Alex Jones and Antigovernment “Patriot” Groups
This past week, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released their annual spring report on Hate and Extremist groups in the United States. While “hate groups” have essentially leveled off, white supremacists groups like the neo-Nazis and other anti-Semitic groups like the Nation of Islam, “extremist groups”, antigovernment “Patriot”groups More...
Sequestration Scoundrel
www.Judyscooter.com On the day that Speaker Boehner told the Senate to get off its ass, he refused to allow the House to vote on a sequester replacement bill. The Speaker’s standard spiel is that the House has More...
Sequestration Shenanigans
pittsburghpost-gazette.com John Boehner is spending a lot of time and energy spreading disinformation about the looming sequestration. It seems as though he believes the American citizenry will be unable to recall More...
Heckling the Victim: A Common Right-Wing Tactic
Families of Sandy Hook (Reuters) Yesterday, a friend of mine posted on her Facebook page, “I am appalled by MSNBC’s reporting morals, for editing the news with the purpose of sensationalizing the polarizing More...
Thank you again, Mr. President!
bet.com “My fellow Americans, the oath I have sworn before you today, like the one recited by others who serve in this Capitol, was an oath to God and country, not party or faction – and we must faithfully execute More...
Constitutionally Crazy
prosebeforehos.com In addition to all the problems the country and its political process face now, there is one little discussed, but pervasive problem that underlies and aggravates them all. This problem is similar More...
150 Years and Counting
rnbphilly.com 150 years ago, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation — courageously declaring “That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred More...
On Deficits, Debt and Duty
macleodcartoons.blogspot.com – eyes prize Republican Congress members and conservative commentators relentlessly shriek about deficits and debt while making sweeping generalizations about “government spending.” More...
