An unarmed black man is approached and accosted by a man in plain clothes who doesn't identify himself. A scuffle ensues. The black man is shot dead. The killer goes home. And an obscene campaign begins to smear the dead man as yet another thug who had it coming.

This...

"I think she did a really good job last night. I think she's a bright member of our caucus, and it's one of the reasons I appointed her to the Intelligence Committee." ~ Speaker John Boehner on Michele Bachmann's debate performance.

Ever notice how often men refer to women as...

On The O'Reilly Factor, Jan. 14, 2002:

NADER: What I would have done after September 11 is invoked the doctrine of hot pursuit under international law, to go after and apprehend the backers of the attackers.[...]

O'REILLY: 'Hot pursuit.' Would you bomb? Would you bring in the...

A GOP-led push for a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage in Minnesota passed the House Civil Law Committee.

Republicans now control the Minnesota Legislature and are fast-tracking the ban to go before voters in the 2012 ballot. Minnesota state law already bans gay and lesbian couples from marrying but supporters...

FINALLY! Dan Savage will have his own show!

Since becoming an avid listener to his podcast, and watching him gut the hateful (yet supple) Tony Perkins on CNN about Prop 8 two years ago, I've been praying to the GGG gods that this man...

In January of 1971, Bill Backer, a creative director on the Coca-Cola account at the McCann-Erickson advertising agency, was on a flight to London that was forced to land in Ireland due to heavy fog at Heathrow. The result of this diversion was the most popular and iconic (and my...

I'm sorry, I'm a little upset. After watching Rachel Maddow's reporting on the BP spill, I think I need one of those "Top Hats" to stop my reignited fury at G.W. Bush and his oily-garchy, and how the slick -- I mean the "legacy" -- he left behind still manages...

I'm a comedian who often deals with edgy, politically incorrect and controversial material who thinks that Family Guy's Sarah Palin joke was not only offensive, but irresponsible.

Sarah Palin is a liar. She tells a whole lot of lies, from her "thangks, but noo thangks" to the Bridge to Nowhere...