Seriously? Republican Lawmaker In Montana Introduces Bill To Ban Yoga Pants
David “Doc” Moore (R-Missoula) introduced House Bill 365 to strengthen the state’s indecency laws. The bill could ban wearing yoga pants.
David “Doc” Moore (R-Missoula) introduced House Bill 365 to strengthen the state’s indecency laws. The bill could ban wearing yoga pants.
On Tuesday night, Craig Stephen Hicks shot 3 people execution style.
Republicans reportedly “don’t trust” Obama, which means they might not pass his request for authorization for the limited use of force, leaving the U.S. with no way to fight ISIL.
On Tuesday, February 10th, Craig Stephen Hicks allegedly shot three Muslim students in the head, killing each of them.
During a brief statement at the White House, President Obama made it clear that he has no interest in sending US ground troops to the Middle East to fight ISIL.
Nancy Pelosi laid down the law during a press availability after a Democratic caucus meeting on the Republican refusal to fund national security. Pelosi ripped Republicans for jeopardizing the protection and safety of the American people by playing games with Homeland Security funding.
Speaker of the House John Boehner had an epic meltdown in front of the cameras today as the reality is setting in that Republican scheme to hold Homeland Security funding hostage has completely backfired.
Democrats mock Republicans for amping up their rhetoric in an attempt to deflect the blame for the upcoming defunding of national security.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell campaigned on forcing the president to bend to the will of Republicans, but it is the Kentucky senator who is now on bended knee asking Obama to reconsider his promise to veto the Keystone XL bill.
Prior to making the announcement on his upcoming departure, it was business as usual, as Jon Stewart once again aimed his sharp wit at his favorite target — Fox News.
The following is a Letter from the President to the U.S. Congress regarding authorization for the Use of United States Armed Forces in connection with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
Something is finally about to be done about veteran suicide prevention, as Senate, House, and President join to make the Clay Hunt Act law.
The Koch Bros. have a rubber stamp Congress who only care about billionaires’ money.
The Republican Party’s creepy donor list just keeps on growing.
Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) announced today that he would not be attending Netanyahu’s speech before Congress. Leahy referred to the speech as an embarrassment to Israel and the Congress.
Preventing measles in America doesn’t require more troops on the border, it requires putting more vaccination needles in our children.
Comedy Central has confirmed reports that Jon Stewart will be leaving The Daily Show later this year.
On this episode of Politicus Radio, Sarah Jones and Jason Easley discuss the Democratic pushback to the disrespect that was shown to President Obama by Netanyahu and Boehner.
Congressional Republicans tried to provoke a confrontation with President Obama by, not funding Homeland Security for a full year, but Mitch McConnell admitted that Senate Democrats have successfully killed the Republican effort to overturn Obama’s immigration executive actions.
Pelosi pointed out the obvious to delusional Republicans: It’s time to get back to work and stop playing games.
The Koch Brothers probably thought opposition to Obamacare would be an easy sell in Kalispell, but their town hall meeting backfired.
Republicans are trying to place Netanyahu in charge of U.S. foreign policy with Iran, which is the foreign policy equivalent of making Bush the president again.
During an appearance on CNN, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) destroyed Speaker of the House John Boehner and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu for conspiring to undermine President Obama foreign policy.
Ranking Senate Budget Committee member Sen. Bernie Sanders has released new report that details how Republicans are manufacturing a phony crisis in order to cut Social Security benefits for millions of disabled Americans.
Pres Obama pledged, “No matter how long it takes, the United States will find and bring to justice the terrorists who are responsible for Kayla’s captivity and death.”
During Monday night’s broadcast of The Daily Show, host Jon Stewart addressed the recent revelation that NBC News anchor Brian Williams had made false claims about taking rocket fire during a helicopter ride in Iraq in 2003.
PFAW says, “We deserve to know why Republicans continue to stand with this hate group after years of offensive statements by their leaders”
In a speech where President Obama condemned ISIS as a “death cult”, Congressman Fleming interprets Obama’s words to be supportive of ISIS.
It is likely that throughout America’s short history, except for the traitorous Confederacy, no group of individuals has exhibited the characteristic betrayal of a traitor more than conservatives in general, and Republicans in particular.
A new Jeb Bush techie hire is busted for deleting old tweets about “ugly sluts” and more.
When the Supreme Court of the United States declined to stay a Federal Injunction allowing same sex marriages in Alabama on Monday it was a given that Clarence Thomas (joined by Justice Alito) would raise his objections in a dissenting opinion.
Sen. Bernie Sanders has joined the growing list of members of Congress who will be boycotting Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s speech before a joint session of Congress.
Poutraged over President Obama speaking the truth, GOP Rep Steve King tweeted a racist image of the President in a turban.
