Another of Fox News host Bill O’Reilly’s former colleagues from his days at CBS News is now saying the loudmouthed O’Reilly is lying about his actions while reporting from Argentina in 1982. Ignacio Medrano-Carbo, who served as O’Reilly’s cameraman while the two were covering riots in Buenos Aires, says O’Reilly has repeatedly claimed that he saved […]
Mike DeWine, the Republican Attorney General of Ohio, has discovered a new way to put one’s foot deeply into one’s mouth: Via a legal brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court. Specifically, DeWine says in his brief that the LGBT community in his state doesn’t deserve to be a protected class of people and that […]
Sometime today in an Indiana court, a 33-year-old woman will find out if she faces up to 70 years in prison. Her crime? She had a miscarriage and then went to a hospital because she was experiencing heavy bleeding. Purvi Patel’s saga of heartbreak and legal jeopardy began in 2013 when she went to an […]
In the first of what will certainly be an endless series of asinine and inane remarks to the press, Ted Cruz said Sunday that a big part of what’s wrong with America is that the White House isn’t located in Texas. Cue the laugh track, please. Cruz, talking to Dana Bash on CNN’s “State of the […]
It’s so comforting to know that someone has a solution to everything that ails the American economy. Someone who can tackle the issues of income disparity, the minimum wage, and the deficit. What could possibly be the magic bullet for all of these problems? Well, according to former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, it’s preventing workers […]
Indiana has been getting all of the media coverage in recent days regarding its passage of a “Religious Freedom” bill, which allows businesses to discriminate against anyone — usually members of the LGBT community — they disagree with on religious grounds. A similar bill is still alive in Georgia with just a week remaining in the […]
Teresa Fedor, a Democratic member of the Ohio State House of Representatives, did an incredibly brave thing this week during the debate on a bill to ban all abortions after a fetal heartbeat can be detected: She stood in opposition to the bill and admitted that she’d had an abortion after being raped while serving in the […]
Why is it that people who call themselves religious seem to have a deep-seated need to force their beliefs upon others, even going so far as to call for mandating church attendance? Is it insecurity, indifference to others, or just plain old inanity? The latest culprit is a woman named Sylvia Allen. Ms. Allen, God […]
Donald Trump absolutely loves the sound of his own voice, which is bad for the rest of us because he’s so freaking annoying! And now he’s predicting revolution if we don’t seal the borders and keep everyone out of the United States. While he was on “The Steve Deace Show” this week, Trump laid down his […]
Every now and then I come across something that is so despicable, so incredibly odious, that it literally makes me want to rip the hair out of my head. Yep, you guessed it: This is one of those things. GOP Colorado State Representative Gordon Klingenschmitt is the object of my ire today. This wingnut extremist hate-filled […]