The President is calling on you to write your representative and ask them to stand with you against big oil. He wants to end the 4 billion in subsidies the oil companies are getting as they make record profits. Obama said, “In the next few weeks, I expect Congress to vote on ending these subsidies….
The state of Texas is suing the federal government because they believe they have the right to disenfranchise millions of voters.
It is no surprise that Talibangelicals can compare women to livestock, as State Rep. Terry England did recently in Georgia. Livestock can’t control their own bodies, so why should women? It’s how God wants it, after all.
On Countdown with Keith Olbermann, guest Lewis Black hinted that Rush Limbaugh might be brain damaged and ripped the Republican Party’s war on women.
The Koch Brothers and their tea party want tax exempt status from the IRS as a social welfare organization that does not influence elections.
In a response to the crushing advertiser boycott due to his attacks on Sandra Fluke, Rush Limbaugh proclaimed himself God’s gift to women.
Gov. Tom Corbett is another “small government†Republican offering up the lamest excuse for forcing women to undergo an unnecessary medical procedure.
A new National Journal/Heartland Monitor poll has found that the Obama coalition is coming home as the president’s job approval rating hits 51%.
Refusing to immediately reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act as it is written is a mistake that the Republican Party may not recover from.
There is nothing new or original in Genesis so claiming science proves Genesis has an effect fundamentalists won’t tell you: it actually proves every creation myth
The right wants you to believe that Obama has halted domestic oil production, but the truth Obama production levels have matched or exceeded Bush.
The Republican Party is out to ‘get’ Barack Obama, and they are using Eric Holder and a bogus Fast & Furious investigation to do so.
Fox News’ latest polling data should alarm the Republican Party, because it shows President Barack Obama winning over Mitt Romney in a general election, the Democratic Party with higher favorables than the Republican Party, Mitt Romney with low favorables and the Tea Party in the dumps. Here’s the data for how the public, per the…
The media wants Gov Scott Walker to answer their questions about his legal defense fund, but he only wants to talk about the dairy industry and deny that he’s being investigating.
Jon Stewart points out that Fox News pretended like the Republican primary didn’t exist on Tuesday, and instead spent the night bellyaching and crying about the left and President Obama.
Republicans in various states are on a rampage to restrict contraception and healthcare services to low-income women based on their extremist ideology.
With typical Republican ignorance of the U.S. Constitution, Rick Santorum tells Puerto Ricans they have to speak English to achieve statehood
Michael J. Fox delivered a humble and eloquent rebuttal to Rush Limbaugh’s sexist attacks, and called out Limbaugh’s corporate sponsored bully pulpit enablers.
There’s a wave of psychologically troubled veterans headed back to America, and we need to prepare more thoroughly.
Rush Limbaugh claims the advertiser boycott isn’t hurting him, but today on his show he did a Female Appeasement Apologist Tour, of course without apologizing.
A new Pew Research Center survey of registered voters found that 59% think President Obama will defeat Mitt Romney, and 68% believe he would beat Rick Santorum.
Today during their live press conference, UK Prime Minister Cameron praised President Obama on his Iran strategy, saying Obama’s “tough, reasonable approach has united the world” behind the sanctions. It’s Cameron Day at the White House, as President Obama welcomes British Prime Minister David Cameron for a day of meetings about Afghanistan, Syria, Iran and…
The Republican primary has revealed a troubling assault on higher education by Republicans who prefer investing in tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations instead of education.
Rick Santorum won in Alabama and Mississippi because Evangelical right-wingers constituted the overwhelming majority of Tuesday’s Deep South voters. And they voted race no matter what they tell you.
The grim calculus of conservatism’s so-called rights of conscience is this: I don’t believe so you can’t… Their religious freedoms are your slave chains.
Mitt Romney’s son Matt, a former birther, reforms his message in Hawaii when asked if President Obama is a Christian. Personally, I find reform of this sort charming and a sign of hope much missing from the Republican Party, but this sort of thing is just not said amongst those on the “right’, especially that…
By not giving a speech on primary night and in Alabama and Mississippi, Mitt Romney sent a clear middle finger raised sore loser message to the South.
There is a subculture of hate that is growing in response to an African American in the White House and the GOP presidential hopefuls are inflaming it with coded references to taking America back.
Perhaps we have been too dismissive of the strategy that currently prevails both in Congress, the current Tea/Republican primaries and in the Presidential campaign warm ups. Surely within the halls of the Grand Old Party there had to be someone who doesn’t look and sound like the caricature of a clown from a bad comedy. …
Monday was a day of good news for people who are boycotting Rush Limbaugh’s sponsors. According to Radioinfo.com, all national advertising for the Limbaugh’s show will be suspended for two weeks. However, Tom Taylor of Radioinfo thinks Premiere’s hope is that after the two week chill, it will be business as usual for Rush Limbaugh. The…
Sarah Palin had a Facebook meltdown last night because President Obama dared to use her own words in context in a campaign ad. Naturally, in writing her defense, she doubled down on the things said in the ad while claiming they were taken out of context. The President’s ads are writing themselves this election season…
If you haven’t seen ‘Game Change’ yet, it’s a must see movie, and not because it’s about Sarah Palin, but because it’s about what she represents: The cynical, dangerous, decaying state of the Republican Party.
It’s easy to see why Robison likes the city on a hill imagery because the only freedom will be that of Talibangelicals like Robison to force the rest of us to toe the religious line.
Not only are hundreds of advertisers leaving Rush Limbaugh, but the radio stations who carry his show are losing money every time his program airs.
A new PPP poll of Alabama and Mississippi found that between 86% and 88% of each state’s Republicans believe that President Obama is, or could be, a Muslim.
This week Republican primary co-front runner Mitt Romney demonstrated once again that neither he, nor his increasingly radical political party give a fig about the quality of life of America’s middle class. Multiple media outlets reported Romney’s compassionately conservative response to a struggling college student who queried him at a town hall meeting about the…
America’s liberty is being eroded by religious and corporate fundamentalists who demand strict adherence to specific dogmata in combination with attacks on perceived threats to their dominance.
Mitt Romney is as divorced from economic reality as a French aristocrat of the eighteenth century, and he is no more likely than they to become a darling of the people
Republicans have been hiding a dirty little secret. The Keystone XL pipeline will actually raise gas prices for the American people.
Laurens County Republicans of South Carolina are so steeped in Dominionist Tea that they boldly put their extremism in writing detailing their 28 Points of Republicanism. Even though this signed pledge has been deemed illegal that will not deter them from using this as a litmus test for potential political candidates. After all, why not?…
Despite the fact it violates the Constitution, conservatives across the country keep proposing bills to test poor people seeking government help for drugs.
We have heard a lot from conservatives about the first amendment, most recently in defense of Rush Limbaugh, but what the right has been engaging in isn’t free speech.
An estimated 35,000 Wisconsinites rallied at the Madison stop for Wisconsin’s AFL-CIO’s “Reclaim Wisconsin Tour,” the immediate focus of which is the recall of Governor Scott Walker, Lt. Governor Rebecca Kleefisch, and four Republican state senators. Saturday was the anniversary of Governor Scott Walker killing collective bargaining rights for public employees in Wisconsin. The underhanded…
Bill Maher attempted to defend Rush Limbaugh’s freedom of speech but attacked our right to be to be offended, our right to speak in response to hate
The Republican primary death march rolled through Kansas today where evangelical zombie Rick Santorum scooped up the hate vote and rolled to victory.
Bill Maher thinks we should accept Rush Limbaugh’s apology, but here’s why we must pursue Limbaugh to a point where he pays an actual price and everyone in the business knows it.
The toxic environment that right wing talk radio has created is now destroying it as Premiere Networks is circulating a list of 98 advertisers who don’t want their ads to appear on Hannity, Beck, or Limbaugh.
The titular head of the GOP, Rush Limbaugh, is helping the GOP narrow down that horrid big tent thing Ronald Reagan attempted to fashion in the 80’s with his war on women’s health. Here are two “average American women” with college educations (aka in Republican circles as “snobs”) who have used birth control and are…
Republicans scammed the Catholic Bishops on birth control, and now they are ignoring the same Bishops’ pleas that programs that aid the poor not be cut.
Scott Walker has had a nightmare of a Friday. He’s has been running around the state spinning his bum off to no avail. He has admitted starting a legal defense fund, which one can only do if one is under investigation in the state of Wisconsin. But Scott is saying he’s doing it save everyone…
I don’t dislike many people. I hate a few – the boss who fired me with 4 kids at home; Limbaugh; people like that. But I generally don’t dislike most fellow earthlings. There is one crepey-necked creep however, who stands out in the dislike department. I dislike what he says. I dislike what he stands…
Better Georgia is helping voters send a simple, direct message to Gov. Nathan Deal and his Republican allies who are pushing a drug testing mandate, “You pee first.”
So many advertisers have left Rush Limbaugh’s show that he is now airing public service announcements from the United Negro College Fund, but that didn’t stop him from calling President Obama boy.
The long awaited job numbers came out today and exceeded expectations! Total non-farm employment increased by 227,000. The biggest kicker is the upward revisions of December and January.
Sarah Palin was on Fox News’ Hannity last night lecturing Obama on how he needs to stop trying to take this county back to pre-Civil War times when people weren’t equal to work hard. We all know slaves never worked hard, and were glad when their long fight to gain equal standing to work hard…
Republicans are willing to hold 2.8 million jobs hostage unless the insurance industry is rewarded with the legality to decline any health services.
27 years of inflammatory speech have finally caught fire in a campaign that hopes to send Rush Limbaugh into retirement.
Oh boy. Sarah Palin is at it again. Yes, she’s flirting with the disaffected Tea Party base and brokered conventions while baring her mama grizzly teeth at poor Mitt Romney. She’s not closing any doors, no matter how much the Republican Party wishes she would. Ms Palin told CNN yesterday that she isn’t ruling out…
Carl Levin, Democratic Senator and Chairman of the Armed Services Committee, is calling on the American Forces Network (AFN) to pull the hate. Levin told CNN, “I would hope the people that run it see just how offensive this is and drop it on their own volition,” Levin told CNN in an exclusive interview…
Rush Limbaugh basked in the attention that comes with calling a dignified and intelligent young woman a slut and a whore. It was probably the most erotic experience he has had in a very long time – at least until he started losing sponsors.
Rush Limbaugh didn’t take any responsibility, or admit that his attacks on Sandra Fluke were wrong. For this reason, the boycotts must continue until Rush Limbaugh is forced off the air. Here is the full text of Limbaugh’s “apology:†For over 20 years, I have illustrated the absurd with absurdity, three hours a day, five…
Oh what a wicked web we do weave when at first we do deceive. Here is Mitt Romney from the 2002 Massachusetts governor’s race bragging to no end about his ability to squeeze pork out of the feds. Snort snort. Also, we recall Romney calling the other candidates “insiders” yet in this video, he is…
