Month: August 2012

Steve M. is a connoisseur of right-wing media, which may be why is more readily alarmed and prone to pessimism than I am. When it comes to wingnut media, I barely touch the stuff. The only time I watch Fox is when things have...

Chris Cillizza does a political winners and losers column periodically, and he’s revived it for the Republican National Convention. Last night’s winners were Susana Martinez, Condi Rice, Ron and Rand Paul, Paul Ryan,...

Joan Walsh and Brian Beutler begin the daunting job of detailing the stunningly brazen lies Paul Ryan told during his convention speech last night.

Two weeks ago, I slammed William Saletan for his love letter to Paul Ryan in which he all but offered to help run the Ryan for President ’16 campaign if Pres. Obama got re-elected this fall. There’s no evidence...

55.8 Million Americans Persecuted By Both the Democrats and Republicans In its 2010 World Drug Report the United Nations estimated that fully 18% or more of the United States population smoked marijuana in 2008 and the number...