The White House’s response to the Republican-led Senate’s lead-by-crisis on the Patriot Act was to remind everyone that the President worked with Congress to craft a reformed version of the Patriot Act a year and a half ago
As an Ayn Rand (quick Trump, her birth certificate says ‘Alisa Rosenbaum’), disciple, Paul must hold to tenets that, in many instances, simply don’t apply to modern-day America. Even he is fleeing his “government butt out” philosophy.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) wanted to extend the Patriot Act while Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) wanted to kill both the Patriot Act and USA Freedom Act. Both Republicans lost as the Senate voted 77-17 to advance the USA Freedom Act.
The Texas legislature has passed extensive right-wing legislation. Yet, Tea Party activists still argue they are not conservative enough.
Bob Schieffer interviewed Jeb Bush on his last episode moderating CBS’ Face The Nation, and the retiring host asked Bush about violating campaign finance laws and called him out when he suggested that he wasn’t sure if he was going to run for president.
We were set for a primary where the issues actually get coverage because there would be no mud. That all changed yesterday, when along came former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley.
Jeb Bush is calling to push the retirement age to 68 or 70. That will fix you entitled slackers.
Martin O’Malley entered the race for the 2016 Democratic nomination and immediately injected a negative tone by attacking Bernie Sanders on ABC’s This Week.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) confronted the Republican attempts to use a 43-year-old essay against him and destroyed their attempts to bring him down on Meet The Press.
Vice President Joe Biden’s son Joseph “Beau” Biden passed away on Saturday after losing his battle against brain cancer.
This is not an epistle of despair, but more of a secular gospel of hope, and a plan for positive change that can come about only through a revolution in thinking
With the state budget forecast to have a 400 million dollar shortfall, Kansas Republicans are finally acknowledging that the massive GOP tax cuts approved under Governor Sam Brownback have not generated the revenue Republican lawmakers promised. The right-wing Kansas Legislature is now contemplating the unthinkable — raising taxes to plug the budget hole. The legislature…
Fox News has hit a new low by announcing that they are giving Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar airtime in order to allow them to explain away how they covered up the child molestation crimes committed by their son Josh.
Ever since the civil unrest occurred in Ferguson, Missouri, sparked by the murder of Michael Brown by a police officer who got away with it, there have been anxious questioners wondering where else this type of unrest might catch fire.
St. Patrick drove the Pagan snakes out of Ireland 16 centuries ago. Today, Gordon Klingenschmitt wants to drive the gay snakes out of Ireland
But now, the Texas-size extremism is spreading to Arizona and it includes Texas-style armed biker thugs, conspiracy theorists, and anti-Muslim sentiments that set Texas apart as right-wing extremist central.
President Obama has rescued arrogant and ungrateful Texas Republicans by signing a federal disaster declaration for those areas impacted by the state’s deadly floods.
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) won another victory in the battle against privatizing mail delivery as the Postal Service has quietly backed off of a plan to close 82 mail processing plants.
On Friday, the Obama White House removed Cuba from the list of nations that sponsor terrorism.
Standard weekly operating procedure for Friday Fox Follies is to wake up at the crack of Fox and Friends First (no pun intended) to collate the notes that will make up this week’s laugh riot. As I sort and give it shape, I also sit through Fox & Friends to see what venom is being injected into the body politic today.
A PPP poll finds Hillary Clinton leading Jeb Bush 49-38 in Pennsylvania.
It is true that all Republicans are blatant hypocrites, but now that go-it-alone awesome Texas experienced a little anthropogenic climate change weather, the Lone Star State’s Republicans, both tea party and mainstream Republicans alike, are demanding some of those hated “federal government handouts” they oppose for other Americans whether it is for food, housing, healthcare, or disaster relief.
But no matter who they donate to, it’s beyond disingenuous for conservatives to pretend that their platform doesn’t push for total deregulation of Wall Street and the dismantling of all speed bumps.
