We should challenge both the nasty idea that recession somehow will result in a cultural renaissance and the destructive one that we are all in need of therapeutic counseling.
Mike Madden chronicles in Salon a day spent watching the people who believe President-Elect Barack Obama isn't a natural born citizen because of gamma...
It's like a rock in the pit of your stomach, a cold clammy feeling that spreads up your gut and momentarily stops your breath. It's the awful moment...
Yesterday, we mentioned how insane lawsuits about Barack Obama's natural live birth were creeping like cracked-out, pissed-off kudzu through our court...
Yesterday, I made note of how one of these nutlog lawsuits alleging that President-Elect Barack Obama was not an American citizen had been appealed to...
So, if you've been following the many tin foil hat wearing crack-a-lacks that the election season brought out of the woodwork, with their Whitey tapes...
We want your stories! What was your voting experience like? What interactions have you had with the campaigns? Are you volunteering for a candidate? H...
During the '84 NC Senate race, one of Helms' top aides responsible for implementing a gay-bashing strategy was McCain advisor Charlie Black.
According to one of the actual police reports documenting the charade's unraveling, Ashley Todd says she can't remember whether she mutilated her own face, or had someone else do it.
In the wake of McCain-Palin visits to North Carolina, a string of election season crimes have occurred around the state involving violence, vandalism, and harassment.
Good God. Really? According to the AP, officials in Cullowhee, North Carolina are having to investigate who placed a dead bear cub on the campus of ...
As if Colin Powell needed one more reminder of the toxic level of political discourse that, in part, fueled his decision to endorse Barack Obama, poli...
The issue of campaign tone came up in last night's debate, with a false equivalency drawn between the Obama campaign calling McCain erratic and people...
Republican officials in Sacramento, California have removed highly offensive materials from their official website after just about everyone with even...
This photo does not appear anywhere in the linked story. It is only on the Drudge Report front page.
Campbell Brown's own brand of "special commentary" doesn't quite draw the fanfare of those offered by other media figures. So it should be noted that ...
During this long election season, one of the things that the candidates have had to confront are smear merchants, peddling the most vicious and hatefu...
I keep recalling the poisonous climate revved up by right wing fundamentalists in Israel prior to Rabin's murder. Are my recollections uncalled-for exaggerations? I sure as hell hope so.
Palin has been put to the job of trawling for undecided voters who are racially anxious enough to be tipped into voting for McCain by one additional rumor or tremor or fear.
Everybody else is playing the Guilt-by-Tenuous-Association game (ages 6 and down) so why not the Republican Jewish Coalition, whoever that is? Ari at...
Virginia Representative Virgil Goode -- whose primary contributions to the civic discourse has been ranty, slow-witted displays of Islamaphobia -- has...
The Greensboro News & Record in North Carolina's longtime editor, John Robinson, explained his reasoning in a column yesterday.
Funding is coming from a New York-based group called the Clarion Fund, a supposed 501 c(3) non-profit that this week featured an article supporting John McCain on its website.
Who says Republicans are the only ones who can play the politics of fear? McCain's reckless temper combined with his inherent militancy is a very very dangerous combination.
Some harsh talk from Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK): Regardless of what polls show, Inhofe said, voters will have to ask themselves a question once they ge...
