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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
(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
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
Maybe Bill O’Reilly had a point: sometimes it’s best just to shut up. Certain members of the GOP can’t seem to help themselves, and much like the strategy the Grand Old Party has embraced, it shows no sign of abating. I’m specifically talking about the War on Women. I know ...read more
Senator Ted Cruz 's Canadian birth certificate. How will the birthers react to this? After what seems to be an eternity of hearing about President Obama's birth certificate and the repeated allegations that he was born in Kenya, I have to wonder why I am only hearing crickets ...read more
Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-MN) thinks President Obama needs to be "spanked" and that his "magic wand should be taken away." What? He's had a magic wand all this time? Shouldn't he have used that to get some legislation passed? Watch the madness here: Meanwhile, up in ...read more
