Speakers At Trump’s Virginia Rally Keep Disastrously Telling The Truth
Donald Trump’s warm-up acts for his rally in Virginia have at least twice told the truth about the former president’s record.
Donald Trump’s warm-up acts for his rally in Virginia have at least twice told the truth about the former president’s record.
It was also a very bad night for Trump and MAGAville. Youngkin just proved that the entirety of one’s GOP fortunes need not be tied to Trump.
Donald Trump‘s endorsement can mean an awful lot to candidates in certain states. In others, though, the backing of the former president is more trouble than it’s worth and could potentially tank a campaign. It is unclear what Trump’s backing might be worth in the state of Virginia. Once a Republican stronghold, it has grown…
On Tuesday, George Floyd received justice as Derek Chauvin was found guilty of his murder. The next major trial this year will be that of Kyle Rittenhouse. The teenager traveled to Kenosha, Wisconsin armed with an AR-15 and shot 2 police brutality protesters. Rittenhouse became a sort of celebrity in the right-wing media world. T-shirts…
Virginia was long a Republican state. Those days, however are over. In recent years, the state has gone red to purple to blue. That doesn’t mean, though, that Republicans can’t win in the commonwealth. Democratic governor Ralph Northam will be seeking reelection in 2022. Amanda Chase, a Republican state Rep. hopes to be the one…
Virginia Governor Ralph Northam (D) announced he and his wife, Virginia first lady Pamela Northam, have tested positive for coronavirus. The couple became infected after a staff member who works at the governor’s mansion tested positive for the virus. The Northams are now working with state authorities to “trace their close contacts.” “As I’ve been…
Jerry Falwell Jr.’s father had a dream of college that would be the Evangelical equivilent of Catholic institution Notre Dame or the Mormon’s Brigham Young. And that school, Liberty University, has grown by leaps and bounds. The school has an enrollment of close to 80,000 and competes in NCAA Division I sports. The school, however,…
Donald Trump won the 2016 election by the thinnest of margins. The places that put him over the top, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Florida were closely contested states where his campaign spent an awful lot of money to put himself over the top. Ad money will again be important during the 2020 election. And how the…
Virginia has abolished a day honoring Confederate generals in favor of a state holiday on election day. The move is part of a raft of measures to make voting easier. Governor Ralph Northam signed legislation on Sunday to expand access to the ballot across his state. The Democrat abolished the need for voter ID and…
The Supreme Court ruled in the Citizens United case that corporations merited certain rights of personhood. The decision in this case became crystallized in the notorious phrase, “Corporations are people.†This year’s events insistently raise the question of which Americans enjoy the basic rights of personhood in America. How are we doing when it comes…
Not only will Corey Stewart likely lose to Sen. Tim Kaine, but his nomination may cost the GOP 3 House seats in Virginia because he will depress Republican turnout.
In a political moment when the American president not only stokes the fires of sexism, racism, and the hate they represent but also seems to embody these values, Martin McDonagh’s 2017 film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, in its thoughtful, sympathetic, and loving approach to understanding hate, could not be more timely. Condemning the hate…
Dozens of votes that could decide control of the Virginia House of Delegates may be left uncounted because the postal service didn’t deliver them on time.
A 32-year-old woman killed when a suspected white nationalist crashed his car into anti-racist demonstrators in Charlottesville was being remembered on Wednesday at a memorial service in this southern U.S. college town.
Denouncing terrorism at the hands of white supremacists wouldn’t fit Trump’s narrative that America should fear only minority groups.
The willingness of this president to ignore what is specifically fueling the outbreak of deadly violence and hatred in Virginia will only give oxygen to those causing it.
Meanwhile, the President of the United States remains silent as, at this hour, he is likely teeing off from one of the fairways at his golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey.
Gov. Terry McAuliffe said, “I think we need to do more to protect all of our citizens. I have long advocated, this is not what today is about, but there are too many guns on the street. We lose 93 million Americans a day to gun violence.”
In an 11 to 4 vote, the board scrapped Virginia’s regulations which would have required abortion clinics to adhere to the same regulations as surgical centers.
