Posted by nathan on September 11, 2012. One comment.

Yesterday, Paul Ryan, on the campaign trail, weighed in on the Chicago teachers union strike by declaring his support for “bipartisan education reform” (9/10/2012): “We stand with the children and we stand with the families and the parents of Chicago because education reform, that’s a bipartisan issue,” Ryan continued… “We will stand with education reform, we [...]

Posted by nathan on September 11, 2012. One comment.

With the political conventions finished and a little over 50 days until voter’s cast their ballots on November 6th, the focus on the campaign trail is now on how Barack Obama and Mitt Romney will perform against one another at the presidential debates. Here’s a handy television schedule of when the 2012 Presidential debates will take [...]

Posted by nathan on September 9, 2012. 2 comments.

A Rasmussen Presidential tracking poll released today confirms what has been widely suspected since friday: President Obama gained a significant “bump” in his polling numbers from the Democratic National Convention this past week. The latest Rasmussen poll puts Obama at 49% over Mitt Romney’s 45%, while the Gallup poll from Friday had Obama with a 49% [...]

Posted by nathan on August 30, 2012. 2 comments.

During his speech last night to delegates at the Republican National Convention, Paul Ryan made some astoundingly misleading and fraudulent claims about President Barack Obama’s previous 4 years in office. So misleading and deceitful was his speech that the Associated Press released a fact check article this morning titled, ”Ryan takes factual shortcuts in speech,” that calls out [...]

Posted by nathan on August 29, 2012. No comments.

The Republican National Convention has decided to use the slogan “We Built It” as a major convention theme intended to attack President Obama for remarks he made in July that have been wildly taken out of context. In the following excerpt from Obama’s speech, in which he stresses the importance of taxpayer funded infrastructure and the unselfish [...]

Posted by nathan on August 27, 2012. No comments.

Former President George W. Bush won’t be attending this year’s Republican National Convention in Tampa Bay, but the specter of him will certainly be attending the 24-hour news coverage of Hurricane Isaac. Hurricane Isaac is now projected to make landfall along the Gulf Coast this Wednesday, August 29th, and if that date sounds familiar that’s because it’s the [...]

Posted by nathan on August 24, 2012. 2 comments.

A major theme that has emerged during Mitt Romney‘s presidential campaign has been his refusal to face the press and answers questions. This was most evident during his overseas trip to Europe and Israel at the beginning of this month when he brought along an entire press pool who were essentially denied any access to [...]

Posted by nathan on August 23, 2012. One comment.

Politico is running a news article today titled, “TV stations love super PACs,” which examines the price differential between a candidate’s ad buy and a Super PACs. The article notes that: Stations have to provide discounted rates to qualifying candidates running for all public offices. But they don’t have to give those same breaks to the [...]

Posted by nathan on January 28, 2012. No comments.

Hoo! Hoo hoo! Hey everybody vote for Newt! N to the E to the WT Newt Gingrich taking over these streets, Is you ready for it yet? I don’t think so, where you at? Obama about to step out the White House, Gingrich gonna get in the White House He gon’ have his wife, his [...]

Posted by nathan on January 25, 2012. No comments.

It was with much fanfare and anticipation that Mitt Romney released his federal tax records for 2010 and 2011 yesterday morning. To keep it brief, Romney made $21.7 million in 2010 and paid 13.9 percent ($3 million) of that to the federal government. It hardly has to be mentioned that a rate of 13.9 percent is far below [...]