Greg Abbott’s battle with 600 school districts over draconian budget cuts is proving insurmountable in his attempt to brand himself as a pro education candidate.
It just goes to show that you don’t have to be smart to be rich.
The right is in high froth mode because Jonathan Karl is sure that this time he’s got President Obama. Wanna guess what he’s basing it on? Yep. Another “Benghazi email!!!” No kidding.
MSNBC has screwed things up so badly with their viewers that the network now has its lowest ratings since October 2007.
On his personal website, West wrote a blog post where he somehow found a way to shoehorn Benghazi and hatred for Obama into a discussion about Donald Sterling’s racism.
Republican style class warfare was on full display today as just one Senate Republican millionaire broke with his party to vote in favor of advancing a bill to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour.
President Obama tore into Senate Republicans for blocking a bill that would raise the minimum wage, while painting a picture of a GOP that doesn’t care about working people.
The lifetime suspension was met with relief and a certain sense of gratification, as Sterling’s long history of racism and discrimination was finally punished. However, there are a few conservative voices that have popped up that feel that Sterling was set up.
Gov. Rick Scott tried to hawk Obamacare horror stories, but in return all he got was a bunch of seniors schooling him on reality.
A foolish and misguided Glenn Beck said Hillary Clinton would announce she was a lesbian if she thought it would get her elected.
The latest sheriff to threaten America with armed rebellion is Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr who addressed the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting last week and drew praise from right-wing media including patriotic gun cheerleaders at Fox News.
He can’t prove that creationism magically turned into science when he added the word ‘science’ to it, so the best he can do is turn the tables and say his religion is science and that science is…well, religion.
The Republicans want the state constitution amended to reflect their position on abortion. This “question” is buried in the primary ballot.
Maine GOP Senator Susan Collins plans not to support a proposed increase in the federal minimum wage to 10.10 an hour.
The Republican lies and misinformation about Obamacare have consequences that go beyond politics. In some cases, not believing the GOP can be the difference between life and death.
In another victory for voting rights, U.S. District Court Judge Lynn Adelman struck down Wisconsin’s restrictive voter ID law.
In a victory for environmentalists, the Supreme Court today ruled to uphold the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule set by Obama’s EPA in 2011.
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver announced on Tuesday afternoon that Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling is banned from the league for life.
The next time a Republican even comes near climbing aboard the deficit cross, you have permission to laugh in their face. The party of paying for things has proposed $310 billion in unpaid for tax provisions today.
Former Republican Presidential candidate Rick Santorum appeared on Morning Joe Tuesday morning to peddle his new book. He claimed that one of ‘Obama’s minions’ told him that they were scared of him in 2012
Speaker John Boehner pivoted on his blame game Tuesday, from mocking his own party with “This is too hard!” last week, to blaming President Obama for Republican failures today.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) described what Republicans fear most. On recent trip to South Carolina and North Carolina, Sanders found red state residents who believe that healthcare is a right.
Republicans, privatization advocates, religious extremists, ALEC, and anti-union fascists contend that America’s public schools are failures, but for the first time in American history the national high school graduation rate surpassed 80% in 2012 and is projected to reach 90% by 2020.
According to Bob Vander Plaats, “You cannot run away from the heart of God and expect God to bless the country.”
The Daily Beast reported on Sunday that Secretary of State John Kerry warned if Israel and the Palestinians don’t reach a peace agreement, Israel could become an Apartheid state. Is his prognosis correct?
If Republicans keep this up, Democrats won’t have to work hard to elect Hillary Clinton in 2016.
The UCC filed a lawsuit today arguing that NC’s law defining marriage as being between a man and a woman was unconstitutional.
You know how bad it is when Rush Limbaugh *weighs in* on behalf of Donald Sterling. Viagra must make some of the old super-rich guys really stupid.
President Obama engaged in one of his favorite press conference hobbies. He handed Fox’s Ed Henry his head for asking yet another Fox News fueled stupid question that was entirely based on Republican talking points.
After getting burned by racist rancher Cliven Bundy, Fox News, the Tea Party, and others thought they had their gotcha moment when they claimed Clippers owner Donald Sterling was a Democrat. The problem is that he’s a Republican.
Conservative blowhard Rush Limbaugh brought up the ongoing controversy surrounding Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling. Limbaugh claimed that Sterling is a “big Democrat” and that the only reason this is all a big deal is because “he did not give enough money to Obama.”
As it turns out, if the Koch brothers, ALEC, and Republicans expected Americans to rally behind Bundy and support their attempt to force the federal government to cede its land to states for the Koch brothers, they chose the wrong lunatic for their cause.
Some big money Republican backers fear ‘horror show’ Rand Paul and Ted Cruz. If they can’t have Jeb or Christie, they’d rather have Hillary Clinton.
On Monday morning, real estate mogul Donald Trump appeared on Fox & Friends and discussed the recent controversy over LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling’s racist comments.
