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5 Reasons To Be Glad That You Didn’t Watch The CNN Republican Presidential Debate
Donald Trump has no idea how the Internet works, and four other reasons to be glad that you didn’t watch the CNN Republican debate.
Yearly Archives: 2015
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Here Are The Winners And Losers From The CNN Republican Presidential Debate
There were a few winners and a whole lot of losers at the CNN Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas.
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Donald Trump Humiliates Himself By Not Knowing How The Internet Works During CNN Debate
Wolf Blitzer asked Trump about his plan to close down the Internet to stop ISIS and Trump’s answer suggested that he doesn’t know how the Internet works.
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Republicans Shoot Themselves in the Foot Again with Another Rigged Debate
Tuesday’s Republican debate was another rigged debate, in which Republicans incessant whining about actual questions from journalists drove CNN to game the ref with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt.
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CNN Puts On A Horrible Republican Debate As 4 Lousy Candidates Pine For War And Bush
CNN put on the worst Republican debate of the year by allowing four hopeless Republican candidates to beat the drums of war while offering a return to the bad old days of George W. Bush.
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Jon Stewart Scores A Big Win For 9/11 Responders As Congress Will Reauthorize Health Fund
Jon Stewart’s lobbying has paid off as Congress will extend the 9/11 responders health care fund for five more years as part of the omnibus spending bill.
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Obama Demolishes Republican Bigotry And Fear With Soaring Speech Welcoming New Citizens
Obama spoke before a group of 31 naturalization candidates from 25 different countries at the National Archives and demolished the fear and bigotry that Republicans are campaigning on.
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Republican Latest Top Four Poll Presidential Favorites: Ho Hum!
Trump, Cruz, Carson and Rubio are the latest poll summit occupiers representing a weak slate of the best the Republicans can do
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Donald Trump’s Anti-Muslim Rhetoric Caused 19 Acts of Domestic Terrorism Last Week
The GOP is inciting domestic terrorism toward Muslims, anyone that might appear to be Middle Eastern, or anyplace a Muslim might worship
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The GOP’s Reaction to Climate Change and Islam Has Created a Vortex of Stupidity
That Republicans focus on the idea of an “Islamic problem” shows us how catastrophically insufficient is their understand of the world
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Editorial Cartoon: Sandy Hook
…and Congress has still done nothing.
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Obama Rips Congress For Blocking Gun Bill On The 3rd Anniversary Of Sandy Hook Massacre
President Obama posted remarks on the third anniversary of the Sandy Hook Massacre that called out Congress for blocking gun legislation while thousands of Americans have died from mass shooting violence.
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Media Blackout Bombs As Bernie Sanders Has More Support Than Every GOP Candidate In Iowa
The media has been blacking out the message of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, but the numbers don’t lie. Sanders has more support in Iowa than every single Republican presidential candidate.
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Republicans Are Trying To Stop Trump By Warning That He Is Ruining Christmas For America
Republicans are quickly running out of excuses to stop Donald Trump, but their latest attempt is a very Grinchy warning that Trump will ruin Christmas for all Americans.
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Congressional Republicans Empower Evangelicals To Sue Governments For Enforcing Law
The reality is that the purpose is to punish the federal government for not adhering to Catholic and evangelicals’ religious edicts
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Bernie Sanders Begins a Critical Swing Through New Hampshire Today
Bernie Sanders begins a two day visit to New Hampshire today, a state conventional wisdom says he must win to beat Hillary Clinton
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This Is Why Donald Trump Sounds and Acts Like Adolf Hitler
According to a recent profile of Hitler in the scholarly journal, Psychiatric Quarterly, all of Trump’s tactics are modeled in Hitler speech book the Donald kept close by his bed.
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Bernie Sanders Preaches The Gospel Truth About Income Inequality From The Pulpit In Iowa
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders visited the Mount Carmel Baptist Church in Waterloo, Iowa on Sunday morning and delivered the truth about income inequality to a receptive congregation.
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Democrats Get Exactly What They Want As Ted Cruz Rockets Up The Republican Polls
The Republican presidential primary is the gift that keeps on giving to Democrats. First, Donald Trump dominated the Republican field. Now, Ted Cruz is leading the Republicans in Iowa.
