Nelson Mandela Showed the World What It Takes to Forgive and Move Forward
If there was ever a man who had justifiable reason to hate, it was Nelson Mandela. He chose not to hate.
If there was ever a man who had justifiable reason to hate, it was Nelson Mandela. He chose not to hate.
Republicans simply never learn. They always view their problems as cosmetic rather than core.
It’s hardly a surprise that U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Steven Rhodes declared on Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2013, that Detroit is eligible for bankruptcy.
Second Amendment absolutists might be disappointed today upon discovering that the Republican controlled US House approved an extension of a gun ban.
The tea party is the intersection of cognitive dissonance and reality. It’s certain to become a reality show. Oh wait – it already is.
This week marks the fifth anniversary of when a racist put a bullet through the front window of my home two weeks after Obama was elected president.
How do we convince a generation of millennials that they need health insurance rather than TVs? Simple: By engaging in marketing 101.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership is a trade agreement that is really a multi-trillion dollar gift that hands multi-nationals enormous powers
One hundred fifty years later, President Lincoln’s Great Task remains uncompleted.
Will Senator Elizabeth Warren’s political economic populist movement change US economics and politics now and in the future?
As you can see, the ad implies heavily that the woman is an actual resident of Alaska and a constituent of Begich’s. Of course, we now know this to be a complete lie, as she is a paid actress who resides in Maryland
Recent polls have shown Barack Obama’s approval rating on the decline. However, who exactly is “disapproving” of him tells the bigger story.
They will reduce working class Americans to serfs, put our children to work, rape our wives, sisters, and daughters, and let us die when we get too sick to be of any further use for them.
Tom Brower, a five term Democratic State Representative in Hawaii, has launched a personal crusade against the homeless in his district. He is crusading against the homeless, not against homelessness.
If these defenders of Zimmerman had their child gunned down for holding Skittles, would they be able to stop themselves from hating someone who condemned their son while defending his killer?
The political and media firestorm about Richard Cohen’s recent column, as typical, missed the real issues.
Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman is never afraid to ask the tough questions. Though his Times blog bears the name “The Conscience of Liberal,” the title is sort of an unfortunate misnomer.
In case you hadn’t already heard, it appears that some of the problems with the Obamacare website aren’t exactly due to that incompetence thing that Bob Woodward likes to pin on the Obama administration.
The man who shot Renisha McBride has been slapped with a 2nd degree murder charge from Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy. 54-year old Theodore Wafer is expected to be arraigned today at 2 PM for his role in the shooting death of McBride.
Having affordable health care will mean a world of difference for the 106,815 people who now have it for the first time in their lives.
John Boehner’s reaction in not wanting to hold a vote on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act legislation is still wrong.
The Senior Senator from Utah is endangering lives by putting his personal gain before the public’s health.
The south is becoming more and more socially progressive, which is leading to an educated populace that should no longer be stereotyped.
If the story of five Colorado counties located on the northern edge of the state that actually voted to secede from Colorado wasn’t so pathetic it might actually qualify as perversely amusing.
A 19-year old woman was killed on Saturday morning by a Dearborn Heights resident when she sought help after she was involved in a car crash.
There were many winners and losers (and one who won and lost) in last night’s elections, but the biggest winner was liberalism.
Judging by some of the recent headlines it appears that the big election day story coming out of Detroit is that Detroiters elected a white guy for mayor for the first time in more than 40 years.
Congressman Mike Michaud (D-ME) put rumors about his sexual orientation to rest today in an op-ed piece for the Bangor Daily News.
It would have been bad enough if he’d pulled a Bachmann and claimed “urban legend!” but shooting people for telling the truth?
Ted and Rafael Cruz are just two more in a long line of American political paranoiacs. The list of conspiracy theories is long and often peculiar
What Rand Paul doesn’t realize is that the plot of Gattaca perfectly represents his own governing philosophy. And that isn’t a good thing.
The healthcare.gov website has been online for 2 weeks. It works, but must be improved. There has been an overload of political and media focus and furor about the problems of the Healthcare.Gov website.
Republicans can talk about things that never happened as though they did, but Democrats cannot talk about things that DID actually happen
The ‘Civil War’ between the Tea Party and old guard wings of the GOP is being fought in Republican Senate primaries.
Grayson said, “I’m calling them out for their hate. That’s not wrong. That needs to be done. It’s the only way to end it.”
