Opinion: The Greatest Tax Ever?
Included in my mail on Saturday was a letter from my healthcare company. For the first time I can remember it was actually good news: my insurance company spent too little on actual health care...
View ArticleOpinion: Treason In Pennsylvania
Treason: the crime of betraying one’s country. That is exactly what Pennsylvania Republicans have done. They have betrayed their country and devised a scheme to potentially disqualify nearly one tenth...
View ArticleOpinion: Bachmann’s Muslim Brotherhood Concerns In Obama Administration...
Hold it! Don’t drop last week’s controversial headlines regarding U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann and four other GOP House members who said that President Barack Obama’s administration has connections to...
View ArticleTea Party Group Rallies To Support Chick-fil-A’s Anti-Gay Marriage Stance
NORTHRIDGE (CBS) — Supporters gathered at a San Fernando Valley Chick-fil-A restaurant Wednesday morning to rally behind the chain after its president recently said he does not support gay marriage....
View ArticleOpinion: Republicans Bring Back Politics Of Racial Division
In 1990, Harvey Gant, the African American Democratic nominee for Senate, was on the verge of defeating one of the most notorious opponents of racial progress in the United States Senate: North...
View ArticleOpinion: Mitt Romney’s Excellent Choice: Paul Ryan
GOP presidential nominee-to-be Mitt Romney made his highly-anticipated vice presidential candidate announcement on Saturday, and he pleased many on the “right” with his choice of Rep. Paul Ryan. After...
View ArticleOpinion: Romney Tries To Reboot Losing Campaign With Ryan Pick
After months of failing to find a way to gain ground in the presidential campaign, W. Mitt Romney has hit the reset button. At the end of last week Romney threw in the towel, literally, on the...
View ArticleOpinion: Ryan VP Pick Changes Electoral Math
W. Mitt Romney’s vice presidential selection, Paul Ryan, has changed the Electoral College math. Prior to the selection of Ryan, it was an open question if Romney could help himself with certain...
View ArticleOpinion: Paul Ryan And The War on Women
If you like the GOP war on women, you are going to love Paul Ryan. After all, Ryan’s record on women’s health could easily be mistaken for one of W. Mitt Romney’s primary opponents, Rick Santorum....
View ArticleOpinion: ’2016: Obama’s America’ Movie Is Disturbingly Necessary
This past week, “2016: The Movie” about President Barack Obama opened in the Chicago area, and I chose to get more of an education about Obama by seeing the movie. After the inundation of canned hype...
View ArticleOpinion: Obama’s Campaign Speech ‘Press Conference’ In The White House
It took weeks of highly-publicized media criticism of President Barack Obama to finally get him to agree to do a second White House Press Corps press conference question-and-answer session in 2012....
View ArticleOpinion: Ron Paul’s Legacy Deserves Better Than ’2012 Spoiler’
United States Representative Ron Paul of Texas, known best for his libertarian views, showed his superstar status on Sunday at a Paul Rally in Tampa, Florida near the Republican National Convention...
View ArticleOpinion: As Hurricane Isaac Threatens The GOP Continues To Party
Seven years ago, Hurricane Katrina destroyed a large part of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. The death toll from a weather event – that we knew was coming – was shocking. This was not a sudden...
View ArticleOpinion: AZ Republican: We Don’t Want Middle Easterners Here
“If you know Middle Easterners, a lot of them, they look Mexican or they look, you know, like a lot of people in South America: dark skin, dark hair, brown eyes. And they mix. They mix in. And those...
View ArticleOpinion: Paul Ryan And His Little White Lies
Last night, Republican Vice Presidential nominee Paul Ryan addressed the Republican National Convention. After a shaky start, Ryan became comfortable with the TelePrompter and delivered a talking...
View ArticleOpinion: Clint Eastwood Made My Day
Last night, Clint Eastwood produced the most bizarre and uncomfortable moments in modern convention history. W. Mitt Romney had one hour of primetime television to accept the nomination of the GOP and...
View ArticleOpinion: Republicans Stoke Racial Resentment And Divide The Country
W. Mitt Romney seems to be drinking the same Kool-Aid as some of his nuttiest supporters. A couple of weeks ago he made a joke about President Obama’s birth certificate that was criticized for what it...
View ArticleOpinion: Republicans Are Abandoning Romney’s Sinking Ship
In a bit of political satire in Politico, Paul Ryan is now calling Mitt Romney “The Stench”, as in stench of defeat, and Team Romney refers to Paul Ryan as “Gilligan”. While it may be just humor, it...
View ArticleOpinion: Republicans Endorse Todd Akin As Senate Chances Slip Away
The Republican Party has flip-flopped of Congressman Todd Akin of Missouri. In August they were demanding that he leave the Senate race. Today, the same people are embracing the national embarrassment...
View ArticleOpinion: Billions Are Being Spent On This Election, But Will It Change Anything?
As the polls stand today the biggest question of the 2012 election is: (a) what happens in the House of Representatives? And (b) is it possible, after billions of dollars in ads and two years of...
