Bernie Sanders Rules Out Third Party Run If He Doesn’t Win Democratic Nomination
Bernie Sanders explicitly ruled out a third party presidential bid if he fails to secure the Democratic nomination.
Bernie Sanders explicitly ruled out a third party presidential bid if he fails to secure the Democratic nomination.
In his own state, and all across America, voters actually like marijuana more than they like Chris Christie.
President Obama is standing by Planned Parenthood as the White House confirmed that he will veto the Republican bill to defund the organization.
Judith Miller says don’t worry about facts, we need more coverage. This is Fox-speak for “We’ve got nothing, so let’s keep talking about it”
While he signed the three-month transportation funding bill, President Obama delivered a stern lecture to Congress in general and John Boehner and Mitch McConnell specifically about their total inability to govern.
During her speech at the National Urban League Conference today, Hillary Clinton obliterated Jeb Bush’s presidential campaign in less than forty-five seconds.
Republicans have tapped into the religious and conservative negative reaction to 21st Century modernity, or social progress as it is called
Senate “No-Show” Cruz says Obama “snuggles up to” radical Islamic regimes, but suggests Obama is too busy golfing to take him up on it
Just days after Trump’s lawyer said “you cannot rape your spouse”, a new poll shows that Trump does not appeal to women voters.
The announcement came just two days after Trump suggested that, if elected, he would find a place for Sarah Palin in his cabinet.
Ed Schultz will air his last show on MSNBC on Friday, and in a few weeks his time slot will be turned over to Chuck Todd according to MSNBC boss Phil Griffin.
A new Quinnipiac University poll found that Bernie Sanders would crush Donald Trump in a potential 2016 general election contest.
Ted Cruz and House Republicans are teaming up to hand the White House to Democrats in 2016 by threatening to shut down the government over Planned Parenthood.
The Appellate Court ruled that the ban on federal campaign contributions by individuals who contract with the government is constitutional. The takeaway from the ruling, besides putting a damper on McConnell’s political life, is that regardless the push by the Koch-Republicans and two horrendous rulings by Koch acolytes on the Supreme Court, 11 appellate judges firmly believe there is too much money in politics and that more “can be a very bad thing.”
Another bastion of homophobia falls
Republican policies and practices towards wild beasts are not unlike their barbarism and cruelty targeting women, people of color, and others
Boehner lists his dubious accomplishments, but forgets all those failed Obamacare votes and Benghazi investigations and lies about the rest
A day after a major GOP fundraiser urged Mark Kirk to quit, a new poll suggested that Kirk should take his advice.
MSNBC needs a boost in primetime. Keith Olbermann is out of a job after his contract expired at ESPN. It is being reported that NBC News President Andrew Lack might be interested in bringing Olbermann back to MSNBC.
MSNBC may be canceling their liberal shows, but one show that won’t be going anywhere belongs to Rachel Maddow, who had the highest ratings of any non-Fox News show in July.
The White House is promising that any Republican attacks on the president’s new climate change rule will be met with a swift and firm Obama veto.
Walter Palmer, the dentist who killed the beloved Zimbabwe lion named Cecil donated to the presidential campaign of Mitt Romney.
Congressman Mark Meadows (NC-11) filed a motion to try to oust Boehner as House Speaker.
Sen. Bernie Sanders tore into Senate Republicans for harming the health of 2.7 million women with a bill that would defund Planned Parenthood.
Everything bad about America that the rest of the world sees increasing, and Americans feel, is purely Republican and it is truly pathetic
The whole thing seems to predictably clear now, looking back: Obama reaches nuclear agreement with Iran; Republicans throw hissy fit, because Obama; Mike Huckabee goes all Sarah Palin and equates Iran deal to Holocaust; Jewish groups and rational people everywhere condemn remarks; Obama rips Huckabee (and entire GOP); Republicans leap to Huckabee’s defense. With nary…
In an off the cuff remark, during his visit to Africa, Barack Obama proclaimed that he could win a third term as president.
Sen. Bernie Sanders is calling out Hillary Clinton for being concerned about climate change, but refusing to take a stand against Keystone XL.
Donald Trump is threatening America with a promise to put Sarah Palin in his cabinet if he is elected president.
