The man lies the way the rest of us eat, sleep and breathe. Listen to him, if you can stomach it. Then again, it might actually make your stomach sick, and then you’ll have to go to the hospital–and get ripped off, thanks to what this man’s party plans to do to our health care […]
Jake Tapper
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How Chaos is Being Used to Empower Ideologues
History has shown repeatedly that ideologues slide into the vacuum left by experts.
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Again with the Sid Blumenthal Conspiracies?
MSNBC’s Joy Reid noted yesterday that her colleague Chris Hayes established in 2007 that birtherism was created and promoted by the far-right. So are we really supposed to believe that skepticism about President Obama’s place of birth was the handiwork of…longtime Clinton associate Sidney Blumenthal? This dubious claim, now being relentlessly hyped by the right-wing […]
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Tantrums Won’t Stop Terror
Good on CNN’s Jake Tapper for pressing Donald Trump bum-kisser Chris Christie on the Republican presidential nominee’s hair-on-fire reaction to last night’s explosion in New York: In times of crisis, we don’t need “leaders” who melt down or freak out. When the Boston Marathon bombing occurred in April 2013, then-Boston Mayor Tom Menino and then-Massachusetts […]
