One of the most pervasive myths about poverty in right wing circles is that people who are unable to lift themselves out of it aren't working hard enough. Some of the most militant advocates of this philosophy are those who come from poor backgrounds themselves, and insist that ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

It appears that the Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson under Donald Trump, lied about a $31,000 custom mahogany dining room set chosen for his office that was paid for by the public. Carson maintained that “nobody was more surprised than me,” about the cost of ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson has now solidified his standing as Black America's leading sellout with comments regarding slavery so incomprehensibly stupid and offensive it is a wonder he is aware of his own ethnicity.  Speaking on Monday to department ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

Amidst a slew of arbitrary, counterintuitive, corrupt, dangerous and LSD-induced cabinet nominations by President-elect Donald J. Trump, the selection of Dr. Ben Carson was the one that had me ranting and raving the most in the shower stall. Had I slipped, fallen and broken my ...read more

• By Rich Herschlag
  Nov 9, 2018

Dr. Ben Carson went in front of the Senate on Thursday to make an argument as to why he should be confirmed as the head of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Everything was going well enough for the failed GOP presidential candidate who is uniquely unqualified to ...read more

• By Shannon Argueta
  Nov 9, 2018

When Ben Carson endorsed Donald Trump back in March, it was yet another moment when we had no choice but to wonder whether Carson is some kind of mad scientist or, better yet, a somnambulist Batman villain. Not to relitigate the past, but Carson has a license to cut into the ...read more

• By Bob Cesca
  Nov 9, 2018

In a totally non-token move, President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Dr. Ben Carson to lead the Department of Housing and Urban Development in his new administration.  "Ben Carson has a brilliant mind and is passionate about strengthening communities and families within those ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

Sarah Palin, the quitta' from Wasilla, posted a word salad which started out with a startling admission that she is an "Obama admirer." Of course, she was going for the shock value of the statement and later said, "not THAT Obama, this one, Barack's brother Malik." She posted a ...read more

• By Jen Froderman
  Nov 9, 2018

As you all know, Ben Carson says a lot of weird, crazy shit, but just when you think he can't say anything weirder or crazier... well, nobody thinks that. But even by that measure, this argument in favor of Donald Trump is insane and hilarious: Yeah, get Dickens on the line ...read more

• By Tommy Christopher
  Nov 9, 2018

You have to give it to Republicans -- literally any opportunity to attack the most vulnerable people in society, and they'll take it.  In response to the Dallas police shooting, presidential flop and Donald Trump supporter Dr. Ben Carson thought it provided a unique time to do ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

The most recognizable Black Republican, Ben Carson, quietly ended his uninspiring and ineffective presidential campaign earlier this month. From the beginning, Carson’s candidacy was destined for failure given his total lack of interest in mastering policy and refusal to develop ...read more

• By Robert Covington, Jr.
  Nov 9, 2018

If one were to sum up the Republican Party's general stance on economics, it would go something like this: Debt is bad, government is bad. Tax cuts are good, big corporations are good.  Sadly, there isn't much more to it than that. Despite the menacing language used to illustrate ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

“Laziness is a trait in blacks....black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day."  - Donald Trump speaking to John R. O'Donnell, former president of Trump Plaza Hotel & Casino. Apparently ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

Once a brief contender for the Republican presidential primary lead, Dr. Ben Carson has settled into a glorified book tour/Fox News audition/consultant gravy train masquerading as a presidential campaign, but he's still a reliable source for premium shit-talking. On MSNBC today, ...read more

• By Tommy Christopher
  Nov 9, 2018

Ben Carson laid out his 6 point plan for America's foreign policy under his leadership on his facebook page today, and unsurprisingly it makes no sense whatsoever. Here is Carson's foreign policy plan that will apparently "restore America’s role as the world’s preeminent ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

Ben Carson may be fading from the Republican presidential field, but he's still going strong at saying weird, dumb shit. While delivering a pep talk to students at a Christian school in Cedar Rapids, Iowa Thursday, Carson asked the assembly who was the "worst student" in the ...read more