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A Republican Coup – Not Against Obama, But its Own Voters
The Republican establishment is facing a revolt of its base and the only solution seems to be a top-down coup against the beast it created
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Debunking the GOP’s Obamacare Tax Meme Again
An old Republican lie about Obamacare and taxes is making the rounds again, so as a public service, here is a handy antidote
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Republicans Can Learn What Religious Freedom Means from Muslims
Islamic nations are adamant in protecting the rights of all religions within their borders as an important adherence to their Islamic faith
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Republican Rhetoric of 2015 is Centuries out of Date – Like their Thinking
The GOP talks about “taking our country back” and “making America great again” but they propose to do this by going back in time, not forward
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Friday Fox Follies – Hating Obama, Muslims, and Truth
This is the week we finally learned what lines cannot be crossed at Fox “News” when trashing President Obama. Who knew?
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Bernie Sanders Calls Out The Biased Corporate Network News For Blacking Out His Message
After it had been revealed that Bernie Sanders has gotten 1/30th of the coverage that Donald Trump has received on the network news, the Sanders campaign issued a statement calling on the corporate news to give Sanders the same coverage as other candidates.
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ABC, CBS, And NBC News Made An Intentional Decision To Ignore Bernie Sanders
An analysis of network television news coverage reveals what supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders have long suspected, the three broadcast television networks are intentionally ignoring the Sanders campaign.
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Americans Reject Republican Racism As 58% Oppose Banning Muslims
A new CBS Poll shows Americans overwhelmingly rejecting the Trump plan to ban Muslims because they believe that it runs contrary to the founding principles of the country.
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Republicans Give the Kochs and Big Oil Billions Annually To Export Domestic Oil
Republicans are inserting a rider in the omnibus spending bill eliminating the ban on oil exports developed to protect American consumers
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Radicalized Muslims? It’s Time to Speak of the Radicalization of Christians
The war on terror is not a simple matter of “us” versus “them” (radicalized Muslims) when so many of “us” are radicalized Christians
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Black Lawmakers Suggest Action To Remove Antonin Scalia From The Supreme Court
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s racist comments during recent oral arguments have caused some African-American lawmaker to call for a review of his comments and his possible removal from the bench.
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Democratic Dreams Come True As Republicans Discuss Rigging Their Own Convention To Stop Trump
In a dream come true for Democrats, Republicans are geared up for a fight on the convention floor and dreaming up strategies to deny Donald Trump their nomination if he wins the primaries.
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A Disgusted President Obama Will Act Alone And Take Executive Action On Guns
With Republicans in Congress defying the wishes of a majority of the American people, President Obama is finalizing his plan to take executive action on gun violence.
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Obama Signs Bill Overthrowing George W. Bush’s Disastrous No Child Left Behind
President Obama has signed bipartisan legislation that has gotten rid of another pillar of the failed legacy of George W. Bush. No Child Left Behind is gone.
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Trump’s Extremist Bigotry Against Muslims Is Now The Republican Moderate Position
Maybe now it is time for sane Americans to stop laughing or shaking their heads in disgust at Trump and follow President Obama and other Democrats in addressing Trump’s open hostility against any non-white and non-Christian for exactly what it is; patently un-American, hate-filled bigotry and genuinely inhumane.
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English Petition to Ban Trump Now Stands at 370,000 and Counting
The carefully crafted and nurtured Trump brand has been re-branded as something nobody wants overnight by Trump’s radicalization
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Obama Annihilates Trump’s Proposed Muslim Ban With Pure Powerful Presidential Eloquence
President Obama’s rebuttal to Donald Trump’s proposed Muslim ban was a speech of pure greatness that demonstrated the difference between a cowardly demagogue and the true leader of the free world.
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Republicans Show Their Racism As 65% Support Trump’s Plan To Ban All Muslims
A new Bloomberg Politics/Purple Strategies Poll found that nearly two-thirds of Republican primary voters support Donald Trump’s plan to ban all Muslims.
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England Not Alone as Some in Israel Want Trump Banned from Upcoming Visit
Donald Trump plans to visit Israel at the end of the year, but some in Israel are not happy at the prospect of Trump’s presence
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Nearly 200,000 People Sign Petition To Ban Donald Trump From The UK
Nearly 200,000 people have signed a petition that will force Parliment to debate whether Donald Trump should ba banned from the UK due to his hate speech.
