You know, it’s always annoying when you receive unsolicited e-mail from politicians. I mean, I get enough spam on a daily basis without having to wade through political bullshit from politicians who’ve gotten their hands on my e-mail address somehow. But when you’ve repeatedly requested to be removed from their mailing list, it’s especially annoying. […]
An article by James McKinley Jr. in the New York Times illustrates just why Conservative ideology is so dangerous. Conservatives are not content with their ambition of merely controlling the government, they want to control what people think. What better way to do that, and what better way to revise history, than to attack the […]
The thing that has always amazed me about those who choose to believe in Creationism instead of Evolution and the nutjobs who can look at a disappearing polar ice cap and say Global Warming is fiction, is that it takes very little to dismiss either one. Mostly because anyone who can look at the mountains […]
An excellent article by Alex Koppelman at Salon.com examines a leaked document that gives us a look into way the RNC thinks of its donors. It’s disturbing that the Republicans are brazenly discussing the tactic of fear as a way to gain political momentum. Like their propaganda dissimination arm, Fox News, they’re not even pretending […]
[The ever-reliable Paul Krugman posted an article at the NY Times (excerpted below) about the Republicans’ latest efforts to dismantle Medicare. It’s always amazed me that many of my elderly relatives who depend on Medicare faithfully vote Republican. To me, that’s like a chicken voting for a fox to be protector of the hen-house. – […]
CNN contributor John Avlon attended the Tea Party’s first convention Friday and Saturday in Nashville, Tennessee, and wrote an excellent article for CNN examining the Tea Party’s likely future. He is the author of “Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe is Hijacking America.” As the National Tea Party Convention concluded this weekend, it’s clear that the […]
If you haven’t heard by now, Sarah Palin has joined the Fox News network as a commentator. This is a win/win for anyone who thinks she’s a dangerous ego-maniac. Palin gets a dedicated slot to go on television and whine about anybody who disagrees with her (and make herself look like even more foolish), and […]
If corporations are allowed to pour money at will into American elections, the United States will finally have become an outright oligarchy. But that’s what the Republicans have been pushing for all these decades, isn’t it? Democracy was a noble experiment, but shouldn’t the wealthy people really have all the control? Well, the Supreme Court, […]
by David Corn Mother Jones A new focus group study from the Democratic-friendly polling firm of Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research shows that right-wing Republicans have jumped the political rails to inhabit a world of their own. The dominant “fact” for this band of conservatives is that President Barack Obama has a secret plan to impose socialism […]
[An excellent article on Salon.com about Fox News largely abandoning even the pretense of impartiality. – Wicasta] Fox News isn’t even pretending anymore Want proof that journalism has devolved into entertainment? Watch “the communications arm of the Republican Party” By Gene Lyons Fox News isn’t even pretending anymore By Gene Lyons Oct. 15, 2009 | […]
