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Plea To The Mainstream Media — Can You Please Cut Off John McCain’s Mic?

Plea To The Mainstream Media — Can You Please Cut Off John McCain’s Mic?

On Friday, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) appeared on five different cable news shows to discuss the recent flare up of…

10 years ago

While Talking About Right Wing Extremism in Europe, Let’s Not Forget Our Own

The mainstream media loves to talk about right wing extremism in Europe while ignoring our own, who are more a…

10 years ago

George W. Bush’s Head Cheerleader For The Iraq War Forgets What Year The War Started

Ari Fleischer, the White House Press Secretary under President George W. Bush during the early years of the Iraq War.…

10 years ago

John McCain Predictably Blames Obama For Iraq Violence And Calls For Widespread Firings

During an interview on Morning Joe Friday morning, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) predictably placed the recent flare-up of ethnic violence…

10 years ago

Rick Wiles Says America Turning into a Godless, Pagan Cesspool of Free Mason Fascism

"They are coming at the American people from every direction: homosexual rights, gun confiscation, illegal immigrant amnesty and so on."

10 years ago

Louie Gohmert Tells Americans Without Jesus, They’re All Going to Hell

Gohmert asks, "So, you do not believe somebody would go to Hell if they do not believe Jesus is the…

10 years ago

Regarding Mass Shootings, The United States’ Motto Is ‘We’re Number One!’

We're number one. No, not in education, health or any other social programs, but in gun crimes. As of June…

10 years ago

Ted Nugent’s He-Man Bromance with Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach

Nugent claims, "Kris Kobach is our ass kickin BloodBrother & on the frontlines taking on the America hating ObamaGang at…

10 years ago

GOP Congressman Callously Claims He’d Have Left Bergdahl With The Taliban Indefinitely

During yet another appearance on a Sunday show, Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) appeared on ABC's This Week to discuss the…

10 years ago

Rand Paul ‘Jokes’ That We Should Trade Away Hillary Clinton, Not Taliban Prisoners

During an appearance at the Texas GOP convention on Friday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) decided to make a little topical…

10 years ago

The Republican Party Has Institutionalized Dishonesty

The Republican Party has made dishonesty an art-form, lying about everything from Obamacare to Benghazi, from the economy to prisoner…

10 years ago

Neptune: The Allied Invasion of Europe and the D-Day Landings

Craig L. Symonds' Neptune: The Allied Invasion of Europe and the D-Day Landings, is not a blow-by-blow account of the…

10 years ago

Got Cancer? Got a Million in the Bank?

My story is about the giant life and death rip-off that is the retail costs of cancer medications. The nitty…

10 years ago

Drones Are Scary, But They’re the Answer to Asymmetrical Warfare

Five years into the drone campaign, there have been 2,400. killed, yet in Iraq, the ICCC offers a figure of…

10 years ago

Conservative Media’s Lack Of Empathy For Bowe Bergdahl And His Family Is Sickening

Republicans in Washington and the right-wing media decided to push all-in by claiming the President had negotiated with terrorists and…

10 years ago

The Unhinged Conservative Reaction to Obama’s Foreign Policy Speech at West Point

Diplomacy may not be as profitable as war (Cheney's Haliburton made $39.5 billion off the Iraq war alone), but our…

10 years ago

California Democrat Slams Republicans On Their Criticism Of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s Release

On Sunday afternoon, Democratic Congressional candidate James Kimber, who is running against Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) in California's 50th District,…

10 years ago

Old News: The Impact of the Aging Viewership on Bill O’Reilly and Fox News

New research has shown that the average age of a viewer of The O'Reilly Factor is 72 years old. And…

10 years ago

Bryan Fischer Lies About the Bible and Slavery

When Fischer says the Bible forbids stealing people and enslaving them, he is lying. Not only does it not forbid…

10 years ago

Taxpayers Held Prisoner by the Private Prison Industry

As you're doubtless aware, assorted misdeeds and lawbreaking will land you in jail and prison for varying quantities of essentially…

10 years ago

Chris Christie Wants a More Aggressive Foreign Policy in Very Messy, Difficult Places

Acting as though he would know right from wrong, Christie said America is "the strongest moral power for what is…

10 years ago

Operation American Spring Sprung a Leak Over The Weekend

Benghazi. Obamacare. Gun grabbing. These are just a few reasons grassroots activists on the right gave in a rally cry…

10 years ago

Ross Douthat Ignores Context and Facts to Make Obama a Foreign Policy Failure

Douthat also carefully avoids mention of Egypt, another Obama foreign policy success story, where the Obama administration's moderating influence ensured…

10 years ago

Operation American Spring Rallies a Few Hundred Lunatics at Most

Protesters has no problem finding places to sit on the capital mall while they try to wish Obama away

10 years ago

Progressive House Members Stand In Solidarity With Striking Fast Food Workers

On Thursday, thousands of fast food workers across the nation walked out on their shifts to protest the low wages…

10 years ago

Marco Rubio’s Murderous Problem with the Cosmos

What Rubio is endorsing is murder, murder on a vast scale, in a bizarre and twisted homage to a supreme…

10 years ago

Gay Marriage Ban Struck Down in Deep Red Idaho

U.S. magistrate Candy Dale struck down Idaho's gay marriage ban on Tuesday.

