In Case You Missed It… Assorted Oddities from Around the Web
Stories that hit the web this past week involved man-made DNA, edible water bottles. yawning and expensive name brands.
Stories that hit the web this past week involved man-made DNA, edible water bottles. yawning and expensive name brands.
Neglecting the conditions and healthcare of the poor has contributed to drug-resistant microbes which have reached crisis proportions.
This Sunday on ABC’s This Week, host Martha Raddatz had a panel discussion about the recent reemergence of Monica Lewinsky. Raddatz brought up Lewinsky’s article in Vanity Fair. She cornered Bill Kristol on his recent conspiracy theory and responded with Benghazi.
On Face The Nation, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) slammed Republicans for avoiding the real issues. She said that the way Republicans are doing things in the House is not how you run a country.
Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-CA) showed up on Fox News, and destroyed the conspiracy spreading by dropping a fact bomb on the Republican Party and right-wing network’s Benghazi hysteria.
John Boehner’s answer to Fox News about why he hasn’t had Lois Lerner arrested revealed that the true motive behind this faux scandal is impeaching Attorney General Holder and/or President Obama.
Michele Bachmann tried to justify yet another Benghazi investigation by saying it’s what the people want, but Candy Crowley said the people want jobs.
The conservatives have been so blatant in their service to special interests that Americans have taken notice, and a new poll reveals the people have lost faith in, and are weary of, this conservative Court’s rulings.
A cartoon in celebration of all mothers, sons and daughters of mothers, and Mother Earth.
Office IVA of the RSHA (Reichssicherheitshauptamt (Reich Main Security Office) dealt with communism, Marxism, and reaction. Office IVA3 dealt with liberalism and immigrants.
The summer blockbuster movie season kicks into high gear next week with one of the most highly-anticipated releases- the latest reboot of Godzilla.
Tennessee State Sen. Stacey Campfield (R) made a comment comparing the Affordable Care Act to the train ride 6 million Jews and non-Aryans rode during Nazi Germany.
As America marches toward nationwide legal gay marriage, its opponents are being further and further ostracized. Case in point: HGTV’s Benham brothers.
The area geologists warned is likely to experience damaging earthquakes is situated under the proposed path of the KeystoneXL pipeline set to carry bitumen-laden tar sand renowned for ruptures without earthquakes, but that is something Republicans beholden to the oil export industry are unlikely to ever admit.
Under President Obama, the United States is on pace to have its best job creation year since Bill Clinton was president in 1999.
An Indiana man who had his unemployment benefits cut off after House Republicans refused to extend them has been charged with making multiple threats on Speaker of the House John Boehner’s life.
Republicans are so desperate that they’re starting to believe that Rand Paul is a 2016 contender.
The right-wing media has focused their attentions solely on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Based on the logic they are presenting, Clinton is to blame for Boko Haram’s actions due to her not designating them as a terrorist organization during her tenure as Secretary of State.
Michelle Obama honored mothers and motherhood on the Mother’s Day weekend by drawing a vital connection to the importance of girl’s education and the unconscionable terrorist kidnapping of more than 200 Nigerian girls.
The latest Republican “star” to find themselves in the midst of a corruption scandal is New Mexico governor, Susana Martinez.
Roanoke County Supervisor Al Bedrosian says, “The freedom of religion doesn’t mean that every religion has to be heard.”
Pulaski County Circuit Judge Chris Piazza overthrew Arkansas’ ban on same-sex marriage Friday.
KLAS-TV in Las Vegas is reporting that the FBI is now conducting an investigation into the armed standoff between Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy’s supporters and local and federal law enforcement.
Voting Rights advocates in Pennsylvania declared victory on Thursday, after Governor Tom Corbett announced he will not appeal a January court ruling that quashed one of the most restrictive voter ID laws in the country.
Donald Sterling, Los Angeles Clippers owner of racist and misogynistic infamy, doesn’t understand why you think he’s a racist. So he’s explaining it again to you.
