When a mob of Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol building on January 6th, no one was necessarily safe. While the insurrections were nominally Republicans, many of them hoped to inflict damage on Conservatives like Vice President Mike Pence. The Capitol Police defended every lawmaker in the building whether they were a Republican or Democrats….
There’s a lot of listening, clapping and jumping up and down at a Democratic state convention. Other than that, very little for delegates to except try to mobilize voters for Elizabeth Colbert Busch.
Ralph Nader is railing against the “imperial presidency” but has nothing to say about our runaway, do-nothing Congress. It makes no sense to rail against the one while ignoring the other.
You probably didn’t know this but gun safety laws are “pagan” and it was prayer that defeated Manchin-Toomey
Elizabeth Colbert Busch had to try to appeal to Democrats, Republicans and Independents in her Monday night debate with Mark Sanford.
This evening at the Citadel, the two candidates for the SC District 1 Congressional seat, will debate for an hour and fifteen minutes. Here is what you need to know.
The consequences of Republican deregulation and their weakening of OSHA has been an ongoing threat of death for American workers.
Apparently if you actually exercise your First Amendment rights to be something other than Christian, you’re dangerous.
Thursday marks the dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum, not to mention a think tank. What a waste of money.
Bryan Fischer dishonestly says liberals hate America and Christianity because they want to replace America as it was founded
Republicans want bombing suspect treated as enemy combatant but it’s liberals who want increased government control?
A self-inspected Fertilizer Company storing Anhydrous Ammonia blew up Wednesday killing and injuring around 200. OSHA last inspected 2007
By any measure, America is in decline. The fault lies almost completely with male Republicans. Democratic women must usurp the power.
15 states with Republican governors are refusing to expand Medicaid even though the first 3 years are free and never more than 10% in state costs.
The Society of Actuaries conducted a study on the costs of medical claims and draws some scary conclusions. Exactly what the client paid for.
The legislation being proposed by the GOP House is pathetic. Yet, little is heard from Democratic constituents. Activism is the answer.
After years of manipulation and buying off elected officials, a large percentage of radical right-wingers are planning a civil war.
There’s a national email movement to demand the defunding of ACA. It’s spearheaded by Heritage Action for America (HAA), an offshoot of the Heritage Foundation.
On March 1st a decision will be made that could impact millions for at least 9 years. Jobs will be lost and people will go hungry, but not the rich.
Texas Republican Representative, Louie Gohmert is convinced Sharia law is trying to take over the U.S. legal system. So, he’s packing.
American capitalism supported white indentured servitude before and alongside black slavery and relinquished it only reluctantly.
If any facet of the GOP’s war on America has grown to lunatic proportions, it is gun control. The more people die from gun violence, the more the GOP sinks into denial.
Right wing “patriots” are constantly complaining of losing their freedoms and liberty. I would ask what these freedoms and liberties are.
So Ralph Reed of the misnamed Faith and Freedom Coalition, took exception to my findings yesterday, that the Bible is irrelevant as a determinant of United States immigration policy reform. He thinks he’s pretty clever and like any good conservative these days, goes right to invoking MLK: “So MLK was wrong to invoke the BIble &…
A planned, walled-in Patriot Community called the Citadel Project is being planned for a mountainous region of Idaho. It’s all about guns
Trends in militarization, surveillance, and civil liberties violations raise disturbing questions about the exchange of liberty for security.
The “Liberal Media”, is a tiresome and wholly inaccurate screed that is the centerpiece of right-wing propaganda.
The gun movement radicals are coming out of the woodwork post-Obama Executive Orders. The worst of them has threatened death for gun reform
President Barack Obama and a number of other speakers and entertainers brightened up an inauguration that struck just the right tone.
If you think a person is violating the Constitution, you don’t violate the constitution yourself as a remedy and expect anyone to take you seriously.
