The establishment of prisons in the early United States was not only a more humane method of punishment, but was also used a tool of social control.
Rising Above the Odds With the National Labor Relations Board Process
It's Not The LGBT People Who Need The Reparative Therapy
Girls Scouts No Longer Welcome At Virginia Church Because Of Connection To Planned Parenthood
The Establishment Of The Prison
I Wouldn't Trust Rick Santorum With My Access to Contraception
The First Steps To Stopping The Decline Of America
Gay Myths - Busted
The Second Crucifixion Of Christ
BREAKING: Iran Halts Oil Exports To Britain & France In Retaliation For Impending EU Embargo
Victim Of Bullycide Drew Ferraro's Family Fights Back Against BullyingThe Establishment Of The Prison
Religious Freedom: The Presidents Versus Rick SantorumThe First Steps To Stopping The Decline Of America
The Founding Liberals
Top 10 Ways Republicans Show They Hate Americans
Reagan Would Envy Obama’s Economic Record
While He Was A Senator, Rick Santorum Voted With President George W. Bush Over 95% Of The Time
10 Quotes That Make Ron Paul Sound Racist
50 Liberal Quotes Which Americans Should Remember
Right-Wing Continues To Deny Right-Wing Terrorism
The establishment of prisons in the early United States was not only a more humane method of punishment, but was also used a tool of social control.
No American President has attempted to force their religious views upon the American people. Rick Santorum would be the first President to do such a thing.
Throughout history, empires have come and gone. What we are witnessing today is the end of the American Empire.
Despite what many people on the right believe, the Founding Fathers supported some very liberal policies. These are 7 examples of how the Founding Fathers' policies prove they were the liberals of their day.
If there are two things that Republicans want us to believe, it would be these: 1. Barack Obama’s economic policies are a failure which made the recession worse. 2. Ronald Reagan was an economic genius who should serve as an example of how to improve the economy.
If Americans were to elect Rick Santorum to the Presidency, they'd be electing a second George W. Bush. In fact, Santorum would be even worse. If Rick Perry is the dumber version of Bush, Rick Santorum is the extreme version. According to Congressional Quarterly, Santorum supported Bush policies over 95% of the time from...
There's been a lot of speculation over whether or not Ron Paul is a racist. Read the quotes for yourself, and see if you believe Ron Paul is a racist.
Many Americans today tend to take the past for granted, and with that, we also tend to take the words of past leaders for granted. We forget what they told us, and as a result we lose our identity, we lose the values that make us who we are. Below is a list of...
To hear Fox News, AM radio and the GOP speak of it, you would not think there is a problem with domestic terrorism in this country
The private share of payrolls under President Obama rises a bit above the private share under President Reagan. So if President Obama was a socialist as alleged, that'd make President Reagan a socialist
At a rally on Monday in Colorado, Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney accused President Obama of “infringing upon Americans’ religious rights” for allowing the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to require some religious institutions, including schools and hospitals, to provide coverage of birth control to their employees.
America is falling behind other developed nations in higher education. Every western democracy not named the United States provides post-secondary opportunities for their citizens, prepaid by revenues collected. Those nations have an understanding that higher education translates to higher salaries that boost revenues collected.
The Damon case is certainly a valid subject for scrutiny of Romney’s business record. This is not about questioning ‘free market’ or ‘capitalism’; this is about questioning fraud and truthfulness of a Presidential candidate.
Edward Davies was an atheist. He spent his life hating religion. He died hating religion. That apparently wasn't good enough for the Romney family. A bit over a year after he died, Davies was sealed to his Mormon spouse in the Salt Lake Temple.
I had the pleasure of chatting with the writer and director of The Last War Crime, The Pen, and he had some very startling things to say about his fight with Viacom and Youtube over the promotion of this film.
In December 2010, the South Carolina Secession Gala was held in Columbia to celebrate the 150th anniversary of that state's decision to secede. Unfortunately, that was far from the only such celebration of secession that occurred.
Rabble-rouser, Community organizer. Champion of the poor and down-trodden. Anti-establishment radical. Yeah, the Right feared him for a reason.
Just one day after we celebrated the birthday of the greatest Civil Rights leader in American history, we have occasion to honor another hero of that movement, Muhammad Ali. Ali turns 70 today, and while his health has diminished, his impact is everlasting.
