Following months of obstruction by the Republicans in congress, President Obama announced the recess appointment of Richard Cordray as the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau today...
President Obama is On The Warpath
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WSJ: Politifact Was Wrong
Contrary to popular belief, it was the Wall Street Journal that originally claimed Paul Ryan's "Path to Poverty" would effectively kill Medicare. Fact-checking organization Politifact however chose...
Reminder: Democratic Party Also Caucused Yesterday
The majority of attention of the past 24 hours has been focused on the Clown Car Primary vote and Mitt Romney's razor-thin margin of victory. Not to be overlooked however, the Democratic party also...
The Iowa Caucus. How Does It Work?
Artist - Dave Granlund In other news, the Iowa circus will be leaving town tomorrow and with it goes the economic stimulus provided by an army of journalists eating cheeseburgers and Santorum salad...
Birtherism Still Won’t Die
A group of New Hampshire Republican state representatives, lead by Rep. Laurence Rappaport, filed a request with the state attorney general today to investigate whether or not President Obama is a...
More Than The Previous 40 years
I believe this is the change we believe in and the change we have received. With two years of the Obama administration, almost four times as much clean energy has been put on the grid on public lands...
Governor Scott Walker’s Failure is Nearly Complete
When Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin surfed into office on the wave of Tea Party pout-rage in 2010, he promised that he would add 250,000 new jobs to the state economy. Thus far Governor Walker...
This Isn’t Being Driven by Money. Except It Is.
During an interview with CBS News on Sunday, Mitt Romney claimed this election isn't being driven by money. According to him, it's being driven by message and a connection with voters, both of which...
Protecting America’s Voting Whites
Artist - Steve Greenburg In other news, this happened today. Don't click if it hasn't been at least 45 minutes since you last ate. The Medicare-aged masses descend on Iowa's bingo parlors tomorrow to...
Ron Paul’s Fundamentalist Outreach
Benjy Sarlin of TPM documents Ron Paul's outreach to the evangelical vote in Iowa and, in the process, exposes an aspect of Paul which his more liberal supporters seem to deliberately avoid when...
Happy Fracking New Year
An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.0 struck an area of Ohio not prone to earthquakes on News Year's Eve and this quickly lead some to speculate that fracking may be the cause. On New Year’s Eve, a...
Sexual Harassment Laws? Meh. Who Needs’em?
During an interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday, Ron Paul, the supposed champion of civil liberty, reiterated the position stated in his 1987 book, Freedom Under Siege, that sexual...
Newt Gingrich: Renowned Historian and Paleontologist?
There have been many conservative excuses for denying climate change and the opinion of the scientific community, not to be outdone however, Newt Gingrich took things a step further yesterday by...
Happy Election Year
Artist - John Cole In other news, Mitt Romney has vowed that he would veto the Dream Act if he were president. The Dream Act would grant a path to citizenship for immigrants who earn college degrees...
PBS Newshour: The Extreme Weather of 2011
Watch How 2011 Became a 'Mind-Boggling' Year of Extreme Weather on PBS. See more from PBS NewsHour. I'm sure everyone viewing this was affected by at least one of these events. Hopefully the trend...
New Year Party Poppers
Artist - Nate Beeler In other news, Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is planning to introduce emergency legislation that would allow Gingrich and Perry to appear on the state's primary ballot...
No Indefinite Detention. No Closure of Gitmo.
President Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act into law today and with it issued an executive statement clarifying his objections and interpretations of the law. You can read the...
He Didn’t Write The Newsletters? And His Book?
Are we to believe Ron Paul's 1987 book was also ghost-written as his defenders claim the Survival Report was? If either of them were ghost-written, it must have been done by the same person, because...
Highly Successful
Artist - Jen Sorensen In other news, according to the Department of Labor, jobless claims are now at their lowest level in three years. That's obviously bad news for Democrats. Or something.
I Am Not A Wall Street Guy
Another day brings another whopper from the more "safe" and "electable" candidate Mitt Romney. Your Quote of the Day: "I am not a Wall Street guy, classically defined, but I am not going to quibble...
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