I have been politically independent for years now. I have never understood the idea of voting for one party or the other without carefully hearing out the candidates and the party platforms. Right now, as a business person at an executive level I am very concerned about the federal deficit and completely understand the economic reprecussions of not ( Read more... )

I am wondering if I am alone in this frustration? Our two political parties are making grand statements about the effects of regulations on business and the environment. To hear republicans you'd think that the Obama Administration has completely stifled business with the number of regulations he's put in place, while to hear democrats you'd think ( Read more... )

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-maher/new-rule-the-republican-l_b_585542.html

Don't just stop at the title or opening paragraph--this article is epic win.

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When the Dow was down below 7,000, Republicans couldn’t stop citing it as ‘proof’ that President Obama’s economic plans had failed. Now that the Dow is in 9,000 territory - up well over 10% since inauguration day - right-wing pundits like J.P. Frere are trying to pretend conservatives never attacked Obama on the stock market. Well, as Faiz Shakir ( Read more... )

All Nonwhite Converging on Hypernegative View of GOP

A new poll from DailyKos/Research 2000 shows Latino support for the Republican Party dropping like a stone, perhaps due to the racist attacks on Sonia Sotomayor from many prominent conservative commentators:


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A young Belgian man went on a stabbing spree in a day care center, killing three and wounding several others.

Obviously this was the result of inadequate knife control laws. Discuss.

An letter from Israel ( Read more... )

 WTF is going on?

*Edited to add* I approve of the tags :-D

What Krugman says here is fascinating, yet really nothing new. Many have written on the ways republicans used racial divisions to gain white working class votes and even activism that resulted in policies that largely were against working class interests. Racism was used to gain votes in a similar way that Prop 8 and other similar drives are the ( Read more... )