It’s not just sex, but sexual abuse. Sexual abuse perpetrated on an unidentified male. This is what one of the Republicans who trolled President Bill Clinton over his own tawdry and inappropriate (but consensual) sex scandal is now accused of violating the law to cover up. And by accused, I mean indicted.
No, the “gorilla” of Wall Street is not in jail. Asked why he didn’t just ride into the sunset’, the former CEO of Lehman Brothers responded, “Why don’t you bite me?”
According to the latest polling, Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) presidential campaign has more support than the campaign of media favorites Scott Walker, Jeb Bush, Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, and every other Republican candidate.
America’s move to the left on social issues continues as a new Gallup poll has found that for the first time in seven years more Americans identify themselves as pro-choice than pro-life.
Bryan Fischer and company think they can pinpoint sodomy and witchcraft as the causes of Texas flooding, but the Bible – like science – disagrees
Former Republican U.S. House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert was indicted by a grand jury on Thursday for violating federal banking laws and for lying to the FBI. Hastert, the longest serving GOP House Speaker in U.S. history, was charged with one count of structuring currency transactions to evade Currency Transaction Reports and a single count of making a false statement…
Nebraska’s legislature voted to repeal the death penalty on a 30-19 vote on Wednesday, overriding Governor Ricketts’ veto.
Although a weapon like same-sex marriage able to jeopardize the existence of the world’s largest religion sounds terrifying, the Vatican went a step farther and claimed the recent democratic vote in Ireland legalizing same-sex marriage is not only a clear and present danger to Christianity, it was a “defeat for humanity.”
A deranged white terrorist threatened two unarmed Muslims and the media has again chosen to ignore the impact of a conservative media culture that spreads hatred and fear.
Hulu has dropped 19 Kids and Counting and announced that the show will no longer be aired on their site while TLC appears to be leaning towards cancelation.
PolitiFact busted conservatives like Glenn Beck for their “mostly false” claim that Hillary Clinton makes more money in speaking fees than the average CEO does in a year. This, they determined, “ignores critical facts.”
After Fiorina testily fielded eleven minutes of questions, a campaign aide abruptly ended the press conference on her behalf.
Clinton insiders are frightened of the challenge that Bernie Sanders could present, and the damage that he could do to her candidacy with Democratic activists.
Peter Wehner says the liberal claim that Republicans are the ones who have become more extreme over the years is a “self-flatting but false narrative.”
It is likely that Senator Sanders was sending a message to the Koch brothers that regardless they currently control government spending, he intends on appealing to the people for support to invest in America. Something Republicans oppose regardless Americans’ lives have been lost and are increasingly in danger due to America’s substandard transportation infrastructure.
While trying to justify his 2013 law that forces women to undergo a medically unnecessary and costly ultrasound before they can exercise their constitutionally-protected freedom, Walker compared ultrasounds to selfies.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), who called federal disaster relief for Hurricane Sandy victims wasteful is now hypocritically demanding that the federal government fulfill its obligation and provide disaster relief to Texas.
On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a case that could fundamentally alter the way districts are drawn in the United States.
Republicans don’t want to share the south, their only region, with a Democrat, so naturally if they hear a twang coming from anyone but their party, they get upset, but they know that the former Secretary of State lived in the southern state of Arkansas with her husband, former President Bill Clinton, for a long time.
The advertiser backlash against the Josh Duggar molestation scandal is growing into a tidal wave as 14 more companies have publicly refused to run ads on 19 Kids and Counting.
Jim Bob Duggar said incest deserved execution. That sounds great — but he said it while he was shielding his own son from any legal consequences for molesting his own sisters.
President Obama and his administration have announced bold new executive actions that have left Republicans fuming by protecting 33% of the nation’s clean drinking water supply.
Calls are growing from watchdog groups for President Obama’s Justice Department to launch a federal investigation into what appears to be illegal fundraising by Jeb Bush.
