Category: Commentary

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Conservative Leaning Poll Shows Governor Scott Walker On The Ropes In Wisconsin

Democrat Mary Burke and Republican Governor Scott Walker are tied at 45 percent in a newly released poll from Rasmussen Reports.

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GOP State Rep Posts Tasteless Domestic Violence Joke on Facebook

NH State Representative Kyle Tasker (R) posted an offensive image on Facebook making light of violence against women.

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Sorry GOP, Americans Support President Obama’s Calm Response to Ukraine Crisis

Lindsey Graham, John McCain, and the talking heads over at FOX News may think the president is weak, but the American people disagree.

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Wacky CPAC On The Attack With The President and Hillary Clinton As Prime Targets

In the political version of open mike night at the Laugh Factory, the Republicans; I’m sorry, the homophobic, extremist, radical, bigoted bible-thumping corporate and Tea Party-controlled right-wingers, wrapped up their three-day orgy of Obama-rage and Hillary-hate at the 50th annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).

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Silence, a PR Firm, and Lawyering Up Following Sarah Jones’ Tragic On-Set Death

Weeks after camera assistant Sarah Jones’ death on the set of the Gregg Allman biopic, “Midnight Rider”, many in charge have resorted to silence, the services of a PR firm, and lawyering up.

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Chris Christie Admits GOP is Fighting for the Koch Brothers at CPAC

In a bout of honesty, Chris Christie spoke the truth about what the Republican Party stands for at CPAC. They stand for the Koch brothers.

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Lindsey Graham Calls President Obama Weak But Hates The Vets

Republicans want war with Russia and call the President weak for not rushing, at the same time as they vote against veteran benefits.

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Associated Press has ‘Dewey Defeats Truman’ Moment in Texas Senate Race

The Associated Press blundered by incorrectly declaring David Alameel the winner in the Democratic Senate primary.

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Is Steve King’s Obsession with Big-Thighed Latino Men Self-Professed Behavior?

Does Steve King have the ability to choose to be attracted to sweat-sheened, sand-sprinkled muscular men’s thighs? We could ask, is he really gay, or is this just an example of self-professed behavior?

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Will Texas Republicans Dump the Tea on Tuesday?

Few states are as friendly to Tea Party candidates as Texas, but the Tea Party may very well come up short on Tuesday in the Republican primaries.

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OMG GOP: Everything In The Republican Party Is All About God

It is hard to believe today, but once upon a time the Republican Party was not a theological party, but a political party. Everything wasn’t about God.

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Voting Without Confidence: Texas’ Not So Secret Ballot

While ballots are secret during elections, the Lone Star state’s version of a primary requires voters to disclose their party preferences to the election clerk.

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Birthday Bash: How Progressives Should Celebrate the Tea Party’s Fifth Anniversary

Five years ago, a grassroots movement emerged to stall Barack Obama’s progress. Today, that movement has mutated into a destructive force taking down the entire Republican Party.

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The End is Near for the Extremist Wing of the Republican Party

Through hubris the Christian right has ensured its own demise. Jan Brewer’s veto is the latest sign that their influence is fading rapidly.

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Sexist Pig Bill O’Reilly Insists That There Is A Downside To Having A Female President

On Wednesday night’s The O’Reilly Factor, Bill O’Reilly did his normal ‘just asking questions’ bit as a way to allow his true sexist, bigoted self to shine on through.

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Was Losing Super Bowl XLIX The True Motive Behind Jan Brewer’s Veto Of SB 1062?

It seems that the NFL was strongly hinting that they would move the inconsequential Pro Bowl to Arizona and then move Super Bowl XLIX to another city if SB 1062 was signed into law.

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Mitt Romney Joins a Growing List of Republicans Who Oppose Arizona’s Anti-Gay Bill

The pressure for Jan Brewer to veto Arizona’s SB 1062, just intensified as even Mitt Romney is calling for her to veto the bill.

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Congress, Large Corporations and the Postal Service Itself are Conspiring to Kill USPS

In part two of a two-part series on attempts to dismantle the Postal Service, I’m here to present some other distasteful facts as they directly relate to USPS.

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The Republican Idiocy Behind Laws Banning LGBTQs Will Inevitably Backfire

Republicans pushing for discriminatory laws based around ‘religious freedom’ will eventually see those same laws blow up in their faces.

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Lone Star Lunacy as ‘Obama=Hitler’ Candidate Leads Democratic Senate Primary

Kesha Rogers, a LaRouche supporter who equates Obama to Hitler and calls for his impeachment, is leading the Dem Senate primary in TX.

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It’s Time to Call the Republican Spade a Spade Instead of a Spoon

For years, the Republican Party has tried, and succeeded, in brainwashing their base to believe that Barack Obama and the Democratic Party are Nazis.

