Via AP: WASHINGTON (AP) — Cutting corporate tax rates and deleting loopholes is just what most economists prescribe for the tangled U.S. tax code. So why isn’t everyone cheering the plan President Barack Obama unveiled Tuesday to slash the top corporate tax rate and end breaks that let some companies pay little or nothing in [...]
The Most Novel Defense of Coultercare Yet
February 23, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Print Email Text Size The Spectacle Blog By W. James Antle, III on 2.23.12 @ 12:03PM Ann Coulter keeps outdoing herself in defenses of Romneycare that inadvertently reinforce Obamacare. To wit: “Romney pushed the conservative alternative to national health care that, had it been adopted in the 49 other states, would have killed Obamacare in [...]
A U-Turn Strategy for the GOP
February 23, 2012 By Leave a Comment
As we head into some crucial GOP primaries — Arizona and Michigan on February 28, then Super Tuesday one week later — grassroots Republicans remain sharply divided over which presidential candidate to support. A lot of us would vote for None of the Above, if we had that choice. But we’re united in the belief [...]
Final report on W.Va. mine blast comes amid charge
February 23, 2012 By Leave a Comment
FILE – In a Monday, April 5, 2010 file photo, emergency vehicles leave the entrance to Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch Coal Mine in Montcoal, W.Va. after an explosion at the underground coal mine. Former Upper Big Branch mine boss Gary May, the superintendent of Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch Coal Mine where an explosion [...]
Santorum’s Disastrous Debate
February 23, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Print Email Text Size The Spectacle Blog By Ross Kaminsky on 2.23.12 @ 12:06AM I’m sorry to disagree with my friend, and sincere Rick Santorum supporter, Quin Hillyer, who suggests that Wednesday’s Republican debate was “no game changer.” Having heard a little more than an hour of the Republican debate on Wednesday evening, my gut [...]
Media Power Defining Santorum
February 23, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Over the past thirty years, a strange thing has happened on the path to the presidency. With the advent of the twenty-four-hour news cycle and the proliferation of media outlets, potential presidential nominees can no longer control or establish their image in the minds of the public. This is particularly true of someone whom the [...]