I wrote this on my Facebook timeline on November 12th after I had awoken from what I thought was a nightmare: my future as an American under Pres. Donald Trump. I was actually in the shower...
George Takei was feeling the Bern for quite some time. On the inside, he probably is still feeling the Bern. But he may have just taken a healthy dose of sobering reality as he shockingly...
Brownback's Executive Office Order Skates Around Supreme Court
The always ulta-conservative Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback (R) issued an executive order?that tries to turn the new Supreme Court take on same-sex marriage on its head. Brownback's order keeps state government from prosecuting clergy members...
Larry Klayman in 2008 (courtesy ABC News)
I've long suspected that the "he's a Muslim" smear is a backdoor attempt to say that President Obama is ineligible for office because he's a Muslim. Well, longtime right-wing provocateur Larry Klayman may have confirmed...
Donald Trump and Mike Pence signing their nomination papers (image from Trump's Facebook)
Donald Trump has been running more or less on two things--his record as a businessman, and his promise to build a giant wall along the Mexican border and send Mexico the bill. But the yeomen at...
The day after a debate is always a busy one for the media, especially when so many incorrect things are said by the candidates. But last night's debate will be keeping us all busy for...
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Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump, has taken to several platforms including a rally in Delaware, OH, and his Twitter feed to accuse Democratic presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton of receiving previous debate questions ahead of time. It...
Reports are popping up on Facebook and Reddit that New York voters who have been registered Democrat — sometimes for years — are now listed as not enrolled to vote or not registered in a...
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is a reckless, idiotic, racist, sexist, misogynist, homophobe, and many other things. Donald Trump is still showing us how reckless he is. He began receiving military intelligence briefings, and he...
sean hannity donald trump
In Monday evening's debate, when pressed on his support for the war in Iraq, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said, "everybody refuses to call Sean Hannity." Well, not everybody, Mr. Trump. Donald Trump Wanted People To...
Donald Trump is flat-out terrified. His poll numbers are in the toilet, it appears the GOP may lose control of Congress, and Special Counsel Robert Mueller is moving closer by the second. So, naturally, Trump had...
Going into this campaign, Senator Bernie Sanders knew he was facing an uphill battle. The political and media establishment wrote him off as a fringe candidate, a principled man on a mission to prove a...
Republican civil war
A Michigan Republican lawmaker went on the defensive Sunday and said "screw you" when a right-wing radio host attacked him at a luncheon.?During a Q&A session, "Your Defending Fathers" radio host Brian Sommerfield confronted Sen....
obamacare ad
    Yes, you read that headline correctly. There are (gasp) a whopping four primary talking points, er,?reasons that Republicans hate Obamacare. Jonathan Chait of the Daily Intelligencer compiled this insightful list that answers the question: precisely...
Guess what? The unthinkable has happened. President-elect Donald Trump has essentially owned up to bilking hundreds of people through his Trump University real estate program. He's agreed to pay $25 million to settle three lawsuits filed...
Stephen Colbert, like many of us who were looking for a good laugh Wednesday evening, watched the GOP debate and was thoroughly disgusted by some of the questions, but mostly by the responses from the...
Paul McGuire on GodTV (screenshot courtesy GodTV via McGuire's Facebook)
One of the most nauseating sights of the last three years has been the extent to which the religious right has been willing to bow down to Donald Trump. Even in the face of the...
Tom DeLay (image from DeLay's Facebook)
Sometime next week, former House Speaker Dennis Hastert is due to be sentenced for illegally concealing $1.7 million in payments to a former member of Hastert's high school wrestling teams. Prosecutors believe the man, known only as "Individual...
heroes and villains
We all expected Donald Trump to go into one of his classic Twitter meltdowns when Alec Baldwin sent him up for the fifth time on "Saturday Night Live." But when he finally picked up his...