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As Don Draper, the central character of AMC’s hit show Mad Men, likes to say, “If you don’t like what’s being said, change the conversation.”
For the GOP across the nation these days, though, the prevailing attitude is more to the effect of, “If you don’t like what’s being said, repress the conversation.”
President Donald Trump picked West Virginia to announce his plan to reduce pollution controls on coal-fired power plants, which is no surprise.
West Virginia loves coal, and coal miners love Trump, but what both of them may not love is the fact that a reduction in pollution controls is going to greatly increase the number of people who die prematurely from pollution created by burning coal. It will also greatly increase the number of people who get sick with serious illnesses such as heart and lung problems.
A Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in West Virginia lashed out at Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday, saying that McConnell was soft on China and had conflicts of interest because his wife’s father is “a wealthy Chinaperson.”
It was a nice photo-op for the West Virginia governor, but there seems to be more to the story than a simple change of heart.
The president's decision to give such a disturbing rant in front of preteen boys would be shocking if anybody but Trump was delivering the ramble.
Trump conned coal miners in order to win the White House, but Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown promises not to let him get away with it.
The Vermont senator went into tough terrain, but he was able to show West Virginia Trump supporters how the GOP is conning them.
“I’m nowhere near a Hillary Clinton supporter. I’m just not a fan of having a maniac hold office in my great state.”
There is a misconception among ignorant Americans that this nation was founded on the tenets of the bible and is therefore a Christian nation
At a time when Republicans and their money-machine the Koch brothers are waging a ferocious battle to put a stop to clean and renewable energy, and oppose any and all regulations on fossil fuels, another man-made disaster in West Virginia reveals why dirty fossil fuels are a clear and present danger to Americans' health.
West Virginia Delegate Brian Kurcaba says rape is awful, but remarks that it can create a beautiful child.
Of all the reasons to not build the Keystone pipeline, one that is often overlooked, and ignored by the corporate media, is the real and present danger of a break in TransCanada's rupture-prone pipeline the company claims is safe and environmentally friendly.
During an appearance on Fox News' The Kelly File Thursday night, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) criticized Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) for agreeing with President Obama's decision to normalize the United States' relationship with Cuba.
The only protection Americans have against corporate predators are regulations that Republicans promise to eviscerate under the guise of "jobs bills" when they take control of the Congress in January.
On Thursday, Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) announced that Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) will take over as Chair of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, replacing Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO).
One student was told that failing to stand is disrespectful to members of the U.S. military; another was told the law required him to stand
All the talk of a Republican takeover of the US Senate after this year's midterms may have been a bit premature as a new poll in Georgia shows that Democratic candidate Michelle Nunn holds a three-point lead over Republican nominee David Perdue for Georgia's open Senate seat.
West Virginia Senate candidate Natalie Tennant plans to campaign with Elizabeth Warren in July.
. As usual they use mendacity as a fear-mongering tool to convince their stupid supporters that President Obama's attempt to assuage the health and economic devastation of climate change is a deliberate job-killing, economy-devastating, terrorist assault on Americans.
In the House of Representatives, Republicans signaled to the world that not only are they not discussing the veracity of man-made climate change, they signaled to the world they are smarter than climate scientists and officially denied that what 97% of climate scientists say is wrong and that there is no climate change threat.