Fred Koch, the patriarch of the Koch family, co founded the Birch Society. As a founding board member of the John Birch Society, Fred helped engineer a hysterical wave of attacks on labor, intellectuals, public education, liberal clergy members, and other pillars of society he viewed as a threat. [...]
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Carson doubles down on stupidity
“Ben Carson said Sunday that most Syrian refugees would rather be relocated within their own country than resettled in the United States.” Really, he said that! If so, why have 3 million refugees left Syria for other countries, and why are millions more are trying to leave? “The th[...]
Will Someone Tell John Kasich I am NOT a JUDEO-Christian!
John Kasich Calls For New Agency To Promote ‘Judeo-Christian’ Values To The World AP/The Huffington Post Posted: 11/17/2015 07:40 PM EST Republican presidential candidate John Kasich says he’d set up an agency with a “mandate” to promote what he calls “Judeo-Chris[...]
Abortion returns to Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court announced today it will hear a case involving a restrictive Texas abortion law, which women’s advocates fear may portend reversal of Roe v. Wade. This is the law that Wendy Davis, then a Democratic state senator, and later a defeated candidate for Texas governor, famous[...]
Fiorina caught in another big lie
In the GOP debates, the lies fly so thick and furious you don’t know where to start, and credulous GOP audiences seem to swallow them whole — or they just don’t care. It’s not unusual for candidates to say things in the heat of debate that don’t withstand scrutiny, but [...]
How to lie with a chart
Republicans are masters of propaganda. This chart was shown to the TV cameras in House hearings aimed at defunding Planned Parenthood. Here’s how they made it look like Planned Parenthood performs more abortions than cancer screenings: &n[...]
Black people, do Black Lives Matter?
Where is the Black Proganda movement? How do we expect America to think Black Lives Matter when we are doing very little to establish that fact nowadays? Our movies, filmmakers actors/actresses have to reflect that fact, and right now they do not. The black community had Mario Van Peebles, Spike Le[...]
Obama rebukes GOP’s extreme rhetoric
The GOP’s presidential candidates amped up their frenzied rhetoric over the weekend, with Mike Huckabee comparing President Obama’s Iran policy to Hitler marching Jews “into the ovens,” following on Donald Trump’s attacks on Sen. John McCain’s military service; an[...]
How gullible are Republicans?
Folks, we now live in a time when the credulous fools making up much of the grassroots base of one of our major political parties believe the most outlandish things liars can make up. For example, a notorious hoaxster started an internet rumor that President Obama ordered a nuclear attack against Ch[...]