There are two forms of conventional wisdom when it comes to presidential running mates. One is that they are a game changer. The other is that they don’t matter. Both are, for the most part, wrong. First let’s consider the first. According to a couple of polls by Gallup, voter response to Republican Mitt Romney’s […]
There are two forms of conventional wisdom when it comes to presidential running mates. One is that they are a game changer. The other is that they don’t matter. Both are, for the most part, wrong. First let’s consider the first. According to a couple of polls by Gallup, voter response to Republican Mitt Romney’s […]
(MintPress) — Creating a distraction — it’s a method practiced by anyone aiming to divert someone’s attention away from a not-so-favorable situation. While consumers are well acquainted with this tactic, the efforts by large corporations to ‘fool’ the public with rose-colored distractions, for the most part, work. Take Nike, for example. Most Americans have run […]
(MintPress) — Creating a distraction — it’s a method practiced by anyone aiming to divert someone’s attention away from a not-so-favorable situation. While consumers are well acquainted with this tactic, the efforts by large corporations to ‘fool’ the public with rose-colored distractions, for the most part, work. Take Nike, for example. Most Americans have run […]
There are many things that you could say about Paul Ryan and be spot on. You could say that he is ardently pro-life and his record bears that out. “I’m as pro-life as a person gets,” Ryan, who is Roman Catholic, told the conservative magazine the Weekly Standard in 2010. The National Right to Life […]
There are many things that you could say about Paul Ryan and be spot on. You could say that he is ardently pro-life and his record bears that out. “I’m as pro-life as a person gets,” Ryan, who is Roman Catholic, told the conservative magazine the Weekly Standard in 2010. The National Right to Life […]
(NEW YORK) MintPress — When Marine Dakota Meyer returned from Afghanistan on Dec. 5, 2009, he faced what he found to be a strange, new civilian world. “It’s a hard transition coming home and going from the battlefield straight back to the States,” he said in a recent interview with the Daily Beast. “It’s a hard […]
(NEW YORK) MintPress — When Marine Dakota Meyer returned from Afghanistan on Dec. 5, 2009, he faced what he found to be a strange, new civilian world. “It’s a hard transition coming home and going from the battlefield straight back to the States,” he said in a recent interview with the Daily Beast. “It’s a hard […]
(MintPress) — Expenditures on national security have increased by more than $1 trillion since Sept. 11, a sharp rise that many experts in defense and domestic policy circles criticize as inflated and unnecessary. While the threat from foreign jihadi terrorism still poses a threat to U.S. national security, a growing number of experts contend that […]
(MintPress) — Expenditures on national security have increased by more than $1 trillion since Sept. 11, a sharp rise that many experts in defense and domestic policy circles criticize as inflated and unnecessary. While the threat from foreign jihadi terrorism still poses a threat to U.S. national security, a growing number of experts contend that […]
(MintPress) —You see them everywhere — dazzling colored feathers hanging from the luscious locks and earlobes of fashionistas. While touted by the fashion industry as a hip, organic way to let your personality shine, the impacts are quite devastating at the source. While many of the farms breeding hens for their feathers are taking place […]
(MintPress) —You see them everywhere — dazzling colored feathers hanging from the luscious locks and earlobes of fashionistas. While touted by the fashion industry as a hip, organic way to let your personality shine, the impacts are quite devastating at the source. While many of the farms breeding hens for their feathers are taking place […]
(MintPress) — Recent actions by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have skeptics worried that the department is preparing for the worst after the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) deemed that domestic terrorism attacks from hate groups has grown into a serious problem – now equating it with terrorism from foreign organization. The DHS recently […]
(MintPress) — Recent actions by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have skeptics worried that the department is preparing for the worst after the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) deemed that domestic terrorism attacks from hate groups has grown into a serious problem – now equating it with terrorism from foreign organization. The DHS recently […]
