President Obama Nabs Another Terrorist As US Forces Capture Benghazi Ringleader
U.S. intelligence agencies and the military have successfully apprehended one of the ringleaders of the Benghazi attack.
U.S. intelligence agencies and the military have successfully apprehended one of the ringleaders of the Benghazi attack.
On Friday, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) appeared on five different cable news shows to discuss the recent flare up of sectarian violence in Iraq and directly blame it all on President Obama and his administration.
The mainstream media loves to talk about right wing extremism in Europe while ignoring our own, who are more a threat to us than al Qaeda
Ari Fleischer, the White House Press Secretary under President George W. Bush during the early years of the Iraq War. took to Twitter on Friday to help conservatives pin the blame on Obama for the recent surge of violence in Iraq.
During an interview on Morning Joe Friday morning, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) predictably placed the recent flare-up of ethnic violence in Iraq at the President’s feet.
“They are coming at the American people from every direction: homosexual rights, gun confiscation, illegal immigrant amnesty and so on.”
Gohmert asks, “So, you do not believe somebody would go to Hell if they do not believe Jesus is the way, the truth, the life?”
We’re number one. No, not in education, health or any other social programs, but in gun crimes. As of June 10, 2014, there have been 117 mass shootings in the United States this year.
Nugent claims, “Kris Kobach is our ass kickin BloodBrother & on the frontlines taking on the America hating ObamaGang at every turn”
During yet another appearance on a Sunday show, Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) appeared on ABC’s This Week to discuss the prisoner exchange that allowed the United States to retrieve Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the last American prisoner of war, from the Taliban.
During an appearance at the Texas GOP convention on Friday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) decided to make a little topical joke about the recent release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl.
The Republican Party has made dishonesty an art-form, lying about everything from Obamacare to Benghazi, from the economy to prisoner exchanges
Craig L. Symonds’ Neptune: The Allied Invasion of Europe and the D-Day Landings, is not a blow-by-blow account of the D-Day invasions, but rather a blow-by-blow account of all the decisions and events that went into making D-Day possible.
My story is about the giant life and death rip-off that is the retail costs of cancer medications. The nitty gritty of cancer meds is that when you’re dealing with dying, desperate people, you can hose them out of every last penny they’re worth.
Five years into the drone campaign, there have been 2,400. killed, yet in Iraq, the ICCC offers a figure of 43,099 civilian casualties alone from from April 28, 2005 to August 22, 2008
Republicans in Washington and the right-wing media decided to push all-in by claiming the President had negotiated with terrorists and endangered the nation’s security in order to save an anti-American deserter who deserved to be held as a prisoner indefinitely by the Taliban.
Diplomacy may not be as profitable as war (Cheney’s Haliburton made $39.5 billion off the Iraq war alone), but our lives should not be seen as playthings of the 1 percent
On Sunday afternoon, Democratic Congressional candidate James Kimber, who is running against Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) in California’s 50th District, contacted me to express his disgust with the tactics that Republicans are using to undermine the President.
New research has shown that the average age of a viewer of The O’Reilly Factor is 72 years old. And yet, Fox News continues to ignore the political views of younger demographics.
When Fischer says the Bible forbids stealing people and enslaving them, he is lying. Not only does it not forbid such practices, it makes them holy.
As you’re doubtless aware, assorted misdeeds and lawbreaking will land you in jail and prison for varying quantities of essentially wasted time. For those who profit off the “bad” guys and gals, crime is a Godsend; a never-ending profit center much like the funeral business.
Acting as though he would know right from wrong, Christie said America is “the strongest moral power for what is good and what is right in the world.”
Benghazi. Obamacare. Gun grabbing. These are just a few reasons grassroots activists on the right gave in a rally cry to all the anti-Obama supporters who want to impeach the POTUS for violating the Constitution.
Douthat also carefully avoids mention of Egypt, another Obama foreign policy success story, where the Obama administration’s moderating influence ensured that the Mubarak regime would be sent packing, and without the violence of a civil war.
Protesters has no problem finding places to sit on the capital mall while they try to wish Obama away
On Thursday, thousands of fast food workers across the nation walked out on their shifts to protest the low wages and lack of union representation in their industry.
What Rubio is endorsing is murder, murder on a vast scale, in a bizarre and twisted homage to a supreme being whose “testament” hails his repeated acts of genocide as somehow holy.
