Bachmann may be out-gunned here as it seems the idea of the factually-challenged congresswoman getting publicly schooled in civics and U.S. history by a child gratifies a deep, unspoken national yearning. Bachmann’s opponent is Amy Myers, a 16-year-old sophomore at Cherry Hill High School East in New Jersey, where she writes for the school newspaper. She loves All [...]

The nation’s major health insurers are barreling into a third year of record profits, enriched in recent months by a lingering recessionary mind-set among Americans who are postponing or forgoing medical care. The UnitedHealth Group, one of the largest commercial insurers, told analysts that so far this year, insured hospital stays actually decreased in some instances. In [...]

Fox “News” sears the red-hot poker of racism into the heart of white Americans who emotionally need a scapegoat for the nation’s economic collapse – and the erosion of the US Empire. If some people wonder why racism still has such a strong appeal, remember that the poor and merchant-class whites of the Confederacy were [...]

The Tea Party of Tennessee wants to remove incidents of slavery and genocide from American textbooks for fear they would besmirch the image of the Founding Fathers: The Memphis Commercial Appeal reports. As a result, the Tea Party organizations argue, there should be “no portrayal of minority experience in the history which actually occurred shall [...]

In a time of war and record unemployment, the GOP is sending a message: fertile women are the country’s number one enemy, and their freedoms must be quashed at all costs. State Republican (and some Democratic) legislators have introduced nearly 1,000 laws restricting women’s reproductive health access on the state level, and this is on top [...]

WTF?  Seriously!  I can not believe this crap.  What is wrong with people in this country?  Am I the only one this mad that these charlatans we call senators have the unmitigated gaul to slap the citizens of this country in the face with this?  Why do we meekly sit by while these a*sholes take [...]

There’s a company called Advantage Consultants that’s offering up “professional blog warriors” to “flood the zone” with comments. I know… unbelievable, right?  It’s true.  Their president is Doug Guetzloe, a right-wing radio host and anti-tax activist in Florida. Check out their ad to the right.  And here is a copy of the text of the [...]

This is a story about a group of Americans you’ve likely never heard of: they’re called “sovereign citizens.” Many don’t pay taxes, carry a driver’s license or hold a Social Security card. They have little regard for the police or the courts, and some have become violent. The FBI lists them among the nation’s top [...]

What the what?  Yeah… you read that right!  Eight year olds, dude. Ok… so here’s my theory:  Back in the 1930′s this woman’s barefoot, toothless “relations” loaded up some mule-drawn jalopy and migrated to California during the dust bowl (as many did at that time – kinda like the Clampett’s except no Texas Tea or [...]

Newt Gingrich, a preseason 2012 Republican contender, likes to present himself as an ideas man. He is a former college professor and the architect of the ideology-driven 1994 Republican Revolution. But for all his references to Camus and Clausewitz, there’s another side to the former House speaker—a verbal bomb-thrower who’s never met a political crisis he couldn’t analogize to the annexation of the Sudetenland.