Doctor King's words stand brighter and are longer lasting than any sculpture or legislation. Here are 13 of my favorite Martin Luther King quotes.
I believe there is only one thing I can offer to this brave American hero and that is a humble thank you. Thank you for standing up for the vision of a world where everyone can enjoy the same rights and freedoms.
The fight for equality began in North Carolina, in 1961, at a Woolworth. That day, four young black men demanded to be served lunch at a whites-only counter.
It turns out, all creationism bills introduced since 2004 are inspired by an amendment drafted and proposed by then Senator and current Republican Presidential candidate Rick Santorum in 2001.
One of the most outlandish conservative arguments we've heard over the past few years is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. should somehow be considered a conservative.
Many years ago, when I first learned of the Japanese internment camps, which were the result of an executive order by the progressive icon, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, I became deeply conflicted. How can someone who I've come to revere make such an unjust decision?
Detroit is a city that is struggling to stay alive. Suburbanization, the decline of the auto industry, and economic and governmental neglect have hollowed large parts of the city out
Mitt Romney wasn't your usual long-haired hippie or impoverished drafted Vet with PTSD demonstrating against one of the greatest shining lies in American history either. Rather, Willard Mitt Romney (hold your breath) protested against the anti-war protesters.
The gridlock, inaction, and partisan bickering that characterize the state of our elected officials in Washington, DC are largely a result of the pressures they face in constantly worrying about their next reelection.
In honor of the GOP's idol, President Reagan, lets take a look at the effect of his tax cuts for the top marginal rate. When we looked at the course of the past 80 years as a set, it looks as if there isn't a particularly clear correlation between top marginal tax rates and...
Addicting Info posted an article several months ago regarding Ron Paul and his ties to white supremacy, and we were barraged with pleas and 'stories' to win us over. In honor of Ron Paul's obsessive fans we're publishing the following article, showing his history of discrimination.
Today's Republican Party is not the Republican Party of half a century ago. It has transmogrified into an iniquitous, illicit cult full of racketeers, racketeurs, extortionists, mobsters and gangsters.
Ron Paul prides himself on being a staunch Constitutionalist and has a school girl like crush on the Founding Fathers, but does he really understand the constitution and truly love the Founders?
The legislative ban on ethnic studies classes in Arizona high schools was upheld in Administrative court in Phoenix, AZ in December by judge Lewis D. Kowal of the Arizona Office of Administrative Hearings. More accurately, the ban on Mexican-American studies in Tucson has been upheld.
No region of the world or political issue has brought about such political angst and turmoil as the problems of Israel and the Palestinians.
With the inane clown posse Republican Iowa Caucus and State-wide primaries right around the corner, we can unequivocally expect a tsunami of phenomenally, breathtakingly moronic things to said (especially if Bachmann makes it through Iowa). But in the mean time, it's important to look back and reflect on some of the phenomenally, breathtakingly moronic...
Secret documents have revealed that the British government illicitly supplied the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's regime with military equipment during his eight-year-long imposed war on Iran.
Republicans are celebrating the 100th anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s birth as if it was the birth of their savior, rewriting the history of failed 'Trickle Down' policies that have turned the once vibrant American middle class into economically insecure Serfs.
So, W gets his Tax cuts and TWO WARS so he should have had gangbuster job growth right? After all Republicans tell us that FDR didn't get us out of the Depression. It was WWII. Well hell, W had two wars with TRILLIONS being expended so it only follows that he would get that...
If we’re going to go to the trouble and risk of changing the Constitution, it had better be because some fundamental liberty is being endangered, or some inviolable right being compromised. Like, say, if powerful, unelected corporations and banking cabals were working to undermine democracy.
We really have to stop self-destructing. Democrats ARE different than Republicans, the previous Democratic House, led by Nancy Pelosi, DID try like hell to make this country better, but Republicans blocked them.
Christopher Hitchens, the celebrated journalist, public intellectual, outspoken atheist, and Johnny Walker Black aficionado-- a man of varying political complexities but who relentlessly, brutally derided anyone who sought to manipulated or flouted logic and reason--sadly passed away this past Thursday at 62 after suffering from esophageal cancer.
