Author: Damian Hendricks

This week, the Republican presidential hopefuls held yet another debate, completely devoid of any intelligent conversation. Many pundits are now speculating whether or not Rick Perry’s poor performance and hilarious gaffes have put the final nail in his campaign’s coffin. But even without Perry’s disastrous gaffe, there was still plenty of stupid talk going on, and Mike Papantonio spoke with John Amato from Crooks and Liars about the winners and loser of this week’s debate....

Its easy to miss the significance of the Joe Paterno story unless take a breath, step back, and think about what it measn in our lives. It’s not just a story about a world class university that covered up a disgusting history about one of its own university leaders raping, sodomizing, and scarring the lives of 8 to 12 year old boys for at least 15 straight years. Yes, Penn State did intentionally set out to put the good name of their university above the best interest of innocent children who were raped physically and psychologically and spiritually by...

While progressives won a huge victory in Ohio this week, they scored another victory in a battle in Mississippi, where the right tried to take away a woman’s right to make decisions about her own body, and Mike Papantonio recently discussed that crusade by GOP extremists, as well as their attempts to pass similar legislation all over the country with Nick Baumann from Mother Jones magazine....

Did Joe Paterno do everything in his power to stop child abuse at Penn State? No. Did he do everything required of him by law? Mike Papantonio appears on MSNBC’s The Ed Show to answer that question....

This week, voters in Ohio went to the polls and told Governor Kasich that they weren’t going to accept his attack on organized labor. But the fight to repeal Senate Bill 5 was one that laid the foundation for what we can expect in elections across the country in the coming year. Out of state corporate money dominated the election process in Ohio, and Mike Papantonio discusses which companies wanted to strip labor unions of their ability to protect workers with Mike Ludwig, a reporter for Truth-Out.org....