Most Sane Americans Wouldn't Buy a Used Car From Tea Party Crazies, Let Alone...
With a week to go before this year's midterms, sane Americans are shaking their heads at all the madness that's been brewing this election cycle. Sensing a banner year, the GOP has nominated a crop of...
View ArticleGOP Relies on Shady Operative Nathan Sproul to Block The Vote
Last week, Salon.com cross-posted a story by independent investigative journalist and blogger Brad Friedman detailing the arrest of a 23-year old Republican operative named Colin Small on charges of...
View ArticleWar Weary Public Rejects Attacking Syria
The Huffington Post, OpEdNews, 9-12-13Twelve years after 9/11, Americans are sick of war. In poll after poll, majorities say the war in Iraq was a mistake and our troops should come home as soon as...
View ArticleAbsentee Senator Pat Roberts Survives, But Bruised by Tea Party in Kansas...
The Huffington Post, 8-6-14On Tuesday night, the Tea Party lost its last, best chance to knock off an incumbent Republican U.S. Senator this year. By a margin of 48-41 percent, three-term Kansas...
View ArticleEbola Travel Ban Would Put Blood On GOP's Hands
The Huffington Post, 10-17-14How would President Mitt Romney respond to the global Ebola threat? Or President Ted Cruz? Dropping the hypotheticals, what about House Speaker John Boehner, who is not...
View ArticleTop GOP Donor Robert Mercer Sued Over How He Treats His Help
The Huffington Post, 10-23-14The race for Iowa's open U.S. Senate seat is among the closest in the nation, and one of a handful that could determine control of the Senate this fall. In her final debate...
View Article12 Reasons Why Joni Ernst Is 2014's Most Extreme GOP Senate Candidate
The Huffington Post, 10-24-14As a female Republican candidate with extreme, far right-wing views and a love for guns, Iowa's U.S. Senate hopeful Joni Ernst is a lot like Sarah Palin or Michele...
View ArticleHow The Koch Brothers Are Bait And Switching Voters
Huffington Post, OpEdNews, 11-3-14As the midterm elections approach, the volume of attack ads is deafening. Spending on broadcast TV and national cable ads for U.S. Senate, House, and gubernatorial...
View ArticleGOP Voter Intimidation Efforts Are In Full Swing
The Huffington Post, 11-4-14With the Nov. 4 elections now days away, last minute voter intimidation tactics intended to benefit Republican candidates are being reported nationwide.In Kentucky, Senate...
View ArticleHow You Can Help Save the Senate
The Huffington Post, 11-3-14The battle for the Senate has been a cliffhanger for months. Races in at least ten states that will decide the balance of power have remained too close to call, despite...
View ArticleWhy Kay Hagan Lost In North Carolina
The Huffington Post, 11-13-14CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- When the smoke cleared, the most expensive contest of 2014 had become the costliest Senate race in U.S. history. More than $111 million was spent by...
View ArticleRick Santorum Wishes Obama Was More Like Jesse Helms
The Huffington Post, 11-19-14This week, former Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum announced he'd make a decision next year about running for the White House again in 2016. Last week, while...
View ArticleHow The GOP Blocked The Vote In North Carolina
OpEdNews, 11-24-14CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- Over the summer and into the fall, while polls showed other Senate Democrats in swing states like Colorado and Iowa falling behind their GOP challengers,...
View ArticleAbbie Hoffman, Gone Too Soon: 20 Years Later
Is it surprising that the 20th anniversary of Abbie Hoffman's death this month received scant mention in the media? At a time of economic turmoil, continuing war, and widespread newsroom downsizing and...
View ArticleCIA Torture Report Confirms Bush Hurt Anti-Terror Fight
The release of the long-awaited Senate Intelligence Committee's report on CIA torture methods confirms that former President George W. Bush sacrificed our country's values and demeaned our most...
View ArticleTell Congress To Reject GOP CRomnibus Deal Allowing Rich To Buy More...
Huffington Post, OpEdNews, 12-11-14Not content with the loosened campaign finance rules made possible by Citizens United, the GOP is attempting to pass a stealth provision that would open the big money...
View ArticleTell Obama To Veto Cromnibus and Stop Secret Congressional Luxury Car Perk
Huffington Post, OpEdNews, 12-16-14Over the weekend, the CRomnibus budget deal passed the Senate by a 56-40 margin after narrow approval by the House. The outcome is a win for big corporations and...
View ArticleGOP Admits There Was No Benghazi Scandal
Now that the 2014 elections are over and the issue is no longer worth exploiting, the GOP-controlled House Select Intelligence Committee has released its final report on the 2012 attacks on the U.S....
View ArticleTwo-Thirds Of Likely 2016 Voters Support President Obama's Executive Action...
A new poll released in the wake of President Obama's announcement of his executive orders on immigration shows two-thirds of voters likely to cast ballots in 2016 support these long overdue reforms....
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