When Upton Sinclair wrote that seminal muckraking novel The Jungle, published in 1906, he later reflected on its national impact thusly: "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach."
Posts Tagged ‘ Barack Obama ’
Home, Home on Derange
OK. When we crunch all the data, the Rightie/Romney/R-Money tactic of choice for the fall election becomes clear....
In Tight Race, Ohio Senator Rallies On Student Loans
In another testament to just how important turning out young voters could be in this year’s election — and how potent the issue of student loan costs could be in making that happen — Ohio’s freshman Democratic senator rallied with students in support of his legislation to prevent this summer’s impending increase on student-loan interest payments. Sen. Sherrod Brown joined students from Ohio State Wednesday to call for passage of Brown’s Stop the Student Loan Interest Rate Hike Act...
The Witching Hour
The Righties have succeeded in making their meme more important than the anniversary whose celebration disgusts them so. Thus (bizarrely using -- not for the first time this week -- a UK newspaper and Writer/Blogger Toby Harndon to push their poisonous "American" blog linkages)
‘Dumb Frankenstein’ Premieres, Starring Sarah Palin
Yes, the shocking lack of respect for the dead is, perhaps, a hallmark of Breitbartia, but one would think that the corpse would be allowed to cool before "reanimating" it, in a sort of club-footed attempt to mimic the iconic "Hope" poster of President Obama by Shepard Fairey.
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