Republican heads will certainly explode after First Lady Michelle Obama told high school grads to stand up against the same bigotry and discrimination that is the bread and butter of the Republican Party.
it was left to Human Rights Watch (HRW) to push the federal government to take steps to protect children working on tobacco farms in states such as North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia.
On Thursday evening, the town of Wolfeboro, NH held a town meeting to discuss the words and actions of its 82 year-old police commissioner, Robert Copeland. Back in March, Mr. Copeland was at the bar of a local restaurant and complained loudly about President Obama, using a racial slur.
Media reported on Sarah Palin’s ugly mocking of the Michelle Obama and the Obama administration for using “‘hashtagging tweets’ as foreign policy”.
Somehow President Obama managed to say this without twitching, “It is a no brainier for Congress to do what it is supposed to do.”
Earlier this week, the executive editor of the New York Times, Jill Abramson, was swiftly dismissed from her position at the newspaper. Ken Auletta has reported that Abramson’s objections to her compensation compared with her male colleagues was a major contributing factor to her dismissal.
The law and order party has some problems with law and order. Oregon Republican U.S. Senate candidate Monica Wehby was accused last year of stalking her boyfriend, entering his home without permission, and harassing his employees.
A new survey from Gallup found that Democrats are slightly underwater with their party approval rating, but the Republican Party is on pace for the lowest election year approval rating ever.
Between last week’s report on climate change and the devastation at home from super-storms, flooding, droughts, wild fires, tornados and this week’s news Antarctica is melting, conservatives went berserk and accused scientists using data, reason, and knowledge to bully people.
