By ‘Bill of Rights’ they mean the 2nd and 10th amendments One of the most ridiculous arguments made during the debate about background checks was, “Why pass new laws? Criminals won’t follow them anyway. Stick to legislating against those who actually listen — like gays and women.” This isn’t an argument against a particular law — it’s an argument against […]

If you die of a gunshot in the United States, the person most likely to have fired that gun is you. A modest expansion of background checks was defeated in the Senate just a few days ago — though it seems like a childhood memory after the anxiety dream that was this week. Commentators pointed out that nearly all polls […]

It is difficult to get Paul Ryan to understand something, when his career depends upon his not understanding it After the worst stock market crash in history, Herbert Hoover decided that more than anything the budget needed to be balanced with cuts and tax increases. Now, this was a very popular belief at the time. His opponent Franklin Delano Roosevelt […]

Don’t make me execute you to prove how pro-life I am. The only thing worse than abortion is birth control. I’m sick of big government letting the gays marry the people they love. I’m going to deport you from this country I want to secede from. I’m afraid of the government registering my guns so I’m registering myself in a gun owners organization.

Conservatives are so good at repeating each other that they never listen to themselves.

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If you have to stop people from voting to win, your ideas suck. The Nation‘s Ari Berman — the intrepid soul who helped expose the GOP’s War on Voting to the world — is back documenting the far right’s continued effort to use big government to stop the “little people” from voting. The front line of this now endless war […]

It’s about preventing choice, not abortion A federal judge appointed by Ronald Reagan struck down a Health and Human Services decision Friday that prevents girls under 17 from accessing the emergency contraceptive “Plan B.” Immediately pro-life groups slammed the ruling, saying that “Girls Will Be Exploited!” “Young girls need medical supervision in taking such a potent and potentially life-ending drug,” […]

Casting the first stone in the name of the Lord since forever Tuesday the Associated Press announced that they would no longer use the term “illegal immigrant.” Besides the fact that people aren’t illegal, actions are, there are several reasons AP made a good decision. Foremost, it’s inaccurate. “Illegal” is a poll-tested Frank Luntz-term designed to gin bigots up and […]

Bigotry is just plain hard to defend Since the Supreme Court hearings on Proposition 8 and the Defense of Marriage Act earlier this week featured some of the worst arguments ever made in front of the highest court in the land, Republicans have been retreating from their strict position that the federal government should ban same-sex marriage like it’s Mitt […]

REMINDER: Jesus never once mentioned gays or abortion. But he was sure pissed at the people who didn’t help the poor. America, we’ve reached a milestone and it’s time to reflect. Same-sex marriage has finally been argued in the highest court of the land. And as true sign of how we have matured as a country, the only arguments the […]

If you want to prevent abortions, you make sure everyone has health care, sex education and birth control. Not the exact opposite. You’ve probably heard that North Dakota has become the first state to pass a “personhood” bill that bans all abortions. It will now head to voters for approval. But you probably didn’t hear that the same people have […]

America’s never-ending quest to take 2% of scientists who don’t agree with climate science as seriously as 98% who do As we examine the mass delusion that led up to the invasion of Iraq, it’s important to note that a similar delusion still pervades American politics. The perfect example of this is in Michigan. President Obama won the state by […]