Politics

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is doing some damage control for the controversial comments he made against the president on Friday. While speaking at a dinner hosted by Americans for Prosperity, Romney said:  “Reagan came up with this great thing about the ‘misery index,’ and he hung that around Jimmy Carter’s neck, and that had…

Given all that yakkety-yak about the emergence of a new era of postracial politics, you might have hoped that by now, even the looniest of ultraconservatives might have figured out a way to criticize Barack Obama without sounding like howling race-baiters. Keep hoping. Conservative dependency on racial resentments is so deeply ingrained that even phony…

Members of the NAACP, Color of Change and Amnesty International are rallying together one last time to gain support for Georgia inmate Troy Davis, who is soon expected to face his fourth execution date. Davis has been on death row for the past 20 years for the 1989 murder of Savannah police officer Mark MacPhail,…

During the course of the Bush administration, Republicans found their mojo for Big Government Republicanism. For example, in 2003, President George W. Bush announced that his administration would spend “up to $400 billion” over 10 years to add prescription-drug coverage to Medicare. By 2008 that Medicare drug entitlement program was projected to cost $783 billion…

Oh, look. The president has a birth certificate. Apparently he isn’t a sleeper terror agent trying to bring down the country. What a relief. But even after Obama’s press conference on Wednesday, during which he revealed the document that some people claimed didn’t exist, Donald Trump and his fellow Birthers haven’t given up the fight.…

Donald Trump built his headline-grabbing, undeclared presidential run — and a double-digit lead in early GOP 2012 primary polling — on the theory that President Barack Obama isn’t actually American. If Trump plans to keep on running, now that a copy of the president’s long-form birth certificate is posted on whitehouse.gov and the Obama “Birther” conspiracies have…

Does Donald Trump have any sense of decency? He declared this morning that he was “proud” of himself for forcing President Obama to make his detailed birth certificate public. The president of the United States had to “prove” that he was actually a United States citizen, two years into his term. “We do not have…

There’s a very big story unfolding in California right now whose ultimate outcome could determine whether or not gays and lesbians will have the right to get married in the United States.The story concerns Proposition 8, the statewide referendum banning same-sex marriage. Having failed to prove their case in court, Prop 8 supporters are now…

It’s not surprising to get involved in a heated discussion about race when you’re strolling through a museum exhibit called “Race: Are We So Different?” And wouldn’t you know that President Barack Obama would get caught right in the middle of it. Not all charges that the president isn’t who he says he is come…

If there’s one thing you’ve got to give right-wingers credit for, it’s coming up with new ways to scare the pants off of white people. When it comes to playing the race card, their creativity is unsurpassed. A recent example of this unique talent could be found the other day on, of all unlikely places,…