Biden Leads The G7 In Taking Steps To Improve The World Economy
At the top of the docket for the president was a “Building Back Better†plan for the world. This is Biden’s first G7 summit as president.
At the top of the docket for the president was a “Building Back Better†plan for the world. This is Biden’s first G7 summit as president.
With all the crazy things that have occured in 2020, Kanye West’s attempt at politics is among the craziest. While he long been one of the few celebrity supporters of Donald Trump, few could have expected it could have gone as far as the rapper running for President. West cannot even get on enough ballots…
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said that any effort by a Democratic House majority to investigate Trump would be presidential harassment and warned Democrats not to harass Trump by holding him accountable.
Any campaign strategist will say that the last thing they want to do is feed their supporters’ complacency with false claims of impending victory, but that is exactly what Trump is doing ahead of the midterms.
Trump responded to 350 newspapers publishing editorials denouncing his war on the press by having a total Twitter meltdown.
Sen. Joni Ernest had to lie to an Iowa crowd about getting millions of dollars in support from the NRA as the gun lobby is growing toxic in the heartland.
Trump’s tariff on aluminum is projected to cost 20,000 Americans their jobs in beer-related industries and impose a beer tax each year.
Trump has flipped-flopped again and now told CBS News that he thinks that the Russians interfered in the 2016 election.
Deputy Press Secretary Raj Shaw wouldn’t deny that Trump cut a deal with Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy to retire by allowing him to pick his replacement.
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow is beating Fox News with the exact kind of viewers that Democrats need to get to the polls to be able to take back Congress in November.
It is not a coincidence that President Trump got a $500 million kickback from China, and his daughter got trademarks approved the same day that Trump dropped sanctions.
As Democratic resistance grows, Donald Trump is getting desperate and demanding that Democrats stop resisting him and support his policies.
Fox News is offering a full-throated defense of Trump putting children in cages, as the kids having it good.
Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) told Republicans that they need to speak up more against Trump’s lies, but the Arizona Senator again showed that his words are empty by offering no action.
The report confirms what we already knew about Trump: He is constantly obsessing over campaign-style politics instead of actually doing his job.
The diverse protesters said that what is about to happen to any American at the hands of Trump Republicans “should never happen to anyone.â€
Trump thinks the right of the people to be secure and free of “unreasonable searches” shall not be violated unless they are people of color.
A lifetime’s commitment to solving problems in the real world qualifies Hillary Clinton for this job, and the country should put her to work.
In a state and country that knows the toll of gun violence too well, there is no room for invoking the use of firearms in our politics.
Democrats have to tie every national, state, and local Republican candidate to Donald Trump’s seeming extremism as typically Republican.
I do believe that constructive conversation on the morality of public policy can happen in a variety of forums from faith and civic groups to family dinners, even on social and mass media platforms. But these discussions can only happen if the people engaging in the conversation are committed to working toward the common good for all from the grounding of shared moral values.
By going to the heart of our deepest moral values, people of all faiths and those with no faith can come together and work for the common good of all in this nation and throughout the world.
Ryan says prayer comes first, when disaster strikes their home districts, it’s money that comes first. Prayer is what they offer for other people.
Pew has announced that the religiously unaffiliated (or “nones”) are “now the largest single religious group among Democrats.”
Chris Christie, who has repeatedly told others its none of their business what he believes, demands to know what Obama believes
Paul compared Sanders’ European-style socialism to the communist regimes of Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot as though they are identical
Ben Carson said Sunday that Muslims with nukes tip the world toward the biblical “end of days,” not religious fanatics like him
The Republican Party has taken America for a nightmare ride, but this did not just happen overnight. We – Americans – let it happen
According to Michael Savage, Sanders is not only a “liberal weasel Jew” but secretly a front man for Clinton to make her look like a centrist
Americans’ trust in mass media has been falling since 2004 and this year “ties the historical lows on this measure set in 2014 and 2012.”
We have been hearing for a long time that the Religious Right is dead; demographics or not, I’ll believe it when I see it lying in the road
A PPP poll found Democrat Hillary Clinton enjoying a modest 47-40 lead over Republican presidential hopeful Jeb Bush in North Carolina.
A bunch of white gentiles are maybe not the best people to be talking about who is and who isn’t Jewish, in blood or in thought
It is glaringly obvious that for regardless the reason Senator Sanders self-labels himself as a “democratic socialist,” or whatever negative connotations that label socialist has according to constant harping by Republicans, most Americans support Mr. Sanders’ policies.