When you start with a false premise, and add more false premises to the first, well…Limbaugh thinks Republicans have turned into Democrats
Several of the leading GOP candidates are planning to attend a Koch-sponsored event in Southern California to court billionaire donors.
Thousands of House parties will be held in all fifty states on Wednesday as Sen. Bernie Sanders will tell supporters that the most important goal of his presidential campaign is the creation of a movement to take down the billionaires and give government back to the people.
The ruling and the assertion that a religious fanatic is treated the same as a secular person will not sit well with theocrats.
Andrew Napolitano said if Marco Rubio “said exactly what he thought … he’d be higher in the polls. They can take a lesson from The Donald”
This is an attempt to erase our history, we are told by a conservative on a show hosted by a guy who makes his living re-writing our history
The GOP leadership decided not to vote on a Senate transportation bill that would have funded highway construction for the next six years.
This could apply to the entire crowd of Republican candidates, but Huckabee gets the personal honors for his remarks about Obama and the Iran deal…
Hillary Clinton vowed to take away big oil’s subsidies and use the money for clean energy while campaigning in Iowa.
The GOP’s inability to get along with one another has ensured that for now, Planned Parenthood, will continue to receive federal funds.
While campaigning in Iowa, Hillary Clinton slammed Mike Huckabee for his Holocaust comments that were offensive to every American and over the line.
President Obama ripped the ridiculous Republican Party as being incapable of discussing serious issues. The President specifically called out Donald Trump, Mike Huckabee, and Ted Cruz during a press conference in Ethiopia.
Mike Huckabee made Netanyahu seem reasonable with his oven door comments Saturday, and Jewish groups are making their outrage known
Huckabee, who believed in diplomacy for white presidents, claims that Obama “will take the Israelis and march them to the door of the oven”
By the time children step foot in school again this fall, it will have been two years since Pope Francis cautioned that the Church had become “obsessed” with abortion, gay marriage and contraception. “It is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time.” Indeed, it is not. Jesus never mentioned any of them….
Despite his early success in a multi-candidate race, Donald Trump lacks the breadth of support needed to win a general election.
U.S. Marshals raided Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s Office on Friday, in search of evidence the department was withholding from a U.S. District Judge.
Of course the mainstream media has not reported on events in Michigan because the last thing corporate media wants is to give Americans across the country the idea that they have power to put a stop to Republicans transferring wealth to corporations and the rich at the expense of the poor, elderly, students, middle class, and infrastructure.
Donald Trump humiliated himself on CNN by claiming that if he is elected president, he is going to make the “bad” immigrants leave the US.
Senate Democrats have blocked an amendment to repeal Obamacare that Mitch McConnnell attached to the transportation bill.
Republicans have become such a joke that President Obama got laughs by mentioning his birth certificate at a state dinner in Kenya.
Two new NBC News-Marist polls of Iowa and New Hampshire found that Bernie Sanders is the only presidential candidate in either party who has a positive approval rating in each state.
Obama brought his message of hope and freedom to Africa this weekend, but bigots here and there didn’t like hearing about civil rights for gays
Ted Cruz just brought in the largest campaign contribution in the 2016 election cycle, from a pair of rich Texas frackers
Something for the loudmouth who doesn’t quite have everything he needs
Walker’s campaign unleashed The Donald by referring to him as DumbDumb, and Trump immediately went for Walker’s soft spot: schools and roads
It has long been recognized that higher wages lead to economic prosperity, not only for workers, but for corporations, and for the country
A party that invents “facts” and then claims all future discourse must be based on their fictional evidence should not be allowed on TV
The Republican attempt to get rid of Donald Trump after he attacked John McCain has backfired, as Trump’s support has almost doubled with primary voters.
President Obama made his position clear to Republicans in Congress. He will veto any bill that repeals or weakens Wall Street reform.
No sane human being would think to regard something normal as awful, except when a common occurrence founded on a group’s twisted values and behaviors is exposed for all the world to see; then it is prudent to label “normal” as awful.
Trump doesn’t seem impressed by the Religious Right and has shown no signs that he feels the need to impress them, or even that they matter
Back in the day, before television, one of this country’s greatest demagogues was Father Charles Coughlin, broadcasting from a studio in the tower at the Shrine of the Little Flower in Royal Oak, Michigan. At first he espoused a Social Justice platform and supported President Roosevelt’s New Deal. However, as the years went by, Coughlin…
Ironically, Ted Cruz appears to be running for president as an opponent of GOP Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
The Texas Supreme Court argued that “The legislative power reserved to the people of Houston is not being honored.”