The Tea Party’s actions in Wisconsin and Michigan show them to owe their inspiration not to the Patriots of 1776 but to King George III
The Republican Party seems to think if Obama doesn’t do what they want him to do, he is violating the Constitution
Should we worry about Obama’s white male cabinet appointments? How about we wait and see what his cabinet looks like before we complain
According to GOP gun nut Larry Pratt, gun-control policies are Pagan, thus proving Piers Morgan’s accusation that he is unbelievably stupid
How do America’s most extreme gun enthusiasts want to live? You’ll soon get to find out as they build their own city in the mountains of Idaho
The Republican Party needs to shed its God problem before its unhealthy obsession destroys America
Two Republicans have scammed the state of Oregon out of $17 million in a charter school scam.
Kansas Republican Rep. Tim Huelskamp told AFA Director of Issues Analysis Bryan Fischer that he saw no real need for disaster relief for Hurricane Sandy victims.
John Boehner, back to the wall, has come out swinging a middle finger, offering an F-bomb to Harry Reid and to the victims of Hurricane Sandy
Grover Norquist tried to defend his pet congressmen and women while simultaneously branding President Obama as an enemy of liberty
If the Republicans fell all over themselves in 2012 to sound stupid, the Democrats were happy to help them along, as this list demonstrates
In Why America Needs a Left, Eli Zaretsky makes a case for a ‘hard’ left, something beyond either progressivism or liberalism
While the population still grieves over the loss of young lives at Sandy Hook, the NRA and Congress dig in to prevent meaningful curbs on guns.
The endless chorus from the Religious Right that all that plagues our society is the result of divine wrath has grown tiresome…and then some.
David Barton says the Founding Fathers would want us armed with the same weapons available to the government – because the Bible says so
A federal judge has ruled that North Carolina cannot offer choose life plates without also offering pro-choice plates
Progressivism, like conservatism, is about regulating our lives. But I’m a liberal; I’m all about liberty, so leave my choices alone
An explanation of where the real influential power centers are inside and outside of state legislatures. Hint: it’s all about the money.
Gary Bray, Republican Party chairman in Washington County, Oregon, called liberalism an ‘atheistic cult’ which seeks ‘utopian enslavement’
Well, if Republicans can’t stand up to the Tea Party, it means it’s up to we the people to stand up to them and say no, be it by phoning, emailing, using social media, signing this petition.
The Emancipation Proclamation ostensibly freed the slaves back in the midst of the Civil War. Modern day slavery camouflaged as grotesque unemployment numbers and economic status exists today.
Glenn Beck takes the new Egyptian Constitution as an opportunity to push his UN conspiracy and to predict a US dictator within 5 years
Conservatives have convinced themselves of libearlism’s illigitimacy; now they have convinced themselves liberalism will fail
Apparently, to Grover Norquist an agreement with him is as legally binding as a mortgage, at least in his own self-important, inflated head.
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.
Cracks begin to appear in the no new taxes wall as Saxby Chambliss signals a willingness to rethink the question of revenue
The 2012 election was especially satisfying for the Presidency and the new faces that will show up in Congress, especially the Senate.
Another one of the 24 percent tells the 76 percent to get out because America is THEIR country: white and Evangelical
George Will writes about an agency founded and briefly run by newly-elected Senator Elizabeth Warren. Will tells many half-truths and lies.
James Dobson determined that Obama’s defeat means we are living in a time of judgment and that God can make use of Obama
Conservatives insist that economic prosperity is impossible without their God but America wil prosper just as well with 20 gods or no gods
Don’t tell me that some little part of you would not just like to say to Texas, or to another Southern state of your choice, ‘Fine. Go. We admit it. 1861 was a mistake and we are undoing it now.’
Longtime foe of multiculturalism, William J. Bennett, says Republicans lost culture war and accuses Democrats of playing identity politics
We’ve seen some crazy conclusions drawn since Election Day, but Larry Klayman’s claim that conservatives are the new N-words is obscene.
