As long as our soldiers are coming home in coffins draped with the 50-star American flag, it is disrespectful to these men and women and the nation that they died to protect to desecrate the flag, or fly an alternate U.S. flag in its place. What’s the matter, Chuck? Do you hate America and the flag that much, that you’d rather fly a flag spoiled with a tea stain than to respect our flag like our Founders did? What do you say to the military families whose son, daughter, wife, or husband has made...

Do you remember the rule that you do not criticize the U.S. or its President on foreign soil? Well, take a look at the blog at DailyKos about what Sarah Palin said to Chinese Communists in a speeach in Hong Kong: Sarah Palin went to Chinese Hong Kong, an area run by the Chinese Communist Party, and an area with an adaptation of Britain’s dreaded “socialist medicine” to attack the President of the United States. There was a time not so long ago when politics stopped at the water’s...

Orly Taitz, the Mad-Hatter, who looks like the sister of Harpo Marx, has had her “birther” claim thrown out of court, with an admonishment by the judge to not file such frivolous claims again. Orly Taitz, a self-described dentist, lawyer, real-estate agent, and obsessed “birther” has provided forged documents to support her claims that Barack Obama was born in Kenya, which are totally laughable, except to 60% of the GOP (Gullible Old People). U.S. District Court Judge Clay Land today...

This is a photographic essay, covering the march of the Glenn Beck Army to “recapture the feeling we all had after 9-11″. This march was supposed to be against “big government”, which has nothing to do with 9-11. But Glenn Beck’s audience, reverting to their true nature, used the occasion as the opportunity to demonstrate their fear that their beloved White Supremacy was fading away, right before their eyes. Obviously, if outrageous spending and the growth of powers assumed by...

The South Carolina people have suffered enough, haven’t they?  They had to endure the long, hot, steamy summer of Governor Mark Sanford’s “hike down the Appalachian Trail”, and his refusals to resign because he still has God’s work to do, comparing himself to King David.  This was no doubt inspired by his fellow C-Street pseudo-Christians. Then, they have the embarrassment of a Senator, Lindsey Graham, who follows John McCain around like a puppy, and mumbles GOP talking points...

Remember all the furor over Barack Obama giving a speech to school children about staying in school and studying hard? Well, it seems that the Right-Wing “Fear Corps” is not about to bamboozled by a communist propaganda speech given by Obama. Fox News and right-wing talk radio has been urging parents to keep their kids home from school. After this prompting, parents called school boards and demanded the speech by the President not be shown. Here’s just one of thousands of comments from...

Bill Moyers gave an important interview to Bill Maher last Friday night. On that show, he was described as the “conscience of journalism”. Here he proves that he is the conscience of a nation. This is the link to the video on Bill Moyers Journal page on PBS. The transcript of the video is included below: BILL MOYERS: The editors of THE ECONOMIST magazine say America’s health care debate has become a touch delirious, with people accusing each other of being evil-mongers, dealers in death,...

Remember when Rachel Maddow first started, and she used to have a segment where she asked some expert pundit to come on and talk her down about something she believed that was disturbing? I’m going to lay out my case why there will be no public option.  I know I risk being called a pessimist, defeatist, traitor, and a buzzkill, but I seriously would like for someone to tell me how I’m wrong, besides saying that obviously, I’m an idiot. I admit that I’m an idiot.  But I have worked...

I was at the gym and forced to view Fox News on the giant HDTV in front of the treadmills.  I saw and heard one lie after another, to the point that I realized that people who only use Fox News as a news source have no clue about what is really going on in this country.  I knew that Fox delivered some misinformation, but I had never realized the extent of their propaganda until now.  Very few facts emerged from the broadcast.  Nearly all of it was opinion in the guise of news. They even have their own...

This is what a news story would look like if Democrats put out the same propaganda and nonsense that the Republicans do. Steven Pearlstein, of the Washington Post, captures the hyperbole, the lies, and distortions perfectly in this satirical article. Republicans would simply pass out if the Democrats did the same thing to them that they are doing to Democrats. IOKIYAR = “It’s Okay if You Are Republican” is the only way that their lizard brains work. They can dish it out, but are not able...

I hope that the Democrats understand that, just like airplanes lined up on a runway, as soon as one lie about Health Care Reform is debunked, the GOP and the insurance industry have another lie standing ready to taxi into place. A Bush Administration document which was designed to help veterans write a living will, and have questions answered about how they can get all the care they need, has now been presented by Fox News as an Obama administration creation. The pamphlet, “Your Life, Your Choices”,...

Is the fix already in for Health Care Reform? Wall Street seems to think so. Health Care stocks are rising and the industry is already celebrating their victory of killing the public option.  Here’s an important story from today’s L.A. Times:  Reporting from Washington – Lashed by liberals and threatened with more government regulation, the insurance industry nevertheless rallied its lobbying and grass-roots resources so successfully in the early stages of the healthcare overhaul...

Recently, I heard someone say, “I’d rather trust the “Free Market” to make health care rationing decisions, rather than some government bureaucrat, like they do in Canada and Great Britain.” Yes, the “Free Market” has worked so well for us in these last 8 years. What if Bush had been able to get Social Security privatization passed like he and Wall Street wanted? And then we found out we lost it all because of deregulation and “imprudent” investments in securities...

A short time ago, I wrote about the how the insurance companies contribute nothing to the delivery of health care: In reality, the health insurance companies know that they serve no useful role in the delivery of heath care. If they were not spending 1.3 million dollars per day on lobbying and killing health care reform, we would join the rest of the civilized world and have a single-payer system. That would mean we would never have to sell our homes or declare bankruptcy because of lack of insurance, expensive...

If we had more Democrats with a spine like Lawrence O’ Donnell, hosting “Hardball” on MSNBC, the Republicans would not be able to go out there and spread lie after lie about health care. O’Donnell simply points out that if the GOP Congressman from Texas things Medicare is great, why not delete the “over-65″ clause and let everyone have single payer. When the GOP Representative tried to say that he didn’t want socialism, then O’Donnell asked him why didn’t...