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ExxonMobil Defies Kochs – Warns Governments Must Intervene To Prevent Climate Catastrophe
ExxonMobil is the second leading oil corporation to publicly admit that climate change is real, following Shell Oil’s admission in March
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House Legislates Muslim Profiling with Visa Waiver Improvement and Terrorist Travel Prevention Act
The House voted to legalize the profiling of Muslims as part of HR 158 – a revision of the Visa Waiver Program used by 20 million tourists
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Bernie Sanders Tells Rachel Maddow Exactly How To Defeat Donald Trump
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has Donald Trump’s number, and during an interview on MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show, Sanders explained exactly how to defeat Trump.
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ISIS and Another Silly Donald Trump Non-Solution
Trump is ahead in the Republican presidential race because he spares supporters from having to learn about the subject matter at hand
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Muslim Congressman Blames Donald Trump For Death Threats Against Him
One of two Muslim members of Congress, Rep. Andre Carson (D-IN) is blaming Donald Trump’s rhetoric for death threats that he is receiving at his Washington office.
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Obama White House Obliterates Trump And The GOP As Unfit For The Presidency
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest not only destroyed Donald Trump, he also made the broader argument that both Trump and the Republican Party are unfit to govern.
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Paul Ryan Is Flopping As Speaker As Republicans Fall Apart Ahead Of Shutdown Deadline
With only days to go before the government runs out of money and shuts down, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) is flopping as Speaker as dysfunctional House Republicans are once again being consumed by infighting.
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Fox News Doesn’t See Anti-Muslim Backlash – Just Like it Doesn’t See Racism
Fox News amazingly ignores reality by both criticizing Islam and claiming there is no anti-Muslim backlash in the very same breath
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Freaked Out Republican Calls On Trump To Drop Out Of The Race On The House Floor
Donald Trump has freaked out the Republican Party so much with his ban on Muslims that a Republican took to the House floor to tell Trump to drop out of the presidential race.
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War Criminal Cheney Honored At The Capital While The World Battles His Co-Creation ISIS
Few Americans would object to a bust honoring Dick Cheney if it noted his part in creating a more radical form of Islamic terrorism
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Here’s How the RNC Lies When it Says Democrats Can’t Be Trusted to Keep us Safe
The RNC would have you believe only Republicans can keep you safe, but the facts dating back to 2001 show the opposite to be true
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Fox News Suspends Contributor Who Cursed At President Obama For 2 Weeks
Fox News has suspended contributor Ralph Peters for two weeks after Peters cursed at the Commander In Chief on live television.
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Bernie Sanders Exposes The Weakness and Cowardice Behind Trump’s Plan To Ban All Muslims
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) reacted to Donald Trump’s call to ban all Muslims from entering the United States by stressing that Trump’s plan is based on weakness and fear.
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Democrats Roll As Hillary Clinton And Bernie Sanders Dominate As Most Retweeted Candidates
Hillary Clinton came in number one of the top five most retweeted candidate tweets of the year, with Bernie Sanders second.
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Demand That Fox Apologize To President Obama After Cursing At Commander In Chief On Live TV
In the ultimate act of unpatriotic disrespect for President Obama, Fox Business allowed contributor Ralph Peters to curse and repeatedly slur the nation’s Commander In Chief.
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The Republican Plan to Defeat the Islamic State is More Empty Bluster
The Republicans are whining a lot about the president’s address Sunday night, but they’re not offering useful ideas, just whine and bluster
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Time to Stop Blaming the NRA for Gun Violence and Focus on Cowardly Republicans Instead
Although the NRA hands out millions to Republican congressmen, neither the NRA nor its insane leader, Wayne La Pierre, get to cast a vote
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Paul Ryan’s Response: Less American Values and More Assault Weapons to Terrorists
Responding to Obama Sunday, Ryan said nothing about gun sales to terrorists or the dangers of radicalizing Muslims with more Republican hate
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Obama Rips Republican Candidates For Betraying Our Values During National Address
During his address from the Oval Office, President Obama ripped the proposals for discrimination against Muslim-Americans that are being offered by Republican presidential candidates like Donald Trump and Ted Cruz.
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Paul Krugman Get It Mostly Right About Why Republicans Doom Earth’s Population
According to Nobel-winning economist Paul Krugman, Republicans will go to any length to stop American involvement in a climate deal and will hasten the world population’s demise in the process; left alone the planet will fix itself in a few centuries. Krugman’s assessment is incomplete; there is more motivation behind Republican opposition to saving the Earth’s population than simply rejecting science.
