This seems like a no-brainer to me: Rep. Gary Peters (D-Mich.) will introduce a bill Wednesday requiring large U.S. companies to disclose how many of their jobs are based on U.S. soil and how many are based abroad, an attempt to shed light on the number of American jobs being outsourced. Such data is closely …
Archives for February 2012
It’s early, but Romney’s already on the wrong side of the two big issues
Mitt Romney supported SB5 and he opposed the rescue of the auto industry, so I don’t know what he says when he arrives in Ohio: Obama leads Romney 49 – 42 in the new Ohio poll, a state where the political ground has shifted greatly over the last few months. After the massive defeat of …
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Gingrich Supporter Rick Tyler: Democrats Abort Black Babies [updated]
Madness. Gingrich campaign strategist Rick Tyler opened his mouth last night and a whole lotta stupid fell out. The below clip demonstrates that Republicans really do live in an alternate reality where up is down, the sky is green, and asking a question about racism ipso facto makes you racist. It’s surreal: Visit msnbc.com for …
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Let Them Eat Safety Net, He Said
Mitt Romney is just really, really awful at being a politician. Every time he opens his mouth, that silver foot keeps getting inserted sideways. Greg Sargent tags this Romney comment from this morning: “I’m not concerned with the very poor. We have a safety net there,” Romney told CNN. “If it needs repair, I’ll fix …
Whuh
In order to take over the world, all these UPenn nanorobotcopters have to do is keep you mesmerized with their cool flying while another robot walks up behind and stabs you. Via io9. Then again, if the UPenn guys ever look up Neural Robotics Inc. we are well and truly hosed.
The Santorum Candidacy in a Single Picture
Click to embiggen. (Via this guy’s tweet.)
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Komen’s House of Cards
As someone who lives in a house surrounded by a bunch of pink-ribbon-branded Komen paraphernalia, I am beyond pissed about the Komen foundation’s decision to end a program that paid for 170,000 breast exams and 6,400 mammogram referrals. My sister-in-law died of breast cancer after an ugly 7-year ordeal, and during her fight and since …