Tue, May 6, 2014 at 10:37:17 am
The website of the "President of Russia's Council on Civil Society and Human Rights" posted a blog that was quickly taken down as if it were toxic radioactive waste. According to the Council's report about the March referendum to annex Crimea, the turnout was a maximum 30%. And of ...

Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 6:08:25 pm
Video Apparently, we're now supposed to forget that Rand Paul once said he would have opposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act. And we're not supposed to draw the obvious conclusion that he's trying to capitalize on the Bundy Ranch mess, either. Making the GOP slightly more libertarian is just part of Paul's ...

Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 10:32:34 am
YouTube YouTube David Corn has discovered video of Rand Paul, the crypto-libertarian Republican chip off of Ron Paul's block, bashing the Republican Party's most revered icon: WATCH: Rand Paul Says Jimmy Carter Was Better on the Budget Than Ronald Reagan. As Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) ponders a presidential bid, he has lately ...

Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 12:32:18 pm
Ron Paul comes out in support of the far right "sovereign citizen" loons at the Bundy Ranch moronic convergence, because of course he does: The Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity : Nevada Standoff a Symptom of Increasing Authoritarianism. A still from this videoA government that continually violates our ...

Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 1:16:39 pm
One of the bizarre exercises right wing bloggers love to engage in after a far right nutjob kills some people: find some way to paint the killer as a "liberal" or a "Democrat." If the criminal in question ever registered as a Democrat in his/her life, they'll dig it up; ...

Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 11:06:57 am
YouTube In a 2010 interview on The David Pakman Show, white supremacist murder suspect Frazier Glenn Miller talked at length about his twisted ideology of hate, and revealed that he's a huge admirer of Ron Paul. (Which shouldn't surprise anyone, by the way.) At this time, Miller was running for the US ...

Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 5:15:53 pm
Vimeo Bill Moyers takes on radical-right Republicans for denying the science behind evolution and climate change, showing a video clip of Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA), chairman of oversight and investigations for the Science, Space and Technology Committee of the US House of Representatives, who says evolution is a lie "straight ...

Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 11:10:51 am
If you've ever expressed a liberal political opinion on Twitter, you've seen them -- the rabid right wingers who feverishly tweet insults and long-debunked talking points at you, with no attempt at all to really debate anything. The worst ones are blatantly racist, homophobic, anti-Muslim religious fanatics whose online lives ...

Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 10:49:07 am
Today, amazingly, Rick Santorum actually started to say something relatively intelligent about libertarian loon Rand Paul... You've seen me out there taking on the Paul faction. I did during the campaign. I took on Ron Paul at debate after debate on Iran, on Pakistan... But then, inevitably, he slipped back ...

Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 11:12:07 am
After making some of the usual disgusting Republican comments about lazy "inner city" men (do I need to translate that for you?), today Paul Ryan is issuing the standard GOP non-apology apology; he says he was "inarticulate." In a statement issued to ThinkProgress, Ryan said he regretted the comments and ...

Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 7:56:43 pm
Once again I find myself in agreement with Jonathan Chait: Rand Paul's Plan to Save Ukraine is Completely Nuts. But then, I've long considered Rand Paul to be the latest manifestation of a weird trend of bad craziness in US politics. The biggest victim of the Ukraine crisis - other ...

Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 10:35:32 am
[Live event concluded...] Coming up today at the annual right wing festival of lunacy: Rick Santorum and the Rand Paul Experience. Here's the schedule of insanity: http://www.cpac.org/sites/d efault/files/CPAC%202014%20Schedule%20 v3.5.pdf

Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 10:17:54 am
Today Glenn Greenwald responds to that article on Pierre Omidyar's financial support for Ukrainian dissidents with a frankly amazing statement: On the Meaning of Journalistic Independence - the Intercept. Despite its being publicly disclosed, I was not previously aware that the Omidyar Network donated to this Ukrainian group. That's because, ...

Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 6:03:34 pm
YouTube What, it's Friday already? OK, so here's a great piece of music from the amazing Tommy Emmanuel (if you can tear your eyes and ears away from the libertarian slap-fight currently under way between PandoDaily's Paul Carr and First Look's "senior policy analyst" Marcy Wheeler). Hope you enjoy this song ...

Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 11:14:41 am
I was about to write that it was nice to see a Republican standing up to the all-powerful anti-science wing of the party for a change, but then I checked, and Gov. Jay Nixon is a Democrat, which comes as no surprise at all: Evolution Bill Not Best for Education, ...

Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 12:50:48 pm
Get ready for another round of "I Stand With Rand" proclamations from the libertarians on the left, as Rand Paul Sues Obama Over NSA Surveillance. WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican Sen. Rand Paul and a tea-party backed group are suing the Obama administration over the National Security Agency's phone record collection ...

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 ...

Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 10:04:39 am
Today the libertarians are holding an event they're calling: The Day We Fight Back - February 11th 2014. Sounds dramatic, right? Of course, in this case, "fighting back" means giving your email and phone number to them, and parroting one of the paranoid scripts they've pre-written for you. And to do ...

Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 12:28:43 pm
You know how the right wing has always despised New Jersey Governor Chris Christie as a RINO, someone who's willing to make deals and compromises; in other words, a total loser? Well, suddenly Christie is back in the good graces of the right, and all it took was a massive corruption ...

Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 10:45:03 am
Crowned by the sale of a Malibu estate for $74.5 million, the number of houses sold last year at $1 million and above statewide jumped to a six-year high, according to real estate information service DataQuick. In the strongest showing, the number of homes sold at $2 million and up ...

Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 11:18:06 am
MSNBC Video The recent Republican National Committee meeting got all the conservative politicians fired up about proving they're not conducting a war on women's rights, so they promptly went out to the media and shot themselves in the foot, over and over, proving beyond all doubt that they're still living in ...

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 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 ...

Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 11:17:10 am
Salon's Mary Elizabeth Williams reports: Ohio Politician Not Sorry for Incredibly Racist Email. In an age where nearly every day a politician has to step forward and issue an apology for his role in a traffic mess or running over a flock of ducks or what have you, you've got ...

Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 5:18:25 pm
Sen. Rand Paul, symbol of Republican rebranding, bravely stood up today and suggested throwing everybody in jail. Because that's the libertarian way. Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) on Sunday suggested that former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper should share a prison cell in ...