10 years ago

If Republicans Don’t Want to be Compared to Nazis, They Should Stop Acting Like Nazis

Republicans, like the Nazis, want to enforce through legislation obedience to and a belief in a mythical white paradise

10 years ago

Ted Cruz Stands Up For Hateful Racist Ted Nugent During CNN Interview

In an interview with CNN's Dana Bash, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) defended Ted Nugent as a passionate fighter for Second…

10 years ago

Ted Cruz Finds Fellow Constitution Haters on the Religious Right

Ted Cruz whined to Janet Mefferd and David Barton about President Obama's imaginary attack on "traditional" marriage

10 years ago

Should We Worry About 3,000 Americans Turning in Their Passports Because of Tax Law?

In the end, it isn't the 1 percent who are leaving the United States, but their money.

10 years ago

Michael Dunn Headed to Prison for the Shots that Failed to Kill

Michael Dunn will probably receive a long prison sentence, but for the shots that missed, rather than the shot that…

10 years ago

Chris Christie Says Income Equality is Mediocrity – Doesn’t Know Sh*t from Shinola

"You want income equality? That's mediocrity." That's Chris Christie being pragmatic

10 years ago

Labor Pains: How Republican Scare Tactics Prevented a Union in Tennessee

Republicans resorted to treachery and trickery to avoid having a Chattanooga Volkswagen plant become the first unionized foreign carmaker in…

10 years ago

Virginia’s Same-Sex Marriage Ban Ruled Unconstitutional by Federal Judge

Judge Arenda Wright Allen demolished every Republican argument, ruling that "the right to marry is inseparable from our rights to…

10 years ago

The Theocratic Agenda Behind the Anti-Marriage Equality Movement

The Religious Right says legalization of same-sex marriage is like banning interracial marriage but then they think tyranny is anyone…

10 years ago

Georgia Rep. Paul Broun Supports the Bible, Not the Constitution

Broun asks a question based on a false premise: "does it fit the Judeo-Christian Biblical principles that our nation is…

10 years ago

Republican Bigots Place Their Hopes in Saggy Man Breasts and a Cross

Our problem is less with Putin's fashion-sense or homoerotic subtext, than with the nonsensical nature of Republican arguments in favor…

10 years ago

The Religious Right Sells the False Choice of the State or Christianity

There is no ultimate choice between Christianity and the state. There is, however, a choice between state religion and freedom…

10 years ago

Republicans Are Making Sure That An Immigration Bill Will Not Pass Until After 2014

Republicans want a permanent immigrant sub-class of mostly non-voters to do the laundry, mow the yard and have no say…

10 years ago

Another Conservative Plan to Take Their States and Go Home

Loathe what the liberals stand for, meet their agenda with animosity, cultivate a visceral desire to wipe it from the…

10 years ago

Did God Harden Barack Obama’s Heart or Did He Make Joseph Farah Stupid?

What Farah demands from Obama is that the president set aside the United States Constitution and embrace an imaginary Bible…

10 years ago

Playing With Fire: How the House GOP Plans to Address the Immigration Issue

Leave it to House Republicans to find a way to both enrage their base and alienate an entire voting bloc…

10 years ago

President’s State of the Union Speech Strikes Most of the Chords Dems Were Waiting For

I watched President Obama's State of the Union speech Tuesday night. I was one of the 15% who did in…

10 years ago

Tom Perkins Is Wrong – Germany’s 1 Percent Were Hitler’s Allies, Not his Victims

Venture capitalist Tom Perkins would have you believe America's 1 percent are yesterday's Jews but nothing could be further from…

10 years ago

Gay Marriage Scares Oklahoma Rep So Much He Proposes Banning All Marriages

Republican lawmaker Mike Turner is floating the idea of making marriage illegal in the state of Oklahoma.

