Is it possible that the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) will infiltrate America through our southern border? Texas Governor Rick Perry was asked that question today at the Heritage Foundation...
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DOJ Reaches Record Settlement With Bank of America
Bank of America will pay a record $16.65 Billion to settle state and federal lawsuits stemming from the collapse of the subprime mortgage market, the Department of Justice announced today...
Hands Up
Don’t Shoot Artist – Clay Bennett In other news, the grand jurors who chose to indict Texas Governor Rick Perry are not impressed by his smug derision. “We were asked to serve, we...
Mike Ditka is a Clueless Asshole
While I would and have said that hiring the likes of Frank Luntz, Lanny Davis, George “Macaca Allen,” and Ari Fleischer to defend the Washington football team’s name is a bad idea...
Best Persons in the World Meet Worst Persons in the World
ThinkProgress has a simultaneously encouraging but also depressing story of a man who wanted to teach his children compassion by housing a family of immigrants only to have his family and his...
Why Do Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul Hate Their Constituents?
In case you needed another reason to vote this November (there are plenty already), Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) says congressional Republicans will shut the government down if the president...
Equal Justice
Artist – Clay Bennett In other news, the Department of Labor has extended non-discrimination protections to federal employees and contractors who are transgender. Meanwhile, Attorney General...
Back to School: Don’t Mind The Long Rifles
I have no idea what could justify a K-12 school police force carrying long rifles, but apparently officers will be packing in Compton, California as children head back to school. “This is our...
Forget Ferguson. Hate Radio Buffoon Asks What About Benghazi?
The first person to link Ferguson to the fake IRS scandal and Bengazhi was not WorldNutDaily or the crack team at Breitbart, it was Boss Limbaugh. LIMBAUGH: How many FBI agents investigated the Tea...
WaPo Publishes Fascist Screed From LAPD Officer
To say that this headline which appeared at the Washington Post today is not helping would be putting it lightly. In many cases when you see a headline as egregious and click-bait-y as this, the...
Paul Ryan Says Don’t Prejudge Ferguson But He Already Has
House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) appeared on Fox & Friends today and said that politicians shouldn’t try to capitalize on or prejudge the situation in Ferguson “The...
Eyes Open
Artist – Rob Rogers In other news, Attorney General Eric Holder will travel to Ferguson, Missouri this week. Meanwhile, President Obama will chair the U.N Security Council during his next visit...
What Could Go Wrong?
The Associated Press reports that during a recent incident along the southern border, Border Patrol agents who were pulling immigrants from a canal were approached by group of seven armed militiamen...
Conspiracy Theory: Larry Klayman’s Race War Edition
Leader of the failed revolution and anti-NSA complainant Larry Klayman warns us that President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder have fired the opening salvos in The Race War™ so they can...
John Oliver Brings Humor to the Humorless
I felt pretty terrible about this past weekend’s events in Ferguson this morning but, fortunately, John Oliver is here to make us all laugh. As a general rule, no one should ever say...
This War on Whites
Artist – Rob Rogers In other news, the Chris McDaniel campaign has finally filed a lawsuit challenging the results of the primary election. Apparently McDaniel is asking the court to declare...
Outreach
Republicans have apparently found their next strategy for reaching out to women and he’s the star of the reality TV show The Bachelor. Chris Soules, a scruffy farmer from Arlington, was judging...
Report: FBI to Oversee Police Operations in Ferguson
According to local NBC affiliate KSDK, police operations in Ferguson will now be overseen by the FBI. FERGUSON, Mo. – NewsChannel 5 has learned the FBI will now take over a large part of the...
Steve King Blows Dog-Whistle: Ferguson Residents All Appear to Be From the Same Continent
It’s actually more of a bullhorn than a small dog-whistle. Iowa congressman Steve “Calves the Size of Cantaloupes” King (R) told Newsmax yesterday that racial profiling clearly...
Quote of the Day: Sipping Starbucks Smugly
I don’t care if it’s early. This is the Quote of the Day as far as I’m concerned. “Well I would invite Joe Scarborough to come down to Ferguson and get out of 30 Rock where...