With Jim Webb and Lincoln Chafee dropping out of the race, Stephen Colbert couldn’t miss the chance to have fun with how doomed their campaigns were from the start....
Read MoreMSNBC anchor Chuck Todd decided to take a cheap shot at Representative Elijah Cummings, claiming that Democrats on the Benghazi committee defended Hillary, rather playing into the GOP’s smear campaign. Transcript: Chuck Todd: Let me start quickly with I guess the one issue that a lot of people had with how the Democrats handled themselves. We tallied up 68 total questions to Secretary Clinton. Sixteen of them at best could we call “challenging.” Why did you guys choose a strategy of shield rather than a strategy of really what Tammy Duckworth did, probably the one Democrat that did it...
Read MoreThe story of what has happened to the 43 Mexican students and their families is terrifying. For nearly a decade, Mexican cartels have run rampant through Mexico killing men, women, and children, with local authorities powerless to stop them, either because they are afraid or bought by the cartels. This kind of terror is the exact same fodder that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump uses to promote his message of hate, fear, and xenophobia. As the Huffington Post reports: In September 2014, Mexican police attacked a group of students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers College who had traveled to the city...
Read MoreAt a campaign event in Miami, Trump supporters – yet again – decided to indulge in racist violence and hatred of immigrants. In this video, a Trump supporter can be seen physically assaulting a Latino protester, all while chanting “USA! USA!” It’s...
Read MoreThe Tea Party faces the lowest support it has ever had. A new poll from Gallup shows that the Tea Party’s favorability is at a five-year low of only 17 percent. Gallup claims that this is the first time the Tea Party’s support has been below 25 percent. That doesn’t meant the Tea Party still doesn’t have influence though, as Salon reports: Of Course, it has been the Tea Party sympathizers in the House Freedom Caucus and Tea Party Caucus who have in a matter of weeks forced current House Speaker John Boehner into an early retirement, denied second-in-line Kevin...
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