The Republicans are up to their old tricks again. Republicans want to cut funding and change the rules for people receiving food stamps through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). They want to do it so they can continue to fund the Defense Department at extraordinarily high levels. Wish I could say I’m surprised, but are any of […]
As I get older, I cannot help but notice how good ideas often seem to never get off the ground, but bad ideas proliferate. Such is the case with 12 states which have decided to join the 12 — including Wisconsin, Tennessee, and Florida — that have already mandated that welfare recipients undergo regular drug […]
Scott Walker learned nothing from Chris Christie and Bobby Jindal and their recent trips to Great Britain. He said he didn’t want to make headlines the way Christie did with his comments on vaccinations and the firestorm Jindal set off when he declared there were “no go zones” in parts of Britain where police refused […]
Is it just me, or is Kansas Governor Sam Brownback now in the running for Douchebag of the Year and holding a clear lead? And it’s only February! On Tuesday, Brownback sent fear and loathing across the state by rescinding rules which protect LGBT state workers based on their sexual orientation or gender identity. In other […]
Televangelist Pat Robertson doesn’t care for gay people. He was apoplectic when the military decided to allow homosexuals to serve openly in the U.S. armed forces. And he’s convinced that the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” is causing the oppression of Christians in the military. On his long-running TV show “The 700 Club,” Robertson […]
If you’ve never heard of David Klingenschmitt, don’t feel bad. Even though he’s a member of the Colorado legislature, he is not that well-known outside of the extreme right wing circles he caters to. On his propaganda-laced program, “Pray in Jesus Name,” Klingenschmitt recently spouted out some of the most outrageous verbal diarrhea you can possibly […]
Three hundred days later, there is still no sign of the young girls abducted by Boko Haram in Nigeria. The entire world continues to wait for some word on the fate of these young women, and Boko Haram refuses to release any information about them. Nobel Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai has kept the focus on the […]
It has long been a tenet of Republican economic orthodoxy that cutting taxes increases revenues. But as the people of Kansas are now discovering, that isn’t necessarily true and will instead mean steep cuts in state funding for public education in the Hawkeye State. Kansas Governor Sam Brownback announced earlier this week that it will […]
Perhaps we have always known that there was something–shall we say–a bit different about Russian President Vladimir Putin. Some have said he appears to have no soul or even feelings of any kind. But in 2001, former President George W. Bush said: “I looked the man in the eye. I found him to be very […]
It might be a good idea to go ahead and get your affairs in order, because Pastor John Hagee is predicting that God will soon destroy the United States. During his daily show, “Hagee Hotline,” the loopy minister of doom declared that because President Obama will not meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when […]