According to Sarah Palin, Sharia law is coming to America, so Donald Trump is right -- we must stop muslims coming into the country! Or at least that what it appears she thinks. Here was the former Vice Presidential candidate's latest facebook monstrosity, purportedly written ...read more
We have a winner everyone -- the prize for the most disgusting manifestation of American ignorance and unbridled hatred goes to one Michele Fiore (R), a Nevada Assemblywoman who told listeners on her weekly show on Las Vegas radio station KWDN that she would like to fly to Paris ...read more
Responding to Donald Trump's recent proposal that Muslims be registered on a national database, known Islam antagonist Bill Maher posted the following message on his Facebook page: ...read more
It didn't take long for Republicans to find a novel way to politicize the terrorist attacks in Paris, and not just through the normal bleating about doing what President Obama is already doing, but doing it more/better/louder. Now they have made the refugees fleeing terrorist ...read more
When you think of Ted Cruz, "tough" isn't one of the first words that comes to mind. Cruz looks like the doughy kid whose elementary and middle school days were a nonstop hell because his daily ritual included a very public pantsing in the middle of the lunchroom. But given that ...read more
Speaking at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit in Manila yesterday, President Obama took time out to thoroughly embarrass Republican governors around the nation who are demanding the US stop letting Syrian refugees into the country. "When candidates say we shouldn't ...read more
Two days after 9/11 I was at the armory at 25th and Lexington where families of those missing from the World Trade Center were being sent for information. My job was to produce live shots from the scene -- and that scene was one of nonstop, emotionally shattering chaos. ...read more
Regardless of whether you think the United States' current strategy in fighting ISIS is a good thing, offering asylum to Syrian refugees fleeing the violence is undoubtedly not only the most humane thing to do, but the smartest -- and for fairly obvious reasons. But not so ...read more