Former Governor of Minnesota Jesse Ventura is back in the headlines. He plans to run for President in 2016, if Howard Stern would be his running mate.
Pagan Romans feared not a violent revolution but something far more sinister, a political coup exactly like we are seeing today
Political humorists, satirists and cartoonists are as old as politics itself. Sometimes a little humor can “illustrate” the seriousness of political hot button issues by making light of them.
Ted Cruz has been compared to a lot of things lately. However, a comparison to a monomaniacal mouse from a 1990s cartoon suits him best.
Click on image to enlarge Political humorists, satirists and cartoonists are as old as politics itself. Sometimes a little humor can “illustrate” the seriousness of political hot button issues by making light of them. It’s our hope these “Cartoon of the Day” posts can help people understand exactly how childishly adults can behave by forcing…
Democrat Amar Kaleka, cites failed GOP leadership and a need for stricter gun laws, in his bid to unseat Paul Ryan.
Political humorists, satirists and cartoonists are as old as politics itself. Sometimes a little humor can “illustrate” the seriousness of political hot button issues by making light of them.
Political humorists, satirists and cartoonists are as old as politics itself. Sometimes a little humor can “illustrate” the seriousness of political hot button issues by making light of them…
The Tea Party and the Republicans could have led a much-needed national debate about the role and size of the federal government during this shutdown, but they haven’t.
Democrats are not ‘giving in’ to Republican hostage taking – that is, they are not allowing the country to be held up. They need to beware the short term funding bait.
Political humorists, satirists and cartoonists are as old as politics itself. Sometimes a little humor can “illustrate” the seriousness of political hot button issues by making light of them….
Orson Scott Card wrote his 1985 novel about the dangers of manipulating children. He could have easily been writing about the Tea Party.
Political humorists, satirists and cartoonists are as old as politics itself. Sometimes a little humor can “illustrate” the seriousness of political hot button issues by making light of them. It’s our hope these “Cartoon of the Day” posts can help people understand exactly how childishly adults can behave by forcing us to see how stupid some politically driven motives really are.
In a year where other states have put up hurdles to make it more difficult for a woman to exercise her reproductive choice, California is bucking the trend.
Political humorists, satirists and cartoonists are as old as politics itself. Sometimes a little humor can “illustrate” the seriousness of political hot button issues by making light of them. It’s our hope these “Cartoon of the Day” posts can help people understand exactly how childishly adults can behave by forcing us to see how stupid some politically driven motives really are.
Political humorists, satirists and cartoonists are as old as politics itself. Sometimes a little humor can “illustrate” the seriousness of political hot button issues by making light of them. It’s our hope these “Cartoon of the Day” posts can help people understand exactly how childishly adults can behave by forcing us to see how stupid some politically driven motives really are.
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Political humorists, satirists and cartoonists are as old as politics itself. Sometimes a little humor can “illustrate” the seriousness of political hot button issues by making light of them. It’s our hope these “Cartoon of the Day” posts can help people understand exactly how childishly adults can behave by forcing us to see how stupid some politically driven motives really are.
The latest PPP poll on Congressional races reveals that the Republican Party has fallen into serious disfavor in the state of Michigan.
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With no end goal in mind, the Tea Party blindly led Republicans over a political cliff that will ultimately undermine a key Republican stance.
“We’re taking our toys – and yours – and going home!” Tea party Republicans have opted out of the United States. They have ceased to participate in our democracy. Where political power is supposed to derive from the people, the tea party derives its power from corporations. It speaks for corporations, it acts for corporations….
Nearly half of Republican voters think that Obama is a dictator scheming to serve as president for a third term and over half think he has a secret plan to confiscate the guns of all Americans.
West Yellowstone, Montana and Cody, Wyoming when your communities suffer the economic consequences brought about by a government shutdown, just remember you voted for this.
If the Republican Party wants to destroy itself in public, they can go right ahead. Democrats aren’t going to stop them.
Mitch McConnell and John Boehner have lost control of the Republican Party and handed its future to hardcore ideologues like Texas Senator Ted Cruz..
The Tea Party’s support has dwindled to near record low levels according to the latest Gallup public opinion poll on the Tea Party movement.
Rich people should talk more openly, more often. It would make a progressive agenda a whole lot more achievable.
