To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable
The Ryan-Romney Flim-Flam Ticket
BY JIM HIGHTOWER Let’s talk budget! Yes, the wonky wonderland of the federal budget, with page after page of numbers – what fun, eh? No. Most people would prefer a root canal to a budget discussion [indeed, I’ve heard that some dentists use a recording of budget numbers to anesthetize their root-canal patients – everything […]
The Delusions In Ryan’s Medicare Vision
BY FROMA HARROP Paul Ryan has bold economic ideas. Or maybe he doesn’t. It’s really hard to know what Mitt Romney’s VP pick thinks, since his budget plan includes ObamaCare’s $716 billion in Medicare savings over 10 years, but his election plan has him saying he would restore those spending cuts. Romney is accusing president […]
Vice Presidents?
BY SUSAN ESTRICH The conventional wisdom, at least until about four years ago, was that vice presidential selections, even the very good and the very bad, don’t end up mattering very much by November. Lloyd Bentsen and Dan Quayle are perhaps the two best examples, the former with poll numbers through the roof [especially after […]
Helen Gurley Brown’s Mixed Legacy
BY FROMA HARROP It took a poor girl from the Ozarks to look upon the candy store of sex and money that was postwar urban America and rearrange the shelves. Helen Gurley Brown was she, the brains behind the racy Cosmopolitan magazine empire and author of the 1962 sensation Sex and the Single Girl. Was […]
Ryan’s Hope
BY JOE CONASON By naming Paul Ryan as the Republican vice presidential nominee, Mitt Romney has endorsed what used to be known as “voodoo economics” – and restored that special brand of Republican superstition to the center of national debate. To take Ryan seriously, as all too many pundits and politicians insist we must, requires […]