Most of Donald Trump 2016 opponents for the Republican nomination fought him until the end. Ben Carson, though, capitulated earlier than the rest. And in return, the neurosurgeon was given a plum position in Trump’s cabinet. As the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Carson seemed more interested in cutting costs than actually helping people….
In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Donald Trump aggressively pushed the drug hydroxychloroquine. Doctors suggested that, at best, the drug was useless and at worst, the treatment could be dangerous. Once Trump began pushing the drug, Conservative media and GOP lawmakers fell in line. In fact, the state of Oklahoma is sitting on…
Haaland and Buttigieg, as just two examples from Biden’s Cabinet choices, aren’t looking for apologies necessarily; when they speak, they are diagnosing what holds us all back so we can move beyond these past and persistent repressions to give full life, to create an optimal society and economy, for all Americans.
Ben Carson, President Donald Trump’s Housing and Urban Development Secretary, used an unapproved herbal supplement to treat Covid-19 following a recommendation from Mike Lindell, the CEO of MyPillow. Lindell has recommended that people should take oleander extract to treat coronavirus symptoms. Carson told The Washington Post that his symptoms disappeared within hours of taking it. “Carson…
HUD Secretary Ben Carson said that back in his day there was real systemic racism, as he downplayed the systemic racism of today.
HUD Secretary Ben Carson admitted that Trump has no plan to deal with the docking of The Grand Princess and the 3,500 passengers potentially exposed to coronavirus.
Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) had to explain to HUD Secretary Ben Carson how his own agency works during a House hearing.
Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson says he’s raising rents to put poor Americans to work, but according to a new study reported in The Washington Post, the majority of people who receive HUD rent subsidies are either elderly, disabled or already at work. Carson announced in April a new plan that would…
The Republicans’ war on government continues unabated in the Trump Administration. By continuing to appoint cabinet members who are both corrupt and incompetent, President Donald Trump has succeeded in undermining Americans’ faith in their government. As a result (Republicans hope) fewer people will look to government for solutions to their problems. If the government doesn’t…
Trump’s HUD Secretary Ben Carson is proposing that the amount of rent paid by the most economically vulnerable Americans who receive housing assistance.
Ben Carson says slaves were immigrant, only packed like sardines and chained in the cargo holds. Next, he’ll tell us this was ‘economy class’
Carson can’t possibly imagine why President Obama would think of doing “something of that nature,†something like helping Americans at not cost to anyone.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) tore apart Ben Carson’s non-answer on whether or not any HUD money would go to Trump and his family to expose an incoming administration that is creating a climate of corruption.
Trump’s choices are unqualified, but they were chosen for their desire to eradicate federal agencies, not their level of competence or expertise.
Donald Trump has moved Fox News’ “whole roster off of Rupert Murdoch and onto the taxpayers of the United States.”
Ben Carson doesn’t want to serve in the Trump administration because he feels he has no government experience. Carson ran against Trump to be the Republican nominee for president.
Ben Carson was being interviewed by CNN in front of his childhood home in Detroit when he randomly thought of his luggage and walked off the nationally televised interview to find his bags.
Calling Trump’s wealth a disadvantage was stunningly stupid, but it’s par for the course.
There are “two Trumps”, Ben Carson said during an event to announce his endorsement of former rival Donald Trump. Carson also alleged that one of these two Trumps is more cerebral.
Ben Carson appears to have dropped out of the Republican race for president, but with a statement that sounded like he was dropping out, but didn’t go as far as actually quitting, Carson has stayed true to his brand of vague crazy until the very end.
Here are the winners and losers from Super Tuesday.
Here are the winners and losers from the CNN Republican debate in Texas.
Here are the winners and losers from the CBS Republican debate in South Carolina.
Here are the winners and losers from the ABC News Republican presidential debate.
Here are the winners and losers from the Fox News/Google Republican presidential debate.
Marco Rubio goes all tin foil hat on Obama and guns and four other reasons to be glad that you didn’t watch the Fox Business Debate.
Who won? Who lost? Here are the winners and losers from the Fox Business Republican debate.
There were a few winners and a whole lot of losers at the CNN Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas.
Trump, Cruz, Carson and Rubio are the latest poll summit occupiers representing a weak slate of the best the Republicans can do
Carson got extreme as he tried to blame both sides for abortion extremism, saying women are being manipulated but conservatives can save them
Ben Carson made the stunning claim that upholding international law by not torturing people is caving to political correctness.
