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The GOP's Diversity Deserts

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - Mar. 29 (Opinion) - Well, that didn’t take long. Just a week ago, the Republicans issued their much-ballyhooed “autopsy” on why they lost the presidential election last year and how they might remedy their problems. They concluded that their principles were fine; the proble

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Opinionator: Can Republicans Change Their Spots?

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Thomas B. Edsall - Jan. 24 (Opinion) - The alliance of business interests and social conservatism may no longer be politically viable.

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Jon Stewart Hammers John McCain, Lindsey Graham Over Susan Rice Hypocrisy (VIDEO)

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Jon Stewart - Nov. 29 (Comedy News) - John McCain & Lindsey Graham have been obsessively leading the charge against U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, claiming that she is unfit to be Secretary of State because of her misstatements on Benghazi. But Jon Stewart isn't sure that those two senators have any ground to stand on when it comes to judging Rice, or anyone who has said something they knew was wrong for that matter.

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Bloomberg digs up more on Romney's tax avoidance

Wed, 31 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Columbia Journalism Review - By Ryan Chittum - Oct. 31 (News Analysis) - Mitt Romney won’t release his tax returns beyond two years in which he was already actively campaigning for president, and the political press seems to have forgotten about it since Romney’s early October surge in the polls. So it’s left to the investigative journalists to dig up bits and pieces of Romney’s tax-avoidance strategy.

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David Gamage: ObamaCare's Costs to the Working Class

Wed, 31 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By David Gamage - Oct. 31 (Opinion) - Perverse incentives will make part-time work more attractive than a better-paying full-time job.

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Transformers 2

Fri, 07 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - Sep. 07 (Editorial) - Obama was honest when he said he wanted to remake America.

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Fact checking RNC comments from Mike Huckabee and John McCain

Fri, 31 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Josh Hicks - Aug. 31 (Opinion) - Wednesday’s speeches at the Republican National Convention struck us as somewhat safer than those from the previous day, but that doesn’t mean the event that day was completely free from misleading and factually incorrect remarks.

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How To Sweep Dark Money Out of Politics

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Mother Jones - By Monika Bauerlein, Clara Jeffery - Jun. 18 - Justice John Paul Stevens had seen a lot of precedent overturned by the time the Supreme Court ruled on Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission in January 2010. Appointed to the court by Gerald Ford after a career as a distinguished Republican jurist, he'd been there for contentious cases on abortion, the death penalty, Gitmo, you name it. But none had prepared him for the way the court's new conservative majority, led by John Roberts, seized on an obscure campaign finance case expected to produce a narrow ruling and used it to shred nearly four decades of federal law. The majority opinion in Citizens United takes up 57 pages, but it's pretty efficiently boiled down as follows: (1) Money is speech; (2) corporations are people; (3) therefore, under the First Amendment, the government can't stop corporations from spending money on politics pretty much however they choose. Stevens penned an impassioned 90-page dissent lambasting the "glittering generality" of this construction. "Although ...

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HBO’s ‘Game Change’ Goes Easy on Sarah Palin, John McCain in 2008 Saga

Sat, 10 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800

The Daily Beast - By Michelle Goldberg - Mar. 10 (Review) - If you're a fan of Sarah Palin, or if you just haven't followed the recriminations from John McCain staffers in the wake of the 2008 campaign, you will likely find Julianne Moore's portrayal of her in the HBO movie Game Change to be sexist. It's not just the depiction of her shocking ignorance""*at one point, she has to be told that the Queen of England doesn't conduct that country's foreign policy, while at another, she is confused to hear that Saddam Hussein was not behind the September 11 attacks. She's also absurdly vain, going on the...

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'Game Change': How accurate is the movie about Sarah Palin?

Sat, 10 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Christian Science Monitor - By Gloria Goodale - Mar. 10 (News) - Words have been flying between supporters of Sarah Palin, who charge the ‘Game Change’ filmmakers with a smear job, and the producers, who insist they’re committed to accuracy. ...

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Focus on Social Issues Could Shape Battle for Women

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Richard W. Stevenson - Feb. 24 (Opinion) - There are any number of ways in which the politics of culture wars might play out, but perhaps the biggest question is the degree to which the new attention on social issues might shape the battle for one of the most important electoral swing groups: moderate and independent women voters.

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Choosing sides on Sarah Palin in 'Game Change'

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By James Rainey - Feb. 18 (News Report) - 'Game Change' on HBO portrays her as woefully misinformed and emotional. Her supporters blast the film, but some former John McCain aides say it's accurate.

