On Tuesday, Chris Christie will be inaugurated for his second term as New Jersey Governor. Of course, the past few weeks have been a political disaster for Christie, as it seems he is bouncing from one controversy or scandal to another.
White people have largely ended violence. Now, it is time for telling the truth about privilege and facing what it means to lose it.
On Monday, Pew Research released its latest poll and it is only going from bad to worse for New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. Now, a majority of Americans think he is lying about his involvement in Bridgegate.
Wendy Davis is more than fighting back against the sexist Republicans today who are trying to destroy her gubernatorial campaign. Davis dropped an atomic bomb of truth intended to wipe out the GOP’s smear campaign.
In a classic case of projection, Sarah Palin wished everyone a Happy Martin Luther King Day then in best finger wagging fashion told President Obama to stop playing the race card.
Expect these ugly personal attacks to continue, as Ms Davis threatens the good old boys running the state of Texas. They will cluelessly focus on all aspects of Ms Davis’ womanhood.
On Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, a national holiday that observes the birthday of our greatest civil rights champion, Fox Nation, an online political news site run by Fox News, decided to honor the day by doing what it does best: race baiting.
The dirty little secret that congressional Republicans are carrying around with them is that while they are campaigning on killing the ACA, they quietly threw up the white flag and voted to fund Obamacare before they left town.
Today it is President Obama fighting Republicans to give all Americans the opportunities Dr. King sought for people of color, and besides not acknowledging income inequality even exists, Republicans are redoubling their advocacy of Reagan policies.
Since when was it ever the intention of the U.S. Constitution that one branch should be able to not balance another, but to nullify it?
It’s more bad news for Chris Christie, as the Hoboken Mayor says she met with the U.S. Attorney’s Office today at their request.
David Gregory shamefully turned a Meet The Press segment on the latest allegations in the Christie scandal into a Democrat bashing, Republican talking point filled defense of the New Jersey governor.
Chris Christie thought that he would put himself on the comeback trail by going to Florida in raising lots of money. Instead, new scandal allegations followed Christie to the state, and sent him hiding from the public.
President Obama said that he doesn’t see the second term as just playing defense; he intends to do some good, “even if nobody is paying attention”.
The Conservative media has ignored man-made climate change in hopes that they can convince millennials it isn’t real. Millennials aren’t buying it.
Hoboken Mayor says members of the Christie administration threatened to withhold Sandy relief funds, unless she fast tracked their project.
If Arizona Republicans are successful a new bill will give any Arizonan the right to break any law with impunity if it is in the name of religion.
A Republican state senator who calls himself a fiscal conservative is being sued because he did not make payments on a $631,000 federal small business loan.
Chris Christie’s chances of being the Republican nominee may be evaporating before our eyes as the mayor of Hoboken, NJ is claiming that the governor intentionally withheld Sandy relief funds.
On Saturday morning, Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-IN) was chosen by the Republicans to make their weekly address. He claimed that Republicans have passed dozens of jobs bills.
According to Democratic Rep.Joaquin Castro’s diary of his first year in Congress, Speaker of the House John Boehner not only disagreed with racist Rep. Steve King’s comments about Hispanics, he called him a ‘asshole.’
Linda Harvey says the “yuck factor” is a gift from God, a “basic instinct.” When we think about gay sex we’re supposed to shudder and make sour faces and just be generally disgusted.
Houston Mayor Annise Parker married her 23-year partner Kathy Hubbard, Thursday evening in a private ceremony in Palm Springs, California. The two women chose the 23rd anniversary of their relationship together as the wedding date. Reverend Paul Fromberg, rector of St. Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church in San Francisco, and a former rector for Houston’s St….
Even devout Mormon, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has changed his position and is saying that we need to take a closer look at marijuana. Sen. Reid also said,’We waste a lot of time and law enforcement going after guys smoking marijuana.’
When discussing President Obama’s NSA speech held earlier in the day. Limbaugh commented on the size of the American flags set behind the President. Rush then said that the flags are getting bigger with every speech, and that is a sure sign of a dictatorship.
According to several members of the Senate Democratic caucus President Obama is considering using an executive order to raise the minimum wage for federal contractors.
Sen. Rand Paul disgraced himself on CNN today by mocking President Obama’s NSA speech in a way that proved that he never bothered to actually watch the speech itself.
On Friday morning, Judge Bernard McGinley ruled that Pennsylvania’s restrictive voter ID law, that was passed in 2012, is unconstitutional and cannot be enforced in the state.
Contrary to what the critics had already prejudged his speech to be, President Obama offered the first steps in real change to the NSA, and a major change in course from days of George W. Bush.
This can’t be good news for Gov. Chris Christie as his appointee Widlstein practically begs for immunity and promises to share more information if he gets it.
The recent West Virginia chemical spill should be a stark reminder that Republicans’ greatest assault of all is on Americans’ water supply that is about to get a lot worse.
In a poll released by Public Policy Polling on Thursday, New Hampshire voters favored Hillary Clinton overwhelmingly to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) in the Presidential election in 2016.
