by Terrance Heath | Aug 31, 2012 | Blog
Rick Santorum finally had his moment on the RNC convention stage, all b. The man who barely endorsed Mitt Romney barely mentioned the Republican nominee in his keynote address. (Indeed, of the three prime time speakers Tuesday night — Santorum, Chris Christie, and Ann...
by Richard Eskow | Aug 31, 2012 | Blog
When we turned on the TV to watch the Republican Convention this evening we saw what appeared to be a hyperactive GOP advance man gesticulating from the stage. But he wasn't barking out canvassing instructions to local ward heelers or scouting Holiday Inns to find the...
by Terrance Heath | Aug 22, 2012 | Blog
She's baaaaa-aaaack! The Romney/Ryan campaign has resurrected Reagan's "Welfare Queen." It would be laughable, if they weren't serious, if the stakes weren't so high, and if there weren't so likely to get away with it. "There's a woman in Chicago," Ronald Reagan told...
by Terrance Heath | Aug 17, 2012 | Blog
As I've noted before, we have a saying in the south that often applies to national politics: "A hit dog will holler": A hit dog will holler: when a group of folks find themselves in a troublesome situation, more often than not, the troublemaker speaks up first to...
by Terrance Heath | Jul 18, 2012 | Blog
Before Andrew Leonard's paean to paying taxes (inspired by his house catching fire) sparked me to write a different post on Friday, I'd intended to write a wrap-up post, comparing Mitt Romney's NAACP speech to Joe Biden's speech. Something Vice President Biden said in...