Removing these two states from the list of battlegrounds doesn’t just make Trump’s path to victory narrow – it makes it virtually nonexistent.
If the alarm bell wasn’t already sounding in Trumpland, these results from their favorite pollster should do the trick.
Hillary Clinton’s selection of Sen. Tim Kaine as her running mate has already shifted the Electoral College map, as Kaine’s home state of Virginia has been moved from Leans Democratic to Likely Democratic.
Virginia Republican Delegate Mark Cole says kids have to ante up and show the adults what they have before they can use a restroom
If you listen to the anti-gay rhetoric coming from the GOP, you realize just how desperately hateful and stupid these people are
U.S. District Judge James R. Spencer sentenced former Virginia First Lady, Maureen McDonnell, to just 12 months plus one day in prison.
The U.S. probation office recommends that former Virginia governor Robert McDonnell spend at least ten years in prison.
It is a different story, though, when a white Republican is kicked of voter rolls in Arkansas that not only incited the state party’s outrage against their own vote suppression law, it drove the candidate for state attorney general who lost the right to vote into a rage.
Today marks an important day for marriage equality in the United States as the Supreme Court refused to review several circuit court rulings that strike down state bans on same sex marriage.
Since a Virginia jury convicted Bob and Maureen McDonnell on multiple corruption charges, many commented on the message the verdict sent to corrupt politicians.
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.
After his seismic loss, Eric Cantor’s pollster is blaming Democrats, the liberal media, and the ‘Cooter factor’. No kidding.
The Washington Post reported on Sunday evening that State Senator Phillip Puckett, a Democrat, will resign from office Monday. Puckett is resigning so he can take on a new job as deputy director of the state’s tobacco commission, a position with significant benefits.
Wicca is “neo-pagan and invokes polytheistic, pre-Christian deities,” and therefore it does not fall within “the Judeo-Christian tradition.”
This week, political news site Politico released a poll showing that Democrats are at a seven-point disadvantage against Republicans in the upcoming midterm elections. The poll is supposed to reflect voter sentiments in the most competitive House and Senate races this year.
it was left to Human Rights Watch (HRW) to push the federal government to take steps to protect children working on tobacco farms in states such as North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia.
Besides wasting taxpayer time, money, and violating the First Amendment’s prohibition that Congress shall “make no law respecting the establishment of religion,” Ted Cruz’s bill is an extreme case of conservative hypocrisy.
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.
Former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell and his wife Maureen were arraigned this morning in federal court on 14 counts stemming from the acceptance of illegal gifts and obstruction.
The further we go along into the implementation of the Affordable Care Act and more people see what it offers them, the less likely the GOP is going to be able to do anything about the law and will have to accept it.
AG Herring says Virginia’s ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional, and he has filed a legal brief asking a federal court to end it.
On Tuesday night’s edition of CNN’s Crossfire, former Virginia Attorney General and Republican gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli, called for New Jersey Governor Chris Christie to resign as head of the Republican Governors Association.
On Tuesday afternoon, Bob McDonnell and his wife were indicted on federal corruption charges stemming from gifts they had accepted while McDonnell was in office.
Liz Cheney, recently a Fox News contributor and daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, decided to dropout of the US Senate race in Wyoming on Monday.
At the Virginia Republican retreat, party chairman Pat Mullins tried to incite an assassination attempt against the President of the United States.
The Commonwealth Fund found that states rejecting Medicaid money will lose billions over time.
The tea party is the intersection of cognitive dissonance and reality. It’s certain to become a reality show. Oh wait – it already is.
The south is becoming more and more socially progressive, which is leading to an educated populace that should no longer be stereotyped.
Fortunately for Virginians who embrace the Constitution’s guarantee of separation of church and state, freedom of speech, and equal rights, attorney general Ken Cuccinelli was defeated.
Tuesday’s election results included two big-city mayors and a Democrat displacing a wacky Republican in the Virginia governor’s office.
The Richmond Tea Party says Cuccinelli hasn’t taken a sufficient stand against “Obamacare, immigration, and moral decline.”