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Donald Trump Melts Down And Vows To Be More Racist Than Obama If He’s Elected President
Donald Trump blamed Obama for Islamic terrorism during an interview on CBS’s Face The Nation where he vowed to solve terrorism by being more racist.
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Bernie Sanders Devastates Republicans With Common Sense On Guns
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) devastated the Republican argument against keeping the weapons of the hands of criminals with common sense on CBS’s Face The Nation.
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Hillary Clinton Sends Ted Cruz Back To The Kiddie Table By Calling Out His Idiocy
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton took Ted Cruz to school on ABC’s This Week, and in the process exposed the Republican’s tough talk as empty, brainless, idiocy.
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Apparently if You Don’t Call Them by Name, You Can Make Assault Weapons Go Away
A conservative radio host got Fox News’ Chris Wallace to agree to be misleading and vague by not using a term the gun industry first applied
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President Obama Shows Republicans How It’s Done Via True Leadership In Dark Moments
President Obama leads the nation even in its darkest moments, and the San Bernardino slayings are no exception.
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Conservative Brain Abnormalities Inform That Gun Madness Is Here To Stay
To gun zealots, every mass shooting provides another undeniable and convincing argument that what America needs most is more guns, not less
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Bernie Sanders Hits The Kochs Where It Hurts With People Before Polluters Plan
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is proposing a new plan that would deliver a devastating blow to the Koch brothers and the Republicans they own.
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A Fed Up Obama Calls Republicans Insane For Supporting Selling Guns To Terrorists
President Obama isn’t pulling any punches. The President showed how fed up he is by calling the Republican opposition to making it more difficult for terrorists and criminals to buy high-powered weapons insane.
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Glenn Beck Claims Only Ted Cruz Has the Gravitas to be President
Glenn Beck thinks the endlessly whiny Ted Cruz has enough “seriousness of manner” to be President when he has no discernible virtues at all
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Friday Fox Follies – Guns, Gutfeld, and Geraldo
Compare and contrast how two mass murders, less than a week apart, were treated by the Fox “News” Channel.
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Strategic Analyst Claims Trump’s Popularity is Founded on His Authenticity
In a deeply flawed analysis, George Friedman claims that Trump’s popularity stems less from ideology and more from an imagined authenticity
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Democrats Hammer Republicans For Allowing 2,000 Terror Suspects To Legally Buy Guns
As House Republicans continue to protect terrorists’ legal ability to purchase deadly weapons, the facts are staggering: according to the GAO, over the last 11 years, more than 2,000 suspects on the FBI’s Terrorist Watchlist bought weapons in the United States.
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Republicans Wrong Again As Majority See Attack on Planned Parenthood as Terrorism
Republicans are on the wrong side again, as 52% see the attack on Planned Parenthood as terrorism and half of Americans think that anti-abortion groups encourage violence.
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Obama White House Rips Republicans For Voting To Legally Sell Guns To Terrorists
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest ripped Senate Republicans for blocking legislation that would make it illegal for terror suspects to buy guns.
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Mainstream Media Embarrasses America By Destroying San Bernardino Shooting Crime Scene
The corporate media hit a new and disgusting low today by destroying a crime scene in the San Bernardino shooting all in the hopes of capturing one sensational scoop.
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New Poll Reveals One Hillary Clinton Vulnerability For Bernie Sanders To Pounce On
A new Gallup poll revealed that Hillary Clinton’s favorability with Democratic voters has grown by an additional eight point in the last month, but Clinton has one vulnerability that Sanders could exploit as a path to victory.
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CEO Responsible For 29 W.V. Miners’ Deaths Convicted And May Face One Year In Jail
Instead of spending up to 31 years in a federal penitentiary, Don Blankenship will serve 1 year for his part in the death of 29 coal miners
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Sarah Palin Claims Obama’s Response to Threat of ISIL is Too ‘Namby-Pamby’
Palin said Hillary Clinton is naive in thinking we’re not at war with Islam and claimed Obama is being too namby-pamby in dealing with ISIL
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Republicans Celebrate Christmas By Voting To Take Healthcare Away From 17 Million Americans
Senate Republicans got into the spirit of the season by voting 52-47 to take healthcare away from 17 million Americans.
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Editorial Cartoon: Assault on America
Editorial cartoon: assault on America
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Senate Republicans Vote To Allow Terrorists To Legally Buy Guns In The US
Senate Republicans voted today to block a measure that would have prevented individuals on the terror watch list from legally buying guns in the United States.