From 2009 to 2014, 140,000 more Mexican nationals left the United States than the number who entered.
Donald Trump and Ben Carson remain resilient as the leaders in the GOP field.
The latest WBUR New Hampshire Republican primary poll shows Ben Carson falling, Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio flatlining, and Republicans heading for defeat as Donald Trump increases his lead.
The wheels are closer to falling off of the Ben Carson campaign as his own senior advisers have admitted that the top Republican contender needs to hold more foreign policy briefs so that they can smarten him up.
Fox News Sunday tried to ask Ben Carson some policy questions about the terrorist attack in Paris, and the result was a dose of insanity that include a lectured on brain sizes, and Carson’s support for a shooting war with Russia.
Privately, high-level Republicans are admitting that neither Ben Carson nor Donald Trump is fit to be commander in chief.
The Islamic State counts on the response they’re going to get from Republicans this weekend, and GOP leaders will be only too happy to oblige
It turns out the American people don’t agree with Republicans that it’s all that important what candidates believe about the Bible
Trump may have a dug a hole to deep to climb out of after raging against Ben Carson and “stupid” Iowa voters.
Republicans are so desperate to stop the insanity that they are seriously considering drafting Mitt Romney to run against Trump and Carson.
28 percent of Republican primary voters felt Trump won the debate. The next closest candidate was Marco Rubio with 23 percent saying he won.
Ben Carson defended birtherism and said if Obama didn’t want people to be suspicious of him, he should release all of his records.
White House press secretary Josh Earnest laughed and said he didn’t agree with that statement when asked about Ben Carson’s assertions that he has faced more scrutiny than any other candidate, including President Barack Obama.
A Fox News host this morning accused the mainstream media of a “political hit job on Dr. Ben Carson” and said it is “nothing short of a journalistic lynching, strung up with rumors and innuendos and flat-out lies.”
Ben Carson has fallen so low that he is being lectured on the dangers of lying by one of the GOP’s foremost liars, Bill O’Reilly
In an effort to defend Dr. Ben Carson, conservatives believe that CNN and Politico are liars. Oops, we need to add the Wall Street Journal and the Detroit News to that list now.
While Democrats were holding the best candidate gathering of the year, Donald Trump was calling Ben Carson mentally ill on Fox News.
CNN was unable to corroborate the tear-stained stories of redemption a Seventh-day Adventist Ben Carson tells on the trail, from attempted stabbings to top polling GOP presidential candidate.
Republicans were asked hard questions and they whined about media bias, plus five reasons to be glad that you didn’t watch the CNBC Republican Debate.
2016 Republican candidate Ben Carson, who political journalists keep telling you is so brilliant, he doesn’t know what the debt ceiling is or how it works. Thus it was pretty easy for him to vow never to raise it.
Ben Carson went on Meet The Press and assured voters that his days of trying to stab people are in the past.
Carson said “it’s not appropriate for public funding to be used to indoctrinate students in one direction” but it apparently is in the other
Carson wants to punish liberal colleges for teaching things he doesn’t approve of – “extreme political bias” – otherwise known as facts.
Carson pulls out the old “God wills it” to sanctify his presidential campaign, saying critics fail to understand the power of God
Trump is still atop the Republican polls, and the party has only itself to blame for his continuing political resiliency.
The GOP and Religious Right have been throwing fake Founding Father quotes at us for years. John Oliver hilariously rips this industry apart
Mike Huckabee has dug his way into a hole only an extremist can dig, and he may not be able to get out of it as his campaign bleeds money
After a 4.8 million dollar Pro-Bush ad blitz in New Hampshire, Jeb’s polling numbers have moved in the wrong direction, dipping 0.3 percent.
Ben Carson said Sunday that Muslims with nukes tip the world toward the biblical “end of days,” not religious fanatics like him
Ben Carson claims the Founding Fathers would have rejected a Muslim president, but their words show him to be a liar
Ben Carson has shown himself to be appallingly insensitive, and if his values are more equal than ours, we are all in a lot of trouble
Ben Carson repeatedly used a quote he attributed to Thomas Jefferson to justify his gun position. Unfortunately for Carson, Jefferson said no such thing.