On Monday, the state of Alabama began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. A defiant Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice, Roy Moore, demanded that probate judges refuse to grant the licenses, but was unsuccessful.
This week it is expected that President Obama will quietly veto the bill that would authorize the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.
Republicans hope to paint Democrats as “anti-American” “Nazis” if they don’t attend Netanyahu’s speech, but President Obama has done more for Israel’s security than any other president.
During Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, co-hosts Mike Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough openly complained about their inability to book likely 2016 Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to appear on the show.
Have we really reached the point where asking the wealthy to pay their fair share of taxes is a form of vilification?
In yet another senseless gun episode, a highly respected, accomplished and beloved professor, Raja Fayad, was shot to death on campus on the afternoon of Thursday, February 5, 2015.
Currently, Maryland and 30 other states afford rapists full parental rights under the law.
Obviously Boehner is frustrated that he has been outplayed and out-maneuvered at every turn by the President, and lacking the wherewithal to take on the President himself, he marshaled support and conspired with a foreigner, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, to “defy and humiliate President Obama.”
While the first actual votes of the next presidential campaign may be a year away, Democrats already are drawing such comparisons between the former Florida governor and the GOP’s 2012 White House nominee — and they don’t consider them flattering.
Approval of President Obama’s handling of unemployment has jumped since December to 51%, as nearly half of those surveyed in the AP/GfK poll now feel that the economy is in good shape.
Americans’ views of President Barack Obama have improved slightly in the past two months, and opinions are more positive about the direction of the country and the health of the economy, an Associated Press-GfK poll finds.
During an appearance on ABC’s This Week, Koch 2016 presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) twisted, turned and ignored reality while trying to blame President Obama and Hillary Clinton for income inequality.
Rand Paul says he wants Congress to read bills before they vote, relying on them to tell us truthfully if they actually read them.
Speaking in Iowa on Friday, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul (R) offered unexpected praise for outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder.
The point is that all Christians should advocate and revere the truth with religious fervor; unless it is uttered by President Barack Obama at which point they “can’t handle the truth.”
Next month, the Supreme Court of the United States will consider King v. Burwell, in which millions of people will be affected.
On Friday, the Republican controlled Wyoming Senate voted 19-11 to reject Medicaid expansion.
She hasn’t even announced yet, and Hillary Clinton’s campaign is looking like an incumbent’s reelection campaign.
The list of congressional Democrats who intend to boycott Netanyahu’s speech to Congress because of the way President Obama was treated is growing by the day.
Bill Maher took Republicans to the woodshed for finally admitting that Sarah Palin is a crazy person and proposed three other issues that Republicans ought to rethink and admit that they are wrong on.
Republicans are outraged that Christian murdering and enslaving for God should be compared to ISIL murdering and enslaving for God
This past week on Fox, we saw fake apologies, complete flip-flops on how the network views terrorist propaganda, anger over movie heroines and quasi-racist country songs.
President Obama swatted down the meager Republican criticisms of the growing economy by pointing out the big economic achievements of his administration since he took office.
Bobby Jindal’s Louisiana is facing a 1.6 billion dollar budget shortfall next year, and comparable deficits for the years to come.
PunditFact tallied up all of the statements that they evaluated from the three cable news networks and found that 60% of all the statements they examined from Fox News were mostly false or worse.
Instead of celebrating B-movie actor Ronald Reagan’s birthday today, Americans should reflect, deeply regret, and grieve that they and their parents foolishly gave bad actor the power to set in motion America’s thirty-year march toward theocracy and corporate fascism. A march today’s conservative religion is closer to enacting than ever before.
A top official is publicly claiming that John Boehner misled the Israeli government into believing that President Obama had been notified and was on board with Prime Minister Netanyahu’s address to Congress.
West Virginia Delegate Brian Kurcaba says rape is awful, but remarks that it can create a beautiful child.
On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released January’s jobs report and, as has been the case for some time now, the news was good. The economy added 257,000 jobs during the month.
John Boehner continues to pretend he cares about jobs while pushing his Keystone XL get rich quick scheme on the American people
Jeb Bush is marketing himself as a different kind of conservative, but his ideas support the same GOP policies that have failed before.
Three prominent House Democrats are vowing to skip Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress next month, saying they disapprove of House Speaker John Boehner’s decision to invite the Israeli leader without consulting President Barack Obama.
Republican Congressman Aaron Shock accepted the resignation of staffer Benjamin Cole, over racist comments Cole made on social media.
For the third straight day, Senate Democrats have refused to give in to Republican hostage-taking tactics by blocking a Republican attempt to use Homeland Security funding to overturn President Obama’s executive orders on immigration.
Republicans and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu are facing potential humiliation as congressional Democrats are in full revolt and refusing to attend the Israeli leader’s planned speech before Congress.
