Mitt Romney seems to feel that his biography needs refining. He was just a middle-class kid growing up, he says. On the campaign trail, the former Massachusetts governor sometimes talks about his father, George, growing up poor and driving across the American West looking for work. When Mitt was born, the family was middle class, …
Mitt Romney on Thursday visited a factory shuttered when George W. Bush was in the White House, and said its lingering idleness marks a failure of President Barack Obama’s economic policies. Actually, Mitt, since the place made drywall, I’d say it’s the fault of the bursting of the housing bubble. Later in the article we’re …
Well, not really, I suppose. Nevertheless, it’s heartening to see that six Catholic parishes in Washington State have essentially told the Vatican’s Seattle Archbishop that they want nothing to do with collecting signatures to overturn that state’s new marriage-equality law. One of the priests even got a standing ovation from his parishioners for expressing sentiments …
Having an audiogram is good training for Jeopardy. For part of the test you hold a clicker with a thumb button and press it when you hear three repeated beeps at various pitches. There’s more to it (a recorded voice tells you to repeat specified words recited at regular and low decibels), but that’s the …
I could save myself some time and thought if I just posted “Go Read Charlie Pierce” every day. Today he makes a nice catch of something Mitt Romney said the other night at a fund-raiser. Quoting Sara Murray of the WSJ, he writes: He also vowed to stand up to teachers unions and warned that …
Today is Jackie Robinson Day around Major League Baseball. Robinson was the first African-American player to play in the major leagues; he started for the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947, breaking the implicit “color line” in baseball. To honor him, all players, managers and coaches wear his uniform number 42 on this day. So …
F. Paul Wilson’s Repairman Jack thrillers. David Weber’s Honor Harrington military space operas. Mike Shepherd‘s Kris Longknife military space operas. How ’bout you?
Brian Beutler points out that the media once again is missing the point, this time about the Buffet Rule. He reminds us that the intent of the Buffet Rule (millionaires should pay at least as much as middle-class Americans do) was to make it clear that Republicans were so fixated on “no new taxes” that …
The reaction by Republicans to yesterday’s remark by Hilary Rosen that Ann Romney “has actually never worked a day in her life. She’s never really dealt with the kinds of economic issues that a majority of the women in this country are facing” seems to indicate the party is desperate about the gender gap between …
TPM has found several bizarre statements from Republican US House Representatives today. Missouri Rep. Akin: “We don’t have the votes to impeach Obama — yet“ Florida Rep. West: “I believe there are about 78 or 81 members of the Democrat Party that are members of the Communist Party,” I do wonder what planet these people …