At one point, when lawyers asked her about the details of the voter ID law, Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth Aichele responded, ‘I don’t know what the law says.’
Sen. Bernie Sanders has seen his statements about wealth inequality attacked by the right, but PolitiFact has confirmed that Bernie Sanders is speaking the truth.
With one the utterance of one sentence accusing Romney of not paying taxes for ten years, Harry Reid dropped a bombshell and switched the national discussion back to Romney’s tax returns.
Dick Cheney, popped out of his cryogenic chamber to remind the voting public that there are still plenty of Stateside imbroglios to which candidate Romney must attend.
Romney’s press secretary told American journalists to kiss my ass and shove it today.
There is no question that by praising Israel’s healthcare system and economic vitality, Mitt Romney endorsed President Obama.
Rather than fixing its troubled public school system, Louisiana will remove standards and replace modern science with Bronze Age belief
Things have gotten so bad for Chick-fil-A and the right that Republicans are calling upon their conservative LGBTQ members in the Log Cabin to save them.
Remember when President Obama said the private sector is doing fine, and all the conservatives poked at that comment? Well, now even two major conservative publications are saying the same thing!
On his radio show today, Rush Limbaugh claimed that the tribute to the NHS during the Olympic opening ceremony was part of a conspiracy to help Obama win reelection.
As a new survey reveals that the Chick-Fil-A boycott is causing the brand to nosedive, Fox News is attacking the boycotters as un-American.
A Palestinian official accused Romney of racism based on his speech today in which he suggested that the Israeli culture is more advanced than the Palestinian culture.
Whether he is visiting foreign countries or running for the presidency at home, Willard Romney is The Ugly American.
We like people who contribute to our society, people who build, who create goods and services, who create jobs. We have a word for people who suck the life’s blood out of others: vampires. Vampires are parasites. Vampires do not sparkle. We don’t like vampires. We want to protect ourselves from them. If private equity’s…
Incumbent Congressional Representative, Trey Gowdy has a healthy lead over his Democratic opponent. He’s sending major money to help pals.
We need to believe in the competence of our public institutions for our society to function. When they don’t function, how should we react?
Today, Mitt Romney, who doesn’t apologize for America but does let the British tell him to apologize, let the Israeli Prime Minister boss him around.
Cheney based his assessment of Palin not being ready based on her short time as Governor, ignoring that Romney basically quit on Massachusetts after two years.
When you have to tell the press you don’t care if they call you a wimp, things aren’t going well. Mitt Romney did just that on Face the Nation today.
In an opinion that is sure to delight potential terrorists everywhere, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia told Fox News Sunday that he believes all held held weapons including rocket launchers are protected under the Second Amendment.
Obama senior campaign adviser Robert Gibbs took Mitt Romney to task today for embarrassing the United States during his gaffe filled stop in London.
Senator Orin Hatch and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell proposed raising taxes on 22.9 million poor and working families by $11 billion to make room for tax cuts for the wealthy
Many victims of the Colorado shootings are facing ruinous financial debt due to expensive surgeries and rehabilitation for their wounds.
Police brutality is a complex and long-standing plague on our national community., and it demands a large movement.
As Romney heads to Israel, you no doubt will be bombarded by frothing rage of conservatives telling you that Obama has killed Israel, etc.
Do you hear it? I do, it’s the shrieks of horror by the House GOP, Boehner and Cantor! How dare the Democrats raise the pay of our lowest paid workers!
Regardless of his motives, Mitt Romney is not looking out for America’s best interests and by extension, jeopardizes Israel’s security every time he talks about war with Iran.
CBS’ Charlie Rose asked Cantor how his views on tolerance squared with Bachmann’s attack on Huma Abedin. Cantor’s response was illuminating
Daniel Craig (James Bond) and Queen Elizabeth Parachute Into London Olympics Opening Ceremony (aka, the Queen has a sense of humor). Or rather, their stunt doubles parachuting in for them.
As if things weren’t bad enough for Mitt the Twit, the British press is fawning over FLOTUS, calling Michelle Obama a masterclass in diplomacy.
Agriculture is being threatened by the worst drought in memory. Ranchers are selling their herds and still no effective climate change bills are being passed.
Rush Limbaugh responded to losing advertisers The Gap, SarahCare, and Sam’s Club by doing the exact thing that is causing the advertisers to leave. He continues to attack women.
What do you do after you have insulted all of Britain? If you’re Ann and Mitt Romney, you proclaim yourself to be British, and try to boost your street cred by claiming that you love Downton Abbey.
