Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 6:17:12 pm
This article provides a brief but fascinating history of the corporate quest for civil (personhood) rights and how dangerous it is to our democracy. (I had no idea it goes all the way back to the end of the Civil War/beginning of the Gilded Age!) Last week, The Wire creator ...

Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 5:07:19 pm
I haven't even looked yet, but I can hear the screams from the Tea Party right already: House Approves Clean Debt Hike. The House passed a clean debt-ceiling hike of undetermined size on Tuesday -- a vote that alienated dozens of Republicans and led one conservative group to call for ...

Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 12:40:58 pm
Right Wing Watch notices today that in his latest column for the National Review, Center for Immigration Studies director Mark Krikorian is openly citing infamous white nationalist Sam Francis: Krikorian Cites White Nationalist in Anti-Reform Pitch. Mark KrikorianIn his latest column for the National Review Online, Krikorian responds to a ...

Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 10:42:45 am
Crazed far right demagogue Brent Bozell is preparing a well-funded campaign to destroy the Republican leadership. Why? Because they're not insane enough, of course. ForAmerica announced Tuesday that it's pouring six-figures into its "Dump The Leadership" campaign. It probably won't come as a surprise that the man behind the group is none ...

Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 4:47:30 pm
In an interview today, GOP Rep. Steve King (R-Bedrock) complained that House Speaker John Boehner publicly called him an "asshole." Rep. King didn't actually hear the Speaker's colorful description himself, however: King's remarks come two weeks after Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas) claimed in a Texas Monthly piece that he overheard Boehner ...

Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 6:31:37 pm
PHOENIX (AP) -- The Arizona Republican Party formally censured Sen. John McCain on Saturday, citing a voting record they say is insufficiently conservative. The resolution to censure McCain was approved by a voice-vote during a meeting of state committee members in Tempe, state party spokesman Tim Sifert said. It needed ...

Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 1:53:45 pm
The Republican National Committee is claiming that the USA Patriot Act's NSA provisions are now unconstitutional? Really? And they want investigations too? A page-long resolution also called for "a special committee to investigate, report, and reveal to the public the extent of this domestic spying." This committee would then make ...

Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 10:13:30 am
Lawyers depart after Mark Steyn insults the judge in his defamation lawsuit on-air. Weisberg's order is just the latest in a string of setbacks, which have left the climate-change skeptics' case in disarray. Earlier this month, Steptoe & Johnson, the law firm representing the National Review and its writer, Mark ...

Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 9:40:30 am
Here's the complete speech on proposed NSA reforms given by President Obama today, for the record. As Prepared for Delivery - At the dawn of our Republic, a small, secret surveillance committee born out of the "The Sons of Liberty" was established in Boston. The group's members included Paul Revere, and at ...

Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 10:25:51 am
Remember when Sarah Palin instantly jumped onto Fox News to support the anti-gay and racist comments by Duck Dynasty's head cretin Phil Robertson? "Free speech is an endangered species. Those 'intolerants' hatin' and taking on the Duck Dynasty patriarch for voicing his personal opinion are taking on all of us." ...

Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 9:04:22 pm
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Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 4:03:36 pm
YouTube FILM LIST // http://filmography2013.tumblr.com TWIT TER // @genrocks "Words are life," says Max in 2013's "The Book Thief", and indeed they hold us together and to help us share that transcendent phenomenon that is life. This video takes 300 of this year's films and distills it into a 7-minute exploration of the ...

Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 2:25:20 pm
Some hand shakes and other hair raising associations through the years. Margaret Thatcher and Robert Mugabe "2012 GOP presidential candidate, Newt Gingrich, shaking hands with Yasser Arafat should not be misunderstood!" pic.twitter.com/3Ln9gj0EbF — Gus (@Gus_802) December 10, 2013 Republican President Richard Nixon shaking hands with communist "mass murderer" of all time, Mao Zedong* ...

Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 10:46:40 am
Your gigantic unison right wing freakout of the day: Obama, Cuban President Raul Castro Shake Hands at Nelson Mandela Memorial. President Obama shook hands with Cuban President Raul Castro today at a memorial service for the late Nelson Mandela in South Africa. Obama stopped to shake Castro's hand as he was ...

Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 11:10:40 am
Fox News host Steve Doocy and the network's "objective" news anchor Bret Baier agreed on Monday that President Barack Obama's timing was questionable in announcing a deal with Iran that broke three decades of gridlock on preventing the country from obtaining nuclear weapons. "Don't you think it's a little curious?" ...

Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 1:43:13 pm
How I figured out that Lee Harvey Oswald killed JFK by Marc Ambinder Confession: I am a JFK assassination buff. I never much liked the term, but it describes me well. I've read just about every book ever published on the assassination, watched every documentary, mock trial, and dramatization. And ...

Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 5:56:29 pm
Scribd Document WASHINGTON -- Rep. Trey Radel, R-Fla., pleaded guilty Wednesday to possession of cocaine and was sentenced to one year of supervised probation. "I've hit a bottom where I realize I need help. And I have aggressively pursued that help," Radel said, as he admitted in District of Columbia Superior ...

Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 4:26:07 pm
This is the guy who founded Christians United for Israel (CUFI). This guy and others like him are the ones that always yammer about America's "Judeo-Christian" values. What a truly disgusting load of two-faced B.S. YouTube YouTube Trinity Broadcasting Network hosted a Praise The Lord prophecy special this month, featuring a ...

Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 12:49:50 pm
Video Sarah Palin is on a media tour to promote her silly book about a nonexistent "War on Christmas," and today the blithering half-governor appeared on the Today show with a tasty new right wing word salad, achieving (not for the first time) total incoherence. The plan is to allow those ...

Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 10:31:55 am
Former NSA super-villain John Schindler notes a new report in German daily Die Welt in which a senior German intelligence official concludes that the Snowden circus is being stage-managed by Russian intelligence. The recent Moscow visit of the leftist Green Party parliamentarian Hans-Christian Ströbele with Snowden caused a global sensation. ...

Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 5:31:20 am
Quick! Bring out the Darrell! We need a Congressional Investigation to distract the feeble minded public from our failure! Darrell trolls ahead of his coming "investigation": Did you try to signup for #ObamaCare but told you couldn't keep your plan? It happened to this cat too >> http://t.co/RsYIeLCo73 — Darrell Issa (@DarrellIssa) October ...

Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 10:06:37 am
A top White House national security aide who was secretly going on Twitter to insult other Obama administration officials and politicians from both major parties, and to question the policies he had been helping develop, is apologizing. Jofi Joseph is also out of a job. The Daily Beast broke the news ...

Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 6:21:46 pm
Apple released the latest version of Mac OS today, code-named Mavericks, and after installing it I feel like I'm at a highly dangerous, potentially lethal surfing spot with insanely gigantic waves. (OK, not rly.) Good thing I read John Siracusa's incredibly in-depth article on this new operating system before getting ...

Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 5:37:23 pm
Texas blogger Allen Clifton lays it out in plain language: Bashing the media is an easy thing to do. Both political parties do it, though Republicans are far more aggressive with their accusation that the "liberal media" or "mainstream media" is out to get them. All while ignoring ...

Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 2:46:04 pm
Greg Sargent makes an interesting argument that this last minute cave-in by the House Tea Party cavemen may actually make it possible for John Boehner to marginalize the crazies enough that they won't be able to use the debt ceiling as an extortion tool any more: Did Barack Obama Do ...