The disruptive member of the audience interrupted heckled with chants and yells about Jesus and after being drowned out by supporters, he called the President the “Antichrist.” Have you noticed more use of the phrase of late? If you have not you are not paying close attention to national news.
Unfortunate yet telling instances like the execution of Troy Davis, applause for death at a Republican presidential debate and the disrespectful and grossly hypocritical jeering of a gay U.S. soldier in the aftermath of DADT’s undoing each call to mind the fact that the modern day Right wing – Christian Republicans, mostly – has transformed its conservative agenda from fiscal to social, from political to religious, from freedom to fascism.
Anti-abortionists want you to believe that they are Pro-life but nothing could be further from the truth. Here are just a few of the ways to distinguish the Pro-lifers from those who hide the fact that they are merely Anti-abortion.
No one is naïve enough to believe that all campaign promises will come to fruition after a candidate gets into office. Most people recognize that campaigning candidates are prone to ‘stretching the truth’ and what I call ‘vote speak’ (saying things to garner attention to themselves).
The daffy Republican presidential candidate delved even further into the fact-free fantasy realm of tea party fiction at Thursday night’s Republican presidential debate when she proposed the elimination of all taxes, but then added that the government did need some money to run.
The argument that wealthy people are somehow more valuable to society has never been stronger. The newest Republican meme is that they are the job creators. They are the producers. In fact, a man once asked me ‘What have the poor ever done for us?’
’51% of Our Nation Pays No Federal Tax’. Of course, the talking point is designed to vilify the poor. My curiosity took me to a recent article from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP). I wanted to know if it was true and if it was true, how.
A conservative cannot enjoy their steak unless they know that someone, somewhere cannot have a steak of their own.
In a recent appearance, former president Bill Clinton remarked that we in the United States ‘look like a joke’ when compared to the vast majority of educated nations in regard to the GOP’s criticism of climate science (video below).
Almost every Republican in Congress made a pledge to a powerful Washington lobbyist that they would never raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans. This was not a pledge to represent the American people or to protect America’s interests as a whole. It was a pledge to protect Wall Street instead of Main Street.
The Religious Right or the ‘Christian Right’ is a political group which advocates for socially conservative policies, believed to be aligned with Christian values and/or doctrine depending on the particular denomination. However, in a nation with a two party political system, the integration of Christian values in political discourse is somewhat of a double edged sword.
It’s a simple question, really, with a seemingly unfortunate, simple answer: Not so much.
On September 20, Don’t Ask Don’t Tell finally goes where it belongs: the dustbin of history.
There’s a common myth out there that goes, ‘the Great Depression was finally ended by World War 2′. It has some slight variations, such as ‘the Great Depression lasted 15 years’ or even ‘the market didn’t recover until govt spending stopped’. All of these are complete misunderstandings of history if not outright lies.
Class warfare simply means ‘conflict between social or economic classes’ but Republicans are trying to spin class warfare into connotations of trouble-makers inventing imaginary problems with unfair solutions. Here are 8 reasons why the Buffett rule – or ‘shared sacrifice’ from the wealthy – is NOT ‘class warfare.’
Many of my conservative friends have told me lately how displeased they are with the current crop of Republican presidential hopefuls. I can certainly understand their disappointment.
Republican Obstructionism continues to flare-up like a case of the common cold. The Left and many in the media comment about the scope and extent of obstructionism from the Right. The Right and conservative media vehemently deny that obstructionism exists. They also claim Obstructionism is not contributing to the failings of our economy, the employment rate, and discord in Washington D.C.
Right there, two simple sentences in a comedy film, nailed the entire human experience and wrapped it into one rather neat and sad little package, complete with a bow and ribbon. Give somebody a paycheck – especially somebody who hasn’t had one in a while – and they’ll believe anything you say.
