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Monday, April 30, 2012
Sinking Economy
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Obama Defends Attack On Romney: ‘I Assumed’ He Meant It When He Said He Wouldn’t Get Bin Laden
Mitt Romney and his allies have been attacking President Obama for his campaign’s recent video ad, highlighting both his decision to order the raid that killed Osama bin Laden and Romney’s statement in 2007 that he would not have taken similar action given the chance. Romney now says he would have done the same as [...]
Source: http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/04/30/473934/obama-romney-bin-laden/
Biden fundraises in Missouri and Indiana
Washington (CNN) – Vice President Joe Biden heads to Missouri and Indiana Monday to raise campaign cash. The vice president will be the center of attention at fundraisers in Kansas City, Missouri and Munster, Indiana. The Kansas City fundraiser will be a luncheon at a private residence, with ticket prices starting at $5,000 and the [...]
Source: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/04/30/biden-fundraises-in-missouri-and-indiana/
‘World News’ Political Insights: VP Contenders Help Romney Fill Cool Gap
Analysis Who needs to be cool when all your friends are? Welcome to the tryout stage of the veepstakes race. Monday brings Mitt Romney to New Hampshire — alongside Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., who follows the close-to-Romney footsteps of other vice presidential contenders Sen. Marco...
Rejoice Obama Fanboys!
"I promise you, the president has a big stick. I promise you," Biden said as the crowd laughed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vMRYuq4-PqI
Though phrased differently, I've heard this claim before. Now we know from one...
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Though phrased differently, I've heard this claim before. Now we know from one...
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Sunday, April 29, 2012
Krugman Debunks Claim That Businesses Pay ‘The Single Highest Tax Rate In The World’
Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman hit back against the GOP’s claim that American businesses pay the highest corporate taxes in the world during an appearance on ABC’s This Week Sunday morning, lashing out at Mitt Romney’s California campaign co-chair and former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina. Fiorina — who unsuccessfully challenged Sen. Barbara Boxer’s [...]
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Enthusiasm
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What The Secret Service Could Learn From Drunken Sailors
A look at the scandal from a rather unique point of view.
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Myanmar Running Blind; In China The Blind Run
These are heady days in Myanmar. For decades an international pariah dependent on the largesse of China, Myanmar’s recent decision to pull away from Beijing’s embrace and begin a tentative democratization process has been lauded by the global community, both … Continue reading
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Saturday, April 28, 2012
Fox News Florida poll: Obama 45, Romney 43; Rubio not a factor
Keep Florida in the toss-up column, according to a Fox News poll of Sunshine State voters that shows President Obama holdsing a within-the-margin-of-error lead over Mitt Romney. Obama holds a 45-to-43 percent lead in the poll of 757 registered voters, which was conducted Sunday through Tuesday and has a 4 percent margin of error. The [...]
Source: http://www.postonpolitics.com/2012/04/fox-news-florida-poll-obama-45-romney-43-rubio-not-a-factor/
Nine Dragons Stirring Up The Sea
Much attention has been focused on China’s confrontational actions and attitudes in the South China Sea. Less attention is given to the internal political dynamics that shape these actions and attitudes. A report released this week by the International Crisis … Continue reading
Source: http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2012/04/28/nine-dragons-stirring-up-the-sea/
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Mitt Romney Offers Advice on Parental Loans, Majoring in English, and Sticking to the Facts
WESTERVILLE, Ohio – Mitt Romney warned an auditorium of college students and faculty not to believe everything they hear during the upcoming election cycle, saying that sometimes what politicians say is “not a perfect example of what they’re going to do.” In his second trip...
Source: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/04/dont-believe-everything-you-hear-romney-tells-students/
Scott signs Penn State scandal-inspired bill into law
Gov. Rick Scott signed into law four measures – including a proposal inspired by the Penn State child molestation scandal – today after being blasted by victim advocates for vetoing $1.5 million for rape crisis centers around the state earlier this month. At the top of the list of the bills Scott signed today is [...]
Source: http://www.postonpolitics.com/2012/04/scott-signs-penn-state-scandal-inspired-bill-into-law/
Team Romney: We're off with 'a bang'
(CNN) – Mitt Romney campaign manager Matt Rhoades on Friday issued his first memo analyzing the state of the race for the White House now that Romney is the presumptive nominee, in which he took aim at President Barack Obama's handling of the economy. Fresh off the news the economy grew at a slower-than-expected rate [...]
