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5 things Republicans hate about Jack Lew

The Week President Obama’s nominee for Treasury secretary used to be well-regarded on the Right. Not anymore “There was a time when Republicans liked Jack Lew,” President Obama’s chief of staff and...

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2nd Amendment

I’m bookmarking the following site.  I really appreciate its historical facts… Cognitive Dissidence Thanks to the vast right wing echo chamber, it appears that we cannot have a real debate on guns...

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G.O.P. Seeks To Crib Obama’s Campaign Playbook

Alan Colmes’ Liberaland The extent of the party’s 2012 failure has finally sunk in: The Republican National Committee is reviewing the party’s deficiencies, particularly in technology and grass-roots...

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11 Things Wrong With Congress

U.S. News & World Report Capitol Hole America needs to rally. Jobs are scarce, incomes are falling, and prosperity seems to be slipping away. Congress could help, but instead of bold new...

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Deluded Republican Reformers

This past week, Lindsey Graham in essence demanded that cabinet nominee Chuck Hagel disprove rumors against him. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post, via Getty (FILE) Daily Beast columnist, Michael...

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Once again, Washington fails

Here we go again with yet another GOP “manufactured crisis“… The Week Surprise! With the sequester, our lawmakers have once again manufactured a totally unnecessary and very harmful crisis Well isn’t...

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Ann Romney has not gotten over losing the election

Some people have dubbed Ann Romney The Queen of Mean…just saying… The Week Fox News has bagged the first interview with the Romneys since President Obama’s convincing victory in November, and the...

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Obama jokes about press, GOP and himself

President Obama leave the Gridiron Dinner Friday, March 9th. I’m a bit late with this particular story but after finally reading about it, I decided to share.   According to various press reports, this...

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Rick Perry: Immigrant Release Is A ‘Federally Sponsored Jailbreak’

Texas Governor Rick Perry at CPAC 2013 CPAC has begun its annual parade of Tea Party fanatics bashing President Obama and his policies… TPM LiveWire Speaking at the Conservative Political Action...

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Boston Marathon Explosions: Fox News Goes Straight to Clueless Joe Arpaio for...

Fox News and Joe Arpaio are one in the same…clueless. Phoenix News Times - 2:30 pm The news is still unfolding about the explosions near the finish line at the Boston Marathon today, but Sheriff Joe...

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Two-year-old gets shot and killed and, yawn, it’s just another day in America

More on the shooting of a two-year old child by her five-year old brother from Piperni… Mario Piperni America’s gun culture takes another life. Authorities in southern Kentucky say a 2-year-old girl...

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Gun Protesters Plan March On Washington With Loaded Rifles To ‘Put The...

This is absurd.  From where I stand, this proposed demonstration sounds like it will be a veiled threat  to scare pr0-gun safety advocates from supporting any sort of gun reform. I truly abhor...

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Heritage’s in-house white supremacist wrote for white supremacists

H/t: Democratic Underground Daily Kos In case there was any doubt that Heritage Foundation’s Jason Richwine is a white supremacist, there’s his pieces for a white supremacist website: Richwine’s two...

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Paul Ryan: Progressivism Is ‘Arrogant And Condescending’

Pot…meet kettle. The Huffingtom Post Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) belittled progressives during a speech at the conservative American Enterprise Institute on Wednesday. “Progressivism is well-intentioned...

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Leader of Armed March On Washington Calls For ‘Revolutionary Army’ To Topple...

So, this is my question.  Do they think because the Black guy is  the president, it will be easy to overthrow the “government” (aka Obama)?  In fact, do they know anything about our military power...

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Letters Containing Ricin Poison Sent To Bloomberg And Gun Control Group Director

Michael Bloomberg is one of two who received letters containing ricin, apparently in retaliation for their taking steps toward greater gun control. There may be no second-guessing the sender’s...

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FBI intercepts suspicious letter to Obama that might contain ricin

The Washington Post A spokesperson in the FBI’s Washington Field Office said that a “suspicious letter” sent to Obama was intercepted at a White House mail facility on Thursday morning. FBI is...

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CNN Host Corners Darrell Issa Over Claim That Obama Conspired To Target Tea...

Think Progress House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) claimed on Sunday that political officials in the Obama administration directed Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agents in...

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Secret Service: Man wrote ‘KKK forever’ and threatened to shoot Obamas

Ryan Kirker charged with threatening Barack and Michelle Obama What’s it going to take for Americans to say, “enough already“?  Get over it, the man is in his second term with only three and a half...

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Tuesday Extended Blog Roundup 6-25-2013

It’s the Voters’ Move in Race to Fill Kerry’s Senate Seat in Massachusetts [New York Times] 6/24/2013 11:23:25 PM State officials predicted that only 37 percent of voters would go to the polls to...

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