10 years ago

Time Warp: The Modern Religious Right and American Theocracy

Today's Conservative Republicans yearn for a much simpler time. Unfortunately, that time occurred two millennia ago and bears no resemblance…

10 years ago

Ted Nugent Calls Obama a Chimpanzee and Subhuman Mongrel

Nugent said, "The gun debate is about good people having the individual right from God, guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution,…

10 years ago

Republican Denialism and the Ugly Truth About Income Inequality

"The widening divide in incomes between the poor and rich poses the most likely threat to the global economy over…

10 years ago

Obama’s Diplomacy Wins As Iran Keeps Up Their Part of Nuclear Deal

President Obama has sought a diplomatic solution to Iran's nuclear threat, and yesterday, diplomacy won a small victory as Iran…

10 years ago

The Media Needs to Talk Less About What Obama Can Do and More About Why Republicans Won’t Do

Since when was it ever the intention of the U.S. Constitution that one branch should be able to not balance…

10 years ago

Despite Bitter Cold Weekend in US, Climate Models Indicate Global Warming is Intensifying

A new study argues that models have underestimated the extent to which the doubling of carbon dioxide will affect global…

10 years ago

Bryan Fischer Rejects Constitution – Says Evolutionists Disqualified from Political Office

Fischer says that an evolutionist "does not share the political worldview that established the United States of America" - except…

10 years ago

Wealthy Americans Prove Pope Francis’ Point by Threatening Economic Blackmail

Home Depot founder Ken Langone complained that the Pope is being mean to rich Americans because unlike rich people in…

10 years ago

Retired General Wants March on White House and Citizens Arrest of Obama

The Republican remedy for losing seems to be to refuse to accept defeat. Can't win an election? Revolt! Arrest the…

10 years ago

The New York Times Turns Republican Benghazi Hoax Inside Out

The Times has stated that al Qaeda was not behind the spontaneous" - not planned - Benghazi attack, setting right…

10 years ago

Happy New Year: Minimum Wage Workers in 13 States Will Get Automatic Pay Raise

Minimum wage workers in over a dozen US states have something to celebrate as they ring in the new year…

10 years ago

If Republican Led ‘Real America’ Was a Country It Would Be the 3rd Poorest on Earth

If the entire country ever resembled the Southern United States, it would rival the poorest third world nation on the…

10 years ago

Let’s Reflect – Because They Won’t – on 2013’s Conservative Hategasm

They want to put Bibles in schools but not actually read the damn things, and they want us to recite…

10 years ago

Yet Another Republican Says Obama Must Do What Congress Tells Him to Do

Justin Amash whined that Congress must "step up and take charge and point out when the President is going beyond…

10 years ago

The Religious Right Champions Moral Relativism in Defense of Phil Robertson

All this fuss about Phil Robertson comes down to the Religious Right's insistence that they have a right to say…

10 years ago

President Obama’s Big Gay Message to Vladimir Putin’s Sochi Olympics

It is difficult not to think back to Jesse Owens at the 1936 Berlin Olympics and what his triumph said…

10 years ago

Get Ready to Tread on Some Tea Party Snakes

Isaac Asimov wrote that, "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." The tea party is bending over backward to…

10 years ago

Texas Republicans Would Murder Truth – And the Biblically Unapproved

The Texas gubernatorial race features very little science and more than a little bloodshed

10 years ago

Megyn Kelly Says We Are a Bunch of Humorless Race Baiters for not Getting Her Joke

Megyn Kelly took a day off from her show "The Kelly File" to think about how she wanted to respond…

10 years ago

Why America Needs Stricter Gun Control Laws

As a firearm owner, I have no issue with these rules, so long as I can legally purchase them.

10 years ago

A Holiday Wish as the Least Productive Congress in History Wraps Up Its Year

This Congress is on pace to be the least productive in history. Let's set this overpaid, under-performing inertia against the…

10 years ago

Glenn Beck Says Daughter Brainwashed into Thinking he is Anti-Gay

In true Beckian style, he has invented a Glenn Beck who can be outraged and hurt by an intolerance on…

10 years ago

WND Says Social Justice Doesn’t Come from Jesus but from the KGB

The KGB has cleverly and diabolically re-written every Bible ever sold all the way back to the second century of…

10 years ago

Michele Bachmann Says Obama has Rewritten Constitution For Himself

"You're not a king, you're not a dictator, you can't do whatever you want. Our Constitution limits the president's power,…

10 years ago

Tissues for the Tea Party’s Issues

The tea party is the intersection of cognitive dissonance and reality. It's certain to become a reality show. Oh wait…

10 years ago

The Republicans Are Still Blaming Obama for Iraq and Afghanistan

it was not Obama who invaded Iraq on a fabricated pretext and with an army designed to fight not an…

10 years ago

The Trans-Pacific Partnership Sure Sounds Benign Enough. It Isn’t!!!

