A lot of people despaired when Oklahoma’s state legislature passed a bill last year that would, among other things, collect personal information from women seeking exercise their right to an abortion and post it publicly online. This information...
In news that will surprise exactly no one, a new poll has shown that 60 percent of people in Texas would not disagree with the statement that humans and dinosaurs did not coexist, because they either believe humans rode triceratops...
The cardinal law of terrorism, according to Republicans, is that all terrorists are brown-skinned, turban-wearing, Arabic-speaking Muslims. This is why the TSA stopped a man from getting on a plane because he had Arabic language flashcards in...
The word “retard” is making a comeback these days, and it’s all because of Sarah Palin.
Most people ditched the word in middle school for more sophisticated insults. Rahm Emanuel, however, didn’t. When Palin...
Sarah Palin couldn’t keep her facts straight on the campaign trail, and now that her book “Going Rogue” has been released, it’s clear that she can’t keep her facts straight when given...
The rhetoric of "fiscal responsibility" gave way to reckless irresponsibility when Mayor Dan Sullivan decided to lay off eight employees of the Anchorage Fire Department and leave thirteen Anchorage Police Department positions unfilled. What's next for this...
Debate in the House of Representatives got a little messy yesterday, as a discussion that began about "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" fell into a back-and-forth about hate crimes legislation. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) took...
Senator Al Franken introduced an amendment to the 2010 Defense Appropriations bill in honor of Jamie Leigh Jones, the former KBR/Halliburton employee who was gang-raped in Iraq, confined in a shipping container for over a day without food...
Conservapedia, the reactionary response to Wikipedia that brands itself "The Trustworthy Encyclopedia" without a hint of irony, has taken up a new project: It's called the Conservative Bible Project, and its goal is to eliminate all "...
Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) tells it like it is. On September 29, Grayson gave a speech before the House in which he summarized the Republican “health care plan” in two bullet points:1. Don...