Actually this headline probably should read, “Kid throws rock through window to get attention.” Photo: Just shut up already, Michelle. You’re embarrassing yourself, the GOP, Minnesota state, and above all the voters of your district who for inexplicable reasons elected and re-elect[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Radical Republicans’
April 1st, 2015 - 11:34 am § in Politics
Memories Pizza of Walkerton, Indiana, announces its policy of discriminating against gays
Memories Pizza of Walkerton, Indiana, announced today they will serve gay customers but will not cater gay weddings, thereby earning the dubious distinction of becoming the first Indiana business to exploit that state’s new “religious freedom” law to openly discriminate against gay[...]
April 1st, 2015 - 9:39 am § in Politics
News Flash — Arkansas governor rejects Indiana-style hate law
Breaking News — CNN reports that Arkansas governor Asa Hutchinson won’t sign the so-called “religious freedom” bill passed by that state’s GOP-controlled legislature this week, and will direct the legislature to change it so “the bill mirrors federal law.” I[...]
April 1st, 2015 - 9:09 am § in Politics
This GOP state legislator is so toxic, his own party demoted him
At some point we have to hold communities and voters responsible for the people they elect. Gordon Klingenschmitt got elected to Colorado’s legislature, with almost 70% of the vote, by claiming President Obama is possessed by demons. A Daily Kos writer put it this way: “[T]his Colorado S[...]
April 1st, 2015 - 8:39 am § in Politics
Sen. Cotton’s letter, Farsi version
“An Open Letter to the Leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran: “It has come to our attention that while observing your nuclear negotiations with our government, you may not understand our constitutional system. Thus, we pen two features of our Constitution to your attention — the powe[...]
March 31st, 2015 - 1:26 pm § in Politics
Bigotry Beat: Florida GOP legislator goes Indiana one better
Jason Brodeur (R-Nuts) is no stranger to controversy. In 2011, in the wake of the massacre that killed 6 people and wounded Democratic congresswoman Gabby Giffords and a dozen others, Brodeur introduced a bill in the Florida legislature that would subject any doctor, psychiatrist, or psychologist w[...]
March 31st, 2015 - 11:14 am § in Politics
Indiana bigots inadvertently legalize pot
“In a classic case of ‘unintended consequences,’ the recently signed Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) in Indiana may have opened the door for the establishment of the First Church of Cannabis in the Hoosier State,” Raw Story reports. “While Governor Mike Pence [...]
March 31st, 2015 - 8:32 am § in Politics
Portraits of a rightwing freak
When a few pictures are worth countless words …[...]
March 30th, 2015 - 6:46 pm § in Politics
How to tell which stores refuse to serve gays
(Inspired by The Daily Show)[...]
March 30th, 2015 - 10:16 am § in Politics
Boehner compliments Obama
Reaching deep into his toolkit of demeaning insults, a spluttering House Speaker John Boehner (Republican, of course) came up with this: “The world is starving for American leadership. But America has an anti-war president,” Boehner said during a Capitol Hill press conference on Thursday.”[...]