The recent indictment of Texas Governor Rick Perry on two felony counts in connection with alleged abuse of power for using his veto authority to coerce a publicly elected official into leaving office is about corruption.
A generally peaceful Tuesday evening of protest marches in Ferguson ended in the late-night arrests of dozens. However, police showed a lot more restraint than in other nights and did not use tear gas or rubber bullets to disperse the crowd.
Sorbo says, “I see the anger of these (atheist) guys on TV and it’s like ‘wow, how do you get so angry at something you don’t believe in?”
On Tuesday, a day ahead of visiting the city, Attorney General Eric Holder penned an open letter to the residents of Ferguson. The message was published on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s website.
Protesters in the city of Ferguson, Missouri are voicing their disgust after the shooting death of an unarmed young black man as the ugly truth rises as the citizens demand justice for the victim.
Leader Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) office has been putting out fact sheets on the Boehner jobs bills, and lo and behold, it’s true. They aren’t jobs bills, which is sort of a duh moment because if Republicans wanted jobs they would have passed President Obama’s fully paid for American Jobs Act after making adjustments to it.
On Tuesday, the Executive Director of the Missouri Republican Party, Matt Wills, spoke with Breitbart regarding reports that voter registration booths had been set up in Ferguson. He isn’t happy with efforts to register voters in Ferguson.
Thanks to John Boehner’s lawsuit and Sarah Palin beating of the impeachment drums, Democrats had their July in history and are crushing Republicans in 2014 fundraising.
According to a shocking study released by the relief charity Feeding America, the number of Americans struggling to feed their families is the same as during the height of the Great Recession.
On Monday evening, with a very large media presence on hand, violence once again erupted during protests in Ferguson. Monday represented the first night without a curfew in Ferguson since the widespread looting that followed Friday night’s protests and marches.
The God of fake Christians doesn’t mind if you lie, cheat and steal, but he does care who you sleep with
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has a brilliant idea. Instead of militarizing local police departments with tanks and heavy equipment, the country should take the billions of dollars and use it to create jobs.
President Obama showed his commitment to seeing that justice is done in Ferguson by sending Attorney General Eric Holder to the scene and doing everything in his power not to prejudice the investigation during his White House remarks.
After another restless night in Ferguson ended with tear gas and rubber bullets fired at protesters, Missouri Governor Jay Nixon unilaterally decided to send in the National Guard to help keep the peace Monday. Only charging Darren Wilson with murder will truly bring peace to Ferguson.
Fox News smeared a dead unarmed African-American teen today by claiming that Michael Brown may have been high on drugs when he was shot and killed by a Ferguson police officer.
Far too many of the images that we have all seen countless times by now of the atrocity that took place – and continues to take place – in Ferguson, Missouri, are images not at all unfamiliar to African American communities. Black mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, and neighbors enraged and in mourning due to Senseless Killing of Black Man Number However-High-You-Can-Count.
A great many conservatives have expressed their hatred of democracy by threatening a civil war, government overthrow, and armed rebellion against the federal government because they cannot comport the democratic process that elected an African American man as President.
Early Monday morning, Missouri Governor Jay Nixon ordered the National Guard to assist police forces in keeping the peace in Ferguson. This follows a chaotic evening filled with looting and violence where police had to use tear gas and armored vehicles to disperse demonstrators.
During a recent radio interview, John Boehner blamed every single Republican failure on Obama not being up to the job of being president.
Chad Connelly says if more people cast their ballots based on biblical values the Republicans would win more elections but doesn’t draw the obvious conclusions
The results of a private autopsy performed by a doctor on behalf of the family of slain teenager Mike Brown were released Sunday evening. Dr. Michael Baden indicated in his report that Brown was shot six times by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson.
In the business of writing sometimes controversial and even not so controversial commentaries, it’s very commonplace for the authors to use nom de plumes, or, to be less elitist, pen names.
But fear not, it is not because of your country of origin, or because you contribute to the economy and the nation’s defense, but because your skin is brown and it is the only reason the racists in the Republican Party want you extricated from their white America.