A collection of forty economists have weighed in and concluded that Republicans have abandoned economic reality, and it includes the House, Senate, and Willard Romney.
The Democrats release RomneyShambles video and Olympic winner Carl Lewis said Romney should have just stayed home if he didn’t know what to say.
Romney’s parochial GOP attitudes seem to give him an almost childlike understanding of a world that represents the evils of globalization
A Baylor University study has found that hate groups are using Facebook to spread their message, attract new followers, and launch racist attacks against Barack and Michelle Obama.
The British reaction to Mitt Romney has gone from openness, to skepticism, to mocking, to concluding that Mitt Romney is worse than Sarah Palin.
When you hear the phrase this is going to be an American century you need to beware. If Mitt Romney wins, there will be a war against Iran.
Romney insulted Britain by questioning their readiness to host the Olympic games, which enraged PM Cameron, and then gaffed and called labour leader Ed Miliband Mr. Leader.
Jon Stewart slayed Mitt Romney’s you didn’t build that attack on Obama, exposing Romney for hanging his whole campaign on an out of context grammatical misstep.
The real travesty is the media’s failure to report and condemn the race-baiting throughout the Republican primary continuing with Romney’s blatant racial appeal to Americans .
Ezra Klein, filling in for Rachel Maddow, gave the GOP no respite as he labeled this Congress the “do less than the do-nothing Congress” of 1947
Romney’s European vacation was supposed to get the tax returns and Bain heat off of him, but even in London, the Republican nominee is greeted with one question. When are you going to release more tax returns?
Mitt Romney has been given credit for his role in setting up a successful health care plan for Massachusetts while he was governor. Not true
By a 51-48 vote the Senate passed President Obama’s plan cut taxes for the middle class and end the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy. An election year trap has now been set for House Republicans as they will have to kill tax cuts for the middle class.
A study released by the National Employment Law Project (NELP), however, shows that it is big corporations not small businesses that benefit from low-wage workers
The Romney advisers told the Telegraph that Romney is part of the Anglo-Saxon heritage, a history that Obama does not share.
Citizens United has created an entire class – a cabal – that is coming between the people and the representative government that the founders intended.
Romney’s business record is rife with government subsidies and grants that enabled him to reap the huge profits that he hides in offshore accounts.
The National Organization of Marriage accuses General Mills of hypocrisy but hypocritically supports Chick-Fill-A and condemns General Mills
GOP operative Rick Tyler defended Pennsylvania’s voter ID law today with the rationale that if a person can’t physically go buy an ID, then they can’t vote.
There is no end to the insanity that America’s brand of religious extremists will go these days.
You may have forgotten about it, but Rush Limbaugh is still losing advertisers. Today, eBay announced that they are no longer advertising on Rush Limbaugh’s radio show.
In his new report, America For Sale: A Report on Billionaires Buying the 2012 Election, Sen. Bernie Sanders named names and called out the billionaires who using Citizens United to buy our democracy.
The media tends to focus on the Middle East and China as the great strategic challenges facing the US super power in the next decade, but they should be looking at Latin America.
The Republican agenda of cutting food stamps, wages, Medicare, Medicaid, and breaking unions is not about reducing the deficit or balancing the budget, it is about funding tax cuts for the wealthy.
Michele Bachmann’s anti-Muslim witch-hunt has backfired, drawing condemnation from fellow Republicans and mockery from the Muslim Brotherhood
Mitt Romney managed to internationally embarrass himself without leaving the United States when he twisted the comments of Australian foreign minister Bob Carr into an attack on Obama.
Why is it easier to buy ammunition for my rifle than it is for U.S. citizens to vote?
Allegedly pro-life Christians are politicizing the tragic death of a young woman in order to call for an end to federal funds for all Planned Parenthoods.
On his radio show, Rush Limbaugh blamed Batman, specifically the new darker Batman character, for the Colorado shooting.
How stupid do Republicans think Americans are? You can not blame President Obama for rising poverty, that is just stupid. Let me tell you why.
There’s something else ‘You People’ don’t need to know, the Romney campaign announces by repeatedly refusing to answer questions — and that is his tax plan.
Conservatives are in a rage this morning that the White House released a photo of Obama visiting with heroine Stephanie Davies and shooting victim Allie Young.
In another attempt to protect corporations and kill American jobs, Republicans blocked a measure to reward companies that brought jobs back to America, and protect their candidate Willard Romney.