Source: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/04/27/team-romney-were-off-with-a-bang/
Friday, April 27, 2012
Mass. Senate Race: Scott Brown And Elizabeth Warren Release Their Tax Returns
After a week of back and forth, Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown and his Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren released six years and four years of their tax returns today, respectively. The documents show both Senate candidates as being particularly comfortable financially. In 2011, Scott Brown and wife...
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Team Romney: We're off with 'a bang'
(CNN) – Mitt Romney campaign manager Matt Rhoades on Friday issued his first memo analyzing the state of the race for the White House now that Romney is the presumptive nominee, in which he took aim at President Barack Obama's handling of the economy. Fresh off the news the economy grew at a slower-than-expected rate [...]
Source: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/04/27/team-romney-were-off-with-a-bang/
The Trend of Vanishing Centrist Lawmakers Continues
The current trend of American politics falling into most left/right, conservative/liberal with a weakened center continues: Next year’s Congress might be the most polarized yet thanks to the loss of centrist lawmakers — a trend emphasized in Tuesday’s Pennsylvania primaries. “The middle is getting squeezed,” ex-Rep. Tom Davis (Va.), a former head of the National [...]
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UPDATE: Gov. Scott’s state worker drug testing unconstitutional, federal judge rules
UPDATE: Gov. Rick Scott said he will appeal a federal judge’s ruling that random, suspicionless drug testing of state workers is unconstitutional. “As I have repeatedly explained, I believe that drug testing state employees is a common sense means of ensuring a safe, efficient and productive workforce. That is why so many private employers drug [...]
Funniest Comment of the Month
My friend Steve Disbrow says “Ahhh! Just got a robo-call from Mitt Romney!” Kristine Kinsey says, “How could you tell it wasn’t really him?” (This item cross-posted to Dean’s World.)
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Poll: 83 Percent Of Americans Support Medicare Reform
Eighty-three percent of Americans believe Medicare must be reformed in order to keep the program affordable and sustainable and 51 percent say a “great deal of change” is required, a new Harris Poll finds. A majority are reluctant to fund the necessary changes out-of-pocket, but do support changing the way providers are reimbursed for care [...]
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Mack faces tough questions on LeMieux’s home turf
FORT LAUDERDALE — U.S. Rep. Connie Mack faced some tough questions tonight when he ventured onto GOP Senate primary rival George LeMieux‘s home turf and appeared before the Broward County Republican Executive Committee that LeMieux once chaired. The crowd of more than 200 was polite but not particularly fired up as Mack, the frontrunner in [...]
Source: http://www.postonpolitics.com/2012/04/mack-faces-tough-questions-on-lemieuxs-home-turf/
North American Shale Gas Gives Russia Serious Headache
North America’s shale gas boom is chipping away at the market for gas producers like Russia. What’s more, if the United States becomes a gas exporter, Russia’s customers (especially in Europe) could decide to cancel expensive contracts with Gazprom in … Continue reading
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Cameron’s missed opportunity to create Green jobs and lower energy bills
Despite pledging to lead the ‘greenest Government ever’, David Cameron apparently deems environmental issues so unimportant that he’s failed to make a single major speech on them during his entire time in office.
Until Tuesday, he was poised to change that - environmental activists, NGOs and politicians were waiting our the PM's keynote speech at this week’s Clean Energy Ministerial, in front 23 leading economies. But even that was called off.
Until Tuesday, he was poised to change that - environmental activists, NGOs and politicians were waiting our the PM's keynote speech at this week’s Clean Energy Ministerial, in front 23 leading economies. But even that was called off.
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The After Effects of SB1070 on Illegal Immigration
200,000 illegal immigrants have exited Arizona since 2008. I've no idea where they moved to, but the law seems to have accomplished its desired effects. I'm curious ... but no info on demand for state services being reduced. Also I was unable to...
Source: http://www.uspoliticsonline.com/immigration/72351-after-effects-sb1070-illegal-immigration.html
Ann Romney Says She Had a Health ‘Scare’ Before Super Tuesday
Ann Romney revealed for the first time she had a health “scare” during the days leading up to the Super Tuesday primary contests, indicating that her battle with multiple sclerosis could limit the time she spends on the trail with her husband. “There have been...
