Daily Archives: 11/05/2012

Suppressing the Vote – Tip of the Iceberg

(Community Matters) Voter suppression, intimidation and systematic ways of lowering participation – we’d been warned, seen state legislatures’ attempts and now we’re seeing at the polls. Florida

WaPo on POTUS

(Community Matters) He was a friend of immigrants, then a scourge of immigrants, then again a friend. He was a Kissingerian foreign policy realist, then a McCain-like hawk, then a purveyor of peace. He pioneered Obamacare, he detested Obamacare, then he found elements in it to cherish. Assault weapons were bad, then good. Abortion was okay, then bad. Climate change was an urgent problem; then, not so much. Hurricane cleanup was a job for the states, until it was once again a job for the feds.

Washington Post presidential endorsement

Bloomberg on Mitt’s tax dodge