Mitt Romney’s failed definition of success
Mitt Romney, along with many Republicans, sees success as self-defining… “I am being sunk by a society that demands success when all I can offer is failure,” says the ruined theater impresario Max Bialystock in Mel Brooks’s “The Producers.” Mitt Romney sees things differently: He is offering success to a society that seems to actually prefer [...]
The Republican who could face Barack Obama in this year’s US Presidential election believes that Satan is systematically destroying America. In a speech to Florida’s Ave Maria University in 2008, Rick Santorum claimed that Satan had destroyed academia, politics and even the church (though not the Catholic church): …If you were Satan, who would you [...]
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Mitt Romney’s wealth may prove his undoing should he become the Republican presidential candidate… It is no secret that Mitt Romney comes from money. The G.O.P. candidate, who recently accepted the endorsement of billionaire businessman Donald Trump, has disclosed that his personal wealth is somewhere between 190 and 250 million dollars. In other [...]
Continue reading …Former Governor of Utah Jon Huntsman has bowed out of the fight to be the Republican presidential nominee. Despite polling well in the recent New Hampshire primary, polls in South Carolina showed his campaign failing to build on that momentum and lagging behind the other candidates. In his speech announcing the end of his candidacy, [...]
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Libertarians are wrong when it comes to the notion of freedom… Anyone who has been on YouTube long enough would have come across a number of conspiracy theories, ranging from the belief that Western governments are dumbing down their population through water fluoridation to the belief that central banks are in collusion with [...]
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Republican push to the Right gives Obama hope for 2012… At this moment, Gallup Poll ratings show that 50% of the American public, give or take three error points, disapprove of the job Obama is doing as President. This doesn’t appear to be heartening news for a President running for re-election in 2012. [...]
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Republican presidential candidate stokes the fire as he fights sexual harassment allegations… There are now a total of four women claiming that maverick GOP candidate Herman Cain has behaved inapropriately with them, and if he expected Tuesday’s press conference to put the issue to bed, he was sorely mistaken. Indeed Cain simply gave [...]
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