Arizona Republican Trent Franks has been making the rounds to build support for his bill to ban the nonexistent problem of racially-based abortions. On the Concerned Women for America radio program, Franks admitted his bill is just part of an…
Trent Franks, a Republican Congressman from Arizona, is probably most famous for his groundbreaking historical theory that black Americans were better off under slavery. But this week, Franks re-introduced his conspiracy theory anti-abortion bill, the grandiosely-named “Susan B. Anthony and…
Over the past several years, the Indiana GOP has spent more than $12.2 million taxpayer dollars on voter education and ID cards since passing a restrictive voter ID law in 2006. That cost doesn’t begin to take into account the…
Indiana Senator Richard Lugar responded to Representative Henry Waxman’s letter, inquiring into why the state of Indiana was spending taxpayer money to lobby for the Keystone XL Pipeline. Lugar, who has embraced this right-wing cause du jour as he faces…
Representative Henry Waxman (D-CA), the ranking Democrat on the House’s Energy and Commerce committee, has sent a letter (PDF) to Indiana’s official lobbyist to inquire why Indiana is lobbying for the Keystone XL Pipeline project. From the letter: I have…
[Potential trigger warning for rape, incest, pedophilia] Let me say, for the record, that I don’t actually believe any Republicans are pro-rape. Let me repeat that: I don’t believe any Republicans are pro-rape. But there’s been another rash of GOPers…
On Sunday’s This Week, host Christiane Amanpour tried to moderate a discussion between Reagan’s budget director David Stockman and Indiana Congressman (and former radio talk show host) Mike Pence. While Amanpour and Stockman had a discussion about facts, Pence just…
Previously, I posted a district-by-district comparison showing that, compared to previous elections, we’re seeing a much larger amount of money being spent by groups that do not disclose their donors. I relied on several sources of information for this post,…
Greg Sargent had a great post a week or so ago, hitting on the fact that all the untraceable outside money pouring into our elections isn’t only problematic on its own – it’s also that it is buying lie after…
The first story I saw in this morning’s paper wasn’t about elections, or crime, or even the weather. It was this: But after this year, don’t expect the program to be called by its widely recognized moniker “Shop with a…
