If rules and regulations pertaining to the manufacture, sale and usage of toys can evolve in response to a threat to children, why as we so dangerously and resolutely opposed to following suit with guns?
Despite initially coming up short, the California assembly and senate approved the nation’s first ban of single-use plastic bags.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is celebrating Labor Day weekend by standing up for unions and taking down the Koch Brothers.
After a thorough examination of America’s pathetic record of disparate treatment of minorities, a United Nations watchdog reported what people of color, particularly African Americans, have known first hand and all too well for decades. “Racial and ethnic discrimination remains a serious and persistent problem in all areas of life from de facto school segregation, access to health care, and housing.”
A USA Today/Suffolk University Poll suggests that the GOP is willing to settle for 2012 loser Mitt Romney in 2016
Sen. Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) barely teetering reelection campaign has suffered another gut punch as campaign manager Jesse Benton resigned amid allegations of his involvement in a bribery scandal.
Over the past six years after every election, a relatively common question is why do so many Americans dependably vote against their own self-interests. Despite poor white people in southern red states barely surviving on slave wages, welfare, food stamps, and no adequate healthcare, they routinely vote for Republicans openly campaigning on driving their constituents deeper into poverty.
In a much needed victory for women in Texas, a Federal Court struck down the Lone Star State’s version of a TRAP law.
This time, an Austin judge dealt a devastating blow to Greg Abbott’s campaign against public education
During Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s The Daily Rundown, Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK), the Deputy Majority Whip in the House, spoke with host Chuck Todd regarding President Obama’s comments during a Thursday press conference where he said that there isn’t a strategy yet when it comes to bombing ISIS in Syria.
Mitch McConnell is a man on the run from a disastrous week for the Republican Party.
John Boehner is back to making promises he can’t keep by doing the same thing that he did last year. Speaker Boehner is promising that there won’t be a government shutdown.
On Thursday evening, a social media company confirmed that the audio recording that CNN released Monday purporting to be from the Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson was recorded at the same exact time that the killing took place.
Chris Christie is no stranger to questionable ethics and corruption, and although helping financial institutions profit to the tune of nearly a billion dollars to “manage” state pension funds may not be illegal, it is an atrocity New Jersey residents should be up in arms over; particularly because that is about how much Christie cut from New Jersey’s education fund.
If gay sex is idolatry, have these guys had heterosexual sex, where participants are also not greatly focused on God, at least, not if you want to be good at it?
Even the awful story of a nine-year-old girl accidentally killing someone with a machine gun won’t affect NRA-bought Washington politicians.
During Thursday’s broadcast of The Rush Limbaugh Show, conservative blowhard Rush Limbaugh made the unbelievable claim that the Great Recession, which took place from December 2007 to June 2009, was President Obama’s fault.
Karl Rove and other Republicans needed to commission a poll to tell them that women see Republicans as “intolerant,” “lacking in compassion,” and “stuck in the past.”
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has been caught on video literally running away from reporters after audio of a secret speech that he gave to the Koch brothers was leaked.
In an article for the Wall Street Journal, Republican strategist and campaign funder Karl Rove wrote that the Republicans are all but assured of taking over the Senate following November’s midterm elections
McConnell asserted that belief in, and support for, the government is “an act of true radicalism,” something that makes the Founding Fathers and the great majority of Americans “true radicals.”
Cameron says, “It’s obvious that there is a deliberate attempt to snuff out the holy root that has produced all this wonderful Christmas-time fruit.”
On MSNBC, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said that he is testing the presidential campaign waters to see if ordinary Americans will join him in a revolution that take America back from the big money interests like the Koch brothers.
The right wing war on education continues. One of the most active organizations in the right wing’s fight against Common Core is the Home School Legal Defense Association. On the surface, this does not make sense. Why should the HSLDA a group for home schooling parents, care so much about standards that don’t apply…
Every day the headlines contain a few stories about gun related deaths.
The heavily Koch gifted to Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is pretty desperate to win the Senate for Republicans. He’s got a lot on the agenda. A lot he can’t tell you about.
