All posts tagged Romney

In the summer of 2000, Omar Rahman’s brothers made plans to return home with their parents to Nablus on the West Bank.  After forty years of bricklaying, his father

Everything is over: my brother Rick’s memorial and the elections. Well, not everything is over. The East Coast, New Jersey, New York and Connecticut in particular, are still reeling

The polls were right: Too close to call. But it went the president’s way in the end. Two weeks ago, the polls clearly showed clear and continuing momentum for Mitt

Republican Party organizers under the umbrella of the Romney-Ryan campaign in Wisconsin have been caught holding training sessions for poll watchers that instruct them to enforce laws that don’t

Conservatives fought tooth-and-nail to defeat Mitt Romney – and tomorrow, they'll vote for him anyway. "I've even heard some people complain that they weren't excited about Mitt Romney," Herman Cain

 (If Romney’s rich donors are such savvy businessmen, why have they made such an awful investment? Left to right: Sheldon Adelson, courtesy Wikipedia Commons; Mitt Romney and Donald Trump,

The question sounds ridiculous but it is a surprisingly substantive one: Major national disasters or exceptional storms often cause profound and lasting changes to political conditions. And in this

Imagine you're a Martian visiting the United States to study the presidential election. You don't speak any human language, so you have no idea what's being said in the media,

I was perusing Facebook, well, the correct Internet term is trolling, anyway, while trolling Facebook I came upon the photo at left: two men marching down a street holding