5 Reasons To Be Glad That You Didn’t Watch The CNN Republican Presidential Debate
Donald Trump has no idea how the Internet works, and four other reasons to be glad that you didn’t watch the CNN Republican debate.
Donald Trump has no idea how the Internet works, and four other reasons to be glad that you didn’t watch the CNN Republican debate.
There were a few winners and a whole lot of losers at the CNN Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas.
Wolf Blitzer asked Trump about his plan to close down the Internet to stop ISIS and Trump’s answer suggested that he doesn’t know how the Internet works.
Tuesday’s Republican debate was another rigged debate, in which Republicans incessant whining about actual questions from journalists drove CNN to game the ref with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt.
CNN put on the worst Republican debate of the year by allowing four hopeless Republican candidates to beat the drums of war while offering a return to the bad old days of George W. Bush.
Jon Stewart’s lobbying has paid off as Congress will extend the 9/11 responders health care fund for five more years as part of the omnibus spending bill.
Obama spoke before a group of 31 naturalization candidates from 25 different countries at the National Archives and demolished the fear and bigotry that Republicans are campaigning on.
Trump, Cruz, Carson and Rubio are the latest poll summit occupiers representing a weak slate of the best the Republicans can do
The GOP is inciting domestic terrorism toward Muslims, anyone that might appear to be Middle Eastern, or anyplace a Muslim might worship
That Republicans focus on the idea of an “Islamic problem” shows us how catastrophically insufficient is their understand of the world
…and Congress has still done nothing.
President Obama posted remarks on the third anniversary of the Sandy Hook Massacre that called out Congress for blocking gun legislation while thousands of Americans have died from mass shooting violence.
The media has been blacking out the message of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, but the numbers don’t lie. Sanders has more support in Iowa than every single Republican presidential candidate.
Republicans are quickly running out of excuses to stop Donald Trump, but their latest attempt is a very Grinchy warning that Trump will ruin Christmas for all Americans.
The reality is that the purpose is to punish the federal government for not adhering to Catholic and evangelicals’ religious edicts
Bernie Sanders begins a two day visit to New Hampshire today, a state conventional wisdom says he must win to beat Hillary Clinton
According to a recent profile of Hitler in the scholarly journal, Psychiatric Quarterly, all of Trump’s tactics are modeled in Hitler speech book the Donald kept close by his bed.
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders visited the Mount Carmel Baptist Church in Waterloo, Iowa on Sunday morning and delivered the truth about income inequality to a receptive congregation.
The Republican presidential primary is the gift that keeps on giving to Democrats. First, Donald Trump dominated the Republican field. Now, Ted Cruz is leading the Republicans in Iowa.
The Republican establishment is facing a revolt of its base and the only solution seems to be a top-down coup against the beast it created
An old Republican lie about Obamacare and taxes is making the rounds again, so as a public service, here is a handy antidote
Islamic nations are adamant in protecting the rights of all religions within their borders as an important adherence to their Islamic faith
The GOP talks about “taking our country back” and “making America great again” but they propose to do this by going back in time, not forward
This is the week we finally learned what lines cannot be crossed at Fox “News” when trashing President Obama. Who knew?
After it had been revealed that Bernie Sanders has gotten 1/30th of the coverage that Donald Trump has received on the network news, the Sanders campaign issued a statement calling on the corporate news to give Sanders the same coverage as other candidates.
An analysis of network television news coverage reveals what supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders have long suspected, the three broadcast television networks are intentionally ignoring the Sanders campaign.
A new CBS Poll shows Americans overwhelmingly rejecting the Trump plan to ban Muslims because they believe that it runs contrary to the founding principles of the country.
Republicans are inserting a rider in the omnibus spending bill eliminating the ban on oil exports developed to protect American consumers
The war on terror is not a simple matter of “us” versus “them” (radicalized Muslims) when so many of “us” are radicalized Christians
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s racist comments during recent oral arguments have caused some African-American lawmaker to call for a review of his comments and his possible removal from the bench.
In a dream come true for Democrats, Republicans are geared up for a fight on the convention floor and dreaming up strategies to deny Donald Trump their nomination if he wins the primaries.
With Republicans in Congress defying the wishes of a majority of the American people, President Obama is finalizing his plan to take executive action on gun violence.
President Obama has signed bipartisan legislation that has gotten rid of another pillar of the failed legacy of George W. Bush. No Child Left Behind is gone.
