http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Thu, 23 May 2013 23:07:16 Thu, 23 May 2013 23:07:16 Source: [b]Think Progress[/b]

[b]Romney, his son Tagg, and Romney’s chief fundraiser, Spencer Zwick, have extensive financial and political ties to three men who allegedly participated in an $8.5 billion Ponzi scheme. A few months after the Ponzi scheme collapsed, a firm financed by Mitt Romney and... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TomCADem/189 Wed, 02 Nov 2011 01:53:05 Source: [b]Business Weel[/b]

U.S. House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan accused President
Barack Obama of attempting to exploit resentment of the wealthy in
promoting his stalled economic agenda, prompting an administration
response that criticized the Wisconsin Republican.

[b]Ryan said t... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TomCADem/190 Wed, 02 Nov 2011 01:42:39 Interesting analysis of President Obama and Democrats proposal to increases taxes on the rich that is embodied as means to pay for President Obama's jobs bill. Of course, Republicans, including Romney, reject consideration of any such taxes.

http://swampland.time.com/2011/10/03/what-mitt-romne... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TomCADem/187 Sun, 30 Oct 2011 15:44:38 Source: [b]LA Times[/b]

[b]The super committee has until Thanksgiving to reach an accord. A deal to reduce the deficit has eluded Congress this year because of a simple stalemate: Republicans refuse new taxes and Democrats will agree to cut federal programs only if new revenues are in the mix.[/b]
... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TomCADem/188 Sun, 30 Oct 2011 15:32:13 Amazing. Fox is arguing that if you are anti-bank, then you are anti-Jew! Isn't Fox's expression of outrage itself anti-semetic?

http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/anti-semitic-sentiments-at-occupy-wall-street-20111024

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[b]Every demonstration has its kooky and sometimes of... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TomCADem/186 Sun, 30 Oct 2011 13:31:04 Fox News and its commentators have been working over time to demonize the 99 percent movement and OWS protestors, so it is nice that the activist community has not been taking the corporate media threats lieing down.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-20125640/anonymous-threatens-fox-over-occup... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TomCADem/185 Sun, 30 Oct 2011 13:27:32 Source: [b]San Francisco Chronicle[/b]

[b]With polls showing that most people support increasing taxes on the wealthiest households, as Obama and Democrats are proposing, the GOP flat-tax plans would largely end up as a boon to the wealthiest, independent analyses suggest.

The tax debate coinci... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TomCADem/183 Sun, 30 Oct 2011 01:03:30 Source: [b]CBS News[/b]

The longer he runs for president, the more doubts Republican front-runner Mitt Romney seems to have about the science behind global climate change.

[b]Speaking at a closed-door fundraiser Thursday in Pittsburgh, Romney's position on the causes of global warming continued ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TomCADem/184 Sun, 30 Oct 2011 00:46:36 The corporate media loves to push the meme that the left, unions and Democrats will do nothing in 2012 in an effort to diminish turnout. While the corporate media celebrates Tea Party anger and protests as a reason why the right wing is going dominate the 2012 elections, the same media pushes the m... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TomCADem/181 Sat, 29 Oct 2011 13:02:28 Remember how Bill O'Reilly's efforts to demonize a doctor who performed abortions lead to the murder of the doctor. Well, here is Bill O'Reilly of Fox News cheerleading the near fatal injury of an Iraq war veteran:

http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/oreilly/2011/10/29/bill-oreilly-phase-two-occupy-wa... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TomCADem/182 Sat, 29 Oct 2011 12:54:30 Source: [b]Washington Post[/b]

Exxon Mobil, the world’s largest company by market value, said net income exceeded $10 billion for a third consecutive quarter as rallying crude prices more than made up for the biggest production decline in three years.