• By Tommy Christopher
  Nov 9, 2018

Just when you thought The Adventures of Dr. Ben Carson, Knife-Fighting Gunman-Rushing Man of Mystery was over, a new chapter is born. The retired neurosurgeon has already regaled the public with several different versions of the time he stabbed a guy, the time he cut a dude's ...read more

• By Tommy Christopher
  Nov 9, 2018

Clint Eastwood is a great actor, and a maybe an even greater director. His screen presence and keen artistic judgment have made him one of Hollywood's most revered icons, and it would be sacrilegious to suggest otherwise. However, the status bestowed upon people who make a ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

Several months ago, I felt a disturbance in The Force, like millions of white voices crying out "Why isn't there a White History Month?" at once. At the time, no one else really believed it, and now that they're close enough to see that's no moon, that's a space station, it's ...read more

• By Tommy Christopher
  Nov 9, 2018

Fearless leader and hopeful 2016 presidential candidate Ben Carson has braved the terrifying wrath of America's atheist power structure (which is a whopping 3.1% of the population) to post a defiant Christmas message on facebook. No doubt risking his life to send his festive ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Dec 20, 2018

Recently I have struggled to find the words to describe the horror show otherwise known as the 2016 Republican primaries, mostly because it is so horrific I can't bring myself to watch it any more. I'm sure if I had watched the debate last night I would be spending the entire ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

Tonight is the night! CNN is hosting the last Republican primary debate of the year, moderated by Wolf Blitzer, Dana Bash and Hugh Hewitt at The Venetian in Las Vegas, Nevada. As usual, we will have embeddable clips from the main debate, in near real-time. With Donald Trump ...read more

• By Tommy Christopher
  Nov 9, 2018

On the heels of one poll that shows Ted Cruz leading in Iowa, out of a sea of other polls showing Donald Trumpbeating everyone's drawers off, the media is once again trying to concoct a threat to Trump's supremacy. Chuck Todd even went so far as to call Cruz the "invisible ...read more

• By Tommy Christopher
  Nov 9, 2018

Republican reactions to the mass shooting at a Planned Parenthood center in Colorado Springs Friday continue to emerge at a bare trickle, but none of them have been all that surprising. On Sunday morning's This Week, fading Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson followed the ...read more

• By Tommy Christopher
  Nov 9, 2018

They're both basically toast. The few polls that have trickled out since the last Republican debate have shown some softening of support for the good doctor, but as long as Ben Carson is doing well in Iowa, there's no real reason to panic. Within the past month, Carson has ...read more

• By Tommy Christopher
  Nov 9, 2018

Regardless of whether you think the United States' current strategy in fighting ISIS is a good thing, offering asylum to Syrian refugees fleeing the violence is undoubtedly not only the most humane thing to do, but the smartest -- and for fairly obvious reasons. But not so ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Feb 17, 2016

The fourth Republican presidential debate jumps off Tuesday night, and just in time, another controversial episode from Ben Carson's past is gaining widespread attention. Presidential candidate and Holocaust comicBen Carsonheld a gonzo press conference on Friday to answer ...read more

• By Tommy Christopher
  Nov 9, 2018

As the white-hot spotlight continues to burn on retired neurosurgeon and alternate universe West Point cadet Ben Carson, BuzzFeed's Andrew Kaczynski tried to do his part to pull Carson's feet out of the fire a little bit by tweeting part of an old Parade article in which ...read more

• By Tommy Christopher
  Nov 9, 2018

It is really hard to keep up with all the crazy, weird shit that Ben Carson says, but I'm doing my best. You can check out my epic video slideshow of Carson insanity at Mediaite, but here are the new ones I dug up while researching it. We get it, Ben Carson. You stabbed a guy ...read more

• By Tommy Christopher
  Nov 9, 2018

Not that it will make a bit of difference to his supporters, but Ben Carson completely lost it during a press conference Friday night. Like, I hope all of those reporters were wearing ROTC belt buckles lost it. Reporters pressed Carson hard on the Politico story questioning his ...read more

• By Tommy Christopher
  Nov 9, 2018

It is entirely possible that the theory of evolution will change or be considered incomplete in time to come. It is also possible that the entire theory may be overthrown and replaced with completely different understanding of how life evolved and continues to evolve on planet ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Feb 17, 2016

