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Barack Obama's campaign gains $150 million in September while Mitt Romney creeps up the polls (IrishCentral)

Tue, 09 Oct 2012 05:15:43 PDT

By: ANTOINETTE KELLY

As of yesterday, President Obama leads Mitt Romney once again in Gallup's daily tracking poll, after the Republican presidential hopeful got a boost from his debate performance last week.

Mitt Romney, poster boy for tax havens - Cayman Island accounts part of the $100 billion lost revenue to US every year (IrishCentral)

Mon, 24 Sep 2012 04:47:32 PDT

GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney (Photo: ABC)Offshore tax havens cost the US $100 billion in lost revenue every year.We already know Mitt Romney has multiple investments in the Cayman Islands, which critics have claimed shield a portion of his finances from the US TreasuryOn Friday Rachel Maddow put it memorably: 'Maybe the money just likes the nice view…'The Romney campaign say he isn't avoiding taxes, because 'the investments by the blind trusts in funds established in the Cayman Islands or other jurisdictions are taxed in the very same way they would be if the shares were held in the US…'Perhaps, but the taxes you dodge by parking your stash in the Caymans aren't personal income taxes, they're your offshore investment funds’ corporate taxes So the Romney's aren't evading income taxes by placing money in the Caymans - rather the funds they deposit their money into evade taxes by being situated in the Cayman IslandsIt would be funny, I suppose, if last week the nation had not watched him tell a room full of his fellow multimillionaires that almost half the citizens of the United States are dependents and deadbeats for failing to pay their full share of taxes!That video revealed Romney as the kind of man who loudly scolds others for actions he apparently practices himself READ MORE

Mitt Romney accused of shooting first, aiming later (IrishCentral)

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 06:17:25 PDT

In 2008 John McCain made a theatrical but politically ineffective decision to suspend his presidential campaign because of the breaking financial crisisBut the move was judged as deeply unpresidential and ultimately contributed to his defeatOn Tuesday night, on the anniversary of 9/11, just hours after the deaths of four US READ MORE

Ann Romney won't explain her views on marriage equality and birth control to 'you people' - VIDEO (IrishCentral)

Sun, 09 Sep 2012 06:17:07 PDT

Republican's Mitt Romney's wife Ann RomneyAnn Romney was asked her position on marriage equality and birth control on Friday but declined, multiple times, in the most dismissive tones, to give an answerGay people and their legal rights aren't important to America, they not worth discussing apparently Neither are any women's reproductive rights You would think with the controversies surrounding Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan's stance on abortion and an ongoing perception about the eroding of the rights of women that she might have engaged READ MORE

Robert Redford slams GOP candidates and Mitt Romeny’s “mushroom cloud of ego” (IrishCentral)

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 06:38:58 PST

By: DARA KELLY

Robert Redford's speech at the opening of this year's Sundance Film Festival, which ran on the Huffington Post on Friday, has outlined his views on the importance of the arts and the dearth of government funding or support for them in the US.

Newt Gingrich attacking Mitt Romney for speaking French? How gauche! (IrishCentral)

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 06:30:20 PST

Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney I’m under no illusions about the weapons-grade insanity we’re all referring to as the Republican primaries this year, but a recent Newt Gingrich attack ad on Mitt Romney hit a particularly stupid noteTitled “The French Connection”, Newt puts the hammer to Mitt by tarring him with the Massachusetts liberal brush, but reaches for a curious case in point: He speaks FrenchQuoi?! For all Romney’s faults – the fact he is a money-mad robot, for example – picking his ability to speak French is trop bizarre, to say the least Never the mind the fact Romney learned French as a Mormon missionary, and the clip they showed was a promotional video for the Winter Olympics he was organising in Salt Lake City READ MORE

The view from over here: the GOP’s true primary colours (IrishCentral)

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 05:15:18 PST

Apart from having a long-term interest in US politics I also have the sleeping patterns of a musician, so that means watching coverage of the Republican Primaries isn’t such a taxing thing for me to do From a sleep point of view that is, in pretty much every other way it’s tough going On one hand there’s something almost cathartic about actually having primaries as it beats the merry band of ruffian nominees ranting into hysterical space, but CNN’s bombastic reportage would nearly make you cry with laughter The Best News Team In The Known Universe, or whatever they fancy themselves as, seem to take excessive pride in the extent to which they muck about gadgets, tables, virtual reality rooms and zoom-in maps with colours bursting out of them READ MORE