The Duggars have lost a lot of money after getting dropped by TLC, and they are in desperate need of cash, so cue the frivolous lawsuits.
A Texas appeals court tossed one charge against Rick Perry but ruled that he must go to court to face a felony charge of abusing his power while governor.
Ted Cruz went ballistic and called Mitch McConnell a liar during a meltdown on the Senate floor.
It would be difficult for even Fox News to argue against the idea that Republicans only campaign, and act, according to the will of the Koch brothers, and two candidates for the Republican presidential nomination are already vying to impress, and best serve the interests of, the Koch brothers, not the American people.
Bill O’Reilly will not call for a law to protect movie-goers from white men carrying handguns in theaters. Because Second Amendment rights
Trump still leads the GOP field, but he trails both Clinton and Sanders by double digits, according to a poll released on Thursday.
Jeb Bush told an audience at a Koch brothers’ sponsored Americans for Prosperity event in New Hampshire, that we need to phase out Medicare.
John Kerry dismissed Senator Bob Corker’s fantasies about a world where Iran’s nuclear knowledge can be made to magically disappear.
It is an affront to Americans, and frankly the rule of law, that every judge is held to ethical standards except the 9 Supreme Court Justices
Sen. Bernie Sanders blasted MSNBC and Comcast for canceling Ed Schultz and removing one of the few voices for working Americans from television.
MSNBC is expected to announce that they are canceling Ed Schultz and giving his timeslot to Meet The Press host Chuck Todd.
Donald Trump has explicitly threatened to run as an Independent if the Republican Party isn’t “fair” to him. Polling has shown that a Trump third party candidacy would result in a landslide victory for Democrats.
It is a sad fact of life that there are some human beings who cannot exist without expressing animosity, or worse, deep and extremely emotional dislike directed against individuals, groups or ideas. Indeed, hatred is nearly always associated with feelings of intense anger, unwarranted disgust and an unhealthy pre-disposition towards hostility and violence. It is…
As GOP stupidity mounts, claiming they can stop a deal they cannot legally stop, President Obama proves again he can make the tough decisions
A 2013 Gallup Poll of 65 countries that considered the U.S. the greatest threat to world peace. Elect Jeb Bush and that number will double.
A federal appeals court upheld a 2014 ruling blocking North Dakota’s fetal heartbeat anti-abortion law from going into effect.
After drawing tens of thousands of supporters in red states Texas and Arizona, the presidential campaign of Bernie Sanders has announced that they will be rallying in Louisiana this weekend.
Marco Rubio went on Fox News and embarrassed himself while trying to attack President Obama.
A new swing state poll provides evidence that Sanders, not Clinton, may represent the Democrats’ best hope for winning in 2016.
Presidential hopeful Kentucky Senator Rand Paul released a video of him carving up pages of the tax code with a chainsaw.
Trump ran right over objections to his treatment of John McCain, including a call for him to drop out, and saw his support grow, not diminish
Tiger Woods will be judged by his somewhat hedonistic approach toward women and apparent willingness to cheat in both sports and life
An article comparing Bernie Sanders to Nazis marked a new low for conservative media.
During his final interview with Jon Stewart on The Daily Show, President Obama offered a piece of media criticism that perfectly explained why Republicans are stuck with Donald Trump.
Hillary Clinton ripped Mitch McConnell and the Republican Party for not getting it after the Senate Majority Leader attacked the Democratic frontrunner.
President Obama stood before a convention of the nation’s Veterans of Foreign Wars and destroyed the credibility of his Republican critics with just three words.
President Obama has ordered that all flags be flown at half-staff out of respect for the victims of the Chattanooga shooting.
Republican political corruption in North Carolina is even worse than you thought, as the Paul Foley episode reveals
As long as the Kochs own Congress, Republicans will propose robbing the elderly to pay for projects that benefit the rich and corporations
CNN showed its Fox News side in unfavorably comparing Obama to a Reagan who never existed, claiming Reagan is a transformational president
The new ABC News/Washington Post poll found that if Donald Trump follows through on his threats to run as an Independent, he will be handing the White House to the Democratic nominee.