Rubio talks about being globally competitive, but does hating gays more than Putin’s Russia make us globally competitive, too?
Hobby Lobby has, for years, provided substantial financial support to Bill Gothard, the Christian fundamentalist who founded the ATI homeschool program and the Institute in Basic Life Principles (IBLP). IBLP is the Christian sexual treatment center the Quiverfull Duggars sent their son Josh to for “Christian sexual counseling.”
Arizona 1st District Congresswoman Ann Kirkpatrick plans to challenge Senator John in 2016, giving the Democrats a top tier candidate.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) officially launched his presidential campaign with a vowed goal of building a movement that will take down the Koch brothers and right-wing billionaires while returning the country back to the American people.
The reason Republicans have a problem is because they won’t denounce the Duggar family’s cover up of Josh Duggar’s sexual assaults. Former Governor Mike Huckabee has gone full-on defense of the child sexual predator and his family while other Republicans who used the Duggar family as right-wing Christian cred in photo-ops are now silent.
The 19 Kids and Counting advertiser boycott is growing as two more companies have announced that they will not buy ads on future airings of 19 Kids and Counting.
The former CIA #2 slammed pundits who repeatedly trot out Benghazi baloney, because they do not understand how to read intelligence reports.
Paranoid Fox News and talk radio fed fear of the nation’s first black president has reached a fever pitch as some Texas Republicans are completely out of control.
Hillary Rodham Clinton launched her campaign store on Tuesday, where you can purchase things like the American-made and union printed $30 “Everyday Pantsuit Tee”.
Bernie Sanders did something that no other politician does. The Democratic presidential candidate went on CNBC and criticized the sick greed of Wall Street.
Republicans like to blame Obama, but Bush had already created ISIL, and Obama cannot un-create them, because Obama cannot un-invade Iraq
Just over six months after winning back the Senate, Mitch McConnell’s GOP majority is proving to be more dysfunctional than ever.
In a Memorial Day speech that saw him receive several standing ovations, President Obama thanked the troops who came home and those who didn’t and marked the first Memorial Day in 14 years in which the United States was not fighting a ground war in Afghanistan.
Judge Stacey Zimmerman ordered police to expunge Josh Duggar’s 2006 Offense Report on Thursday.
The privatization scam amounts to a yearly-issued, and set amount, coupon to purchase healthcare services at a private hospital or doctor’s office, or use as a discount card to purchase a private insurance policy.
We have but one life to give, and we ought to act like that life means something, even when – especially when – it is not our own.
How this punk stayed out of juvenile detention up to age 21 (and perhaps well beyond as an adult) is a mystery. A young black kid, accused of the same aberrant behaviors, wouldn’t see the sun for two decades at the very least.
The conservative author of a paper that concluded that Fox News is promoting a culture of self-brainwashing in the Republican Party, Bruce Bartlett, was featured on the only Sunday show that would discuss the damage that Fox News is doing to the Republican Party.
Sen. John McCain celebrated Memorial Day weekend by going on CBS’ Face The Nation and calling for Americans to be sent to die in a new war in the Middle East.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) called out the media for their biased coverage of presidential campaigns, and refusal to inform the American people during an interview on CNN’s Reliable Sources.
Fox News has decided that Mike Huckabee should not be the Republican nominee, so Chris Wallace went on the attack against Huckabee’s flat tax plan on Fox News Sunday.
It is curious that so many Americans were surprised over the revelations that a religious conservative idol is guilty of molesting his sisters, or that Republicans embraced the FRC’s icon they must have at least suspected was a fraud. In fact, the close relationship between Republicans, the FRC, and Josh Duggar was a match made in heaven.
Nearly seven years after the American economy foundered under the worst global recession since World War II, it seems nothing much has changed with regard to the behavior of those that brought us collectively to the brink.
In their first 138 days in control of Congress, Mitch McConnell and John Boehner have passed zero jobs bill. Instead, Republicans passed budgets that would give big tax breaks to millionaires and billionaires.
