The players of nearly every team are wearing armbands in protest, and the U.S. has been one of the loudest. But Donald Trump Jr. thinks we need to be quiet because our record is worse.
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.
This week, the United States hit a grim milestone. The country has now experienced 500,000 deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic. Thankfully, Joe Biden‘s response to the virus has been much more aggressive than Trump’s was. According to Axios, America is now averaging 1.7 million vaccines a day. And with many doses being administered, both cases…
Poor Mike Pence. Trump’s tantrums over the repeated failed efforts to pass increasingly barbaric versions of Trumpcare, must be getting on his nerves.
“Barack Obama has completed his second term as President of the United States on January 21, why not hire him as President for France?”
“The Israeli prime minister publicly supports a two-state solution, but his current coalition is the most right-wing in Israeli history, with an agenda driven by its most extreme elements.â€
How many more will die before America decides enough is enough?
Gun nuts make the same arguments following deadly mass shootings – all of them high on emotion and short on truth.
Robertson offers old, outdated beliefs even he doesn’t understand or really care about except as a cloak to sanctify his bigotry
Ryan said at AIPIC that “A confident America stands by its allies.” It’s just a shame the GOP doesn’t stand by the American people.
One of Trump’s devoted followers would have you believe Trump is a super-Christian, but Trump echoes the Old, not the New Testament
Thanksgiving’s origins lie in ancient, pre-Christian harvest festivals which are religious in nature, and have nothing to do with genocide
From 2009 to 2014, 140,000 more Mexican nationals left the United States than the number who entered.
Putin says Assad is best placed to defeat the Islamic State, but Assad is more interested in helping IS defeat his moderate enemies
The U.S. economy surged forward with 3.7 percent growth in the 2nd quarter of 2015, well outpacing other developed nations.
The Republicans find themselves increasingly alone in opposing the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), commonly known as the Iran nuclear deal. Back on July 20, not only did the United Nations Security Council unanimously endorse the JCPOA, but we saw a “Statement by National Security Leaders on the Announcement of a Joint Comprehensive Plan…
This is an attempt to erase our history, we are told by a conservative on a show hosted by a guy who makes his living re-writing our history
John Kerry dismissed Senator Bob Corker’s fantasies about a world where Iran’s nuclear knowledge can be made to magically disappear.
Rick Santorum says says you refusing to believe what he wants you to believe is a violation of the First Amendment
Bill Maher poked the Religious Right’s persecution myth full of holes. Joseph Farrah’s attempt to discredit Maher only discredits himself
Apparently, women are not already sexually abused in Ann Coulter’s America. Maybe she needs to get out more.
Ann Coulter thinks it’s “Adios America” unless we can keep out overweight women, the physically disabled, and the visually impaired
A PPP poll found Democrat Hillary Clinton enjoying a modest 47-40 lead over Republican presidential hopeful Jeb Bush in North Carolina.
In a post-9/11 world, self-styled “moderate” conservative and New York Times Op-Ed columnist David Brooks has carved out a cottage industry conflating morality with anti-liberal politics. To be fair to Brooks, this has been a good business opportunity afforded by the “Do as I say, not as I do” public hypocrisy of the modern conservative…
Barely over a month after launching his presidential campaign, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson has lost four senior campaign advisers.
The GOP is nothing more than a modern, reactionary cult designed to give religious justification for willful ignorance,bigotry, and bad behavior
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
With an almost comedic and absolute lack of self-awareness, Lindsey Graham claims Rand Paul is the GOP’s looming disaster
No, our government is not run by Nazis, but I have no doubt that if it was, Jim Bakker and Rick Wiles would be the first to join
We’re back to President Obama being accused of anti-Semitism because he won’t let Israel dictate America’s foreign policy
On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a case that could fundamentally alter the way districts are drawn in the United States.
Arizona 1st District Congresswoman Ann Kirkpatrick plans to challenge Senator John in 2016, giving the Democrats a top tier candidate.
Republicans like to blame Obama, but Bush had already created ISIL, and Obama cannot un-create them, because Obama cannot un-invade Iraq
Nearly seven years after the American economy foundered under the worst global recession since World War II, it seems nothing much has changed with regard to the behavior of those that brought us collectively to the brink.