Maybe now it is time for sane Americans to stop laughing or shaking their heads in disgust at Trump and follow President Obama and other Democrats in addressing Trump’s open hostility against any non-white and non-Christian for exactly what it is; patently un-American, hate-filled bigotry and genuinely inhumane.
The carefully crafted and nurtured Trump brand has been re-branded as something nobody wants overnight by Trump’s radicalization
President Obama’s rebuttal to Donald Trump’s proposed Muslim ban was a speech of pure greatness that demonstrated the difference between a cowardly demagogue and the true leader of the free world.
A new Bloomberg Politics/Purple Strategies Poll found that nearly two-thirds of Republican primary voters support Donald Trump’s plan to ban all Muslims.
Donald Trump plans to visit Israel at the end of the year, but some in Israel are not happy at the prospect of Trump’s presence
Nearly 200,000 people have signed a petition that will force Parliment to debate whether Donald Trump should ba banned from the UK due to his hate speech.
ExxonMobil is the second leading oil corporation to publicly admit that climate change is real, following Shell Oil’s admission in March
The House voted to legalize the profiling of Muslims as part of HR 158 – a revision of the Visa Waiver Program used by 20 million tourists
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has Donald Trump’s number, and during an interview on MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show, Sanders explained exactly how to defeat Trump.
Trump is ahead in the Republican presidential race because he spares supporters from having to learn about the subject matter at hand
One of two Muslim members of Congress, Rep. Andre Carson (D-IN) is blaming Donald Trump’s rhetoric for death threats that he is receiving at his Washington office.
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest not only destroyed Donald Trump, he also made the broader argument that both Trump and the Republican Party are unfit to govern.
With only days to go before the government runs out of money and shuts down, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) is flopping as Speaker as dysfunctional House Republicans are once again being consumed by infighting.
Fox News amazingly ignores reality by both criticizing Islam and claiming there is no anti-Muslim backlash in the very same breath
Donald Trump has freaked out the Republican Party so much with his ban on Muslims that a Republican took to the House floor to tell Trump to drop out of the presidential race.
Few Americans would object to a bust honoring Dick Cheney if it noted his part in creating a more radical form of Islamic terrorism
The RNC would have you believe only Republicans can keep you safe, but the facts dating back to 2001 show the opposite to be true
Fox News has suspended contributor Ralph Peters for two weeks after Peters cursed at the Commander In Chief on live television.
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) reacted to Donald Trump’s call to ban all Muslims from entering the United States by stressing that Trump’s plan is based on weakness and fear.
Hillary Clinton came in number one of the top five most retweeted candidate tweets of the year, with Bernie Sanders second.
In the ultimate act of unpatriotic disrespect for President Obama, Fox Business allowed contributor Ralph Peters to curse and repeatedly slur the nation’s Commander In Chief.
The Republicans are whining a lot about the president’s address Sunday night, but they’re not offering useful ideas, just whine and bluster
Although the NRA hands out millions to Republican congressmen, neither the NRA nor its insane leader, Wayne La Pierre, get to cast a vote
Responding to Obama Sunday, Ryan said nothing about gun sales to terrorists or the dangers of radicalizing Muslims with more Republican hate
During his address from the Oval Office, President Obama ripped the proposals for discrimination against Muslim-Americans that are being offered by Republican presidential candidates like Donald Trump and Ted Cruz.
According to Nobel-winning economist Paul Krugman, Republicans will go to any length to stop American involvement in a climate deal and will hasten the world population’s demise in the process; left alone the planet will fix itself in a few centuries. Krugman’s assessment is incomplete; there is more motivation behind Republican opposition to saving the Earth’s population than simply rejecting science.
Donald Trump blamed Obama for Islamic terrorism during an interview on CBS’s Face The Nation where he vowed to solve terrorism by being more racist.
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) devastated the Republican argument against keeping the weapons of the hands of criminals with common sense on CBS’s Face The Nation.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton took Ted Cruz to school on ABC’s This Week, and in the process exposed the Republican’s tough talk as empty, brainless, idiocy.
A conservative radio host got Fox News’ Chris Wallace to agree to be misleading and vague by not using a term the gun industry first applied
President Obama leads the nation even in its darkest moments, and the San Bernardino slayings are no exception.
To gun zealots, every mass shooting provides another undeniable and convincing argument that what America needs most is more guns, not less
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is proposing a new plan that would deliver a devastating blow to the Koch brothers and the Republicans they own.
