Month: March 2012

I thought things would go a lot better for Mitt Romney after an adviser promised an Etch-A-Sketch-ing of previous campaign positions. I expected this because Romney seems, at least on paper, to be the kind of guy mainstream...

Robert McIntyre of Citizens for Tax Justice wins the prize for Most Succinct Summary of House Budget Committee Chairman’s FY 2013 Budget Plan released on Tuesday:  “He’s a phony.  But he’s...

Andrew Romano has pored over polling data and news-clippings from the last 36 years and discovered that favorable/unfavorable numbers are the best predictor of who will win a presidential election. He’s also discovered...

Back in the 1980s, longtime political pundit Michael Kingsley wrote that, “A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth – some obvious truth he isn’t supposed to say.”  That’s what Romney...

(part 3 of 3) The history of energy exploration, mining, and delivery is best understood in a range from benevolent exploitation to worker and public oppression. A company comes into an area, leases land in rural and...