Zombie Politics

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 ...