Rush Limbaugh is now using his radio show to promote hatred and rage with language that could well incite physical violence from some of his listeners.
MARCH 16--A Maine man has been jailed on federal charges that he threatened to kill or harm two of the hosts of "All Things Considered," the popular National Public Radio news program, The Smoking Gun has learned. The defendant in custody, John Crosby, was arrested in lat …
-- Mentally unstable nutcases threatening liberal campaigners in Washington state, Illinois and Vermont. -- A swastika-laden white-powder-terrorism attack on a Democratic congressman's offices. -- Thugs hired by the Republican candidate in Alaska roughing up and handcuffi …
When the Department of Homeland Security issued a report warning of potential violence by "right-wing extremists," the right-wingers of the internet were enraged.
I haz a sad. When Barack Obama was elected, I thought he was a superhero.
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A member of the hacker collective Anonymous, which singlehandedly destroyed "hacker defense" firm HB Gary, who goes under the handle OperationLeakS "is claiming to be have emails and documents which prove "fraud" was committed by Bank of America employees, and the group says it'l …
For months now we have endured the breathless, outraged shrieking from Conservatives about how Barack Obama creates extra-constitutional "czar" positions, in blatant violation of some fictional version of the Constitution, disrespecting all Americans and freedom and God and the C …
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What Happened to the Mamma Grizzly? Did she wear out her welcome?
WASHINGTON — A majority of Americans prefer cutting defense spending to reduce the federal deficit rather than taking money from public retirement and health programs, a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Wednesday showed.
Business taxes would be cut by 86 percent from an estimated $2.1 billion in FY 2011 to $292.7 million in FY 2013, the first full year of the proposed tax changes.
Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne is asking judge to void Walker's anti-union bill that was "passed" last week in violation of the State's open meeting law.
A California man accused of threatening to kill Seattle Congressman Jim McDermott has been arrested and charged in federal court.
Factory jobs involving repetitive motion can always be replaced by robots. They complain less, cost less, and don't go on strike when they're not sufficiently oiled.
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Whew! I am one relieved American. For MONTHS now, I have thought that the right-wing of our political theater here in America was profoundly hateful, racist, misogynist, prone to violence, intemperate, anti-democracy, and incapable of competent leadership or government.
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Firefighters in Wisconsin marched to the M&I bank earlier today in Madison and withdrew their money. In total they took an estimated $192,000. They asked others to follow their lead. Apparently others did. Just updated:
April 2009: the Department of Homeland Security, in the wake of the 2008 elections which gave complete control of the Federal government to the Democratic party, warns that the out-of-power right wing was growing more violent.
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Seeding this as a counter to the ignorant bull@!$%# that is masquerading as today's right-wing frame. The question that right-wingers are trying to innocently pose is that if it were teabaggers overruning state capitols, what would us "leftists" have to say.
First, they told us they were just here to fix our budget mess. Then, they told us they were mad that the "left" wasn't compromising with them. Then, they told us they were a grassroots uprising.
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STEWART: What if the woman is unconscious? What, would they cover that? SCHAAL: Well, they'd like to, Jon, but it might not be rape. The woman might be having a rape-mare. The important thing is, Congress is redefining rape to protect us from the worst kind of rape.
WASHINGTON - Having returned to prominence with a campaign dedicated to promoting job creation and cutting spending, Congressional Republicans have made repealing Health Care Reform and redefining the word "rape" their two most pressing issues since taking control of the House. …
Denying that the inclusion of GOProud, a gay Republican group, has anything to do with his decision, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) has announced that he won't be attending this year's CPAC conference:
Back in the summer of 2009, as the healthcare debate was heating up, the right-wing of our political sphere decided to take a stand: Using a centralized, top-down set of tactics, protestors were organized to turn up at the "town hall" meetings Representatives were holding to dis …
Some more from Frances Piven, who rightly asks:
The problem of how to bring people together is sometimes made easier by government service centers, as when in the 1960s poor mothers gathered in crowded welfare centers or when the jobless congregated in unemployment centers.
Seventy-eight-year-old Frances Piven, a City University of New York professor, has been receiving death threats.
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