Kanye West's recent statements make him appear like a permanent resident of the Sunken Place. The hip-hop giant recently got back on Trump's favorite social media outlet to send out a series of missives that have baffled his fanbase, most notably his praise for Candace Owens, an ...read more

• By Jeremy Fassler
  Nov 9, 2018

Speaking at the National Religious Broadcasters Convention in Nashville, Tennessee in February of this year, Mike Huckabee made not only the creepiest 'joke' of his political career, but the most overtly insensitive. Discussing the issue of transgenderism, Huckabee told the ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Feb 17, 2016

Jeb Bush is the frontrunner for the GOP primaries, and has in recent times positioned himself as a sensible moderate. The truth is that Jeb Bush is neither sensible, or a moderate. While it may be 'centrist' in America to say things like: 'I don’t think the science is clear what ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

Let's see if you can spot the difference between these two statements that were made four days apart: I would have [authorized the invasion], and so would have Hillary Clinton, just to remind everybody. And so would almost everybody that was confronted with the intelligence they ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

Dear George Bush, It has come to our attention that you have been expressing views on foreign policy again, 7 years after you left the White House. Apparently you think president Obama's deal with Iran was a bad one, and as the New York Times reports, "Questioned whether it was ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

With Republicans rallying around the man they hope will be the third American president from the Bush family, Republicans are opening up exciting new possibilities for regime change the world over. Jeb, like his brother George, is a man who goes by his gut and isn't afraid to ...read more

• By Tom McKay
  Dec 20, 2018

I will be the first to admit that I’ve been following this ISIS debate and coverage too closely; one must be wary of what the corporate media is trying to draw your attention to while something else is going on right behind you. I just watched a forum led by The Independent ...read more

• By Thor Benson
  Nov 9, 2018

Yesterday, Bob Cesca went after Matt Taibbi for making the claim that President Obama's record on corporate America has been worse than George Bush's. Generally, I agree with Bob's assertion that this claim is off the mark (Bush presided over a virtually unprecedented era of ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Feb 17, 2016

"The proposed referendum on the future of Crimea would violate the Ukrainian constitution and violate international law...Any discussion about the future of Ukraine must include the legitimate government of Ukraine. In 2014 we are well beyond the days when borders can be ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

This is a repost of a topic we covered in the Morning Banter, but I thought it deserved its own post as it's a pretty interesting. As I wrote earlier, a pretty in-depth study (PDF) of Wikipedia has discovered that while many topics are written about, edited, then re-edited, some ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Feb 17, 2016

By David Glenn Cox It is well-documented that Joe Biden has been known to speak out of turn. Of course the flip side of such a reputation is the ability to say things meant in earnest and then to simply laugh them off. On Sunday the Vice President told George Stephanopoulos ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018