Despite the conservative media's relentless attempts to uncover Hillary Clinton's dastardly criminal acts that never, ever materialize, right wing hack journalists are still busily inventing mythical scandals to fit their narrative about the 2016 presidential candidate.  And ...read more

by Stephen Silver The announcement earlier this week that Pennsylvania Congressman Chaka Fattah had been indicted on 29 counts of racketeering and public corruption led to all kinds of questions - from Fattah’s political future, to who might run for Fattah’s House seat, to the ...read more

You may remember that conservatives kept it super-classy at a Fourth of July parade in Nebraska by featuring an "Obama Presidential Library" float mocked up to look like an outhouse, complete with zombie effigy. People objected to the float (including a woman from Kenya, don't ...read more

Right now, HBO is using a show called The Leftovers to fill the hole in our hearts where Game of Thrones should be, and while it remains to be seen how successful it will be at that particular mission, the show's premise raises the question (spoiler alert): How would the ...read more

Not content making an idiot out of himself just once this week, Tucker Carlson has doubled down on being an offensive asshole by ludicrously asserting that women actually get paid more than men "if you adjust for the amount of uninterrupted time people spend in the workplace." ...read more

By Bob Cesca: Far-right conservatives have always been prone to spastic outbursts and confrontational behavior. Generally speaking, they play by the "shoot first, ask questions later" rule. It's the nature of reactionaries. They react from their gut, and so this character flaw ...read more