Excluding Outsiders or Coming Together for the Common Good: What’s the True...
Recently I publicly debated a regressive Republican who said Arizona and every other state should use whatever means necessary to keep out illegal immigrants. He also wants English to be spoken in...
View ArticleGOP: Boldly Offering Solutions to Our Nation’s Symptoms
by Tina Dupuy Nothing says leadership more than bravely standing up against a concern that’s not actually a problem. We’ve had a one-sided battle with Sharia Law in the U.S. No one is fighting for...
View ArticleThe Monday Line: The Frog in Warming Water: Harry vs Mitt
by Denis G. Campbell Mitt Romney’s a frog in a pot of water. It’s slowly being warmed and he can’t jump out to save himself. We’re all watching him slowly boil. Harry Reid is the US Senate Majority...
View ArticleThe GOP Wants Fewer People to Vote for Them
by Tina Dupuy The Republican primary has been over for months now but it’s hard to tell. The presumptive nominee (I’ll get to stop writing that phrase in a couple of weeks … hopefully), Mitt Romney, is...
View ArticleT H E Heart I Hold – For God’s Sake
by The Reverend Dr. Britt Minshall Last week Congressman Todd Akin made the most important statement I’ve heard in the past two years. After telling the world of his views of “universal abortion...
View ArticleHard To Believe: Romney Lies Like Bush
by Charley James When George W. Bush was president, comic genius Harry Shearer wrote and recorded Songs of the Bushmen that included “Who Is Yoo? (He’s The Torture Memo Man)” and “Turd Blossom Special”...
View ArticleIt’s Voter Demographics and Maths (Stupid)!
This is The Monday Line by Denis G. Campbell Former President Bill Clinton and President Obama played a private round of golf Sunday afternoon at Andrews Air Force base. That was the most encouraging...
View ArticleLeft and Right: Not Opposite Equals
by Tina Dupuy Are the left and the right in this country pretty much the same except for ideology? Are liberals and conservatives basically two sides of the same coin? One side you have one opinion,...
View ArticleWhy Obama’s Gamble on the Debt Ceiling Depends on the GOP Being More Sane...
by Robert Reich A week before his inaugural, President Obama says he won’t negotiate with Republicans over raising the debt limit. At an unexpected news conference on Monday he said he won’t trade...
View ArticleSelling the Store: Why Democrats Shouldn’t Put Social Security and Medicare...
by Robert Reich Prominent Democrats — including the President and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi — are openly suggesting that Medicare be means-tested and Social Security payments be reduced by...
View ArticleBill Maher says it’s time for Democrats to out-Luntz GOP word strategist
New Rules from Bill Maher discusses the power of language and why the Democrats need to play as tough a game as the GOP.
View ArticleWhy a GOP Congress is dangerous in one chart – lockstep over the cliff!
Mother Jones shows a remarkable chart from Ryan O’Donnell which shows how much in true lock step Republicans vote with one another. Democrats vote bluer, the more blue their district becomes.
View ArticleNate Silver thinks the GOP is a ‘slight favourite’ to take the Senate (now...
When uber statistician, Nate Silver of the Five Thirty Eight Politics blog of The New York Times speaks, we listen. Although we are seven months away from election day, Nate deals in the world of......
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GOP candidates must turn in financial disclosure on time to get into first...
That means every candidate who declared before July 6 — a group of 14 contenders including former Florida governor Jeb Bush and real estate magnate Donald Trump — will have to reveal information about...
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Republican 2016 Hopefuls to Skip La Raza Gathering of Latino Activists –...
Democrats Hillary Clinton, the former secretary of state, and Martin O’Malley, former governor of Maryland, will appear at a lunch Monday in Kansas City, Mo., before the National Council of La Raza, an...
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Donald Trump is under fire from all sides – and that’s what gives him power |...
Donald Trump – who accused the GOP of being “mean-spirited” toward immigrants as late as 2012 and donated more to Democrats than #Republicans in the mid-2000s – is nobody’s idea of a real conservative....
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With so many Republicans vying for the wingnut vote, it was only a matter of...
Given the generally dismal state of leadership contests in this country, it’s no wonder that I’ve been secretly coveting America’s hunt for a Republican presidential candidate. On the surface, it...
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Donald Trump shows hate speech is now out and proud in the mainstream |...
Those who saw him only as an entertainer kept waiting for his Republican audience to get the joke and move on to more plausible candidates. But on Monday, after he called for Muslims to be... Read More
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Hillary Clinton v Donald Trump: the looming battle for the soul of America |...
The exultant Democrat voiced the deep frustration of millions of Americans whose incomes have stagnated, including “struggling rust belt communities and small towns that have been hollowed out by lost...
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Trump says ‘professional agitators’ are to blame for violence at rallies | US...
In his first comments since protests and violence interrupted two rallies in #Arizona on Saturday, Donald Trump rejected any responsibility, saying the protesters involved were “very disruptive...
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