Steve King’s vicious racism and xenophobia is a far greater threat to our nation’s safety and security than are the immigrants he is so fond of attacking.
The Democratic Party stood firm in defense of America’s families, with every single voting member of the Democratic caucus coming down in opposition to brutal SNAP food assistance cuts.
The House’s SNAP vote was cold, callous, and calculated by a Republican Party that hopes to ruin Barack Obama’s presidency by any means necessary.
The Republican Party’s hell-bent obsession with shutting down the government will not end well for them if they succeed.
The Obama administration is making it clear every way they possibly can that they are willing to do whatever they can to help Detroit weather this crisis – except to offer a bailout.
Failure to treat gun offenses with the seriousness they deserve only ensures that more Aaron Alexis’ will eventually turn their permit licenses into licenses to kill.
This week Jillian York of the Electronic Frontier Foundation denounced tech companies and employers who censor or punish online ugliness. But the internet is no longer a frontier.
The recall losses in Colorado are cause for concern, but they do not necessarily suggest that passing background checks is bad policy.
Anti-Muslim pastor Terry Jones was arrested by Polk County Sheriff’s deputies for unlawful conveyance of fuel on Wednesday.
A Detroit area fast food restaurant, Moo Cluck Moo, is reportedly planning to raise worker pay to fifteen dollars an hour beginning October 1st.
Had guns not been allowed in Yellowstone, a three year-old girl might not have been able to shoot herself in the park this weekend.
The Republican Party House leadership has completely squandered their control over the GOP caucus, and rendered themselves politically irrelevant..
What if we, in reaction to Iraq and in hopes of finally getting ours after years of being ignored, turn into the coldhearted, survival of the fittest machines we allege to find repugnant.
As candidates evaluate the merits of authorizing force in Syria they must also consider the potential political consequences at home.
If Bill de Blasio clears forty percent on Tuesday night it will be a clear victory for the long suffering ordinary people of New York City.
In her efforts to placate the most extreme elements of the Republican base, Liz Cheney tossed her sister under the bus.
The government is better equipped than private industry for large scale cooperative projects that serve the public interest such as suppressing major wildfires.
Yesterday many residents of Billings Montana stood up and rejected the rape culture that has become all too familiar in our communities.
In an interview with ABC, Shellie Zimmerman said that she had left her husband George the night before the shooting, and suddenly the murder of Trayvon Martin makes so much more sense.
A MT judge gave a rapist little jail time, stating that his teen victim was “as much in control of the situation” as the middle-aged teacher who raped her.
A poll released by Public Policy Polling reveals just how formidable a presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is and just how damaged the GOP brand has become in the Buckeye State.
Republicans don’t give a crap about women, and they don’t believe sexual harassment is any more real than they believe rape is.
Two members of the “sovereign citizen’s” movement were arrested in Las Vegas Tuesday night following an investigation that revealed they planned to execute cops.
The outrage over the Trayvon Martin slaying was not the unique brutality of the crime, but rather it was the attitude of police and prosecutors towards the killing.
Jindal’s presidential aspirations have to be considered a pipe dream given that he is no longer even politically viable in his own deep red state.
Guess who’s sorry they fell for the Koch brothers baloney? Oh, none other than the “U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Federation of Independent Business, and other business interests”.
The Republican Secretary of State’s investigation of alleged voter fraud is more a political wild goose chase than it is a serious attempt to root out actual voter fraud.
Conservatives didn’t like it when I tweeted, ‘#WhySomePeopleAreDemocrats Because not everyone wants to wear a white hood while dragging women back to the cave.’ This prompted them into proving how ignorant they are.
Anti-food stamp Congressman Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) collected 370,000 dollars in federal stimulus money for his Oklahoma plumbing company.
Republicans are breaking out some ridiculous arguments against raising the minimum wage, but nothing is quite as absurd as Rep. Markwayne Mullin’s distortion of minimum wage math.
For the record, being twice-elected is not an impeachable offense, and being Black while President does not qualify as high crimes and misdemeanors.
The Missouri State Fair showed a lack of class when it disintegrated into a modern day minstrel show featuring a rodeo clown impersonating President Obama.
Congressman Mullin shows ignorance and contempt when he accuses a couple of committing food stamp fraud because they appear physically fit.
With over a dozen credible accusations of sexual harassment staring him in the face, Filner needs to step down.