Articles Tagged “Paul Ryan”
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The Shame Of America’s Two-Party Duopoly
BY RALPH NADER The Republican and Democratic Conventions are mercifully over but their corrosive impacts on our democracy persist. First, did you know that taxpayers helped fund these conventions at a level of $100 million for logistics and police sequestrations of demonstrators in Tampa and Charlotte and an additional $18.2 million each for general convention [...]
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The Purpose Behind Action
BY VERN TURNER Now that Mitt Romney has selected Paul Ryan as his vice-presidential candidate, then immediately gaffing, one can have no doubt any longer as to the intent of the Republican agenda: Destroy the middle class, render the poor to even deeper poverty, allow the sick to get sicker because they can’t pay for [...]
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Atlas Shrugged, Jesus Wept
BY KAREN WEBB Give me a minute … I just have to get a handle on this. The evangelical Christians have decided to back the Joseph Smith/Ayn Rand ticket? Atlas Shrugged and Jesus wept. No, Jesus is sobbing. Romney really wants to stop getting questions about his taxes. Ayn could have based The Fountainhead on [...]
