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Paul Ryan Wants A Racist President If He’ll Ravage the Poor and Elderly

Paul Ryan Wants A Racist President If He’ll Ravage the Poor and Elderly

It is possible Paul Ryan is not an avid nativist, but he is a Republican and the fact that he…

8 years ago

Republican Welfare Reform Pushed A Third Of America’s Children Into Extreme Poverty

The economy is growing for the extremely wealthy, but there were 3 million more children living in extreme poverty in…

9 years ago

Despite Bernie Sanders’ Campaign Pledge, Koch-Republicans Will Block Infrastructure Spending

It is likely that Senator Sanders was sending a message to the Koch brothers that regardless they currently control government…

9 years ago

Study: Thirty-five Years of Conservative Policies Contributed to Violence In Baltimore

The problem with the Republicans' argument and lies, and there are many, is that statistics continue to prove that conservative…

9 years ago

Rand Paul Is Trying To Fool The Left Into Thinking That He Is Their Friend

The same people that apparently hate the libertarian Koch brothers are looking on Rand Paul as a decent human being;…

9 years ago

Koch-Congress Preparing To Starve the Poor With Drastic Food Stamp Cuts

The big plan the new Koch Senate is due to propose this week is cutting food stamps substantially and giving…

9 years ago

The Lost Message In Patricia Arquette’s Oscar Acceptance Speech

Once in a while, and not very often, one award-winner actually says something worth hearing and as is usually the…

9 years ago

The Enemies of Democracy Are Not Threats from Without But from Within

We see demagogues, unregulated capitalism, and might-makes-right. These, as populism, ultraliberalism, and political messianism, are the enemy

9 years ago

Paul Ryan Plans A CBO Rubber Stamp For Trickle Down Disaster

Paul Ryan is quietly working behind the scenes to make sure the next head of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO),…

9 years ago

Kansas Is a Portent of Republican Medicare Privatization Disaster

Democrats have a living, breathing example of privatizing Medicare, and frankly everything in the Path to Prosperity budget, that has…

9 years ago

Extremist On the Horizon: Dave Brat Fits In With Government Destroying House Republicans

Even though Brat appears to be an extremist outlier in the conservative movement, his outrage that Cantor voted to raise…

10 years ago

Republicans Insult America by Making Paul Ryan the Face of Compassionate Conservatism

To put Ryan's face on the new compassionate conservatism is an affront to any American familiar with his contempt for…

10 years ago

Paul Ryan’s Ayn Rand Fantasy Is to Double Food Stamp Cuts and Starve Millions

As devastating as the food stamp cuts that took effect may be, they are just a preview of increased hunger…

10 years ago

Detroit is the New Conservative Wet Dream

With entire swaths of Detroit uninhabited, some white knights are swooping in and buying up empty lots, parking lots and…

11 years ago

Detroit Sinks Deeper Into Hell As It Faces Right Wing Utopian Fantasies

Detroit faces austerity, vulture capitalists, and privatization as right wing ideologues pounce. Of course, no good will come of it.

11 years ago

Republicans Decide The Best Way To Help Poor Children Is To Give Them Less Food

Republicans are actively pursuing policies that target and punish the poor, or purposely keep them downtrodden as a punitive measure…

11 years ago

Sick House Tea Partiers Celebrate the Sequester’s Human Carnage

House tea partiers are preparing to celebrate the damage to the people and economy that the sequestration cuts will cause…

11 years ago

Biblically Clueless Joseph Farah Attacks the Left’s Biblical Literacy

Joseph Farah just can't wrap his mind around a Christianity that includes its Christ, and attacks Jim Wallis for getting…

12 years ago

Paul Ryan Tries and Fails to Distance Himself From his Randian Ideology

Since Ryan was chosen as Romney's running mate, he attempted to distance himself from his devotion to Randian ideology, but…

12 years ago

Pamela Geller’s New Ad Campaign Calls Muslims Savages

Pamela Geller disengenuously claims she does not hate all Arabs and Muslims despite paraphrasing an Ayn Rand quote which does…

12 years ago

Republicans Outraged With Romney Because He Gave Away Their Dirty Secret

Romney's comments revealed his true feelings about Americans who are struggling, but he articulated in stark terms the entire Republican…

12 years ago

The Ghost of Ayn Rand Haunts Paul Ryan

Don't tell Paul Ryan, but many of his positions go against everything that Ayn Rand stood for.

12 years ago

Ross Douthat Wants Moderates to Believe Paul Ryan is Their Guy

Ross Douthat removes the details from the picture so he can clarify it, getting rid of all those pesky, distracting…

12 years ago

The 2012 Election Will be a Contest Between Community and Greedy Self Interest

In the campaign for the White House, Americans are being asked to define America as either a community, or a…

12 years ago

Not Here to do the Decent Thing: Privatizing Medicare Ryan

Mitt Romney handed yet another gift to Democrats by choosing Randian Paul Ryan, who is just here to follow Koch…

12 years ago

Debunking the Myth of Paul Ryan Policy Wonk

The right is heralding Paul Ryan as a policy wonk, but a closer look at his ideas and where they…

12 years ago

Romney’s Fail Causes Conservative Call to Vote for Ron Paul for Jesus

On the heels of Romney failing to consummate his relationship with conservatives properly, they are calling on their fellow Republicans…

12 years ago

Inglorious Bastardization: The GOP’s Plan to Keep the Rich Rich and You Poor

All Americans must acknowledge that Republicans believes that the masses exist to enrich the wealthy and that the GOP as…

12 years ago

Fifty Shades of Misinterpretation: Using Fifty Shades of Grey as a Metaphor for Capitalism

Lynn Parramore turns the BDSM novel Fifty Shades of Grey into a metaphor for capitalism without having read it, creating…

12 years ago

From Clinton to Obama: Reregulating the Deregulatory Era

Coming from what many would consider a "far Left" ideological foundation, my assertion is that this antagonism between the so-called…

14 years ago