After CNN looked into Ben Carson's stabbing story and found nothing to back it up, Carson added a few new changes to the story. Previosly identified as an ROTC classmate named Bob, Carson now says it was a "close relative," and claims he used aliases in his books without telling ...read more

• By Tommy Christopher
  Nov 9, 2018

Retired neurosurgeon and erstwhile knife-fighter Ben Carson's ride atop the GOP presidential polls has brought with it a renewed scrutiny of the crazy, stupid, and just plain weird things he's been saying for years. This week, Buzzfeed's Andrew Kaczynski surfaced a quote from a ...read more

• By Tommy Christopher
  Nov 9, 2018

One of the more strenuous pursuits of this presidential election has been cataloging the many crazy, weird things that Ben Carson says, but several liberal sites are now attacking Carson for saying that "many" Americans are "stupid." Mother Jones' David Corn dug up a clip from ...read more

• By Tommy Christopher
  Nov 9, 2018

Over the years, the Republican party has steadfastly maintained that it is the party of fiscal responsibility while the Democrats are big spending teenagers racking up debt on daddy's credit card. "It sounds great, but who is going to pay for it?" you hear condescending ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

Ben Carson's freshly-minted status as arguable Republican frontrunner has thrust the retired brain surgeon and former knife aficionado under an ever-intensifying media microscope. In one of the many getting-to-know-Carson segments you'll be seeing these days, a white Republican ...read more

• By Tommy Christopher
  Nov 9, 2018

Jesus Christ, the Republicans are a bunch of cowards. After supposedly being mistreated by the moderators of the last GOP presidential debate on that communist network CBNC -- one of whom was the guy credited with actually starting the tea party -- the Republican candidates ...read more

• By Chez Pazienza
  Nov 9, 2018

It is a well established fact that Ben Carson says a lot of crazy, weird shit, but usually, he spaces it out a little. That wasn't always the case, as his first paid speech for quack supplement company Mannatech demonstrates. At Wednesday night's Republican debate, Carson was ...read more

• By Tommy Christopher
  Nov 9, 2018

It is a well established fact that Ben Carson says a lot of crazy, weird shit, and Wednesday night's Republican debate was no exception. Carson was quizzed about his relationship to quack supplement pyramid marketer Mannatech, and weirdly tried to distance himself from the ...read more

• By Tommy Christopher
  Nov 9, 2018

Presidential candidate and quasi-frontrunnerBen Carsonsays a lot of weird, crazy stuff, so it's easy to let something slip by. For example, when Carson talked about stabbing a classmate on Meet the Press this weekend, I was more amused by the image he painted of a teenage Ben ...read more

• By Tommy Christopher
  Nov 9, 2018

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
  Nov 9, 2018

Welcome to our coverage of the third Republican Presidential Debate on CNBC, moderated by Carl Quintanilla of Squawk on the Street, Becky Quick from Squawk Box, and chief Washington Correspondent John Harwood. As before, we will have debate clips in near-real time, posted in ...read more

• By Tommy Christopher
  Nov 9, 2018

I'll make this quick since I need to run out and buy another bottle of Four Roses Single Barrel and anesthetize myself before tonight's Republican shit-flinging gets underway. I disagree with a substantial number of John Kasich's beliefs and policy proposals, but I still ...read more

• By Chez Pazienza
  Nov 9, 2018

It was nearly two months ago when Ben Carson first took a lead in Iowa over Donald Trump, a development that resulted in some decidedly low-frequency feuding between the two candidates. That dynamic was largely absent from the ensuing Republican debate, however, with Trump more ...read more

• By Tommy Christopher
  Nov 9, 2018

Ben Carson: brain surgeon, presidential candidate, and former violent sociopath. Yes, the candidate who appears to be falling asleep when on the campaign trail was once so full of energy that he went after people with "rocks, and bricks, and baseball bats, and hammers," and ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

Like the son of many a powerful man before him, Jeb Bush believed that his name would carry him to riches and success. His father and brother were both Presidents of the United States and Jeb believed it was his turn to take the keys to the kingdom that were rightfully his. ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018