack on the Libyan embassy tragedy. The first provides a reconstruction of the embassy attack and the now ongoing investigation. The fundamental problem in Libya is that after the disposal of the Qaddaffi regime, a national army and the disbanding of the different factional
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Shark Week was last week and I am not talking about the GOP Convention. But Financial Shark Week is being resurrected this week in the Wall Street Journal and the NYTimes. It started with Andrew Ross Sorkin noting in the Dealbook section of the NYTimes, that Facebook’s IPO-Initial Public Offering of stock was priced too
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Why has the GOP been so loose with truth – and ever more so in the 2012 Presidential Campaign? It is a legitimate question to ask given the ever more blatant lies, falsehoods and simpleton deceptions leading up to and during the GOP convention. Even Fox News noted the blatant lying trend with Chris Christie and even more
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Greg Hampkian has written a grocery-store checkout counter piece for ther NYTimes – entiled Men, Who Needs Them. Rather than exploring the motivation around the piece it is worth doing some PolitiFact-like check of truthiness in the arguments. So lets start out with the premise and first argument. The central behaviors of mammals revolve around
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Roger Cohen has a perceptive piece in the NYTimes which explores how two different ideologies have become locked into intransigence. Iran is using nuclear power and the threat of making nuclear bombs and a delivery system to become the pre-eminent Muslim and Shiite state. Israel is using the Iran thrust to nuclear power to
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The London Olympic Games were a broad success and this posting has the links to prove that beyond a doubt. For what was seen live[or time delayed for after supper entertainment in the US] was supplemented with live feeds available from NBCOlympics.com allowing one to watch without commentary just about any Olympic event live [or
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Takethe5th’s prognosis on Gun Control in the wake of the Aurora Massacre, Hey USA You’re in NRA’s Power Bang Killer Lottery Like It Or Not, has proven to be woefully accurate. There has been a chorus of no gun control across all of the media. NYTimes describes clearly the abdication of our political leadership.Now comes the clean
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