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Third-quarter profit rose to $10.33 b... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TomCADem/180 Thu, 27 Oct 2011 21:53:11 I know that there is a popular talking point that the Republicans only control the House so why can't President Obama simply pass legislation over their objections. Well, besides the Republicans in the Senate who are abusing the filibuster, the fact remains that you need the House to do something. ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TomCADem/179 Tue, 25 Oct 2011 21:49:52 Source: [b]Christian Science Monitor[/b]

After the Senate blocked consideration last week of Mr. Obama’s jobs proposal, the administration has moved to Plan B: bypass Congress and enact change via executive-branch measures. On Monday, the federal government announced new rules for some “underwater”... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TomCADem/178 Mon, 24 Oct 2011 23:09:25 Source: [b]Washington Post[/b]

[b]The 2012 Republican field largely slammed President Obama’s decision, which the president announced Friday, to end the Iraq war and bring U.S. troops home by the end of 2011, suggesting that the move was a purely political one.[/b]

Republicans have suddenly foun... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TomCADem/175 Sat, 22 Oct 2011 02:24:06 Source: [b]LA Times[/b]

As you might expect, Republicans aren’t exactly rushing to credit the Obama administration for first the downfall and now the death of Moammar Kadafi, even though the United States was part of the NATO force that backed the rebels who deposed the longtime Libyan leader.

S... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TomCADem/176 Fri, 21 Oct 2011 01:12:35 Source: [b]CBS News[/b]

A freelance radio host was fired from a documentary program that airs on NPR affiliates after she became a spokeswoman for a Washington protest because her producers believed she violated the public radio network's code of ethics, the host said Thursday.

Lisa Simeone said... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TomCADem/177 Fri, 21 Oct 2011 01:01:47 Source: [b]Huffington Post[/b]

A new analysis by the Center for Responsive Politics finds that professionals from the finance, insurance and real estate sector are largely backing the former Massachusetts governor over the incumbent Democrat and Romney's rivals for the Republican nomination.

Em... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TomCADem/174 Tue, 18 Oct 2011 00:15:47 While the 99 percent movement engages in OWS protests nationwide to protest the governments refusal to make the rich pay their fair share, and while President Obama and Congressional Democrats fight to try to enact some unemployment relief bills over staunch Republican opposition, Republicans contin... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TomCADem/173 Tue, 18 Oct 2011 00:05:00 President Obama, of course, proposed a comprehensive jobs bill AND proposed a way to pay for it. This bill had everyone from Paul Krugman to Mark Zandi agreeing that the bill would improve jobs. Yet, Republicans killed it, and many folks bought into the talking point that the President was not ser... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TomCADem/172 Sun, 16 Oct 2011 13:15:01 The story that continues to be largely ignored by the corporate media is the historical dimensions of Congressional inaction, which is largely due to Republican refusal to compromise or make serious efforts at addressing unemployment. Instead, most congressional Republicans feel relatively safe tha... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TomCADem/171 Sun, 16 Oct 2011 12:58:41 Why is Wall Street so strongly behind Romney even though he cannot mobilize the evangelical right like most Republicans? Is it because he is perhaps the most virulently anti-union, pro-Wall Street candidate in decades?

http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/presidential-campaign/185651-romney-pu... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TomCADem/170 Sun, 16 Oct 2011 12:43:39 The corporate media pushes the narrative that the original Boston Tea Party was a protest against high taxes. It was not! Instead, the Tea Party arose from anger at the British government for creating a special [b]tax exemption[/b] to the East India Trading Company, which allowed them to undercut ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TomCADem/169 Sat, 08 Oct 2011 03:43:42 The corporate media has been repackaging and regurgitating the Republican party's latest batch of privitization proposals as "reform." Indeed, CNN breathlessly call Paul Ryan popular for proposing to turn Medicare into a voucher program. Sadly, the mainstream media refuses to call out Republicans ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TomCADem/168 Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:02:46 Source: [b]San Jose Mercury[/b]

House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan says it’s time for Republicans to rally around a comprehensive “replacement” to President Barack Obama’s signature health care reform legislation — with the government giving a limited contribution to help Americans get healt... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TomCADem/167 Tue, 27 Sep 2011 22:21:36 The press often pushes the talking point that if the economy does not improve, President Obama's chances diminish. Conversely, a declining economy is often trumpeted as a reason why Republicans will consolidate and expand their control of Congress! You have to just love the blatant double standard... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TomCADem/166 Mon, 26 Sep 2011 23:32:35