2012’s weather is a terrifying foretaste of the future of ourworld with Global Warming. Watch 24 Hours of Reality, the Dirty Weather Report
Republicans, in appraising the causes for the Republican defeat in 2012, shy away from the real reasons for that defeat: the culture war
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
America won four more years for President Obama, but did we issue a mandate for change or for the status quo?
Paul Ryan says Obama’s path compromises some non-existent values; the real problem is that Obama stands between Ryan and the Constitution
There could be no worse selection for President than money-monger, Mitt Romney. He himself admits, 47% of the population will be sidelined.
Mitt Romney took to CNN’s opinion page to lie about his vision for America but his real vision is somewhat different
With Hurricane Sandy, Republican fantasy met the facts on the ground and lost; our shared reality is more potent than wishful thinking
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!
Texas says to hell with international treaties and has threatened legal action against OCSE observers if they watch Texas suppress the vote
Matt Barber calls quotes anti-Constitutionalist Patrick Henry to defend the Constitution and to portray Obama as the anti-Constitutionalist
Paul Ryan made clear last night that he wants his religious beliefs to inform our decisions, while claiming it is his that are under attack
The GOP has surrendered its platform to the most extremist elements within the Religious Right and offers a candidate who has done the same
Jack Welch caused a stir this week when he launched a conspiracy theory aimed at President Obama. Yesterday, he admitted he has no evidence
It was generally conceded that Mitt Romney won the first debate. The question is can you trust anything he said? He is not to be trusted.
The Republican Party wants approbation for its plutocratic principles; the Obama team counters with an America built by teamwork
The Republican Dream apparently being one where children will be forced into life by Big Patriarchy but allowed to die in poverty after that
John Stemberger tosses facts aside to claim that only Christianity could create the American experience and only Christianity can save it
There are 20 churches in Prague, OK, and one high school valedictorian who was denied her diploma for saying hell.
Fischer strikes out monumentally when he claims Jesus was a capitalist’s capitalist with capitalism in his DNA: read the Gospels, Bryan!
Fischer claims the the neo-Nazi Sikh temple shooter was a liberal because he was a Nazi but a glance at the rhetoric tells a different story
We like people who contribute to our society, people who build, who create goods and services, who create jobs. We have a word for people who suck the life’s blood out of others: vampires. Vampires are parasites. Vampires do not sparkle. We don’t like vampires. We want to protect ourselves from them. If private equity’s…
Agriculture is being threatened by the worst drought in memory. Ranchers are selling their herds and still no effective climate change bills are being passed.
Ezra Klein, filling in for Rachel Maddow, gave the GOP no respite as he labeled this Congress the “do less than the do-nothing Congress” of 1947
Ted Nugent believes we’d be better off if the South had won the Civil War, completely ignoring that states rights was all about slavery
Pepco spent years ignoring aging equipment and tree-trimming and focused instead of increasing profits leaving a million people to suffer in record heat
Nothing is more liberal than a revolution; the best conservatism can manage is counter-revolution to restore the status quo lost to liberals
Citizens may think the ultra right tea party has all the power in the U.S. In truth, they have almost none. A few people control America.
America is capitalism run amok. A handful of greedy individuals and corporations currently control all the money and power.
Chuck Norris takes to WND to display comedic talents in support of Scott Walker, and badly misrepresenting Ronald Reagan in the process
Today marks a new format in the Dirty Thirty, which will now include only updates (the entire updated list will be posted on its own page)
There are many reasons to vote for Barack Obama in 2012, and very few to vote against him, given the alternatives
You get the idea that if we banned the word Satan we’d all be a lot happier but that fundamentalists wouldn’t have anything to talk about
While attending the NATO summit in Chicago, President Obama kept up the pressure on Romney and his self-enrichment record at Bain Capital
Increasingly the GOP is talking about Second Amendment remedies and even armed insurrection if Obama wins in 2012, threatening the survival of our Constitution