The mainstream media is finally realizing that it is time to ignore Sarah Palin.
Sure, he won. Kudos to Rand. But the thing is, even among Republicans, he took only 26 percent of the vote compared to Texas Senator Ted Cruz’s 14 percent.
Some of the interesting tidbits from the web this past week include presidential socks, little robots, state polls and note-taking.
Continuing to play for someone like Sterling would be offensive to anyone who cares about anyone else, no matter their race, creed or color. This is a teachable moment!
On Sunday’s broadcast of Meet the Press, renowned television journalist Bryant Gumbel pointed the finger directly at the NBA and former commissioner David Stern for allowing Clippers owner Donald Sterling to get away with racist comments and behavior for years.
The FBI investigating a lobbying firm that is close to Republican Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback for running a pay to play scheme involving access to the governor.
LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling’s racism has been the worst kept secret in sports, but his sexism and hatred of women has gone unacknowledged and unpunished for decades.
Instead of talking about how the big banks and Wall St. blew up the economy, the middle class, or income inequality, ABC’s This Week tried to use Elizabeth Warren to divide the Democratic Party, but Sen. Warren wouldn’t play along.
The ongoing, and one-sided, battle between creationist Ken Ham of “Answers in Genesis” notoriety and highly-regarded astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson of Fox’s Cosmos is humiliating for America because Ham typifies the right wing evangelical Christian ignorance founded on ancient mythology.
Don Sterling allegedly said, “It bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that you’re associating with black people. Do you have to?”
Last Tuesday, the Supreme Court began hearing arguments in broadcast TV’s case to shut down Aereo TV. At the heart of the argument is whether the streaming service’s business model is based on pirating creative content.
Texas Republican Greg Abbott’s education policy roll-out would be hilarious if not for the fact that his policies will hurt so many children’s future. As telling of his character is his refusal to distance himself from the law-breaking welfare cowboy, Cliven Bundy and his racist remarks.
Cliven Bundy was always a pawn for Sean Hannity and Fox News. Yet, who are Sean Hannity and Fox News a pawn for? The answer may surprise you.
A man in Georgia caused a panic by menacing people at a children’s baseball game with a gun that he was carrying. The sick thing is that it was all legal.
John Boehner humiliated himself again today by standing in a factory and claiming that repealing Obamacare will create jobs.
Bill Maher tore Republicans apart for preaching racism during the Obama years and appealing to racists.
President Obama is turning the tables on Republicans by using one of their favorite tactics to argue for increasing the minimum wage.
The law defining Georgia as an uncivilized society takes effect on July 1, and among other absurdities legalizes silencers for hunting (human beings).
Cliven Bundy said he isn’t a racist and that he’s sorry for his racist remarks that he didn’t really make in the first place and that people misinterpreted
Another Republican member of the House has bitten the dust. Rep. Michael Grimm (R-NY), who threatened to throw a TV reporter off of a balcony at the State Of The Union, will be indicted for campaign finance violations.
The Western anti-government movement has a long tradition of racism, and Cliven Bundy is part of that tradition.
Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy appeared on CNN’s New Day on Friday morning to discuss the racist comments he made recently that caused a huge stir earlier this week.
The Nathan Deal (R-GA) administration is selling out to big business. Reckless coastal development is heading to Georgia. Naturally this policy was announced on Earth Day.
Cliven Bundy is obliterating Sean Hannity and Fox News by claiming that they still support him, because they are right on, and they understand his racist views.
Mitch McConnell’s suicide mission of a reelection campaign continues to get worse. At an appearance back home in Kentucky, Sen. McConnell said that it is not his job to bring jobs to the state.
During a speech in his home district on Thursday, Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) criticized his House Republicans on their intransigence when it comes to comprehensive immigration reform.
It is bad enough Republicans and conservative media actively supported Bundy for trespassing on federal land and bilking taxpayers out of $1.1 million and counting, but that they heaped enduring praise on him with clear knowledge of his background is despicable.
Republicans are rallying around white supremacy. It’s an odd thing, listening to Republicans steadfastly deny their own racism while praising one of the most racist among them, Clive Bundy, who says slavery was good for “the negro” because they have nothing to do today but “abort their young children” and “put their young men in…
When whites decide racism is over … that’s “whitewishing”
On Wednesday, Deputy Attorney General James M. Cole announced that Debra Leff will replace outing Pardons Attorney, Ronald L. Rodgers and he elaborated on the plans to reform the clemency process in prepared remarks.
Cliven Bundy explained that he’s not a racist, it’s just that he, who doesn’t want to pay the government fees he owes, thinks it would be super freelike for “negroes” to be slaves because then they would have something to do.
According to multiple published reports, the Federal Communications Commission has offered a proposed set of rules that would effectively end net neutrality as we know it.
Sean Hannity is running away from his new BFF Cliven Bundy. Hannity took no responsibility for promoting Bundy, and called the racist obnoxious and ignorant.