Christmas is a time where Fox News and right-wing christofascists take time out of their hating the middle class, poor, and gays schedules and feign outrage over a supposed sinister 'War on Christmas' being waged by godless liberals. It's a joyous occasion!
In running for governor, Romney knew all too well that liberal Massachusetts was not about to elect a die-hard, right-winger so in his campaign for the State's highest office, he continually reassured voters that he was one of those moderate Republicans who identified with the GOP because of its responsible, conservative fiscal policies, not...
Anti-abortion fanatics have really had a field day since Republicans took over the House of Representatives, several governorships, and many state legislatures. Anti-abortion laws are being proposed and passed in every red state and even the U.S. House has passed anti-women and anti-contraceptive bills.
What makes the Army-Navy clash different from other rivalries in college football? These players are not playing for BCS standings, lucrative NFL contracts or Nike endorsements. Instead, each cadet has pledged eight years of their young lives to become leaders in the Armed Services.
Our nation has a uniquely tragic experience for an industrialized nation: 40 to 50 million people have no medical or dental care.
It has often been said that FDR saved capitalism from itself. What that means is that he took office at the lowest depths of the Great Depression, when it was clear that rampant uncontrolled capitalism had not only failed to benefit the more than one-third of Americans were ill-housed, ill-clothed, and ill-fed, but had...
The Occupy Wall Street protesters have been standing against the big banks for a few months now. They are protesting the greed, irresponsibility, and fraud that banks like Bank of America, Citigroup, and JPMorgan Chase commit on a daily basis. The big banks of Wall Street caused an economic collapse.
President Carter was rising in the polls in October, 1980, and had closed the gap with Ronald Reagan. Carter was confident of re-election because Iran, in secret talks with Assistant Secretary of State Warren Christopher in Turkey, had agreed to release the 52 American hostages they had been holding for more than a year.
Candidate Ronald Reagan was opposed to tax breaks for the oil companies and this pissed off Texas oilmen such as John Hinckley, Sr., as well as a friend of his who was running against Reagan, George Herbert Walker Bush.
As Jefferson once said, 'Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.'
A cold chill went up the collective spine of official Washington in early 2006 when China destroyed a weather satellite orbiting the earth. The test showed that China has the capability of crippling U.S. military and civilian satellites during any future confrontation.
For half a century – from the depths of the Great Depression until the rise of Ronald Reagan – the U.S. government invested in building the nation and funding key research. And the country flourished. But Reagan then reversed those priorities.
Kennedy was despised by the CIA, the Cubans, the military, the organized crime bosses who had helped steal the election for him only to become the subjects of a Bobby Kennedy crusade; by Nixon, who felt the Kennedys had robbed him of the Presidency; by the military-industrial elite that had wanted him to invade...
When the Remingtons, duPonts, Rockefellers, Mellons, J.P. Morgan, George Herbert Walker, Samuel Bush and Prescott Bush, as well as other representatives of America's corporate elite decided to overthrow the government of the United States in 1934, they recruited retired Marine General Smedley Butler to lead it.
Detlev Hager, Mercedes-Daimler Benz executive, was the most recent (and very much unintended) victim of Alabama's new immigration law.
In a time of unprecedented economic quality and unemployment (see Occupy Movements), in which the top one percent control 42 percent of financial wealth while 15 percent of the country is on food stamps and unemployment is still hanging at 9.1 percent.
Who could have ever predicted that Newt Gingrich would be leading the GOP Presidential field after his campaign was declared dead only a few months earlier? Well, since Gingrich leads the field, conservatives must really be desperate to elect anyone but Romney. But is Newt a winner?
Conservatives have taken to a new spin on truth, by refashioning definitions of words and terms in order to provoke new connotations. Socialism is now defined as a government take over, Capitalism is now defined as patriotic, and the wealthy are now defined as job creators. But simply redefining these words will...
George Washington understood that dealing with debt was the government's responsibility, but leaders would be unlikely to make unpopular choices in a democracy unless the public was both enlightened and understanding: "The execution of these maxims belongs to your representatives," he said -- meaning the members of Congress.
By trespassing, we are saying that mega-corporate occupation of the power and wealth of this nation is illegitimate. We are here to take our power back and do our best to divest from an economic system that harms us and our fellow citizens
Since WWII, Republicans have occupied the White House a total of 36 years. That's more than half of the 66 years since 1945. And during those 36 years of GOP rule, what have they ever cut from government?
