Hope and Optimism as New Democratic Party HQ Opens In Red State South Carolina
The South Carolina Democratic Party has a new Chairman, Jaime Harrison. Now, newbie Harrison will have a new party headquarters to call home
The South Carolina Democratic Party has a new Chairman, Jaime Harrison. Now, newbie Harrison will have a new party headquarters to call home
Sunday’s rioting in Huntington Beach, California is sparking a national conversation about white youth and violence. It’s about time.
Speaker Boehner accused President Obama of threatening to shut down the government and pretended to care about jobs, as the House prepares to leave for recess.
House Republicans are getting ready to toddle off to recess after working less time than previous congresses, and only passing 4 out of 12 appropriations bills.
At an rally for single payer healthcare, Sen. Bernie Sanders called out Republican hypocrites for claiming the want to cut waste, while they continue to support the wasteful US healthcare system.
A Judge sentenced Kerry T. Prater to four years in prison for trying to run through a Presidential security barricade while heavily armed.
Americans cannot take groups like Groundswell lightly because they are having some success in implementing their agenda in Congress and particularly states saturated with low information voters.
Anthony Weiner needs to get out of the race after the vile, misogynistic tantrum his communications director, Barbara Morgan.
President Obama is done caring about what congressional Republicans think. The president is meeting with Democrats in order to implement his agenda without them.
Rush Limbaugh told Greta Van Susteren that the GOP hates the Tea Party and the Tea Party, feeling rejected, stayed home and didn’t vote.
With union power waning, governments are implementing workers’ rights. It’s time to build a national movement built on grassroots efforts.
Why on Earth would AIG be suing the government? We saved their asses! But it appears the company does have the unmitigated gall to whine about the very loose strings that came attached to the money.
Chris Christie nailed Rand Paul by reminding him that his red state is welfare bum that is living off of the generosity of prosperous blue states, like New Jersey.
President Obama mocked Republicans today for not having a jobs plan, and said, ’40 meaningless votes to repeal Obamacare isn’t a jobs plan.’
A secret audio tape of a meeting of the conservative group ‘Groundswell’ shows the group using their collective power to pressure elected Republicans on Benghazi.
The right is freaking out because Obama is staying in a $345 a night room during his August Martha’s Vineyard summer vacation, but Bush spent more on one flight to Crawford than Obama’s hotel costs.
Republicans are not pro-life, they are pro-abortion given the policies they support, because in 2010, publicly funded family planning averted 760,000 abortions.
Alaska Republicans named Sarah Palin as their top choice to run against Sen. Mark Begich in 2014, but the former governor has a 58% unfavorable rating with overall voters in the state.
Republicans will spend three weeks promoting the policies that drove 4 out of 5 Americans into unemployment, near or at poverty, or reliance on government assistance.
From the moment these words leave Green’s lips, “You’re a Muslim. So why did you write a book about the founder of Christianity?” the interview is all downhill.
In his ongoing feud with NJ Governor Chris Christie, Rand Paul again revealed his selfish mentality when he mocked hurricane relief victims.
One of the reasons why Cumulus Media is threatening to let Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity walk at the end of the year is because both shows are still losing advertisers.
Black on black violence is a defamatory label that assigns special racial significance to crimes committed by one black man against another.
Rupert Murdoch’s right wing media empire is pulling out all the stops against Hillary Clinton. Their latest stunt is an attempt to disguise Clinton smearing as Anthony Weiner news.
Glenn Beck displayed his personal memorabilia including a handkerchief stained with Hitler’s blood near an early edition of Anne Frank’s Diary, KKK capes and a Nuremberg swastika banner.
Senator Rand Paul took the inner GOP fight to the next level, slamming both King and Christie for being takers who are bankrupting the government.
It appears they have pushed the President too far and punished the people too severely, because he is finally speaking honestly against the Republican caused damage to America.
You have to wonder at what point Pope Francis will have pulled the rug out from beneath America’s Catholic and Evangelical clergy.
A Sunday night shocker is making the rounds as Cumulus Media has let it be known that they are planning on dumping Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity at the end of the year.
Here’s a jewel I hadn’t heard too much about in previous red state gun legislation. Let’s load up those college campuses with guns.
There’s a new hate and guns threat out there. It’s a revival of white supremacy and it could be headed your way. It doesn’t play favorites.
President Obama went on the offensive in a New York Times interview, and appeared to argue against Keystone XL by debunking the Republicans’ pipeline talking points.