U.S. magistrate Candy Dale struck down Idaho’s gay marriage ban on Tuesday.
Republicans, like the Nazis, want to enforce through legislation obedience to and a belief in a mythical white paradise
In an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) defended Ted Nugent as a passionate fighter for Second Amendment rights
Ted Cruz whined to Janet Mefferd and David Barton about President Obama’s imaginary attack on “traditional” marriage
In the end, it isn’t the 1 percent who are leaving the United States, but their money.
Michael Dunn will probably receive a long prison sentence, but for the shots that missed, rather than the shot that killed Jordan Davis.
“You want income equality? That’s mediocrity.” That’s Chris Christie being pragmatic
Republicans resorted to treachery and trickery to avoid having a Chattanooga Volkswagen plant become the first unionized foreign carmaker in the South.
Judge Arenda Wright Allen demolished every Republican argument, ruling that “the right to marry is inseparable from our rights to privacy and intimate association.”
The Religious Right says legalization of same-sex marriage is like banning interracial marriage but then they think tyranny is anyone besides themselves having rights
Broun asks a question based on a false premise: “does it fit the Judeo-Christian Biblical principles that our nation is founded upon?”
Our problem is less with Putin’s fashion-sense or homoerotic subtext, than with the nonsensical nature of Republican arguments in favor of what the Russian strong-man is doing in the name of that cross dangling on his pasty, sagging, and no doubt once-manly hetero-chest.
There is no ultimate choice between Christianity and the state. There is, however, a choice between state religion and freedom of religion.
Republicans want a permanent immigrant sub-class of mostly non-voters to do the laundry, mow the yard and have no say whatsoever in how the country is run.
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.
What Farah demands from Obama is that the president set aside the United States Constitution and embrace an imaginary Bible in its place
Leave it to House Republicans to find a way to both enrage their base and alienate an entire voting bloc all in a single afternoon.
I watched President Obama’s State of the Union speech Tuesday night. I was one of the 15% who did in my area of South Carolina.
Venture capitalist Tom Perkins would have you believe America’s 1 percent are yesterday’s Jews but nothing could be further from the truth
Republican lawmaker Mike Turner is floating the idea of making marriage illegal in the state of Oklahoma.
Today’s Conservative Republicans yearn for a much simpler time. Unfortunately, that time occurred two millennia ago and bears no resemblance to the modern day.
Nugent said, “The gun debate is about good people having the individual right from God, guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution, to stop evil people. If you find fault with that you’re on the side of the evil people — duh”
“The widening divide in incomes between the poor and rich poses the most likely threat to the global economy over the next decade” according to the World Economic Forum
President Obama has sought a diplomatic solution to Iran’s nuclear threat, and yesterday, diplomacy won a small victory as Iran kept up their part of the historic agreement and began scaling back their nuclear facilities.
Since when was it ever the intention of the U.S. Constitution that one branch should be able to not balance another, but to nullify it?
A new study argues that models have underestimated the extent to which the doubling of carbon dioxide will affect global temperatures.
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
Home Depot founder Ken Langone complained that the Pope is being mean to rich Americans because unlike rich people in other countries, American rich people are benefactors.
The Republican remedy for losing seems to be to refuse to accept defeat. Can’t win an election? Revolt! Arrest the winner!
The Times has stated that al Qaeda was not behind the spontaneous” – not planned – Benghazi attack, setting right wing heads a-spinning
Minimum wage workers in over a dozen US states have something to celebrate as they ring in the new year — a pay raise.
If the entire country ever resembled the Southern United States, it would rival the poorest third world nation on the planet with less-than-poverty wages, and 30% of children living in dire poverty.
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.”
All this fuss about Phil Robertson comes down to the Religious Right’s insistence that they have a right to say nobody else has rights
It is difficult not to think back to Jesse Owens at the 1936 Berlin Olympics and what his triumph said about Adolf Hitler’s racial conceits. Perhaps, in 2014, we can send the same message to Vladimir Putin about his gender identity conceits
Isaac Asimov wrote that, “Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.” The tea party is bending over backward to prove Asimov right.
The Texas gubernatorial race features very little science and more than a little bloodshed
Megyn Kelly took a day off from her show “The Kelly File” to think about how she wanted to respond to the furor she had caused by saying Jesus and St. Nick were white guys. After some no doubt weighty reflection, she decided, and came back Friday not to apologize for being a not-very-bright racist…
As a firearm owner, I have no issue with these rules, so long as I can legally purchase them.
