More than 1,000 people are dead and 88,000 people are reported missing in Japan due to the earthquake and the tsunami. Apply those numbers to a very populated American coastline and consider what the...
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Author - Bob Cesca
Aren't You Glad You Didn't Vote?
Here's Ed Schultz, pre-midterms: And I’m announcing today, I’m not going to vote in the midterms. I’m not going to do it. You can say it’s un-American. No, it’s rather revolutionary is what it is...
Massive Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan
Unbelievable natural disaster in Japan. An 8.9 magnitude earthquake has created a 12-foot tsunami. This footage is frightening: More after the jump, with UPDATES...
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Jon And Roy - "Get Myself A Gun" Directed by Jesse Davidge
Fat Jesus is a Lying Liar
Chris Christie -- you know, the smart and reasonable savior of the Republican Party -- tends to lie a lot when it comes to his part in the war against the middle class: New Jersey’s public-sector...
Investigate Right-Wing Extremism
The would-be MLK Parade terrorist is -- shocker! -- a right-wing extremist. Specifically, a Neo-Nazi: The man arrested today in connection with the attempted Martin Luther King Day parade bombing in...
Stop Spending! Stop Spending! Except…
Joe Barton is turning out to be Big Oil's best friend. Check out this interview of Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) -- he of apologizing to BP fame -- by ABC on Wednesday. Pressed repeatedly by Jon Karl to...
Vindication for NPR
Ron Schiller from NPR was right about xenophobic tea party Republicans. In particular, Pew finds that the only group to think Islam is more likely than other religions to encourage violence are...
Non-Muslims Responsible for More Terrorism
ThinkProgress reports that, despite Pete King's Islamophobia, non-Muslim terrorism is a bigger issue within America's borders -- by nearly double. Yet as a January 2011 terrorism statistics report —...
Quote of the Day
"There's no question at times of my life, partially driven by how passionately I felt about this country, that I worked far too hard and things happened in my life that were not appropriate." Newt...
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Fleetwood Mac - "Silver Spring"
The O'Keefe-Congressional Complex
So by now you're probably aware of James O'Keefe's latest "caught on tape" scam in which he tricked an NPR executive, Ron Schiller, into admitting the obvious fact that the tea party is driven by...
Fox News and Glenn Beck Feuding?
Don't get your hopes up about this, but it's worth keeping an eye on: The New York Times' David Carr reports that executives at Fox News are "contemplating life without" Glenn Beck after his contract...
Republicans Sabotaging Healthcare Reform
The House Republicans passed a provision that would seriously screw middle class Americans who will receive subsidies to pay for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act. Ezra described how the...
Quote of the Day
“Some have asked if there aren’t conservative sites I read regularly. Well, no. I will read anything I’ve been informed about that’s either interesting or revealing; but I don’t know of any economics...
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Huey Lewis and the News - "Walking on a Thin Line" (Live)
Newt Wants a War in Libya
Oy, oy, oy. These guys never learn. VAN SUSTEREN: What would you do about Libya? GINGRICH: Exercise a no-fly zone this evening. … It’s also an ideological problem. The United States doesn’t need...
President Martin Sheen
This is funny. A Chinese op/ed columnist thinks Martin Sheen was the president. He ignored his own father's advice to keep quiet, who was once the president of the US. Sheen is a disgrace, unfilial...
A Red State Embraces Healtcare Reform
Georgia decides it's ready to get with the program on healthcare. This is very positive news. A House subcommittee unanimously approved a bill (HB 476) that would create the Georgia Health Exchange...
WTF?
Ladies and gentlemen... Alan Simpson: “This is a fakery,” Simpson said on Fox News. “If they care at all about their children or grandchildren, and sometimes I doubt that—I think, you know...