How would the Founding Fathers feel about corporations? Read the history, and some of their own quotes, and you'll see that they would have opposed massive corporations and corporate influence in politics.
Many people who oppose the 'Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act., also known as 'Obamacare', say the Founding Fathers wouldn't have wanted the Government to make health insurance mandatory for private employees. This is not true, and is proven by history.
If you have ever found yourself searching for a good reason to continue your support of the Separation of Church and State argument, look no further than the Jonestown-like dynamics of Mississippi’s Initiative 26 proposal--better known as the ‘personhood amendment’--that was thankfully voted down in Mississippi’s most recent election.
This is the bet that republicans have made. They are literally rooting for unemployment to stay high and economic growth to stay low. Why? Because they don't give a damn about my job or your job, they only care about one person's job. Guess whose job that is?
And now comes the greatest obscenity of all: the Iraq War. With this monstrosity of an endeavor now coming to a long overdo end, the final price tag has far exceeded the trillion-dollar mark, and that’s not counting the impact it had on the economy.
I mention all of these warts and flaws not because these four men didn't live exceptional lives. Nothing could be further from the truth. No, I bring these facts forward because they were able to sign (and in Jefferson's case, write) a document that declares the equality of all men, while owning slaves (save...
In our day these economic truths have become accepted as self-evident. We have accepted, so to speak, a second Bill of Rights under which a new basis of security and prosperity can be established for all—regardless of station, race, or creed.
Yesterday, I lived through some experiences that rank among those that I will never forget. I took a tour of the White House and within an hour visited the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Monument.
Occupy Wall Street is proving to be identical to the beginnings of the American Revolution. There will be no silencing of our voices, and any attempt to demonize the 99% is truly un-American. This article represents the second of a multi-part series of articles demonstrating this point.
Where the Tea Party’s protests against TARP were directed only towards President Obama, Occupy Wall Street protests are directed to those elite few who have corrupted our government to suit their whims. Occupy Wall Street is a revolution in the making, as opposed to the Tea Party who only wanted to alienate liberals...
True change has never happened by the single actions of government or political leaders but by the united actions of the American people.
As is always the case, after any presidential candidate debate, FACTCHECK, pulls back the covers and reveals the truth.
Forget about Republican or Democratic ideologies and just look at the facts of where things stand in this country right now. The richest 0.1 % of Americans own more wealth than the lower 50% combined. The richest 5% has more wealth than the lower 90% combined. And 20% of Americans own over 85% of...
The Occupy Wall Street Movement is an inevitable reaction of people in this country to the gross income disparity that currently exists as a result of our broken government and its corrupt relationship with corporate entities. While the movement is gaining tremendous support it still lacks the leadership and coherency to be effective....
Main stream media is intent on framing the death of Steve Jobs as the uber hero of modern computer technology. We (you) … ”are very sad at the profound loss of Steve Jobs” to our (your) psyche. Hop on our grieving gravy train and we can get through this together. Let the tears...
It's a movement that is growing by the minute. Millions of Americans across the nation have decided that now is the time to revolt against the greed of Wall Street.
'Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race' - Bertrand Russell
The Obama Administration decided to pass up an opportunity to appeal the decision of the 11th Circuit court judges ruling the individual mandate as stated in the Affordable Health Care for America Act (Obamacare) as unconstitutional. Due to the fact that judges from the 6th Circuit court issued a separate ruling to uphold the...
So now historian fraud, David Barton, is suing two former candidates for the Texas Schoolboard and writer W.S. Smith for defamation of character over videos on Youtube attacking his historical perspective.
In 2007, the world became engulfed in the largest economic slump since the Great Depression. The crisis was so damaging it was coined 'the Great Recession' and there was much comparison of the recession to the Great Depression of the 1930s in the mainstream media. However, what many failed to do was an in-depth...
Everyone agrees that owning a gun is a constitutionally protected right. But it's something else completely to believe we have the right to threaten gun violence as protection against our own government. When you take the second amendment piece by piece, it doesn't say anything remotely related to people protecting themselves from the American...
