On Tuesday, Oklahoma authorities released video of former Trump campaign coordinator and state senator, Ralph Shortey, caught with an underage prostitute. In November, the former Republican senator pled guilty to child sex trafficking. Prior to...
Remember when calling someone a "communist" was a classic right-wing ad hominem attack on anyone who failed to conform to jingoistic American behavior and pro-capitalist attitudes?
For decades, the United States considered the Soviet Union its...
This week, the Trump administration tested the limits of its anti-immigrant stance by admitting (after denying) and reaffirming its practice of divorcing refugee children from their parents crossing into the United States from the southern border.
Public...
Many teachers are veterans.
Many serve as reservists in their states' national guards.
But serving students as a classroom teacher is not tantamount to military service.
Is it?
Based on data from Defense Department (DOD) news releases, a new Washington...
Lately, some right-wingers have taken to accusing the survivors of the horrific Valentine's Day shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida of trying to have it both ways. To hear some right-wingers...
The month since a horrific mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida has definitely brought out the worst we've seen in the right-wing fringe in awhile. Indeed, it's brought out as...
Last spring, a woman in Denison, Texas claimed she'd been brutally gang-raped by three black men. However, she admitted she'd made the whole thing up--and faced the prospect of a stiff jail sentence herself. It...
In the wake of last week's grisly shooting at a Florida high school, we've seen a familiar pattern. Republican elected officials have parroted the standard National Rifle Association response to mass shootings--"(noun) (verb) more guns."...
Even though Donald Trump's approval rating has ticked upward, it's still in pretty brutal territory. At last report, FiveThirtyEight pegged Trump's average approval rating at 41.4 percent--the lowest for a newly-elected president at this stage...
If you listen to Christian conservative radio and television long enough, you can take it to the bank that most of what you hear will be tone-deaf and unhinged. But even with those low expectations...
What have we come to as a nation?
One day before a 19-year-old former student opened fire on Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland Fla., killing 17, a Kansas Republican announced on his social media pages...
American law enforcement working with neo-Nazis and white supremacist groups to crack down on progressive activists?
Yes, according to court documents that state some California police officers expressed sympathy with white supremacists, and even solicited their help targeting...
We expected the right-wing fringe to go into meltdown with the release of the Obamas' official presidential portraits. But the reaction of one of the leading purveyors of Obama Derangement Syndrome was particularly breathtaking. To...
The Trump administration released its long-awaited infrastructure plan on Monday.
Weighing in at 55 pages, it calls on lawmakers to craft legislation for a $1.5 trillion infrastructure package centering on public/private partnerships and heavy state and local...
We expected to hear some pretty bizarre, unhinged, and flat-out dumb attempts by Donald Trump's diehard supporters to spin White House staff secretary Rob Porter going down in flames amid reports that he'd physically abused...
We mustn't discount Russia's influence in the 2016 presidential election, especially since it's now been confirmed Russia officially penetrated several states’ voter rolls, and is gearing up to repeat its success this November.
But Russia did not succeed...
I'm sure you're aware that last week the Philadelphia Eagles defeated the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LII.
Are you also aware of the ensuing riots ecstatic Eagles fans engaged in in downtown Philly?
They weren't...
Donald Trump wants war.
In fact, he wants it so badly, he actually requested the Pentagon provide military options for sinking Iranian ships.
Fortunately, "cooler heads prevailed," as the saying goes.
According to the Washington Post on Wednesday, defense officials had...
It's been amply established that the very legal system that is supposed to protect victims of domestic violence and sexual assault is instead rigged against them. In some cases, it's rigged against them in ghastly...
It's confirmed.
Russia officially penetrated several states' voter rolls during the 2016 election.
This is according to Jeanette Manfra, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) head of cybersecurity, who stated in an interview with NBC News:
"We saw a targeting of 21 states and an...
