January 14, 2016 WASHINGTON (AP) — Did Ted Cruz mean to suggest he would have gone to war with Iran over its brief and smoothly resolved detention of U.S. sailors? Did Chris Christie realize that ...
His wallet says Bad Motherfucker. His mouth has some other choice words for a Republican candidate. When it comes to casting your vote this November, it’s unlikely one celebrity’s opinion will sway your decision. But ...
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December 4, 2015 WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump knew a man he named as a senior business adviser in 2010 had been convicted in a major Mafia-linked stock fraud scheme, according to Associated Press interviews ...
“… Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), who introduced a competing bill aimed at undercutting the provisions to block those on the terror watch list, warned that the Democratic legislation would mean ‘the government can take from ...
Bernie Sanders Calls Planned Parenthood Shooting A Consequence Of Republican Rhetoric Politicus, November 28th, 2015 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders connected the dots and called out the unintended consequences of Republican rhetoric while responding to ...
Ben Carson’s Love Affair With a “Nutjob” Conspiracy Theorist A top GOP presidential contender has embraced the dark, paranoid, and crazy worldview of a far-right pseudohistorian. Ben Carson, the retired neurosurgeon and political novice near ...
As someone who’s followed the news about far-right parties taking hold across Europe with much trepidation, I’ve often wondered how that current of political thought might manifest in the U.S. Is Donald Trump, with his outspoken xenophobia, ...
“… The doctor prescribed a medicine-cabinetful of barbiturates and sleep aids (Seconal and Doriden), tranquilizers (Equanil) and “uppers” (Dexamyl), a potentially addictive, mood-altering cocktail that Nixon apparently took throughout the 1950s and possibly thereafter. … At the ...
Republicans have been going on for years, well, actually only since a Democrat took over the White House, about deficits. The deficit, they scream hysterically, will kill our children! Therefore, we need to stop feeding ...
The fact that Republicans have become the party of torture goes a long way towards demonstrating the power of blind defensiveness in politics. The party has invested its entire psychological self-image in being the tough, ...
A pending lawsuit in the Manhattan Supreme Court charges that at least 600 former students of the now defunct Trump University, founded by leading Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, were scammed out of millions of ...
Washington (CNN) – Ben Carson says he wouldn’t use drones to kill undocumented immigrants — but he’d order strikes on the caves used to transport people across the United States’ southern border. “There are caves that ...
Pew released a survey yesterday showing that the Republican brand has taken a serious hit since the beginning of this year. While voters are split on the Democratic Party, with a 48/47 favorable/unfavorable rating, only 32 ...
Congressional Republicans are capitalizing on right-wing media’s phony outrage over the deceptively edited videos released by anti-choice conservative group Center for Medical Progress to push legislation to defund Planned Parenthood. CMP Releases Series Of Deceptively Edited ...
A breakdown of the lies said by the Republican presidential candidates during the first debate on Thursday night. Thursday night’s first Republican presidential debate was hellish chaos of right-wing hypocrisy, fear-induced war-mongering and blatant threats ...
Also see: Lafayette movie theater shooter ‘had hate in his heart‘: “… In blog posts, Houser had expressed interest in white power groups and neo-Nazis, and he had espoused anti-Semitic and anti-gay views, according to ...
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump holds stakes in a sprawling network of real estate and entertainment companies from India to Turkey, his federal financial disclosure shows. The filing with the Federal Election Commission, released on ...
“… AAN is organized as a nonprofit social-welfare group [and] does not have to disclose its donors. (The Center for Responsive Politics … listed past contributions from the American Petroleum Institute and PhRMA.) … AAN was founded in ...
“… Several top InnoVida officials have checkered pasts. One of the company’s owners was convicted of cocaine trafficking in 1990. A decade earlier, a future board member was busted, accused of trying to board a ...
There’s more bad news for The Donald. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s line of luxury hotels may be the latest victim of a credit card data breach, security news journalist Brian Krebs reported on Wednesday. ...
23 JUN 2015 AT 05:30 ET The New York Times reported this morning that Earl Holt—the leader of the white supremacist group, the Council of Conservative Citizens, that apparently had so much influence over Dylann ...
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker won his election in 2010 on a promise to create 250,000 new jobs. To lead the effort, Walker created his flagship Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) in 2011 and named himself ...
The head of a white supremacist group, cited by the suspected gunman who killed nine people at a black South Carolina church last week, has given thousands of dollars to several 2016 Republican presidential candidates, ...
Also see: Donald Trump insults wheelchair-using columnist: He’s a ‘jerk’ who just ‘sits there’ Trump’s team denies it, but it appears that the Hollywood Reporter has busted The Donald, whose “big presidential announcement Tuesday was made a little ...
President Richard M. Nixon made a disastrous decision to widen the Vietnam War by invading Cambodia, recounted here in an excerpt adapted from my new book, One Man Against the World: The Tragedy of Richard ...
Among the many things that Arizona Republican Rep. David Schweikert should know is that an American politician (or anyone else) must never, ever, EVER compare Americans (or anyone else) to Nazis. … The congressman’s comments ...
She’s not at all my cup of tea (party). Fifth-Circuit Texas Appeals Court Judge Edith Jones is a far-right racist with ties to the upper-echelon of the Republican Party, and some rather strange religious beliefs that have influenced highly questionable ...
At a recent campaign event, Rick Santorum managed to keep his chin up despite only one voter turning out to his event. Seeing the small turnout, Santorum decided to take the opportunity to eat lunch. ...
Wisconsin governor Scott Walker said he is prepared to sign into law a 20-week abortion ban without any exceptions for victims of rape or incest, arguing that women are concerned with those issues “in the ...
Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert paid a man from his past to conceal sexual misconduct, federal law enforcement officials said, according to a report published Friday. The report was published by Tribune, citing two unnamed ...
Joseph Hayon, founding president of the Brooklyn Tea Party and failed city council candidate, was arrested last week for possessing and sharing child pornography, the New York Post reported. Hayon, 38, admitted to police that ...
Think About It: Sheldon Adelson and democracy ‘Jeb Bush’s ties to Baker may cost him shot at Adelson’s Megabucks Testimony by casino magnate may come back to hurt him if trial resumes in US court ...
If it seems like Texas has been in the news quite a bit lately, that’s probably because it has. Of all the states in the U.S. right now, it’s almost certainly in the top 10 for ...
WASHINGTON — As fate would have it, the Amtrak derailment in Philadelphia comes just as Congress is set to debate Amtrak’s funding. CBS News Congressional Correspondent Nancy Cordes tells WTOP the House Appropriations Committee is ...
