"As Martin Gilens notes in his 1999 book, Why Americans Hate Welfare: Race,...
“As Martin Gilens notes in his 1999 book, Why Americans Hate Welfare: Race, Media, and the Politics of Antipoverty Policy, there is a strong correlation between views on race and opposition to welfare....
View Article"So let’s get it straight. The fight over who does and doesn’t deserve...
“So let’s get it straight. The fight over who does and doesn’t deserve welfare is a fight about race and always has been. In fact, it has roots that stretch all the way back to the days of neo-slavery...
View Article"When we examine the OECD tax data we observe a few items immediately. The...
“When we examine the OECD tax data we observe a few items immediately. The first is that Americans currently pay one of the lowest tax rates. In 2009, America’s tax revenue represented 24.1% of the...
View Article"The media soon noticed Romney’s familiarity with foreign tax havens. A $3...
“The media soon noticed Romney’s familiarity with foreign tax havens. A $3 million Swiss bank account appeared in the 2010 returns, then winked out of existence in 2011 after the trustee closed it, as...
View Article"It’s easy to say that ‘My plan is to eat ice cream sundaes and chocolate...
“It’s easy to say that ‘My plan is to eat ice cream sundaes and chocolate cake and hamburgers as much as I want, my plan is to lose 60 pounds, and my plan is to avoid painful exercise, and those are...
View ArticleEd Gillespie Challenged On Studies Supporting Romney Tax Plan
Ed Gillespie Challenged On Studies Supporting Romney Tax Plan: For the first time publicly, the Mitt Romney campaign was asked Sunday to defend the six studies it routinely cites as supportive of the...
View Article"Suppose Governor Romney said that he wants to drive a car from Boston to Los...
“Suppose Governor Romney said that he wants to drive a car from Boston to Los Angeles in 15 hours. And suppose some analysts employed tools of arithmetic to conclude that “If Governor Romney wants to...
View ArticleSeriously, Mitt Romney?
I watched a Romney/Ryan ad this weekend that had Romney standing on a podium with the words “TAX RELIEF” emblazoned on the front followed second later by the tag line ”SERIOUS LEADERSHIP.” The ad, a...
View ArticleInvestigation: Mitt Romney’s Offshore Accounts, Tax Loopholes, and Mysterious...
Investigation: Mitt Romney’s Offshore Accounts, Tax Loopholes, and Mysterious I.R.A. | Vanity Fair: All the assets on Mitt’s financial disclosures are in blind trusts or retirement accounts held by him...
View Article"A report by Bain and Co. itself, looking at the period from 2002 to 2007,...
“A report by Bain and Co. itself, looking at the period from 2002 to 2007, concluded that there is “little evidence that private equity owners, overall, added value” to the companies they took over:...
View Article"Cindy Hewitt, Dade’s human-resources manager, remembers how the firm closed...
“Cindy Hewitt, Dade’s human-resources manager, remembers how the firm closed a Puerto Rico plant in 1998, a year after harvesting $7.1 million in local tax breaks aimed at job creation, and relocated...
View Article"In the years since then, almost unknown to most Americans, the United States...
“In the years since then, almost unknown to most Americans, the United States has turned itself into a giant tax haven for foreigners, just as the memo suggested. Federal and state tax laws have been...
View ArticleThe Dark Side of Mitt Romney | Vanity Fair
The Dark Side of Mitt Romney | Vanity Fair: Peggie Hayes had joined the church as a teenager along with her mother and siblings. They’d had a difficult life. Mormonism offered the serenity and...
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israelfacts: More than 870 Palestinian olive trees vandalised...
israelfacts: More than 870 Palestinian olive trees vandalised by Israeli settlers in first week of harvest this month, according to UN Hundreds of olive trees have been uprooted, burned or cut down by...
View Article"As many as 15 percent of freshmen at America’s top schools are white...
“As many as 15 percent of freshmen at America’s top schools are white students who failed to meet their university’s minimum standards for admission, according to Peter Schmidt, deputy editor of the...
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shortformblog: OK, who’s the smart aleck that registered this...
shortformblog: OK, who’s the smart aleck that registered this site? (Click the link to see what we mean.)
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whatwhiteswillneverknow: Idiot Students in Blackface Reenact...
whatwhiteswillneverknow: Idiot Students in Blackface Reenact Chris Brown Beating Rihanna at Worst Pep Rally Ever So this happened and no one thought “this is wrong. We should stop this”. No teachers,...
View Article"Everybody who knows me knows I am not an autocrat, I am not aggressive, I am...
“Everybody who knows me knows I am not an autocrat, I am not aggressive, I am not intolerant. On the contrary, I am a mild man, a tolerant man with great capacity to understand others.” - That’s...
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Today in Actual Irony: Nation’s First Privately Owned State Prison Riddled...
Today in Actual Irony: Nation’s First Privately Owned State Prison Riddled With Violations Of State Law: girljanitor: An Ohio prison owned by Corrections Corporation of America, one of the largest...
View Article"…[T]hese are PHOTOGRAPHS. These are the objects police use to identify...
“…[T]hese are PHOTOGRAPHS. These are the objects police use to identify criminals. These are things that explicitly and routinely constitute evidence. They are precisely the opposite of anonymous—they...
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