President Obama isn’t pulling any punches. The President showed how fed up he is by calling the Republican opposition to making it more difficult for terrorists and criminals to buy high-powered weapons insane.
Glenn Beck thinks the endlessly whiny Ted Cruz has enough “seriousness of manner” to be President when he has no discernible virtues at all
Compare and contrast how two mass murders, less than a week apart, were treated by the Fox “News” Channel.
In a deeply flawed analysis, George Friedman claims that Trump’s popularity stems less from ideology and more from an imagined authenticity
As House Republicans continue to protect terrorists’ legal ability to purchase deadly weapons, the facts are staggering: according to the GAO, over the last 11 years, more than 2,000 suspects on the FBI’s Terrorist Watchlist bought weapons in the United States.
Republicans are on the wrong side again, as 52% see the attack on Planned Parenthood as terrorism and half of Americans think that anti-abortion groups encourage violence.
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest ripped Senate Republicans for blocking legislation that would make it illegal for terror suspects to buy guns.
The corporate media hit a new and disgusting low today by destroying a crime scene in the San Bernardino shooting all in the hopes of capturing one sensational scoop.
A new Gallup poll revealed that Hillary Clinton’s favorability with Democratic voters has grown by an additional eight point in the last month, but Clinton has one vulnerability that Sanders could exploit as a path to victory.
Instead of spending up to 31 years in a federal penitentiary, Don Blankenship will serve 1 year for his part in the death of 29 coal miners
Palin said Hillary Clinton is naive in thinking we’re not at war with Islam and claimed Obama is being too namby-pamby in dealing with ISIL
Senate Republicans got into the spirit of the season by voting 52-47 to take healthcare away from 17 million Americans.
Editorial cartoon: assault on America
Senate Republicans voted today to block a measure that would have prevented individuals on the terror watch list from legally buying guns in the United States.
Senate Democrats are saying enough is enough by forcing Republicans to vote on a series of amendments that would replace Obamacare repeal with common sense gun laws.
Rachel Maddow is experiencing some huge growth in viewership as the ratings for the midnight (ET) replay of her nightly MSNBC show are up 70% with younger viewers.
While speaking at the White House today, President Obama delivered a blunt truth that many Republicans don’t want to hear. The President that it is too easy for people to carry out mass shootings and we need to make it harder for would-be killers to get guns.
Carly Fiorina, said that the Colorado shooter’s motive for killing other Americans was a valid one and she duly lashed out at the left
The media has increasingly called out Trump rhetoric, with the Times calling him a demagogue and Sally Kohn invoking Hitler and fascism
I don’t like to overuse the term “must read” but Linda Martin Alcoff’s The Future of Whiteness (2015, Polity) is a must-read. We live in the era of white reaction to non-whites getting equal rights, and changing demographics – by 2050 white Europeans will no longer be a majority – have created a frenzy of…
Harry Reid and Senate Democrats have announced that they plan to hold Republicans accountable by forcing a vote on an amendment that would keep guns out of the hands of people convicted of violating laws protecting the entrances of healthcare clinics.
In the midst of the San Bernardino mass shooting reports came the report of a shooting death outside of a women’s clinic in Houston, Texas.
President Obama reacted to the mass shooting in Obama San Bernardino, CA by calling on the nation to come together to change the law at every level of government and take steps to make the American people safer.
In the wake of yet another mass shooting, this time at a San Bernardino facility that works with developmentally disabled people, Republican presidential candidates offered nothing but platitudes of prayer for victims and their families:
Multiple suspects are the run after killing 14 people and wounding 14 others at a center that serves those with developmental disabilities in San Bernadino, CA.
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) needs Democratic votes to pass the Republican spending bill, but his first proposal was rejected by Democrats because it contained over 30 poison pill policy riders.
A new Quinnipiac University poll found that Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders beats every top Republican candidate in hypothetical general election matchups.
President Obama killed the Senate Republican bill to repeal the ACA in its tracks by promising to veto the legislation when it hits his desk.
The Pope, in contrast to cowardly Republicans, chose to make a visit to a mosque in Bangui, the capital of Central African Republic
The world has many conflict hotspots, but a narcissist like Donald Trump would make them about himself, rather than what’s good for America
Al Franken and Senate liberals are holding Republican feet to the fire with a bill that would give seniors, veterans, and the disabled a raise by eliminating a tax deduction for CEO pay.
Sen. Bernie Sanders took to the Senate floor and shattered Mitch McConnell’s Obamacare repeal delusion by dropping a fact bomb on the GOP.