Thanks to Sir Charles for pointing me to this hilarious spaz of an op-ed by Kathleen Parker. If you really want to understand the wingnut mind, you have to really, truly understand that male power over women’s bodies is a holy principle to...

Political commentators are accusing Senate Republicans of hypocrisy — and even outright support of rape — after thirty of them voted against a measure to de-fund military contractors who prevent rape victims from seeking justice....

As news reports come in of one Republican after another suggesting that a government-run public option for health care may not be so bad after all, evidence is beginning to mount that the GOP may be conceding defeat in the health care battle...

A little-noticed provision in a homeland security funding bill could end efforts to make public photos of prisoners abused in US custody abroad, the American Civil Liberties Union stated on Wednesday. Members of the House and Senate have added a...

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Tom DeLay, once known as the Republican House majority leader and now known for his illustrious turn on Dancing With The Stars, says he has “no idea” if President Barack Obama is a citizen of the United States. DeLay, who has in the...

The anti-war group Code Pink, which rose to prominence with high-profile protests against the Iraq and Afghanistan wars over the past seven years, is softening its stance against the war in Afghanistan over concerns that a troop withdrawal could...

The second that Jesse told me that conservative pundits and bloggers were getting wrapped up in a faux outrage over David Letterman’s infidelities, I knew that the next step was accusing feminists of hypocrisy because we’re not going...

Right wing news sites and bloggers are abuzz over an “admission” by Bill Ayers that he ghost-wrote Barack Obama’s first book, Dreams From My Father. The rumors that the former Vietnam War-era radical-turned-pedagogy professor...

NOTE FROM PAM: If the right-wing bible beating set wants to go after Kevin Jennings and Chai Feldblum, then it’s time to remind them (and the MSM) about the “moral values” of Tony Perkins, for example. You see Family Research...

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg released videos at 2 p.m. Wednesday that show violations of gun laws in three other states in a sting operation he authorized that cost city taxpayers $1.5 million and comes weeks before his bid for re-election....

A debate is raging throughout the conservative blogosphere: is Bill Ayers’ confession to a random conservative blogger going to take down Obama or take down liberalism? asked–what are you doing in D.C. Mr. Ayers? For a moment I...

And another Republican will shoot from the womb (via TrueSlant)… Mary Cheney, the former vice president’s daughter, and her long-time partner, Heather Poe, are expecting their second child, a source close to the family told True/Slant....

President Barack Obama’s advisors say he can’t end the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy because he has so many other important issues on his plate. The Daily Show‘s Jon Stewart believes...

When Michael Moore appeared with Fox News host Sean Hannity on Tuesday, he repeatedly confounded the conservative interviewer by invoking a religious basis for his positions while laughing openly at Hannity’s fear of al Qaeda. Hannity...