In California, the greatest natural resource, water, is in extremely short supply and the oil industry, the Nestle Corporation, and corporate agriculture is rapidly draining what is left of California water for pure profit.
Fact checkers have dropped a bomb on Republicans by telling them that they do not have proof that Hillary Clinton had secret email addresses.
It is being reported that TLC is considering dumping molester Josh Duggar, but keeping 19 Kids and Counting on the air. If TLC does bring the show back, advertisers must be boycotted.
In a verdict that defied common sense, Cleveland police officer Michael Brelo was acquitted on two counts on manslaughter despite climbing on the hood of a car and firing 49 rounds through the windshield at two African-American occupants.
Ireland joins the nearly 20 nations that have legalized gay marriage. Will the Supreme Court help the United States be the next?
A Trade Promotion Authority bill passed the U.S. Senate 62-37 Friday night, with 48 Republicans and 14 Democrats voting for the measure.
Barber relies on discredited studies by discredited authors to attack gays but says a discredited study proves the gay agenda is counterfeit
The news that Fox’s Greg Gutfeld To Host His Own Comedy Show has caused crisis of confidence. Heretofore Friday Fox Follies treated all of Fox “News” as a meta-comedy/reality show — a cross between The Colbert Report and the short-lived The Joe Schmo Show. Maybe only Greg Gutfeld is in on the joke.
In a sign of the Senate’s misplaced priorities, the Senate may extend a number of illegal Patriot Act spying programs because they are anxious to get home for the Memorial Day holiday.
Whacko Wayne and his Texas open-carry..
A PPP poll released on May 21st, finds Hillary Clinton with a commanding lead over all potential GOP opponents in Washington State.
Hypocrite Mike Huckabee criticized President and First Lady Obama’s parenting because they allow their daughters to listen to Beyonce, but he is supporting Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, the parents who covered up their son’s acts of sexual abuse.
TLC still has not issued a comment on Josh Duggar’s molestation confession, but advertiser General Mills has blacklisted 19 Kids and Counting and pulled their ads from future airings of the show.
At a craft brewery in Hampton, New Hampshire, Hillary Clinton called out her Republican presidential opponents for sacrificing American jobs to appease the billionaire Koch Brothers and talk radio Tea Party extremists.
Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee shared his support for the Duggar family Friday morning on Facebook saying that Josh Duggar molesting his sisters was not unforgivable and blames the “blood-thirsty media” who are “sensationalizing” the story .
The Josh Duggar molestation scandal has the potential of causing a major heading for another Republican contender as Duggar was photographed with Jeb Bush.
Having a discussion will not change the disastrous consequences of Bush and company’s crimes, bring back the three-quarters of a million dead Iraqi civilians or thousands of American soldiers, it may inform Americans of the intent of Republicans defending the invasion and occupation.
For the first time since polling began in 1999, Gallup found that there are more social liberals in the United States than social conservatives.
But there really was an offensive video, and it did actually offend Muslims, and it did actually play a role in the attack that left four Americans dead
Josh Duggar’s admission that he molested girls has the potential to damage Republican presidential candidates as Duggar has posed for pictures with Scott Walker, Ted Cruz, and Rand Paul.
Viewer outrage is mounting on social media as the pressure is growing on TLC to cancel 19 Kids and Counting after Josh Duggar admitted to molesting girls.
After Josh Duggar and family have tried to cover up the fact that he molested five underage girls, it is time for outraged Americans to demand that 19 Kids And Counting be canceled immediately by TLC.
Senate Republicans served their corporate masters today by blocking a bill from Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) that would have required that the details of trade deals be made public.
Republicans are trying to stop Hillary Clinton from being elected as the next president by launching a “late impeachment” effort against the former Sec. of State.
Chris Christie’s very public mental collapse continued today with a demand that the media apologize to him for reporting the facts on Bridgegate.
