God makes greed a sin, but then makes the GOP His favorite Party???

Take Your Republican Party Back... Please!

So I have this conservative friend, code-named The Moderate Conservative, and she wrote a grumpy piece about how the GOP has gone bat @!$%# insane. She has every right to be grumpy; if PETA took over the Democratic Party, I’d be pretty grumpy too. Those people a …

Today Show Hurt Its Journalistic Brand By Letting Palin Co-Host

One of the biggest media stories of the past week was NBC’s decision to have Sarah Palin co-host The Today Show alongside Matt Lauer to try and compete with Katie Couric‘s star power on GMA or something. So naturally, it came up today as one of the big topics on CNN&r …

I Had to Tell the Truth About Iraq--Even Though it Cost Me My Career

People ask the question in various ways, sometimes hesitantly, often via a long digression, but my answer is always the same: no regrets. In some 24 years of government service, I experienced my share of dissonance when it came to what was said in public and what the govern …

The Science of Fox News: Why Its Viewers are the Most Misinformed

In June of last year, Jon Stewart went on air with Fox News’ Chris Wallace and started a major media controversy over the channel’s misinforming of its viewers. “Who are the most consistently misinformed media viewers?” Stewart asked Wallace.

The Mainstream Media Ignores Illegal Arrests of Tucson Occupiers

On Friday, March 23, Paul Gattone, the lawyer representing many of the Occupy Tucson arrestees, held a press conference to protest the Tucson Police Department’s recent actions against the occupiers at Vente de Agosto park downtown. Despite the fact that five occupiers h …

Maryland High Court Takes on Lesbian Divorce

The Court of Appeals of Maryland heard arguments on Friday in the case of two women who married in another state but were denied a divorce in Maryland, according to the Associated Press. Jessica Port and Virginia Anne Cowan were married in California in 2008 and are now seeki …

TV Minister, Rick Warren: Mormonism "Denies" Christian Doctrine

Evangelical Saddleback Church founder Rick Warren says that Christians have a disagreement with Mormonism because it “denies” certain fundamental Christian beliefs. In an Easter Sunday interview on ABC, Jake Tapper noted that Mitt Romney, a member of the Church of …

Rachel Maddow Calls On GOP To Appoint Sen. Murkowski "War On Women" Spokesperson

Earlier this week, Republican National Committee chair Reince Priebus tried to compare the “War on Women” narrative to caterpillars, confusing many. To Rachel Maddow, it was yet another sign that the men of the Republican Party really seem to lack an understanding o …

Trayvon Killing Eyewitness On CNN: "I Offered To Show Police Scene Of The Crime, They Declined"

Ashleigh Banfield, substituting in for Anderson Cooper tonight, spoke to an anonymous eyewitness to the death of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman about what she saw that night. She had already spoken out anonymously, but she came forward today with more information. She reveal …

Female Republican Senators Undermine GOP Claim That War On Women Is 'Fiction'

Over the last month, conservative men such as Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Reince Preibus, and several others have called the Republican war on women a mere fiction invented by Democrats to attack them with in the media. Instead Republicans have spun their war on women as a fig …

Armed Neo-Nazis Patrol the Streets of Sanford, Looking for Race Riots

Heavily armed neo-Nazis are said to be patrolling the streets of Sanford, Florida to protect “white citizens in the area” in case of race riots. According to a blog at the Miami New Times, the patrols were initiated by Jeff Schoep of the Detroit-based National Soc …

Romney Adviser Says No More Tax Returns Coming

Senior Romney campaign adviser Eric Fehrnstrom said today that the former Massachusetts governor has no plans to release additional tax return information, even as a new report shows the wealthy candidate has obfuscated his finances by taking advantage of an “obscure ex …

KKK Sends Membership Invites To Black People By Mistake

Have you received your KKK invite in the mail yet? Chris Rock once joked that he wished he could join the Ku Klux Klan to help get rid of certain black people. Well, for one second it looked like his dream might have come true. CBS Charlotte is reporting that the local KKK ch …

Rachel Maddow Attacks "War On Caterpillars" Remark: GOP Should "Own" Their Record, Or "Stop Doing It"

On her show Thursday night, Rachel Maddow took on Reince Priebus‘ remark comparing the notion of a “war on women” to a “war on caterpillars.” Democrats and the media aren’t just accusing Republicans without reason she said — but because  …

Rush Limbaugh Compares People On Welfare To Wild Animals Being Fed (AUDIO)

There’s a meme among conservatives that people on public assistance are worthless and should be left to struggle on their own. More often than not, there is a component of racism involved but the main jist of it is that the poor are barely human and not worth helping. Ru …

Holder Delivers Three-Page Letter, as Demanded by Judge Over Obama Comments

The US attorney general, Eric Holder, has bowed to a federal judge’s demand that the Obama administration formally acknowledge the right of courts to strike down unconstitutional laws following the president’s admonishing of the “unelected” supreme cour …

Mitt Romney Hires GOP Super-PAC Guru and Ex-Corporate Lobbyist

On Tuesday, as baseball's managers penciled in their lineups for the first games of the 2012 season, Mitt Romney's campaign hailed a major roster addition of its own: GOP operative and dark-money guru Ed Gillespie. Gillespie is a pillar of Republican politics. He chaired  …

Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) Thinks If Gays Would Stay In The Closet, Then Employers Couldn't Discriminate (VIDEO)

Rep. Steve King of Iowa has been saying so much horribly offensive crap as of late that it won’t be long before he has his own talk show on AM radio. King is, well, king of saying utterly absurd and offensive crap. Now, King thinks that if only those damn gays  …

Trump Says President Obama Has Secret Deal With Saudis On Gas Prices (VIDEO)

A couple of days after threatening to reveal his monstrously ugly genitalia to Gloria Allred, this writer’s favorite never-would-be Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump, revealed to the world once again that he knows absolutely nothing about the wor …

Gingrich Think-Tank Files for Bankruptcy

Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich’s health-care think tank on Wednesday filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, with up to $10 million in debt and as little as $50,000 in assets. The Atlanta Business Chronicle first reported on Thursday that The Gingrich Group LLC, …

Michelle Malkin Tells Fox & Friends: 'War On Women Rhetoric Has Backfired On The Progressive Left"

Conservative columnist Michelle Malkin appeared on Fox & Friends on Thursday, sharing that she believed the “war on women” rhetoric was backfiring on Democrats.

George H.W. Bush Buys Evil Socialist Chevy Volt For His Son

Yes, it’s true! Ex-President George Herbert Walker Bush gave the much maligned Chevy Volt to his son, Neil, for his birthday. The Volt, a electric/gas hybrid developed and built domestically by General Motors is a symbol of a recuperating manufacturing sector a …

Google Shows off Long-Secret I-Glasses Project in Demo Video

In a brief proof-of-concept video published this week, Google lifted the curtain on their forthcoming digital-overlay glasses, demonstrating how they work and the various ways people might use them. Rumored for a long time but never-before-seen outside of the search giant&rsqu …

Bush Administration Lawyer Told Bush that Waterboarding was Illegal... Before they had the Memo Destroyed

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow on Wednesday night explained a legal memo that advised the Bush Administration that so-called enhanced interrogation techniques were torture and therefore illegal. Wired reporter Spencer Ackerman obtained the memo, written by State Department counselor …

Jon Stewart & Co. Tear Apart Sarah Palin's Today Show Co-Hosting Appearance

Following Sarah Palin‘s gig co-hosting Today, Jon Stewart zeroed in on her appearance — and particularly on Palin saying she was “infiltrating” the lamestream media. She’s acting like she’s “uncommonly ballsy,” he said, when reall …

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