BY SUSAN ESTRICH The commentators may be raving, but if you ask me, they’re living in a bubble – along with the candidate. President Obama: Bad. Republicans: Good. My mother: My hero. Small business: Good. Government: Bad. Obama: Bad. Republicans: Good. I’ll be fair and balanced. I’m sure many of the same equations will apply next week in reverse. But for the life of me, I can’t remember a single meaningful [and truthful] thing Paul […]

BY KENNY BELFORD This information is not opinion, it's now fact. At the Republican Convention they created their official platform that their candidates are running...

BY JOE CONASON On the same day that Mitt Romney cracked his birther “joke,” new evidence indicated that he and his partners at Bain Capital have used questionable methods to avoid federal taxes – including a scheme that transforms corporate stock into untaxed offshore “derivatives” and a practice that converts management fees into capital gains, which are taxed at a far lower rate. While nobody has asked to see the Republican candidate’s birth certificate, as […]

BY FROMA HARROP No balanced talk of immigration reform is expected before the November election. But that need not stop the airing of proposals, some of them semi-formed, some half-baked. From the left, we have the TRUST Act, a bill passed by the California Legislature and now awaiting Gov. Jerry Brown’s uncertain signature. It would require local law enforcement to defy some federal requests to hold arrested illegal immigrants pending checks for criminal records. That […]

BY RALPH NADER The media coverage of the presidential campaigns is a dreary repetition of past coverage. Stuck in a rut and garnished by press...