How would you like these cretins to be a jury of your “peers”?
Some members of the debate audience cheered the idea of letting people without health insurance die.
Tampa Tea Party Master Debaters
CEO’s tax break shorts Social Security
Social Security should not be placed on the cutting board by either of our political parties. Presently, Social Security is in the black with $2.6 trillion.
Even with the demands that Baby Boomers will place on Social Security is extremely simple.
It should not matter how much is earned each year, the Social Security tax (FICA) should be paid on total earnings and not capped at $106,000 dollars.
The average American worker has always paid the full Social Security tax. Therefore, the CEOs of large corporations who average $11 million should pay the tax on the entire amount and not just the first $106,000.
Democracy is advanced when there is fairness in all taxation.
by Henry Denny and Judy Powell, Chino Valley, AZ
You can follow the rather extensive thread of comments generated by this brief letter on the Arizona Republic’s online site:
McCain offers this strange characterization during a presidential debate.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBAsHTSbkXs
Art by Jason Seiler
From “Dressed to Kill”  click here: Ich bin ein Berliner
Video of Kennedy saying, “I am a doughnut.” Click here:
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by Ray McGovern
With few exceptions, like some salacious rumor about the Kennedy family, the mainstream U.S. news media has shown little interest in stories that throw light on history — even recent, very relevant history. So it comes as no surprise that, when a former White House counter-terrorism czar accuses an ex-CIA director of sitting on information that could have prevented a 9/11 attack, the story gets neither ink nor air.
Bulletin for those of you who get your information only from the New York Times, the Washington Post and other outlets of the Fawning Corporate Media (FCM): Former White House director for counterterrorism Richard Clarke has accused former CIA Director George Tenet of denying him and others access to intelligence that could have thwarted the attack on the Pentagon on 9/11.
Deliberately withholding critical intelligence from those who need it, and can act on it, is — at the least — gross dereliction of duty. The more so if keeping the White House promptly and fully informed is at the
top of your job jar, as it was for Director of Central Intelligence Tenet. And yet that is precisely the charge Clarke has leveled at the former DCI.