U.S. Government Opposes Motion By Right Wing ‘True the Vote’ to Intervene in TX Photo ID Case
[This article now cross-published by The Progressive…] The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a vigorous Opposition [PDF] to a Motion to Intervene [PDF] filed by the Republican “voter fraud” group calling itself “True the Vote.” In its motion, True the Vote seeks to become a party to the DoJ’s federal legal challenge to Texas’s […]
‘Green News Report’ – November 7, 2013
Follow @GreenNewsReport… (Or use “Click here to listen…” link below.) IN TODAY’S RADIO REPORT: ELECTION 2013: the first climate election? Climate science denier Ken Cuccinelli defeated in VA; Local races with big environmental impacts for the country; PLUS: We’re goin’ the wrong way!!! Greenhouse gas emissions rise to record levels… All that and more […]
‘Green News Report’ – November 5, 2013
Follow @GreenNewsReport… (Or use “Click here to listen…” link below.) IN TODAY’S RADIO REPORT: Climate scientists go nuclear; Coal spills & kills; Obama announces major new climate action; UN’s latest warning; PLUS: Germany breaks its own clean energy record — again … All that and more in today’s Green News Report! Listen online here, […]
Seriously?…
Yes. Seriously. Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ conspiracy theory website InfoWars decries “tin-foil hat”-wearing “nut-jobs” for citing a “nefarious conspiracy” and “baseless theories” for which “there is no actual evidence.” I quit. [Hat-tip @DaveWeigel…]
Republican Texas Judge Carlo Key Explains Why He Decided to Seek Re-Election as a Democrat
After what he describes as the Republican Party’s victory of “pettiness and bigotry” over “pragmatism and principle”, Bexar, Texas County Criminal Court Judge Carlo Key has decided to leave the GOP to run next year as a Democrat instead. In a video posted to his website, Key, who was first elected in 2010, echoed and […]
19 Takes And Counting: Cuccinelli Campaign Accidentally Produces Best Video of the Year?
Not sure, but this may be my favorite video of the year to date. This would be Jim Bob Duggar, former Arkansas state Rep. and genius patriarch of TLC’s 19 Kids & Counting fame, attempting to serve as a spokesperson for the Ken Cuccinelli (R) gubernatorial campaign in Virginia against Terry McAuliffe (D)… With spokespersons […]
What ‘Fiscal Conservatism’? The Cost of the Republican Shutdown
With the 81 – 18 vote in the U.S. Senate and 285 – 144 tally in the U.S. House, Congress averted a worldwide economic disaster this week by finally voting to end the 16-day, ‘Tea-Party’ manufactured shutdown and debt ceiling crises. As CNN noted, shortly after President Barack Obama signed the measure into law, Congress […]
Toon of the Moment: ‘Just a Flesh Wound!’…
Brilliant. [Hat-tip to @litbrit.]
Cruz’ Speech Writer Complains She Doesn’t Know How She’ll Get Health Care Come January
As everything falls apart on The Hill tonight, again, Sen. Ted Cruz’ speech writer and senior communications adviser Amanda Carpenter just had the temerity to tweet this… It's almost November and I have no idea what my health plan will be or what it will cost in January. This. Is. Awful. — Amanda Carpenter (@amandacarpenter) […]
‘Green News Report’ – October 15, 2013
Follow @GreenNewsReport… (Or use “Click here to listen…” link below.) IN TODAY’S RADIO REPORT: Breaking: U.S. Supreme Court to hear challenge to EPA greenhouse gas emission regulations; India dodges a bullet with Super Cyclone Phailin, while Fukushima prepares for another; 800,000+ gallon oil spill in ND; Government shutdown shuts down US Antarctic research program; […]
New Poll: GOP Approval Keeps Plummeting; Old Numbers: Obama More Conservative on Government Spending Than GOP Predecessors
As the idiotic Republican shutdown continues and debt ceiling collapse looms, GOP approval ratings plummet yet again in latest poll. The new survey from ABC/WaPo finds a stunning 74% of Americans disapprove of the way the GOP is handling budget negotiations, that’s up 11 points from before the shutdown started. But more important to remember, […]
Stabenow Calls Out Cruz for His Advocacy IN FAVOR of ‘Government-Run’ Healthcare
Extremist ‘Tea Party’ Republicans like to pretend they are patriots — so much so that when Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) complained this week that the government shutdown he helped engineer had forced the elimination of Veteran’s Administration healthcare services, he belatedly discovered that he had painted himself into an impossible corner. Well, he didn’t discover […]
Warren Slams Republican ‘Extremists’, Offers Case for Why ‘Government Matters’ [VIDEO]
Speaking on the floor of the U.S. Senate last week, on the third day of the federal government shutdown, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) excoriated Republicans in the House of Representatives as “extremists” and “anarchists”, while offering an impassioned case for why “government matters.” [See video and transcript below.] “When I hear the latest tirades from […]
Kansas Sec. of State Kris Kobach Has New Plan to Keep 17,500+ Legal Voters From Voting
[This is article has now been cross-published by Salon…] The man who wrote Arizona’s “Papers Please” law before running for Kansas Secretary of State in 2010 on the premise of stamping out “voter fraud” there … before winning and subsequently not being able to find much, if any of it, at all, is nonetheless still […]
No, MSM, ‘Both Sides’ Are Not to Blame for the Republican Shutdown of the U.S. Government
As the government shutdown began, the corporate U.S. media played its usual unhelpful role by not taking sides in what was clearly a one-sided argument. “In shutdown blame game, Democrats and Republicans united: It’s the other side’s fault,” declared Washington Post’s headline. “Shutdown: Obama and Republicans Trade Blame as Deadline is Crossed,” TIME unhelpfully noted, […]