Category Archives: Elections & Voting

If you don’t know why constitutional 12th Amendment was added to protect infant Republic from mob rule mentality, you might be a “Put the white back in the White House” Romneysiac. Continue reading →

Voting in general—and in particular, voting for the Democrats and Republicans, especially on the federal level—in this corporate-controlled, Patriot Act, NDAA, ‘Kill List,’ de facto police- state, is akin to choosing how one wants to die; when in fact, we should be demanding systemic change and deciding how we want to live! Continue reading →

Holy debates, Obatman! For all the personal dislike for each other said to exist between these two ordained priests of American capitalism—often misidentified as Free Market Enterprise—Mitt Romney and Barack Obama have shown to be equally adept at dealing with trivia and secondary issues . . . and equally inept at dealing with every substantive issue. Continue reading →

With Election Day right around the corner, the propaganda machines are busily spinning political webs with which the candidates can lure voters. However, no matter how badly Americans might want to believe that those running for office—especially the ones we’re rooting for—are telling us the truth, truth and politics do not make good bedfellows.
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The new Gilded Age is roaring down on us—an uncaged tiger on a rampage. Walk out to the street in front of our office here in Manhattan, look to the right and you can see the symbol of it: a fancy new skyscraper going up two blocks away. When finished, this high rise among high rises will tower a thousand feet, the tallest residential building in the city. Continue reading →

The presidential debates with Obama and Romney having debated twice and Biden and Ryan having debated once, as of this writing October 19, 2012, show how difficult it is for humans to comprehend the political worlds in which they live. Continue reading →

US elections are manifestly linked to the Middle East, at least rhetorically. In practical terms, however, US foreign policies in the region are compelled by the Middle East’s own dynamics and the US’ own political climate, economic woes, or ambitions. There is little historic evidence that US foreign policy in the Arab world has been guided by moral compulsion. Continue reading →

CRANFORD, NJ–American Atheists will launch a mobile billboard campaign October 22, 2012, in Boca Raton, FL, near the final presidential debate site. The billboard states, “No Blacks Allowed (until 1978). No Gays Allowed. Shame on Mormonism.” This campaign highlights just two of the troubling aspects of Romney’s religious faith. Continue reading →

Debates are mostly verbal swordplay as the candidates spew facts at warp speed, trying to spell out a whole agenda in 90 minutes. Continue reading →

Will you cast your vote this fall on a faulty electronic machine that’s partly owned by the Romney family? Will that machine decide whether Romney will then inherit the White House? Continue reading →

When the National Football League ended its lockout of the professional referees and the refs returned to call the games, all across the country players, fans, sponsors and owners breathed a sigh of relief. Fans were grateful for the return of qualified judges to keep things on the up and up. Continue reading →

Every four years, the deck chairs of the political Titanic that is the American empire get rearranged in the choreographed spectacle of another presidential “election.” The 2012 charade is particularly disgusting; the lies more blatant and shrill, as the world continues to burn. Continue reading →

Paul Ryan ended the one and only vice presidential debate last week just as he began it, conveniently stepping on the facts. Continue reading →

Back during the George W. Bush neocon regime, President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela in his UN speech summed up George W. Bush for the world. I am quoting Chavez from memory, not verbatim. “Yesterday standing at this same podium was Satan himself, speaking as if he owned the world. You can still smell the sulfur.” Continue reading →

US Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s speech at the Virginia Military Academy in early October was an embarrassment to the nation. For those who seriously study the life and career of General George C. Marshall (or teach about the man and his times to young/old Americans) it was appalling to the senses to hear Marshall’s name invoked by Romney just as it would be by any of today’s American civilian and military leaders. Continue reading →

Electronic voting machines owned by Mitt Romney’s business buddies and set to count the votes in Cincinnati could decide the 2012 election. Continue reading →

A model nation for democracy, is that what we claim to be? My guess is that many political scientists would place the US as democracy’s anti-model, not exactly the nation to emulate. Continue reading →

Via Mother Jones comes yet more evidence of Paul Ryan’s scary innumeracy, not to mention his ignorance of basic macroeconomics and geopolitics: Continue reading →

President Barack Obama will easily defeat his Republican opponent, former Governor Mitt Romney of Massachusetts. Continue reading →

Unlike demigods of “Liberal Bias Media,” I don’t chase decoys deployed by empty suits to float their rudderless boats, believing instead, “Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it.” Continue reading →

WidowRica emerged from her high-rise wearing a neon magenta scarf beneath her beautiful smile. Off we drove to the Baltimore Book Fair, a venue of tents, contents of good intentions and pretensions, multi-dimensions, and my personal tensions, not to mention food and music. Continue reading →

Plutarch wrote, “For at the very delivery of their money, they immediately ask it back, taking it up at the same moment they lay it down; and they let out that again to interest which they take for the use of what they have before lent.” Continue reading →

What passed as a presidential debate, last Wednesday evening, was nothing more than a series of carefully-rehearsed, often rambling, mini-speeches that talked more in generalities than in specifics. Continue reading →

I live in Oakland, in California’s 9th Congressional District. It is represented by Barbara Lee of “Let us not become the evil that we deplore” fame. It is heavily Democratic and is considered one of the most liberal district’s in the nation. Continue reading →

America, you have become a nation of enablers and apologists for tyranny and mass murder. You condemn the Nazi and gulag guards of times past even as you celebrate your own mercenaries and torturers, even as you explain away, if not outright cheer, the unspeakable crimes committed by your sons and daughters. You don’t care who you kill, as long as your soldiers are paid, and your munitions, bomb and tank factories are humming. Continue reading →

BEIJING, China (WMR)—Shortly after WMR’s report appeared on Mitt Romney’s campaign benefiting from non-tax declarable private “winnings” from U.S.-owned casinos in Macau, a variation of the Las Vegas “skim” used by Italian mobsters to shave five percent off pre-tax profits from Las Vegas casinos during the 1960s, top expatriate Republicans held a Romney fundraiser at Hong Kong’s Mandarin Oriental hotel. Continue reading →

That ringing in your ears isn’t church bells or a touch of tinnitus. It’s the sound of campaign cash registers all over the country, chiming together like the world’s biggest carillon, as money pours in as never before. The total being spent for all the races in 2012 is projected at $6 billion this year; possibly rising to as much as $8 billion—which perhaps not coincidentally is the same amount the National Retail Federation estimates Americans will spend on Halloween. Continue reading →

Macau SAR (WMR)—WMR has discovered that the campaign of GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney has been receiving campaign cash donations from U.S.-owned casinos in the Macau Special Administrative Region, mostly though the auspices of Republicans Abroad, which maintains a large and active chapter in Hong Kong that also covers expatriate Republicans in Macau and the Guangdong province of southern China. Continue reading →

For politicians to do what is right, first citizens must do what is right. Continue reading →