Published: The Morning Call (September 6, 2012), PolicyMic (September 6, 2012)
More than a month ago, the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center revealed that Mitt Romney’s proposed tax cuts for the affluent will require him to increase taxes on middle-class families by an average of $2,000 a year.
Since then, President Obama has put a calculator on his campaign website to help ordinary citizens calculate exactly how much their taxes will go up under a Romney administration.... Read Original Article
Published: PolicyMic (October 3, 2012)
Editor’s Note: This represents instant analysis of the presidential debate on Wednesday night. For the author’s thoughts in the hour immediately before the debate began, see here.
[To see who won the third and final presidential debate, see here]
Here are my first impressions about the first debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney on Wednesday evening:
1) The Big Points
– Twitter monitors have found that Romney’s Big Bird comment is trending.
Published: PolicyMic (August 29, 2012)
If you want to refute the widely-disseminated myth of the media having an anti-Republican bias in this election, one need not look any further than this recent incident at the Republican National Convention:
The controversy should have been over the type of partisan parliamentary maneuvers that normally define such major political gatherings, as Ron Paul supporters were in the process of contesting the decision of the Romney-run Republican National Committee not to seat several of the delegates that the quixotic libertarian had won during the Maine caucuses.... Read Original Article
Published: PolicyMic (August 29, 2012)
(co-authored with Cady McClain)
Editor’s Note: This article is written by Matthew Rozsa and Cady McClain
When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans seven years ago, 80% of the Crescent City was buried under water, spanning an area approximately eight times the size of Manhattan.
Published: PolicyMic (August 28, 2012)
(co-authored with Cady McClain)
When news began to leak that an actress who once played Catwoman had criticized The Dark Knight Rises, which includes the latest incarnation of that character, the blogosphere was naturally all aflutter. Fortunately, Julie Newmar – whose turn with the whip came during the 1960s TV series – quickly corrected those misapprehensions in a letter to The Huffington Post.
Published: PolicyMic (August 24, 2012)
It is true that a nation which practices censorship cannot remain free. To this axiom, though, I would add that a society which doesn’t respond to inflammatory stupidity with universal contempt cannot remain safe for reasoned discussion, as recent political discussion clearly demonstrates.
Over the last week, the Republican Party has provided us with two test cases for that principle.