by Dave Johnson | Apr 25, 2012 | Blog, Economy
I'm in Michigan to cover the GE shareholder meeting tomorrow. I grew up in Michigan and have to say that Mitt Romney was exactly right that the trees here really are the right size. The look of the houses, the layout of the roads, the birds, everything feels right. Of...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 23, 2012 | Blog
"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time." This quote shows how far the Republican Party has drifted... (Hint: the quote is attributed to the party's founder. The...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 22, 2012 | Blog
In Sunday's NY Times Tom Friedman fights hard to keep his ranking at the top of blogger honor lists. Friedman's op-ed Down With Everything is a masterpiece of false equivalence. In it, Friedman identifies various problems with our political system while he obscures...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 20, 2012 | Blog
Are we "going the way of Greece?" Should we cut spending to head off a "debt crisis" here? Conservatives in Europe and America say cutting back on what democracies do for their citizens is the solution to our economic troubles because it will bring economic growth...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 20, 2012 | Blog
I should start giving a false equivalence award. Today I have for you a glaring example. In a column about how Romney lies, a DC-elitist pundit tells you that Obama lies, too. False equivalence is when reporters and pundits in the "mainstream" news media feel they...