Ted Cruz is little more than a figurehead of a much larger conspiracy whose real leaders are teabaggers Charles and David Koch and Jim DeMint
The rest of us are looking to Virginia and New Jersey voters to send Republicans the message the rest of us cannot.
Whoopie Goldberg mainstreamed mocking Ken Cuccinelli over his extreme Republican values. She also vowed to keep him out of the governor’s mansion.
Ken Cuccinelli says his anti-sodomy law protects children from predators but it bans sodomy between consenting adults
Virginia’s GOP nominee for lieutenant governor feels he can say whatever he wants and you have absolutely no right to talk about it
According to Republicans, Satan fills the emptiness yoga creates, allowing Satan into your soul
Havana-born Roan Garcia-Quintana doesn’t want America to be for others what it has been for him
As he works to eliminate overtime pay, Eric Cantor went Hollywood Thursday night, attending a dinner last night with an impressive guest list, including Warren Beatty and Annette Bening.
The idea of using violent force to prevent a democratically elected government from operating began when the Koch brothers’ funded tea partiers brought signs to rallies.
Republicans continue to obsess with women’s reproductive health, with 694 proposed laws in the first three months of 2013.
Gubernatorial candidate and Virginia attorney general Ken Cuccinelli wants to criminalize sexual relations he objects to, including consensual oral sex.
A Richmond Police Officer was fired for telling the media about an alleged plot to kill the President by fellow law enforcement officers.
It is a mystery why the Justice Department, FBI, and law enforcement officials do not summarily round them treasonous congressional tea partiers and prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law.
Idaho Sen. Michael Crapo is a strict social and fiscal conservative who doesn’t drink. Or so he says. He was arrested Sunday morning for a DUI in Virginia and is out on bail.
Sen. Boxer (D-CA) introduced a bill called the LINE Act, which is election reform legislation to address national standards for waiting times at the polls.
Election officials in several states are dealing with a variety of issues that come with whole communities being evacuated, poll stations being seriously damaged or destroyed.
Don’t let any of these scams steal your vote, but most importantly don’t let them intimidate you. Stay alert, but vote.
The Mitt Romney momentum myth has been going on since Romney ‘won’ the first debate by lying about his positions. It’s taken a lot to keep the myth alive.
Three Democratic Members of the House asked Eric Holder to order an investigation into alleged tampering in voter registration drives by two GOP firms.
While speaking at George Mason University today President Obama coined the term Romnesia to describe Mitt Romney’s shifts, flip-flops, and lies.
The Obama campaign announced today that their voter registration and early voting margins in Ohio, Iowa, Nevada, North Carolina, and Florida are bigger than they were in 2008.
Here is what you need to know in order to make sure that your vote counts on Election Day in Virginia.
Mitt Romney attacked Obama over jobs Friday in Abingdon, Virginia, but coal jobs are at the highest level in 15 years and unemployment is at its lowest level since 2009.
The swing state of Nevada is pumped up. 11,200 people waited in line during 90 degree heat to see Obama yesterday in Las Vegas.
The official Facebook page of a Virginia County Republican Party got busted yesterday for having super offensive (read straight up racist birtherism) images on their Facebook page.
President Obama strikes a pose — make that a batting stance – in Virginia for a great crowd. Looks like the President is heading for a home run.
In one the dumbest political moves of 2012, Tim Kaine was asked about the 47% and said he would be open to a minimum tax. Tim Kaine could use a little education, so here’s a lesson on the 47%.
A new poll from Public Policy Polling shows President Obama leading Mitt Romney 51%-46%.
As 11,000 enthusiastic supporters crammed into St. Petersburg to hear President Obama, Mitt Romney spoke to gathering of several hundred Republicans in an aircraft hanger in Virginia Beach.
Increasingly the GOP is talking about Second Amendment remedies and even armed insurrection if Obama wins in 2012, threatening the survival of our Constitution
The Republican Party has gone to war with the Girl Scouts, accusing them training girls to be radicalized, anti-religious baby-killing feminazis