Joe Madison, progressive talk show host on Sirius XM satellite radio's Urban View channel, suggested on the air this week that Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) employees stationed at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson Airport should stage a mass sickout immediately...
I think people are always surprised that Mexico does indeed have an Olympic ski team. What's not surprising is that they always seem to have the BEST uniforms. This year? They're Day of the Dead—Dia...
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...
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Over the years, Fox News Channel has given us a lot of reasons to wonder where its standards are--or if it even has any standards at all. For instance, in 2008, a chyron operator called Michelle...
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The last two-plus years have seen the unfolding of one of the worst sexual assault cases in recent history. Longtime USA Gymnastics national team doctor Larry Nassar stands accused of molesting at least 265 girls...
President Donald Trump has repeatedly riled up his base by blasting NFL players for kneeling during the National Anthem. He has even gone far enough to tell owners to fire players that participate in peaceful...
LIndsey Vonn at the 2010 Winter Olympics (image courtesy Duncan Rawlinson, available under a Creative Commons-BY license)
For some time, right-wing diehards have tried to make us believe that there's an 11th Commandment: "Thou shalt not speak ill of Donald Trump." To hear them talk, the consequences for doing so are very...
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President Donald Trump continues to argue with athletes on Twitter. After a weekend criticizing the UCLA players released from a Chinese prison recently, Trump returns to attacking NFL player protesters. Early Monday, Trump issues a Twitter...
Recently returned from a five-country Asian tour, President Trump credited himself for the extraordinary release of several UCLA basketball players from Chinese authorities.  The players, including NBA star rookie Lonzo Ball's brother, LiAngelo Ball, avoided...
It's been a year since the 2016 election, so it seems a logical time to sit down with some Trump voters and see how they feel about the fact that their hero hasn't accomplished a...
Bruce Maxwell taking a knee (image courtesy Santiago Mejia, The San Francisco Chronicle)
When Donald Trump declared that any NFL player who took a knee during the national anthem was a "son of a bitch," he didn't just succeed in angering virtually every player in the NFL. He...
President Trump and his moronic minions just love to say that athletes who kneel during the playing of the national anthem are somehow disrespecting the American flag and the country. That's total BS, but Trump...
Do you know the tale of King Midas? Everything he touched turned to gold. Life was great until he tried to eat and turned his food gold. Then he tried hugging his daughter and wound up...
Former Chicago Bears head coach and player Mike Ditka simply cannot understand why some NFL players feel a need to kneel during the national anthem as a way to bring attention to discrimination against African-Americans....
The Trump administration's continued hardline position regarding protests by NFL players during the national anthem is once again bringing controversy to the White House, this time due to the actions of Vice President Pence. On Sunday,...
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The biggest story of the week that wasn't directly related to politics came from my Carolina Panthers. On Wednesday, quarterback Cam Newton was taking questions after practice when The Charlotte Observer's Panthers beat reporter, Jourdan Rodrigue,...
Mike Pence decided to show up for an NFL game between the Indianapolis Colts and San Francisco 49ers when some of the players knelt during the national anthem. Didn't Pence know the protests were a...
It's been a busy weekend for President Trump. When he wasn't playing golf, he was rage tweeting about his tepid response to the recovery efforts in Puerto Rico. In-between those two extremes, Trump thought it would...
Looks like the pro-Trump faction in this country is getting desperate. That's not surprising when you consider they support a man who has historically low poll ratings, is widely hated across the world, and is...
James Lankford at Trump's inauguration (image courtesy Lankford's Facebook)
It's no secret that Russia is not content with hacking the presidential election, and is actively trying to meddle in other areas of our society and politics as well. Earlier this summer, for instance, Russian...