There's a narrative conservatives (and sometimes the media) love to push when trying to explain away how people who say they don't support Trump still somehow can't stop themselves from blindly voting for Republicans: Yes, it's the "Why do you keep making me hit you?" defense ...read more

My epiphany wasn’t the baseball practice shooting in Alexandria, Virginia. Two weeks ago I had an epiphany of my own. When you have to brake that fast on the Garden State Parkway during evening rush hour, you know it's not going to be good. My Subaru Impreza missed hitting the ...read more

If my Facebook feed is anything like yours, rational Americans are goddamn tired of watching one massive Trump scandal after another float by with zero repercussions because Republicans are apparently terrified of making Mike Pence the president and letting him rubber stamp all ...read more

(Image: a golden Ferrari in London) The UK election is heating up with Brits going to the polls in only 1o days time. The political landscape in Britain is deeply fractured with no one party projected to win enough seats to govern outright. The most likely scenario is some sort ...read more

Practically speaking, if you have had some success in life it is unlikely that you'd willingly deny your children money in favor of handing it over to the government. Funding public schools and roads is all well and good, but your hard earned cash could buy your children a ...read more

A couple of days ago I posted the video of the roundtable discussion I took part in on Thom Hartmann's show where I got into a pretty heated back-and-forth with David Hogberg, a Senior Fellow at the National Center for Public Policy Research over the issue of health care. ...read more

If you're the type of conservative who thinks that being called out for homophobia is a form of bigotry or censorship, dealing with the liberal crowd on Facebook might be too much for you. Until now, Republicans' main alternative has been the Tea Party Community, a writhing ...read more

Mark Gongloff of Huffington Post has analyzed a new Census Bureau report that measures changes in areas with concentrated poverty and found that the South doing abysmally. Concentrated poverty areas are places where more than 20% of the population lives below the official ...read more

For any conservatives out there curious as to what life is like for their political counterparts , there's no need to postulate or wonder: a Harvard study on happiness shows that aging liberals in fact have more robust sex lives compared to conservatives. I know, high-fives all ...read more

Neoconservative pundit William Kristol. (Photo credit: Gage Skidmore) By Robert Parry: The decisive defeat of Mitt Romney in the presidential race and the forced resignation of ex-Gen. David Petraeus as CIA director have marginalized America’s neoconservatives more than at any ...read more

By Chez Pazienza: One of the realities of modern politics that I've never been able to get my head fully around is the desperate desire of the right to revel in the suffering of its political adversaries. I get that I shouldn't be surprised by it, since it's the traditional ...read more

By Bob Cesca: Last week, when the conservative British commentator Stuart Varney said on Fox News Channel that every poll, including the Fox News poll presumably, doesn't "feel right" and dismissed the "mathematical gobbledegook" used to ascertain the respective results, it ...read more

By Stephen Engelberg and Kim Barker: The emergence of nonprofits as the leading conduit for anonymous spending in this year's presidential campaign is often attributed to the Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United ruling, which opened the money spigot, allowing corporations and ...read more

The Daily Banter Headline Grab (via ThinkProgress): NO ABORTION IN CASES OF RAPE OR INCEST. The proposal for a “human life amendment” passed without a hitch — and without any exceptions for rape or incest. The committee didn’t stop there; they also adopted language that ...read more

The Tory Party continues its war against the working poor. From the NewStatesman: While the eyes of the world were on Greece, the Conservatives quietly launched a new assault on workers' rights. Iain Duncan Smith announced that low-paid workers will lose their benefits if they go ...read more

By Chez Pazienza: It's probably fitting that over the past few days I've had a line floating through my head from a movie that might just stand as the pinnacle of jingoistic frat boy cinema. The line in question comes toward the end of Armageddon, when Bruce Willis's character ...read more

By Ben Cohen: After enacting extreme austerity measure in the UK with the promise that cutting spending would solve the economic crisis, the Conservative government has a lot of explaining to do after it was announced last week that Britain was falling back into recession again. ...read more

George Osborne The British Conservative government has long argued that deregulation and austerity measures are key to Britain's economic health. According to supply siders David Cameron and his chancellor George Osborne, everyone must go through pain in order to rebalance the ...read more

In a move that clearly indicates just how seriously Rupert Murdoch takes the phone hacking scandal, News Corp has withdrawn its bid for BSkyB. From the Independent: Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation withdrew its BSkyB takeover bid today as David Cameron announced details of ...read more

Sorry to be so blunt and profane, but they are. In their ongoing effort to tear down anything resembling factual data, Newsbusters - an arm of the Media Research Center - is now trying to say that the atmosphere at Invesco field was not in fact what you saw with your own two ...read more

Breathless, as usual, with nonsense: In a story from Memphis on the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King in that city, ABC's Steve Osunsami acknowledged great economic progress for black citizens with “a definable black middle class,” but warned “there are ...read more

Con radio host Mike Gallagher, adding to the collective race-based attack coming on the right vs. Sen. Obama makes this convenient deception: When even the Washington Post publishes an article entitled, “Obama’s Abortion Extremism”, you know that something astonishing is going ...read more