According to this new CNN poll of Republicans nationwide crazy Donald Trump is tied with Mike Huckabee for most support for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination. This is a shocking example of how nutty the GOP base is. Apparently all you have to do is spout off some irrational completely baseless insane stuff about the [...]

The Republican majority in the House wants to destroy Medicare & Medicaid. Supposedly they want to do this because they are worried about the deficit but they also want to permanently extend the Bush tax cuts (including those tax cuts for the rich) that created the deficit in the first place. In fact they want [...]

While Americans greatly overestimate how much money PBS costs (the average American guessed it takes up 5% of the federal budget when it really takes up about 0.01%) they do not want to cut its funding. According to this CNN poll only 16% of Americans want to eliminate PBS funding entirely, while 53% either want [...]

Good news on the economy: 216K jobs were added in March and the unemployment rate has fallen to 8.8%. Source. This is proof that economic policies of President Obama and the Democratic controlled congress of the past two years are working. Perhaps not as quickly as one would hope, but they are working. The fact [...]

President Obama gave a speech encouraging democratic reform in Cairo, Egypt two years ago: And now the people of Egypt have successfully (peacefully) overthrown a dictator. It seems some credit is due to President Obama. If you dispute this idea; Consider that President Reagan often gets credit for the fall of the Berlin Wall which [...]

Yesterday the Dow crossed the 12,000 mark for the first time since June of 2008 (before the Bush stock market crash of September 2008.) The Dow was at only 7,949 when the George W. Bush to Obama transition took place in January of 2009. This means that the Dow has gained over 50% since President [...]

Watch this video in which a former CIA officer named Ray McGovern tells CNN that they need to follow the example of a real journalist’ Julian Assange. McGovern could not be more correct. CNN and most of the rest of the mainstream media act as mere “stenographers” for governmental and corporate powers instead of being [...]

According to this new CNN poll on President Obama, only 38% of Americans think Obama is “too liberal.” This number is significantly lower than one would think based on the rantings of the Republican Tea Party. While 48% of Americans approve of Obama’s performance, another 9% disapprove because they feel he is “not liberal enough.” [...]

If you hear something outrageous about President Obama the chances are very high that it’s a lie. The latest example is the $200 million/day India trip story. There is no truth to this story. At all. Yet people like Michelle Bachmann, Glenn Beck, and Rush Limbaugh keep repeating it anyway. It’s a good idea to [...]

The Dow hit a low of 6547 on March 9, 2009 which was less than two months into President Obama’s Presidency (before his policies could effect the economy significantly.) Today it closed at 10,944. That is an astonishing increase of 67% in not much more than a year and a half under President Obama. In [...]