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Political Ads and the Super Bowl: God, Guns and Abortion
The Giants and Patriots are not the only ones that will be facing off this Super Bowl. With the 2012 election season in full swing, the 115 million Super Bowl viewers make an enticing target audience [...]
Super Bowl XLVI and the Curse of Boston: Can the Patriots Beat Manning and the Giants?
With the New York Giants and New England Patriots advancing to Super Bowl XLVI, a full-fledged sports rivalry has officially come to fruition. In fact, Sports Illustrated is already calling this year’s game the Revenge Bowl. [...]
Who are the Real Jews? Netanyahu Pulls Israeli Ads After Uproar in the U.S.
After pressure from the Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA) and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the Israeli government this week pulled ads targeted at expatriots which implied that Jews living outside of Israel could not maintain their [...]
What Black Friday Violence Tells Us About Ourselves
With Thanksgiving come and past, the shopping season is officially in full swing, and what a kickoff it got with Black Friday violence, including near-riots over waffle-makers at a Wal-Mart in Arkansas, a 2am shooting outside [...]
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Bad Behaving Rich Men
Arnold Schwarzenegger and Dominique Strauss-Kahn are only the most recent additions to a long list of bad behaving rich men. Schwarzenegger, who fathered a child out of wedlock (and lied about it to his wife for [...]
The Maine Mural and the Destruction of Art: Why Governor LePage Must Be Stopped
Organized labor sure has had its hands full lately, and now laborers are facing a new, rather bizarre battle with Maine’s Governor Paul LePage, who has removed a 36-foot mural depicting the history of labor from [...]
The Sham Trial of Julian Assange
For over half a year now, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been the subject of a bizarre and opaque judicial process seeking to extradite him from the United Kingdom to Sweden in connection with alleged sexual [...]
Politics and the Super Bowl – Obama, Race and the NFL
Super Bowl Sunday has come and gone, and you know what that means: we (hopefully) won’t have to listen to Bill O’Reilly interview President Obama ever again! It was a double coup! Democrats were forced to [...]
The Nazi Comparison: Obama, Glenn Beck and the Tea Party
This week Rep. Steve Cohen of Tennessee brought the Nazi comparison back to Washington, comparing Republican messaging on health care reform to “a big lie, just like Goebbels. You say it enough, you repeat the lie, [...]
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Money in Politics: Corporate Contributions to Barack Obama, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum
Very interesting article. I find the information of donors related to
Santorum's Weakness: the Extremism of Rick Santorum and Why He is Unfit for President
Rush Limbaugh and other conservative talk show hosts have expressed th
Santorum's Weakness: the Extremism of Rick Santorum and Why He is Unfit for President
Santorum is a hypocrite of the worst kind--this part of the story was
Super Bowl XLVI and the Curse of Boston: Can the Patriots Beat Manning and the Giants?
Boca de profeta! NY 21 NE 17
Why Republican Voters Don't Like Mitt Romney and Their Presidential Candidates
Romney is Mormon!!