The mainstream media are bringing their typical “pox on both your houses” approach to reporting on a government shutdown caused by House Republicans’ temper tantrum over Obamacarehow. How would headlines about historical events look if the American media applied the same false equivalency?
Republicans threatening to shut down the federal government, default on the national debt and crash the world economy unless the Affordable Care Act, or “Obamacare,” is defunded are again struggling with arithmetic. But this time the math Republicans are having trouble coming to grips with Obama’s popular vote margin over Mitt Romney 2012.
GOP House members voted last week to cut $40 billion out of the country's primary food security program over the next 10 years. The cuts would knock an estimated 3.8 million Americans off Food Stamps. Maybe the GOP loves the poor after all. Republicans seem to be doing their damnedest to make sure there are more and more of them.
Much of the US media has sought to portray Vladimir Putin as the winner in the Syria crisis, arguing the former KGB man out thought and out foxed Obama. The truth is, Obama most likely played Putin, but the pundits are so idiotic they haven't understood it.
The marriage equality debate in the United States has finally come full circle, with Hawaii’s Democratic governor, Neil Abercrombie, on Monday calling a special session of the state Legislature for October 28 to take up a bill that would legalize same-sex marriage in the 50th State, more than 20 years after a Hawaii court decision set off a nationwide backlash against gay marriage.
You know how they say that generals always fight the last war? Well it seems many liberals are still fighting the “last” last war. Obama is no neocon. He has no grand vision calling for the Untied States to use force to remake the Middle East in our image, so why are liberals insisting the war in Iraq is like the war in Syria?