The Judicial Destruction of Democracy
While America was distracted with an imploding economy, joblessness, and a war based on pure fraud, the GOP was busy creating a Frankenstein monster in the federal judiciary.
While America was distracted with an imploding economy, joblessness, and a war based on pure fraud, the GOP was busy creating a Frankenstein monster in the federal judiciary.
Mike Papantonio | Posted 05.25.2011
Glenn Beck's push is to convince his flock that if their preacher delivers sermons about "social justice," a good "Beck Head" should leave that church.
Mike Papantonio | Posted 05.25.2011
When "anti-everything" oddballs fly their suicide planes into tax offices, that emboldens the next "anti" nut to grab his rifle and grasp onto the philosophies of groups like "Sovereign Citizens."
Mike Papantonio | Posted 05.25.2011
Two weeks ago the folks who run Republican fundraising made a sloppy mistake. They left the blueprint for their party fundraising plans at a posh resort where they had hosted a GOP retreat.
Mike Papantonio | Posted 05.25.2011
In the T.V. show, "I Love Lucy," Ricky Ricardo had a statement he would unleash when he believed that Lucy had been involved in mischief. He would wa...
Mike Papantonio | Posted 05.25.2011
Ann Coulter last week told the media there was hope for the conservative movement in America. Coulter said she was inspired by the small but enthusia...
Mike Papantonio | Posted 05.25.2011
To put into perspective what a non-event the Nashville meeting was, you need to understand that fewer than 600 people showed up for what was supposed to be the event that changes American politics.
Mike Papantonio | Posted 05.25.2011
According to those tree-hugging military misfits, global climate change could create "instability or conflict," and become a "global destabilizing force."
Mike Papantonio | Posted 05.25.2011
When you drill down to the center of what most motivates a traditional conservative, you will find a fear-of-change boogeyman lurking somewhere in a d...
Mike Papantonio | Posted 05.25.2011
Fascism is a word that is overused when one political interest group is describing the bad conduct of another opposition political interest group. Th...
Mike Papantonio | Posted 05.25.2011
I was disappointed to see the San Francisco Chronicle begin 2010 with a story pandering to that crowd of Americans who love to be afraid. I was hopin...
Mike Papantonio | Posted 05.25.2011
A hyena will scavenge graves for food. It is an animal that shows no respect for the dead. Instead, it merely regards the misfortune of once-living ...
Mike Papantonio | Posted 05.25.2011
Open the phonebook and randomly pick the name of a stockbroker or a bank president. Call that person and ask them to explain to you how a synthetic or a derivative actually works.
Mike Papantonio | Posted 05.25.2011
Finally, Republicans have memorialized their flat-earth style of politics by demanding that their candidates stop thinking and swear a purity oath. Regardless of whether it's dumb luck at work here, Obama should be grateful.
Mike Papantonio | Posted 05.25.2011
The organization that use to represent small business interests has morphed into a lapdog that serves a new master. That master is international mega-corporations.
Mike Papantonio | Posted 05.25.2011
The engine driving the impending train wreck for Obama and his spineless advisors is that he made promises that turned out millions of supporters. That promise was that we were going to see "change." Soon we began to see "Bush Lite."
Mike Papantonio | Posted 05.25.2011
Roger Ailes understands what other TV executives miss. He remembers that P.T. Barnum built his business around high-wire acts and circus freaks.
Mike Papantonio | Posted 05.25.2011
Conservative political policies have been built around the manipulation of that ugly quality called victim blame. They are brilliant in that they have freed us from the responsibility of being our brother's keeper.
Mike Papantonio | Posted 05.25.2011
Napolitano can't afford to understate the seriousness of the swine flu, even though America has been abused by politically motivated scare tactics for eight years.
Mike Papantonio | Posted 05.25.2011
Where do washed up celebrities go once they realize that their career is in the tank? They become celebrity spokesmen for the Republican National Committee.
Mike Papantonio | Posted 05.25.2011
Since 1935, an organization calling itself "The Family" has been able to operate unnoticed in the Beltway. But that invisibility is disappearing because of the sensational sex lives of Mark Sanford and John Ensign.
Mike Papantonio | Posted 05.25.2011
Fringe Democrats looked ridiculous when they suggested McCain wasn't eligible to be president because he was born in Panama. The grown-ups in Democratic leadership put a quick end to that.
Mike Papantonio | Posted 05.25.2011
There will be no serious health care reform until the drug companies, the hospital corporations and the HMO industry are forced to pay their share of the bill.
Mike Papantonio | Posted 05.25.2011
U.S. relations with the Saudi royal family trumped the importance of 3,000 9-11 murders. That was the opinion of the U.S. State Department during the...
Mike Papantonio | Posted 05.25.2011
About an hour's drive from where I live, a miserable 60-year old man by the name of Donnie Baker murdered two Chilean college students and wounded fiv...
Mike Papantonio | Posted 05.25.2011