House Democratic leaders have flat out rejected John Boehner’s offer to be props on his special Benghazi committee. After meeting, Democrats called the offer a slap in the face.
This week, Issa took a page straight out of McCarthy’s tactics and for the first time since the McCarthy era called for a vote to hold a witness in contempt for exercising her Constitutional 5th Amendment right.
Americans are just not that into the Kochs or their “give us all of your money because freedom!” message. It turns out that Americans are not as stupid as the Koch brothers think they are.
Fresh off the 2012 death of her son, Massachusetts native Glen Doherty’s mother shamed the Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and the GOP for trying to use her son’s death for their political agenda. So now they’re fundraising off of his death.
The Koch brothers are going to try to buy Congress this year by outspending both the Republican and the Democratic parties combined.
On Thursday night’s edition of The Daily Show, host Jon Stewart, along with correspondent John Hodgman, addressed the recent Donald Sterling controversy while also sending up the current inequitable relationship in sports between team owners and the athletes.
Perkins claims ‘true religious freedom’ only applies to ‘orthodox religious viewpoints'” as though there is anything orthodox about his beliefs
Another front has opened up in the corporate war against ACA. It’s called a Health Care Compact.
Alison Lundergan Grimes strong campaign continues to win over voters as Mitch McConnell’s last worst nightmare is eclipsed by the next one.
Her credentials bestow a degree of verisimilitude, at least among those wishing to have their preconceptions validated by an attractive, half-dressed woman
McConnell’s team has tried to paint her as a Hollywood liberal whose values are all wrong for Kentucky. Recently, it has been revealed that McConnell is a huge hypocrite.
During his interview with MSNBC’s Chuck Todd today, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) ripped Todd and other Beltway journalists for not being honest about what the Republican Party is doing.
Gallup released a new poll on Thursday which shows that opposition to the Tea Party is at its highest level since the polling firm started tracking the far-right, anti-government movement in 2010.
A sign that the latest House Republican Benghazi show investigation is backfiring grew when John Boehner refused to answer questions about why he won’t stop the Republicans from fundraising off of Benghazi.
When when asked about women’s healthcare, Dan Patrick said, “Look this is a myth that Planned Parenthood has anything to do with women’s health.”
Calling Republican fundraising over the death of four Americans in Benghazi “disgusting”, Joe Scarborough charged on Morning Joe Thursday morning that Republicans have ‘have undermined the credibility of this committee.’
Missouri Republicans are stupider than congressional Republicans because they carefully studied Kansas Republicans’ economic policies that created a budget nightmare for the state and its people.
If all this seems disturbingly familiar, it should. The Nazis said, “Don’t Buy from Jews!” The Religious Right is saying, “Don’t Sell to Gays!”
It must be true. I heard it on FOX News.
Nearly 90 percent of the House Republican caucus members want a spot on the House Benghazi select committee.
Thankfully Bill Nye is in possession of the type of feistiness that liberals (and yes, I acknowledge grief that environmental common sense has become partisan) are going to need in order to have a prayer of saving humanity.
When the White House released a regularly-scheduled scientific report awash in empirical data that climate change is a real and present man-made danger, it was little surprise that the Republican and Koch brothers’ media outlet Fox News disparaged the report as a distraction from Fox and Republicans’ debunked Benghazi distraction.
A disgusted and fed up Sandy Levin called Republicans out for turning the House into a circus as they tried to pass a resolution calling for a Special Counsel to investigate the IRS.
Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC has said that he won’t try to use Benghazi as a fundraising issue. However, the NRCC and other Republicans aren’t following that advice.
In a recent interview, former Sen. Alan Simpson still scoffed at the idea that watching a bit of your boss’s choice of p*rn whilst he discusses pubic hairs on the Coke bottle was a problem. It’s not like Thomas touched Hill, he tells us.
Republican FEC Chairman Lee Goodman is sparking a right wing freak out by claiming that some in the FEC want to treat conservative media such as Drudge and Fox News like political action committees.