PA Republican Gov Corbett knows what the ladies want and it’s not equal pay. They want to be able to pick up a 6 pack at the grocery store to speed up dinner prep.
On Wednesday morning, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) issued a threat to the country by saying a government shutdown will occur if President Obama follows through on his plans to issue executive orders addressing immigration.
The Grimes’ campaign hits Mitch McConnell hard after he gets caught on tape selling his soul to the Kochs.
Tuesday night, Bill O’Reilly decided he needed to whitesplain to everybody, but especially blacks, why white privilege does not exist and how too many African-Americans are using it as an excuse to not take any responsibility for their lives.
These people run the GOP, and they have not a frigging clue what they are talking about. They don’t seem to know anything about government or reality.
In a leaked audio tape of the Koch brothers top secret June 2014 retreat, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) not only admitted that the Republicans would be lost without the Kochs, and revealed who the real power is in the GOP.
The Catholics on the High Court made a serious error in ruling that any government prayers were constitutional.
Kevin Sorbo and Rick Wiles say atheists know God exists and hate him for “judging how they live their life.”
The most power-mad of the power-mad, the American Legislative Exchange Council, relies on easily compromised spear-carriers to dominate state legislatures and push through model-legislation designed to benefit ALEC’s multi-national, special interest corporate donor base.
On CNN, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) explained that Republican refusal to make corporations pay their fair share is the obstruction that is allowing companies like Burger King to avoid taxes by moving to Canada.
Gallup has super bad news for Republicans who rely on low voter turnout to win elections.
Young African-American males are targeted almost at birth.
Contrary to what Republicans are trying to sell, President Obama’s foreign policy drew cheers as he addressed the American Legion’s 96th convention in Charlotte.
On the 3rd day of the school year, a loaded gun was found in a kindergartner’s backpack at a Pittsburgh elementary School Monday morning.
As President Obama and Democrats try to close loopholes that allow corporations to flee the U.S. in order to avoid paying taxes, John Boehner and Dave Camp are personally cashing in.
On Monday afternoon, Donald Trump sent out a tweet endorsing New Hampshire GOP Senate candidate Scott Brown in his race against the Democratic incumbent, Senator Jeanne Shaheen. The only problem is that he actually referred to a Rhode Island state lawmaker, State Sen. Jim Sheehan.
Sen. Bernie Sanders has not commented on whether he will be running as a Democrat or Independent if he launches a 2016 presidential campaign, but he will be visiting early Democratic primary states Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina in the coming month.
If any American thinks the Republicans will not follow through on their shutdown threat, they are deluded because McConnell’s own words encapsulated the entire conservative mindset when he promised that “Obama won’t like it, but that will be done. I guarantee it.”
Late Monday evening, CNN’s Don Lemon, still on the scene in Ferguson, provided breaking news regarding an alleged audio recording taken at the time 18-year-old unarmed Michael Brown was shot by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson.
Pastor Michael V. Williams claims “While Christians are becoming increasingly tolerant of homosexuals, homosexuals are becoming increasingly intolerant of us.”
On Fox News’ Your World with Neil Cavuto Monday, substitute host Stuart Varney agreed with an Oklahoma superintendent’s way of addressing the dress code at a high school. The superintendent called girls ‘skanks’ and forced them to bend over to prove their skirts and shorts weren’t too short.
While Michael Brown’s family and friends gathered for his funeral on Monday, Fox continued down the Reich wing brick road of blaming Michael Brown for his own death.
In this season of discontent, we lost a legend in the crusade for sensible gun reform. James S. Brady, the former White House press secretary for Ronald Reagan, died earlier this month, more than 30 years after being wounded in an assassination attempt on the President in Washington D.C.
The Florida Primary is on Tuesday, and it’s expected that Charlie Crist will be up against Tea Party Republican Slick Rick in November. Floridians, be sure to vote!
On the same day that Michael Brown was laid to rest, Fox News edited video of Attorney General Eric Holder in an attempt to exploit and inflame racial tensions.
