Here’s a fact sheet from the White House on President Obama’s proposals to safeguard Americans’ privacy and information in the digital age and protect student privacy.
During an appearance on Fox News’ Justice with Judge Jeanine over the weekend, Steve Emerson, the Executive Director of The Investigative Project on Terrorism Foundation, made the claim that the entire city of Birmingham, England, was Muslim and that non-Muslims simply do not go into the city.
Yesterday saw some 3.7 million people unite against terrorism in Paris and in various places around France in unity rallies. The largest of these rallies was in Paris. French officials of the Interior Ministry said the rally’s size was “unprecedented,” more than a million people in Paris alone (the Chicago Tribune reported estimates of between…
Americans need to realize that if the racial direction of our country continues to roar down the tracks unabated, similar terrorism will become commonplace throughout the USA.
Kansas Governor Sam Brownback’s attempt to make his state a model for Tea Party governance has ended in abject failure.
Attorney General Eric Holder taped interviews from Paris for every Sunday show, but did not tape an interview for Fox News Sunday.
Republican Sen. John Hoeven (R-ND) grudgingly admitted on Fox News Sunday that Senate Republicans don’t have the votes needed to override President Obama’s expected veto of a bill authorizing the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.
As House Republicans continue to their push to defund Homeland Security because of the president’s executive actions on immigration, President Obama will be holding a White House summit on countering violent extremism in February.
It is amazing that Republicans who could not pass any legislation last year, spent the first four days of the 114th Congress stealing from women, retired and disabled Americas, large corporations’ employees, and various government departments and the Executive Branch.
Think responsibly. If we lived in a fact-based world, and want those facts to matter, we should be less like Elisabeth Hasselbeck, not more
As Detroit continues its comeback struggle, perpetually seeking to redefine and recreate itself as a more updated community, one of the largest potential barriers to the realization of that goal is a sufficiently educated workforce.
A handful of key Republican Senators are side-eying the plan House Republicans put forth on Friday in yet another effort to kill President Obama’s immigration executive actions, worried that the House Republicans defunding action may lead to a shutdown of government including the Department of Homeland Security.
Keystone XL will create 35 permanent jobs, not even one person from every state in the Union. Maybe we should have a lottery for each state!
George Zimmerman has a history of violent behavior. Eventually he will run out of excuses and end up doing significant time behind bars.
There is nothing as evil, mean-spirited, and pathetic as a mature adult who sees firsthand that something is inherently dangerous to other human beings and should be prevented at all costs, and yet wishes they could do the same thing. Last year, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, like all Republicans, witnessed the complete economic devastation…
Trayvon Martin’s killer, George Zimmerman, was arrested for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and domestic violence on Friday night. The judge in the case has set bond at $5,000.
In Donohue’s ideal world, Muslims and artists would convert to Catholicism, “If both did,” he says, “we would have peace and civility.”
When it comes ti Islam, why must certain religious organizations “condemn” an attack where they assume their “religious extremists” are responsible?
Early in the week Friday Fox Follies crafted a touching remembrance after Mike Huckabee Quits Fox News to Explore 2016 Run. However, BREAKING NEWS put the kibosh on that.
A growing number of Americans call themselves liberals. Going forward, Democrats need to embrace liberal ideas.
While French law enforcement was engaged in standoffs with the terrorists responsible for the Charlie Hebdo attack, ultimately killing three of them, Fox News decided to push the canard that Muslims leaders around the world have remained silent on the attacks and have not expressed any condemnation or outrage.
President Obama announcement of his plan to make community college free has knocked Republicans back on their heels as the president continues to dominate the political landscape.
While the Keystone Pipeline is a Republican agenda being billed inaccurately as a “Jobs Bill”, 28 House Democrats voted yes.
House Republicans have passed a bill authorizing the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline by a vote of 266-153. President Obama is certain to veto the bill, and House Republicans don’t have the votes needed to override his veto.
American Catholic bishops are taking advantage of the power bestowed on them by the conservative Catholics on the Supreme Court in the Hobby Lobby ruling. As is typical of the bishops, their aim is controlling American women and forcing them to either become celibate or perpetual birthing machines.
Jeb Bush said, “If someone wants to run a campaign about 90s nostalgia, it’s not going to be very successful.”
On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released December’s job numbers and revealed that the strong growth we had seen throughout 2014 continues unabated.
The details of President Barack Obama’s proposal to make community college free for the first two years for anyone who is willing to work hard are included in this fact sheet from the White House.
“Equal rights for ALL Americans! The cultural cleansing of our nation must stop!” Except for gays and anyone else you decide is the Other
To the courageous artists and writers at Charlie Hebdo, rest in peace.
Just two days after orchestrating the removal of two disloyal Florida GOP Congressmen (Daniel Webster and Rich Nugent), from the House Rules Committee, John Boehner is continuing his fight against recalcitrant Republicans. Today, Boehner tried to make the case that he was not “spineless or a squish”. In a press conference, he told NBC News that he was the…
Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is on to Speaker John Boehner and the Republican Party’s plans to use the Department of Homeland Security as a hostage for their political agenda.
