You know it's bad when even right-wing televangelist Pat Robertson says we've "gone too far." Alabama opened the proverbial flood gates Wednesday after governor Kay Ivey signed the most restrictive abortion ban in the nation. Under this...
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...
Richard Shelby (image from Shelby's Facebook)
There is a significant element of the Alabama Republican Party that is completely morally bankrupt. That was amply established during the special election campaign for Jeff Sessions' former Senate seat. Numerous Republican officials, from nominal...
Roy Moore on the campaign trail for Senate (image courtesy Moore's Facebook)
When it became apparent to Roy Moore that accusations he molested women and pursued girls young enough to be his daughters weren't going away, he threatened to haul the women who spoke up against him...
Attorney General Jeff Sessions, once a darling of right-wing Republicans, has now fallen out of favor with some in the GOP and is being urged to resign. Congressmen Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Mark Meadows (R-NC) have...
Oliver Robinson (featured image courtesy Alabama Media Group)
Last week, Kyle Whitmire, a columnist for Alabama Media Group--Advance Publications' three Alabama newspapers--announced the results of his yearly "Scumbag of the Year" contest, naming the Alabama politician who had done the most to drag...
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It's been amply established that Breitbart News is one of the most morally bankrupt corners of the Internet. If there was any doubt that Steve Bannon and friends had no moral compass whatsoever, it was...
Mark Crutcher (image courtesy Life Dynamics' Facebook)
By all rights, when Roy Moore was credibly accused of molesting women and pursuing girls young enough to be his daughters, his campaign for Jeff Sessions' Senate seat should have been over. And yet, the...
Roy Moore at a June press conference (image courtesy Moore's Facebook)
For most of the fall, the conventional wisdom in the political world was that Steve Bannon and Breitbart News saw the race for Jeff Sessions' old Senate seat in Alabama as the first battle in...
Roy Moore at a June press conference (image courtesy Moore's Facebook)
By around 10 p.m. Central time, it was clear beyond any doubt that Roy Moore's bid to take Jeff Sessions' old Senate seat had failed. Between 9 and 10 p.m. Central, nearly every major media...
Jesse Lee Peterson promoting his book, "The Antidote" (image courtesy Peterson's Facebook)
As election day dawned in the race for Jeff Sessions' Senate seat, polling was all over the place. Depending on the source, Roy Moore and Doug Jones were in a dead heat, or Jones was...
Shortly after his brother, Roy, was declared the loser in the Alabama Senate election on Tuesday evening, Jerry Moore told NPR that the loss wasn't his brother's fault. And while he was at it, he...
Senator-elect Doug Jones At Victory Speech
On Tuesday, Alabama voters rejected Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore. Despite long odds, Doug Jones became the first Democrat in 25 years to win a U.S. Senate seat within the state. President Trump's support of a...
On the eve of the Alabama Senate Race, things are surely tightening up between candidates Roy Moore and Doug Jones. For weeks, they exchanged barbs, with most revolving around Roy Moore's presumed perversions - and...
Roy Moore on the campaign trail for Senate (image courtesy Moore's Facebook)
In the closing days of the race for Jeff Sessions' former Senate seat, we haven't heard much from Roy Moore. That's rather surprising, since he's facing a dogfight in a race that past history suggests...
The GOP has no idea what to do with Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore. He has been ignored, endorsed, told to withdraw from the race, and every other option available. One significant person does not...
Roy Moore on the campaign trail for Senate (image courtesy Moore's Facebook)
Late last week, veteran Republican consultant Steve Schmidt asked a question that few people had asked about the prospect of Roy Moore going to the Senate--what was being done to keep the Senate pages safe? This...
A campaign official who works for GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore tried to assert that Moore's accusers are all lying and got a firm slapdown from ABC News host Martha Raddatz Sunday on This Week. Dean...
Alabama's Senate Race has devolved into an unsavory biography of Roy Moore, who, apart from his pedophilic tendencies, also has nostalgia for the days of American slavery. And this is not a "smear campaign" from those on...
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It appears that accused pedophile Roy Moore believes that America's last "great" era took place when African Americans were in chains picking cotton calling white men "master." During a campaign event earlier in the year, Moore...