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The President has adopted the language of the 99%, and it's paying off for him. He's surged from a position slightly behind Mitt Romney in last month'sCNN polling to a 52%-45% lead against the Republican this week. While other factors were involved, his new rhetoric...

Sometimes my brain finds connections the strangest, seemingly most disparate stories among the many I read online every day. Two years ago, I wrote a rather longish blog post titled "Reclaiming 'We'." It was partly inspired by NY Times columnist Thom Friedman's...

The following was written by Robert Borosage and Roger Hickey. House Republicans have left no doubt: all they want is economic pain for political gain. Instead of accepting the bipartisan Senate bill, passed 89-10, to extend the payroll tax cut for a few months so a...

If you take a government program, change everything about it, destroy its core purpose, but keep the same name, is it the same program? Politifact.com says yes, and even goes so far as to say it is "The Lie Of The Year" to say it isn't -- because it still has the same...

"If I had a world of my own," said Alice, "everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is because everything would be what it isn't." I can't take it anymore. I just can't. In fact I'm falling down the rabbit hole even as we speak. 'PolitiFact,' a project...

Here is how far we have fallen: Republicans and big corporations are going to extremes, even threatening to shut down entire agencies of the government, just to keep people from knowing what their rights are. They are "investigating" the NLRB for enforcing the laws...

It's adorable that Politifact's "lie of the year" is being touted as some kind of overwhelming proof that the Republicans didn't vote to end Medicare when they all voted to replace it with an inadequate voucher program. Does everyone know that the Republicans stuffed...