Submitted by Joshua Holland on Fri, 2012-09-21 15:14
Fox released a teaser of an upcoming show, and it turns out that Homer Simpson is a Romney man. Along the way, the producers take shots at Romney's taxes, voter ID laws and, of course, low-information voters. Watch:
When Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney found himself in hot water for saying that nearly half of the American people "think of themselves as victims," his running mate, Rep.
On September 21st activists across the world are rising up against the proliferation of the shale gas drilling practice of hydraulic fracturing or fracking. As Mark Schlosberg writes for Food and Water Watch:
Submitted by Kristen Gwynne on Fri, 2012-09-21 12:38
Two scientists at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco have found that cannabidiol (CBD), a non-toxic marijuana compound that delivers many of weed's benefits without the high, might stop metastis in aggressive cancer, "potentially altering the fatality of the disease forever."
Submitted by Sarah Seltzer on Fri, 2012-09-21 11:53
Well, the headlines on this one kind of wrote themselves after the right wing host went on a very Freudian and not very nice tirade about shrinking member size.
Submitted by Sarah Seltzer on Fri, 2012-09-21 11:36
Senior citizens: wise to the Ryan plan? The VP Candidate, most well known for his desire to privatize medicare, was soundly booed--repeatedly--at an appearance today before the senior citizen lobbying group AARP.
From the Washington Post's writeup here's what happened after the first round of boos came in response to Ryan's avowal to repeal "Obamacare":
Submitted by Steven Rosenfeld on Fri, 2012-09-21 10:52
The August unemployment numbers are out and the politicos are spinning them. The big headline is the jobless rate rose slightly in more than half the states to a national averge of 8.1 percent, but in big 2012 swing states—Ohio, Florida and Virginia—it did not change.
Submitted by Sarah Seltzer on Fri, 2012-09-21 09:09
Ann Romney has been derided as being out of touch and inaccessible, but her recent comments seem to indicate that she is very in touch with the current temperature of the election--in Iowa today she reacted to the naitonal pile-on of pundits, even conservatives saying her husband has to get his campaign together.
Submitted by Sarah Seltzer on Fri, 2012-09-21 08:32
Last night Stephen Colbert took on the Romney camp's desperation for the Latino vote--while refusing to endorse policies that would actually help Latinos.
Watch this trenchant, irony-steeped segment on Romney's failed effort at reaching out to Latinos uses the words of both Romneys against them: