The Legal Walls Are Closing In on DOMA Bigots
Advocates for the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) took a hit today, when the First District Court ruled that section 3 of DOMA is unconstitutional under the equality clause.
Advocates for the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) took a hit today, when the First District Court ruled that section 3 of DOMA is unconstitutional under the equality clause.
Wal-Mart has kicked ALEC to the curb and gave the reason as ALEC’s departure from Jeffersonian free market principles, a.k.a. Wal-Mart hinted ALEC has become un-American.
Palm Beach and Hillsborough Counties have suspended the voter purge in those counties because the information they received from Rick Scott’s officials was unreliable.
Fox News has increased its attacks on and demonization of women by embracing and spreading the collective right wing hallucination that gendercide is running rampant in the United States.
In response to the Koch Brothers’ plan to spend $400 million on Republican election campaigns, Sen. Bernie Sanders called out the Kochs and urged America to stand up against Citizens United.
It’s an old right wing tactic that we should have long ago learned to recognize. When they can’t beat us in a democracy, they change the rules of that democracy.
The Mormon Church has been engaging in egregious violations of the 501(c)(3) Charities and Churches of Political Activity Ban in order to support and fund Mitt Romney.
Hate group president Brian Carmenker says that Elizabeth Warren is a communist because she supports everything conservatives hate
CNN’s abandonment of news to climb in bed with the tea party has turned into an epic disaster as the network has lost 52% of its viewers from one year ago at this time.
Mitt Romney prefers right wing casino dollars to voters, and Donald Trump’s bad haired birtherism to gay haired high school kids.
No matter the outcome on June 5, the Wisconsin uprising is serving up a passel of lessons that Democrats and progressives should heed.
Michigan Republican Senate candidate Pete Hoekstra has proposed the creation of new federal office staffed by the FBI and CIA that would check presidential candidates’ birth certificates.
Jon Stewart responded to Roger Ailes’ claim that he is a socialist by calling Fox News a fiefdom of victimhood and conservative propaganda juggernaut disguised as a news network.
While voter suppression is nothing new, Rick Scott has taken it to the extreme with a variety of measures ranging from restricting registration, to voter purging and a signatures please law.
The fact within many Americans’ lifetimes this country will be inhabited by a truly diverse population where whites are not the majority have caused conservatives to totally freak out.
There are many reasons to vote for Barack Obama in 2012, and very few to vote against him, given the alternatives
In response to the burgeoning wifer movement founded by Bill Maher, Mitt Romney released his birth certificate, but still won’t tell us how many wives he has.
For decades CNN’s Wolf Blitzer has appeared on air to be in some sort of media coma, but through the magic of birtherism Wolf awakened today, and beat down Donald Trump.
Facts are not on the conservatives’ side, as the numbers reveal that Obama has created nearly double the amount of jobs that George W. Bush did.
The Scott Walker John Doe investigation takes a serious turn as prosecutors look into potential bid rigging surrounding a land lease.
What happens when a judge takes out their bad day on your constitutional rights? The DC Court of appeals recently reversed a Judge’s violation of defendant’s rights because she was ticked off.
Watch Donald Trump absolutely lose his mind in an birther frenzy just hours before he is set to appear at a fundraiser with Mitt Romney.
If Willard Romney controls the world’s most powerful military will repeat the Iraq and Afghanistan disasters because he is, after all, just George W. Bush with magic underwear.
Christopher Monckton tells many lies about his own credentials so its no surprise that he has jumped on Joe Arpaio’s birther bandwagon
Scott Walker’s endless parade of lies is just one of many reasons that the Wisconsin governor has got to go.
While honoring the sacrifices of the fallen, President Obama took the time to make it specifically clear that he will never subscribed to the Bush Doctrine of endless unjustified war.
We can debate the merits of war, but over the last nine years I have the seen undebatable sacrifices made by those who serve our country and their families.
Have you ever wondered what Scott Walker was like before he went into politics?  Dr. Glen Barry has some insights and they’re not pretty.
The Obama administration is one hundred percent behind our troops in deeds, compassion, and policy that match their words..
America promised its veterans to provide health care after their sacrifice and service, and the GOP dishonors them by cutting their benefits and promoting privatizing their health care.
Most 21st century Americans deal with the world they see and give no thought to an underlying reality full of demons and demonic influences
The mainstream media is subtly helping to further a racist stereotype by acting shocked and even a little afraid by the aggressiveness of Obama’s reelection campaign.
Just when it seems the discussion has been overrun by insane religious zealots, Pastor Howard Bess offers us an enlightened and modern religious perspective on marriage.
Looking at recent legislation it becomes obvious that the only GOP goal is to make the president look bad and constituents be damned.
Romney and Walker each pushed austerity politics only to end up with abysmal job records, yet polls say gullible voters keep supporting them.
This is a warning to Republicans and religious maniacs that their war on women, like their sexist mouthpiece Rush Limbaugh, has ignited a firestorm they are ill-equipped to extinguish.
Religious Freedom: a euphemism used by Christian groups who embrace subordination and a culture of suppression of other religious viewpoints
On Bill Maher’s Real Time Paul Krugman went head to head with Arthur Laffer, and destroyed every conservative argument for austerity.
The U.S. government has been gridlocked since the Republicans captured the House. Only women voters can change that dynamic; men won’t.
Moderate Mitt reveals himself to be anti-Islamic extremist in this 2008 clip of Romney banging on about Glenn Beck’s caliphate..
Republicans have demonstrated that they will starve poor Americans, restrict women, children, and the elderly from receiving health assistance to prevent the rich from paying their fair share,
The Christian Right pretends to be champions of religious freedom; but the only freedom they care about is their freedom to ignore ours
Bill Maher shredded the return of birtherism by becoming a wifer, and asking Mitt Romney to prove that he really has just one wife.
An oldie but goodie — a picture of the President and First Lady in a freight elevator at the Inaugural Ball, January 20, 2009.
Legal and illegal residents of the U.S. send billions of dollars to their home countries every year. Dollars that benefit foreign economies
Republicans defend their right to eat whatever they please as freedom, but they are creating a national security risk as many of America’s military recruits are too fat to fight.
Roger Ailes thinks so little of Americans that he thinks he can sell y’all this whopper: Fox News employs one conservative and 24 liberals.
Romney’s goal of a voucher system is taking taxpayer money and handing it directly to private corporations with less accountability and poor performance.
On her MSNBC show, Rachel Maddow pointed out a 36 point swing in support for equal marriage rights in the state of Maryland.
Southern Poverty Law Center offers a list of 30 New Activists Heading Up the Radical Right, who represent the worst America has to offer
If elected president, Mitt Romney promises to repeal ACA. Most people have not read the act and don’t realize its importance to the nation.
A Ken doll could give more substantive answers to questions, but then maybe that’s Mitt Romney’s intent.
Mitt Romney was never a job creator. He engaged in “recapping” companies; loading a company with debt in order to suck it dry of dividends.
In the face of a mounting daily barrage of Romney and GOP falsehoods, Rachel Maddow has challenged the mainstream media to do their jobs.
It is true that Republicans and their conspiracy theorists will have some success with a segment of the population, but most Americans are not racists, birthers, or apt to believe Republican lies.
President Obama responded to the wild lies of the Republican Party, “They run up these wild debts, and then when we take over, we’ve got to clean it up!”
You get the idea that if we banned the word Satan we’d all be a lot happier but that fundamentalists wouldn’t have anything to talk about
Okay, it’s been a long time since I’ve cleaned the political palate but this did it. Feeling down? I challenge you to watch this and not smile.
If I were to name the biggest ethical corner-cutter in modern American political history, there would be but one runaway winner, Karl Rove.
Rush Limbaugh gets his creepy on while giving credence to all of those Dominican Republic rumors by calling a 14 year old girl a babe on his radio show.
Now you can make decisions for a uterus stuck in a woman’s body, and you don’t even have to know the woman hosting the uterus.
What is it with Steve King (R-IA) and his truly disgusting efforts to dehumanize people?
Bad things happened to Sean Hannity when he tried to spew his anti-Obama Rev. Wright and Bill Ayers nonsense at the buzz saw known as Colin Powell.
Obama is slowing the growth in spending better than any other President in 60 years! The federal budget has grown 1.4% in Obama’s first term, compared to Reagan who increased spending by 8%.
Republicans are not waging civil war, but a civil massacre where Depression-era bread lines are the order of the day and entire families barely survive.
Ralph Reed wants to play Kingmaker like he did in 1994 and he has Mitt Romney lined up to slobber over his ring this year in Washington, DC
In case you were wondering how far some people want to take America back to, the KKK in Harmony, NC is inviting white people to an ‘old fashioned’ cross burning.
Mitt Romney is a few votes short of making his Republican nomination for president official, but thanks to a lack of support from his own party, Romney’s teetering train may make a few more stops.
Mitt Romney is claiming he has created more jobs than President Obama, but the truth is that Romney has created one-and-one-third percent as many jobs as the president.
Roger Ailes spoke at Ohio University yesterday and showed his desperate contempt for Jon Stewart by claiming that the Daily Show host admitted to being a socialist.
While looking for someone to blame for Mitt Romney’s poll numbers, Fox News found the perfect excuse. Poor children are the reason why Romney isn’t polling well.
I’m going to type this super slow so that it gets through to our Democratic leaders: You people need to learn to frame issues and you need to do it without apologizing for your beliefs.
While attending the NATO summit in Chicago, President Obama kept up the pressure on Romney and his self-enrichment record at Bain Capital
On Rachel Maddow, Cory Booker backed Obama, blamed the GOP, and most interestingly, implicitly stood behind Bain.
Chanting “That ain’t right” and “Wells Fargo, you’re the worst, time to put the people first!”, the National People’s Action occupied three Wells Fargo banks today.
In order to avoid paying income taxes Mitt Romney is hiding his wealth all over the world, and now the Obama campaign is calling on Mitt to show us the money.
A pastor’s proposal of concentration camps for gays and lesbians sounds a lot like a Third Reich style final solution to the gay marriage issue.
As the boycott takes its psychological toll, Rush Limbaugh said liberal vegetarians want to control what everyone else eats just like they want to control radio shows.
Even though the Constitution is written at college graduate level comprehension, a new study has found that ten Republican freshman speak at an 8th grade or lower level.
Republicans are drunken teens with daddy’s credit card and if left unimpeded will increase the deficit and finish off the job they started during the Bush administration of destroying the economy.
Mitt Romney wants Americans to know what the first day of a Romney presidency would look like, based on his most recent position flip-flops
The Supreme Court decision on the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act is due in late June. One justice should have sate the vote out.
David Gregory assists another deceptive Republican talking point, and the people lose again. Today’s lie was brought to you by the “liberal media†at NBC.
On CNN, Paul Krugman called out Mitt Romney today for spouting nonsense about the economy and explained why Romney’s plan to do what Greece did won’t bring prosperity to America.
Because of Citizens United, it takes over 181,000 donations to Barack Obama to match one anonymous twenty five million dollar donation to a Romney supporting Super PAC.
It helps to read a the recent NDAA ruling before drawing conclusions about its contents, and understand the reasons contained in it rather than resorting to headlines that misrepresent the ruling.
Republicans are supporting government that dictates to Americans who they can love, when women have children, and giving employers and clergy rights of making healthcare decisions.
The NAACP has come out in support of President Barack Obama and marriage equality in a press release dated yesterday, May 19, 2012.
The homophobic flood gates opened and the sewers are filling with hate and self-loathing by voices consumed by fear.
The Republicans and their accomplices on Wall Street are trying kill Social Security by getting your payroll taxes instead of paying to the government.
Because President Obama is pushing for more financial regulation and reform, Wall Street is going all in on Mitt Romney and the Republican Party. Now Obama is fighting back.
Between his inability to stop laughing when he causes misery to others and his chronic deceitfulness, Mitt Romney is almost a psychopath.
Senate Republicans have diminished the chances of a peaceful resolution to the Iran nuclear situation, and one cannot help but believe that is their true motivation.
After failing to terrorize JC Penney into submission, One Million Moms threatens to do the same to GAP for showing two men in one t-shirt
The founder of the Virgin Group, Sir Richard Branson, has become the most high profile figure so far to film a video for the Out4Marriage.org campaign.
The right wing rumor that Barack and Michelle Obama almost got a divorce goes beyond irrational hatred of this president and ties into a specific Republican objective for 2012.
It wasn’t just what Nick Hanauer said that made his TED talk controversial, it was that he dared challenge conservative assumptions.
Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett says President Obama may be left off their November ballot because he can’t validate the birth certificate.
A turnover of as little as 5 or 6 house seats in California could mean that Democrats once again control the House of Representatives.