The Romney Time Machine is amazing: you can now be exonerated retroactively, invaliding evidence that might appear later to the contrary
The NRA is front and center again as another mass murder draws attention to the organization and the role of guns in the United States.
A Kentucky court has silenced a teenage rape victim, who now faces contempt of court charges for tweeting the names of her convicted rapists.
Romney unloads a dumpster full of sleaze, and some heavily edited comments from the president in his latest attack ad.
Congressman Ed Perlmutter, who represents Aurora, was on Face the Nation this morning where he argued that Congress must address the expired assault weapons ban.
Come down the rabbit hole with a recent Fox News article to break down the anatomy of the Fox News Obama’s coming for our guns lie.
Meritocracy is in crisis and the potential remedies for this situation are not happening because of the power exercised by our corrupted elites.
If the Boy Scouts are bound to maintain their hate-policy against gays, they have to change their oath to match their anti-Constitutional position.
Less Than One Million Moms wants to boycott NBC’s The New Normal, which features two gay parents and a surrogate mother to give them a child
Republicans from past experience seem to be eager to take away your rights to firearms and shift the blame to Democrats.
The Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act has already expired and with just weeks left to go before Congress goes home, may not be passed thanks to House Republicans.
Something strange is going on with Mitt Romney’s Twitter account. It looks like the Romney campaign is using the Colorado shooting as a distraction to hide their buying 100,000 new Twitter followers.
For a war that Republicans insist does not exist, the war on women continues in yet another battle with 112th Congressional House Republicans (aka known as the Tea Party House that Boehner can’t lead). This battle is centered around the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act, which has already expired and with just weeks left to go before Congress goes home, may not be reauthorized this session. With 3 women a day dying as a result of domestic violence, the clock is ticking on American lives.
House Speaker John Boehner praised Aurora, Colorado’s first responders today, but what he didn’t mention is House Republicans have slashed funding for emergency responders.
This article is not a call to disarm; it is a call to sanity and reason, because without discourse on the conditions driving people to support the proliferation of guns, there will be more massacres.
The AFA says people died because we’ve lost our fear of God; more accurately, they died because we insist on misreading the Second Amendment
Let’s treat the NRA like the bloodthirsty, gun-nut dictatorship it really is.
Waking up to the news of the shooting in Aurora, made my stomach churn. Why? I am a firearm owner. What will I read today on Facebook? Not necessarily on the left but from right.
Coincidence? A day before the Dark Knight Rises massacre in Colorado, Rush Limbaugh was living it up in his hate filled Batman conspiracy theory glory.
Ed Rendell used the Colorado shootings to speak out about the real problem plaguing America, cowardly politicians who are afraid to stand up to the NRA.
In the wake of the tragic shootings at the Batman movie, it’s time for Americans to have a hard conversation about gun control and personal responsibility.
In the wake of the Colorado shooting at a showing of the Dark Knight rises, President Obama canceled his campaign events and instead delivered to the nation a message of love and unity.
In the race for the White House, Willard Romney promises to recreate the ‘thriving economy’ that cost millions of Americans their jobs and financial security.
Gregory Nathan Peterson, a Romney supporter who had hundreds of Utah’s GOP luminaries over for BBQ, is accused of being a serial date rapist
Fox News began their arm twisting to get Sarah Palin a speaking slot at the Republican Convention with Bill O’Reilly laying out all the reason why Palin should be speaking in Tampa.
In a statement, MSNBC fired back at Sean Hannity for spreading misinformation during his interview with George Zimmerman.
As Lipstick Liberal reports, conservatives are willing to take anyone prisoner in this war on women – including Stephen Colbert.
Mitt Romney refuses to release his tax returns, but he has been privately promising right wing culture warriors he will crackdown on pornography.
Romney is having a hard time being called out on the very history he was campaigning on just a few months ago.
Fox News executives let it slip today that although they are pushing for Mitt Romney to win on the air, privately they are hoping for four more years of Obama.
There is no end to Limbaugh’s rants mirroring the Republican party line, but one thing is clear; he is the voice of the GOP and now Willard Romney.
Sheriff Joe Arpaio faces allegations in federal court today that he systemically violated the rights of citizens, but a political analyst says it will only help him get re-elected.
Neil Cavuto thinks if we drill our record heat will be a problem of the past and that while our economy is sucky the climate is just ducky
An unrepentant George Zimmermann sat down with Sean Hannity and asked African-Americans to apologize to him, even though he never apologized for shooting Trayvon Martin.
