Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 12:02:40 pm
Four years ago, the modern tea party seemed to emerge from nowhere, leaving journalists bewildered and the public with few reference points to understand seemingly spontaneous rallies by middle-class people seeking lower tax rates. A search for the phrase "tea party" in connection with "politics" in major newspapers yielded ...

Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 9:34:21 am
Youtube Video We're seeing an onslaught of misinformation on climate in the build up to the new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change release later this week. Here's some truth to push back.

Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 4:05:07 pm
Here we go again in Texas, where reactionary Republican religious fanatics are trying once more to insert nutty creationist falsehoods into high school science textbooks. (And climate change denial too; they often go hand in hand.) AUSTIN -- Religious conservatives serving on state textbook review panels have criticized several proposed ...

Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 4:49:23 pm
Photo: Fibonacci Blue via Flickr.com The roadshow being put on by Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) and the Heritage Foundation pushing for the defunding of Obamacare is doing a good job of pitting Republican against Republican. But it's helped distract from the one core value of the Republican Party: Never ever ever ...

Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 1:44:53 pm
Today's totally cock-eyed opinions on Syria come from one of the true Republican weirdos in the Senate: Rand Paul: No American Interests in Syria. According to Aqua Buddha, America has no interests in Syria and we should leave them alone. And besides, Bashar al-Assad is only killing Muslims, so who cares? I ...

Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 6:53:20 am
Image: Talk Radio News Service via Flickr.com Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) vowed on Monday that any increase in the debt limit would require cuts to the "mandatory side" of government spending. "Now, it's time to deal with the mandatory side," Boehner told the crowd at a fundraiser for Rep. Mike Simpson (R-ID) ...

Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 12:17:30 pm
As the first openly gay person ever elected to public office in California, Harvey Milk helped change America with a simple message to his community: Come out. "Every gay person must come out," Milk said on Gay Freedom Day in 1978. "As difficult as it is, you must tell your immediate ...

Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 8:05:51 pm
Former Rand Paul adviser Jack Hunter, in his “Southern Avenger” mask. In the middle of a pretty fascinating rant about Bruce Fein (who is acting as Lon Snowden's lawyer, Lon being Edward's father) on NSFW, I saw something that actually made me lose some more respect for Greenwald, which I didn't ...

Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 11:44:28 am
Let me start off by saying that for the GOP to lose the House of Representatives would require a meltdown worse than we're seeing in the Arctic. "The number of competitive districts is at its lowest since Cook first started the partisanship rating in the 1998 election cycle," the Cook Political ...

Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 7:24:40 pm
A story today in the Wall Street Journal, Edward Snowden Talks With His Father, reveals that Wikileaks has opened a store which also includes Edward Snowden merchandise. WikiLeaks also recently began selling Edward Snowden merchandise, including T-shirts and coffee mugs, via its online store. WikiLeaks didn't respond to questions about ...

Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 1:26:39 pm
You know how Glenn Greenwald and Wikileaks and all the other people who idolize Bradley Manning are always vehemently denying that Manning's massive document theft hurt the United States in any way? Well, Bradley Manning doesn't agree: Bradley Manning Apologizes for Hurting the US. FORT MEADE, Md. -- Bradley Manning has ...

Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 4:13:08 pm
Time for a completely hysterical breaking story from Gizmodo: Google: Gmail Users Have No Reason to Expect Privacy. Here's some more bad news to add to the pile of concern over email vulnerability, a brief filed by Google's attorneys has just surfaced and revealed that Gmail users should have "no ...

Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 2:43:08 pm
Media Matters Meanwhile today, Rush Limbaugh informed his obedient wingnut audience that if they believe scientists are correct about climate change, they can't be real Christians. Yup, he really did say it.

Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 12:21:59 pm
Perhaps in reaction to Rep. Dana Rohrabacher's idiotic statement that "global warming is a total fraud," the official Barack Obama Twitter feed gets snarky: Climate change is real. #ScienceSaysSo. pic.twitter.com/SSCKGAYRkQ — Barack Obama (@BarackObama) August 12, 2013 Retweet if you agree: Climate change is real, and it's time for us to act. ...

Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 11:09:53 am
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.), a longtime member of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, recently brushed aside concern that the wildfires currently scorching across his state and causing millions of dollars of damage have anything to do with climate change. In fact, he told constituents at a ...

Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 6:21:07 pm
I posted a not-very-good photo of this comic a while back, but here's a much better one: the Lizard Collection's copy of The Avengers #2, published in November 1963, with an awesome Jack Kirby cover featuring the retro-original all-golden Iron Man costume. In the second issue of The Avengers, they're tormented ...

Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 5:04:04 pm
Is the NYT Editorial Page going to demand the extradition of their sources, too, or just other newspapers' sources? http://t.co/2jyIPoDz7W — Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) August 7, 2013 Has NYT Editorial Page once condemned the USG for refusing to extradite, or is it only bad when others do it? ...

Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 5:25:11 pm
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Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 6:46:51 pm
This is one of the best interviews ever done with Buzz. Sir David Frost travels to Los Angeles to meet the astronaut who became the second person to walk on the moon. With the death of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin is the only man alive who can tell us at ...

Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 5:04:11 pm
So much for having a national conversation about race. Conservative commentators claimed they'd welcome an honest discussion about the thorny issue in the wake of the George Zimmerman verdict. But within moments last week of President Obama offering up his personal reflection about the trial and how the killing of ...

Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 4:35:41 pm
Oh Glenn. Any excuse to stroke your Obama Derangement Syndrome, right? The rabidly pro-war and anti-Muslim GOP former Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, Peter King, has repeatedly lavished Obama with all sorts of praise and support for his policies in those areas. The Obama White House frequently needs, ...

Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 5:46:11 pm
Climate scientist Michael Mann's defamation lawsuit against the National Review and the Competitive Enterprise Institute will proceed: The judge issued two decisions on July 19 allowing Mann's suits to go forward. The plaintiffs had each filed a motion to dismiss, arguing that the First Amendment protects their right to say ...

Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 1:37:11 pm
At the Texas capitol today, where the state Senate is debating that regressive caveman anti-choice bill passed by the House a couple of days ago, state troopers are searching women and confiscating any tampons or pads they discover. Texas Republicans are scared that women will throw tampons at them. Yes, ...

Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 2:09:32 pm
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Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 2:03:37 pm
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