Published: mic (February 14, 2014)
Billionaire Tom Perkins, who once compared the Occupy movement with Nazism, is again at the center of a storm of controversy. His comment?
“The Tom Perkins system is: You don’t get to vote unless you pay a dollar of taxes… You pay a million dollars in taxes, you get a million votes.”... Read Original Article
Published: mic (February 12, 2014)
A federal judge has struck down Kentucky’s law banning gay marriages from other states.
This historic decision, which is being rightly celebrated by the pro-LGBT community, sets an important precedent. By establishing that the constitutional guarantee to equal protection under the law applies to gay couples, it exposes the lie in the “states’ rights” rhetoric embraced for so long by ideological homophobes like those that originally created the Kentucky legislation.... Read Original Article
Published:mic (February 11, 2014)
Let’s dispense with a necessary disclaimer: I believe Hillary Rodham Clinton is going to be the next President of the United States. The “Hillary Papers” that have been flying around the conservative blogosphere this week are just the latest effort by the right to do anything they can to prevent that from happening.... Read Original Article
Published: mic (February 2, 2014)
Millennials are suckers for nostalgia, which is why RadioShack’s Super Bowl commercial was an advertising masterpiece.
The spot opens with a RadioShack employee completing a phone call and informing his co-worker, “The ’80s called. They want their store back.”
Cue a string of cameos to make even the most oversaturated nostalgia junkie experience an overdose.
Published: mic (January 28, 2014
Back in 1990, American attorney and author Mike Godwin observed that political discussions (particularly those that occurred online) were oversaturated with Nazi analogies. This gave birth to the expression “Godwin’s Law,” which argues that anyone who compares a political adversary to Nazis without sound reasoning automatically forfeits the debate.... Read Original Article
Published: mic (January 28, 2014)
One of the centerpieces of President Obama’s 2014 State of the Union address was his executive order that will raise the minimum wage for employees working with federal contractors to $10.10 an hour. The President is taking action on his own because Republicans are deeply set against Democrats’ efforts to raise the federal minimum wage.... Read Original Article