Burger King is on the run. Perhaps they got a look at Mitt Romney’s ability to avoid paying taxes and they wanted to get themselves some of that patriotic action.
Taxpayers should be outraged. It was revealed today that John Boehner’s lawsuit against President Obama will cost the American people $500 an hour in attorney fees.
The AP interviewed one of the lesser known Koch brothers, William, in what seems to be an attempt to soften the public image of the family whom the AP tells us are “demonized” by Democrats.
If you watched Beyonce Knowles’ performance at the VMA’s last night, you knew this was coming. She used the platform to sell feminism to her fans.
Fort Lee gave the “all clear” after an unidentified female Soldier with a gun turned the weapon on herself and shot herself one time inside the Combined Arms Support Command Headquarters.
What is curious, is that Republicans are campaigning against President Obama who is not running for any political office, but since they cannot run on their records in Congress, they are using conditions in Iraq to frighten Americans into supporting the GOP.
An article posted by the Huffington Post on Sunday evening reveals that Justin Cosma, a Ferguson police officer who arrested two reporters for sitting at a McDonald’s in Ferguson, is currently dealing with a civil rights lawsuit due to an incident where he hog-tied a 12-year-old boy.
President Obama is back from vacation, which means that whether Republicans like it or not more executive action is coming.
At a Republican gathering in New Hampshire, Perry took time to attack Obama for the economy his party destroyed and has done nothing to fix
Ferguson is not as isolated incident. It never was. What Ferguson is and will continue to be is a microcosm of the relationship between large segments of the population and their views of local law enforcement.
Paul Ryan had the nerve to say that he didn’t speak out against the government shutdown because it was more important that Republicans were unified. Ryan’s support of government shutdowns is straight out of the Koch playbook.
If it’s Sunday, that means it is time for the same old GOP fame whores to show up on our television sets and push their particular talking point while simultaneously blaming President Obama for anything and everything.
Delusion can be added to the list of issues that plague Rand Paul after the Kentucky senator claimed that Democrats are afraid of him.
Peter Theo Curtis is finally on his way home after what had to be a terrifying two year abduction. The American journalist has been held for almost two years by Al Qaeda in Syria after being kidnapped near the Turkish border in 2012, but he is safely outside of Syria and on his way to meet loved ones this Sunday.
Ferguson is not an isolated case in the St. Louis area. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch ran a story Sunday detailing the lack of diversity that exists in other St. Louis County police departments.
Chris Jansing was the fill in moderator on Meet The Press, and without David Gregory or Chuck Todd, Republican talking points about the threat of ISIS to America were strongly challenged.
On Fox News Sunday, Sen. John McCain criticized President Obama for refusing to do stupid stuff in the Middle East. McCain said, “No more don’t do stupid stuff.” In other words, McCain claimed that the US can defeat ISIS by doing stupid things.
The judge, Superior Court Judge Robert Hobgood, identified the Republican legislation, “Opportunity Scholarship Program,” as a scam to “siphon money from the public schools in favor of private schools and allows funding of non-public schools that discriminate on account of religion.”
The Black Mass vs the Eucharist. In the end, Satanists want to piss on Jesus’ body and Catholics want to eat it
You’ve heard the term “Public Charter School.” The whole thing is based on the “Charter School Growth with Quality Act.” And, wouldn’t you know it, it’s a piece of model legislation from the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).
Not to be outdone by Rick Perry in the Republican race to the bottom, new documents released by prosecutors in Wisconsin revealed illegal coordination between the campaign of Gov. Scott Walker and a Super PAC.
According to the President’s proposal, religious organizations and corporations will get a special accommodation to opt out of covering birth control for their employees by notifying the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) of their religious objections. Then, both the HHS and Department of Labor will arrange for a third-party insurer to pay for and administer coverage for religious employees so women still receive the full range of contraception coverage guaranteed in the Affordable Care Act.
Andrea Tantaros at Fox News says Islam can only be “solved” with a bullet to the head. You know, like ISIL is “solving” other religions.
Here is a reality check for Republicans who keep complaining over President Obama’s vacations. President Obama has had fewer vacation days in the last six years than Congress will have in 2014.