What we are seeing on our television screens and reading everywhere is not just about Michael Brown or Ferguson, MO. It is about America. Last week alone, four unarmed black men were killed by police. From 2006-2012, white police officers killed a black person at least twice a week.
NBC did their best to gloss over the disaster that was David Gregory on Meet The Press. It was telling that after almost six years of hosting, the best they could do was three clips lasting for thirty seconds.
Jeb Bush shows just how “moderate” and “forward-thinking” he is with cynical medical marijuana fear mongering ahead of a key vote in Florida
Rick Perry supported and joined a lawsuit against the Obama administration in 2012, but now that he has been indicted, the Texas governor believes that political differences should not be settled in court.
On Saturday afternoon, Missouri Governor Jay Nixon declared a state of emergency in Ferguson following a night filled with looting. Nixon enacted a curfew in the city, specifically the area of the city where protests have occurred every evening.
“Williams recognized these powers had manifested a very evil influence on stage and that there could be a hefty price to pay for their assistance.”
Tensions in Ferguson, MO heightened again on Friday night after police controversially chose to release an alleged video of Mike Brown.
The Department of Justice warned Ferguson Police not to release the video of an alleged robbery yesterday in their attempts to avoid taking responsibility for their previous inaction after one of their officers shot and killed Mike Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old teenager, but they did it anyway.
The committee is focusing its investigation on why there is a huge gap between the rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution on the one hand, and the “reality of persistent racism that continues to plague American society on the other.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) joined the Republicans who are jumping on board Rick Perry’s sinking ship by announcing that he is standing with the indicated Texas governor. If Republicans stand too close to Perry, they all could be brought down with him.
Several stores along W. Florissant Ave. in Ferguson were broken into and robbed late Friday night and early Saturday morning. The violence broke out after another long day of protests in the city
President Obama goes Jimmy Stewart while pushing brain connections and higher education reforms.
Since it is election season and the GOP’s attempt at re-branding was a flop, they are focusing on what they do best – spreading lies and misinformation. The NRCC has been busy creating news sites. They look like they could be new sites, but the content reads like something you’d see in a political ad or on Fox
Texas Gov. Rick Perry could be facing 109 years in prison after being indicted by a grand jury for abuse of power.
The broken windows policing tactic is a major reason why we see conflict between the police & African Americans. In fact, it guarantees death.
Democrats have unearthed video of Torrey Westrom, a Minnesota Republican running for Congress, who wanted to legalize hunting from planes, parroting Mitt Romney’s scorn for the 48%
NBC expects viewers to be excited by the news that Chuck Todd will taking over Meet The Press, but it turns out that NBC wasn’t even all that excited about the idea of Todd replacing David Gregory.
Paul Ryan willingly suspends his disbelief for his monetary policy, but rejects a realistic element of a TV show.
At the beginning of a Fox and Friends segment, Fox News fired up their editing machine created a false Obama quote that they used to blame the president for the violence in Ferguson.
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.” -Desmond Tutu
Even if the militant police assault on peaceful protestors, working journalists, and peaceful family neighborhoods was an isolated incident, it would still be driven by racism when compared to the way law enforcement officials treat white Americans as patriots exercising their constitutional rights.
With trust within the community at an all-time low and the Governor of Missouri placing the Missouri Highway Patrol in charge of security in Ferguson, the Ferguson police chief finally decided to release the name of the police officer, Darren Wilson, who shot and killed Mike Brown.
Rep. Steve King (R-IA) gave an interview where he told African-Americans in Ferguson that race wasn’t an issue and that they needed to “settle down” and “straighten up and fly right.”
Tony Perkins says Common Core is more dangerous than bullies, child molesters and school shootings.
PoliticusUSA’s Justin Baragona was in Ferguson Thursday evening and was able to capture images of a large, peaceful and symbolic march through the town.
Conservatives blame Obama for the militarization of police departments, but the “1033 Program” has been around since 1997.
Happy Anniversary, Social Security! It’s been 79 years, and the American people love. Oh, and by the way, Democrats built that. Also, they built some other things like Social Security… like Medicare and Obamacare.
For the second time in two weeks, a religious organization has taken action and spoken out against religious right extremists, prominent political figures, and well-known “religious leaders” for manipulating Christianity “in the name of god” to advance political and personal agendas of hate.
