Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO) is running for Senate. against Claire McCaskill. This Tea Party favorite has taken the misogynistic views of America’s right to a whole new low, declaring that: “First of all, from what I understand from doctors [pregnancy from rape] is really rare. If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways […]
A lot of attention has been given to Floyd Corkins, a LGBT activist accused of shooing a security guard at the Family Research Council. The right is using this as a reason to paint the entire LGBT community as violent and possibly domestic terrorists. Fine, I’ll bite. If the actions of this one man means […]
This doesn’t sound to good for the Mitt Romney campaign: Mitt Romney is canceling a planned campaign stop Monday in Orlando after a whirlwind weekend in which the presumptive Republican nominee introduced Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) as his running mate. According to the Orlando Sentinel, the campaign said late Sunday that the presidential hopeful was […]
In 2008 Sarah Palin was picked as a materialistic candidate. She had no real experience to become vice-President and the voters quickly saw that. But that didn’t stop the right-wing pundits from trying to sell her to us with such qualifications as “she’s hot” and “a great attack dog”. Fast-forward to 2012 and we are […]
Mitt Romney doesn’t think the cornerstone of his Presidential resume should be discussed anymore: “Our campaign would be — helped immensely if we had an agreement between both campaigns that we were only going to talk about issues and that attacks based upon — business or family or taxes or things of that nature,” Romney […]
Maybe it would be better to call this “welcome to a Mitt Romney’s America“: The shock of losing a precious job in a town afflicted by high unemployment is always hard. A foundation for a stable family life and secure home instantly disappears, replaced with a future filled with fears over health insurance, missed mortgage […]
Think Progress points out an interesting tidbit on Romneycare: As governor, Romney greatly expanded access publicly-financed contraception through his 2006 health care reform law. The state’s Commonwealth Care, established under Romneycare, offers subsidized, low or no-cost insurance to low-income residents and provides primary and preventive care that includes “family planning services” and prescription contraceptives. In […]
America has 5% of the world’s population, 25% of the world’s prison population and owns 50% of the world’s guns.Thinking of those numbers makes the following two stories seem almost the norm: Photo of Boy With Gun Leads To Charges For Dad STOCKTON, Calif. – The father of a 6-year-old Northern California boy seen posing […]
One of the tools terrorists always try to employ is economic terrorism. Find ways to destroy an economy to help push their agenda. Now a U.S. Senator is pushing that very tactic here at home: South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham (R) called on government contractors to put employees on layoff notice before November’s election as […]
I haven’t dove into the Chick-fil-A controversy yet, mainly because there has been enough other stories out there that need covering. But I think it does deserve mentioning that I have to back up Chick-fil-A against Rahm Emanuel and Chicago when it comes to wanting to build a store in The Windy City. Think back […]