Afternoon Open Thread
hat tip-The Obama Diary: President Obama strikes the Heisman pose after he awarded the Commander-in-Chief Trophy to the Air Force Academy football team, April 23 President Obama Presents the Commander-in-Chief Trophy Good Afternoon. As you go through the rest of your day, don’t forget JJP. Drop those links. Engage in debate. Give us trivia and [...]
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Frankel, Murphy are top national fundraisers among Dem House challengers
Former West Palm Beach mayor Lois Frankel and accountant Patrick Murphy, Democrats running in neighboring Palm Beach County congressional districts, have raised more money from outside contributors than any other non-incumbent Democrats in 2012, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee says. Frankel raised $1.845 million through March 31 for her Palm Beach-Broward District 22 race while [...]
Obama fundraiser to pull in $900K
(CNN) – President Barack Obama will only have to travel four blocks to his campaign fundraiser in Washington Wednesday, but the event will boost his reelection bid's coffers by nearly $900,000. A campaign aide said the evening event, held at the Jefferson Hotel, would be attended by 25 supporters paying $35,800 per ticket. That's the [...]
Source: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/04/25/obama-fundraiser-to-pull-in-900k/
Poll: Dead heat in Arizona
(CNN) – Is Arizona truly a battleground state? The jury's still out, but a second straight survey this week does indicate that it's all knotted up between President Barack Obama and presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney in Arizona. – Follow the Ticker on Twitter: @PoliticalTicker According to a Rocky Mountain Poll released Wednesday, 42% [...]
Source: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/04/25/poll-dead-heat-in-arizona/
Afternoon Open Thread
Some videos for you. Rachel Maddow discusses the problems for the GOP in swing states, because of their GOP Governors. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Lawrence O’Donnell on recent polling. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Two Charts that back up Lawrence. [...]
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Voting: 2012′s Game Changer
I’m Marvin Randolph – a community organizer, activist and campaign manager by trade. As Senior Vice President for Campaigns at the NAACP, it is my role to advance the NAACP’s issue priorities in education, health, climate justice, economic justice and voting rights. I’m absolutely thrilled to represent the NAACP, and equally as thrilled to be able [...]
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Tuesday, April 24, 2012
My Superbowl Party Is Finally Complete
A little late for this year but I have until 2013 to beat it.
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Do 63% of girls really want to be glamour models? No.
Zombie stats are numerical factoids that just won’t quit, however dead they get.
63% of young women would rather be glamour models than nurses, doctors or teachers
What an indictment of the grotesque aspirations we feed our girl children this one is: raised in a culture that prizes fame, individualism and female sexual availability above all else, nearly two thirds of young women would rather get their norks out for the lad mags than do a job which actually helps people.
Source: http://liberalconspiracy.org/2012/04/23/do-63-of-girls-really-want-to-be-glamour-models-no/
Bradley Manning Wikileaks: Court to Weigh Dismissal
Alleged Wikileaker Army PFC Bradley Manning is back in a Ft. Meade, Md., courtroom today for the third time this year, where a judge is expected to decide whether to dismiss charges against him. Manning is accused of leaking hundreds of thousands of top-secret documents...
Source: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/04/bradley-manning-wikileaks-court-to-weigh-dismissal/
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Do 63% of girls really want to be glamour models? No.
Zombie stats are numerical factoids that just won’t quit, however dead they get.
63% of young women would rather be glamour models than nurses, doctors or teachers
What an indictment of the grotesque aspirations we feed our girl children this one is: raised in a culture that prizes fame, individualism and female sexual availability above all else, nearly two thirds of young women would rather get their norks out for the lad mags than do a job which actually helps people.
Source: http://liberalconspiracy.org/2012/04/23/do-63-of-girls-really-want-to-be-glamour-models-no/
Monday, April 23, 2012
Dumping Senate bid for House race perked up Hasner’s fundraising
After slumping during the final four months of his Republican U.S. Senate bid, former state House Majority Leader and Boca Raton resident Adam Hasner‘s fundraising improved when he quit the Senate race to run for a Palm Beach-Broward U.S. House seat. Hasner raised only $13,432 in January while he was still in a GOP Senate [...]
On this earth day let us remember one person who first made it
Earth Day founder murdered his girlfriend - National Conservative Politics | Examiner.com (http://www.examiner.com/article/earth-day-founder-murdered-his-girlfriend)
Do you great lovers of this holiday remeber Ira Einhorn and what sort of man he...