President Obama dropped his biggest bomb on Republicans yet by announcing that he will propose a free two years of community college for all students who are willing to work hard and maintain good grades.
On the evening before officially taking control of Congress, Republicans launched a Koch-Wall Street attack on Social Security as a first step in another Republican-created crisis; this time to hasten privatizing Social Security for the Kochs and Wall Street.
House Republicans passed a bill would take away health insurance from at least 1 million workers by a vote of 252-172.
Speaker of the House John Boehner threw a tantrum during his press conference because President Obama refused to give Republicans any advantage before he issued his veto threats.
“False”. This is the harsh ruling PolitiFact had for Mitch McConnell’s claim that the economy improved because the GOP won. Further, “The data we found suggest McConnell is engaging in some wishful thinking.”
During an appearance on Fox & Friends Thursday, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani used the terrorist attack on a French newspaper to insist that the United States needs to have a police presence inside all Muslim places of worship.
Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer has announced on her website that she will be retiring from the Senate at the end of her current term. Boxer will not be running for reelection in 2016, and her departure will create a rare open Senate seat in deeply blue California.
Senate Republicans have the 60 votes that they need to initially pass the Keystone XL pipeline, but they don’t have the votes needed to overcome an Obama veto, and they lack a clear Plan B to get the pipeline authorized.
At the beginning of his show Wednesday night, The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart paid tribute to the staff of French newspaper Charlie Hebdo after a terrorist attack on the paper’s office claimed the lives of 12 people.
All too often, the export of democracy has looked a lot like the export of imperialism, and America’s defense of freedom translated into right-wing dictatorships
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is applauding President Obama for standing up to Republicans by promising to the veto their bill that would authorize the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.
Witnesses, experts and evidence would supposedly direct the jurors to a final decision; either the return of a True Bill indictment, followed by a trial, or no charge at all.
Florida’s AG, Pam Bondi, believes that only men and women should marry each other… many times, as in her case. She is opposed, however, to marriage equality among people of the same sex.
The FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force is investigating an explosion that was detonated near a Colorado Springs NAACP office on Tuesday.
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) tried to rewrite his history of obstruction and failure by taking credit for the economic growth that has occurred under President Obama.
During an appearance on Fox & Friends Wednesday morning, retired US Air Force general and current Fox News contributor Tom McInerney claimed “political correctness” caused the terror attack on the Charlie Hebdo headquarters in France and New York City’s “communist mayor” would set the stage for another one in the United States.
Boehner has enlisted a foreign corporation (TransCanada), the Canadian Prime Minister, and a foreign energy department to put pressure on America, and particularly its President, to approve construction of a pipeline Canada is well aware is an environmental and ecological disaster.
the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) is not impressed with Speaker John Boehner’s (R-OH) defense of Majority Whip Steve Scalise’s (R-LA) racist neo-Nazi sympathizing.
Just hours after Republicans filed their first action to defund parts of homeland security in order to stop President Obama’s executive action on immigration reform, a terrorist attack in Paris has them running away from themselves again.
The White House announced today that President Obama will veto a Republican plan that will take away health insurance from one million Americans by restoring the 40-hour work week.
Shortly after news broke Wednesday morning that three gunmen attacked a French satirical newspaper, Breitbart columnist Ben Shapiro decided to use the tragic event to take shots at President Obama and Hillary Clinton.
U.S. President Obama strongly condemned the attack on the satirical Paris newspaper that left at least 12 people dead. The President vowed to provide any assistance needed to help bring these terrorists to justice.
President Obama and Mexican president, Enrique Peña Nieto, talked yesterday about various issues involving the two countries, including Cuba, immigration, drug war violence and border security
It took House Republicans less than a day to meltdown, as America’s most dysfunctional political disgrace has collapsed under weight of their own fighting after John Boehner is seeking revenge on those who voted against him to be Speaker of the House.
A Republican councilman in Maryland has threatened to sue his local newspaper for having the audacity to use his name in an article that involved the county council in which he serves.
Sarah Palin’s argument continues to be that using her public notoriety to promote using the family dog as a stepping stool is totally cool, because Obama ate local food in Indonesia, and so everyone should hate him.
Sen. Bernie Sanders blasted an idea from Paul Ryan and other House Republicans that would justify their tax cuts for the wealthy by cooking the books and rigging how costs are counted in legislation.
Despite the backing of Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin, Louie Gohmert received just three votes in his bid to unseat House Speaker Boehner.
The White House has put Republicans on notice by vowing that the president will veto the Republican backed bill that would authorize the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.
Republicans are upset that Steve Scalise might have trouble raising money for the party, because some donors might not want to be seen giving cash to a racist, neo-Nazi sympathizer.