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Obamacare Repeal Backfires As Democrats Move To Replace ACA Repeal With Gun Laws
Senate Democrats are saying enough is enough by forcing Republicans to vote on a series of amendments that would replace Obamacare repeal with common sense gun laws.
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Rachel Maddow Grows Faster Than Fox News As Replay Ratings Jump 70%
Rachel Maddow is experiencing some huge growth in viewership as the ratings for the midnight (ET) replay of her nightly MSNBC show are up 70% with younger viewers.
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Obama Speaks The Blunt Truth: It Is Too Easy For People To Carry Out Mass Shootings
While speaking at the White House today, President Obama delivered a blunt truth that many Republicans don’t want to hear. The President that it is too easy for people to carry out mass shootings and we need to make it harder for would-be killers to get guns.
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Evangelicals Are The Source of Violence Against Planned Parenthood And Women’s Clinics
Carly Fiorina, said that the Colorado shooter’s motive for killing other Americans was a valid one and she duly lashed out at the left
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CNN’s Sally Kohn Calls Trump a Fascist, Invokes Hitler
The media has increasingly called out Trump rhetoric, with the Times calling him a demagogue and Sally Kohn invoking Hitler and fascism
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Book Review: The Future of Whiteness
I don’t like to overuse the term “must read” but Linda Martin Alcoff’s The Future of Whiteness (2015, Polity) is a must-read. We live in the era of white reaction to non-whites getting equal rights, and changing demographics – by 2050 white Europeans will no longer be a majority – have created a frenzy of…
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Senate Democrats To Hold Republicans Accountable By Forcing Vote On Gun Amendment
Harry Reid and Senate Democrats have announced that they plan to hold Republicans accountable by forcing a vote on an amendment that would keep guns out of the hands of people convicted of violating laws protecting the entrances of healthcare clinics.
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Another Shooting Death at Another Women’s Center: This One is In Texas
In the midst of the San Bernardino mass shooting reports came the report of a shooting death outside of a women’s clinic in Houston, Texas.
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President Obama Calls For Changes In The Law After San Bernardino Mass Shooting
President Obama reacted to the mass shooting in Obama San Bernardino, CA by calling on the nation to come together to change the law at every level of government and take steps to make the American people safer.
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Republican Presidential Candidates Offer Nothing But Prayer for Victims and Their Families
In the wake of yet another mass shooting, this time at a San Bernardino facility that works with developmentally disabled people, Republican presidential candidates offered nothing but platitudes of prayer for victims and their families:
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Suspects On Run After 14 Dead and 14 Wounded In San Bernardino, CA Mass Shooting
Multiple suspects are the run after killing 14 people and wounding 14 others at a center that serves those with developmental disabilities in San Bernadino, CA.
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House Democrats Hand Paul Ryan His First Defeat By Rejecting Republican Spending Proposal
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) needs Democratic votes to pass the Republican spending bill, but his first proposal was rejected by Democrats because it contained over 30 poison pill policy riders.
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Bernie Sanders Gets Electable By Beating Every Top Republican Candidate In New Poll
A new Quinnipiac University poll found that Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders beats every top Republican candidate in hypothetical general election matchups.
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Obama Drops The Veto Hammer On Senate Republican Obamacare Repeal Bill
President Obama killed the Senate Republican bill to repeal the ACA in its tracks by promising to veto the legislation when it hits his desk.
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Pope Francis Teaches Cowardly Republicans How To Dialogue With Muslims
The Pope, in contrast to cowardly Republicans, chose to make a visit to a mosque in Bangui, the capital of Central African Republic
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The World Can’t Afford Donald Trump: Narcissist-in-Chief
The world has many conflict hotspots, but a narcissist like Donald Trump would make them about himself, rather than what’s good for America
Senate Liberals Roar With Bill To Give Seniors, The Disabled, And Veterans A Raise
Al Franken and Senate liberals are holding Republican feet to the fire with a bill that would give seniors, veterans, and the disabled a raise by eliminating a tax deduction for CEO pay.
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Bernie Sanders Storms The Senate Floor And Drops A Megaton Reality Bomb On Republicans
Sen. Bernie Sanders took to the Senate floor and shattered Mitch McConnell’s Obamacare repeal delusion by dropping a fact bomb on the GOP.
