Jon Stewart Highlights The Racist Idiocy Behind Stand Your Ground Laws
During Tuesday night’s episode of The Daily Show, host Jon Stewart started the show off by discussing the verdict in the Michael Dunn trial.
During Tuesday night’s episode of The Daily Show, host Jon Stewart started the show off by discussing the verdict in the Michael Dunn trial.
Ted Cruz whined to Janet Mefferd and David Barton about President Obama’s imaginary attack on “traditional” marriage
Rush Limbaugh hit a new low, even by his standards, by attacking President Obama for betraying America by watching television.
A year ago last Valentine’s Day, a once-heroic South African athletic figure, Oscar Pistorius, shot and killed his live-in model girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp.
A newly released poll shows Tea Party Congressman Steve Stockman closing the gap on Senator Cornyn, setting up a possible May runoff.
In what had to be one of the dumbest segments in television history, Laffer tried to make the case that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, otherwise known as the stimulus, actually CAUSED the Great Recesssion.
The CBO released a study today that obliterated the Republican argument against raising the minimum wage. Republicans retaliated by trying to distort the report, but they can’t explain away the bad news for the GOP.
The cost of voting Republican continues to grow as House Ways and Means Democrats determined that Republicans have cost the economy $3 billion in less than two months by blocking an extension of unemployment benefits.
Recently, Maher asked viewers to submit videos detailing why their Representatives deserve to be featured on ‘Flip a District.’ One was submitted for Duncan Hunter.
Darrell Issa claimed he wanted to “shape” the debate, and in doing so, urged Republicans to unify against President Obama’s “imperial presidency”
On Monday evening, disgraced former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich took to Twitter to call on the resignation of Secretary of State John Kerry.
House Republicans have taken doing nothing to a whole new level by announcing that they won’t be passing any notable legislation this year.
North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory knows the dirty coal industry is polluting the environment in North Carolina because his state’s environmental regulators are not doing their jobs. It is why he expects his god to clean up what he knows will be more toxic spills.
The White House’s decision to let the athletes do their thing while avoiding overt support of a regime that has been a veritable thorn in America’s side on so many fronts? Perfectly advisable.
In the end, it isn’t the 1 percent who are leaving the United States, but their money.
The United Kentucky Tea Party said McConnell should drop out of the race so Matt Bevin, the Tea Party candidate, can rally the conservative base.
Monday marked the fifth anniversary of President Obama’s stimulus package that helped pull the nation out of the worst recession seen since the Great Depression.
George Zimmerman claimed that he was the “victim” in the murder of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. He also believes that the government and President Obama are out to get him.
During a segment on Monday morning’s edition of Morning Joe, host Mika Brzezinski slammed Republican politicians who are trying to go after Hillary Clinton due to the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
Instead of waxing philosophically on the achievements of past presidents, it is worthwhile to take stock of the current President and recognize the monumental hurdles he cleared while battling Republicans who made destroying his presidency and the nation’s economy their sole reason for serving in Congress.
Forty three House Republicans are sponsoring a bill that if passed would force the House to sue President Obama for behaving like a president.
Apparently, a better name for reality TV series Snake Salvation would have been When Faith Meets Reality (You Will Hear a Loud Smack). Pentecostal preacher and host Jamie Coots of Tennessee, believed that poisonous snakes could not harm him because he was anointed by God. The Bible, he believed, said so (Mark 15:16-17). I speak…
There is no place better for conservatives to wrap themselves up in self-denial and make up stuff than Fox News Sunday. Discussions around climate change are no exception.
Although it is tragic that racial animus is not a prosecutable crime, there are instances when the result of racism can be prosecuted. Yesterday a Florida jury convicted a man for expressing racial animus with a firearm.
An analysis of both the frequency of executive orders signed, and the content of those executive orders reveals that Republicans are wrong. President Obama is not behaving like a dictator.
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) misled the American people on how their government works today, so that he could lie by claiming that President Obama is violating the Constitution.
Michael Dunn will probably receive a long prison sentence, but for the shots that missed, rather than the shot that killed Jordan Davis.
Jonathan Karl said, ‘Ted Cruz is so hated among the republicans. More so than the shutdown, the Tuesday lunch they have, he’s going to need a food taster.’
On Fox News Sunday, Karl Rove claimed Chris Christie’s scandals are a good thing that represent what the American people want in a president.
Mitt Romney schooled David Gregory after the host asked him if we should judge Hillary on her husband’s record – personal and otherwise.
The Meet The Press climate change debate wasn’t much of a debate at all as The Science Guy Bill Nye called out Republican congresswoman Marsha Blackburn’s talking points, and pummeled her with science and facts.
The late Friday votes are in and yet another union is kept out. Workers at the Chattanooga Volkswagen plant were given the opportunity to join the UAW and they said no.
“You want income equality? That’s mediocrity.” That’s Chris Christie being pragmatic
With online hoaxes increasingly going viral, has the internet become the new reality TV?
