Author: Damian Hendricks

Remember when John Kasich and his arrogant loudmouth Republican squatters there in Ohio’s Capitol told all of America that they didn’t really care that working families, union families were upset with them when they set out to bust Ohio’s employees’ unions? According to Kasich, it was going to be payback time to those unions who believed it was important to actually take care of Ohio workers. What you saw happen, Mr. Kasich, was a powerfully strong rejection, not just of your Fox News holdover regressive ideas – what we all saw was a rejection of Tea Party republicanism. You,...

Bank of America has become the poster-child for corruption and incompetence ever since they took a taxpayer-funded bailout to save themselves from their own incompetence. They then took that bailout money and paid record-breaking bonuses to their executives, and raised fees for their own customers. And today, it looks like the company is poised to repeat history again. Sam Seder talks about the next round of troubles facing Bank of America with William Black, author of the book “The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One.”...

Every current GOP presidential candidate has done their best to invoke the image of Reagan throughout their campaign. But if you look at the policies of Reagan, you begin to realize that he wouldn’t even be invited to the table to join the new wave of tea party Republicans who have completely taken control of the GOP. Mike Papantonio talks about what has happened to the Republican Party, and why the party has gone so far off the deep end that they may not be able to survive, with author Cliff Schecter....

After dropping off the front pages of progressive news publications and websites a few years ago, a lot of progressives believed that the problems with electronic voting machines had gone away. Nothing could be further from the truth. And as new investigations have shown, the new supply of voting machines that next year’s presidential election will be using are more flawed than any of the machines we’ve seen in the last decade. Mike Papantonio talks about the latest round of problems with electronic voting with Brad Friedman, founder of The Brad Blog....

Herman Cain has had quite a week, and things are just starting to heat up. Mike Papantonio and Ed Schultz discuss the latest allegations coming out against Cain, as well as his chief of staff’s ridiculous statement that they might sue Politico....