The Meister Piece: Victoria Jackson, SNL Alum and Tea Partier

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Susie Meister talks with Saturday Night Live veteran and devoted Tea Partier Victoria Jackson.

On Homophobia: The Elephant in the Room

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Tom Gaultieri examines the ways in which homophobia, not the constitution, have historically dictated laws about homosexuality.

Rape is God’s Way of Saying You Should Be Pregnant

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Thaddeus Howze is disgusted with the GOP candidates who seem to justify rape as being part of God’s plan.

On the Eleventh of the Eleventh

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Looking back upon what we could have learned from 9/11, Greg Olear sees only opportunists of many stripes using the events to further their agendas.

A History Lesson: Reagan, Ryan, Legitimate Rape, and the GOP’s Deteriorating Tea Party Endgame

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Todd Akins and Paul Ryan’s 2011 bill has two GOP Congressmen cosponsoring legislation about what is or is not “legitimate rape”.

Newark Mayor Cory Booker’s “Meet the Press” Gaffe: More Politics as Usual

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Cory Booker’s remarkable ascent will continue in spite of his recent gaffe, but his remark about attack ads was just more “outsider politics” as usual.

Boomers Beware: How Do You Want to Be Remembered?

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Jake DiMare throws down harsh criticisms and strong recommendations to those Americans born between 1945 and 1964.

Stephen King Wants To Be Taxed More!

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HeatherN feels the solution to our financial woes isn’t to tax the rich more or cut down on spending. The solution is to do both.

CNN Contributor Dana Loesch Attacked on Twitter, Her Husband Suspended For Defending Her

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Lauren Hale watched a Twitter fight turn threatening last night, as Tea Party member and CNN Contributor Dana Loesch was attacked and threatened, and her husband ousted from the Twitter community for coming to her aid.

The Greatest Mitt Romney Speech You’ve Never Heard

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Instead of writing a witty, insightful column, Oliver Lee Bateman decided to share the greatest Mitt Romney speech you’ve never heard.

Why Stuff White People Like is Something I Don’t

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Plenty of white people found something to love about the hit website Stuff White People Like. Oliver Lee Bateman wasn’t one of them.

Deadbeat Congressman Joe Walsh Thinks Wounded Vets Are A Joke

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Jake DiMare thinks a wounded Iraq war veteran will make a better leader than a deadbeat dad.

Republican House of Scandal, A Year of Republican Hypocrisy

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Jake DiMare wonders when John Boehner and his cohorts will drop the sanctimonious act, shut the hell up, and get to work.

5 Ways #Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party Can Save America

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The two movements have a lot more in common than they’d want to believe, and Tom Matlack thinks they can come together to fix our country.

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Ways you can help those suffering from the famine in East Africa, a hostage situation in the Flatiron, and “the Pot Republic.”

What Does China Think of the Midterm Elections?

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While the press dismisses the extremists, Chinese paper Southern Daily paints a rather distressing picture of America—a country that doesn’t know what it wants.