PoliticusUSA’s Justin Baragona attended a protest march in nearby Clayton. After the rally, PoliticusUSA was able to catch up with Ferguson resident Kayla Reed for an interview.
“I personally believe in Jesus Christ as my lord savior, but I’m also a killer. I’ve killed a lot. And if I need to, I’ll kill a whole bunch more. If you don’t want to get killed, don’t show up in front of me, it’s that simple.” This officer has been suspended, but not permanently yet.
Amid the signs of a return to normalcy in Ferguson, it’s tempting to just move on to the next story.
In a letter to the Senate Select Committee on Ethics, the Kentucky Democratic Party is calling for an investigation into whether Mitch McConnell used official government resources to solicit contributions to his reelection campaign.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) made it clear that she is not running for president by disavowing the activities of the Ready For Warren PAC, and encouraging them to direct their efforts towards helping Democrats keep the Senate.
During a discussion on Fox News’ Happening Now Friday, Fox News contributor and talk radio show host Tammy Bruce claimed that President Obama is indifferent to the world’s issues and doesn’t care about the death of American journalist James Foley at the hands of ISIS.
Gov. Rick Perry’s awful week got even worse when the Pentagon’s press secretary went on national television and shutdown Perry’s claim that ISIS is invading the U.S. over the Southern border.
The 2012 losers Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney declare Hillary Clinton “beatable” in 2016.
Mitt Romney letPaul Ryan (R-WI) douse him with water to raise awareness and money for ALS as part of the Ice Bucket Challenge. Of course, he did so whilst wearing a suit.
The response from Ferguson and St. Louis county police to residents peaceable assembly was itself an injustice, and it appears there is a reason that reveals how local law enforcement officials regarded African Americans gathering in their own neighborhoods.
The many instances of truly inspirational and positive work being done by people and organizations from the Ferguson area have gone largely (and sadly) ignored by the media at large.
America’s conservatives have proved in the wake of the killing of Mike Brown that minorities will have no justice under Republican governance.
On CNN Thursday, Don Lemon confirmed through a source that Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson did not sustain a broken bone in his face prior to shooting unarmed 18-year-old Mike Brown six times.
Another government shutdown is brewing as House Republicans are ready to go back on a previous agreement to fund the government. If House Republicans continue to self-destruct, the result could erase the Republican House majority.
St Louis police shooting caught on camera, and it doesn’t tell the same story as the officers claimed. There’s no way around the fact that this video does not show the shot-and-killed suspect “charging” the police.
In an article written for FoxNews.com, Fox News contributor, and member of the network’s so-called Medical A-Team, Dr. Keith Ablow stated that the psychology of the residents of Ferguson is suspect because the population “presumes the moral depravity of whites.”
Protests in Ferguson were relatively sparse and very peaceful Wednesday evening. Per police accounts, only six arrests were made by the end of the night. Overall, the crowd was much thinner than in previous days.
On the Klan’s website, they claim to be heading to Ferguson fully armed and ready for war because, “blacks are out of control. We can’t have blacks robbing and murdering innocent whites.”
Lively claims, ” A dangerous modern heresy called “gay theology” is infiltrating the Christian church at an alarming pace.”
PoliticusUSA’s Justin Baragona was on the scene and captured images from a protest march led by clergy members of all religions and denominations Wednesday evening.
Political has been but never was Joe the Plumber (real name Samuel Wurzelbacher) decided to offer his opinions on the situation in Ferguson through his Facebook page on Tuesday and Wednesday.
On Wednesday, PoliticusUSA’s Justin Baragona made his way to the location where Brown was killed by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson. He witnessed a lot of positive community activity taking place.
The entire nation is showing solidarity with Ferguson and remembering Mike Brown.
While Obama said that the U.S. will be vigilant and relentless, the White House confirmed that this will not mean combat troops on the ground.
Mitch McConnell is already making plans for after Republicans take over the Senate, and his top priority is to get Obama to give him what he wants or he will shutdown the government.