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Arizona’s Anti-Gay Legislation Is Anti-Human Rights

No state should have the ability to even present such legislation, and no governor should be given the opportunity to give such offensive legislation any consideration whatsoever.

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Someone Needs to Tell Sarah Palin If Obama Were a Dictator, She’d Be In Gitmo

After Obama left Americans for “destroyed”, the press is just now waking up, according to Sarah Palin, who is still free after all of these many years of traitor-adjacent behavior to write and speak as she pleases.

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Voters say Republican Governor Sam Brownback is ‘What’s the Matter with Kansas’

A new PPP poll finds that voters disapprove of Sam Brownback’s job performance. He trails Democrat Paul Davis in his bid for re-election.

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Grand Miscalculation: How Arizona Republicans’ Anti-LGBT Views Clash with Millennials

For a political party trying to be more inclusive, you would think that telling 74% of millennials they’re wrong would not be a step in the right direction.

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Gun Sense Prevails in Dixie as Open Carry Bill Shot Down in South Carolina Senate

An open carry bill that would have allowed citizens to openly carry firearms in public without a permit, was resoundingly rejected in SC.

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Crazy Steve Stockman Could Force Senator Cornyn Into Runoff in TX GOP Primary

A newly released poll shows Tea Party Congressman Steve Stockman closing the gap on Senator Cornyn, setting up a possible May runoff.

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Did President Obama Really ‘Miss an Opportunity’ by Avoiding Sochi?

The White House’s decision to let the athletes do their thing while avoiding overt support of a regime that has been a veritable thorn in America’s side on so many fronts? Perfectly advisable.

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Reality Bites Pentecostal Snake Handler

Apparently, a better name for reality TV series Snake Salvation would have been When Faith Meets Reality (You Will Hear a Loud Smack). Pentecostal preacher and host Jamie Coots of Tennessee, believed that poisonous snakes could not harm him because he was anointed by God. The Bible, he believed, said so (Mark 15:16-17). I speak…

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Michael Dunn Headed to Prison for the Shots that Failed to Kill

Michael Dunn will probably receive a long prison sentence, but for the shots that missed, rather than the shot that killed Jordan Davis.

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Chris Christie Says Income Equality is Mediocrity – Doesn’t Know Sh*t from Shinola

“You want income equality? That’s mediocrity.” That’s Chris Christie being pragmatic

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Virginia Marriage Equality Decision Exposes Religious Right’s Hatred of America

Religious Right leaders don’t understand the spirit or the exact words of the Constitution, which they continually confuse with the spirit and words of the Bible they also don’t understand.

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Bill Maher’s ‘Flip A District’ Should Focus On Getting Rid Of GOP Rep. Duncan Hunter

Back in late January, Bill Maher announced that he was going to use his show to affect this year’s mid-term elections and do a little activism of his own. We’d like to see Duncan Hunter go.

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Colorado GOP Lawmaker: It’s ‘a Good Thing’ Aurora Shooter Had 100-Round Magazine

A Republican lawmaker thinks it might have been a good thing James Holmes had a 100 round magazine, because they are prone to malfunction.

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Montana Republican Charged With Felony Assault After Throwing 4-Year Old Daughter

‘Family Values’ Republican Senator Jason Priest is accused of throwing and injuring his four year-old daughter, and assaulting his wife.

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Clarence Thomas Says Race Was Less of an Issue in Jim Crow Georgia

Clarence Thomas claims that the issue of race did not come up much in 1960s Georgia, and that today people are too sensitive about race.

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Why Aren’t More Republican Politicians Following Charlie Crist’s Example?

The real question as I see it does not revolve around why Crist fled into the more inclusive arms of the Democratic Party. Rather I wonder why more Republicans of any social conscience, not to mention survival instincts, haven’t done the same.

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CNN Sucks Up To Rand Paul by Pushing a Conservative Website’s Hillary Clinton Hit Piece

CNN.com posted a story in their political section on Monday detailing a story that ran on a very conservative website on Sunday evening.

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Anti Marriage Equality Lawyers Try To Fool Supreme Court With Sham Study

The lawyers defending Utah’s ban on same-sex marriage before the Supreme Court of the United States don’t have the law on their side, nor do they have valid facts.

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Fox News Contributor Laura Ingraham’s Idiocy: Puerto Ricans Are Not U.S. Citizens

Just when you thought Fox News would hit rock bottom, Laura Ingraham bore even deeper into the depths of stupidity of unimaginable proportion. Ingraham called Puerto Ricans immigrants…huh?

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Work Ethic Challenged Republicans Now Claim the ACA Threatens America’s Work Ethic

Now that their Obamacare kills jobs lie was discredited by the CBO’s report and again in testimony to Congress, Republicans in the House of Representatives are seeking another way to call “you people” lazy freeloaders.

