Natural Disaster

Embattled Texas AG Ken Paxton Also Skipped Town During Weather Disaster

Embattled Texas AG Ken Paxton Also Skipped Town During Weather Disaster

When a state faces a weather disaster, it is a good time for elected politicians to show leadership. Sure, there's…

3 years ago

Trump Tells Texans In Hurricane’s Path To Rely On FEMA After Proposing To Cut Agency By 11%

Trump's declining mental health and inability to govern a country combined with the strong winds and flash floods of a…

7 years ago

Texas-Size GOP Hypocrisy As a Result of Climate Change Deluge

It is true that all Republicans are blatant hypocrites, but now that go-it-alone awesome Texas experienced a little anthropogenic climate…

9 years ago

California Corporate Farms Increase Water Use While Small Farms Offer To Cutback

In California, the greatest natural resource, water, is in extremely short supply and the oil industry, the Nestle Corporation, and…

9 years ago

California Suffers Historic Drought While Oil Industry Wastes 2 Million Gallons of Water Daily

To make matters that much worse, the over 2 million gallons of toxic water the oil and gas industry disposes…

9 years ago

Detroit Flop City: Jeb Bush Pretends To Care About Poor People In First Speech

Jeb Bush is marketing himself as a different kind of conservative, but his ideas support the same GOP policies that…

9 years ago

Unlike Much Of The Country, California Still Solidly Blue After Midterm Elections

After a not-so-really-heated contest between the Republicans and Democrats, California still remains blue, and our State elected leaders are all…

9 years ago

As San Diego Burns Republicans Refuse to Acknowledge Climate Change

Republicans will continue to deny climate change even though glaring examples are more and more common each day. Case in…

10 years ago

Republicans Go Berserk and Accuse Scientists of Bullying Them With Facts

Between last week's report on climate change and the devastation at home from super-storms, flooding, droughts, wild fires, tornados and…

10 years ago

Obama Bails Out Republican Incompetence, Declares State of Emergency for Georgia

President Obama declared an emergency in the State of Georgia after birther Gov. Nathan Deal failed to respond appropriately to…

10 years ago

A Wrong of Fire and Ice: How Conservatives Misjudge Millennial Views on Climate Change

The Conservative media has ignored man-made climate change in hopes that they can convince millennials it isn't real. Millennials aren't…

10 years ago

God Does Not Want you to Drink Starbucks, Says David Barton

God really does NOT want you drinking Starbucks! It's that "holiness" or "sanctification" thingie. Just don't ask Barton which verse…

10 years ago

In the Midst of Historic Flooding Colorado Secessionists Deny Climate Change

Two Weld County commissioners supporting secession made statements that have a direct correlation to why the state is experiencing a…

11 years ago

The Republican Version of a Great Idea: For Profit Natural Disasters

If you want to see what privatized relief would look like, think of Walmart. That's the face of Republican disaster…

11 years ago

Pink Swastika Author to be Tried for Crimes Against Humanity

Scott Lively claims he is being persecuted for persecuting LGBT persons, but he thinks his own crimes are excused by…

11 years ago

Deadly Tornado Batters District of GOP Congressman Who Opposed Sandy Aid

A deadly tornado battered Adairsville, Georgia today, the district of Republican Congressman Robert Woodall, who opposed aid for Hurricane Sandy…

11 years ago

Paul Ryan Justifies Screwing Sandy Victims By Calling Flood Insurance Program Irresponsible

Paul Ryan justified his no vote for Sandy victims claiming that maintaining the existing flood insurance relief program was irresponsible.

11 years ago

Out of Selfish Greed House Republicans Drag Their Feet On Sandy Relief

Sandy victims got a preview of the you're on your own mindset Republicans have advocated for the past four years,…

11 years ago

Republican Congressman Says He’s Not Convinced Sandy Victims Need Relief

Kansas Republican Rep. Tim Huelskamp told AFA Director of Issues Analysis Bryan Fischer that he saw no real need for…

11 years ago

President Obama Commends the American Spirit of Helping Our Brothers and Sisters in Need

President Obama used his weekly address to remind us that Thanksgiving is a time to put aside our differences after…

11 years ago

Election Day 2012 Boils Down Not to Fantasy But to Our Shared Reality

With Hurricane Sandy, Republican fantasy met the facts on the ground and lost; our shared reality is more potent than…

11 years ago

While Science Points to Humans Causing Superstorms, Conservatives Blame Sin

Science explains superstorms like Hurricane Sandy, but conservatives prefer to see human immorality and a wrathful god

11 years ago

Romney-Ryan would have us Fiddle while the World Burns

The choice in this election is between a slow, but gaining, political struggle towards better environmental policy or a return…

12 years ago

An Angry God’s Wrath Falls on Tampa Bay

We have had it drilled into us that storms are not storms - I think it's quite obvious that Isaac…

12 years ago