If you’ve been following the news you know Thanksgiving will be tense at Dick Cheney’s house this year. In fact, his daughters are not speaking to each other. The point of contention? Marriage equality. More specifically, Liz Cheney wants to be elected the next U. S. Senator from deep red Wyoming […]

To combat the threat of gun violence a Maryland college purchases bulletproof whiteboards for professors. Congress does nothing about school shootings.

   (PHOTO) Once again an ordinary American school day ended in a cacophony of gunfire. Once again all the guns in the world don’t seem to make America’s students and teachers safer. Once again the gun lobby will refuse to admit even simple truths. Well, let me be the first […]

Prescription drug prices soar in 2012! Drug company lobbyists thrilled. Perhaps you have noticed; prescription drug prices continue to soar. Last year, generics were up 5.3%. Brand name drug costs rose 25%. You remember getting a 25% raise last year at work, don’t you? No? Well, if you want to […]

Hard-working conservative crazies help GOP attain new lows–still have plans to sink farther–and Popularity of the Republican Party tanks.

This Texas education panel’s looking into creationist biology text books. Why not apply the Bible to other school subjects as well?

Imagine it, the Tea Party holding a ceremony to honor businessmen and business women, not to mention scam artists, swindlers and crooks – the Pinto Awards.

After a stunning epiphany, Pope Francis chucked his prepared remarks and spoke from the heart to a crowd of 20,000 unemployed workers.

What do ticket prices for Super Bowl XLVIII and road kill show us when it comes to understanding right-wing ideology and the U. S. economy? They show that trickle-down economics work if we wait long enough—like watching the formation of stalagmites. Yes, right-wing economic ideology works! It doesn’t work for […]

Governor LePage has scant respect for freedom of the press, probably because reporters insist on telling readers every time he says something really dumb.

You’ll find bad government workers, sleeping TSA agents, and taxpayer-funded boobs, but you’ll never see any business crooks on the Fox News Facebook feed.

Call it the Fred Flintstone Effect, part of a plan hatched by paleontologists to trick innocent youth into believing the theory of evolution

According to the American Family Foundation of Kentucky, God is delivering his divine wrath upon the United States by lowering SAT scores.

Pat Robertson, the arbiter of, oh, so many bizarre theories, has now decided to take on the cheating hearts of men and the women who should forgive them.

Remember the Axis of Evil? Yeah, good times!

The Bill of Rights protects all American citizens, and it’s time for the right wing to stop pretending differently.

‘We the People’ don’t get to indulge our personal biases or take out our anger on those we suspect of criminal activity.

Fox News spared no expense in firing up their base by selectively editing Obama’s speech.

We can’t be raising their taxes—or letting government hamper them with regulations that interfere with their bodacious job-creating skills.

The FDA needs to get moooooo-ving on antibiotic-resistant bacteria. But then Tea Partiers will shriek ‘Government’s the problem, not the solution!’ So here’s to the free market, Big Ag and new diseases!