Guest post by Rebecca Gross Barton The word “liberal” is very subtly being replaced by the word “progressive” in the media. MSNBC is now the “new” MSNBC. The phrase “populist progressive movement” is being used quite frequently – it’s being heard in all the best places. I have mixed feelings about this. Primarily, I am […]
Critics of President Obama line up to find every different way they can to accuse administration of lying on health care in today’s Top Lines.
Bill Maher and his roundtable guests – Michael Moore, Richard Dawkins, Valerie Plame, Rev. Al Sharpton and Maajib Nawaz – discuss the death of the Tea Party, Al-Qaeda, and the chances at having a president who is an atheist. “What is the end game for the Tea Party if they can’t ever win the presidency? […]
Speaker of the House John Boehner comments on the latest efforts to increase the debt ceiling and the government shutdown, using the usual Republican mantra: “We’ve been trying to have conversations with our Democrat colleagues. They don’t want to talk. The President doesn’t want to talk.” Really? Are you kidding? Bearing in mind that the […]
When it comes to war, isn’t our account overdrawn? When the president asks Congress for a blank check for war, why does the Congress fret about setting a limit on war powers instead of just saying: “NO” to any check? What happened to checks and balances (as if we all didn’t know)? Already quislings of […]