CNN reported on Thursday evening that after Chris Christie was elected to his first term as Governor of New Jersey, he gave the Port Authority a directive to place his ‘good friend’ David Wildstein into an executive position.
Dennis S. attended Truthful Tuesday, a demonstration in Columbia, SC on Tuesday and provided a detailed breakdown of the event.
Lauren Tannehill, the wife of Miami Dolphins quarterback Ryan Tannehill, left behind an AR-15 rifle in the back seat of a Nissan Rouge.
Rockefeller said pointedly, “The Port Authority’s response provides zero evidence that the purpose of these closures was to conduct a legitimate traffic study.”
Just last month, before the entire Bridgegate scandal unraveled, Christie trailed Hillary Clinton by only three points, 48-45. In this latest poll, Clinton has widened the gap to thirteen points, 50-37.
The Republican obstruction of unemployment benefits has pushed Democrats like Sen. Elizabeth Warren too far. Warren said, ‘This is the moment when we really have to start fighting back and showing the Republicans it’s not going to work.’
Nancy Pelosi gave Republicans a taste of the 2014 ObamaCare nightmare today, calling it a pillar of security like Social Security and Medicare.
Republicans on pace to kill hundreds and hundreds-of-thousands of jobs, send millions of Americans and their children into poverty, and lay waste to the economy; then they are going on vacation.
If only tax payers have skin in the game, as Bryan Fischer says, then it’s time for corporations to butt out of politics
On Wednesday’s edition of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart brilliantly intertwined two stories that, on the surface, have absolutely nothing to do with each other.
On Wednesday, the National Labor Relations Board issued a historic complaint against Walmart for the company’s activities against its employees.
According to Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), Darrell Issa has jeopardized the security of the ACA website by leaking sensitive Obamacare documents to unauthorized consultants.
RedState.com founder and Fox News contributor Erick Erickson took to Twitter on Tuesday to dispute Texas gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis’ fundraising totals for the last-half of 2013. Once again, as he has done repeatedly since this past summer when Davis gained national prominence due to her filibuster on the Texas Senate floor over reproductive…
With Gov. Jerry Brown (D-CA) joining Elizabeth Warren and other in deciding not to run in 2016, it looks like Hillary Clinton will have no serious challenger for the Democratic nomination in 2016.
The one thing Republicans never talk about when making devastating cuts to safety nets are the real world consequences to the people their cuts impact.
On Tuesday evening, Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis released her campaign’s fundraising figures for the last half of 2013 and they were nothing short of amazing.
Isn’t it a wee bit hypocritical to cry for tolerance of your own intolerance?
An implicit goal of the War on Poverty was to make the US a true meritocracy, and in this sense, it missed its target.
Republican US Senate candidate Greg Brannon wants to abolish the Department of Agriculture because he thinks food stamps are slavery.
Sen. Bernie Sanders has a solution to ending the Republican filibuster of the unemployment benefits extension. He thinks Democrats should go nuclear and pass the extension with just 50 votes.
At a press conference today Speaker Boehner lied and blamed President Obama for the West Virginia chemical spill by accusing the president of not enforcing the regulations and doing his job.
The campaign for Alison Lundergan Grimes released a statement slamming Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell for his stance on the extension of jobless benefits for the long-term unemployed.
Fox News is hemorrhaging young viewers, but last week, things hit a new low for Fox. Rachel Maddow beat Fox News for the entire week with viewers age 25-54.
In a poll by Monmouth University/Asbury Park Press that was released on Monday, New Jersey Governor saw his approval and favorability ratings in take a nosedive in the wake of Bridgegate and other political scandals.
The real issue is not just whether Christie had a hand in closing lanes on the GWB, but his character, or lack thereof, that drives his sense of entitlement, bullying, and willingness to use any means to impose his will.
On Monday night’s episode of The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert brilliantly took down conservatives’s positions on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Certainly there are those who have admired Sen. Cory Booker from afar who are now somewhat flummoxed at his decision not to support President Barack Obama’s historic deal with Iran.
At issue is a Grand Canyon State law, passed in 2012, that prohibits most abortions, except in medical emergencies, after 20 weeks. This past May, a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, located in San Francisco, deemed the law unconstitutional.
The House of Representatives will lose one if its truly great, progressive voices at the end of this year as Rep. George Miller (D-CA) announced on Monday that he will retire from Congress and not seek reelection.
In a recent radio interview, Sen. Mitch McConnell laughed at the unemployed who recently lost their benefits as he promised to vote no on any UI extension. Listen to how heartless the Senate Republican leader really can be.
Senator Al Franken’s (D-MN) office released his 4th quarter fundraising numbers today, and they show that Franken is truly running a grassroots operation, just like his office claims.
Progressives scored a big win in New Mexico as the Koch Brothers have laid off staff and closed down their Americans For Prosperity political operation in the state.
President Obama will be sitting down with Senate Democrats for a discussion about priorities, and odds are keeping the heat on Republicans in 2014.
Republicans claim they will offer a conservative policy to fight the war on poverty. They don’t have one right now, except to say NO to anything that the Democrats offer including extending UI.
