This story is a repost from Care2.com. When Hans Zeiger — a Republican candidate for the state of Washington’s House of Representatives — isn’t condemning the public school system in his state for being “polluted with the filth of moral relativism that the typical public high school graduate moves into the world devoid of character, [...]

This story is a repost from RawStory.com. Breaking: Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington calls for FEC and criminal investigation into Christine O’Donnell Delaware Tea Party candidate Christine O’Donnell made a point of telling the audience at a candidate forum Thursday night that her “faith has matured” and that her statements from the late [...]

This story is a repost from HuffingtonPost.com. Another damaging past statement from Tea Party favorite Christine O’Donnell was revealed on Bill Maher’s HBO show “Real Time” last night. Maher played a clip from an episode of his previous show “Politically Incorrect” in which O’Donnell said she “dabbled into witchcraft.” From Think Progress: I dabbled into [...]

This story is a repost from TalkingPointsMemo.com. Christine O’Donnell won the Republican nomination for senator in Delaware tonight, and Rachel Maddow wasted no time showing the footage she obtained of O’Donnell’s 1996 appearance on MTV’s “Sex In The 90s” TV show. O’Donnell, it seems, is opposed to masturbation, and considers looking at pornography akin to [...]

This story is a repost from WashingtonPost.com. There are times when I flirt with the notion that the country would be better off with divided government. If Republicans took control, say, of the House, there would be pressure on both parties to behave more responsibly. The GOP would be pushed to stop carping and posturing, [...]

This story is a repost from Slate.com. Barack Obama’s redecoration of the Oval Office includes a nice personal touch: a carpet ringed with favorite quotations from Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, both Presidents Roosevelt, and Martin Luther King Jr. The King quote, in particular, has become a kind of emblem for him: “The arc of [...]

This story is a repost from TruthOut.org. For disillusioned Obama supporters, the ACLU’s July report “Establishing the New Normal” is not a heartening read. After being voted into office on promises that included undoing abuses carried out under the Bush administration – promises to protect privacy, to end government-sanctioned torture and rendition programs and to [...]

This story is a repost from BaltimoreSun.com: Even in last week’s steamy heat, I got the same chill I always get at Ground Zero. The immensity of the physical and emotional hole left by the 9/11 terrorist attack is hard to imagine from afar — you have to actually be there, looking down into the [...]

This story is a repost from TalkingPointsMemo.com. Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair says that the toughest part of being a progressive-leaning politician these days is dealing with progressives themselves. Ironically, Blair says, activists on the left often assist their right-wing opponents by piling on the pols who lean their way rather than defending them [...]

This story is a repost from TalkingPointsMemo.com. Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) is finally backpedaling on her bogus claim that headless bodies have been found in the Arizona desert, the alleged product of illegal immigration. “That was an error, if I said that,” Brewer told the Associated Press yesterday. “I misspoke, but you know, let [...]