Last night, I saw this tweet, and variations of it, explode across my social media feeds: To be honest, I blew it off because it sounded like something taken out of context. For most of 2017, there was a very healthy media cottage industry built around keeping the ...read more

• By Justin Rosario
  Feb 22, 2018

Last night, I read Shaun King's "Atlanta Mayoral Race Shows What Happens When Progressives Don't Compromise" and almost wept with joy. As one of the loudest voices in Bernie's movement, King has spent an awful lot of time playing purity politics. If his preferred candidate ...read more

• By Justin Rosario
  Dec 8, 2017

Now that the Purity Left (as well as Trump and his supporters) is all up in arms again over Donna Brazile's "courageous" revelation that the dreaded Hillary Clinton rigged the primary, robbed poor Bernie, kicked a puppy, and stole money from the orphanage, the rest of the story ...read more

• By Justin Rosario
  Nov 3, 2017

By almost any measure, 2016 was a flaming bag of dogshit left on the world's doorstep. There were images of shell-shocked children who in the end may or may not have survived the atrocity that was Aleppo. There was the worst mass-shooting in American history at an Orlando gay ...read more

• By Chez Pazienza
  Dec 31, 2016

This may come as a surprise, even for those of you who pay close attention to American politics: apparently South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham was actually running for president in 2016. Who knew! Either way, he's not any more. The definitely not gay Southern gent announced ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Dec 21, 2015

Whenever a Republican presidential debate nears, there's a feeling of dread the creeps over me that I now find overwhelming. For professional purposes, I am supposed to watch the meaningless spectacle in order to provide commentary on it, but truth be told, I'm not watching it ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Dec 15, 2015

Last night, the public witnessed the death of not only Jeb Bush as a viable candidate for President, but the end of establishment conservatism in America. Bush had been faltering badly in the polls before the debate and needed a game changing performance to turn things around. ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Oct 29, 2015

Jeb Bush is the frontrunner for the GOP primaries, and has in recent times positioned himself as a sensible moderate. The truth is that Jeb Bush is neither sensible, or a moderate. While it may be 'centrist' in America to say things like: 'I don’t think the science is clear what ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  May 22, 2015

Here we go again. The GOP's 'serious' candidate for 2016 is hitting the pre-campaign trail pacifying the crazies with what can only be described as outright lies about climate change. Despite the overwhelming evidence and virtually unanimous scientific consensus that climate ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  May 21, 2015

The biggest mistake Hillary Clinton made, and I think this will be an albatross over her neck for the rest of the campaign — I don’t think she’ll be able to overcome this — is that when she was asked to provide security for Benghazi, she didn’t do it. - Rand Paul speaking to ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Feb 26, 2015

(Image via Addictinginfo) Pizza King, Pokeman movie quoter,  and one time Republican Presidential candidate Herman Cain has been ramping up his media appearances  of late, potentially testing the waters for a 2016 Presidential campaign, or maybe to promote his new internet TV ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Oct 24, 2014

Right now, Hillary Clinton is as sure a lock as there's ever been to be the Democratic nominee for president in 2016, but if you thought she squandered inevitability in 2008, you ain't seen nothing yet. Up until recently, I've had to roll my eyes any time some media idiot ...read more

• By Tommy Christopher
  Aug 12, 2014