Imagine the United States without California, New York, and Texas. These three states represent close to one-fourth of the population of the country. Yet
Category: 2012 Election
Taken in by Republican propaganda
The 90-year-old, college-educated woman sitting across from me is someone whom I know for sure voted for President Obama in 2008. I also know
Lakoff: The American dream beats the nightmare
$60 million. That’s the mountain of cash plunked down on TV ad buys by Karl Rove’s Crossroads GPS and Americans for Prosperity as of
Romney /Ryan and America’s veterans: Does support go both ways?
A Gallup poll indicates that America’s male veterans lean towards the Romney/Ryan ticket at a 58% to 34% margin. The reasons are uncertain, but
Confusion: The wording of the Second Amendment
One of the primary arguments of gun advocates in that the Second Amendment guarantees the right for citizens to own and carry guns. Their
Republican convention’s “We Built It” hypocrisy
The Republican Party is adopting “We Built It” as a convention theme — a catch-phrase built on the Fox News-fueled distortion of the President’s
Todd Akin’s colonial-era ideas
Where does Todd Akin get the idea that, when she’s raped, a “woman’s body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down?”
The truth about sex and pregnancy, as told to Todd Akin
Dear Congressman Akin: When a man and a woman love each other and decide that the time is right, they call the stork. Nine
Dear Todd Akin: Get out of my body
Eve Ensler, the award-winning author of The Vagina Monologues, was in the Democratic Republic of Congo when she saw Todd Akin’s “legitimate rape” interview.
Lawrence O’Donnell: Why liberals need to support conservative Democrats
Lawrence O’Donnell is an American political analyst, journalist, actor, producer, writer, and host of The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell, a weeknight MSNBC opinion