Articles of Interest
October 15, 2012, 6:00am

By Bob Fitrakis, Harvey Wasserman, OpEdNews
15 October 12

Electronic voting machines owned by Mitt Romney’s business buddies are set to count the votes in Cincinnati could decide the 2012 election.

The narrative is already being hyped by the corporate … Read more »

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October 14, 2012, 6:00am

By The New York Times | Editorial

The way a presidential candidate campaigns for office matters to the country. A campaign should demonstrate seriousness of purpose and a set of core beliefs, and it should signal to voters whether a … Read more »

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October 14, 2012, 6:00am

A Possibly Fatal Mistake Daniel Stolle
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF

MY wife and I attended my 30-year college reunion a couple of weekends ago, but the partying was bittersweet. My freshman roommate, Scott Androes, was in a Seattle hospital bed, … Read more »

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October 13, 2012, 12:00pm

By Robert Reich

I thought Biden won last night’s debate because he came off as genuine, passionate, and brimming with conviction. Ryan, by contrast, seemed like a wooden marionette, a kid out of his depth relative to someone who not … Read more »

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October 13, 2012, 12:00pm

By Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone

I’ve never thought much of Joe Biden. But man, did he get it right in last night’s debate, and not just because he walloped sniveling little Paul Ryan on the facts. What he got absolutely … Read more »

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October 12, 2012, 3:00am

By William Boardman, Reader Supported News

The big takeaway from Mitt Romney’s big foreign policy speech on October 8 is that there’s no big takeaway. The Republican presidential candidate’s foreign policy speech does not lay out any coherent foreign policy.… Read more »

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October 12, 2012, 3:00am

BBC

The mother of an American killed in last month’s Libya consulate attack has said his death has been used by the Romney campaign for political purposes.

he Republican presidential nominee has been citing his meeting some years ago with … Read more »

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October 12, 2012, 3:00am

Alternet.org

Paul Ryan spoke for 40 of the 90 minutes during Thursday night’s vice presidential debate and managed to tell at least 24 myths during that time:

1) “It took the president two weeks to acknowledge that [the Libya attack] … Read more »

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October 12, 2012, 3:00am

By Charles Pierce, Esquire Magazine

For the second time in as many presidential elections, Joseph Biden got to debate a young, attractive Republican candidate who was demonstrably less qualified to to be president than I am to be chairman of … Read more »

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October 10, 2012, 10:00am

By Larry Pressler, Reader Supported News

As a combat veteran of two tours in Vietnam with twenty-two years of service as a Republican member of the U.S. House and Senate, I endorse President Barack Obama for a second term as … Read more »

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