by Leo Gerard | Sep 22, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, Jobs and Growth, Progressive Vision, This Is The GOP
Last week, Scott Walker one-upped the gang of GOP presidential candidates all jostling for the coveted Republican title of Best Billionaire Bootlicker. He accomplished that by announcing with pomp and fanfare that, unlike those other Republican pansies, a President...
by Terrance Heath | Sep 18, 2015 | Conservatism, This Is The GOP
A 14-year-old high school freshman and budding scientist build his own clock, and brought it to school to show his teacher. Instead, he got arrested, and wingnuts lost their minds. Because he was Muslim, of course. When 14-year-old freshman Ahmed Mohamed arrived at...
by Donald Kaul | Sep 16, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
To hear Republican presidential candidates tell it, you’d think the most important issue facing the nation is Hillary Clinton’s old emails. Not climate change, not the growing gap between the filthy rich and the deserving poor, and not our crumbling roads, declining...
by Terrance Heath | Sep 15, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Anti-gay Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis has gone back to work, and back to square one. Although she shows no signs of going away, conservatives want Davis’ saga to be over — and soon. Kim Davis, the Rowan County, Kentucky clerk who went to jail rather than issue — or...
by Terrance Heath | Sep 11, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Things got ugly this week, when Fox News anchor Shep Smith told the truth about Kentucky county clerk, and anti-gay theocrat, Kim Davis. The truth hurts, and wingnuts didn’t like it one bit. Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses...
by Terrance Heath | Sep 9, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, seemed set to become a full-fledged right-wing martyr/saint. Then a funny thing happened on the way to her canonization. Last week, Davis was jailed for contempt of court....