There are few adjectives left in the English language to describe the sheer nastiness of Donald Trump's farcical presidential campaign. While it is the job of the media to encapsulate the vulgarity of the vanity project Trump is subjecting the American people to, I must confess ...read more
First, the good polling news. Then some disturbing news to follow. The folks at Public Policy Polling deserve an award this week for conducting a poll indicating that Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, is less popular than various unpleasant things. It ...read more
It was bad enough that Donald Trump wants to deport 12 million people while subverting the 14th Amendment. It was bad enough that Chris Christie said we should track immigrants like we track FedEx packages. It's bad enough that the GOP outrage machine is running on all cylinders ...read more
Ted Cruz has done what any God fearing American should do if they happen to have been born outside of America (and are potentially running for President in the next 18 months); renounced their country of birth. In a move that really stuck it to the socialistic land of free ...read more
That sound you hear outside your window right now is Alex Jones's head exploding. From NBC: The health director who approved the release of President Obama’s birth certificate has died in a plane crash, Hawaiian officials said Thursday. Loretta Fuddy died after the Cessna Grand ...read more
Over the weekend, members of the al-Qaeda terrorist cell known as Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen stormed into the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya and murdered at least 68 men, women and children in cold blood. The cell, more commonly known as al-Shabaab or the ...read more
By Chez Pazienza: A little inside baseball here: Cranking out four pieces a week for this site isn't easy. Writing takes enough time as it is, but it's coming up with a topic almost every weekday that really makes me crazy. Especially on Fridays -- Fridays are the worst ...read more
By Bob Cesca: When we do the list of names that occupy the rogues gallery of political villains, Mark Halperin's name doesn't often make the cut. It's chiefly because Halperin doesn't shout or speechify at length like many cable news talking heads. Make no mistake, however. He ...read more
By Chez Pazienza: An ongoing meme on the podcast that Bob Cesca and I do involves a debate over how much good actually comes from constantly bitching online. It typically goes something like this: Bob plays the admittedly heroic role of the passionate crusader, a guy who ...read more
Yet another Republican elected officialjoins the fringe. UPDATE: McHenry backpedals a bit, but its worth noting what his gut inclination was to do. ...read more
It speaks volumes when someone like Orly Taitz isn't just dismissed out of hand but has a following on the right. ...read more
As previously noted, fringe activity happens when parties are out of power, but in a very short time the Republican party has again mainstreamed crackpot theories just as they did during the Clinton presidency. The trend of controversial town halls contiuned on Friday when Rep. ...read more
From McCain's Twitter account Town hall meetings are an American tradition - we should allow everyone to express their views without disruption - even if we disagree! Of course, John McCain helped create this beast last fall, so excuse me if I don't give him a lot of credit for ...read more
Sorry kids but it won't rise again. A look at Google Trends is certainly illuminating. The top ten states where people are searching on the phrase 'Obama birth certificate' are: 1. Louisiana 2. Mississippi 3. Colorado 4. Oklahoma 5. Alabama 6. Tennessee 7. Arkansas 8. ...read more
You remember those McCain-Palin rallies where the GOP saw their crazed crowds as something of a boost to the failing campaign? And then people began yelling "terrorist" and "kill him" and the like, and it became a liability? As Ben Smith notes, this is becoming a mighty likely ...read more
Somehow the birthers got ahold of documents from the "Republic of Kenya" before such a nation ever existed. To tell the truth, I never have seen Orly Taitz and Doc Brown in the same place at the same time... (Daily Kos rips apart this stupidity here, but frankly its better to ...read more
by Ben Cohen In this hilarious, shocking, sad, and ultimately revealing video, Mike Stark of FireDogLake goes to Capitol Hill to interview various Republican Congressmen about Obama's legitimacy as a U.S citizen. Amazingly, most of the Republicans refuse to give a straight ...read more
by Ben Cohen My article on the Huff Post is now being strictly moderated (not by me, but by my editors) because the 9/11 Truth Movement nut jobs insist on flooding it with links to their idiotic sites and rants on 'Building 7'. I've sifted through the allowed comments and felt ...read more
by Ben Cohen (This article was originally published on the Huffington Post) The following video came from a Town Hall meeting with Mike Castle (R-DE). A woman stands up, barely able to control her emotions, and furiously demands Barack Obama prove he is a United States citizen: ...read more
