While conservatism is without a doubt, an echo chamber, each one of their memes has to have an origin and the latest, which will probably take off next week, originated with Newsmax host, Steve Malzberg,...
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Need some inspirational music? Are you down and out because student loans are due, the middle class is being beat up, major income inequality rules America, and Washington is full to the brim with corruption?...
Joy is the tale of a working class single mother who end up founding a business dynasty based on the invention of a new kind of light-weight, highly absorbent, self-wringing, washable mop. While the product...
Rep. Keith Elling Ordered To Join The Sit-In... By His Mom!
Nobody could have possibly missed the historic sit-in on the House by Democratic lawmakers to demand a vote on gun control legislation. And with news cameras turned off, Twitter and Periscope have become an increasingly important source...
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On Wednesday, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow perfectly summed up where American politics is today, with Donald Trump occupying the Oval Office. She explained how unbelievable it is that just a year ago, America went from having...
Al Franken, in a move to placate the demands of his Democratic colleagues, decided to resign within the new couple weeks. After the first sexual harassment accusation, more women have come forth with similar accusations,...
Senator Bernie Sanders’ campaign claims to have pulled a record-breaking crowd to his New-York City rally. He didn’t just pull a mammoth crowd to Brooklyn’s Prospect Park Sunday in the run-in for the New-York Democratic...
Steve Peers (screenshot via YouTube)
Donald Trump responded to Saturday night's horrific attacks in London in typical fashion--with a barrage of tone-deaf tweets. Well, at least one professor in the UK was having none of it. In case you missed it,...
JANUARY 15, 2016: Officer Bobby White, a cop in Gainesville, Florida gets a noise complaint about some kids playing basketball in the street. When he gets there, he shoots them. Just another day on the...
It happened back in January 2016. We were still in the early days of the presidential campaign, before the first caucus had even taken place. Candidate Donald Trump was holding a rally at the University of...
Joy Reid at the 2016 Iowa Caucuses (image courtesy Phil Roeder, available under a Creative Commons-BY license)
Donald Trump's diehards have made some pretty lame attempts to defend Trump calling African nations "shitholes." One of the lamest attempts involved a typical Trumpian move--deflection. It came on one of the last places you...
First Lady Michelle Obama; lawyer, wife, mother; fashion icon? Even for a women married to a man comfortable enough with his masculinity to be able stand up and declare himself a feminist, life in the public...
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Amidst the anger and grief I've been dealing with since Tuesday's election, I have also found myself wondering how Saturday Night Live was going to handle the results. After all, Kate McKinnon's portrayal of Hillary...
In case we've all forgotten, Joe Biden is still the man. Although it took a while for this little narrative to come out, it was worth waiting for. Last month Biden was a guest speaker...
Jamie Raskin on the campaign trail (image courtesy Edward Kimmel, available under a Creative Commons BY-SA license)
It was clear long before Donald Trump's latest unhinged outbursts on Twitter--his slagging of Mika Brzezinski and his simulated bodyslamming of CNN--that he did not have the temperament to be president. However, these ugly outbursts...
There is no doubt that every day that we get further and further into President Trump's regime we miss President Obama even more. Oftentimes I find myself lost in the distance dreaming of a time...
Ever since Hillary Clinton became the presumptive Democratic nominee, many party members have been wondering and even asking when her challenger, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, will officially disband his campaign and endorse her. During a...
It's no secret that many Democrats are hoping to put Hillary Clinton on the top of their 2016 presidential ticket. The former First Lady, US Senator, and Secretary of State seems to enjoy a wide...
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On Saturday, Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-ILL.) had enough of Donald Trump's fake sympathy for "our great military," and his using military families as pawns in his blame game to "dodge" responsibility for Friday's government shutdown. In...
Nina Donovan, author of "#Nasty Woman" (image courtesy Nina Donovan via New York Daily News)
In case you missed it, one of the moments at the Women's March on Washington that drew the biggest applause came when Ashley Judd read a poem slamming Donald Trump for his blatant misogyny. It...