Republicans

These aren’t fringe positions anymore.read more

Indiana Republican Senate candidate gets religion right, immediately backtracks.read more

Romney doesn’t seem to understand that to ignore the multifaceted richness of humanity in the United States and to win the presidency at the same time is becoming a difficult task.read more

We don’t have a welfare problem in America. We have a poverty problem in America. And Republican race-baiting does not get us any closer to solving it.read more

Rob Sisson is tired of seeing environmentalism being dismissed by Republicans. In a party that recently adopted the slogan "drill baby, drill" he's a bit of an odd duck. But he's prodding the party to take environmental issues seriously.

"The anti-science rhetoric that portions of our party spout is turning off a lot of the younger college kids who haven't identified with a party yet," says Sisson, who is attending the Republican National Convention in Tampa.read more

The main problem with Mitt Romney’s convention speech was that it was not memorable enough to wipe out the image of Clint Eastwood rambling at an empty chair.read more

Any challenge to the status quo he says is “progressive,” if you can believe that!read more

Actually, they don’t come from God or nature.read more

They want a law allowing gun owners to shoot “illegal” voters. “We want to keep the wrong people away from the polls.”read more

To answer Ryan, the Democrats will have to do more than extend unemployment insurance, coddle the banks and multinational corporations, and hope for better days.read more

When Tommy saw John Nichols of the Madison Capital Times and The Nation, he said, “How the hell did you get in here?”read more