The Trans-Pacific Partnership is a trade agreement that is really a multi-trillion dollar gift that hands multi-nationals enormous powers

10 years ago

Thanksgiving is For Everyone, Not Only Christians

Peter LaBarbera complains that people are "using Thanksgiving as an opportunity to be 'thankful for' developments that are decidedly ungodly"

10 years ago

Jim Garrow and Erik Rush Obama Should Be Stood Against Wall and Shot

Republicans have become obsessed not with simply impeaching or imprisoning President Obama, but with killing him. And they are quite…

10 years ago

The Gettysburg Address 150 Years Ago And Now: Lincoln, Obama and The Great Task Remaining

One hundred fifty years later, President Lincoln's Great Task remains uncompleted.

10 years ago

The White House Storms Fox News To Refute Idiotic Republican Talking Point on Iran Deal

The White House sent Deputy National Security Advisor Tony Blinken on Fox News this morning to destroy the moronic GOP…

10 years ago

Ex-Generals Say President Obama Must be Forced to Resign

Vallely and Jones want to violate the Constitution so they can call for adherence to the Constitution with strict congressional…

10 years ago

Mike Huckabee Renews Assault on Sanity of a Living Wage

Huckabee complains that it is easy to spend somebody else's money; it is apparently far easier from his perspective to…

10 years ago

Republicans Hate Getting What They Wanted When They No Longer Want It

There are a bunch of Republicans besides McConnell who, when Bush was president, said they'd never, ever filibuster a nominee.

10 years ago

The GOP is Unrepentantly Evil and This is Why

They will reduce working class Americans to serfs, put our children to work, rape our wives, sisters, and daughters, and…

10 years ago

Don’t Miss Catch an Illegal Immigrant Day Tomorrow

"The purpose of this event is to spark a campus-wide discussion about the issue of illegal immigration, and how it…

10 years ago

‘People With Conventional Views’: Welcome To The Real Modern Family, Washington Post.

The political and media firestorm about Richard Cohen's recent column, as typical, missed the real issues.

10 years ago

The Founders Did Not Establish Congress as a Church Council

Only Anglo-Saxons are real Americans but then only if they are carrying around a Semitic book with a later Greek…

10 years ago

Ted Cruz is Attending David Barton’s Conference for State Legislators

Barton is not a scientist. He is not a historian. He pretends to be a constitutional scholar but has no…

10 years ago

Pope Francis Does Not Want Bishops Who Follow a Particular Ideology

The pope's representative told the American bishops, "You know this comes from my admiration, respect, and loving concern for the…

10 years ago

Sarah Palin Sees Angry Atheists Armed with Attorneys but Can She See Russia?

"The war on Christmas is just the tip of the spear in a larger battle to marginalize expressions of faith…

10 years ago

ENDA is Great but Do Not Count the Religious Loons Out

They claim to defend religious liberty but they need to read the Pledge of Allegiance with its vow of "liberty…

10 years ago

Steve King Says if You’re not a Capitalist You Don’t Love America

"They don't like the constitution, they don't love this country, they don't appreciate the greatness of America, they don't think…

10 years ago

Tea Party Steals our Money, Wants to Sell National Parks to Subsidize their Greed

The tea party wants to sell what doesn't belong to them, stealing our heritage to enrich themselves and the corporations…

10 years ago

Festival of Lights Invites Demons into White House Says Bryan Fischer

Bryan Fischer says of Hinduism, "This is a counterfeit religion,. It is an Eastern religion. It is, in essence, an…

10 years ago

Ted Cruz’s Father is a Dangerous Religious Fanatic

Rafael's straw man is "if they can convince you that you came from a monkey, it's much easier to convince…

10 years ago

Rand Paul is Dishonest and Lacks Integrity

It would have been bad enough if he'd pulled a Bachmann and claimed "urban legend!" but shooting people for telling…

10 years ago

The GOP’s Benghazi Hoax Exposed

The Republican Party refuses to let go of their manufactured Benghazi scandal narrative. We saw just the other day that…

10 years ago

For the Last Time, the Constitution is Not Based on the Bible

Tom DeLay says "God created the nation and God created the Constitution; it is written on biblical principles."

10 years ago

Religious Right Freaks out When Air Force Academy Obeys Constitution

Tony Perkins says religious freedom is FORCING Air Force cadets to say "So help me God" at the end of…

10 years ago

Reality Messing with your Narrative? Invent a More Congenial World

Republicans can talk about things that never happened as though they did, but Democrats cannot talk about things that DID…

10 years ago

Religious Right’s Pet Rabbi Calls Liberty Twisted and Diseased

Lapin says atheists are parasites and we'd be better behaved (do what conservatives want) if we acted like we had…

11 years ago

Glenn Beck Vows to Destroy Muslim-Lover Grover Norquist

Beck says he will reveal the "background and workings" of Norquist and this is "just the beginning." Oooooh. Beckian ominous…

11 years ago

Of Reasons and Treasons – Why Ted Cruz is the Common Enemy of Humanity

When he says he is going to shut down the government and then shuts down the government and then says…

11 years ago