Do you great lovers of this holiday remeber Ira Einhorn and what sort of man he...
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US Oil Production under the Obama Admin a non-issue for the Election
I don't see how the GOP will be able to get traction against Obama for being 'anti-oil' when US Oil Production has gone up more under him than any president in the last 20 years. Yes, they'll love to talk about how he froze deep oil drilling and...
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How to Beat Citizens United
WASHINGTON — We are about to have the worst presidential campaign money can buy. The Supreme Court’s dreadful Citizens United decision and a somnolent Federal Election Commission will allow hundreds of millions of dollars from a small number of very wealthy people and interests to inundate our airwaves with often vicious advertisements for which no [...]
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Two Looks At One Event
In Utah this week the GOP nominated the daughter of Haitian immigrants for Congress Here is how National Review covered it. Here is how they took it at Daily Kos Now I would hardly expect DK to say much positive about any Republican, or indeed anyone to the right of Bernie Sanders, but some of [...]
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Sunday, April 22, 2012
Jeff Atwater decides against GOP Senate run
Florida Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater has decided not to enter the Republican primary for U.S. Senate after briefly considering a late bid. “As much as Carole and I are humbled by your calls, notes and messages to enter the US Senate race and carry our banner into the fight we believe we have a [...]
Source: http://www.postonpolitics.com/2012/04/jeff-atwater-decides-against-gop-senate-run/
Secret Service
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Florida looses money drug testing welfare recipients
Just as We Suspected: Florida Saved Nothing by Drug Testing Welfare Applicants (http://www.aclu.org/blog/criminal-law-reform-racial-justice/just-we-suspected-florida-saved-nothing-drug-testing-welfare)
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Romney and Rubio To Campaign Together For First Time Next Week
From Emily Friedman and Arlette Saenz: Florida Sen. Marco Rubio will campaign with Mitt Romney on Monday for the first time this election, ABC News has learned. Romney and Rubio will hold an event in Delaware County, Pennsylvania on Monday, outside Philadelphia. Rubio endorsed Romney...
Romney hopes to top Obama fundraising total at Naples, Palm Beach events Sunday
Five days after President Obama collected an estimated $2 million in campaign cash at a series of South Florida events, Republican presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney hopes to exceed that number on Sunday when he attends fundraisers in Naples and Palm Beach. The $50,000-a-head Palm Beach event will be at the home of Gerald and Darlene [...]
Saturday, April 21, 2012
Wednesday Open Thread
hat tip-Zander Versus the Stupid: From The BBC.com: Can a hallucinogen from Africa cure addiction?By Stephanie Hegarty BBC World Service Since the 1960s a disparate group of scientists and former drug addicts have been advocating a radical treatment for addiction – a hallucinogen called ibogaine, derived from an African plant, that in some cases seems [...]
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Obama camp launches Latino push by calling Romney ‘extreme’ on immigration
As President Obama‘s campaign launched a Spanish-language TV ad blitz in Florida and other swing states with large Hispanic populations, Obama campaign manager Jim Messina and San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro painted presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney as “extreme” on immigration. Republicans, who launched their own Latino outreach program this week, countered by blaming Obama [...]
‘Parks and Recreation’ Open Thread: Dog Murder
This post contains spoilers through the April 19 episode of Parks and Recreation. I thought this was not the strongest episode of Parks and Recreation, which laid out good themes this season but has been somewhat stagnant about pursuing them. But it is does feature perhaps the single best instance of synchronicity between television programming [...]
Source: http://thinkprogress.org/alyssa/2012/04/20/468047/parks-and-recreation-open-thread-dog-murder/
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Older Drivers: Should They Be Tested? (Guest Voice)
Older Drivers: Should They Be Tested? Tyrades! By Danny Tyree Some call it profiling. Some call it discrimination. Some call it stereotyping. Some call it “Grandma, you can’t keep ripping off my metropolitan phonebook in order to see over the steering wheel!” Whatever one’s gut reaction to the issue of older drivers, the aging of [...]
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Sen. Bill Nelson underwhelms voters but has double-digit lead in Dem poll
After more than 11 years in the Senate and decades on the Florida political scene, Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson has a 36 percent approval rating, a 32 percent disapproval score and an “unusually low profile for a sitting two-term Senator,” a Democratic polling firm says. But Public Policy Polling says it’s still good enough [...]