Pat Buchanan is a very controversial figure. He worked in the Nixon and Reagan administrations and has since been a very vocal pundit on behalf of the extreme right wing of the Republican Party. Throughout his long career, he has been a presidential candidate, advisor, political speaker, analyst, and an author. But throughout that...
We hear it all the time. The media, politicians, pundits, and even President Obama have endlessly referred to Social Security and Medicare as 'entitlements'. Republicans talk about these programs as if people don't actually pay for them, and distort the word 'entitlement' as if it means something horrible. The Right Wing, as always, is...
I am sorry but I believe that the drone attack on Al-Alwaki and Samir Khan was wrong. Both of these men were American citizens and should have been taken alive and given a fair trial. But of course this is the Patriot Act in effect which gives the president the right to declare any...
A longtime political operative once adequately summed up Ron Paul's brand of stalwart Libertarianism by using this adage 'when you first hear about it, it seems like a big, delicious bowl of ice cream. Then, after awhile, you realize that mixed in with the ice cream, there is a sizable chunk of dogsh$t.'
Regardless of your politics, for those of us who support the existence of the Jewish State of Israel, watching events on the world stage in the past week has been tantamount to helplessly watching your own child get bullied on the school yard.
The idea of the American dream is one of the most successful pieces of propaganda ever perpetuated. If we believe in the dream, we can dismiss or outright ignore economic, social, and demographic realities that have more to do with economic impoverishment than any supposed behavioral deficiencies on the part of welfare recipients.
Two of my favorite sitcoms were on TV last Thursday night at 9. NBC had the eighth season premiere of The Office, and Fox News aired the third installment of a new show called The Republican Presidential Debates. Both were great for laughs and quite a few groans, but, unfortunately, the debate was the...
As America and Congress continue to squabble over who is to blame for the current financial crisis, a closer and more balanced analysis of the situation reveals that there is plenty of blame to go around.
Each of us has dreamed of being the President of the United States and we have all wondered what we would do if we held the office. So I'm taking this opportunity to share my own vision of America.
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.
'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.
On September 21st, 2011 at Jackson Prison in Georgia, an African-American man, Troy Davis was executed for a crime, many believe he did not commit. Prior to his execution Davis declared his innocents and addressed his friends and family saying, 'All I ask is that you look deeper into this case so that you...
This isn’t really a commentary on the death penalty – although, that being said, my views on the death penalty have been, at various times, various things. I’ve been for it, I’ve been against it, I’ve been neutral. A particularly heinous crime, particularly crimes against children, make me long for it; but intellectually, I...
Some history and information on Bill O'Reilly, the host of Fox News' most watched show; The O'Reilly Factor.
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.
Rush Limbaugh's Message Fits Definition Of Treason (AUDIO)
Republican Alan Simpson Calls Rick Santorum "Rigid and Homphobic" (VIDEO)
Virginia Needs Her Krystal Ball
The Sane Voice of Bill Moyers and the Cruel Stupidity of Bob McDonnell
Indiana Republican Rep Says Girl Scouts Are 'Bent On Communism, Lesbianism And Destroying America'Girls Scouts No Longer Welcome At Virginia Church Because Of Connection To Planned Parenthood
Anonymous: LulzFinancial Punishes Pedophile Website
Thomas Friedman's Destructive Obsession With Third Parties Continues 
Gay Marriage - Modern Christian Hypocrisy
Wisconsin Assembly Officially Ends Employment Discrimination Remedies
10 Questions To Ask Your Favorite Conservative
Your Best Valentine's Day Weapon In The War On Safe Sex - Lots Of Safe Fun (VIDEOS)
Jack In The Box - Marry Your Bacon; Political Statement? (VIDEO & IMAGE)
Gulf Of Mexico To Become 'Gulf Of America': Top Ten Other Names That Aren't American Enough
Thou Shalt Not Spill Thy Seed! Anti-Masturbation Amendment Added To Anti-Abortion Bill
Republican Congressman Duped By 'Abortionplex' Article In The Onion (IMAGE)
8 Reasons Why Newt Gingrich Should Get the Republican Presidential Nomination
Rick Santorum Wants His Supporters To C.U.M. (IMAGE)
The 2012 South Carolina Primary Drinking Game
Corporate Tool Chuck Todd Goes After Stephen Colbert For Exposing Corporate Tool Electoral System (VIDEO)
