Articles of Interest
August 15, 2012, 4:00am

By Robert Reich, Robert Reich’s Blog

Stumping in Florida today, Mitt Romney charged President Obama’s Affordable Care Act will “cut more than $700 billion” out of Medicare.

What Romney didn’t say was that his running-mate’s budget – approved by House … Read more »

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August 15, 2012, 2:00am

If you live in Butler or Warren counties in the Republican-leaning suburbs of Cincinnati, you can vote for president beginning in October by going to a polling place in the evening or on weekends. Republican officials in those counties want … Read more »

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August 14, 2012, 11:00am

By Bill Moyers, Reader Supported News

Ever since Barry Goldwater lost his bid for the presidency in 1964, the conservative movement has been looking for a choice, not an echo (Goldwater’s mantra). Reagan came close, but compromised too often on … Read more »

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August 14, 2012, 10:00am

By Paul Krugman, The New York Times

Mark Kleiman points us to a lamentable but revealing column by William Saletan, which illustrates perfectly how the essentially ludicrous Paul Ryan has gotten so far – namely, by playing to the gullibility … Read more »

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August 13, 2012, 11:00am

By The White House

Progress Toward a World without Violence Against Women and Girls Today, President Obama issued an Executive Order on Preventing and Responding to Violence Against Women and Girls Globally to further enhance the Administration’s efforts to advance … Read more »

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August 13, 2012, 1:00am

By Robert Reich, Robert Reich’s Blog

As Bill Clinton is resurrected by the Democrats, George W. Bush is being erased by the GOP – as if an entire eight years of American history hadn’t happened.

While Bill Clinton stumps for … Read more »

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August 13, 2012, 1:00am

By Paul Harris, Guardian UK

The Sensata plant in Freeport is profitable and competitive, but its majority owner, Bain Capital, has decided to ship jobs to China – and forced workers to train their overseas replacements.

he shock of losing … Read more »

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August 12, 2012, 5:00am

This morning, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan stood on a platform in Norfolk, Virginia, and introduced themselves to the country as “America’s Comeback Team.”

“Go Back Team” would be more appropriate — because a Romney-Ryan administration is the definition of … Read more »

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August 11, 2012, 5:00am

By Alex Slater, Guardian UK

In Washington, conventional wisdom is everything. It’s the driver of perceptions, and often of self-fulfilling political prophecies. That’s why you might notice a guarded confidence amongst the Obama campaign these past few weeks: generally speaking, … Read more »

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August 09, 2012, 7:00am

By Naomi Wolf, Guardian UK

As the US faces record drought and an Old Testament-level pestilential heatwave in the midwest, American environmental denialism may be starting to change. The question is: is it too late?

America has led the world … Read more »

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