The folks over at Think Progress have a story up noting how the mainstream media are bringing their typical “pox on both your houses” approach to reporting on a government shutdown caused by House Republicans’ temper tantrum over Obamacare. Some examples of the MSM’s ...read more
Arithmetic. That’s what Bill Clinton says is his answer when people ask how his administration produced four budget surpluses in a row. It was also his answer for why Republicans quadrupled the national debt in the 12 years before Clinton took office and doubled it again in ...read more
Nothing quite brings the Republican Party and its vision for America into focus as sharply as the fight over Food Stamps. Suffice it to say, it’s not a pretty picture. GOP House members voted last week to cut $40 billion out of the country's primary food security program ...read more
“Useful idiots.” According to Wikipedia, it’s political jargon for someone who unwittingly serves as “a propagandist for a cause whose goals they are not fully aware of and who are used cynically by the leaders of that cause.” During the Cold War, conservatives frequently used ...read more
The marriage equality debate in the United States has finally come full circle, with Hawaii’s Democratic governor, Neil Abercrombie, on Monday calling a special session of the state Legislature for October 28 to take up a bill that would legalize same-sex marriage in the 50th ...read more
You know how they say that generals always fight the last war? Well it seems many liberals are still fighting the “last” last war. The way some folks on the left have been screeching about President Obama’s proposal to punish the Syrian regime for its use of chemical weapons ...read more
