Nobody expected the former CEO of Godfather Pizza, Herman Cain, to lead the Republican field. It was easy to brush him off as inexperienced and politically incoherent – at first. But with his poll numbers on the rise as Texas governor Rick Perry’s sun sets, I’m beginning to have doubts about my doubts. A new NBC/Wall […]
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Texas Gov. Rick Perry is staving off attacks on all fronts, including recent revelations about his family’s hunting camp which have drawn accusations of racism to the GOP candidate. While these attacks may indeed be off the mark, as Perry’s camp claims, they are far from the only blows the Republican governor is taking. Ironically, […]
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Texas Governor Rick Perry just can’t seem to catch a break. The latest in a long series of political punches came Saturday, when the Washington Post broke the story of Perry’s family hunting camp which was for many years named “Niggerhead.” While the Perry campaign has claimed that the sign with the offensive name was […]
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President Barack Obama speaks at a town hall meeting at the Computer History Museum on September 26, 2011 in Mountain View, California. President Obama has come out swinging following his recent populist speeches about the deficit and jobs which had Republicans complaining about “class warfare”. Speaking at a fundraiser in San Jose, Obama said voters […]
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Alyssa Rosenberg thinks Men in Black might just be the best progressive immigration film out there: The movie’s immigrants aren’t merely saintly. They’re cranky newsstand attendants, family people who break laws to try to get their wives and kids out of the way of harm, cranky elementary school teachers. The Bug’s a conservative nightmare of […]
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Failure to act quickly may have prolonged sexual abuse scandals that have plagued Texas for at least the past decade, according to Tim Murphy of Mother Jones: Gov. Rick Perry did not take swift action to address the problem, which his office knew about for years. Allegations of systematic mistreatment at TYC facilities first came to […]
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Tim Murphy digs into the big business of the private prison industry over at Mother Jones. He zeroes in on Rick Perry who took steps to help close the state’s $27 billion deficit last year by pushing for the privatization of the Texas prison healthcare network: Private prisons are a big business in Texas, where […]
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