As Jeb has reminded us, Dubya is our problem, not his. Or Gohmert’s. Or the Republican Party’s, it seems
It is hard to believe Jeb Bush really wants to be president, with the things he says. Maybe it’s just that he’s missing a Dick Cheney of his own
After the FEC ruled Guinta accepted over 300K in illegal donations, NH Republicans and prominent newspapers called for his resignation.
Too much can be made of the plethora of Republican candidates for 2016 – after all, they are all virtually clones of one another
Hillary Clinton and Rand Paul are tied at 45 percent each in a recent poll of Kentucky voters.
Fox News seems to want to wish away Hillary Clinton, but even their numbers cannot disguise that the public still approves of Hillary Clinton
The U.S. House voted to block a measure permitting considering letting immigrants who arrived here illegally to serve in the military.
You would think that being gay crashed Amtrak, but that heterosexuality is not to blame for even more deaths in the Germanwings crash
The invasion of Iraq and its bungled aftermath created millions of refugees. Rand Paul doesn’t think the United States owes them anything
On a 39-28 party-line vote, the Democratic-controlled Minnesota Senate approved a bill expanding voting rights on Monday.
We need to call out the appalling in our midst. And we should never, ever, apologize for telling the truth about them
Compare this list of Roman edicts of toleration to a current Republican list – oh wait, there isn’t one
Speaking at Liberty University, Jeb Bush accused President Obama of being small-minded and intolerant on issues of “religious freedom.”
Matt Barber of liberty counsel celebrates non-existent victories while looking for SCOTUS to let us do what Jesus said not to do
I paraphrase, but not by much. Gohmert uses nuns, the Posse Comitatus Act, and Waco 1993 to prove Obama is to blame
On Thursday, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the NSA’s bulk collection of telephone metadata is illegal under current law.
The upcoming SCOTUS marriage equality ruling is just another opportunity for Republicans to challenge the constitutionality of the Consitution
You know the Religious Right, and maybe some of its male leaders, have got nothing when they start worrying about Obama’s presidential package
The problem with the Republicans’ argument and lies, and there are many, is that statistics continue to prove that conservative anti-government policies over the past thirty-five years have driven income inequality and degraded society and are every bit as responsible for the events in Baltimore as out-of-control police violence against African Americans.
Jeb Bush, Rick Santorum, Rick Perry, Lindsey Graham, and Ted Cruz, got together and agreed to collectively sound like Elisabeth Hasselbeck
Sarah Palin warns that in his dealings with Iran that Obama is flirting with the devil…but wait…isn’t Obama the devil?
In an interview with the National Review’s Rich Lowry, Jeb Bush confessed to being a fan of Charles Murray’s books.
There are a whole bunch of fundamentalists who are upset we don’t take them seriously, which means, of course, that I will keep mocking them
It is true, George W. Bush is hapless, but he is also an idiot for not recognizing his own failures as president and in fact actually regards himself as a raging success.
Father Jonathan Morris took to Fox & Friends to push fear of eternal damnation while ignoring the Constitution’s No Religious Test Clause
Boehner’s reaction to Senate dysfunction is to claim a change of leadership in the Senate has given us a Senate that is actually working.
Governors Walker, Christie, and Jindal have demonstrated that they are job killers, not job creators.
Both Republicans and so-called sovereign citizens are citizens and subject to federal authority. If not, we should rethink deportation laws
Support for gay marriage has climbed to 61 percent, compared to just 35 percent of Americans who are still opposed to marriage equality.
In an interview with Glenn Beck, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker suggested that he wants to find ways to further limit legal immigration.
It has been 70 years this year since Japan’s bid to launch what it called the “Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere” came crashing to the ground
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
O’Malley is hardly a household name in America, but he is making his case for president, by staking out bold positions well to the left of presumptive Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton.
A Bloomberg Politics poll finds more Americans now approve of President Obama’s handling of the economy than disapprove.
Fox & Friends wonders if students learned that the Qur’an says to kill nonbelievers, ignoring that their Bible says the exact same thing
The resultant Republican freakout is not unexpected, as it violates not only the status quo but further silences the drums of war
Republican strategist Ana Navarro blasted Hillary Clinton for supposedly playing up her female candidacy.
