The Five Most Absurd Defenses Of Melania Trump's Plagiarism Of Michelle Obama
For months, Donald Trump surrogates have come up with outlandish explanations to justify the presumptive GOP nominee’s wild statements, from defending his racist remarks about a federal judge to...
View ArticleSteve King: A History Of Racism
Last night, Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, defended his party's relative homogeneity by arguing that white people have "contributed more to civilization" than "any other subgroup of people."The comment was...
View ArticleAlex Jones Rally Perfect Accompaniment to RNC's Ugly First Day
Alex Jones, the radio personality who consistently promotes the most reckless, paranoid, and utterly ridiculous conspiracy theories, has embraced and been embraced by Donald Trump. Yesterday, Jones...
View ArticleRNC Foreign Policy Night Fails To Mention Donald Trump's Foreign Policies
Last night, Republicans gathered in Cleveland for the first night of the Republican National Convention. The evening's theme was supposed to be “Make America Safe Again," so speaker after speaker...
View ArticleAsian Americans for Trump Rep: We're The Minority 'You Can Trust'
Monday’s “America First Unity Rally” sponsored by Alex Jones and Roger Stone included representatives from what Rep. Steve King might call subgroups, including Bikers for Trump, Christians for Trump...
View ArticleMitch McConnell: Donald Trump Must Have The Honor Of Filling The Supreme...
For months, Republicans have said that they are refusing to consider anyone President Obama nominates to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court because they are simply following a (nonexistent) Senate...
View ArticleFrank Gaffney: Obama May Have To 'Preemptively' Pardon Hillary Clinton
One person who was convinced by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's make-believe one-man prosecution and conviction of Hillary Clinton at the Republican National Convention last night was Frank Gaffney,...
View ArticleReligious Right Group: GOP Platform 'Looks Like Something That Was Written By...
Paul Weber, the president and CEO of the Family Policy Alliance, the political wing of Focus on the Family, praised the Republican Party's new ultra-conservativeplatform yesterday, saying that the...
View ArticleTrump's Campaign Finally Admits That Melania's Speech Was Plagiarized
Since Monday night, the Trump campaign has been vociferously denying the very obvious fact that a section of Melania Trump’s speech to the Republican National Convention was plagiarized from a speech...
View ArticleRNC Turns Into Salem Witch Hunt Complete With A Show Trial & Satanism...
For eight years, Republicans have tried to delegitimize Barack Obama’s presidency, falsely claiming that Obama was born abroad and therefore ineligible to be president and that he only won two...
View ArticleRalph Reed Makes The Case For Donald Trump
One theme of this year’s Republican National Convention is the Religious Right getting fully on board the Trump Train. Even before he vanquished Ted Cruz, his final primary opponent, Trump has been...
View ArticleMike Pence's Practice RNC Speech: Trump's 'A Good Man'
The American Conservative Union Foundation hosted an event at the Republican National Convention on Tuesday, featuring panel discussions on whether conservatives will support Trump and whether the...
View ArticleBryan Fischer: GOP Invited 'A Demon-God Into Its Party'
Yesterday, American Family Radio host Bryan Fischer criticized the Republican National Convention for allowing Sajid Tarar of American Muslims for Trump to deliver a closing prayer on the second day of...
View ArticleIs Eric Trump Gaslighting Us?
For months, Donald Trump has faced questions about his philanthropic giving, or lack thereof, as more and more evidence shows that the business mogul givesvery, very, verylittlemoneytocharity even...
View ArticleAnti-Immigrant Extremist Joe Arpaio To Address RNC
According to the Associated Press, Maricopa County, Arizona, Sheriff Joe Arpaio “has snagged a coveted speaking spot on the final night of the Republican National Convention.”Arpaio, who has campaigned...
View ArticleJerry Falwell Had A Dream
Last night, Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. addressed the Republican National Convention, where he showered praise on Donald Trump while warning that Hillary Clinton’s appointments to...
View ArticleFormer KKK Leader David Duke Is Running For Senate Because Donald Trump Is...
Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke announced today a bid for U.S. Senate in Louisiana, and he is thanking Donald Trump for inspiring his run.Duke thanked Trump — who initially refused to renounce...
View ArticleCitizens United & Breitbart Debut New 'Christian War Film' At RNC
Right-wing moviemaking has been a growthindustryinrecentyears, as conservative activists set out to challenge what they see as the damaging cultural impact of liberalism’s dominance in Hollywood. The...
View ArticleTrump Lawyer Who Trashed Campaign Finance Laws: SCOTUS List Shows How Trump...
Among the events hosted by right-wing groups during the Republican National Convention was “The Conservative Pit Stop,” sponsored by the American Conservative Union Foundation with an assist from its...
View ArticleRevealed: The Right-Wing Movement’s Agenda For Trump’s First 180 Days
The Conservative Action Project is a network of more than 100 right-wing leaders created in 2008 as “an offshoot” of the secretive far-right Council for National Policy, making it part of an array of...
View ArticlePolitical Correctness And Political Awkwardness At The RNC
The Republican National Convention and the constellation of right-wing events scheduled during and around the official gathering included plenty of downright disturbing examples of racism, misogyny,...
View ArticleRachel Campos-Duffy: Michelle Obama Is The Real Plagiarist
After several lines of Melania Trump’s speech at the Republican National Convention last week were found to have been plagiarized from a speech that Michelle Obama gave at the 2008 Democratic...
View ArticleBeing Febreze In A Stinky World: Dominionism At Pre-RNC Prayer Rally
The Response, a day-long event pitched as a nonpolitical time to pray for the country and for Christian unity, came to Cleveland the weekend before the Republican National Convention. The first...
View ArticleHappy Birthday, Phyllis Schlafly!
Today is the 92nd birthday of Phyllis Schlafly, the godmother of the right-wing movement in America. Schlafly broke onto the national scene with “A Choice Not an Echo,” her 1964 book making the case...
View Article'Gays for Trump' Join Conspiracy Theorists In Bringing Anti-Islam, Anti-PC...
Milo Yiannopoulos, a gay British cultural provocateur, self-described “dangerous faggot” and senior editor at Breitbart, brought his anti-political-correctness, anti-Islam message to Cleveland this...
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