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Somehow, the ‘deniers’ and our U.S. Congress don’t get the message. One party is especially hard of hearing, or perhaps they have their own clever plan in preparing for the future.
Somehow, the ‘deniers’ and our U.S. Congress don’t get the message. One party is especially hard of hearing, or perhaps they have their own clever plan in preparing for the future.
Following Greg Abbott’s announcement of his plans to improve Texas’s pre-K program, Wendy Davis gave 20 million reasons why Abbott’s promises prove he is a hypocrite.
Republicans have responded to the great success of the ACA by completely going out of their minds. Conservatives are trying to discourage people from signing up, and they are even inventing their own data so that they can argue that more people signing up for the ACA is a bad thing.
Heading into the final day to signup for an individual health plan in the federal and state marketplaces, a new poll was released by ABC News and the Washington Post that shows the popularity for the ACA at an all-time high.
The latest conservative strategy regarding how to win women voters is to inform women that they don’t care about equal pay because… Obamacare website glitch.
Obamacare is the largest healthcare expansion in 50 years, and you are the reason why the ACA has been so successful.
The Los Angeles Times ran a story that debunked the entire conservative myth that the Affordable Care Act is not doing much to bring down number of uninsured people in America.
House Republicans have caused the economy to lose nearly $5 billion since they refused to renew extended unemployment compensation for more than 2.2 million Americans.
Monday morning on Morning Joe, Lawrence O’Donnell was on to discuss New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s chances in 2016 and if he had been able to redeem himself in the last few days.
The Supreme Court case is just one avenue in the company’s multi-faceted machinations to impose their version of Christianity on the nation.
Republicans are running against destroying Obamacare, but as the deadline for enrollment approaches long lines formed to sign up in red state cities like Tampa, El Paso, and Houston.
The report warns, “Human interference with the climate system is occurring, and climate change poses risks for human and natural systems.”
Michael Jarema looks at various items that made the rounds on the internet this past week.
During Sunday’s one-on-one interview with Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI), Fox News Sunday’s host Chris Wallace did his very best to try to reignite the debate over Benghazi.
As more senior citizens are becoming Republicans, Gallup found that younger voters are supporting Democrats in record numbers.
Chris Christie’s comeback tour was rudely interrupted by reality this Sunday when Assemblyman John Wisniewski (D-N.J.), who is the co-chair of the state investigation into the Bridgegate scandal, said it’s way too early to draw conclusions.
As the number of people who are enrolling in the ACA’s private insurance plans surges towards 7 million, Republican Sen. John Barrasso and Fox News Sunday teamed up to claim that President Obama is cooking the books.
It was revealed that taxpayers are unknowingly funding $1 billion in tuition for private schools teaching creationism in 14 states across America, including hundreds of religious schools training children that modern biology, geology and cosmology are all lies.
The electorate is morphing, growing more socially liberal in particular, at a magnificent clip. Both parties are keenly aware of that fact. And nowhere is the transition more evident than among the youth demographic.
Pat Robertson says the issue would not come up in the first place, as the gay couple would have been stoned before it got to that point
20 year-old Palmer Luckey followed his previous week’s success with the equally impressive announcement last Tuesday of Oculus VR’s $2 billion acquisition by Facebook.
Hobby Lobby’s owners have brought forth a case to the SCOTUS asking for an exemption from part of the Affordable Care Act that requires it to offer employees health coverage that includes access to the morning-after pill.
It is an election year, which means that Republicans and the emo-prog left have returned to attempt to depress Democratic voter turnout by claiming that Democrats and Republicans are the same. Today, we put a stake through the heart of a lie that must die.
Rand Paul wants the world – but especially America – to think he is some sort of social liberal, but the socially liberal Rand Paul is a media creation.
Sue Lowden wants to eliminate direct election of U.S. Senators because Harry Reid keeps getting elected.
Bill Maher had strong words for Democrats as he urged the party to stand their ground, and stop apologizing for Obamacare.
The rest of the nation is in decline because the South is taking valuable resources in the form of tax dollars and preventing reinvestment in America.
In an effort to discredit his former aide Bridget Kelly, Chris Christie and his legal team chose to paint her in the most unflattering way possible.
V.P. Joe Biden said Congress should raise the minimum wage because it’s good for people, business, women, and the economy. He thinks you ought to call your do-nothing representative and ask why they’re not passing a raise for the people.
Bill Day reminds us of the danger of the past becoming the future when it comes to a woman’s right to choose.
Democratic Governor Dan Malloy signed into law a bill that will raise the state’s minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, the highest in the nation.
After seeing Obama’s sanctions take a bite out of the Russian economy, Putin blinked and called the president today with a settlement proposal to end the crisis in Ukraine.