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Gutless GOP Senate Candidate Panders To Woman Who Wants President Obama Executed

OK Senate candidate Jim Bridenstine (R) responded to a woman who advocated executing the President by pouring gasoline on her paranoid rage.

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Callous Republican Senators Kill Unemployment Benefits Extension

GOP Senators voted almost unanimously to block a three month extension on benefits for the long term unemployed.

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With Coca-Cola’s ‘America the Beautiful’ Ad, Corporate and Right-Wing Racism Face Off

I’m sorry, I have to chime in as the morons on the right are making something out of nothing about the Coca-Cola commercial celebrating diversity during the Super Bowl.

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Another Conservative Plan to Take Their States and Go Home

Loathe what the liberals stand for, meet their agenda with animosity, cultivate a visceral desire to wipe it from the face of the Earth. Hate, hate, hate it with the fires of a thousand burning suns.

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House Republicans Seek to Ruthlessly Gut the Endangered Species Act

Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) and Doc Hastings (R-WA) are spearheading an effort in the US House to try to weaken the Endangered Species Act.

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It Begins! A Zimmerman Redux of a Dead Black Teenager and a White Smoking Gun

The story is not new, just the trial. The deadly event occurred on Black Friday (the day after Thanksgiving), 2012. The defense is on sharp alert as jury selection opens in Jacksonville.

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Hollywood Circles The Wagons Around Woody Allen After Sexual Abuse Accusations Resurface

Hollywood circles the wagons around patriarch Woody Allen after his adopted daughter Dylan Farrow alleged again that he molested her when she was 7-years-old.

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New Rule: Its Not OK To Call Republicans Racist, Even When They Admit To It

Earlier this week, Reince Priebus tried to punish MSNBC with a boycott for calling out Republicans on their racism.

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Playing With Fire: How the House GOP Plans to Address the Immigration Issue

Leave it to House Republicans to find a way to both enrage their base and alienate an entire voting bloc all in a single afternoon.

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Utah School Officials Bully Children By Taking Their Lunches Away

School lunches were confiscated from dozens of grade school children at Uintah Elementary School this week.

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Republicans Want to Change States’ Constitutions to Conform to Their Ideology

What happens when a constitution doesn’t conform to the Republican Party’s ideology? If it’s the constitution of the United States, they revise its meaning, or make something up about the original intent of the constitutional protection.

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Real Republican Response to SOTU: President Obama is a ‘Socialist Dictator’

Congressman Randy Weber (R-TX) disrespectfully tweeted from the House floor that Obama was a Socialist Dictator shortly before the President’s State of the Union Address.

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SOTU: Obama is Hope. GOP Responses – All Four of Them – Are Despair

What Tuesday night demonstrated to every American and to the world, is that President Obama has a plan and that Republicans do not

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Chris Christie’s Presidential Hopes Dry Up as His Popularity Continues to Plummet

A new NBC/Marist poll shows that Chris Christie’s net favorability ratings have dropped 23 percentage points since October 2013

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GOP Can’t Lay Down Arms in War Against Women

It’s been difficult to ignore the Republican Party’s insistence, subsequent to its November 2012 shellacking at the national ballot box, that it offers modern appeal to female voters.

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The Real World Story of Human Lives Sacrificed at the Altar of Deregulation

I went to one of those “poisoned citizens” meetings the other night. It was a community meeting called by a couple of outside law firms that have just sued a number of corporate polluters for freely releasing their deadly environmental cargo upon unsuspecting and vulnerable neighbors. The community gathering was held in a Spartanburg,…

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A Guide to White Privilege for White People Who Think They’ve Never Had Any

Economically disadvantaged white people have the hardest time accepting that they have white privilege, but they do.

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Gay Marriage Scares Oklahoma Rep So Much He Proposes Banning All Marriages

Republican lawmaker Mike Turner is floating the idea of making marriage illegal in the state of Oklahoma.

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Time Warp: The Modern Religious Right and American Theocracy

Today’s Conservative Republicans yearn for a much simpler time. Unfortunately, that time occurred two millennia ago and bears no resemblance to the modern day.

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Regime Change in Virginia: New Attorney General Seeks to Overturn Gay Marriage Ban

AG Herring says Virginia’s ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional, and he has filed a legal brief asking a federal court to end it.

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Special Election Victory By Democrat Jennifer Wexton Completes GOP Collapse in Virginia

In a battle to determine party control of the VA Senate, Jennifer Wexton (D) coasted to a resounding 53-37 victory over John Whitbeck (R).

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Reefer Madness: Chris Matthews Joins Chorus of Beltway Blowhards Scared of Weed

On Hardball, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews joined the growing chorus of Beltway pundits who are terrified of the potential consequences of legal marijuana. Taking aim at President Obama’s statement that marijuana is “no more dangerous than alcohol, Matthews lamented: But the fact is I don’t think he’s right on this one because I think people…

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