At a press conference that supposedly about jobs, Speaker of the House John Boehner joined the impeachment Obama crowd by claiming that Obama is lying about Benghazi, Fast and Furious, and the IRS.
The law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher charged Republican Governor Chris Christie’s office $1.1 million for the short time frame between Jan. 12 to Jan. 31 to look into the lane closures on the GWB.
On Wednesday’s edition of Morning Joe, co-hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough discussed Monica Lewinsky’s new Vanity Fair piece, which will be released online Thursday and hit newsstands on May 13th. Scarborough threw a tantrum on air.
Florida Democratic candidate for governor, Charlie Crist, went there and called out the Republican Party’s racism towards President Obama during an interview on Fusion.
“He’s more dangerous than any other threat we face as a nation,” Tancredo said. “Barack Obama, I believe, is dedicated to destroying the America that I love”
Some stories that hit the Internet this past week involved a dead whale, brain implants, Neanderthals and the House of Davids.
When people from the North and the Midwest started arriving to Florida, I thought the state that I loved would become more ‘enlightened’. It didn’t happen, and nearly four years ago they elected Rick Scott. Bummer.
Retiring Democratic Senator Jay Rockefeller unloaded on Republicans during a hearing today. He said that Republicans don’t want anything good to happen for this president because he’s the wrong color.
On Tuesday, while announcing that the White House had released this report, Fox News’ Bill Hemmer, host of America’s Newsroom, stated that the report was perhaps being used to distract people from the “multiple scandals swirling around the administration.”
Monica Lewinsky is back, and she has is debunking the talking points that Republicans are hoping to use against Hillary Clinton in 2016.
A new climate change report was released by the White House on Tuesday. White House counselor John Podesta stated that he hoped that Republicans would look at this report change their minds on the existence of climate change and that it is indeed caused by man.
Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber (D) saw an unconscious woman along a city street and he jumped into action, performing CPR to save her.
Top House Democrats, including Leader Nancy Pelosi were supposed to be holding a Steering and Policy Committee hearing on the Republican refusal to extend unemployment benefits, but Republicans kicked Democrats out of their scheduled room.
When Americans in the near future look back and wonder how, why, and when their democracy was lost to theocracy, and the Constitution replaced with the bible, they can look back at the Court’s ruling as a pivotal moment, not the deciding moment, in democracy’s demise but a very significant one all the same.
Robertson’s fingerprints are all over the rise of the conservative extremism he now condemns, being called by the Washington Post a power broker of the religious right.
An upcoming documentary, “The Brainwashing of My Dad” traces how right wing media morphed a mild-mannered Democrat into a racist Republican. It happens all the time.
Rick Santorum says his party has been hostile to workers and that their opposition to raising the minimum wage “makes no sense”.
Ever since it happened, Fox News has tried to turn the tragic events that occurred at Benghazi in September 2012 into a massive scandal that will destroy the Obama presidency.
Republicans are so desperate for a candidate that they starting a movement to draft Mitt Romney to run again in 2016.
Gallup released a new tracking poll on Monday that shows that the uninsured rate for Americans dropped to 13.4% in April. This continues a trend that started at the end of 2013
While Republicans are trumping up their Benghazi hysteria, CBS News had the transcript of Lara Logan’s untrue 60 Minutes Benghazi report deleted from the Lexis Nexis database.
Iowa State Sen. Joni Ernst, who is trying to grab the GOP nomination for Iowa’s open US Senate seat, released a new TV ad this week in the hopes of grabbing some mainstream attention.
There is a troubling new justification for the right to keep and bear arms the NRA supports and it is entrapping suspected burglars and gunning them down in cold blood with impunity as part of the NRA-written and ALEC proposed “stand your ground” or “Castle Doctrine” laws.
Gallup found that the uninsured rate dropped 1.5% from the last quarter of 2013 to the first quarter of 2014. The ACA is working as the percentage of uninsured Americans has hit it’s lowest point since 2008.
