The Hunting of the Snark

Charles Pierce has endorsed Obama for president because he wants to make "sure that Willard Romney is not president." He says tha...

There is an amazing interview with Greg Palast at therealnews.com, in which he describes some of the fanatical Koch family's history of...

To paraphrase Tara, "Oh my god I'm cured! I want Obama!" Found on Twitter via Whedonesque.

Shorter Ross Douthat: Representing your female constituents and responding to their requests is paternalism. The "Shorter Ross Doutha...

The future Mrs. Dinesh D'Souza holds her honey close to her heart. Or some place. Photo from BuzzFeed .     Dinesh D'Souza...

While I have been neglecting the question of authoritarianism and morality in politics I also have been neglecting my other duty, keeping an...

If you do not vote for Obama for president, Republicans will win and the consequences will be horrible. If you do not vote for Obama in t...

Be still my heart! Project S.H.A.M.E.: Megan McArdle, a Covert Republican Party Activist Trained by the Billionaire Koch Brothers We...

Everyone is saying that Romney's 47% speech is the real Romney but that's not entirely true. He was playing to his audience and atte...

Senior citizens. Kiss your Social Security good-bye, Grandpa! Children. Medicaid just breeds independence. Unhook those tubes at ...

Shorter David Brooks: Four years ago Barack Obama promised to fix all of the messes our government has somehow fallen into, yet we still ha...

For all my fellow Joss Whedon fans.     Ayn!   The Man they call Ayn! He robbed for the rich and he stole from the poor, He stood u...

Wow. What did Willard Romney ever do (or not do) to David Brooks ? After his mission, he attended Harvard, studying business, law, classi...

Great. The Republicans want seniors to have voucher-based medical care. Paul Krugman : So there it is: the draft Republican platform s...

There are two types of mighty soldiers who man the Vagina Watch, that perpetual duty to preserve and protect the nation's Fetus-American...

Reading about Willard "Mitt" Romney's little birther joke and the lack of respect he and his followers show towards women and ...