Republicans are beginning the 114th Congress with the mindset that “nothing is going to get in the way of our team’s focus on the Koch brothers’ priorities” in quickly passing two bills the Koch brothers demand be acted on.
During Monday night’s broadcast of The O’Reilly Factor, host Bill O’Reilly interviewed former KKK leader David Duke regarding the recent controversy surrounding House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) speaking at a white supremacist conference in 2002.
This is really about opposition to Obama, and in violation of the Constitution, forcing him into the role of a compliant puppet of Congress
John Boehner faces a challenge from his right for Speaker. However, most GOP members of Congress are still expected to support Boehner.
President Obama is planning to unleash a new wave of executive actions that the new Republican congressional majority will be powerless to stop.
A grand juror in the Darren Wilson case is suing St. Louis County Prosecutor Bob McCulloch.
The Guttmacher Institute released frightening numbers Monday morning. These numbers are a real slap in the face to those who stayed home from midterm elections but have an interest or stake in women’s freedom and liberty.
Senate Democrats are flipping the script on Mitch McConnell by introducing a series of amendments to the bill authorizing the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline that would turn the project into a real job creator.
An estimated 3.1 million Americans across the country started 2015 out with a real bang due to state and district increases in the minimum wage.
Recently I was accused by several police officers as being anti-police because of several cartoons I drew. They mistakenly think that if you are anti-police brutality, you must be anti-police.
Tea Baggers love Louie Gohmert, which may explain why the man sounds barely sane to the rest of us. McCain got it in one: the man is an idiot
Grandstanding tea party Congressman Louie Gohmert (R-TX) has announced his intentions to dethrone John Boehner (R-OH) as Speaker of the House.
‘It was my duty to shoot the enemy, and I don’t regret it. My regrets are for the people I couldn’t save: Marines, soldiers, buddies. I’m not naive, and I don’t romanticize war. The worst moments of my life have come as a SEAL. But I can stand before God with a clear conscience about…
If the President simply adjusted the salary threshold for inflation since it was last raised in 1975, it would be a more significant income increase for over 10 million low and low middle-class American workers that raising the hourly wage to $15 per hour for the rest of the poverty-wage workforce.
After ESPN had announced that longtime anchor Stuart Scott had passed away after a years long battle with cancer, President Obama expressed his sympathies and mourned the loss of the Sportscenter anchor.
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) announced on CBS’s Face The Nation that Senate Democrats have enough votes to sustain the widely expected veto that President Obama will issue after Republicans pass a bill authorizing the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) desperately tried to rewrite history today by implying that President Obama and Senate Democrats were responsible for the campaign of dysfunction and obstruction that he orchestrated.
The first African American to be elected by popular vote to serve in the U.S. Senate has passed away at the age of 95. Edward Brooke (R-MA) was the first black Senator to win an election after the 17th Amendment was ratified in 1913, allowing for the direct election of U.S. Senators. His victory came over…
When Indiana Governor and presidential hopeful Mike Pence went to Israel he met Benjamin Netanyahu but not Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas
If, as privatization “reformers” in Republican, corporate, and Obama Education Department claim that America’s public schools are dire failures, then America’s wealthy public schools with unionized teachers, and tenure, would be failing and not at the “top of the international charts.”
Animal rights groups are leveling Sarah Palin for posting pictures on her Facebook page of her son standing on a family dog.
Sen. Bernie Sanders is using his new position as the top Democratic caucus member on the Senate Budget Committee to push a new bill that he will introduce to the new Congress that will create 13 million jobs by rebuilding the nation’s bridges and roads.
Betty Bowers nails Dick Cheney by pointing out that for him, rectal feeding “is just eating through his mouth.” That explains a lot!
Florida is the latest state to make same-sex marriages legal. But it almost certainly will not be the last state to do so.
As 2014 ended two stories on Fox & Friends demonstrate why Fox “News” is not ready to eat at the adult table during holidays. That’s when fill-in hosts give lifers time off for time served.
I have spent a great deal of my holiday time reviewing every page of the Ferguson Grand Jury transcript. Should Missouri Police Officer, Darren Wilson, 28, have been indicted for first or second-degree murder or for voluntary or involuntary manslaughter in the shooting death of an African-American, 18-year-old, Michael Brown?
The Catholic Pope has garnered nothing but serious opposition and pushback from America’s evangelical and Catholic Republican movement, and now the Koch brothers and their dirty energy cabal have joined what is developing into a dirty oil-evangelical war against Pope Francis.
MSNBC’s Morning Joe has seen 26% of its younger audience leave as MSNBC viewers have turned off the Republican talking points of Joe Scarborough in favor of other options.
Bethany Blankley tells us that Sweden’s population but that its “rape crisis” is a direct result of an influx of Muslim ‘asylum seekers.'”
Republicans in state after state spent the past year hastily passing legislation abolishing other Americans’ 14th Amendment rights
Our future could do with a lot less volleying and thundering. It is not appeasement to stop and think a little before we start shooting
