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The Romney campaign has decided they aren't moving the needle far enough and fast enough with economic issues, plus they can't overcome the fact that people just don't like Mitt Romney, so it's time to pull out the old Republican tried and true--the president is near."Having survived a summer of attacks but still trailing the president narrowly in most national polls, Mr. Romney's campaign remains focused intently on the economy as the issue that can...

Mitt Romney's latest ad isn't dishonest. It isn't a distortion of the truth. It isn't misleading. It's a lie. It's a dirty, shameless, bald-faced, race-baiting lie. And Mitt Romney is a dirty, shameless, bald-faced, race-baiting liar. Period. No need to go into refuting what Romney and his team of scumbags said in the ad. It's just a continuation of Reagan's "welfare queen" and Gingrich's "food stamp president" meme. Steve Benen put it like this:"I'd be...

Marcy Wheeler at emptywheel and David Dayen at FDL have a couple of important posts that shouldn't be overlooked as we enjoy the Fourth of July holiday today. Both deal with the Republican governors who have either already said they won't participate in the expansion of Medicaid included in the ACA, or those who haven't said their states are definitely out but are likely to join the opt out crowd, like Rick Perry. Their argument...

Let's take a look at the Florida "Stand Your Ground" law and put the shoe on the other foot, or in the Trayvon Martin case, the gun in the other hand. The law reads: "A person who is not engaged in an unlawful activity and who is attacked in any other place where he or she has a right to be has no duty to retreat and has the right to stand his or her...

Has the grace period on not speaking ill of the dead expired yet? I hope so. Andrew Breitbart was a lying, slandering, race-baiting, hatemongering, dirtbag. Not to leave out the living, his legacy lives on and his work unfortunately continues thanks to the two gutter snipes who took over upon Breitbart's death at that open sewer they call a web site.Read the headlines and the articles at Breitbart.com and their fellow smear merchants around the...

On this, the anniversary of MLK's "I have a dream" speech, I would like to suggest that we take a moment to reflect on what we have accomplished since 1963, and the work that we still need to do. We are still not at the point where "content of character" means more than anything else, so I would say we still have much to strive for.I would also like to talk about a dream of...

Anthony Graves has some nerve. How dare he prove his innocence and make the so-called law enforcement officials of the great state of Texas look like the racists fools they are for keeping an innocent man in prison for 18 years, and on death row for 12 of those 18. He should have just kept his mouth shut and gone to the execution chamber for a crime he didn't commit. But he didn't, and now...

There is a fight taking place about who should be the next Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives.The incumbent Speaker, Republican Joe Straus, was elected two years ago with the help of Democrats in the House.With Republicans gaining many seats in this month's election, some Republicans are calling for someone they feel would a more conservative Speaker to take the office from Mr. Straus.Speaker Straus is Jewish.Not surprisingly given the people involved in this...

Former CNN news personality Rick Sanchez has been fired for saying that Jewish people run the media and that Jews are not a minority because they are successful in our society.That's right---Jews are doing really well in America and the world. At least those Jews are doing well who have not been exterminated. And, of course, we have just your normal every day Jewish folks who go about their daily lives and are not rich.But other...

I have taught a lot of workshops over the years, and one of the components that I cover when I deliver a workshop on change management is something called the "Emotional Contagion Theory."In the March 2005 issue of The Journal of Applied Psychology, Richard Saavedra and Thomas Sy at California State University at Long Beach examined the effects of a leader's mood on a group. They took 189 volunteer undergraduates, divided them into 63 groups of...