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According to the AP’s delegate count, Romney is still only about a halfway to clinching the 1,144 delegates needed to win the nomination.
Analysis: Romney’s focus shifts to fall fight — After his decisive victories in the Maryland, Wisconsin and the District of Columbia primaries, Romney fired back Tuesday night in a speech that didn’t mention any of his Republican rivals. “(Y)ears of flying around on Air Force One, surrounded by an adoring staff of true believers telling you what a great job you are doing — well, that might be enough to make you a little out of touch,” Romney said.SAID THE QUARTER-BILLIONAIRE who owns a home in almost every state in our union, whose wife drives several Cadillacs, and who considers corporations to be people, isn’t concerned about the very poor, considers himself also ‘unemployed’, tries to make $10,000 bets with people, and who likes to be able to ‘fire people.’ Excellent observation on what constitutes being ‘out of touch’, Mr. Ironic.
California has built just one college campus since 1980, but it’s created 21 prisons.
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Coca-Cola PULLS ITS SUPPORT from ALEC, a right-wing corporate-funded front group pushing voter restriction efforts around the country.
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PEW POLL: SOLID MAJORITY OF REPUBLICANS BELIEVE TRAYVON MARTIN COVERAGE IS OVERDONE
“At the outset of the call, Romney said he has some connections to Wisconsin. “One of most humorous I think relates to my father. You may remember my father, George Romney, was president of an automobile company called American Motors … They had a factory in Michigan, and they had a factory in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and another one in Milwaukee, Wisconsin,” said Romney. “And as the president of the company he decided to close the factory in Michigan and move all the production to Wisconsin. Now later he decided to run for governor of Michigan and so you can imagine that having closed the factory and moved all the production to Wisconsin was a very sensitive issue to him, for his campaign.” —
Mitt Romney’s sense of humor. The guy’s a cut-up!
Romney calls in to Wisconsin voters from Texas, embraces Walker and Ryan - JSOnline
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New York Post Calls Trayvon Supporters ‘Race Hustlers’ On Front Page
Black Atheists: America’s ‘Unseen Civil Rights Heroes’
Why is King, a Christian, remembered by so many and Randolph, an atheist, by so few?Winston brings attention to the work of Norm R. Allen Jr., founder of African Americans for Humanism, a group working to promote the visibility of black atheists with the help of a billboard campaign throughout a handful of cities including New York and Chicago:
Each one pairs a local black nontheist with a black nonbeliever from the past. “Doubts about religion?” the billboard reads. “You’re one of many.”Black atheists are a “double minority” Winston writes, and with such a high level of religiosity in the black community their point of view is often given short shrift. Religious historian Juan Floyd-Thomas likens their perspective to that of “New Atheists” like Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, and is disappointed that so few in the African-American community have warmed up to their irreligious peers:
One of the things that can be gained from shining a bright light on the contributions of nontheists to the broad sweep of the civil rights movement would have to be integrity. These people had a moral core and that’s something that is sorely needed, whether you are a theist or a nontheist.(Photo: “James Baldwin, poet, playwright and Civil Rights activist. Baldwin, once a Pentecostal preacher, never publicly declared his atheism, but was critical of religion.” RNS photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons.)
STUDY: Ron Paul Never Attacked Romney Once During 20 Debates, But Attacked Romney’s Rivals 39 Times
In recent days, attention has focused on the unusual relationship between Ron Paul and Mitt Romney, who are purportedly competing against each other for the Republican presidential nomination. The New York Times reported recently that Romney has “worked to cultivate” a friendship with Paul. The candidates talk on the phone frequently. And when Paul’s “campaign jet broke down last year,” Romney “offered his jet to take them home to Texas.”
Rick Santorum has directly accused Paul and Romney of working together, noting “their commercials look a lot alike, and so do their attacks.” A review by ThinkProgress of the 20 GOP debates suggests Santorum might be onto something.
This is particularly striking given that Paul and Romney do not agree on virtually any policy positions.
Paul has gone beyond merely refraining from attacks. He has actively defended Romney on some of his biggest vulnerabilities. For example, when Rick Perry attacked Romney for “Romneycare” during an October 18 debate, Paul interjected:
First off, you know, the governor of Texas criticized the governor of Massachusetts for “Romneycare,” but he wrote a really fancy letter supporting “Hillarycare.” So we probably ought to ask him about that.
Paul has also run advertisements attacking Romney’s key rivals at critical times. He ran hundreds of thousands of dollars in brutally negative ads attacking Gingrich in Iowa. Paul now is using his scarce funds on a television ad attacking Rick Santorum in Michigan, a key state where Paul is a non-factor.
Paul is effectively acting as Romney’s on-stage surrogate during the debates. The key question is: what is Paul getting out of it?
Romney Crushes it in Arizona, Scrapes by in Michigan
Romney is the projected landslide winner in Arizona, according to CNN, NBC, NPR, Fox News, and a slew of others.
Michigan is still too close for the news channels to call, although on Twitter, commentators are calling it for Romney:
If the exits are correct, they imply Romney will win MI by a few points,writes the Washington Examiner’s Philip Klein.
Santorum may have benefited from the votes of Democratic Michiganders, who’ve been enticed to the GOP polls by a combination of Santorum-campaign robocalls and “Campaign Hilarity,” a movement started by liberal blog site the Daily Kos to ensure an Obama vs. Santorum line-up in the presidential election.
The upper class were more likely to break the law while driving, take candy from children, lie in negotiation, cheat to increase their odds of winning a prize and endorse unethical behavior at work.One experiment involved the observation of drivers in fancy cars vs. those with less expensive vehicles. Can you guess which type of driver drove more recklessly?According to the authors of the study, the results “build on previous research that has shown wealthy people are worse at recognizing how others feel and are more likely to be disengaged during social interactions than others.”Apart from the candy theft, an embarrassingly petty transgression, most of the other results seem about right for rich people, who are obviously prone to enjoying money and power. The question is, do we actually benefit by having folks like this around? Apple founder Steve Jobs was no angel, after all. Former employees of the company, according to Gawker, described the man as “rude, dismissive, hostile, spiteful.”But hey, creative geniuses are kind of supposed