This simple pie chart shows our Social Security budget is NOT sustainable.

Bernie Sanders has a few words for President Obama: use your veto pen.

In a single statement during a Supreme Court hearing, conservative Justice Antonin Scalia again demonstrated that he’s not only a poor example of a judge, he’s a poor example of a human being as well.

In one of the strongest defenses of Social Security and Medicare in the 2014 Election, The West Wing actor Martin Sheen urged senior citizens to vote for Democrats to save the programs from destruction by the GOP.

Medicare is not in the toilet despite Republican’s gnashing of teeth and pulling of hair. The outlook for this wildly successful program is excellent. It looks like the projections made just five years ago – in 2009 have changed to show Medicare costs are right at 2.6 percentage points lower than […]

  With all of the political showmanship and game playing going on in Washington of late, there’s a good chance you missed some important information that came out of Thursdays Senate Hearing on healthcare mistakes. A key revelation that came out of the hearing is the fact that medical mistakes […]

Some may think it is wishful thinking to believe that Obamacare leads up to a single payer Medicare for all type system. It is not.

On Friday, Justice Scalia spoke in Texas where he came out against part of the United States Constitution while proclaiming that Capitalism was Christian.

This is tantamount to a declaration – the federal government is making it very clear that a marriage is a marriage as far as they are concerned.

CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday forgot to include the disclaimer that there would be no fact checking and, from right wing shill Jim DeMint at least, no facts.

Republicans have been using the same lies for 8 decades. Don’t believe us? Then try to match up the lie to the Republican. Good luck!

Red states are really parasites and gold-diggers when it comes to collecting Federal dollars even though they are the most vociferous about government spending

Why is Boehner again holding the debt ceiling hostage? It’s past time for him and his party to stop this type of childish ploy and actually get to work.

Since President Obama took the oath of office in January 2009, Republicans have reversed their stances on many different policies and beliefs. Here are 24 of them.

From what the GOP says, you’d think immigrants come to America to mooch off a threadbare healthcare system that’s the laughing stock of the developed world.

Long-term, we’re still in trouble due to a variety of factors, and neither our government nor our media seem to know how to actually look at the federal deficit.

Governor Rick Perry of Texas is privy to pay of $240,000 per year. That is your tax dollars going to the small government preacher, Governor Rick Perry.

The majority of Americans disagree with Republicans on today’s hot-button issues, and all the gerrymandering and voter suppression in the world can’t change that.

John Boehner sat down to rattle off the latest Republican talking points, saying he’s against raising their taxes by even a few percentage points and would rather make cuts to social programs.

Michele Bachmann (R-MN) sounded almost like a Democrat (or at least a heal the sick sort of Christian) for nearly a minute and 20 seconds.