I for one can’t watch the Repugnant Debates.  I have to depend on others to give me the details textually so I can skip and skim. Newtie, as usual, slung … [Keep reading >>]

Mitt Romney:

An Associated Press examination of financial records of Mitt Romney shows that the Republican presidential candidate has offshore-based investments worth between $7 million and $32 million.
Newt Gingrich:

Newt Gingrich’s second … [Keep reading >>]

Matt Bai in last Sunday’s New York Times Magazine set the scene for the upcoming South Carolina Republican primaries:

The Tea Party’s Not-So-Civil war
“I don’t know a single Tea Party person,” … [Keep reading >>]

Krugman on the GOP trying to kill a great EPA ruling:

 
These rules [Environmental Protection Agency standards on mercury and air toxics for power plants]  are long overdue: we were supposed … [Keep reading >>]

I seem to have forgotten to post Krugman’s December 16 column called GOP Monetary Madness.  But since a missing friend appeared out of the internet thickets the other day, and … [Keep reading >>]

In the end, Herman Cain left the presidential race as he entered it—more a sideshow than a contender.

And he wrapped up his never quite believable run in characteristically bizarre fashion.  … [Keep reading >>]

The signs of intelligent life in the Republican universe are not overwhelming.  At the recent debate several proudly stood up for torture, one would neither stand up nor condemn.  Two … [Keep reading >>]

From Robert Reich — whose blog is always worth checking into:

 
The so-called flat tax is all the rage among Republican presidential hopefuls. Herman Cain was the first. Now, Rick Perry … [Keep reading >>]

Krugman takes on the profound cruelty at the heart of the GOP dream
 CNN’s Wolf Blitzer asked Representative Ron Paul what we should do if a 30-year-old man who chose not … [Keep reading >>]

The inestimable David Brooks saw fit to bemoan the state of the nation’s youth in his September 12 NY Times column.  Based on a study of 230 young people [230!!] … [Keep reading >>]

…even as wildfires obliterate more than 1,000 homes in his state, Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) insisted that [emergency disaster relief] funds be offset because “we can’t keep spending money we … [Keep reading >>]

I couldn’t watch it, anymore than I can watch stupid-men-with-knives movies.  A friend e-mailed and chided me for not blowing up her TV before she spent the hour before the … [Keep reading >>]