(18 comments) SHARE        Friday, April 20, 2012
Zimmerman's Wife Admits Z Used Self-Defense Excuse Years Ago Testimony by Zimmerman and his wife reveal deception and confirm previous alibis in play.

(2 comments) SHARE        Thursday, April 19, 2012
ALEC Sends Out an SOS to Breitbart Bloggers Shortly after issuing a press release announcing that it was disbanding its "Public Safety and Elections Task Force" after 30 years, theAmerican Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) held a training for the right-wing blogosphere.

(12 comments) SHARE        Thursday, April 19, 2012
A Tea Partier Just Called Me "Communist." Watch My SLAM DUNK Response So I'm working this morning, like I do everyday, trying to come up with ways to promote my film, when I get this email from a guy who used to call my radio show over in Jackonville. His name is Rod, and here's what he sent. Rep. Allen West states that 81 Democratic House members are communists. A CPUSA official is outraged & I agree. Isn't every Democrat a communist? I wasn't getting a whole lot done, so I figured..

SHARE        Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Bloomberg Bans Food Donations to Homeless Shelters The Bloomberg administration is taking the term "food police" to new depths, blocking food donations to all government-run facilities that serve the homeless. The Department of Homeless Services recently started enforcing new nutritional rules for food served at city shelters. Since DHS can't assess the content of donated food, shelters have to turn away good Samaritans...

SHARE        Monday, March 19, 2012
Groups backing reproductive freedom, including candidate-backer EMILY's List, see funding surge The increased visibility of the right-wing war on women's reproductive rights is generating significant increases in funding, according to leaders of organizations such as EMILY's List and Planned Parenthood. The 27-year-old EMILY's List is dedicated to electing pro-choice Democratic women to office

(7 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Republicans losing lady voters. Gee, no one saw that coming! After spending a solid year trying to pass laws to ban women's health care, redefine rape, protect the "religious liberty" of hospitals that would prefer to let women die rather than provide necessary health care to them, Republicans weren't certain they'd made it clear just how anti-woman the party is. So they decided to turn the dial to 11 by attacking basic health care as a violation of their "religious liberty."

SHARE        Thursday, March 1, 2012
Fannie Mae Slaps The SEC Fannie Mae's latest financial disclosures belie the SEC's allegations against former company executives. The government lawsuit claims that the company understated its "true," holdings in subprime and Alt-A mortgages back in 2007-2008. Yet four years later, Fannie still refuses to change the way that it calculates and reports its exposure to subprime and Alt-A mortgages.

(3 comments) SHARE        Thursday, March 1, 2012
"Americans For Prosperity" Co-opts "Occupy" Name Koch Brothers' Americans for Prosperity plans fake "Occupy" event. Occupy NH is not amused and plans to Occupy the fake Occupiers.

SHARE        Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Santorum's attack on college education is no joke When Mitt Romney attacks "liberals" for questioning his many homes and cars as showing they are "jealous of success," and Romney, Santorum and many others attack the Occupy Wall Street movement for questioning what the 1 percent has done to America, they are making it clear they like the way things are and they intend to keep it that way.

SHARE        Thursday, February 23, 2012
Huzzah! Virginia puts 'personhood' bill on hold until next year Two happy surprises in two days. First the requirement for pre-abortion transvaginal ultrasound gets shot down and now this: Personhood bill dead in 2012.

(3 comments) SHARE        Saturday, February 11, 2012
An open letter to Occupy Wall Street, lose the masks I am asking you to lose the masks. When we put our faces out in the world we put a face on human suffering and economic exploitation. The issues can not have a human face if the people fighting for those issues hide behind masks. When we take off our masks we are stronger. The violence that has plagued Occupy Wall Street can not be ignored. That violence has largely been committed by people in masks.

(14 comments) SHARE        Thursday, February 2, 2012
Anonymous Finds Ron Paul under Supremacist Rock Twitter is a atwitter this evening with the news that the hacker group Anonymous mounted an attack against a series of White Supremacist groups, generally smashing, exposing, and defacing the sites. That in itself is at a minimum, worthy of note, but the kicker is what they found at one of the sites.

(1 comments) SHARE        Thursday, February 2, 2012
The Cancerous Politics and Ideology of the Susan G. Komen Foundation This week it became clear there are things more important to the Susan G. Komen Foundation--the fundraising giant that each year during breast cancer awareness month virtually swathes the United States in pink, a la Christo--than ensuring women are able to access exams for early detection of breast cancer. In a word: Politics.

(2 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Susan G. Komen for the Cure caves to anti-choicers, stops funding Planned Parenthood For many low-income women, Planned Parenthood is their only source of health care. By caving to the anti-choice extremists who are determined to put Planned Parenthood out of business, Susan G. Komen for the Cure is essentially telling low-income women they're better off dying of cancer than having access to the screening and prevention that saves lives.

(1 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Why You Should Care About What is Going on in Tucson Look. America cannot make the best of the 21st century and reach whatever potential might be there to reach by 2100 unless as a country, we learn to face reality. We have issues. The business of getting it together and trying to progress is the business of seeing clearly...

(5 comments) SHARE        Saturday, January 21, 2012
RNC Decides to Finish Destroying Democracy - Citizens United on Steroids Republican National Committee Files Brief Seeking To Allow Corporations To Donate Directly To Campaigns. This law would mean that a corporation like Citibank could write a check to Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich for $5 billion and no one could do anything about it. This is Citizens United on steroids.

(11 comments) SHARE        Friday, January 20, 2012
16 year old girl threatened by Christians with beatings and worse In Cranston, Rhode Island, 16 year old Jessica Ahlquist, a student at Cranston High School West, filed suit back in April along with the American Civil Liberties Union objecting on First Amendment grounds to a prayer banner hung in that school's auditorium.

(2 comments) SHARE        Thursday, January 19, 2012
Hedge Funds Have Human Rights Too Hedge funds have been known to use hardball tactics to make money. Now they have come up with a new one: suing Greece in a human rights court to make good on its bond payments. The novel approach would have the funds arguing in the European Court of Human Rights that Greece had violated bondholder rights[.]

(2 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, January 18, 2012
New Polls: Economy Still Bush's Fault, GOP Responsible For Gridlock We've written for quite some time that the longer Obama is in office (and the longer Bush is out of it), the more likely it is that blame for the economy would shift toward him. But, these numbers suggest -- gasp! -- we were wrong.

(1 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, January 18, 2012
NSA buŸllshitt: Refusing to Return Whistleblowers' Computers You'd think after the malicious classification chicanery in the Drake case, the Justice Department and NSA would have learned their lesson. They didn't...