January 2012

Over the weekend, Mitt Romney had just two hurdles to jump before he cruises to a victory in tomorrow night’s New Hampshire Primary – and those were back-to-back debates on Saturday night and Sunday morning.  After escaping the first debate completely unscathed – Romney was attacked in the second debate for being a career politician, making a living killing jobs, and being far too moderate to represent the Republican Party.  Romney himse

Iowa Republicans are trying to dismiss claims that the vote count in Tuesday’s Iowa Caucus was wrong.  An Iowa voter told a local TV station yesterday that he noticed a 20-vote discrepancy in the count – and that Rick Santorum was the real winner of the Caucuses.  Republican Party officials, though, are sticking to their first count – showing Mitt Romney as the winner by 8-votes - and there will be no recount.

The New York Times is finally catching on to the fact that the American Dream is dead.  An article running in the paper today points out the disturbing fact that the United States is one of the least socially mobile nations in the developed world.  As in – it’s harder for someone born poor to become rich – or even just join the middle class throughout their life.  Only 8% of Americans born in the poorest fifth of the popula