At a town hall meeting at the University of New Hampshire, Carson tried to explain that science is something you can believe in – or not
CAIR criticized Carson’s claim that a Muslim should not be president and now Carson wants his revenge by revoking its tax-exempt status
Obviously, Carson himself does not subjugate his religious beliefs to the Constitution. No Republican candidate is willing to do that
Jeb Bush is tied for sixth place in Iowa with Mike Huckabee at a weak 6 percent of the vote in the GOP field.
Alisyn Camerota read the “No Religious Test” clause out loud and said, “Carson’s belief system violates that part of the Constitution”
The White House slammed Ben Carson’s view that a Muslim shouldn’t be president, as Press Secretary Josh Earnest pointed out that Carson’s views are completely inconsistent with the Constitution.
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders condemned Dr. Ben Carson’s comment that a Muslim should not be President Of The United States. Sanders called Carson’s comment disappointing prejudice.
Days after Scott Walker announced his new plan to wage war against unions, a new WBUR poll of New Hampshire shows Walker sinking to 1% support.
A new CNN poll has Trump soaring to his highest numbers yet, as GOP voters continue to embrace his politics of division and derision.
In a performance that only be described as insane, Ben Carson tried to clarify on CNN that he supports armed drone strikes along the US/Mexico border, but that he is not going to kill any people.
The GOP’s crusade against illegal immigration is not only cruel and impractical, but it is also largely a “solution” in search of a problem.
Conservative bigots love the idea of shredding the Constitution’s 13th and 14th Amendments in place of actual immigration reform
A national Fox News poll shows Trump leading, with Ben Carson in 2nd place and Ted Cruz in 3rd place in the Republican field.
Carson denies any contradiction between his crusade against Planned Parenthood, and his own past use of fetal tissue for research.
The Iowa and Missouri post-debate polls reveal that Donald Trump remains in a strong position atop the GOP field in two key Midwest states.
A PPP poll found Democrat Hillary Clinton enjoying a modest 47-40 lead over Republican presidential hopeful Jeb Bush in North Carolina.
Barely over a month after launching his presidential campaign, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson has lost four senior campaign advisers.
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.
A PPP poll released on May 21st, finds Hillary Clinton with a commanding lead over all potential GOP opponents in Washington State.
Too much can be made of the plethora of Republican candidates for 2016 – after all, they are all virtually clones of one another
A bunch of Republican real and presumed presidential primary candidates descended on Greenville, South Carolina, Saturday. The event was the “South Carolina Freedom Summit.”
Matt Barber of liberty counsel celebrates non-existent victories while looking for SCOTUS to let us do what Jesus said not to do
On Friday, Ben Carson doubled down by repeating his theme that President Barack Obama reminded him of a psychopath.
GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson believes if he becomes president, that he can ignore Supreme Court decisions he does not agree with.
Ben Carson launched his presidential campaign by for a new stimulus for America, which involved giving some of the largest corporations in the world a tax holiday in the United States.
A CNN/ORC poll released on Monday finds Hillary Clinton is still dominating the Republican field in the 2016 presidential race.
Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz will launch his first Campaign ads for the 2016 presidential campaign during Easter Weekend.
A PPP poll shows Ted Cruz pulling into contention with Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush.
Republican presidential contenders are lining up to defend Indiana’s discriminatory “religious freedom” law.
America needs a diplomat on the world stage, not a myopic neurosurgeon whose eyes glaze over when you show him a map of Europe.
On Friday, Robert Costa at The Washington Post reported that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie disclosed his 2016 platform to a group of Republican policy analysts on Monday.
Potential 2016 GOP Presidential candidate Ben Carson appeared on CNN’s New Day Wednesday morning and told host Chris Cuomo that prisons prove that being gay is a choice.
A PPP poll found that 57 percent of Republicans want to dismantle the Constitution and establish Christianity as the national religion
Dr. Ben Carson implied that Barack Obama could be guilty of treason if he fights Congress on a clean bill for funding Homeland Security.
Jeb doesn’t realize how critical it is he convince us he is not his brother, because the more you listen to him, the more alike they sound
Presidential hopefuls Chris Christie, Rand Paul, Ben Carson, and Hillary Clinton have taken sides on the debate over requiring vaccinations
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker impressed the crowds at the Iowa Freedom Summit. Democrats cannot afford to underestimate him.
