Zombie Politics

I remember, quite fondly, actually, the derision towards the Occupy movement. "Occupy a job" was a common dig along with predictio...

TPM has a post up about the parallels between the segregationists that opposed the Civil Rights movement during the 1950s and 1960s and the ...

When you help create an instransigent ideology, this is what you get. Tea Party Divided by Export-Import Bank “At the end of the meeting...

I'm still trying to figure out why the Tea Baggers and other malcontent conservatives are pissed off about Thad winning the runoff in Mi...

My oh my has there been one massive shitting of the bed over the loss Eric Cantor experienced on Tuesday night to Tea Party Challenger David...

By request, I am putting up this link again. MEET YOUR CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT This is my personal favorite from that collection of fear,...

I miss Christopher Hitchens. I didn't always agree with him but man, he said some very accurate and funny shit. Take, for example, this ...

From the Wall Street Journal... Not coincidentally, activist groups allied with Mr. Cruz announced they will use those votes in GOP primar...

Three.  I guess there was the official one from Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.), Senator Mike Lee from Utah delivered the Tea Party...

Senator Charles Schumer has a great piece  up on the Tea Party which is a nice front loader to the SOTU tonight. Here are some of the highli...

Jesse Myerson's piece in Rolling Stone on the five economic reforms millennials should be fighting for starts out just fine but then d...

The other day in class we were talking about the chemical spill in West Virginia by Freedom Industries (ironic name, no?) and that discussio...

Brian Beutler reveals a very interesting conundrum for right wing extremists in his latest piece over at Salon.com. When Healthcare.gov act...