Noted plagiarist Sen. Rand Paul wrote in an editorial today about the need to demilitarize the police. However, this wasn’t Paul’s own idea. Democratic Rep. Hank Johnson first wrote about his legislation in March.
The axe finally fell today as David Gregory confirmed that he is out at Meet The Press, and is leaving NBC. Chuck Todd will be the new host of the Sunday morning staple.
PoliticusUSA’s Justin Baragona was once again on the scene in Ferguson Thursday afternoon. He was able to capture images of a peaceful protest in front of the burned-down QuikTrip. The destroyed building has become a symbolic rallying point for demonstrators.
During Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, host Joe Scarborough decided to criticize Washington Post reporter Wesley Lowery over his actions that led to his arrest in Ferguson Wednesday evening. Lowery destroyed him in an interview with CNN.
The president made it clear that what the police in Ferguson have been doing is wrong. Obama said, “There’s also no excuse for police to use excessive force against peaceful protests or to throw protesters in jail for lawfully exercising their First Amendment rights.”
If Republicans really want to play the lawsuit game, President Obama should forget John Boehner and go after Republicans nationwide.
In order to justify the unwarranted violence and violation of First Amendment rights, Fox News is once again stirring up racial animus and using one specific outlier as an excuse for consistently and inherently bad behavior by the police.
Once again, a day that began with peaceful protests in Ferguson descended into madness and chaos as hundreds of law officers dispersed demonstrators and reporters by shooting tear gas and rubber bullets into the crowd.
Looks like our old friend blood oil is calling us back to Iraq.
“They are the ones trying to tell us why,” he said, pointing the finger at everyone but the one person who flapped his lips.
Citizens in Ferguson have questions and want answers. PoliticusUSA’s Justin Baragona captured their protest in pictures today.
In a statement on Iraq, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said that the world needs to step up in dealing with ISIS, and in the process he sounded a lot like a 2016 presidential candidate.
Ferguson, MO, a suburb of St. Louis, has been pushed to a breaking point that few, if any, communities in the United States could bear. Despite all of this, Ferguson is keeping it together.
Now that Fox spent years accusing Clinton of being the mastermind behind a fake scandal over the tragedy in Benghazi, they’ve now decided that she is insecure to run for Commander in Chief because she’s a woman, so she is over-compensating for the fact that she’s a woman by trying to appear tough.
Former Sec. of State Hillary Clinton walked back her criticism of President Obama’s foreign policy and said that she and the president will “hug it out” this weekend.
For the third straight evening in Ferguson, MO, residents were subjected to a militarized police force treating the community like a war zone. What began with the hopes of a calm and peaceful night eventually ended with police officers using tear gas to disperse protesters and two shootings.
Republicans care as little about the environment as they do the American people who are suffering the ill-effects of polluted water, air, and climate change, and it is true they are as obsessed with demonizing climate science and environmentalism as Joe McCarthy pursued the “communist threat to America.”
Gallup also reveals that approval of Congress “has never been as low in a midterm election year as it is now.”
An imperfect and deeply troubled man died Monday. He hanged himself around noon without leaving the clue of a note unless one is later found. Behavioral deficits aside, at his core, Williams was a caring, dedicated individual.
President Obama released a statement about the killing of Michael Brown today. The president called the unarmed teen’s death heartbreaking. He also urged reflection and understanding.
These make-believe warriors have the express consent and blessing of Texas Republicans who love the idea of armed vigilantes. The seriousness of the issue is the make-believe army men are not children, they are heavily armed, and not only do they want to shoot child refugees, they want to wage war against the government.
During Tuesday’s broadcast of Fox News’ Outnumbered, Dr. Keith Ablow, who is a member of the network’s so-called Medical A-Team, stated that we shouldn’t listen to anything the First Lady says about childhood obesity because “she needs to lose a few.”
Rush Limbaugh demonstrated that there is no low that the right won’t sink to in order to push the Republican ideological agenda. On his radio show today, Limbaugh blamed the left for the death of Robin Williams.
