The NRA takes a shot at Obama
This is what desperation looks like. And it's ridiculous.It wasn't that long ago that the NRA seemed too big to fail. Too powerful to take on. So mighty a force that the words "gun control" could not...
View ArticleShonda Rhimes: “Calling a show a ‘guilty pleasure’— it’s like saying it’s a...
Shonda Rhimes, the creator of ABC's "Grey's Anatomy," "Scandal" and the recently ended "Private Practice," is one of the most prolific and powerful creative forces working in network television. (Only...
View ArticleRaul Castro gets new five-year term as Cuba’s president, names first vice...
HAVANA (AP) -- Cuba's parliament has named Raul Castro to a new five-year term as president and rising star Miguel Diaz-Canel his first vice president.The 52-year-old Diaz-Canel is now the first in...
View ArticleMust-see morning clip: “Choose your own adventure” at the Bush presidential...
Although he's not invited to Thursday's dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Library, Stephen Colbert is excited for the memorial, which displays 43,000 artifacts and 200 million e-mails that...
View ArticleWhat “Veep” got right about our government
After two full seasons of "Veep," it should be clear that Armando Ianucci's HBO satire is the most accurately scripted show ever made about American politics -- full stop. There is no need to qualify...
View ArticleMust-see morning clip: “Choose your own adventure” at the Bush presidential...
Although he's not invited to Thursday's dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Library, Stephen Colbert is excited for the memorial, which displays 43,000 artifacts and 200 million e-mails that...
View ArticleWhat “Veep” got right about our government
After two full seasons of "Veep," it should be clear that Armando Ianucci's HBO satire is the most accurately scripted show ever made about American politics -- full stop. There is no need to qualify...
View ArticleGOP is melting down: The real SOTU story
President Obama’s staff hyped his State of the Union address as promising a bold new reliance on executive action, and really, who could blame the guy? Tuesday came the bizarre news that there were...
View ArticleObama adds economy under extraordinary executive powers
Barack Obama's State of the Union address Tuesday was, in the most literal sense, presidential. Near the speech's opening, the president vowed to act "wherever and whenever [he] can take steps without...
View ArticleJimmy Carter takes over “The Colbert Report” for a “hugely historic night”
On Tuesday night, "The Colbert Report" had a "hugely historic night" with former President Jimmy Carter, who took over the show in an effort to promote his new book, “A Call To Action: Women, Religion,...
View ArticleHitchens would be disappointed: Over half the country wouldn’t vote for an...
In the history of U.S. Presidents, none have been avowed atheists -- despite the fact that Presidents Jefferson, Taft, Lincoln and Obama have been questioned about their beliefs. Also as of 2013, there...
View ArticleJon Stewart prays to God that Herman Cain will run for president in 2016
"It is imperative that this man run for president," declared Jon Stewart on Tuesday night, throwing his full support behind GOP laughingstock and terrible idea for potential presidential candidate...
View Article“Not going to lie down and take it”: Black women are being overlooked by this...
On Monday, the White House announced a new executive order that will bar federal contractors from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. This order culminates years of...
View ArticleDo political brand names matter to America?: The “Daily Show” investigates
If Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush emerge as the Democratic and Republican 2016 presidential candidates, then, aside from Barack Obama, America's leadership will have stayed between two families since...
View ArticleThe right’s “bipartisan” sham: Why their call for a Republican A.G. is bananas
It must be football season because here comes Lucy with the football just begging poor old Charlie Brown to kick it one more time. Well, actually, it's right wingers once again insisting to liberals...
View ArticlePresidential “pixie dust”: How a quiet new rule can wipe away your basic rights
A presidential order that governs the bulk of the NSA's spying (and a good deal of other agencies' spying), Executive Order 12333 has gotten a lot of attention lately. In July, a former State...
View ArticleObama’s secret inner Marxist: If it really exists, now’s the time to bring it...
For six long years now Barack Obama’s liberal supporters have repeatedly promised, and his conservative opponents have gravely warned, that deep down inside the president of the United States of...
View ArticleBernie Sanders schools Stephen Colbert: “Hopefully we frighten the...
On Monday night, Sen. Bernie Sanders appeared on "The Colbert Report," to loud cheers and applause. Colbert, in conservative blowhard character, teases the senator for being the only socialist in...
View ArticleThe real JFK mystery, 50 years later: Why the infamous murder must be...
Every year, without fail, the president dies all over again. For a few days every autumn, the entire media is overwhelmed by those haunting photos from Dallas. Those cruelly happy and innocent pictures...
View ArticleBarack Obama took over “The Colbert Report” last night
On Monday night, President Barack Obama appeared on "The Colbert Report's" farewell to Washington special. Not only did President Obama sit down for an extended interview with Stephen Colbert, but he...
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