A chorus of conservative talking heads has been taking advantage of the swine flu outbreak (or, "snoutbreak," if you're Jon Stewart) by using it as a platform to whip up xenophobic hysteria among the conservative base. They do this by...
John McCain made a bold statement this weekend when he admitted to Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer that the US indeed did violate the Geneva Conventions when it employed waterboarding (and other interrogation tactics) under George W. Bush's administration....
I find the lede of this Fox News story odd: From the conscience clause to stem cell research, President Obama has shifted social policy to the left in his first 100 days in the White House. But the reversal of...
...And if the Right wants to call the Democratic Party the "Democrat Socialist Party," do we get to rename Texas, "Teabaggeristan?" The following comic relief comes to you by way of the Huffington Post:...
In keeping with a popular theme among Republicans these days that suggests that the path out of the wilderness and into the hearts of American voters is to take the Republican Party even further to the right, because it simply...
On Saturday, the Sam Stein filed a report at The Huffington Post describing Meghan McCain's (that would be Arizona Senator and 2008 Republican Presidential Candidate John McCain's daughter) thoughts on the current state of the Republican Party. Speaking to an...
Texas Governor Rick Perry, a Republican (of course), caused a stir recently when he suggested that the federal government of the United States has gotten too big and too intrusive in the daily lives of Average Americans. In fact, if...
I have to admit I have mixed feelings about this whole thing. On one hand, I am not at all comfortable with the level of surveillance we're all under as American citizens. I didn't like it when word leaked about...
This is too funny not to mock. GOP Chairman, and consummate unintentional punchline, Michael Steele is asking supporter to join him in tea bagging the President. Yes, TEA BAGGING. From this week's GOP email newsletter: So on this Tax Day,...
Desperate to prove that President Obama might be some combination of liberal, weak, politically correct, a terrorist appeaser, or perhaps even French (or at the very least an internationalist), a host of Right-wing political pundits (a.k.a. clowns) gleefully weighed in...
Glenn Beck (Asshole – Faux News) accused President Obama of deliberately disenfranchising "us" (no word on who the "us" is), and by disenfranchisement apparently Beck assumes that the American citizenry is vehemently opposed to everything from Social Security to recent...
What happens when a Repbulican with a conscience (sic) calls into the Rush Limpaugh show to air his complaints that El Rushbo's demeanor has driven people from the Republican Party? Throw in an accusation that Bush's torture tactics were unethical...
As someone from a family with it's fair share of political discourse, I took this Salon essay by Julie Limbaugh (cousin to Rush) to heart. She struggles her whole life with the fact that she is related to someone at...
