Zombie Politics

An excellent summation of the Gun Cult... Everyone is going to have a different answer. I'm no exception. In my opinion, i believe it ...

Starting at about 6:25...  Wow...

People (and by people, I largely mean conservatives) seem to get so irate about the category of crimes known as hate crimes. Why? I think a ...

For years Fox News has taken up the mantle of defending Christianity from the devils on the doorstep. They invented the pretend war on Chris...

I have several thoughts going through my head right now regarding the shooting in Charleston but the one that sticks out predominantly is th...

As I predicted... NRA board member blames pastor for Charleston deaths  What an ugly bunch of fuckers...but, hey, that's that Gun Cu...

There's a serious double standard. When Sunni and Shia Muslims kill people in mosques in Iraq we call it terrorism, but when white guys...

Another young white man has gone on a shooting spree. This time it was in a black church in the South. Police are investigating it as a hate...

Now that the GOP clown car includes Donald Trump, the 2016 presidential campaign has gotten a whole lot more interesting. By "interesti...

Remember that Dallas police station shoot up? Dallas police shooter’s father says ‘liberal people’ drove son to ‘breaking point’ Wow...t...

So, the word in unicorn fart land is that Hillary isn't talking to the press and refuses to answer tough questions... Really? This...

I am going to do all I can to pierce the collective amnesia that the Republicans are trying to impose on people. We're not supposed to r...

Apparently so... Texas approves textbooks with Moses as Founding Father  It's always something with that wacky board of education in...

...and the best answer I have ever seen was posted. In addition to this being the best answer I have ever seen, it's also one of the fi...

Hey kids, check this out! It's a Jesus slingshot that's perfect for your evangelical buddy. Help him or he...

Chris Trejbal over at Americablog doesn't seem to think so and I agree. If SCOTUS does not uphold the subsidies, they have two choices. ...

One of the main reasons why I support the president is that he has literally saved lives since he has taken office. The passage of the Affor...

There's been a lot of talk about women in science and technology in recent months. Google's Eric Schmidt stuck his foot in it last M...

Check out Jim Cooley. He's really cooley, I guess, because he likes to carry his AR-15 at the airport. And...

One of the tenets of climate change deniers is that as the world warms -- when they admit that it is warming -- plants will grow more quickl...

Check out this photo: It's from a collection of photos that were found in Nancy Lanza's home after the police...

From a recent question on Quora ... I've long suspected that a lot of modern christianity is the result of people who want to be admir...

I think there are several reasons why conservatives like to play the victim as detailed here by Bill Maher. The main one is they generate...

The attacks and childish taunting against the Clinton Foundation have gotten pretty silly of late. The right wing bubble has been spinning s...

Scott Walker recently announced a $500 million dollar stadium deal for the Milwaukee Buck s, half of which will be funded by taxpayers. Some...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has released a report saying that has been no hiatus in global warming after all. Scien...

Why Can't America Win Wars Anymore? This question has been asked in many forms for many years (in MinnPost , the Atlantic , Ricochet , T...

Yesterday I carped about how American companies have been outsourcing manufacturing and tech jobs overseas, and how they've begun firin...

Once you think law enforcement in the South has reached the nadir of stupidity, someone in Georgia, Alabama, Florida or Mississippi turns ar...

For decades American manufacturing jobs have been going to places like Mexico, China, Malaysia, Vietnam, and so on. Part of this was facili...

Check out this video from a recent Iowa focus grou p comprised entirely of Republicans... Let's see.... They are overwhelmed by ...

Like the adolescent who bitches about the roof over their heads, they all end up crying to mom and dad for help.

The next section of Chris Mooney's book, The Republican Brain , is called "Smart Idiots" and it's honestly one of the most...

Reports are coming out of Iraq about life under ISIL . And it's a conservative paradise. The Sunni Muslim terrorists appear to be fol...

Gallup has been seeing some interesting polling numbers lately. First there was the abortion poll and now they have one that says, for the ...