This Congress is on pace to be the least productive in history. Let’s set this overpaid, under-performing inertia against the productivity levels of the typical American worker
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
The KGB has cleverly and diabolically re-written every Bible ever sold all the way back to the second century of the Common Era, missing only those copies anyone actually bother to read
“You’re not a king, you’re not a dictator, you can’t do whatever you want. Our Constitution limits the president’s power, even though President Obama doesn’t act that way.”
The tea party is the intersection of cognitive dissonance and reality. It’s certain to become a reality show. Oh wait – it already is.
it was not Obama who invaded Iraq on a fabricated pretext and with an army designed to fight not an insurgency but World War III.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership is a trade agreement that is really a multi-trillion dollar gift that hands multi-nationals enormous powers
Peter LaBarbera complains that people are “using Thanksgiving as an opportunity to be ‘thankful for’ developments that are decidedly ungodly”
Republicans have become obsessed not with simply impeaching or imprisoning President Obama, but with killing him. And they are quite open about their desires. We just saw how a pair of former generals have dishonored their uniforms by saying Obama must be forcibly removed from office and how a Christian militia group claimed that Jesus…
One hundred fifty years later, President Lincoln’s Great Task remains uncompleted.
The White House sent Deputy National Security Advisor Tony Blinken on Fox News this morning to destroy the moronic GOP talking point that the Iran nuclear deal is distraction from the ACA website.
Vallely and Jones want to violate the Constitution so they can call for adherence to the Constitution with strict congressional oversight of all executive actions
Huckabee complains that it is easy to spend somebody else’s money; it is apparently far easier from his perspective to starve somebody else
There are a bunch of Republicans besides McConnell who, when Bush was president, said they’d never, ever filibuster a nominee.
They will reduce working class Americans to serfs, put our children to work, rape our wives, sisters, and daughters, and let us die when we get too sick to be of any further use for them.
“The purpose of this event is to spark a campus-wide discussion about the issue of illegal immigration, and how it affects our everyday lives”
The political and media firestorm about Richard Cohen’s recent column, as typical, missed the real issues.
Only Anglo-Saxons are real Americans but then only if they are carrying around a Semitic book with a later Greek revision added to it?
Barton is not a scientist. He is not a historian. He pretends to be a constitutional scholar but has no law degree. So why is Ted Cruz listening to him?
The pope’s representative told the American bishops, “You know this comes from my admiration, respect, and loving concern for the Church in America.”
“The war on Christmas is just the tip of the spear in a larger battle to marginalize expressions of faith and make America’s true religious freedom just a thing of the past,”
They claim to defend religious liberty but they need to read the Pledge of Allegiance with its vow of “liberty and justice for ALL”
“They don’t like the constitution, they don’t love this country, they don’t appreciate the greatness of America, they don’t think of this country the way I do”
The tea party wants to sell what doesn’t belong to them, stealing our heritage to enrich themselves and the corporations that own them
Bryan Fischer says of Hinduism, “This is a counterfeit religion,. It is an Eastern religion. It is, in essence, an occult religion.”
Rafael’s straw man is “if they can convince you that you came from a monkey, it’s much easier to convince you that God does not exist.”
It would have been bad enough if he’d pulled a Bachmann and claimed “urban legend!” but shooting people for telling the truth?
The Republican Party refuses to let go of their manufactured Benghazi scandal narrative. We saw just the other day that a Benghazi “witness” featured on 60 Minutes was in fact nowhere near the U.S. compound when terrorists attacked. Yet the GOP insists the testimony of this non-existent witness justifies further hearings on the subject. Have…
Tom DeLay says “God created the nation and God created the Constitution; it is written on biblical principles.”
Tony Perkins says religious freedom is FORCING Air Force cadets to say “So help me God” at the end of their Honor Oath
Republicans can talk about things that never happened as though they did, but Democrats cannot talk about things that DID actually happen
Lapin says atheists are parasites and we’d be better behaved (do what conservatives want) if we acted like we had God looking over our shoulders
Beck says he will reveal the “background and workings” of Norquist and this is “just the beginning.” Oooooh. Beckian ominous with icing on top