President Barack Obama on Thursday condemned those who seek to use religion as a rationale for carrying out violence around the world, declaring that “no god condones terror.”
A group of Senate and House Republicans have revealed the Republican Party’s replacement plan for the ACA that contains no healthcare and would take away coverage from 22.5 million Americans.
In his first proposed tax reform legislation as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, deficit hawk Paul Ryan’s tax plan benefitting big business and the wealthy will increase the deficit by $100 billion over ten years.
It is no secret that MSNBC’s Morning Joe is hemorrhaging viewers. Over the past few months, the morning program has seen its audience bail in droves. The solution — book more Republicans.
Under attack and exposed, the Kochs have gone on the offensive, with their minions singing paeans of praise for our “benevolent” overlords
Two of President Barack Obama’s highest-ranking advisers will step down from their posts in the coming weeks, White House officials said Wednesday, reshuffling the president’s close-knit team for his final two years in office.
When anti-regulatory politicians like Thom Tillis (R-NC) abandon common sense in favor of dogmatic ideology, it endangers public health.
Rand Paul’s claim that vaccinations shouldn’t be mandatory was disturbing enough, when you also consider he claims to have played a doctor in real life.
Answers in Genesis is suing the state of Kentucky, but suing for the legal right to discriminate gives them a very weak case.
For the second day in a row, Senate Democrats have blocked the advancement of a bill that would overturn President Obama’s executive actions on immigration.
Fox News has drawn criticism from a terrorism expert for giving ISIS what it wants by publishing the full video of the terrorists burning Jordanian hostage Muadh al-Kasasbeh alive.
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler made it official. He is going to propose the strongest rules ever to protect net neutrality. This is a big political victory for President Obama and his party but is even more gigantic for every American, who uses the Internet.
In the early running for single stupidest news segment of 2015, Fox & Friends brought on a conservative activist to make the case that Hollywood is emasculating the men in this country by placing too many female characters as the heroes in movies.
The scheme cooked up by Speaker of the House John Boehner and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to humiliate President Obama and pressure him on Iran is backfiring, as dozens of congressional Democrats are threatening to not attend Netanyahu’s address to Congress.
Republicans and the Koch brothers make no secret that next to taxes, there is no part of the federal government they despise more than the EPA, so it is a major slap in their faces that it was the agency they hate above all others that delivered the death knell of their 8 billion-dollar dream project.
Boehner twisted history to claim that “the American people can’t afford a repeat of the same old top-down policies of the past”
Apparently, some Republicans want to return to the good old days of communicable disease outbreaks.
Presidential hopefuls Chris Christie, Rand Paul, Ben Carson, and Hillary Clinton have taken sides on the debate over requiring vaccinations
The House has voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act 239-186, but House Republicans didn’t just vote to repeal Obamacare. By voting for repeal, they also voted to take away access to health care from 19 million Americans.
Hillary Clinton has large leads over the field of GOP contenders in three key swing states.
By a vote of 51-48 Senate Democrats have blocked progress on a bill that would have overturned President Obama’s immigration executive actions.
A new YouGov survey has found that the two titans of the Democratic Party, President Obama and former Sec. of State Hillary Clinton have been named the most admired man and woman in the United States.
Since most Americans are not like the Kochs, Republicans came up with a devious plot to garner support for taking things like good wages, employment benefits, sick leave, overtime pay, and pensions from those that have them.
At a Senate Budget Committee hearing on President Obama’s budget proposal, ranking member Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) destroyed the Republican myth of wealthy job creators who must be given tax cuts.
During the Tuesday broadcast of Morning Joe, host Joe Scarborough claimed “climate alarmists” are denying science by opposing the extension of the Keystone oil pipeline.
The GOP has concocted a religion that has nothing to do with Jesus and everything to do with what you do with your reproductive organs
Congratulations are in order to every civic leader, health professional (many of them American) and citizen who has worked to eradicate the threat of Ebola from the daily lives of people in Liberia, Sierre Leone and Guinea.
The President’s plan is a common sense approach to reinvesting in America by rebuilding its transportation infrastructure.
The White House has issued a strong statement that not only rebukes the latest Republican attempt to repeal the ACA, but also promises to veto the bill.
Promising to help America’s middle class, President Barack Obama on Monday sent Congress a record $4 trillion budget that would hammer corporate profits overseas and raise taxes on the wealthy while boosting tax credits for families and the working poor.
Republicans hope to create a social security crisis, but President Obama has declared that he has no desire to indulge them in that fantasy.
John Boehner reacted to President Obama’s budget by ignoring the issue of income inequality and making it clear that his mission is to not raise taxes on the wealthy while denying the rest of the country a tax cut.