Besides wasting taxpayer time, money, and violating the First Amendment’s prohibition that Congress shall “make no law respecting the establishment of religion,” Ted Cruz’s bill is an extreme case of conservative hypocrisy.
In a blistering rejection of Republican “logic,” Bill Maher wiped the floor with Rand Paul and the Republican Party for using the Lewinsky scandal to attack Hillary Clinton.
The Kansas Senate decided on Friday that they would kill the legislation that was passed earlier this week by the state’s House of Representatives.
President Obama tells the people to ask their representatives why Congress won’t raise the minimum wage for everyone, after he raised it for federal contractors.
Republicans resorted to treachery and trickery to avoid having a Chattanooga Volkswagen plant become the first unionized foreign carmaker in the South.
Religious Right leaders don’t understand the spirit or the exact words of the Constitution, which they continually confuse with the spirit and words of the Bible they also don’t understand.
POTUS has spoken. The president’s Twitter account has playfully executive ordered that people not spoil season two of the Netflix series House of Cards.
Bill Maher was on CNN today, and when asked who he would like to see run for president in 2016, he slammed Ted Cruz and Rand Paul by labeling them the insane clown posse.
Back in late January, Bill Maher announced that he was going to use his show to affect this year’s mid-term elections and do a little activism of his own. We’d like to see Duncan Hunter go.
President Obama delivered a dose of truth when he addressed House Democrats today. The president told Nancy Pelosi and company, “when you guys are unified, you guys stick together, this country is better off.”
Gov. Bobby Jindal went Palin as he kicked off his 2016 presidential hopes by accusing Obama of waging a “war against the faith that motivated the Civil Rights struggle.”
In a poll released on Thursday by the Tampa Bay Times, Democrat Alex Sink holds a 7-point lead over Republican David Jolly in Florida’s 13th District Special Election.
The Kansas House of Representatives has overwhelmingly passed a piece of legislation crafted to legalize anti-gay segregation under the guise of “religious liberty”
Venture capitalist Tom Perkins thinks only taxpayers should get to vote, and rich people should get more votes than everyone else.
Judge Arenda Wright Allen demolished every Republican argument, ruling that “the right to marry is inseparable from our rights to privacy and intimate association.”
In the current political climate, the only compromising from the Tea Party is the highly transparent dive to the middle at election-time
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) is one of the wealthiest members of Congress, but he is raising millions of dollars off of his bogus Obama investigations.
A Republican lawmaker thinks it might have been a good thing James Holmes had a 100 round magazine, because they are prone to malfunction.
In a juicy bit of irony, Fox News is bumping climate change denier Sean Hannity’s show and replacing with an hour of news coverage dedicated to the extreme winter storms.
Senator Franken dropped the hammer on the Comcast Time Warner merger, saying that the deal needs careful scrutiny. He wants federal regulators to protect consumers.
‘Family Values’ Republican Senator Jason Priest is accused of throwing and injuring his four year-old daughter, and assaulting his wife.
Quinnipiac University released a poll on Thursday regarding the race for Governor of New York and the results were, to be kind, completely embarrassing for reality star and hopeful GOP candidate Donald Trump.
Besides a clarion call for confederate rebels to oppose Northern invaders, the Republican interference in a private business is sheer hypocrisy when they claim to be champions of free enterprise and oppose government interference with business.
A poll released by McClatchy-Marist on Wednesday shows that former First Lady and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton holds a commanding lead over pretty much every GOP candidate for the 2016 Presidential election.
The Religious Right says legalization of same-sex marriage is like banning interracial marriage but then they think tyranny is anyone besides themselves having rights
The lawsuit Rand Paul filed against the NSA was allegedly stolen. The actual language in the lawsuit is said to have been written by someone else, and that person is not very happy.
After the defeat of the would be Republican hostage takers on the debt ceiling bill, President Obama delivered the message to the congressional children that it is time for them to grow up and stop playing games.
By forcing Senate Republicans like Mitch McConnell to vote in favor of advancing the debt limit bill, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) helped Democrats, while sabotaging McConnell’s reelection campaign.
On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released the January enrollment numbers for the ACA and it can only be seen as good news.
President Obama vowed during his State of the Union address to take to pen and phone to do what he legally can do without Congress, and today he took action on that promise.
Why do Kentucky women hold Mitch McConnell in such contempt? His favorables with them are a negative 26%, and Alison Lundergan Grimes leads him with women by 12 points.
It is time for all Americans to take a stand against Rep. Issa’s out of control activities that are trying to find something to use to impeach President Obama. Send a message to Rep. Issa by signing our petition.
John Boehner has admitted that House Republicans have been paralyzed by their own infighting, and the only way that he can pass major legislation is with the help of Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats.
Republicans in North Carolina are trying to quash a subpoena for emails regarding the “rationale, purpose and implementation” of House Bill 589, aka the most egregious vote suppression law in the country.
Republican lawmakers have been receiving threats for the past few weeks over the debt ceiling vote, and the threats appear to be coming from another member or staffer.
