The second presidential debate is just two days away and it looks as if Donald Trump may actually be trying to practice for this one. If you recall, the Trump campaign bragged about how he "didn't need to practice" for the last one and he lost "bigly" for it. The Republican ...read more
“I think personally, if you start getting into fact-checking, I’m not sure. What is a big fact? What’s a little fact? And if you and I have different sources of information, does your source about the unemployment rate agree with my source? I don’t think it’s a good idea to get ...read more
Yes, yes, yes, yes! "I just wanted regular potatoes!" --Chris Christie "You just froze a baby! You just froze a baby!" --Rand Paul "Well, I have a pigeon. Lucas Don Velour." --Donald Trump And, holy shit, the Ben Carson sections are insanely hilarious. ...read more
A glutton for punishment, I went back on the Thom Hartmann show last night to debate the same hallucinating conservatives I did last time. Debating the latest dashcam video released in the Sandra Bland case, why Republicans in Congress want single pregnant women to get fired, ...read more
Due to fear, ancient human tribes tended to survive on an attack first model. The preemptive strike was the best form of deterrence. Based on the ill-tempered email exchange between Sam Harris and Noam Chomsky (published as The Limits of Discourse on Sam Harris blog), and the ...read more
I was on the Thom Hartmann show last night with Conservative Commentator Horace Cooper, and Attorney and Senior Fellow-National Center for Public Policy Research and Libertarian Charles Sauer, an Economist and President of The Market Institute. We discussed the Warren-McCain ...read more
Intellectuals Noam Chomsky and Sam Harris engaged in a rather nasty email spat that has been doing the rounds on the interwebs over the past few days after Harris made the exchange public on his website. Harris summed up the purpose of the exchange on his site: Last week, I did ...read more
I was on the Thom Hartmann show last Friday debating Obama's speech on the student debt crisis, Fox "News" Contributor Erick Erickson's sexist comments, and the Republican push to cut food stamps. I squared off against Libertarian commentator Marc Harrold and Republican Dutch ...read more
The killing of British soldier Drummer Lee Rigby by two proclaimed Muslims has instigated an increasingly nasty intellectual battle over the definition of the word 'Terrorism'. The debate is best encapsulated by the back and forth between Andrew Sullivan (for calling the ...read more
I went on the Thom Hartmann show again last night to get into it with Tim Cavanaugh, Senior Online Editor at The Daily Caller and Conservative Hughey Newsome of the National Advisory Council-Project 21, and MoveOnUp.org. We debated Sen. Tom Coburn's pledge not to fund disaster ...read more
I wrote a piece yesterday arguing that Bill Maher's lampooning of Wayne Brady for not being 'black' enough went too far. I tweeted the piece to Brady (who I started following) and noticed some awful comments on his feed that he had retweeted. This one stuck out from black ...read more
I got into a very lively debate on Thom Hartmann's show on Friday night with Libertarian Marc Harrold and Republican Hughey Newsome. Amongst other topics, we go into it on the Sequester, Miranda Rights and genetically modified food labeling. The debate kicks off almost ...read more
With the polls indicating that the election is becoming increasingly close, it's probably time that everyone re-assesses just how important televised Presidential debates are - at least in this election. Proof? Just look at what happened to Obama's numbers after the first debate ...read more
Andrew Sullivan puts the debate in perspective: Now I've slept on it, that seems to me what happened last night. It was such a mesmerizing sales job and so relentless, checked at no point by Lehrer, and at no point checked by past reality or facts, Obama was left with two ...read more
