Republicans are reaching a new pinnacle of institutional racism by making sure white people get the government help they need while cutting black people off. It's like a return to the good ol' days because once upon a time, white conservatives loved welfare. They loved the idea ...read more
Rep. Steve King's astonishing cruelty apparently knows no bounds. The notoriously heartless Iowa congressman told the Examiner that he would find extra money for Trump's ludicrous border wall by denying vulnerable women health care and starving poor children to death. And no, ...read more
I'm not sure how this one slipped under the radar but with the daily freak show in the White House, we might be forgiven for not noticing the GOP taking another stride towards The Hunger Games. During an NPR interview with Scott Simon, Rep. Adrian Smith (R-Let Them Eat Cake) ...read more
On Tuesday morning, President Obama participated in a panel at the Catholic-Evangelical Leadership Summit on Overcoming Poverty at Georgetown University. He chewed over the causes and solutions for poverty with Robert Putnam, professor of public policy at the Harvard's Kennedy ...read more
Bill Maher recently told liberals to "shut the fuck up" for probably the millionth time, but this time it was for their constant intramural skirmishes over who's doing it right, and who's not. While his aim was characteristically scattershot, I couldn't help but agree with him ...read more
Today in irony, we bring you this nugget from millionaire Republican, former Goldman Sachs executive, and $700 billion bank bailer-outer Neel Kashkari, who's challenging California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) in November. In Thursday's Wall Street Journal, Kashkari described in an ...read more
Sen. Rand Paul has a white supremacy problem, and it isn't MSNBC's (completely true) "lousy lies" about the Civil Rights Act, or his defense of the Southern Avenger, or his dad's racist newsletters. Instead, it's with his devotion to protecting the white supremacist status quo, ...read more
Nothing quite brings the Republican Party and its vision for America into focus as sharply as the fight over Food Stamps. Suffice it to say, it’s not a pretty picture. GOP House members voted last week to cut $40 billion out of the country's primary food security program ...read more
"If you're a healthy adult and don't have someone relying on you to care for them, you ought to earn the benefits you receive. Look for work. Start job training to improve your skills or do community service. But you can no longer sit on your couch or ride a surfboard like ...read more