View ArticleOpinion: Does Mitt Romney Have An October Surprise For The Debate?
Governor Romney has spent a lot of time in debate prep lately. The campaign, short on specifics to date, is also starting to roll out a few hints about policies that Romney has been silent on. The...
View ArticleOpinion: Romney’s Move To The Middle Is Nothing More Than Baseless Rhetoric
The Romney endorsement tour of Barack Obama’s policies continued Monday. The Romney lines of harsh criticism over the president’s handling of the war in Afghanistan, which have persisted throughout...
View ArticleOpinion: Mitt Romney Lie-O-Rama Tour Continues
Yesterday, Mitt Romney walked away from his right wing campaign record and claimed that he would not act to restrict a woman’s right to choose. Specifically, Mitt told the Des Moines Register that...
View ArticleOpinion: Rivard Yet Another Republican To Devalue Women
Update:Today Sean Duffy condemned Roger Rivard’s remarks and gave Rivard’s campaign donations to charity. Paul Ryan also rescinded his endorsement of Rivard and condemned Rivard’s comments. It’s a...
View ArticleCBS Local Presidential Forum: Obama/Romney: Duke It Out Over Energy And...
By Carol Cain CBS 62 Detroit With the roller coaster ride of gas prices across the nation and volatile nature of relations in the Middle East, America’s energy policy is being debated by Gov. Mitt...
View ArticleOpinion: Binders Full Of Women Is Only Tip Of Romney Anti-Women Iceberg
The first problem with Romney talking about binders full of women is that it is an incredibly odd phrase. According to TiVo it was the most re-watched moment of the debate. The second problem with the...
View ArticleOpinion: Dumping Cold Water On Trump’s October Surprise
Just when things were beginning to go so well for GOP presidential challenger Mitt Romney, look who is back to grab the headlines – Donald Trump. While “The Donald” – as he is often called by members...
View ArticleOpinion: Obama’s Talk Of A War on Women Contradicted By The Elevation Of...
Much of what was said during the third presidential debate by President Barack Obama on Monday night reminded viewers of his Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton. Whether one agrees or disagrees with...
View ArticleOpinion: Why Don’t Republicans Understand Rape?
Once again, a Republican politician has said something extreme about rape. Extreme and extremely stupid. Last night it is was Indiana Republican Senate candidate Richard Mourdock. He told an audience...
View ArticleOpinion: Another Hurricane Reminds Us Of The Need For An Effective...
The 2012 presidential campaign between President Obama and Mitt Romney will be book-ended by hurricanes. It opened with fears of a storm striking the Republican National Convention in Tampa. Remnant...
View ArticleOpinion: Elections Have Consequences
President Obama won an Electoral College landslide on Tuesday. He held on to every swing state that Romney needed to win. Obama defeated Romney in his home states of Massachusetts and Michigan and in...
View ArticleOpinion: ‘I’m Not A Scientist, Man’ And The GOP’s War On Reason
“I’m not a scientist, man.” That was Senator and 2016 GOP Presidential super-hopeful Marco Rubio in an interview with GQ as Rubio flies out of the gate to start campaigning for Republican hearts and...
View ArticleOpinion: Seceding From The Union Is Not A Good Idea
Even though the United States are still governmentally united, the States of America are not United. And though I find interest in the circus surrounding people in the fifty states of the Union...
View ArticleOpinion: Amazing ‘Stupid Things’
The former House Republican Leader Dick Armey, a longtime foot soldier in radical right wing politics, had some harsh criticism for Republicans in 2012. Armey served as the head of the Republican...
View ArticleReports Of IRS Targeting Conservative Groups In California
ENCINO (CBSLA.com) —Days after the Internal Revenue Service said low-level employees in a Cincinnati office showed uneven scrutiny to conservative groups with the words “tea party”, “patriots” and...
View ArticleTea Party Patriots To Rally At IRS Offices
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — Protesters were expected Tuesday to descend upon Internal Revenue Service offices throughout Southern California and nationwide in the wake of reports that the tax collection...
View ArticleTea Party Patriots Rally Against IRS ‘Intimidation’
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — Members of the Tea Party Patriots group rallied in downtown Los Angeles and nationwide Tuesday following allegations that the Internal Revenue Service improperly flagged...
View ArticleLaguna Beach Millionaire Wants To Be California’s Next Governor
LAGUNA BEACH (CBSLA.com) — The race for California Governor 2014 is officially underway. Neel Kashkari, a Laguna Beach millionaire and former Goldman Sachs investment banker, just announced he’s...
View ArticleFormer Texas Gov. Rick Perry Comes To Riverside Looking Towards 2016 Race
RIVERSIDE (CBSLA.com) — Potential Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry brought attendees of a conservative-themed conference in Riverside to their feet by calling for “moral clarity” in...
View ArticleCalifornia Republicans Say They’re Pleased With Job President Trump Is Doing
MENTONE (CBSLA.com) — Sixty percent of Californians voted for Hillary Clinton. And President Trump, nationally, has a low approval rating — and he’s only been on the job 14 days. Still, there are...
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