Next week, on the first Tuesday in November, American voters will not only choose their representatives. In many states and cities, those casting ballots will also make decisions about water supply. By Brett Walton Next week, voters in San Francisco will decide whether the city should draw up plans to end a century-old dispute over the […]
We all knew in our hearts that the Simpsons’ Mr. Burns was a team Romney supporter. Now it’s official. Of course, we’ll never know the identity of most of the billionaires pouring millions into SuperPAC attack ads, thanks to the Supreme Court and the Citizens United decision. But Mr. Burns is proud to support his […]
New York’s Mayor Bloomberg (formerly Republican, now Independent) has been holding aloof on endorsing either candidate for president. But after Hurricane Sandy’s climate-change-fueled might slammed into his city this week, Bloomberg has decided that the issues of climate change and global warming are too important. And he has announced his endorsement of President Obama for […]
You can’t fool all of the people all of the time. Ohioans are up in arms and outraged over Mitt Romney’s latest lies – this time, trying to fool the voters of Ohio into somehow thinking that Romney is more of a friend to the auto industry than Obama. Ohio isn’t buying it. And Romney […]
Governor Chris Christie continues to praise President Obama for his outstanding response to Hurricane Sandy. And that may be putting a nail in the coffin of one of Mitt Romney’s last, best campaign messages. Romney thought he had a winning argument to close out this year’s election race – I’m the guy who can bring […]
Two months ago, Chris Christie was the fiery keynote speaker at the GOP convention. But in the wake of Hurricane Sandy’s devastation, the New Jersey Governor and President Obama are putting aside differences of ideology and working together to put government to work for the people. Rescuing the stranded, cleaning up the mess, and starting to […]
As the Northeast starts the painful process of recovering from Hurricane Sandy, it’s important to reflect on who’s going to be there to pick up the pieces. This election year we are faced with a serious choice: Is government the enemy, or is government… us? Now that he’s etch-a-sketched himself from severely conservative Mitt into moderate […]
Are you craving the bloody clarity and cleansing that will come with Zombie Apocalypse ? Want to hasten things along? Joss Whedon has just the ticket: Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan. In a very silly (but telling) new video, the meister of the supernatural who brought us The Avengers and The Cabin in the Woods – as […]
We managed to get through three debates without either Barack Obama or Mitt Romney mentioning climate change. I can sympathize – Obama has been having a tough enough time getting re-elected; he wants to avoid anything that might turn off a few hundred thousand low-information swing-voters. And Romney, of course, was FOR action on climate […]
As we reported yesterday, Monsanto and their allies have bombarded the airwaves with misleading ads, trying to confuse consumers into voting against their own right to know about what’s in their food. Now, the anti-GMO forces have gone on the air with thieir own ad promoting California’s Prop 37. Without the deep pockets of the […]
By Peter Lehner – Executive Director, Natural Resources Defense Council Consumers have a right to know what’s in their food. And in much of the world, they do, because of government labeling laws. For example, China, Russia, and India are among the 50-odd nations that require labeling of genetically modified foods, or GMOs. Here in America, however, […]
By David Brin A recent study published in Trends in Genetics suggests that a person’s genes may affect their later political thinking and views of the world almost as much as his circumstances or upbringing do, and far more than many social scientists have been willing, until recently, to admit. It seems that the degree to which you […]
So Governor Romney got through his toughest debate – on foreign policy, his weakest subject. He didn’t make any killer mistakes (although he got a few of his facts wrong: see Live fact-checking the Foreign Policy Debate.) But in a boxing match, when one fighter goes into a clinch, it’s because he’s getting the crap beat […]
Tonight’s the night… the final debate, with Barack Obama and Mitt Romney neck and neck in the polls. Whose pants will catch on fire live on national television? Last week it was Mitt Romney, who was called out by moderator Candy Crowley for a blatant falsehood about Barack Obama’s declarations about Libya. (And the GOP […]
There are less than 3 weeks to go before election day. The final debate is tonight. The audience, is huge. The first debate turned what looked like a Barack Obama steamroller into an uncomfortable (for those of us cheering on the steamroller) horse race, with Romney polling higher than Obama nationally for most of the […]