Rachel Maddow joined Jon Stewart for Wednesday’s Daily Show to discuss her upcoming documentary, Why We Did It, which looks as the reasons for the Iraq War. Stewart asked Maddow why she decided to tackle “the abyss that is the war with Iraq?” Maddow replied that now that 10 years have passed some people are […]
A new Washington Post-ABC News poll shows that Americans trust Democrats more than their Republican counterparts. “The poll shows broad dissatisfaction with Washington politicians,” according to the Washington Post. “Just 22 percent say they are inclined to reelect their representatives in Congress. Almost seven in 10 Americans (68 percent) say they are inclined to look around […]
Alan Dershowitz joined Piers Morgan on Monday to discuss the Oscar Pistorius trial and says that South Africa is a “failed country.” Dershowitz said, “People don’t want to hear this but South Africa is a failed country”. He went on to say the country “lawless”, plagued by an “extraordinary high rate of violent crime” and […]
Texas Republicans and Democrats picked their candidates for this November’s gubernatorial election. Democrats nominated State Senator Wendy Davis, while Republicans picked Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott. Wendy Davis easily secured her parties nomination Tuesday night with Abbot comfortably winning the Republican contest, hoping to replace Gov. Rick Perry who is stepping down after serving as […]
Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., and Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., argued at a House hearing involving former IRS official Lois Lerner after she once again asserted her Fifth Amendment right not to testify on Wednesday. Lerner had already pleaded the Fifth last year during questioning about her role in the IRS scandal which alleged that Tea […]