The hapless GOP needs somebody of Hillary’s stature for 2016, but all they have is a cast of nobodies with no ideas
Ted Cruz, like every other Republican, hates being quoted, and it’s never his fault that he said it, but the media’s fault for reporting it
Ah, the comforting embrace of Sean Hannity, where “that was then” is answer enough to questions about issues that affect millions
In an interview with NPR’s Steve Inskeep, President Obama took a jab at Scott Walker’s lack of foreign policy experience.
The Republican presidential contenders offer no alternative policy for dealing with Iran other than saber-rattling rhetoric.
According to a recent headline, Fox News is the most watched cable news channel – for the 159th month in a row, which makes 13 years, 3 months of ratings dominence. Cue the balloon drop and confetti cannons. Whoop-dee-doo!
Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz will launch his first Campaign ads for the 2016 presidential campaign during Easter Weekend.
An unprecedented victory over the Religious Right as the Indiana General Assembly and Gov. Pence bow to reality and change the law – again
Senator Tom Cotton argues that discrimination against gays in the US shouldn’t be a priority, since we aren’t hanging them like Iran does.
Republican and Religious Right damage-control over Indiana’s RFRA is chaotic and entertaining, and as dishonest as the day is long
Former Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R) compared President Obama to Andreas Lubitz, the deranged German co-pilot who crashed Germanwings Flight 9525, on her Facebook page Tuesday. Bachmann posted: With his Iran deal, Barack Obama is for the 300 million souls of the United States what Andreas Lubitz was for the 150 souls on the German Wings…
Indy’s mayor issuing an executive order protecting the very people RFRA targets for persecution and conventions think twice about Indiana
The backlash against Indiana’s embrace of religious tyranny has expanded to include cities inside and outside Indiana
John Bolton’s New York Times op-ed exposes not only Bolton’s flawed thinking but the Times’ tendency to ape Fox News
Bush is right about one thing. This is no time for schoolyard antics. Bush and his fellow Republicans ought to stop engaging in them.
f Americans failed to believe that America did not need to re-evaluate its unconditional support for Israel before, this deliberate and concerted effort between Israel and Republicans to subvert American foreign policy cannot be ignored.
Mike Huckabee thinks he can call down fire from heaven to smite his opponents, an act (phew!) in violation of the United States Constitution
That gnawing, aching need for limelight, even more so than Cruz’s disingenuous flouting of science in exchange for base adoration, is what makes him unfit to lead.
What emerges is Netanyahu as some sort of American super patriot for wanting to drag us into the war Republicans can’t, because Obama’s a bully
If you want to hear one of the craziest things to come out of a Republican mouth this week, it’s the Republican objection to anyone reading the Pledge of Allegiance in Arabic. This apparently deplorable display of patriotism took place on March 18 during National Foreign Language Week, of all things. Watch the latest…
Megyn Kelly dared question Bobby Jindal on his Islamophobia, and was promptly accused by Bryan Fischer of being blinded by Satan
America needs a diplomat on the world stage, not a myopic neurosurgeon whose eyes glaze over when you show him a map of Europe.
Eviscerated by President Obama in Cleveland, Speaker Boehner had no option but to try to bury Obama’s budget in well-tried but obvious lies
Shortly after it became apparent that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud Party had survived a close election and would retain power over the nation’s government, the New York Times released a scathing editorial criticizing Netanyahu for going ugly and utilizing racism and anti-Palestine sentiment to energize far-right Israeli voters.
John Boehner wants you to believe the demands of ideology over demonstrable facts, the same recipe that led us to the crash of 2008
Habitual liar Scott Walker has said he released his college records, but as PolitiFact has shown, this is just another lie
Republicans accuse President Obama of appeasement – and he has appeased Israel before Netanyahu’s attempted coup – but those days should be past
The GOP is determined to ignore every relevant fact about Benghazi on their mission to crucify Hillary Clinton
It is hardly a surprise the Religious Right does not want to talk to those of other religions. After all, it’s harder to hate those you get to know