Logic Fail: This is all Obama’s fault, but they have the authority to spy on the President. Wouldn’t a real dictator make sure that they didn’t have authority to spy on said dictator?
Fox News Sunday, with the help of Republican Sen. Mike Lee, continued to push the widely disproved lie that only conservatives were targeted by the IRS.
Republicans latest super bad idea: They’re going to win women voters by branding the Democratic Party as the party of Weiner, Spitzer and Filner.
There is no doubt the people focusing on the plight of Snowden are sincere, but where is their compassion for millions of their fellow Americans victimized by GOP cuts in their own neighborhoods?
Tim Huelskamp’s Federal Marriage Amendment is not only bad politics bad religion, it’s against the law of the land
The Republican goal is clear; either Washington concedes to divest its power and transfer it to the wealthy and their corporations, or they will, one way or the other, destroy the government.
\When one looks at each law passed by the NC Republicans in isolation, it’s easy to dismiss them as bad. When taken together, North Carolina is a blue print of what a Koch Empire would look like.
Reporters have no trouble finding experts to speculate on why so many politicians have sex scandals. Statistics say the better question would be why there are so few.
The big Republican plan to shutdown the government unless Obamacare is defunded is already backfiring and setting up the GOP for complete failure in 2014.
Chris Christie went after Paul’s libertarianism while defending Obama, igniting a war between the two sides of the Republican Party.
Gilberton Borough Police Chief Mark Kessler should be removed from his position, and mayor Mary Lou Hannon ought to resign too.
Rep. Michele Bachmann might not make it to ‘retirement,’ in 2014 as the House Ethics Committee has launched an investigation into possible ethics violations surrounding her 2012 presidential run.
This week’s group of speeches along with his willingness to shutdown the government show that Obama is challenging Republicans to meet him out back and settle this budget feud once and for all.
The CBO estimates that Republican inflicted spending cuts would cost up to 1.6 million jobs if left in place through fiscal 2014.
Take a long, hard look at what Rick Snyder and turnaround specialist Kevyn Orr intend doing to pensioners in Detroit because it foreshadows Republicans in Congress intent for Social Security.
Mitch McConnell’s diminished popularity and the fact that he must fight on two fronts means his Senate career could come to an end in 2014.
Republicans see threat to white privilege in Eric Holder’s announced plans to make Texas obtain federal approval for changes to voting laws
On the heels of suppressing voting rights, North Carolina’s Senate was on a roll and gave final approval to their version of state interference in women’s reproductive health.
North Carolina Republicans have rubber stamped a voter suppression law that some might say is more consistent with fascism than with a government of the people, for the people and by the people.
Rep. Paul Ryan claimed that Obama’s policies are the reason why people in poverty are poor. Ryan tried to convince the poor to blame Obama, not Republicans for their struggles.
John Boehner continues using his position to lie to the American people to profit himself,and the oil industry that contributes heavily to his campaign. It’s time to treat him like any other criminal.
If you’ve been waiting for the war on women to backfire against Republicans, allow me to introduce you to Alison Grimes, the Democrat running against Senator Mitch McConnell.
Norm Ornstein points out that Republican efforts to sabotage ObamaCare are unprecedented and that they are trying to blackmail the President with threats.
Just when you thought the Paula Deen story couldn’t get any worse, she is now being accused of asking female African American employees to dress as Aunt Jemima.
Legislation to repeal healthcare reform continues to go nowhere, so the Republican Party is now trying to defeat Obamacare by convincing the uninsured not to buy health insurance.
The Alabama Public Service Commission started a meeting about power rate structures with a prayer against Marriage Equality.
Don’t argue with the stupid, pea-brained, knuckle-dragging Teapublicons in your lives. If you value your sanity, leave these short-school-bus riding people alone!
With entire swaths of Detroit uninhabited, some white knights are swooping in and buying up empty lots, parking lots and buildings both big and small.
Following a series of bar killings, NC’s Republican dominated legislature has still decided allowing more guns in bars is a good idea.
Here is something that you might have never guessed in a million years. According to a new book by Larry Sabato, Jimmy Carter is the most threatened ex-president in US history.
‘Dream Defenders’ took a stand against Florida’s Stand Your Ground laws by occupying the state Capitol for the last 8 days. They say they will stay until they get legislative action.
During his speech today, President Obama ripped Republicans, “With an endless parade of distractions, political posturing and phony scandals, Washington has taken its eye off the ball.”
Obama explained that lawmakers have a responsibility to the people and the country, “This growing inequality isn’t just morally wrong; it’s bad economics.”
