Author: Damian Hendricks

Mike Papantonio talks with Thom Hartmann on The Thom Hartmann Program about how the Tea Party is helping to destroy the Republican Party, but also managing to destroy vital parts of our...

Mike Papantonio appears on The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann to discuss the lawsuit that will be argued before the Supreme Court on whether or not corporations can patent human...

Mike Papantonio appears on The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann to talk about the current debt talks being held in Washington between Democrats and Republicans, and how the media has completely missed the role that Wall Street played in causing our current...

By Mike Papantonio December 4th, 2012 7pm It’s tough to shame or embarrass a Texas Tea Party Republican about how dull-witted they sound when they talk about something as idiotic as secession. After all, one of the people who led the discussion years ago in Texas was none other than their goofy Gov. Rick Perry – Most things in politics really do flow from the top. So the latest development has been reasonably educated, rational opinion leaders at Texas Newspapers, some TV stations apologizing for their tea bagger Texans suggesting that Golly, it was only a small handful of...

The traditional media keeps telling us that America is headed over the fiscal cliff if Democrats and Republicans can’t work out a budget deal. The truth is much more complex than that – and the American economy isn’t going to be destroyed. But when you drill down to the heart of the fight, it leads right back to the Republicans’ pledge to keep taxes low for millionaires and billionaires. And the biggest push for tax cuts is coming from GOP operative Grover Norquist. But Norquist’s days might be numbered, as Republicans are beginning to turn their back on him,...