“Under Obama’s plan, you wouldn’t have to work.  They just send you your welfare check.” ~Romney’s latest attack ad  Let me start by saying that Mitt Romney is a pathological liar. This video sounds good if you have no idea what is going on in the real world.  It appeals to deep seated resentment in [...]

Let’s understand what’s happening here … Delhi Charter School is owned by a non-profit.  This school receives $6 million in state and federal taxpayer money.  They receive this taxpayer money and put in place rules that were in clear violation of Federal law.  When they wrote the rules for the school – someone felt it [...]

“We may see the floodgates open for perhaps less nutritious foods.  There’s nothing [in the House bill] that would stop fruit cups with syrup or frozen Tater Tots with sodium. You just don’t get those problems with fresh.” ~Matthew Marsom, a vice president at the Public Health Institute  I often hear conservatives throwing this attack [...]

“The main thing is just to look at the statistics and see that the change is too large to be natural.” ~Dr. James Hansen (NASA) You can find the entire study HERE. I have said it many times … climate change deniers are the modern day flat earth society.  Americans continue to hear this message [...]

Pretty hard hitting ad.  This is what real life looks like. Joe Soptic is a former employee from GST Steel – a steel mill that Bain Capital purchased when Romney was CEO.  Soptic lost his job from GST Steel when it went into Bankruptcy under Mitt Romney.  Bain Capital walked away making at least $12 [...]

“Firstly, we believe [the Iranian business] needs urgent reviewing at the Group level to evaluate if its returns and strategic benefits are … still commensurate with the potential to cause very serious or even catastrophic reputational damage to the Group.  Secondly, there is equally importantly potential of risk of subjecting management in US and London [...]

“The sale of the government’s directory business is “a dark chapter in the country’s privatization history, one that has hurt Italians deeply.  It was a mistake from the start, damaged by a lack of transparency and the use of offshore funds.” ~Bernardo Bortolotti, an economics professor at Turin University Bloomberg writes a blockbuster article explaining [...]

I’m never surprised when “defenders of the faith” attack my blog posts as overdoing hyperbole when I accuse the Pope and his Princes of the Church of living in the Middle Ages – or the Dark Ages, depending on the issue. Kind of heartwarming to see an official order reinstating church politics from the early [...]

“I believe in an America where millions of Americans believe in an America that’s the America millions of Americans believe in. That’s the America I love.” ~Actual Mitt Romney Quote (January 2012) Whether its cutting the deficit, taxes, reducing unemployment, healthcare, financial regulations on Wall Street … nearly everything – Mitt Romney is the guy [...]

“Everybody should be sticking their chests out and saying ‘that’s my rover on Mars.” ~NASA administrator Charles Bolden The only reason we haven’t solved the issue of child poverty in America has nothing to do with means or ability … it is 100% because we simply lack the will to do so.  Period.  And it [...]