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Mass-produced, handmade signs created by Convention operations staff proclaim, “We <3 you Ann” and “Women love Ann,” appear just in time for Mrs. Romney’s Tuesday night marquee speech. In response, mid-presentation Mrs. Romney exclaims, “I love you WOMEN!” […]
“Tonight I want to talk with you from my heart about our hearts,” Ann Romney gushes. She discusses her husband’s kind heart, their children, and her love for women. […]
“We will roll back Obamacare on day one!” [U.S. Senator Kelly Ayotte (NH)] In Marxist theory, the term “false consciousness” refers to the ways in which the proletariat is led to identify with the ruling class and to invest (too) deeply in the notion of class mobility. […]
Personal responsibility, fiscal accountability, and rugged individualism are leitmotifs during Tuesday afternoon’s session. […]
Evocations of the forefathers abound. From the country’s actual founders to the “Reagan Rooftop”, the GOP is careful to cite its sources. […]
Katie McGowan and Jon Winet are in Tampa to document the 2012 GOP National Convention. Below is their first dispatch. Tampa, Florida August 27, 2012. While waiting on the Iowa delegation during the day off, we head to Hilton Clearwater Beach to visit the New York delegates. A group of volunteers welcome us to the […]
This week on American Reason we discussed Todd Akin and Mitt Romney’s taxes. Direct Link: August 26, 2012 Subscribe: iTunes […]
Hello and welcome to another edition of the Weekender. A new school year started this week. This means there are a heck of a lot more people in town, and more people tends to mean that more things happen. The Bijou is back and open for business this weekend, the SCOPE folks are starting to […]
Austin Galante Cat Of Nine Tales austingalante.bandcamp.com Austni Galante’s musical evolution, from the straight-ahead hip hop of The Committee, to the Rap-Rock of Bad Fathers, to the hip hop/dub step/sci fi of Black Market Maven, to this solo debut, comprises a classically American long, strange trip. Prior to this album, Austin’s output has heretofore been […]
Slut River Off White slutriver.bandcamp.com On Off White, Slut River is Joe Ross (also of The Tanks), Mickey Shaw and Matt Fenner (of Solid Attitude) and Anna McDermott. If you’ve been going to local shows you’ve seen the Slut-Riverenes in many different bands over the past few years, but in Slut River they seem to […]
The Tanks Epic Loads thetanks.bandcamp.com The Tanks third long-player, Epic Loads, finds the noise-rock trio settling into a groove with a new drummer, Joe Ross, and refining the more assured approach of their previous album, The heart of Epic Loads’ lineup may be the strongest set of songs the trio’s ever committed to wax. It […]
We Shave Cuts (Sangre Libre Records) soundcloud.com/weshave We Shave make pretty pop for music nerds. Their latest EP, Cuts, was recorded in a time-space rift where blue-eyed soul, garage rock, kraut rock and hints of no-wave get along like old friends at the bar. But the real secret to We Shave isn’t the genre splicing. […]
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