Given that fact and the stark reversal in Detroit’s once glorious fortunes, there is plenty of reason to wonder if we can expect continued urban implosion if, heaven forbid, the GOP has their say.
Fast food giant McDonalds teamed with Visa to provide them with a budget plan Republicans celebrated as justification for their drive to create a nation of peasants
Ted Cruz (R-TX) believes that pastors will be in jail for speaking up in defense of what extremists like himself pretend is ‘traditional’ marriage.
After Anthony Weiner got busted for sexting again, and can we all agree that it is time for him to go away?
Today, the North Carolina state senate passed the most extreme vote suppression bill ever after a very generous 2-hour debate.
House Republicans planning kit for using the August recess to stay on the offense is a script for failure, using that new device, social media!
Sen. Bernie Sanders called out the White House today for leaving out the part of the Senate’s student loan compromise bill that will raise interest rates on borrowers.
After the spring of fake scandals played up by a complicit media, Obama lost only one point in job approval ratings, and he now sits at an approval of 49%. That’s a big Republican fail.
For the first time in six poll results dating to 1994, a majority (52%) of Republicans and Republican-leaning Independents say their party is going astray.
Gov. Rick Scott thinks that Florida voters will be fooled by $80 million in television advertising into electing him for a second term as the state’s governor.
Speaker Boehner keeps saying he’s doing the will of the people by repealing ObamaCare again, but a new poll proves him wrong.
It is high time to demand an investigation into Republicans in Congress and take appropriate action to remove them from office.
Priebus says what ultimately matters…is that “we’re salt and light in the world and that we’re honoring God in the things that we do every day.”
This is a review of a number of bills of special importance to the oil and gas industry. In the House their batting average is 100
Blacks do not benefit from Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” Law, but those who kill blacks do. It has become a license to kill people of color.
With no religious, economic, and scientific justification for denying women the right to choose their reproductive health, it is obvious the Republican’s goal is exerting control over women.
Whoopie Goldberg mainstreamed mocking Ken Cuccinelli over his extreme Republican values. She also vowed to keep him out of the governor’s mansion.
Rush Limbaugh took his racial conversation to whole other place by claiming that white people should feel not guilt, and deserve credit for freeing the slaves.
Senator Rand Paul and his pro-secessionist, white supremacist aide have parted ways. He hopes this matter won’t damage the Republican Party’s brand.
14 Republican members of Congress voted to kill food stamps for 47 million Americans, and also voted to keep their own farm subsidies.
Joe Scarborough unloaded on Sean Hannity this morning for using racism to justify George Zimmerman’s actions, and to gin up his ratinga.
What King is looking for in a 2016 Republican is a Muslim-hating hawk who can get behind some truly Bushian and ruinous, economy-destroying defense spending
East New York is one example out of many on how progress is being made in our communities to reduce black on black violence.
For the past two-and-a-half years since Republicans took power in states and Congress, there has been a sustained assault on people of color to deprive them of their constitutional rights.
PBS host Tavis Smiley embarrassed himself by criticizing the president’s Trayvon Martin remarks for the singular purpose of bashing Barack Obama.
Speaker John Boehner tried to justify the House Republicans’ lousy record of not passing legislation by claiming that American people want a Congress that repeals laws instead of passing them.
Poor David Gregory got upset when conservative David Brooks wouldn’t hate on Obama’s speech enough, so he had to add in the ‘conservative’ point of view.
Sen. John McCain praised President Obama’s Zimmerman verdict speech and urged states to look at the Stand Your Ground laws.
Detroit faces austerity, vulture capitalists, and privatization as right wing ideologues pounce. Of course, no good will come of it.
Conservatives love to invent quotes to back up their positions and they hate it when somebody – including “communist” CNN – corrects them
Another sign that civil rights investigation into George Zimmerman is progressing came when the FBI froze a Sanford Police plan to give Trayvon Martin’s killer his gun back.
Cuccinelli has long wanted to control what goes on in the privacy of Virginians’ bedrooms, and his latest ploy is a continuing effort to impose his Puritanical sensibilities on Virginia residents.
The first beta-test of selling off a city to corporations began when an emergency manager in Detroit filed for bankruptcy, and it is a harbinger of the Republicans’ plan for the federal government.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) admitted he hadn’t watched Obama’s remarks about Trayvon Martin and Stand Your Ground laws, but complained that Obama was going after white folks’ guns again.
Dan Riehl may think that Obama is the first “Racist in Chief” only because he is incapable of comprehending racism that mirrors his own.