The NRA’s Response to Sandy Hook Massacre is to Sell More Guns
NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre’s presser today sounded more like a marketing strategy for the manufacturers on the board of the NRA than a sane policy position.
NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre’s presser today sounded more like a marketing strategy for the manufacturers on the board of the NRA than a sane policy position.
Progressivism, like conservatism, is about regulating our lives. But I’m a liberal; I’m all about liberty, so leave my choices alone
The numbers don’t lie: they didn’t lie on Election Night, and they do not lie in the longer run when they prove that America is becoming more, not less progressive.
Conservatives are dreaming of a ‘white’ Christmas, and that is all Christmas really is to them: a means to an end that has no role for Jesus
Bryan Fischer introduces Barack the Destroyer, the man who wants to destroy America and make Americans suffer because of their racism
Gary Bray, Republican Party chairman in Washington County, Oregon, called liberalism an ‘atheistic cult’ which seeks ‘utopian enslavement’
Glenn Beck takes the new Egyptian Constitution as an opportunity to push his UN conspiracy and to predict a US dictator within 5 years
The Republican Party’s doldrums are likely to continue until they acknowledge reality, but there are no signs of that happening soon
School privatization is the new Gold Rush. There is money to be made in them there hills. And charter schools are the the Republican hammer to be used to prise it out of our hands.
It is that season again – and no, I am not talking about Christmas. I am talking about the War on Christmas, which is a far more important season to religious conservatives.
Even in troubled times, there are a great many things to be grateful for. Here are a few of mine.
President Obama used his weekly address to remind us that Thanksgiving is a time to put aside our differences after a hard fought campaign.
Another one of the 24 percent tells the 76 percent to get out because America is THEIR country: white and Evangelical
Israel could not have attacked Gaza without the tacit consent of the American government, which persists in seeing Israel as the victim
Conservatives insist that economic prosperity is impossible without their God but America wil prosper just as well with 20 gods or no gods
The Religious Right says some laughable things, but there is nothing laughable about their money, power – or influence on American politics
This image gives you the dramatic story of ReBiblican wins in 2012 Congressional races.
Longtime foe of multiculturalism, William J. Bennett, says Republicans lost culture war and accuses Democrats of playing identity politics
The braniacs at World Net Daily and the American Family Association have convinced themselves we voted for Obama because George Clooney did
The Religious Right took a black eye in 2012 but they are far from powerless and will be back to attack the Constitution in 2016
Paul Ryan says Obama’s path compromises some non-existent values; the real problem is that Obama stands between Ryan and the Constitution
Reality is the ultimate enemy of Republican ideology, so Tom Tancredo picks up his vorpal blade and shows himself asylum-ready
Mitt Romney took to CNN’s opinion page to lie about his vision for America but his real vision is somewhat different
Not only has God decided Mormonism is not a cult, but that former heretic Mitt Romney is his last true hope: vote Mitt or burn in hell!
Science explains superstorms like Hurricane Sandy, but conservatives prefer to see human immorality and a wrathful god
Miley Cyrus already embraced going forward and now her father follows in her wake, coming out for Obama on Piers Morgan Friday
Mitt Romney stepped into a hornet’s nest last night full of horses and bayonets and the Republican effort to extricate him is frantic
Kerry lists 6 questions Romney must answer tonight. He commented, ‘Romney, who once even said ‘a president is not a foreign policy expert,’ appears unprepared to be either.’
Conservatives are beside themselves at the idea of foreigners monitoring their voter suppression activities on Election Day
Bryan Fischer appeared on CNN this week to share his hateful and dishonest spew but ran into a host who was having none of it
Ask yourself why the laws of mathematics work differently for Mitt Romney than for the rest of the universe before casting your vote in 2012
Fundies claim failure to teach Christianity in public schools is mental molestation – say it ought to be punished like physical molestation
Mitt Romney refuses to meet with the folks from Bainport to discuss his company shipping their jobs to China, yet he says he didn’t mean what he said about the 47%.
Paul Ryan’s gulping was so evident that Obama for America released a new web video that that pokes fun at Congressman Ryan’s endless thirst.
The GOP has surrendered its platform to the most extremist elements within the Religious Right and offers a candidate who has done the same
Mitt Romney is campaigning as not-Obama and in this case at least, he is being entirely honest: he is not Obama
Republicans have taken their Obama hate out on America by taking pleasure and perpetuating their misfortune at being unemployed, or condemning their good fortune of finding jobs as a BLS fabrication.
You would think that in 2012 we’d be in a position to say goodbye to patriarchy but instead it has become the focus of the Republican Party
David Niose’s timely book is not another look at the Religious Right; this call to arms is written for Secular Americans about secularism
Mitt Romney has never been very specific about what he would do as president to “fix” things. He just says he’d fix this and he’d fix that. The “how” is vague. Instead of specifics, we get emotion: God. Apparently, Romney will fix America’s problems by not taking “God out of the public square.” That’s what…
In a desperate attempt to blame President Obama for the violence in the Middle East, Sarah Palin claimed that the Innocence of Muslims is a phantom video.
Romney’s smirk revealed his belief that the pursuit of political expediency was worth appealing to a sick segment of society clamoring to hear him demean an African American President.
I blame the First Amendment. Don’t get me wrong: I’m not making excuses for bad behavior by Islamic fundamentalists or any other fundamentalists. And the First Amendment is great. It’s my favorite amendment. It’s why I can do what I do here. It’s why I can read what I read and believe what I believe…
Republicans love the socialism in National Socialism but as Hitler explained to his fellow Nazis, socialists were just “salon Bolsheviks”
President Obama marks the 11th anniversary of 9/11 by remembering the innocent lives lost, and honoring the first responders and men and women in uniform who have served and sacrificed to keep our country safe.
John Kerry exposed the Romney-Ryan foreign policy as the neocon shell game that it is, contrasting it with the steady hand of Barack Obama
It’s no secret the Republicans want to take us back and that Democrats want to take us forward, but isn’t Genesis a little unrealistic?
The Democrats missed an opportunity to take a step forward for the Founders’ vision of a secular government by putting God in their platform
The Georgetown University law student’s rousing speech included, ‘Our president, when he hears a young woman has been verbally attacked, thinks of his daughters—not his delegates or donors—and stands with all women.’
In America, the crackpots are close to controlling the very government that they are bound and determined to destroy.
Christian end time fantasies are not limited to the world of fiction; these people get elected to office and influence, even control policy
Does Romney’s choice of Paul Ryan as his running mate signal his campaign is tacking to the right again, or is Ryan tacking left? It seems the first casualty will be Ryan’s near-universally reviled budget plan, but can Mitt really defang Ryan and get him ready for primetime?
Mitt Romney is hurting in the polls, has insulted nearly everyone he’s met, and now plans to take to the road to show his blue-collar cred
The three way split that occurred in Iowa last night is actually representative of the fracture that exists within the GOP – Romney/Santorum/Paul.