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Fact-checking the vice presidential debate

PolitiFact | Fact-checking the vice presidential debate: “Ryan, in his closing statement, said Obama ‘made his choices,’ including ‘a government takeover of health care.’ The phrase is simply not true. ‘Government takeover’ conjures a European approach where the government owns the hospitals and the doctors are public employees. But Obama’s health care law relies largely […]

The 6 Studies Paul Ryan Cited Prove Mitt Romney’s Tax Plan Is Impossible – Matthew O’Brien – The Atlantic

The 6 Studies Paul Ryan Cited Prove Mitt Romney’s Tax Plan Is Impossible – Matthew O’Brien – The Atlantic: “In other words, Romney’s plan only works if you assume he has a different plan or use a magic growth asterisk. And that means we have no idea what he would do if he wins. Does […]

The Ryan Budget

Easily the most wonky, policy oriented blog post you’ll read this week. If you want to understand the budgets proposed by Ryan and Obama, it’s important to read. And I’m not saying that spending shouldn’t be reduced… The Ryan Sinkhole – NYTimes.com:  “Function 920 represents a category called ‘allowances’ that captures the budgetary effects of […]

Feelings on the RNC

Maybe the RNC was just what Obama’s campaign needed… There were a number of “are you kidding me?!?!?” moments during the republican convention. In particular for me was when Romney made a sanctimonious and sarcastic joke about the oceans rising. Just goes to show you exactly how some Republicans feel about the environment. (or at […]

Clint Eastwood, GOP convention: The Romney campaign sells out its surprise speaker. – Slate Magazine

You have to admit, it was weird… Clint Eastwood, GOP convention: The Romney campaign sells out its surprise speaker. – Slate Magazine “They screwed up the un-screwuppable. This was like having one of the featured guests at the State of the Union drop his trousers on camera. If you botch that, how are you going […]

Truth-twisting

I suppose this is not going to change your opinion if you already think Obama is a socialist who believes big government is the solution, but it is worth a read… It was a day late, but the Republicans’ parade of truth-twisting, distortions and plain falsehoods arrived on the podium of their national convention on […]

Political Compass

It has been a while since I have taken the political compass test, but I love taking little tests like this. (There is a good religion one out there as well, I’ll post that when I find it) Now first off, I obviously don’t vote this way, nor do I necessarily think that a society […]