Yesterday the Washington Post’s fact chcker, Glenn Kessler, awarded the Obama Campaign 4 Pinocchios for this ad: Here’s how Kessler characterized it: The Obama campaign apparently loves to ding former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney with the charge of “outsourcing.” On several occasions, we have faulted the campaign for its claims, apparently to little avail. But […]
There has been a lot of questions about Mitt Romney’s income taxes and we finally got one answer: Q: What’s the effective rate you’ve been paying? ROMNEY: What’s the effective rate I’ve been paying? It’s probably closer to the 15 percent rate than anything, because my last ten years, I’ve, my income comes overwhelmingly from […]
An op-ed that Eric Cantor wrote for yesterday’s Washington Post is very interesting, to say the least: But the politics of division have reared up, fueled by efforts to incite class warfare. For example, though he often talks about millionaires, billionaires and corporate jet owners paying their “fair share,” behind closed doors the president admits […]
Sean Hannity decided to have disgraced former representative, Mark Foley, on his show to discuss the Anthony Weiner non-sex “scandal”. Foley, who was forced to resign after sending sexually explicit messages to underage congressional pages, told Hannity that it should not be illegal to send such messages to minors (via Think Progress): This is really […]
Erick Erickson on CNN: here is not in any way, shape, or form any rational explanation for the United States engaged in Libya to do nothing except for one I can think of — Barack Obama’s re-election. … Suddenly Obama can look Presidential again — all through manufacturing the need for American involvement where there […]
The Washington Post has put together a great chart to show how the Democratic tax plans actually help those making less than $250,000 a year more than the Republicans. The Democratic tax plan also costs $36.6 billion less than the Republican one: (Click for larger view) So when you look at it in simple graphical […]
Yesterday I posted about a Washington Post article talking about the police questioning people for taking pictures of federal buildings and landmarks. Now we have another extreme: The ACLU of Maryland is defending Anthony Graber, who potentially faces sixteen years in prison if found guilty of violating state wiretap laws because he recorded video of […]
As a photographer stories like this really get my blood boiling: A few weeks ago, on his way to work, Matt Urick stopped to snap a few pictures of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s headquarters. He thought the building was ugly but might make for an interesting photo. The uniformed officer who […]
Last night WikiLeaks published the largest single disclosure of military documents in U.S. history. The 91,000+ page dump represents a different view of the Afghanistan War than we have been told and represent a timeframe from January 2004 to December 2009, right before President Obama announced the new strategy. Here’s a few various tidbits from […]
The top story on Memeorandum right now is this one from The Washington Post: A revolt among big donors on Wall Street is hurting fundraising for the Democrats’ two congressional campaign committees, with contributions from the world’s financial capital down 65 percent from two years ago. The drop in support comes from many of the […]