In a mindboggling bit of lunacy, Rush Limbaugh claimed that Meet The Press is struggling because host David Gregory is too liberal.
By Thursday morning, Republicans who had previously championed Bundy’s cause and held him up as a hero and patriot were falling all over themselves condemning his remarks.
By admitting that Republicans exaggerate about voter fraud to justify their vote suppression strategy, Paul will raise the ire of his base who share Bundy’s belief that African Americans are “better off” disenfranchised and as property.
The roof has officially fallen in on Republicans as a poll of Southern red states has found that in each state people want to keep their Obamacare.
James Kimber is showing us how Democrats across the country can speak positively about the Affordable Care Act and not run scared from it.
The latest expression of the right’s delusion is a planned march on Washington by 30-million Americans to oust the Obama Administration and Democrats in Congress, convene a right wing tribunal, and appoint a new government consisting of a permanent Republican majority.
Earlier this week, AFP unveiled yet another anti-Obamcare ad, targeting Democratic Senator Mark Udall of Colorado. It was immediately criticized for being offensive and misleading.
During a joint press conference with Prime Minister Abe of Japan, CNN embarrassed themselves with a biased question that President Obama dismantled with facts.
We are told the Founding Fathers signed the Declaration and Constitution because they, “believed so strongly in the involvement of pastors and Bible teachers in political matters”
Putin looked back into Bush’s eyes and they both saw imperialism. No wonder they are such good buddies.
Now that the policy is on the record, the Davis campaign is investigating Abbott’s ties to businesses that would benefit from a policy of standardized tests for four year olds.
Republicans are freaking out after new polls showed Democrats leading or tied in four key Southern Senate races.
On Wednesday, the Republican Party of Louisiana sent a formal complaint to the Senate Ethics Committee against Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) claiming that Reid is abusing publicly funded resources for partisan and electoral activities.
Wendy Davis’ Republican opponent is planning to hold a press conference to unveil his education policy at a school district that lost the equivalent of 118 teachers because of the public education cuts Abbot continues to defend.
MO Republicans seek to impeach Democratic Governor Jay Nixon for no clear reason other than because they do not agree with him.
The McConnell team attacked his Republican challenger’s children after they starred in an ad for their father, Tea Party candidate Matt Bevin.
Justices on the Supreme Court displayed yet another instance of adhering closely to Republicans’ agenda to disenfranchise people of color and deny them equal opportunities white people are afforded simply because they are regarded as superior.
Dinesh D’Souza is blaming President Obama for the federal fraud indictment against the conservative. He claims he’s being ‘targeted’.
A Florida Republican legislator who sponsored a bill that would require drug testing for all the state’s elected officials has been arrested for DUI.
In the key state of Louisiana, Sen. Mary Landrieu isn’t running away from Obamacare. She is using the ACA as weapon to point out how Republicans who have health insurance deny it to others.
On Tuesday night’s episode of The Daily Show, host Jon Stewart devoted an extended-length segment of the show to the media’s treatment of women in politics.
Who knew Neo-Confederate, white supremacist Christian Nationalism could be so cool? Forget the 1930s. Völkisch is so 21st century!
When Titans battle: Well, one Titan (syndicated columnist Kathleen Parker) and Dennis S, some obscure old guy squirreled away in an Upstate South Carolina double-wide.
Less than a year after gutting key provisions of the Voting Rights Act, the Supreme Court struck a blow at race-based affirmative action.
Today is (Mother) Earth Day, 2014. Treat her with respect.
Cynical people often suggest that presidents visit scenes of tragedies for political reasons, but President Obama’s visit to Oso, Washington today serves as a reminder of the power of a presidential visit to help people feel cared about.
The latest New York Times projection show Republican odds of capturing the Senate are declining, and that the Democrats may keep control of the US Senate.
Bill O’Reilly has demonstrated how afraid he is of Stephen Colbert with yet another petty attack on the future CBS host on Fox News.
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) appeared on Tuesday’s broadcast of Morning Joe to discuss the ongoing crisis in Ukraine. Once again, McCain called on the US to get more involved in the situation.
Meet The Press, Face The Nation, and This Week chose to go pro-Republican, and now they are dying because America is moving to the left.
Wendy Davis highlighted the contrast between her inclusive pre-K program and Greg Abbott’s policy of restricting access to children who fit Charles Murray’s model of children most likely to succeed.
Scientists at Yale and Dartmouth Universities, among others, who studied an occurrence known as “motivated reasoning” that demonstrates the Republicans cannot be trusted to ignore their Republican affiliations, personal politics, or loyalty to the Koch brothers to decide cases according to what the law does or does not allow because “their brains simply are not capable of such disinterested reasoning.”
Host Jon Stewart spent the first segment of Monday’s show discussing Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy and the recent news surrounding him. He then tore into Sean Hannity.
