Articles tagged "romney"

John McCain has never faltered in his principled stance against torture. John Brennan, on the other hand?

How negative political statements are simply more revered than positively framed remarks.

Yeah, according to the latest study from the Wesleyan Media Project, one million political ads have now aired across the United States in this election cycle alone.

In recent weeks, conservative operatives have been audience-testing a new Obama documentary that purports to the the _real_ truth about the president's background. ""Dreams From My Real Father: A Story of Reds and Deception"":http://www.obamasrealfat…

For the first time since 1984, a presidential debate has concluded in the United States without the words 'climate change' even once gracing the candidates' lips. That's insane. The problem has, you know, gotten dramatically worse over the last quart…

“It is vast and dark and makes us wonder if we are alone; so maybe the reason we make all of these things is to remind ourselves that we are not,” Facebook grandiosely eulogized in it’s epicly awkward “brand” video this week, but purely cyber validat…

Mitt Romney made some interesting energy statements in the first debate, but the one that’s gotten the most props for its epic zinger status was his claim that “half” of $90 billion dollars spent by the Obama administration on clean-energy projects w…

So the consensus is that Romney won the debate last night. He did look sharp, but does that mean anything he said was more than empty rhetoric? Take the energy issue.

The big boss of the debate circus is called the Commission on the Presidential Debates. Proud owner of the primo web real estate www.debates.org, the CPD hasn’t bothered to change its homepage for four years.

Looks like that news spike about those hackers taking Romney's tax records for ransom has dampened. Waiting on hands and knees for a comment from a Romney campaign spokesperson, I've come across Death and Taxes speculation as well as The Tennessean

Although he has a good deal of hair left, Larry Flynt, legendary pornographer and publisher of _Hustler Magazine_ is beginning to resemble Dr. Evil (if only by virtue of character) as his offers of $1 million become more frequent. As you may recall,

Super PACs and unlimited corporate spending are the story of this election cycle; not Paul Ryan or his lies, not heartwarming national convention speeches, not Romney's tax returns. No, the amount of filthy, favor-buying money that will pour into bot…

Perhaps insufficiently embarrassed by the Godot-meets-Beavis Clint Eastwood performance art debacle, the GOP is attempting to get its message across with another extremely awkward stunt. Republicans have launched a 'Break up with Obama' campaign that…

These days, science rarely gets discussed by our top government leaders—even Congress's science committee is woefully uninformed when it comes to basic science. And the top presidential candidates barely discuss the most pressing scientific issues. E…

"No one’s ever asked to see my birth certificate," said oblivious rich white guy Mitt Romney at a campaign stop in Michigan today. "They know that this is the place that we were born and raised." Get it? I'm white, and my opponent isn't! Ha! My sk…

By the time this election is through, billions of dollars will have been spent between the two presidential political campaigns—and the lion's share of that will be used to fund TV ads. Boring, obnoxious, terrible TV ads. And thanks to the glorious e…

A lot of blowhards out there who like to speak on evolutionary theory have absolutely no idea what they're talking about. It should come as no surprise that much of that pap comes from the right, whose leaders, even the "scientific" ones, "love to be…

We all know no one clicks on Facebook ads. So who’s clicking on all those sidebar ads, the ones that helped Facebook become, for a time, a $100 billion company? Bots, claims one startup. Limited Run, a company that makes software for musicians, claim…

Last night was the twentieth (!) Republican debate in the run-up to the GOP's nomination of their man for president. As has been the case at just about every debate so far, the Arizona CNN debate was exceedingly popular. Ratings were through the roof…