Category Archives: Corporations

Romney’s One Percent Tax Plan

A rerun, but worth reading again.

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Billionaire Bill Gates Envies Millionaire Mitt Romney?

Every time one of the Great Unwashed starts talking about the inequality of Mitt Romney paying half the tax rate of the average working stiff, you’ll hear some Republican bonehead dismiss it as ‘the politics of envy.’ (No doubt Frank … Continue reading

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Cartoon: How Mitt Romney Was Hired at Bain

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Speaking of Great Wealth…

There continues to be a question barely touched on in the so-called ‘national debate’ about the wealth of Mitt Romney and the other top 1 percent: what did they do that is worth the money they made?  Romney ‘created’ (inadvertently) … Continue reading

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Today’s Quotes: Private Greed and Public Need

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Romney’s ‘Free Market Capitalism’ Myth

Mitt Romney, the blundering, dull, grown-up rich kid currently being beaten up by thrice-married ‘family values’ uber-hypocrite Newt Gingrich on the death march to the Republican nomination for president, apparently really thinks he made his fortune — or added to … Continue reading

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Republicans Don’t Trust Anyone — Except Fox News

Kevin Drum at Mother Jones has the rundown here — 73 percent of the aging Neanderthals who hang on every word which drippeth from the well-paid pieholes of Uncle Rupert’s misinforming media propaganda ministers at Fox News tend to believe the FNC … Continue reading

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The List on Ron Paul

It’s nice he’s against war and American colonialism, and that he’d end the drug war — if he could get such a proposal through Congress — but his drawbacks far outweigh his advantages, as the graphic below from No Ron … Continue reading

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Campaign Trail Mixology: Is This The Season of the Mitt?

Tumorous rumors and loose talk from unnamed sources speaking anonymously. (If it’s good enough for the NY Times and Washington Post, it’s good enough for me.) Candidates and poll numbers listed in the order of the Jan. 17, 2012 CNN/Time/ORC … Continue reading

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Stop SOPA and PIPA

To honor today’s blackout by websites across cyberspace objecting to the possible passage of the Internet-killing SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect IP Act) bills now in Congress, I won’t be posting anything today except the item below. … Continue reading

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