"I know what it's like to worry whether you're gonna get fired," Romney explained to a crowd of several hundred people in Rochester. "There were a couple of times I wondered whether I was going to get a pink slip.'' This coming from son of an ex-governor and auto industry executive!!  Romney suffers from amnesia.

With regard to Paul's cheap shot, calling Newt a draft dodger, Vietnam was a long time ago. Paul should know that Carter exonerated them. Let it go. You don't hear anybody lambasting Muhammad Ali anymore. Vietnam was a long time ago. Paul should know that Carter exonerated them. Let it go.  

Though I'm surely no friend of the former Speaker, Paul's cheap shot at Newt's lack of service is totally outdated and irrelevant. His rancor is consistent with the Paul image as a cantankerous old man--and i should know!

Though we think of the Republican Party consisting of white voters we forget that 45% of color votes the hard right line as well—mystifying. Of course, Miami and other key cities have a lot to do with it, since most of the ostensible "color" vote is Latino.

"Hourly earnings rose a modest four cents, indicating that most of the jobs being created are low paying."  Ouch--Four cents an hour rules out even Mac's coffee!

"15000 jobs gained" A drop in the bucket. As usual economic stats are muddled and unreliabe. Significant growth in jobs won't happen until Congress gets it's act together .    

Black People Alert: "paychecks, not food stamps" Newt is back shooting from the hip.

De-schooling, schools without walls, alternative schools, freedom and open schools—are all predicated on the premise that traditional or prevailing schools are oppressive. Somehow out of, and in spite of, this oppression, democratic esprit presses for change and enlightenment. There is a subtle contradiction here. History notes that oppression succeeds by suppressing the conscious level of subjects by the ruling class and delimited for the expediency of industry, but as the co...

 "The lion's share of the undermining comes in the form of the Blue Dogging that I should have anticipated. Sen. Robert Casey (D-Pa.) is wary of "big pieces of legislation." Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) does what she does best: shielding her ultra-profitable oil industry donors from sacrifice. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Rep. Heath Shuler (D-N.C.) beat the drum for austerity." [Huff] How often have I said that the true obstructionists are not those desensitized members of the Tea...

  "The Census Bureau reported that there are now 46.2 million Americans living below the official poverty line—the highest number in the 52 years since that statistic was first measured—and median household income has fallen back to the 1996 level." [NY Times]   Yeah, I know most of us mainstreamers are fortunate to have jobs or pensions, some even get help from WWII or baby boomer  parents, yet the glaring fact remains that there are far too many people hur...

I don’t have a problem with atheists — each to his own comfort level — nonetheless, it is ridiculous for one of that inclination to get rattled to the extent that others of belief are denied their comfort. Atheism by definition is free from religion. Theists are free to believe as they see fit; atheists should look upon these  " misguided" as pathetic but have the right to the "wrong" path. If, however, atheist take on the passion of "religion" in their b...

Granted the special NY election result [Weiner’s seat] was partly to rebuke Obama, but in a heavily Jewish district, the publicized fact that the contestant Democrat and Jew David Weprin voted in favor of New York’s passage of gay marriage, not to mention that Weprin wasn’t monolithically pro-Israel. Of course, the ugliest skeleton in the closet was Weiner himself. The election, therefore, shows that it’s not just the right that goes crazy over socio-ethnic-ethic issues. ...

Once upon a Time the rich got richer and the poor got less poor because of enhanced productivity and its distribution. It was known as sharing in the efforts of capital and labor, NOT redistribution of wealth that today implies the Robin Hood system.  Granted, this country is still well off when contrasted with the emerging nations, but we have different  standards and the current wealth gap makes the  perception virtually amorally embarrassing—if not immoral—when j...

Sunnunu—the acorn doesn’t fall far from the oak—using the same old arguments handed down to him. It’s as though Time planted this " … on the dole" [FOX balance?] to counteract Foroohar’s Keynesian memos. Coming from tax dodging New Hampshire, Sunnunu naturally thinks everyone is on the take. And as Foroohar points out it is exactly states like his that aggravate the national deficits by shortchanging its average citizens through phony accounting.His l...

Unless the Dems acknowledge that what’s a deficit that an income tax hike of ¼% on the poor, ½-1% on the middle class and 2¾- 4½% on the wealthy wouldn’t cure? There should be no floor, "earned income" credit: if you make a buck be prepared to hand over a percentage, however meager it still helps the deficit. Yet, there’s little chance  Obama and the left of blue dogs will hammer it home for the good of the nation."