Bachmann Uses Immigration Issue To Attack Obama’s Family

Michelle Bachmann made a gratuitous remark about President Obama’s family in an attempt to show he’s soft on immigration.

As moderator Anderson Cooper went around the group asking for solutions to the immigration problem and, namely, whether a fence or other exclusion apparatus would be an option they would entertain. When it came time for Rep. Bachmann to answer, she refused to attack the policies of any of the other candidates on the stage– this after a heated exchange between Rick Perry and Mitt Romney– instead turning to the real opponent of all the Republican candidates. “The person who really …

The Las Vegas Republican Debate

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Mitt Romney: Bring Back The Economy By Foreclosing On Homeowners

Speaking to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Mitt Romney offered the economic solution of foreclosing on people, so investors could buy up homes and rent it back to them.

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The Effect Of 9-9-9 On You

by Stuart Shapiro

How about everyone whose taxes go up vote against him and everyone whose taxes go down vote for him. (h/t Paul Krugman).…

On Tuesday’s Radio Show…

• Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) discusses his new book Prisoner of Conscience and tells Alan how no-new-taxes pledges are “paralyzing Congress.”

• Political strategist Doug Schoen explains why he believes that the Occupy Wall Street movement could cost Democrats the 2012 election.

• Alan analyzes the war of words at tonight’s Republican presidential debate.…

Gary Johnson Going For The Pagan Vote

Republican Gary Johnson feels his party should not appeal just to Christians. Hence, he is speaking before non-traditional religious groups.

The former New Mexico governor spoke with members of the Pagan Newswire Collective, ModernWitch Podcast and Patheos.com, among others. He said it was important to reach out to voters that fall outside the Christian, Jewish and Muslim faiths, and slammed his own party for being too beholden to the Christian right.

“I think the world looks down on Republicans for their socially conservative views, which includes religion in government,” Johnson said. “I think that should not play a role in …

Herman Cain Used Campaign Funds To Buy His Books From His Own Company

Herman Cain paid $35,511 to his motivational speaking company for copies of his book.

Bill Allison, editorial director at the Washington-based Sunlight Foundation, a nonpartisan group that tracks political money, said the transactions deserve scrutiny.

“All candidates publish books and they offer them as premiums to donors, but most candidates aren’t buying them from their own companies,” he said. “It raises the question of his campaign contributions ending up in his own pocket.”…

A Texan Who Believes In Climate Change

by Stuart Shapiro

OK, so he is a scientist, but he is a Texan.  The state climatologist for Texas, John Neilsen-Gammon,  presumably someone that Governor Perry would call for perspective on a climate related issue, gave a thoughtful interview on the subject of climate change to the Texas Tribune late last year on the subject of climate change.

The overall pattern … vaguely follows global pattern for temperature change, with warming in the early part of the century, then fairly flat in the middle and warming since then. It seems that a part of that is due to an increase …

Jesse Jackson Convinces Police Not To Remove Medical Tent From Zuccotti Park

The NYPD said a tent is against park rules, but Jesse Jackson was able to convince them to let it stand.

A little after 11:25PM, there was a big commotion on the south side of Zuccotti Park as someone mic checked that the NYPD was moving into to remove the “medical tent” (tents are a violation of the park’s rules.). Occupy Wall Street protesters immediately locked arms and vowed to protect it. Out of nowhere, civil rights activist Jesse Jackson swooped in and briefly spoke face to face with the NYPD as officers continued to amass on Cedar Street.…

Who Are The Occupy Wall Street Protesters?

Doug Schoen, Bill Clinton’s former pollster, did a random sampling of the crowds in Zuccotti Park.

…the Occupy Wall Street movement reflects values that are dangerously out of touch with the broad mass of the American people—and particularly with swing voters who are largely independent and have been trending away from the president since the debate over health-care reform.

Based on 200 interviews, Schoen says the movement is not ideologically diverse.

Half (52%) have participated in a political movement before, virtually all (98%) say they would support civil disobedience to achieve their goals, and nearly one-third (31%) would support violence …

Hillary Clinton Done With Public Life

Hillary Clinton says she will not run for president in 2016, and seems ready to get back to private life, as she expressed on the Today Show.

“I’m very privileged to have had the opportunity to serve my country,” Clinton said. “I’m really old-fashioned. I feel I have made my contribution. I have done the best I can. But now I want to try some other things. I want to get back to writing and maybe some teaching, working on women and girls around the world.”…