Politics
FactCheck.org: Whoppers of the 2012 Election, Final Edition
President Barack Obama claimed Mitt Romney is planning to raise taxes by $2,000 on middle-income taxpayers and/or cut taxes by $5 trillion. Neither is true. Romney claimed Obama plans to raise taxes by $4,000 on middle-income taxpayers. That’s not true, either. It’s also not true that Obama plans “to gut welfare reform by dropping work requirements,” as Romney claimed. Equally untrue is the Obama campaign’s repeated claim that Romney backed a law that would outlaw “all abortions, even in cases of rape and incest.” more »
A Challenge to Reproductive Decisions Made by Politicians
The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Arizona today sued to challenge an Arizona law banning pre-viability abortions on behalf of two Arizona doctors whose patients include women in need of this essential medical care. “Whether a woman decides to continue with a high-risk pregnancy or terminate it, the important thing is that women, families and physicians make these decisions – not politicians without any medical training.” more »
Four Months to Go: Campaign Exhausting But Informative.. Important But Dull
While fewer Republicans than Democrats currently say the campaign has been interesting, GOP voters are more engaged than Democratic voters in the 2012 campaign. For instance, more Republicans are giving quite a lot of thought to the election and more say it really matters who wins. more »
New Deal Numerology: Broccoli Roberts
Tim Price writes: This week's numbers: 80; 23%; 67%; 6%; 17 million 80 ... is an activist number. That’s how many years it’s been since the Supreme Court voted as conservatively as it does now, according to a recent study. more »