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How to Listen for Racism on the Campaign Trail: Jeffrey Goldberg

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:05:00 -0800

Bloomberg - By Jeffrey Goldberg, Bloomberg - Jan. 31 - Jeffrey Goldberg, a national correspondent for the Atlantic, is the author of "Prisoners: A Story of Friendship and Terror." He was formerly a Washington correspondent and a Middle East correspondent for the New Yorker. Here are some things you could lea

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Bachmann Says She Will Not Continue in the Race

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Sarah Wheaton - Jan. 04 (News Report) - On the morning before Iowa’s first-in-the-nation caucuses, Representative Michele Bachmann of Minnesota said she was counting on a “miracle” to resurrect her faltering campaign. On the morning after, she acknowledged that it was beyond saving.

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Op-Ed Columnist: Springtime for Toxics

Sun, 25 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Paul Krugman - Dec. 25 (Opinion) - The E.P.A. just did a very good thing in releasing new rules on mercury and air toxics for power plants. And, of course, Republicans are furious.

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Herman Cain, a man at odds with the skin he's in

Sat, 15 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Times - By Leonard Pitts Jr. - Oct. 15 (Opinion) - Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain neatly encapsulates an article of faith for many white conservatives — namely, that they, not black and brown people, are the true victims of bigotry. Cain comes across as a man profoundly at odds with the skin he's in.

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Bin Laden’s death and the debate over torture

Thu, 12 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By John McCain - May. 12 (Opinion) - Osama bin Laden’s welcome death has ignited debate over whether the so-called enhanced interrogation techniques used on enemy prisoners were instrumental in locating bin Laden, and whether they are a justifiable means for gathering intelligence.

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The Tragedy of Sarah Palin

Tue, 10 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Atlantic Monthly - By Joshua Green - May. 10 (Opinion) - From the moment Sarah Palin’s acceptance speech electrified the Republican convention, she was seen as an unbending, hard-charging, red-meat ideologue—to which soon was added “thin-skinned” and “vindictive.” But a look at what Palin did while in office in Alaska—the only record she has—shows a very different politician: one who worked with Democrats to tame Big Oil and solve the great problem at the heart of the state’s politics. That Sarah Palin might have set the nation on a different course. What went wrong?

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McCain visits Benghazi; Libyan rebels welcome armed drone aircraft

Fri, 22 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Greg Jaffe, Edward Cody, William Branigin - Apr. 22 (News Report) - Libyan rebels welcomed President Obama’s deployment of armed Predator drones and received praise from their most prominent U.S. visitor Friday, as they expressed hope that increased American support would help turn the tide in a conflict that the top U.S. military officer acknowledged is becoming deadlocked.

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Another Runaway General: Army Deploys Psy-Ops on U.S. Senators

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Rolling Stone - By Michael Hastings - Feb. 24 (Investigative Report) - The U.S. Army illegally ordered a team of soldiers specializing in "psychological operations" to manipulate visiting American senators into providing more troops and funding for the war, Rolling Stone has learned – and when an officer tried to stop the operation, he was railroaded by military investigators.

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McCain's Shift Makes Him Senate's Most Conservative

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

National Journal - By Reid Wilson - Feb. 24 (News) - The politician who once best exemplified the idea of a "maverick" independent has shifted so far to the right that he is now tied for the title of the Senate's most conservative member, according to National Journal's 2010 vote ratings.

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Republicans Fault Democrats on Vote

Thu, 10 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Janie Lorber - Feb. 10 (Opinion) - When House Republicans suffered an embarrassing defeat Tuesday in trying to pass an extension of the Patriot Act, they pointed a finger not at defiant members of their own party, but at Democrats who didn’t play along as expected.

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With House set to debate healthcare, government finds up to half of Americans under 65 have preexisting conditions

Tue, 18 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Amy Goldstein - Jan. 18 (News Report) - Analysis marks the government's first attempt to quantify the number of people at risk of being rejected by insurance companies or paying more.

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Palin Was Terrific

Mon, 17 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

American Spectator - By Quin Hillyer - Jan. 17 (Opinion) - I continue to believe that Sarah Palin is not yet qualified to be president, but my admiration for her continues to grow. Her interview with Sean Hannity, just aired, was almost pitch-perfect. It was dignified. It was well-modulated. It was strong. And it was thoughtful.

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McCain once more into the breach

Mon, 17 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Economist - Jan. 17 (News Analysis) - Last week John McCain cast his lot with those who are making some kind of effort at bridging our partisan rhetorical divide.

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