New federal agency OFR stirs 'Orwellian' fears
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/04/19/new-federal-agency-ofr-stirs-orwellian-fears/
Can someone with more financial experience explain this better ? This sounds like a very big fuck up by Obama and I do not understand how this agency can...
Can someone with more financial experience explain this better ? This sounds like a very big fuck up by Obama and I do not understand how this agency can...
Source: http://www.uspoliticsonline.com/capitol-hill/72294-new-federal-agency-ofr-stirs-orwellian-fears.html
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Friday, April 20, 2012
Swedish Cake: A Second Look
So…I wasn’t exactly pumped upon seeing the that female genital mutilation cake in a Swedish gallery exhibit. After a bit more thought, my saltiness is a bit more nuanced methinks. Some thoughts on Ebony.com: Upon first sight, I reacted quickly and angrily, dashing off an open letter to the Swedish culture ministry, wondering who thought [...]
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Florida Senate offers 100-page defense of its redistricting plan
A week before the Florida Supreme Court hears new arguments in the state’s redistricting case, the Florida Senate submitted Friday a 100-page defense of its plan for redrawing its 40 district boundaries. The new map is the Legislature’s second and final chance to complete a plan that meets constitutional standards, after a first attempt was ruled invalid [...]
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Bank workers taking time off in the middle of the day to do ... what?
Should this man be fired or applauded? Clearly he's not working in the middle of the workday if he has time for these kind of shenanigans. ;)
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Our Military Medical Personnel: Dedication and Courage
The courage, dedication, selflessness and, yes, heroism of combat medics are legendary — the stuff that books are written about, movies made of … The review of just one such book, “Medic: Saving Lives – From Dunkirk to Afghanistan,” perhaps says it best: Their job is to put themselves in the heart of danger – [...]
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George Osborne’s corporation tax cut has utterly failed
In last month's budget George Osborne made a 2% cut in the large company corporation tax rate, introduced for this current financial year. Perhaps of all the budget measures this though was the most unnecessary and economically incompetent.
Source: http://liberalconspiracy.org/2012/04/16/george-osbornes-corporation-tax-cut-has-utterly-failed/
Thursday, April 19, 2012
TRENDING: Damon: I'd kiss Bush
(CNN) - Matt Damon put a time cap and stipulation on how he would kiss former President George W. Bush: "Three seconds, no tongue" … All in the name of AIDS Relief. "I would kiss George W. Bush on the mouth for what he did on PEPFAR," Damon told The Atlantic. – Follow the Ticker [...]
Source: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/04/19/damon-id-kiss-bush/
Longtime GOP senator faces major test
(CNN) - Two years after Republican Sen. Bob Bennett of Utah was defeated in his bid for renomination at the GOP's state convention, Sen. Orrin Hatch faces the same test. But a new statewide poll of Republicans indicates the outcome from Saturday's Utah GOP state party convention could be very different from April 2010, when [...]
Source: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/04/19/longtime-gop-senator-faces-major-test-saturday/
Partying Federal Workers
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House Republican calls for Secret Service director resignation
Washington (CNN) - Virginia GOP Rep. Randy Forbes on Wednesday became the first member of Congress to call for U.S. Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan to step down due to a prostitution scandal involving eleven agents that has raised questions about security at the agency. "There are only so many strikes you get - in [...]
President Obama’s Weekly Address
President Obama urges Congress pass Buffett Rule Stressing fairness and the need to grow the economy by prioritizing investments, President Obama used this week’s address to urge that Congress pass the Buffett Rule. Congress is set to vote on it this week. The President describes the Buffett Rule as follows: “It’s simple: If you make [...]
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The Paradox of Mobility in America (Guest Voice)
The Paradox of Mobility in America by Tina Dupuy We’re a species that has gotten around; we’ve wandered, pioneered and migrated to every corner of the world. The spear tip of technology is how we can get somewhere else: the wheel, the sailboat, the rocket. In short: we’re movers. We are now as mobile as [...]
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Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Romney Says Even if You Like Obama, You Can’t Afford Him
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Mitt Romney appeared today to acknowledge a recent poll that found President Obama more likeable by warning a crowd in North Carolina that “even if we like” the president, Americans “can’t afford” his policies. Romney’s nod to the issue of likeability came...
