Speaking of unhinged. I almost came unhinged reading this. Hostess Brands acknowledged for the first time in a news report Monday that the company diverted workers' pension money for other company...
Whatever the future brings, Justice Antonin Scalia will leave a permanent, ugly stain of the history of the nation. via ThinkProgress In a Princeton University speech Monday, Justice Antonin Scalia...
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius reiterated today that a half-hearted or inconsequential expansion of Medicaid is unacceptable and that if states want to receive matching funds from the federal...
Artist - David Fitzsimmons In other news, the White House reiterated once again today that there will be no deal with the GOP that does not include raising tax rates on the highest earners. Also ...
Bob already mentioned this, but I'm mentioning it again because it bothers me. I'm not squeamish to what I see on film, but I find this to be ethically reprehensible. If this New Yorker piece on...
First of all, why was Rick Santorum given a platform to say this on Meet the Press? Sharia law means women have to have head coverings, have no rights — and you don’t hear the President say a word...
According to a new poll from Public Policy Polling, Stephen Colbert is the most popular choice to replace Senator Jim DeMint. Colbert is the choice of 20 percent of registered South Carolina voters...
Like it or not, the status quo changes when you go from being a candidate to having the responsibility of governing. And while it may be effective during a campaign, you can't always bluster your way...
Artist - Joe Heller In other news, Newark Mayor Cory Booker will reportedly announce whether he is running for Governor or U.S. Senate sometime in the next two weeks.
Artist - David Fitzsimmons In other news, the Supreme Court has announced that they will hear cases regarding the Defense of Marriage Act and California's Proposition 8. Predictions for the fight...
Congress still hasn't renewed the Violence Against Women Act. More specifically, the House of Representatives is still refusing to pass the newest version of the bill which has already passed the...
If you're going to have allies in the fight against Right to Work legislation, this is a good one to have. Today, the legislation has a new foe: the National Football League Players Association...
Artist - Pat Bagley In other news, Speaker John Boehner called today for President Obama to make his own "counteroffer" to avert the fiscal cliff, even though the president has already presented his...
From the Wednesday edition of The Daily Show on the Republicans blocking the UN treaty on rights for the disabled. Laughing stock.
The NRA says and does a lot of reprehensible things, but this is just nonsensical. NBC sports anchor Bob Costas believes that Kasandra Perkins’ life could have been saved had her boyfriend, Kansas...
This illustrates the shortsightedness of knee-jerk Republican attempts to defund family planning services perhaps better than anything. From The New York Times When state lawmakers passed a two-year...
Good news -- Hurricane Sandy did not have the doomsday impact on the November jobs report that some were predicting and the national unemployment rate has fallen to 7.7 percent. (Reuters) - Employers...
Artist - Tim Eagan In other news, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell blocked a simple majority vote on the national debt limit today, a vote which McConnell himself requested. Also -- according...
Charles Pierce puts Jim DeMint's exit from the Senate in perspective Nobody better personifies the casual cruelty, the reckless disregard for the general welfare, the heedless contempt for the idea...
I have reservations about citing Gallup, but even if their numbers are off by a few points, this is still really bad for Republicans and great for President Obama. 27 percent of Americans approve of...
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