Kentucky state representative Dan Johnson (image courtesy Kentucky Legislative Research Commission via Lexington Herald-Leader)
Last fall, a fundie pastor running as a Republican candidate for the Kentucky House of Representatives turned heads when he posted horribly racist caricatures of Barack and Michelle Obama to his Facebook page. That proved...
President Trump woke up Tuesday morning and couldn't resist proving yet again that he is indeed a bully, deranged, and guilty of all the sick, twisted things women have accused him over the years. The focus...
Kirsten Gillibrand at the 2014 White House Summit on Working Families (image courtesy Department of Labor, part of public domain)
When three of the women who claim Donald Trump sexually assaulted them went on a media blitz on Monday, it was hard not to get the sense that it was merely a prelude. As it...
Last week, three members of Congress resigned as a result of accusations they had sexually harassed or assaulted women over the years, and yet a man with over a dozen accusers remains in office, not...
Donald Trump was in Pensacola, Florida, Friday evening for one of his ridiculous rallies, and when he wasn't urging voters in Alabama to vote for an accused child predator to represent them in the U.S....
From Harvey Weinstein to Charlie Rose, Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) to Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.), recent workplace sexual misconduct allegations have dominated daily headlines. Amid all the high-profile accusations, though, it's easy to forget one environment...
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,...
Blake Farenthold visiting the Galveston Beach renourishment project (image courtesy U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, available under a Creative Commons-BY license)
Last weekend, as the hot lights turned on the secretive and degrading manner in which sexual harassment is handled on Capitol Hill, we learned that John Conyers wasn't the only congressman to recently used taxpayer...
The people who support Alabama GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore are a strange lot. They seem to believe that an accused child molester has been ordained by God to serve as their representative in Washington. Moore...
Bill O'Reilly (image from O'Reilly's Facebook)
Earlier this year, longtime Fox News Channel titan Bill O'Reilly was pushed out after it emerged that he'd paid over $13 million to settle claims that he'd harassed five of his former female colleagues. Since...
If you've been at all paying attention the past year, you know the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue doesn't really care much about us--unless we're rich, or part of the 34 percent still holding...
Most would think the following question has an obvious answer: "Who would you rather have in power: an alleged serial pedophile or a democrat?" A new Washington Post poll shows that residents of Alabama are having trouble...
Blake Farenthold visiting the Galveston Beach renourishment project (image courtesy U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, available under a Creative Commons-BY license)
Earlier this month, we learned about the secretive and degrading way in which sexual harassment is handled on Capitol Hill. Staffers who claim to have been harassed by lawmakers have to go through a tedious...
Roy Moore on the campaign trail for Senate (image courtesy Moore's Facebook)
By far, the most nauseating moment in politics this year from anyone not named Donald Trump came earlier this month from Alabama Governor Kay Ivey. She announced her support for Roy Moore's bid for the...
On Monday, President Trump decided it would be fun to use the name "Pocahontas" for Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) during a White House ceremony for Navajo code talkers who were instrumental in the American effort...
Women in the business world and political arena are now coming forward to recall instances of sexual harassment and sexual assault they have been subjected to by powerful men as part of the #MeToo movement,...
While yoking themselves to Donald Trump did indeed help Republicans take control of Congress and the White House, it now looks like they may have to pay a steep price for being associated with such...
Donald Trump at the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference (image courtesy Gage Skidmore, available under a Creative Commons BY-SA license)
By any standard, Donald Trump is cratering. His average approval rating, as calculated by FiveThirtyEight, now stands at 38.4 percent. He's increasingly becoming a major drag on the GOP, as evidenced by the shellacking it...
If you thought the fact that Ivanka Trump is a senior White House adviser is bad enough, imagine if she had a position of actual importance. As it turns out, she almost did. According to The...
You may have heard that several conservative websites made a big hullabaloo over the fact that some photos were published by a tabloid showing Malia Obama attending a concert, kissing a young man, and blowing...