Freedom Industries knew the 70 to 80 year-old tanks were in desperate need of replacement and did not want to spend the money to repair them because regulations did not require them to.
Things just keeping getting worse and worse for New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. The Department of Housing and Urban Development is investigating Christie’s use of Sandy relief funds to see if there was any improper use of Sand relief funds.
Fox News blames women for Chris Christie’s troubles, with Brit Hume saying that Christie is masculine and muscular, which is a “risk” in today’s “feminized” atmosphere.
The man leading the Bridgegate investigation, John Wisniewski said on Face The Nation that Gov. Chris Christie could be impeached if he knew about the closures of the George Washington Bridge.
Robert Gates smacked down Republicans who are using his book to criticize President Obama by saying,’I agreed with all the president’s decisions on Afghanistan.’
Chris Christie is in such big trouble that the only thing Republicans like RNC Chair Reince Priebus can do is compare Christie to Benghazi to try and save him.
Republicans will have killed an additional 240,000 jobs in 2014 according to The Council of Economic Advisers who estimated that not extending the unemployment benefits will have a deleterious effect on hiring.
The snide satisfaction conservatives gloat in their declaration that the War on Poverty failed is apropos given how they sabotaged it
President Obama called 2014 a year of action, and then boldly called out those who are unwilling to help the American people.
Sen. Bernie Sanders is making Republicans pay for refusing to extend unemployment benefits by pointing out their hypocrisy, and slamming the immoral treachery of the GOP as they devastate millions of American lives.
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CNN head Jeff Zucker didn’t mince words when talking to the media recently. Zucker said that Fox News is a front for the GOP and that the Republican Party is being run out of Fox.
Eric Holder set the record straight and announced that regardless of Utah’s intent to discriminate against same-sex married couples, the federal government will recognize the same-sex marriages.
Alabama State University included a clause in President Dr. Boyd’s contract that prohibits her from having romantic guests stay in her home.
Every minute counts in an emergency. EMTs have roughly a three minute window to save someone. The delays caused from the bridge were between three-five minutes and sometimes longer.
In the 1972 Munich Olympics, Palestinian terrorists killed 11 Israeli athletes. Could there be a danger of a repeat in Sochi, Russia?
The latest theory surrounding BridgeGate involves Chris Christie’s ongoing battle over state Supreme Court judges as the motivation behind the unlawful lane closures.
Rush Limbaugh attacked the unemployed for eating 3 meals a day, but Rolaids continues to fund this hate against the unemployed by advertising on his show.
Here is why Obama is a real leader. When the ACA website didn’t work Obama apologized and said I will fix it. When Chris Christie was confronted with Bridgegate he claimed it wasn’t his fault.
Democrats turned the Republican complaints about the jobs report against them today by demanding a restoration to long term unemployment benefits.
What we are seeing here is the beginning changes of a long term paradigm shift, ushered in by President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party he helped reinvent.
Rubio, as an anti-poverty crusader, is nearly as hysterical as Reagan, and so was his contention that opposite sex marriage is the solution to poverty.
As one would suspect, Rush Limbaugh totally lost his sh*t Thursday regarding the Chris Christie bridge scandal. For the most part, Limbaugh spent the entire show discussing the scandal.
Jon Stewart came out with both barrels blazing on Thursday night’s episode of The Daily Show. He had the right-wing squarely in his crosshairs and he had no qualms firing upon them.
The leading Republican candidate for Governor in Illinois, multi-millionaire Bruce Rauner, thinks the state’s minimum wage is too high.
Senate Republicans are scrambling after Majority Leader Harry Reid announced a paid for Democratic plan to extend unemployment benefits through November 2014.
The Democratic National Committee seized Chris Christie’s troubles today, releasing a video clip of CNN’s John King comparing Christie to Nixon.
Republicans have no qualms using the government to come between a patient and their doctor if the religious right demands it, and that is what is happening in Texas since a week after Thanksgiving.
Gov. Chris Christie had planned a photo op in Fort Lee today as part of make Bridgegate go away day, but Fort Lee’s mayor has told Christie not to visit. Christie is going to show up anyway.
Instead of coming clean with all the information related to Bridgegate, Gov. Chris Christie used the press conference to self destruct by throwing the staff under the bus. Christie made sure that this story will not be going away.
The Chamber of Commerce president gave his state of American business address that was replete with propaganda that the economy is failing because President Obama is not following Reagan’s trickle-down economics.
Stewart decided to go into detail about New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s growing scandal over the politically motivated traffic jam caused by his aides due to Fort Lee’s mayor not endorsing him in last year’s election.
Charlie Strong’s first head coaching position was a rousing success in Louisville. He’s headed to Texas where cowboy hats and sheets prevail
On Wednesday afternoon, both Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) and Rob Portman (R-OH) backtracked and said that they would only vote for passing the extension if Democrats would agree to offset the new spending with cuts elsewhere.
Rep. Chris Smith’s bill amends the Internal Revenue Service code to require IRS auditors to investigate and interrogate sexual-assault survivors who access abortion care.
