Still unconvinced about the TPP? Unsure that NAFTA was awful? This just...
Keystone pipeline company files NAFTA lawsuitThe company behind the Keystone XL pipeline has filed a legal challenge to its rejection, contending that President Barack Obama violated the North American...
View ArticleQuick Hit: Can we get rid of DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, pleeeeeease?...
As everyone knows, I have not (and probably will not) take sides in the Hillary-Bernie drama but can someone in the Democratic National Committee please send out a bat-signal for Howard Dean or David...
View ArticleWhite Privilege and the Myth of the West: An Oregonian's Take on The Oregon...
I have actually been trying to avoid the Oregon militia story, not because I don't know anything about it but because it hits pretty close to home. I live in Oregon, and I have family in Burns. My...
View ArticleWeekly polling update: Trump and Clinton lead nationally, but early states...
Every Thursday I survey the latest presidential polling, and as of now, there’s not much new since the last time I did one of these on December 22. Think about it, pollsters weren’t going to poll the...
View ArticleBen Carson embarrasses elementary student with wildly cruel question at...
Ben Carson gave a speech at the Isaac Newton Christian School in Cedar Rapids, Iowa this morning and ended up viciously embarrassing at least one poor student. Timothy Meinch of the Des Moines Register...
View ArticleBNR - 'Bernie On Morning Joe, GMA, & The Nightly Show' & 'Sanders Tackles...
Some Words Of Support From WarrenDemocratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders won applause from liberal hero Elizabeth Warren a day after he promised in a New York speech to break up big U.S. banks...
View ArticleI support Hillary Clinton for President.
I think, after reflecting on it for the last thirty-five years, that I understand something of what motivates the hatred of Hillary cited by Sady Doyle. I was a resident of Conway, AR, moving in after...
View ArticleOur mission doesn't end by electing Bernie Sanders
Our mission doesn't end by electing Bernie Sanders. That's where it begins.They said it couldn't be done. The Bernie movement, a political revolution in America.The reality is man will never fly, we'll...
View ArticleBernie Sanders schools MSNBC Mark Halperin on Medicare for all / Single Payer...
Bernie Sanders appeared on MSNBC recently following his major Wall Street speech in New York. He was asked many policy questions on both Wall Street, guns, and health care.Mark Halperin asked Bernie...
View ArticleOne of Our Esteemed Kosacks Has Published Her First Novel - and it is...
Without outing the aka kosack author (she can do that for herself if she wishes to), Anna Burdette’s first novel is a damn good read! I knew it would be carefully plotted and well written but was...
View ArticleIn 2008 I was a Clinton supporter throughout most of the primary season
Some of you here probably remember that. I shifted my support to Obama late, after he won the Oregon primary and it became clear to me that Hillary had no real chance left of winning the nomination. I...
View ArticlePaiute tribal chair: 'Don’t tell me any of these ranchers came across the...
As the media continue spotlighting the armed extremists occupying the federal headquarters of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon, their complaints about federal government “over-reach,” and...
View ArticleFINALLY! A progressive is primary-ing DWS in #FL23
I don’t think I need to go into any detail about how truly terrible Debbie Wasserman Schultz is. Not just at her job as chair of the DNC, but just as a Congressperson in general. If there is one thing...
View ArticleTwitter Storm: Bundy Erotic Fan Fiction!
Oh! This is great. Someone has started a hashtag of Steamy #BundyEroticFanFic with some of the best soft-core Bundy-porn out there (like I know a lot about soft-core porn, right? Still, this is good!)....
View ArticleNEW PPP Poll: Bernie runs NINE points better than Hillary against GOPers in...
So we have a new poll from PPP out of New Hampshire. x Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders both lead the GOP field in NH, but Sanders does an average 9 points better: https://t.co/iP23p66DHJ—...
View ArticleThe Carter Center announces only 22 cases of flesh-eating Guinea worm disease...
On Thursday, The Carter Center announced that only 22 cases of Guinea worm disease were reported in 2015— a reduction of 83% from 2014. This quite remarkable, as when The Carter Center began leading...
View ArticleTed Cruz Has an Actual, Honest-to-God Birther Problem
Ted Cruz has a for-real birther problem that may only be resolved if his friends in the government solve it for him the same way they solved it for candidate John McCain in 2008. But that's...
View ArticleDear "Militiamen": Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss
My dear Patriots.I understand your feelings have been bruised by the many mentions of your groups as "terrorists." Understandably so. Nothing is so loathesome to civilized minds as one who would...
View ArticleFriedai Critters
Those of you who already either know me or know of me know that I am a massive pootie person. I grew up with both cats & dogs and I love both. I do not discriminate against any animal & love...
View ArticleNot The Onion: Guns officially OK to take into Texas state psychiatric hospitals
What could possibly go wrong?Before the state’s new open carry law went into effect, guns were banned at those state facilities. No one — visitors, deliverymen and the like — could bring firearms...
View Article