Just received this breaking news alert from the Washington Post: President Obama signed an order Thursday night requiring hospitals to allow gays and lesbians to have non-family visitors and to grant their partners medical power of attorney. The president ordered the Department of Health and Human Services to prohibit discrimination in hospital visitation. The memo […]
Well this is certainly going to leave some tea baggers in tears: FoxNews commentator Sean Hannity has cancelled his appearance and broadcast at a Tea Party rally at Fifth Third Arena. Hannity planned to tape his television show from the event, which starts at 6 p.m. at the University of Cincinnati. Organizers of the rally […]
Yes Republicans and Tea Baggers are such peaceful people, except when it comes to Think Progress bloggers asking simple questions. More at Think Progress
Last week Rupert Murdoch said that FOX shouldn’t be promoting the Tea Party. I guess FOX missed that memo. All day FOX has been broadcasting from the Tea Party in D.C. and then tonight you get this: Jessica Brown reports from outside Fifth Third arena, where the Tea Party rally/Sean Hannity show taping will be […]
It’s funny how over the past year we keep hearing about the Tea Party being a “grassroots” organization. Now we have more proof dismissing that myth: Just days after the first widespread tea party demonstrators hit the streets a year ago Thursday, Joe Wierzbicki, a Republican political consultant with the Sacramento firm Russo Marsh + […]
Tea Partiers Get Their News From Fox And Are More Likely To Justify Violence Against The Government
As a developer one of the problems I have had with Apple is their closed App store and the hurdles that you must conquer just to get an app published. Here’s an example of that: This week cartoonist Mark Fiore made Internet and journalism history as the first online-only journalist to win a Pulitzer Prize. […]
Anytime you get a gathering of tea baggers it seems like people start seeing double (triple?). Conservatives4Palin proclaimed that 13,000-16,000 showed up at yesterday’s Boston tea bagging rally with queen bagger of the tea Sarah Palin. That’s an awful lot more than the 5,000 the AP is estimating the crowd at, or the 3,000 that […]
Civil rights leader and former NAACP President Benjamin Hooks passed away this morning at the age of 85. I had the honor of meeting Hooks before. He was the speaker at my high school graduation, which was also his grandson, Carlton Gray’s graduating class. He will be a sadly missed voice in the civil rights […]
This week a local tea party leader made news by tweeting about shooting immigrants. Now that same tea bagger is wanted by police: Police are searching for a local Tea Party leader in Ohio who is wanted for violating a temporary protection order. Meanwhile, speakers at a Tea Party rally organized by the man, Brian […]