Dropping the Mitts: Dems Missing out on Taking the Fight to Romney
With Gingrich finally throwing in the towel (and with candidate Newt's demise so too does our expectation of living on the moon in the...
Geithner’s Detroit Hope to End the Depression Shattered, Again
Broke, the US Treasury has enlisted the FBI to help find the Teamsters’ hundreds of millions of dollars, money which disappeared in 1975. For...
NYT: Representative Steve Scalise of Louisiana Acknowledges Addressing Racist Group in 2002.
Apologizes for speaking at Republican Convention.
Obama the Presidential-Image-Cleaner
After making Bush look good, Obama is working on improving Putin's image. Sources close to TPV tell us that Obama has been recruited by...
NYT: Obama to Request Research Funding for Treatments Tailored to Patients’ DNA
... FBI defends new national compulsory DNA registry, as 'for a good cause.'
Gitlin’s View on Charlottesville: A Step-Up Moment for Leadership
The fire that burns the length and breadth of American history has burst through a firebreak.
BY TODD GITLIN | AUGUST 14, 2017
First published here: http://billmoyers.com/story/charlottesville-step-moment-leadership/
Charlottesville...
Because the Onion Thinks Trump’s Worthy of Your Time
It's not called the State of the Union address, but @realDonald Trump's first live Tweet address to a joint session of Congress.
Many will be watching...
Maria Sharapova, the Russian Tennis Player to Become an American Politics Player?
Days after Maria Sharapova stunned the world with her French Open triumph; ThePotholeView learned that our American Presidential contenders – Mitt and Barack –...
America Does Not Need an Arab Spring, Mr. Friedman. It Needs a Leader.
Yesterday, the often mistaken Thomas L. Friedman of New York Times raised an interesting question Does America need an Arab Spring? True to himself,...
NYT: What a Stronger Dollar Means for the Economy.
Spend everything you've got, mortgage all the rest; wait for the crash.
The French Thinker of the Moment – Mme Lagarde
Unable to fix Europe’s financial crisis caused by one currency, the euro, for multiple economic levels, Christine Lagarde told the Greeks this weekend that...
Our Political Conversation
It is a bad time for political conversation if all that the brightest commentators can do is point out trivial non sequiturs. Or, probably...
TPV Disagrees with Joe Nocera
NYTimes' Joe Nocera would call our readers “boneheaded" - TPV disagrees. To submit comments on the Keystone pipeline to the U.S. State Department please visit...

















