Thursday's Daily Brief: Paul Ryan's Misleading Speech

Thursday, August 30, 2012 Paul Ryan Address Misleads Again and Again TECHNOLOGY Fresh From the Lab: Introducing HuffPost Highlights POLITICS GOP Ditches Support For Key Campaign Finance Reform MEDIA Money, Politics And The Press: Where Media Companies, Bigwigs Funneled Campaign Donations MONEY Stock Tips From Obama And Romney WORLD Ayatollah Khamenei: Iran Has No Interest In Nuclear Weapons BLOG POSTS Josh Silver: Conventions: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy Behind the pomp and circumstance of the conventions, you'll quickly discover unthinkable largess bestowed upon Republicans and Democrats alike in exchange for policies that are screwing just about everyone who doesn't happen to have a well-heeled lobbyist or Super PAC. J. Mijin Cha: The Role of Money in Politics: Extreme Energy Edition Keystone XL's job creation number and the idea that fracking creates great, local jobs are myths. But not only does money talk, it makes policy. In 2011, the oil and gas lobby spent nearly $150 million on lobbying. Lucas Kavner: Mitt Romney And The Arts: How He Plans To Gut Federal Funding In a recent interview, Mitt Romney said cutting all federal funding for the National Endowment for the Arts, PBS, and NPR would be a "focus" of his administration. Marlo Thomas: Strong-Arming Death: The Summer Wilson Story Summer Wilson couldn't believe her eyes when her mother handed her a journal written more than 15 years ago -- a diary that she never even knew existed. As she leafed through its pages, it quickly became apparent that the journal was all about her and how she almost died. Cenk Uygur: The Real Convention Is at Cracker Bay You think Mitt Romney gives a damn what a delegate thinks? The only delegates that matter were on that yacht.

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e view email online Follow Us on Facebook Follow Us on Twitter August 30, 2012 Two Names You Won't Hear At The GOP Convention: George W. Bush And Osama bin Laden Critiques of Obama's record ignore his successes and Bush's failures. Read » Share on: Paul Ryan And The P90X Republicans When did the GOP decide that Americans must suffer before they can prosper? Read » Share on: Have You Spoken Out Against Industrial Carbon Pollution? Now is the time. Read » Sponsored Petition Six Things That Paul Ryan Didn't Mention In His Convention Speech From the Bush years to "forcible rape," he omitted the most salient facts.    Read » Is This The Whitest Convention Ever? The Republican Party has a serious race problem.    Read » A True American Hero Leonard Pitts Jr. remembers Neil Armstrong.    Read » A D V E R T I S E M E N T The Big Lie Paul Ryan Repackages Newt's Medicare Hoax Read » Share on: Cartoon Of The Day Not every Republican was invited to the convention. Read » Share on:    |   Terms of Service   |   Privacy Policy © 2012 Eastern Harbor Media, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

Tuesday's Daily Brief: Shadow Conventions 2012 Discuss What Candidates Don't

Tuesday, August 28, 2012 Arianna Huffington: Shadow Conventions 2012: What They Will Not Be Talking About in Tampa and Charlotte Arianna Huffington: HuffPost Live is bringing you Shadow Conventions 2012 with the goal of sparking a national conversation on three issues that neither party is seriously addressing: the corrupting influence of money on our politics, the persistence of poverty in America, and the disastrous war on drugs. Our new streaming network will devote a day during each of the national conventions to focusing on one of those three issues. Today, HuffPost Live's team of host/producers will be joined by a broad range of politicians, thought leaders, activists, and celebrities for in-depth interviews and panel discussions on various aspects of the drug war. And we want you to be a central part of these discussions. That's what HuffPost Live is all about -- sparking real conversations about issues that impact our lives. The Shadow Conventions are your conventions. Join us and be part of a convention that's unscripted, surprising, and a lot more interesting than the over-produced political commercials in Tampa and Charlotte. POLITICS LIVE UPDATES: Republican Convention Kicks Off In Tampa POLITICS Mitt Romney's Strange Bedfellows In Long Drug War WORLD Which Cartels Are Running The Show In Mexico? BLACK VOICES States with Harsh Drug Sentencing Working Towards Reform GREEN Isaac On Verge Of Ballooning Into A Hurricane, New Orleans Threatened BLOG POSTS Steph Sherer: RNC vs. DNC -- Will Medical Marijuana Decide the Election? We want Obama's campaign to know that they aren't meeting their volunteer goals in deep-blue counties because people are finding this president's policies on cannabis too hard to swallow. Leonard Frieling: Politicians Ignore Failed 'War on Drugs' at Their (and Our) Peril Opposing the war on drugs is often portrayed as a liberal issue. But it is also a conservative issue for anyone who champions classic "republican" values. Kevin A. Sabet, Ph.D.: Legalization Is Not the Answer It makes sense to devote our time and resources now to stopping drug use before it starts, intervening on early use, treating addiction, and enforcing our laws justly and smartly. Harry Shearer: In Praise of Waste, Fraud and Abuse As we wait to see what effect Isaac will have on the Army Corps of Engineers $10 billion-plus "hurricane risk reduction system" in New Orleans, I can't help thinking about last week's news from levees.org. When government adopts efficiency as its top priority, decisions like the Corps' get made. And people die. John Hodgman: Why Winners Should Vote for Obama I will reveal here that I am going to vote for Obama, and I hope he wins, and here is the reason: I LIKE WINNING.

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