A group of right wingers have dreamed up some allegations of racism against Stephen Colbert, and are demanding that his Comedy Central show be canceled.
Former tabloid talk show host, now supposed serious news journalist, Geraldo Rivera was on Fox & Friends Friday morning to discuss recent political scandals that have effected Democratic elected officials.
National Republican Senatorial Committee Communications Director Brad Dayspring said there is no problem with a pay gap because a law was passed in 1963 to address gender pay inequities.
one of the highlights of the President’s trip has been meeting with Pope Francis, in which they talked about the importance of empathy and the dangers of indifference.
There is a recurring theme in Republican outrage over President Obama’s executive actions that centers on an African American President doing the same thing a white president (George W. Bush) did less than six years ago with no cries of presidential overreach.
On Friday morning, Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) declared on WJR Radio that he will not seek reelection in November and instead will host a conservative talk radio show.
While speaking to the Louisiana Oil and Gas Association Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu’s 2014 challenger, Rep. Bill Cassidy called the uninsured, unsophisticated, and uneducated.
On Thursday night’s episode of The Daily Show, host Jon Stewart and correspondent Kristen Schaal laid into the so-called ‘Princeton Mom’ Susan Patton.
Bill Day pays tribute to the Boston firefighters that lost their lives with a touching cartoon from the past.
During a conference call held on Thursday, a senior administrative official outlined the key features of the President’s proposed program.
Like Arizona’s failed “religious liberty” legislation, a decision for Hobby Lobby will be a national religious tyranny license with far-reaching implications.
Bill Day gives us a cartoon about his thoughts on the Stand Your Ground law.
How can a couple be both legally married and yet legally denied the benefits that legally married folks are supposed to get?
Republican Greg Abbott told women that there were already 4 laws in place to protect them re: equal pay, but his office is full of women who are being paid less than men for the same work, with the same experience. So which 4 laws is he breaking?
The Senate voted 64-34 today to proceed with five-month extension for unemployment benefits, which new data from the Department of Labor shows would help nearly 2.8 million Americans.
The Republican predictions of gloom and doom for the ACA have officially been proven wrong as HHS has announced that Obamacare has already hit its goal of six million enrollees.
True to his word, President Obama is moving forward to take government out of the business of collecting and storing telephone meta data.
While President Obama was speaking with the Pope, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) sent an immature tweet.
Thanks to her championing of equal pay, Wendy Davis is surging in the polls, while her Republican opponent Greg Abbott could be facing an investigation into pay discrimination in his office.
Hobby Lobby finds itself arguing, against science, that three forms of emergency contraception are actually abortifacients. They have now moved the goal post to unfertilized eggs constituting a possible pregnancy.
On Wednesday night’s episode of The Rachel Maddow Show, host Rachel Maddow saved the last segment to highlight some of the President’s greatest comic insult moments. That segued into him taking down Putin.
It pains me to write this because on a certain level it compromises one of the greatest perks of a Democracy – privacy.
The party accusing Muslims of nefariously imposing Sharia Law upon Americans is nefariously imposing their idea of Biblical law.
Nothing like a shirtless, sinister Putin sporting a new tattoo of the hammer and sickle that spells out ‘CRIMEA’ to bringing back images of the old USSR socialist imperialism.
On Wednesday, Osama Bin-Laden’s son-in-law, Sulaiman Abu Ghaith was found guilty of conspiracy to kill Americans by serving as an Al Quaeda spokesman following the 9/11 attacks.
John Boehner few into an angry rage after finding out that the next phase in his plan to keep millions uninsured had been derailed by President Obama.
Mitch McConnell lost yet another important endorsement to his Tea Party challenger today. It couldn’t have come at a worse time.
On Tuesday, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee formally endorsed Shenna Bellows in Maine’s US Senate race this year. She could give Sen. Collins a real fight this November.
Democratic Incumbent Tom Udall leads either Republican candidate by over twenty points in the New Mexico U.S. Senate race.
Conservatives think President Obama has taken hold of their minds via Common Core, in his attempt to educate the country. They aren’t having it.
Idaho Republicans overwhelmingly passed legislation proclaiming Idaho does not have to tolerate federal gun laws going forward.
On Wednesday, the Kaiser Family Foundation released their updated health tracking poll and the results were not what the Republican Party wanted to see.
The group of Republican senators who support extending unemployment benefits are calling out John Boehner for blocking the Senate agreement that would help millions of Americans.
Right Wing extremists continue to claim they care about free and fair elections while advocating for and establishing “laws” that effectively restrict voting by non-Republicans.
During an interview with Chris Jansing of MSNBC on Tuesday, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) slammed the people running Hobby Lobby for having no moral qualms covering Viagra on their insurance plan.
