No duh… they’re destroying the counter weight to corporate power
When Ann Coulter said a few weeks ago at CPAC, amid a great deal of applause, that “there should be more jailed journalists,” I have little doubt that Naomi Klein, the author of The Shock Doctrine: The...
View ArticleColbert reenactment vindicates Palin on Revere history
The Colbert ReportTags: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video ArchiveFor those of you who still can’t sleep, and are looking for something else to watch, I highly...
View ArticleElizabeth Warren… the woman who knew too much
Vanity Fair has a great feature on the troubled history of the Customer Financial Protection Bureau, and the forces on Wall Street, in Congress, and inside the White House that ultimately alligned...
View ArticleTo what depths will the Republican presidential hopefuls go to attract the...
I’m not sure if it was done for pure entertainment value, but the fact that the Republican National Committee made the decision to cap the number of participants in their first televised debate at 10...
View ArticleTen ideas for the Trump inauguration
I should preface this post by telling you that, having just been diagnosed with bronchitis, I’m writing this from bed, where, about twenty minutes ago, I took a big swig of prescription cough medicine,...
View ArticleAs Dreamers anticipate a deportation order from the Trump administration,...
Donald Trump is expected to announced tomorrow that he’s decided to kill the Obama administration immigration policy known as DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals), which essentially allows...
View ArticleHas anyone seen Ann Coulter?
I know it'll sound terrible, but, when I found the red hat on the bridge, I was hoping that it might be poor @AnnCoulter. pic.twitter.com/OZkcVFJNUw — Mark Maynard (@MarkAMaynard) September 23, 2017...
View ArticleHave the Republicans, in an attempt to keep a Democratic former CIA operative...
Back in 2014, with the rabid support of the Tea Party and far-right talkshow hosts like Laura Ingraham, Mark Levin, and Ann Coulter, Dave Brat, an econ professor at Randolph–Macon College with an Ayn...
View ArticleTrump says it’s not his violent rhetoric, but the press that’s responsible...
When I last left you, we were discussing the fact that an explosive device had been discovered in the mailbox of George Soros, a man who Trump and his allies on the far right have been spinning wild...
View ArticleNational Emergency
This afternoon, just short of the Friday deadline, the U.S. Senate overwhelmingly passed a bipartisan spending bill that would avoid another shutdown. The compromise bill, which passed with only 16...
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