The Koch Brothers are realigning and retreating from national electoral politics. Background: The Koch Family The Koch family controls the second-largest privately owned company in the United States with the latest revenue reports reflecting $115 billion for 2013 according to Forbes. Charles and David Koch, the only two of founder Fred Koch’s four sons still […]
The Westboro Baptist Church get bested by a tough Texas sheriff. Officials from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) held a press conference last week, announcing that the deadly fertilizer plant explosion in Texas in 2013 was deliberate. As CNN reports, “after conducting 400 interviews” and reviewing the “lab work on evidence, […]
Hollywood legend Ed Asner has outraged Republicans over this animated short that Sean Hannity of Fox News characterized as a “disgusting hit piece” and “propaganda.” This eight-minute animated video that channels Occupy Wall Street claims that “the rich” obtained their wealth through tax loopholes, tax cuts, and tax evasion – and shows some of them […]
A former CIA spy admits that his tip led to Nelson Mandela’s arrest and long imprisonment. The Sunday Times, the largest selling British national Sunday newspaper, reports that a former CIA spy has admitted that his tip led to the arrest of Nelson Mandela, leading to the future South African president’s trial and imprisonment for […]
The GOP has had a strategy in place for decades for winning the racist vote without appearing to be racist. In 1981, the legendarily brutal campaign consultant Lee Atwater, after a decade as South Carolina’s most effective Republican operative, was working in Ronald Reagan‘s White House when he was interviewed by Alexander Lamis, a political […]