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Romney Profited From Mortgage Lenders Foreclosing On Thousands Of Floridians

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Billionaire Buddies: Adelsons Join Forces With Koch Brothers in Desperate...

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Wall Street ‘Likely To Set Records’ For Political Spending Aimed At Defeating...

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Specter Calls BS on Santorum's Endorsement 'Deal' Claim

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Scott Brown Fundraiser Hosted By 'Sugar Baron' Accused of Modern Day Slavery

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Amid Push For Voter Suppression Laws, Minority Voter Registration Declines

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Bain and Financial Industry Gave Over $565,000 To Newark Mayor Cory Booker...

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Former GOP Congresswoman Blasts New GOP Women’s Caucus: ‘They’re Not Voting...

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The 7 Major Issues Mitt Romney Won’t Take A Position On

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The 7 Most Anti-Gay Congressmembers

While 144 Members of Congress have sponsored or co-sponsored at least one of anti-gay proposal, seven signed on to five or more of the pro-discrimination measures.

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7 Birthers Speaking at the Republican National Convention

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GOP Platform Suggests Billionaires Should Be Able to Give Unlimited Donations...

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House Republicans Plan Two Month Vacation, Leaving Key Bills Awaiting Action

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House GOP Secretly Authorized $500,000 To Defend Unconstitutional Anti-Gay Law

Your tax dollars at work.

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Anti-Gay Preacher Tapped for Obama's Inaugural Benediction Withdraws After...

Pastor Louie Giglio, won't be delivering the benediction for the president's second inauguration, after all.

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The GOP Plan To Rig The Next Presidential Election

Virginia Republican State Senator Declines To Back GOP Electoral College Rigging Scheme

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The Nine Republican Men Who Refuse to Even Consider VAWA

Opponents make various lame arguments about why federal government should not help prevent domestic abuse.

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Hypocrites: At Least 14 GOP Congress Members Who Oppose Government Borrowing...

Republicans backing Ryan budget may talk the talk, but they don't walk the walk.

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Republican Lawmaker Forces Radio Show Off The Air After Hosts Criticized His...

State Rep. Mike C. Stone took issue with a critical editorial. So he forced the show off the air! The Central Carolina Community College has stopped airing “The Rant,” a weekly radio political program,...

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Conservatives Vow to Defy Supreme Court If It Rules for Marriage Equality

Some things never change, like the Family Research Council.Drawing what they called a line “we cannot and will not cross,” more than 200 conservative activists released a letter Thursday vowing to...

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10 Worst Things About Rick Perry

As he retires from office, he will leave behind a record of right-wing extremism that few could match. With his announcement Monday that he will not seek an unprecedented fourth full term as Governor...

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Virginia Gubernatorial Candidate Wants to Outlaw Oral Sex—Yup, That Includes...

Republican Ken Cuccinelli seeks to reinstate unconstitutional 'Crimes Against Nature' law.In an unusual move, Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II (R), his party’s nominee for governor, launched...

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Christian Judge Make Parents Change Baby's Name Because of Jesus Christ

A child support magistrate declared a baby's name unchristian and ordered parents to change it.  The following piece first appeared on Think Progress. Tennessee child support magistrate Lu Ann Ballew...

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GOP Hypocrisy: Three Republicans Who Opposed Sandy Relief Want Federal Aid...

Arizona Sen.'s McCain, Flake and Rep. Gosar change their tune when disaster strikes home. Arizona Republicans Sen. Jeff Flake, Sen. John McCain, and Rep. Paul Gosar all voted against emergency relief...

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Huh? Colorado Republican Legislator: Blacks Are Poor Because They Eat Too...

State Sen. Vicki Marble does not seem to realize how stereotypical, offensive and stupid her remarks are. In a meeting of the state’s Economic Opportunity Poverty Reduction Task Force Wednesday,...

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104 Current Congressional Republicans Who Voted to Increase Debt Ceiling...

Could these people be any more blatantly hypocritical?Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) reiterated on Sunday that House Republicans would not allow a clean vote to raise the debt limit and ensure the full...

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How Ken Cuccinnelli's Anti-Sodomy Obsession Could Set Real Sexual Predators Free

Virginia's would-be Rep. Gov. is not the 'crusader for children' he claims to be.Shortly after the Supreme Court rejected Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s (R) effort to revive parts of his...

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Why Ken Cuccinelli Lost the Election in Virginia

Take heed future right-wing pols.By defeating Republican nominee Ken Cuccinelli II in the gubernatorial election Tuesday, Virginia voters rejected one of the most openly-right wing politicians in the...

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Five Counties Vote to Secede from Colorado

51st staters want to be free from the tyranny of gun and environmental regulation.In non-binding referenda Tuesday in Colorado, voters in five counties endorsed secession from the Centennial State. Six...

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Say What? Civil Rights Act Critic Rand Paul Tapped to Launch African American...

His selection is odd given his record on civil rights and his staunch opposition to a federal bailout of Detroit.The Michigan Republican Party will launch its new African American Engagement Office in...

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Ha! Voter Suppression Group's Own Slanted Poll Finds Widespread Lack of...

Just 36% agreed voter fraud is major problem.A new poll by a pro-voter suppression group asked 1,000 American adults about the issue of voter fraud in the United States. And despite their arguably...

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