Source: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/04/romney-says-even-if-you-like-obama-you-cant-afford-him/
The Obama Administration Is Trying To Have It Both Ways on Bank Bailouts (Guest Voice)
The Obama Administration Is Trying To Have It Both Ways on Bank Bailouts by Kathleen McKinley When the Obama administration is not even fooling the most liberal of magazines, you know they have a problem: The Obama administration wants Americans to realize what a good job they and the Bush administration did saving the economy [...]
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Romney chimes in on Secret Service, GSA
(CNN) - Mitt Romney on Wednesday weighed in on two scandals dogging the Obama administration, saying if he were president he would "clean house" and replace certain personnel with those who put "interests of the nation ahead of personal play time." Asked about the recent U.S. Secret Service controversy as well as the General Services [...]
Source: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/04/18/romney-chimes-in-on-secret-service-gsa/
TaxWatch bags almost $150 million in legislative ‘turkeys’
Gov. Rick Scott was urged Friday to veto $149.6 million in hometown projects and other suspect spending in the state’s proposed $70 billion budget, including millions tucked in by legislative leaders. Florida TaxWatch released its annual “turkey watch” as a prelude to Scott’s planned budget signing next week. Last year, Scott vetoed a record $615 million [...]
Source: http://www.postonpolitics.com/2012/04/taxwatch-bags-almost-150-million-in-legisative-turkeys/
Good Old Days of the Secret Service
Amid a furor about misbehaving morons in Colombia, a citizen who once worked closely with them is moved to share his fondness for those who protect Presidents and their families, including the time they almost shot me in a restaurant that serves drinks with tiny umbrellas on top. In 1966, with her father in the [...]
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Econ 101: April 18, 2012
Welcome to ThinkProgress Economy’s morning link roundup. This is what we’re reading. Have you seen any interesting news? Let us know in the comments section. You can also follow ThinkProgress Economy on Twitter. President Obama has threatened to veto a tax cut bill that House Republicans plan to vote on this week. [The Hill] Citigroup’s [...]
Source: http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/04/18/466372/econ-041812/
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Historical Polling Trends and Barack Obama
Historical polling trends suggest that President Barack Obama is in trouble. No wonder Mitt Romney is already offering donors access to an an “inaugural retreat” — and predictions increase that this will be one nasty, negative campaign.
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Mayor Alec Baldwin?
(CNN) – Actor and political activist Alec Baldwin would "love" to run for mayor of New York, but has yet to decide if he will jump into the 2013 race. "I don't know if I will be able to put together a campaign to run for that job. I would love to run for that [...]
Source: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/04/17/mayor-alec-baldwin-2/
2012 Pulitzer Prize Winners
The New York Times, my favorite newspaper, has won two 2012 Pulitzer Prizes, one for its reporting on Africa (INTERNATIONAL REPORTING: Jeffrey Gettleman) and another for an investigative series on obscure tax code provisions that allow wealthy corporations and citizens to avoid paying taxes, (EXPLANATORY REPORTING: David Kocieniewski). I was also pleased that The Huffington [...]
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Gisele Bündchen Giuliana DePandi Giulianna Ramirez Grace Park
All you can eat Buffett
Not many political fads to emanate from the US deserve to make an Atlantic crossing. But the principle of a so-called Buffett rule is something that the left this side of the pond should at least be talking about. First enunciated in an op-ed piece in the New York Times last year, written by or [...]
Source: http://liberalconspiracy.org/2012/04/12/all-you-eat-buffett/
Scott barnstorms schools touting $1 billion boost that will go fast
As a prelude to signing the state budget, possibly later this week, Gov. Rick Scott spent Monday barnstorming the state — visiting three schools to tout a proposed $1 billion boost in classroom spending. “I look forward to signing the final budget that will invest $1 billion in new state funding for our K-12 students [...]
FSU Cowgirls Gabrielle Union Garcelle Beauvais Genelle Frenoy
The Lawn Jockey is in Serious Need of Medication
Hi, Jack and Jill Readers. It’s me, CPL, with a brief timeout from hustling to make a living, and one of those hustles is raising money for the POTUS re-election. I work weird hours, and this is the first time I’ve had time to post something at JJP. Too bad, it’s a [...]
Source: http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2012/04/the-lawn-jockey-is-in-serious-need-of-medication/
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