It is ironic that Binyamin Netanyahu wants to walk Israel at least partway down the path Adolf Hitler took Nazi Germany, by declaring Israel a “nation state of one people only – the Jewish people – and of no other people.” Nazi Germany, you may remember, was also nation state of one people only –…
Accusations made by Republicans regarding Benghazi are turning up an interesting tale. Many of the emails were altered by the RNC, which leads to this question: Are the Republicans truly interested in resolving Benghazi or is it a smoke screen for the 2014 elections?
Two months after the on-set death of 27 year-old camera assistant Sarah Jones, headlines continue near-weekly regarding both the embattled production of the Gregg Allman biopic Midnight Rider.
Sounding like a lunatic, and acting as sleazy as possible, Sen. Lindsey Graham said that President Obama and the White House are disconnected from reality on Benghazi.
During Sunday’s broadcast of Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace had Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) and Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) on to discuss both Benghazi and Ukraine. After letting Ayotte say her piece, Wallace turned to Schiff. The Congressman obliterated the GOP’s case.
President Obama’s jokes about the ACA rollout turned the issue that Republicans thought could carry them to victory in 2014 into a punchline.
Democratic House Leader Nancy Pelosi has joined the list of Democrats who aren’t about to sit back and let Republicans float their bogus Benghazi conspiracies unchallenged.
Republican Greg Abbott’s campaign has been criticizing Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis for taking money from liberals outside of Texas, so imagine the surprise when Abbott went on Hugh Hewett’s national right wing talk radio show and begged for dollars.
The claim that President Obama campaigned, and revels, in being “the abortion President” is driven by racism, evangelical fanaticism, and an abject ignorance of statistics.
Having created 0 job and cutting unemployment benefits, Boehner said, “we need more robust economic growth if we’re going to help the millions who remain unemployed get back on their feet.”
Joel McHale had a real roller coaster ride at the White House Correspondents Dinner, but his jokes didn’t pull punches and definitely brought the funny.
President Obama managed to take down both Fox News and the Koch brothers by highlighting the connection between the two with a single joke at the White House Correspondents Dinner.
Moore leaves out that the Founding Fathers agreed to a secular Constitution that has NOTHING to do with God – anyone’s God
Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) shredded Darrell Issa’s Benghazi subpoena of Sec. of State John Kerry by calling it a publicity stunt.
Speaker Boehner allowed Fox News to “establish a new select committee to investigate the attack, provide the necessary accountability, and ensure justice is finally served.”
On Real Time, Bill Maher tore apart CNN for their continuing and ghoulish coverage of Malaysia Flight 370.
Jesus never instructed his disciples, and there is nothing in the Gospels, remotely resembling Jesus Christ instructing anyone to revere the rich or kiss the ground they walk on, but Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association thinks that is what Jesus wanted and counselled Americans receiving government services to “kiss the ground beneath the feet of the one percent.”
These pitiful packys just can’t give up Obamacare and Benghazi…Obamacare…Benghazi…Obamacare…Benghazi…
House Republicans have already wasted 14 million taxpayer dollars on Benghazi investigations. Instead of appointing a Select House Committee on Benghazi, Speaker Boehner needs to pay the taxpayers back the money that he has wasted.
On his radio show Friday, Limbaugh not only accused the President of fudging the numbers, he also used the time to complain about the fact that unemployed people in this country are able to eat. Yes, he actually said this.
On a day where the unemployment rate fell to pre-financial crisis levels, and a month after private insurance enrollments through the ACA exceeded all expectations, Republicans decided to focus on the only thing they now think they can hammer President Obama on — Benghazi.
Nevada officials are not taking the Bundy militias very seriously at all and they are obstructing justice as well as not protecting residents in and around Clarke County Nevada from armed vigilantes.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) committed the ultimate act of disrespect to President Obama and the presidency itself when he called White House officials scumbags who are lying about Benghazi.
A day after the final ACA numbers for the year showed massive participation by the American people, President Obama got another big win when the unemployment rate fell to its lowest level since September 2008.
Barton proceeds from a false premise: The Founding Fathers did not decide whether or not women could vote. They only left the matter up to the states