People at NBC are talking, and the things they are saying about Meet The Press moderator David Gregory are not good. In the face of reports that he is about to be fired, Gregory cut his vacation short last week so that he could host Meet The Press.
Obama adviser David Axelrod took to Twitter to slam Hillary Clinton after she criticized the president’s foreign policy.
He did so many great plays and movies I couldn’t pick a single character. Good Will Hunting was maybe my favorite, but his comedy is how he will be remembered. Goodbye, Robin. Glad to have known you. -Bill Day
In an interview with MSNBC that was published Tuesday morning, Dorian Johnson, a friend of Mike Brown, provided details of the shooting that killed the unarmed Brown on Saturday afternoon in Ferguson, MO.
The Tea Party sharks in North Carolina are chomping at the bit for an impeachment show at the expense of the State’s Attorney-General, Roy Cooper.
Republican Greg Abbott has taken the war on women a little too far. Sure, he’s against paycheck fairness and equal pay, and he chose a corporation over a rape victim. But to spy on an elderly woman through her bathroom window seems a bit far fetched, even for a Texas Republican.
Not very ignored: David Barton was one of those, with fellow Religious Right hater Tony Perkins, who wrote the 2012 Republican Party Platform
President Obama has released a statement of condolence on the death of Robin Williams. The president said, “He gave his immeasurable talent freely and generously to those who needed it most – from our troops stationed abroad to the marginalized on our own streets.”
This study by the National Commission on Voting Rights proves that pre-clearance stopped voter discrimination laws, not a sudden enlightenment on the part of pre-clearance states, especially those in the South and Southwest.
Comedian and Oscar winning actor Robin Williams is dead of a suspected suicide. Let’s take a moment to remember his amazing career.
During an update on the situation in Iraq, President Obama had a message for Republicans who are calling for a return to war. The president repeated that there is no U.S. military solution for Iraq’s problems.
Mike Huckabee is trying to cover up his support for impeaching President Obama, but his extremist agenda has already been revealed for the world to see.
On Monday, Project Veritas, the brainchild of perennial wolf-crier James O’Keefe, released a ‘bombshell’ of a video. Apparently, due to a lack of faith in his ‘work,’ O’Keefe is now forced to beg for money to finance his videos.
Corporate profit margins are getting ever fatter and just officially hit a new high. They have done this on the backs of workers, from whom they have squeezed more and more productivity in order to cut costs.
The terrible ratings for Meet The Press have finally sunk David Gregory. It is being reported that Gregory will soon be dumped and Chuck Todd will be named the new moderator of the Sunday morning institution.
Greg Abbott tried to claim that Wendy Davis’ ad accusing him of siding with a corporation over a rape victim was “gutter politics”, but PolitiFact finds it mostly true.
What began as a peaceful candlelight vigil to remember a teenager who was viciously shot down Saturday by a police officer turned into a night of rioting and looting.
Republicans are back again lying, revising history, and attacking President Obama to trick the American people into supporting another war in Iraq because besides giving money to corporations, there is nothing Republicans love more than war.
Sen. Bernie Sanders gave the strongest signs yet that he would run for president in 2016 during an interview with Yahoo/ABC News.
It is difficult to tell from Swanson and Kennedy’s rhetoric which was the worst sin, freeing the slaves or establishing public schools.
On Saturday afternoon, a young man by the name of Mike Brown was shot and killed by a police officer in Ferguson, MO, a suburb of St. Louis.
The Sunday Shows were loaded up with the same Republicans who lied the country into war with Iraq. The problem is that not one member of the mainstream media called these Republicans out on being wrong about Iraq.
On Sunday, a number of Republicans made appearances on the various morning news shows to talk about President Obama’s decision to order airstrikes in Iraq to hinder the movement of ISIS towards American diplomats and troops in Erbil. They mentioned 9-11 in a way to scare Americans into supporting military action.
In her first real break with the Obama administration, Hillary Clinton criticized some of President Obama’s foreign policy and in the process gave liberals something to think about.
Graham said ominously, “I think of an American city in flames because of the terrorist ability to operate in Syria and Iraq.”
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) flat out rewrote history today with an untrue statement that blamed President Obama for the situation in Iraq because the president didn’t leave troops in the country.