Peter Wehner says the liberal claim that Republicans are the ones who have become more extreme over the years is a “self-flatting but false narrative.”
But there really was an offensive video, and it did actually offend Muslims, and it did actually play a role in the attack that left four Americans dead
Hillary Clinton and Rand Paul are tied at 45 percent each in a recent poll of Kentucky voters.
Democrats are on the offense and will be holding Republicans accountable for their votes on the GOP budget with an aggressive “Republican Accountability Project: Diplomas Not Debt!” campaign.
You know the Religious Right, and maybe some of its male leaders, have got nothing when they start worrying about Obama’s presidential package
It is very seldom, if ever, that any Republican purposely admits in public that their raison d’etre is solely to serve the interests of corporations and the very richest Americans, and it is doubtful they expected the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to expose their badly-kept secret, but he did; albeit inadvertently.
Both Republicans and so-called sovereign citizens are citizens and subject to federal authority. If not, we should rethink deportation laws
Walker throws facts and history to the wind as he talks up a fantasy GOP with common sense that nowhere exists and has no chance of existing
While Republicans aren’t waving the white flag publicly, the GOP is becoming quietly aware that they have lost their war against Obamacare.
Despite persistent Republican efforts to undermine the ACA, Obamacare is, in fact, working, as uninsured rates continue to plummet.
The Religious Right thinks, despite all the evidence, that doubling down on anti-gay bigotry will have better results than Indiana
Every time a Republican sneaks an unrelated rider into a law, it’s a guarantee that someone will get screwed.
During a radio interview, Iowa GOP Congressman Steve King blasted liberal American Jews for being Democrats first, and Jewish second.
Republicans are supporting using Article V of the Constitution not to propose amendments to the Constitution, but to destroy the government
Appearing on Luke Russert’s online MSNBC TV program, Shift, New York Congressman Peter King (R) slammed fellow House Republicans for not simply banding together to pass a clean funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security. King made it clear that he was fed up with Tea Party Republicans playing politics with Homeland Security funding….
Republicans have sold their souls, assuming they have any, to white nationalists who believe mixing races is rebellion against God
David Barton tried to refute his long history of lying by falsely claiming a lawsuit which never took place proves his innocence
Republicans hope to paint Democrats as “anti-American” “Nazis” if they don’t attend Netanyahu’s speech, but President Obama has done more for Israel’s security than any other president.
Have we really reached the point where asking the wealthy to pay their fair share of taxes is a form of vilification?
We see demagogues, unregulated capitalism, and might-makes-right. These, as populism, ultraliberalism, and political messianism, are the enemy
The GOP has tied itself to a hate group – the AFA – which insists America is for Chrisitans only and Jews don’t have First Amendment rights
The Great War has cast a long shadow and we are living with its effects today, as much from the defects of our understanding as the war itself
The only thing keeping Republicans in power right now is money, and they’ll tell any lies to hold onto that money.
All too often, the export of democracy has looked a lot like the export of imperialism, and America’s defense of freedom translated into right-wing dictatorships
Tea Baggers love Louie Gohmert, which may explain why the man sounds barely sane to the rest of us. McCain got it in one: the man is an idiot
Our future could do with a lot less volleying and thundering. It is not appeasement to stop and think a little before we start shooting
The endless Republican anti-Obama campaign suffered another defeat as for the seventh consecutive year President Obama was named the most admired man in the world by Gallup.
Shubhranshu Choudhary says “Journalism has to become everyone’s business,” but Fox News says journalism is nobody’s business, including, especially, their own
Ben Carson thinks Obamacare is unconstitutional because it doesn’t help everybody. The only problem with that is that it DOES help everybody
Though there has seemed no reason for the two nations to remain at odds over the past 20+ years, old animosities die hard. Though a small step, this announcement is but one of many we will see in coming days, and it is a long overdue step, one refreshingly taken in the right direction.
Bachmann’s flight from Dana Bash is a metaphor for an endless flight from reality, which pretty much describes her entire time in Congress
In fact, the separation of church and state is something quintessentially American. Americans invented the idea, after all
Bryan Fischer wants an Evangelical conclave to choose candidates for president. Tough luck, Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Atheists, and others
Media Matters went to the trouble of exposing the GOP’s latest Obamacare scandal on Thursday, three days before CNN made a big deal bout it
“The point is, anything, anything the Republicans accomplish at all, no matter how insignificant, could lead to President Hillary Clinton.”
