Author of DHS’ Retracted 2009 Report Warned About Rightwing Extremism Again in 2011
In July of 2011, just days after the massacre of 77 mostly children at a youth summer camp by a Rightwing extremist in Norway, Brian Levin, the Director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University interviewed Daryl Johnson, formerly of the Dept. of Homeland Security (DHS). Johnson was […]
MS Election Official: No Evidence McDaniel Supporters Accessed Election Ballots or Central Tabulator During Primary Night Courthouse Caper
You may have already heard at least some of the bizarre story about three “Tea Party” supporters of Mississippi’s Republican U.S. Senate candidate Chris McDaniel who found themselves locked inside the Hinds County Courthouse around 2am on primary election night last Tuesday. McDaniel himself is now locked in a run-off for the Republican nomination for […]
‘BECKSTABBED!’: Glenn Beck Supporters Turn on Him After ‘Operation American Spring’ Failure
[This article now cross-published by Salon…] Glenn Beck’s natives are getting very restless, and many of them are now taking their frustrations out on him. The organizers of last Friday’s “Operation American Spring” (OAS) had claimed their massive Washington D.C. protest, “calling for the removal of Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Harry Reid, Mitch McConnell, John […]
Idaho, U.S.A.
If you do nothing else today, watch the moving closing remarks from the last two candidates in Idaho’s Republican primary candidates debate for Governor, beginning at 52:20… The rest of the debate was pretty much as awesome. But I realize a full hour of that is a tall ask. On a more substantive note, while […]
BRAD BLOG’s Christie/Koch Bros. Scoop Picked Up For Showtime’s ‘Years of Living Dangerously’
Over the weekend, Showtime’s James Cameron-produced environmental documentary series, Years of Living Dangerously, released an online-only video segment focused on NJ Gov. Chris Christie’s still-unexplained flip on the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). RGGI is the very successful cap and trade system created by northeastern states to help curb global warming gasses. The video segment […]
‘Green News Report’ – April 24, 2014
Follow @GreenNewsReport… (Or use “Click here to listen…” link below.) IN TODAY’S RADIO REPORT: Another fossil fuel explosion, this time in Wyoming; State Department delays as Cowboys & Indians protest the Keystone XL pipeline; Landmark $3m judgment against fracking company; Oil industry unprepared for oil spill in the Arctic; PLUS: The legacy of the […]
Toon of the Moment: Koch ‘Mergers and Acquisitions’…
It was a very good week for the Koch inheritance babies, no matter how much they now whine and pretend to be victims…
‘A New Kind of Liberty’ for the Koch Brothers and Anyone Else Who Can Afford to Buy It
During Thursday’s Green News Report, we briefly discussed Charles Koch’s claim in his Wall Street Journal op-ed this week, that he and his brother David, are using their inherited fossil-fuel millions to discredit global warming science (and other inconvenient realities), simply because they are fighting “to restore a free society and create greater well-being and […]
Koch Is It! Dems’ 2014 Campaign Plan Revealed!
Well, it just makes sense. Republicans aren’t actually running on anything in 2014 other than “Democrats are no good! Also, Obamacare!” As Jesse LaGreca points out, however, “50+ repeal votes, a SCOTUS decision and a Presidential election, still no GOP alternative to Obamacare, just trolling & BS.” So, it’s not much to run on. But […]
Mitch McConnell Tastes His Own Medicine in Attack Ad by Senate Conservatives Fund [VIDEO]
This is what politics now looks like inside the Republican Party, where Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is staring down the double barrels of a very aggressive “Tea Party” primary challenge from Matt Bevin, and then a very close contest with Democratic general election candidate and Kentucky Sec. of State Alison Lundergan Grimes… Remember, […]
80,000+ Furious ‘Tea Partiers’ Marched in Protest of Democratic Policies Over the Weekend
Oh, I’m sorry. Those weren’t more than 80,000 ‘Tea Partiers’ marching in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, over the weekend. Those were people peacefully demonstrating against the radical Rightwing ‘Tea Party’ policies of the North Carolina Legislature and Governor. Had they been ‘Tea Partiers’ protesting, of course, you would have already heard about the march, as […]
Good Point of the Moment: ‘If Women Took Up Arms’…
Federal Court Denies ‘True the Vote’ Attempt to Intervene in Texas Photo ID Restriction Law Case
A federal District court judge has nixed a rightwing “voter fraud” group’s Motion to Intervene on behalf of the state of Texas in the U.S. Dept. of Justice’s lawsuit to block the Lone Star state’s polling place Photo ID restriction law. Last month, The BRAD BLOG reported on the DoJ’s Opposition motion filed in response […]
‘Green News Report’ – December 5, 2013
Follow @GreenNewsReport… (Or use “Click here to listen…” link below.) IN TODAY’S RADIO REPORT: Obama ‘finds the courage’: orders federal government to increase use of renewable energy; Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R) celebrates melting Arctic; ALEC and Koch Bros. launch an attack on solar; Solar panel maker takes on Germany’s electric utilities; PLUS: The […]
All the King’s Horses and all the King’s Men…
The last graf from an AP article describing the plunge in spending by “outside” Rightwing groups, so far this year, on 2014 campaigns… Americans for Prosperity, a group backed by the conservative billionaire Koch brothers, saturated Iowa mailboxes and telephone lines recently to support conservative city council candidates [in the November 5, 2013 election]. But […]