In what could well prove to be the most hypocritical statement of the 2016 campaign, earlier this morning Donald Trump fired up his computer and tweeted out this: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/698115252844634112 I'll wait until you manage to pick yourself...
We have an orange-hued, bigoted, loud mouth, reality star running for president. My fellow liberals, we need to go vote. We can't let this guy make it to the White House. President Obama would like to...
Today during an important Senate Judiciary Committee meeting Comcast and Time Warner plied their case for permission to merge their two companies into an even bigger one. You would think the media would have run...
Question: If you could send anyone in the world to cover a Trump rally and talk to some of the brainless morons who support the Orange Menace, who might it be? The first name that...
President Donald J. Trump, the very same man who has bragged about grabbing women by the genitals and commented that he was sexually attracted to daughter, Ivanka, became the first sitting president to ever speak...
Ben Carson at the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference (courtesy Wikimedia Commons)
Ben Carson has largely kept quiet since he told a national audience that he didn't think a Muslim had any business being president. His surrogates, though, are another matter. With Carson's apparent blessing, they spent...
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The end of 2017, Donald Trump signed into law the Republican “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.” Basically, it is a tax bill that hands $1.5 trillion in permanent tax breaks to corporations and the wealthy like Trump and his ilk. It...
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In the constant barrage of news and updates about the shenanigans of the Trump administration, it's hard to decide what to watch and listen to and follow. Currently, the YUGEST news seems to be about...
  As expected, the third GOP presidential debate was full of head-shaking soundbites and empty political rhetoric. While the GOP presidential hopefuls whined about the questions they were asked, as well as how they were asked,...
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Fox News Channel and The Wall Street Journal are corporate cousins. Specifically, both are owned by Rupert Murdoch. But you wouldn't know it if you compared both outlets' coverage of Donald Trump. While the fair...
// // Do we live in a reflective democracy? Does our elected leadership reflect the people they serve? No. Of course not. As liberals, we already ?know that. But when you break out the numbers and...
The North Carolina Speaker of the House, Thom Tillis, won the Republican Nomination for the United States Senate in the state's primary elections on Tuesday. ?Now I can officially say that I support the Democratic...
By now you have probably heard about the letter that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has shown to the press. The letter that supposedly tells us just how fabulously healthy the candidate really is. The famous...
Monday morning, just hours before he met with members of the Senate Intelligence Committee in private, Jared Kushner, senior adviser and son-in-law to President Trump, issued an 11-page statement to the media in which he...
Once in a while, there's a glimmer of hope where we expected none.  House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) actually seems to be trying to get what #BlackLivesMatter is all about. At his Town Hall, televised...
For months, we've been wondering why Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump hasn't released any of his tax returns. This is something that presidential candidates have been doing for decades. The New York Times got a hold...
President Barack Obama's approval rating is at its highest since July 2009. It is up to 58 percent, which is 15 points higher than it was during the 2014 elections. The Washington Post reported: "Amid Clinton and...
We don't have to support either Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro or acting president Juan Guaido. Both can be equally odious. Our decision to insinuate ourselves on Guaido's side, however, has nothing to do with "overthrowing Socialism" or "bringing democracy." It has to...
This is rich. The fourth-largest city in Russia, Yekaterinburg, was filled with large, embarrassing, and annoying street potholes. You know, the kind of potholes, that when you drive over them, you can see dollar bills...