Are Republicans willing to have young women die from back alley a

Eleanor Holmes Norton represents the city of Washington, D.C. in the halls of Congress. Well, kind of. She can't vote on legislation before the full House of Representatives, and she has only limited say in congressional committes. In fact, Republicans tried stripping her of...

Republicans scared in not wanting to be seen as too anti-gay

"There is no need to talk about Billy wanting to marry a goat", are the words of the Missouri legislator, Dwight Scharnhorst (Republican). You might ask, what is this guy talking about? Well, to people like him, two people of the same sex marrying, is like marrying farm...

Stand proud, liberal Democrats

The right-wingers continue to make the false claim that they are America, and that the rest of America isn't. In fact America owes more to the liberal Democrats than it does to the Tea Party.The Democrats form the bulk of American science, which is at the root of everything...

Why did 90% of Republicans vote against state medical marijuana?

The vast majority of Americans support medical marijuana. The numbers are staggering, in how supportative they are in fact. Indeed, a bare majority of Americans support the legalization of marijuana, and not just for medical purposes. With that in mind, why is the Republican...

Rightwing says any criticism of Sarah Palin, is sexist? At all?

Sarah Palin spent an interview attacking President Obama. Which is of course her perfect right. She called him a man of "radicalism" and "not a man of valor". Again her right. But when the Obama campaign ran an ad countering her comments, she and her defenders engaged in a...

Urge Democrats to support marriage equality for gays in platform

It is getting harder and harder to find Democratic party politicans who don't support marriage equality for gays and lesbians in the U.S. But there is no guarantee that the Democratic party will have in its' platform this year, a statement in support of marriage equality. In...

Republicans do the bidding of the oil companies?

Republicans stated that we need the Keystone Oil pipeline to ship oil from Canada to the U.S. O.K., I thought we needed to improve environmental standards in regards to the pipeline, especially when it comes to important underground water that it might potentially pollute,...

Partisan Stupidity in US Politics, part 1, chapter 2: GM returns.

In part 1 I detailed my utter disgust at how GOP talking heads had missed the whole point of Chrysler's "Halftime in America" Super Bowl commercial, and how their continued portrayal  of a US policy action as a failure, even hoping it  failed, was what one might...

Will there be marriage equality in Maryland and New Jersey?

 The battle for marriage equality is making great progress in America. In the state of Washington a law has been recently passed that guarantees to gay and lesbian couples the right to marry. Of course, if a few percent of the population sign a petition for a...

Payroll Tax Cut: The Republicans Say, Let Them Eat Cake . . .

Marie Antoinette recommended a non-existent cake, when the people had no bread.  Likewise, the House Republicans are recommending a non-existent year-long tax extension, while rejecting the two-month tax extension provided by the Senate. Let them eat cake is like a...

Why would a conservative host not believe Robert E. Lee was a rac

I was listening to conservative talk radio and once again, I heard something incredibly stupid. This was beyond stupid. The host, an apologist for the Southern Confederacy, asked a caller in mocking derision, did he the caller believe that Robert E. Lee was a racist. Um,...