Job growth the key to avoiding fiscal disaster
The media is absorbed now with trying to decide how close President Obama and House Republicans are to a deal that would avoid the "fiscal cliff" at the end of the year.
Ten certainties for the next four years
No one has a crystal ball to predict the exact course of the next four years. But it is useful to start with what we actually know.
Mitt Romney: the empty suit clueless about the empty chair
Billy Koehler died on March 7, 2009, for lack of health insurance. Mitt Romney said on Oct. 10, 2012, that's impossible.
Smiling, Romney stuck a dagger in your heart
That about sums up Mitt Romney's performance in Wednesday night's debate.
Republicans lie about "Support our troops"
For a decade, Republicans have been screaming at Americans to "support our troops." But their actions sing a different tune.
Mitt, you take personal responsibility!
Few could have missed what are likely the most contemptible words ever uttered by a candidate for the presidency of the United States - words that show just how unqualified he is to aspire to that office.
GOP willing to sabotage economy to win “last stand” election
Mitt Romney and his fellow Republicans are a cynical and calculating bunch. They are extremists the likes of which we have never seen in American politics.
The Romney-Ryan “white skin strategy”
An integral part of the Romney-Ryan election strategy is to exploit the racial misconceptions of white workers.
Reader voices: Veterans get zilch from Romney-Ryan
In Mitt Romney's recent speech to the VFW he assured the audience he believed every veteran "deserves care second to none."
Paul Ryan's Pell Grant cuts are unjust, misguided
In a time where tuition and books costs are strangling many low-income and working class students, why are we cutting when we should be funding this vital program?