Democrats are now people who can have our heads held under water until we stop breathing, who can be “made to squeal,” not like pigs and the media will remain silent
After a not-so-really-heated contest between the Republicans and Democrats, California still remains blue, and our State elected leaders are all Democrats.
Apparently Republican corruption has reached such a level that blatant lying and obvious violation of campaign disclosure laws is part and parcel of what it means to be a Republican; at least a Republican Senate candidate.
“When government defines marriage as the union of one man and one woman…It’s doing its job. It’s fulfilling its role as a minister of God”
If our elected government is replaced by a board of directors, is it far-fetched to think corporate nondisparagement clauses might trump our freedom of speech?
For Williamson, facts are a “metaphysical dodge” and zygotes are people simply because he says so
These speakers want to fundamentally alter our way of life. In the ideal fake-Christian world, our freedom of religion would be an actual negation of freedom
The truth is that since teabaggers became de facto leaders of the Republican Party, they have contemplated various schemes to shutdown Washington.
One of the primary reasons the GOP is so successful selling a bill-of-goods to voters is that Democrats, while campaigning on issues they fully intend on advancing if elected, are more often than not reluctant to either cite Republicans’ broken promises, or inform voters of the GOP’s true motivation for seeking control of the government.
The idea that progressives need to break up with the Democratic Party, that it’s “Time to get out of this abusive relationship” is based on a false premise
It’s not Christian, McDaniels whines, to remind black people that he hates them. It’s not Christian to reach out to black voters.
The Supreme Court ought to be protecting democracy. Like the other branches of the government, it answers to the people
Have you ever been curious about the inner workings of a polling place? That’s where you go to vote for local state and national candidates, ballot issues and advisory questions.
David Barton presents a geo-political Christianity Rev. Jody Hice says Muslims can’t have, meaning Barton’s Christianity is not a religion
As Republicans once again try to besmirch Obama’s foreign policy, they willfully ignored a week full of positive Obamacare news. Is anyone surprised?
Even though Brat appears to be an extremist outlier in the conservative movement, his outrage that Cantor voted to raise the debt ceiling and end the government shutdown is not outside the mindset of the majority of Republicans in Congress and it is down to Brat’s economic ideology.
It is a common occurrence after a mass shooting for gun zealots to rise up and defend the shooter’s right to own and use firearms, including publicly displaying guns to show their solidarity with the mass murderer’s 2nd Amendment right to end life.
Wicca is “neo-pagan and invokes polytheistic, pre-Christian deities,” and therefore it does not fall within “the Judeo-Christian tradition.”
Protesters has no problem finding places to sit on the capital mall while they try to wish Obama away
A plurality of registered voters in Kentucky have a favorable impression of Kynect. Kynect is Obamacare, by a different name.
Sponsored by Rep. Rick Jasperse, R-Jasper, House Bill 875 would allow guns to be carried in churches, bars, and even some government buildings
Religious Right leaders don’t understand the spirit or the exact words of the Constitution, which they continually confuse with the spirit and words of the Bible they also don’t understand.
Loathe what the liberals stand for, meet their agenda with animosity, cultivate a visceral desire to wipe it from the face of the Earth. Hate, hate, hate it with the fires of a thousand burning suns.
Fischer says that an evolutionist “does not share the political worldview that established the United States of America” – except that worldview gave us Article VI banning religious tests
They want to put Bibles in schools but not actually read the damn things, and they want us to recite the Pledge of Allegiance but not actually listen to the damn thing
Justin Amash whined that Congress must “step up and take charge and point out when the President is going beyond his constitutional powers.”
A new ABC News/Washington Post poll was released on Tuesday. Overall, the poll had good and bad news for the President.
Isaac Asimov wrote that, “Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.” The tea party is bending over backward to prove Asimov right.
Bright says, “If the Tenth Amendment won’t protect the Second, we might have to use the Second to protect the Tenth.”
In true Beckian style, he has invented a Glenn Beck who can be outraged and hurt by an intolerance on the left he has invented out of whole cloth
Keyes says, “if it’s really broke, you don’t fix it either, you replace it with something that works. Have Americans forgotten how to replace hijacked political parties?”