Boehner may face serious repercussions from “true conservatives” in the tea party movement, but that is the price he pays for climbing in bed with morons and imbeciles who went to Washington to destroy the government that Boehner has been all-in for over the past three years.
On Tuesday night’s episode of CNN’s Crossfire, Sen. Dean Heller (R-NV) stated that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is wrong in threatening to filibuster the clean debt ceiling bill that passed in the House on Tuesday.
Broun asks a question based on a false premise: “does it fit the Judeo-Christian Biblical principles that our nation is founded upon?”
Let our Democratic candidates run on a platform of both mercy and pocketbook practicality. The issue is out there for the taking
On a conference call with reporters today, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) hinted that he may filibuster the House passed debt ceiling suspension in the Senate. Cruz’s antics are why Harry Reid must go nuclear on all Republican filibusters.
Clarence Thomas claims that the issue of race did not come up much in 1960s Georgia, and that today people are too sensitive about race.
Democrat Sandy Levin wasn’t quite ready to let Republicans forget what they cost the country the last time they refused to raise the debt ceiling.
President Obama has officially broken the backs of the Republican hostage takers as the House passed a clean suspension of the debt limit by a vote of 221-201.
Conservatives are so outraged at John Boehner for bringing a clean debt limit increase bill to the House floor that they are mounting a coup to overthrow the Speaker of the House.
Both MSNBC hosts were openly upset and shocked about new revelations in the Christie investigation. After reading the headline of a story in The Star-Ledger detailing that Christie never actually read the email that was sent out to his supporters discrediting David Wildstein, Brzezinski and Scarborough just completely lost all composure.
President Obama declared an emergency in the State of Georgia after birther Gov. Nathan Deal failed to respond appropriately to the severe winter storm.
Sander Levin called Republicans out for their utter waste of government resources and taxpayer money, noting that 150 IRS employees have worked 70,000 hours for the fake IRS scandal.
Apparently, realizing he was in a no-win situation, Boehner finally conceded on Tuesday morning and told his caucus that he will bring a a clean debt ceiling bill to the House floor on Wednesday.
In nearly every respect, President Obama is nothing like the tax-and-spend liberal Ronald Reagan was, and is not even close to the gun control crusader Reagan proved to be.
It appears that Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) has a new plan for Republicans to apparently get a political victory out of raising the debt ceiling at the end of this month.
Our problem is less with Putin’s fashion-sense or homoerotic subtext, than with the nonsensical nature of Republican arguments in favor of what the Russian strong-man is doing in the name of that cross dangling on his pasty, sagging, and no doubt once-manly hetero-chest.
For the second time this year MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow has defeated Fox News in the coveted age 25-54 demographic, while Chris Matthews also defeated Fox News with younger viewers at 7 PM.
The real question as I see it does not revolve around why Crist fled into the more inclusive arms of the Democratic Party. Rather I wonder why more Republicans of any social conscience, not to mention survival instincts, haven’t done the same.
Democrats filed a formal complaint with the special watchdog council that questions J. Russell George’s independence because he met and conspired secretly with Darrell Issa last year to issue an inaccurate, and misleading report accusing the IRS of specifically targeting conservative groups
Former Florida governor, and current gubernatorial candidate, Charlie Crist has written a fascinating book that describes why he left the GOP, and the Republican Party’s descent into anti-Obama madness.
Irina Rodnina, the three-time Olympic figure skating gold medalist who took great pride in having sent a racist Obmaa tweet, today blamed hackers.
CNN.com posted a story in their political section on Monday detailing a story that ran on a very conservative website on Sunday evening.
Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker is claiming that he voted for Ronald Reagan, but this is impossible because Walker wasn’t old enough to vote in 1980 or 1984.
Rand Paul believes that if the Republican Party gets hip by embracing tattoos and earrings, they can appeal to more voters. He thinks that the Republican Party can save a state like Texas from marching towards turning blue with cosmetic changes.
Anti-WMD alert: In a joint OpEd Monday, President Obama and President Hollande wrote about how their deepening partnership offers a model for international cooperation.
In its Sunday edition, the New Jersey Star-Ledger published an op-ed declaring that the paper is sorry for endorsing Chris Christie for New Jersey Governor in 2013.
Pressure from liberal groups has combined with frustration with endless Senate Republican obstruction to result in Majority Leader Harry Reid seriously looking at going nuclear and ending the 60 vote rule on all Republican filibusters.
It is getting absurd to have Republicans serving in Congress when they have no intention of doing the work the people sent them to Washington to do.
Deanna Fei laid out the problem with greedy corporate entities seeking to deny healthcare benefits to their employees by scapegoating a baby: It’s her little daughter against Tim Armstrong.
The lawyers defending Utah’s ban on same-sex marriage before the Supreme Court of the United States don’t have the law on their side, nor do they have valid facts.
Senator Pat Roberts is not a current resident of Kansas. This issue has opened the window for the Kansas Tea Party to primary him in the fall.