President Obama highlighted the importance of policy over rhetoric, “I will keep fighting to make sure you and your families get the care and treatment and benefits that you have earned and deserve.”
Michelle Byrom’s trial is a classic example of why I oppose the death penalty.
Former Bush Sec. of Defense Donald Rumsfeld wasn’t content with disagreeing with President Obama’s foreign policy. He felt the need to compare the first African American president to an ape.
“I grew up castrating hogs…” Republican Iowa state Senator Joni Ernst tells us in a new ad. This makes her uniquely qualified to be Iowa’s new Senator because DC needs to cut spending.
Sen. Mitch McConnell’s latest self-inflicted wound to his bid for reelection was a whopper. The Kentucky Republican used footage of Duke winning the national title in a campaign ad.
If someone told me even a year ago, that the Supreme Court would consider if corporations practice a religion and with it, have a right to freedom of religion I wouldn’t have believed it.
Speaker of the House John Boehner’s office went into full freak out mode after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called out Republican obstruction for sending the wrong message to Putin and Russia.
Gallup released the results of a study on Monday showing the racial breakdown of political party affiliation since 1995. More white Americans have shifted party allegiance to the Republican Party, or have at least indicated they lean Republican.
It is more likely due, in part, to one of the two richest men in the country who claims the tens-of-millions of Americans living below the poverty line need to shut up, stop complaining, and start celebrating their good fortune as members of the richest one-percent in the world.
“To be that openly hostile to the word ‘God,’ it’s something beyond the normal human experience. Something has happened.”
Bill Day shows us the kind of big game that the NRA loves to hunt.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) sent a shiver down Rep. Paul Ryan’s spine tonight by exposing the secret behind his sudden interest in poverty programs.
Per a report in The New York Times on Monday, a legal team hired directly by Chris Christie’s office performed a review of the George Washington Bridge scandal and found the New Jersey Governor completely innocent of any wrongdoing.
In an interview on MSNBC, former President Jimmy Carter called women being paid less than men a form of abuse, and compared it to racial discrimination.
In a desperate attempt to make himself look presidential, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI) is claiming that Ronald Reagan ended the Cold War by busting U.S. unions.
During Monday’s episode of Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski essentially lost it on the air when she got fed up with co-host Joe Scarborough using air time to throw out conspiracy theories on the missing Malaysian airliner.
Republican Nebraska U.S. candidate Shane Osborn is in hot water after trying to pass off a memo written by a friend of his in the Navy as an authentic document that defends his decision to land a disabled Navy reconnaissance plane in China.
, Republicans in the House have looked back on 108 years’ worth of presidential abuse and determined their predecessors’ were errant in their longsuffering and should have done in 1906 what House Republicans plan to do this week; tell Americans there will be no new national parks or protected federal lands ever.
During Sunday’s edition of Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace continued his network’s deliberately dishonest reporting on the Affordable Care Act.
When former President Jimmy Carter wants to send a message to a world leader, he uses snail mail, because he knows that the NSA is watching.
Nate Silver was on ABC’s This Week where Jon Karl took Silver’s slight Republican advantage in the 2014 Senate races and turned into a cheerleading session for a gigantic Republican win.
During an interview on CBS’ Face The Nation today, Mitt Romney called President Obama naive and attacked him for his inability to psychically predict that Russia would invade Ukraine.
Neil de Grasse Tyson, a forward thinking and intelligent man disabused creationists of the idea they will ever get equal time on Cosmos when he said, “You don’t talk about the spherical Earth with NASA, and then say let’s give equal time to the flat Earthers.”
Glenn Beck is worried that kids will believe a story written by Hollywood over a story written in the Bronze Age
Here is your weekly roundup of the strange, weird, and sometimes flat out odd from around the Web.
This week’s Games Developers Conference in San Francisco saw the introduction of the Oculus Rift DK2, a second-generation developers’ kit for a virtual reality headset
This past week, President Obama designated his 10th national monument for preservation. Unsurprisingly, House Republicans had an issue with this.
On Friday, a federal judge in Michigan ruled that the state’s ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional.
President Obama took and even tougher stand for equal pay today, while, at the same time, Republicans are doing their best to send women back to the kitchen.
Bill Maher used the example of changing the name of food stamps to Christ coupons to demonstrate how Democrats can win the issue by winning the political war of words.
Republicans and their wealthy donors say they are seeing signs that the political mood appears to be shifting back toward deification of the wealthy and are hopeful their ignorant voting bloc will help the trend continue.
In a conversation with Tucker Carlson’s ultra-conservative website The Daily Caller earlier this week, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) stated that he is done answering questions about his father
Residents of the most politically and religiously conservative states struggle the most with health and with feeding themselves