More than any other time in the past, the GOP is now firmly under the control of its most conservative members.
Louisiana’s Bobby Jindal sent a warning to his fellow Republicans. Too bad they probably won’t listen.
Does Limbaugh love the Heritage Foundation because of their ideas or their check book?
Fox News chairman Roger Ailes has come to regret the direction he took the network after the 2008 election.
Will the successful action against Osama bin Laden cause people on the right to stop believing crazy things about the President? Don’t count on it.
Whenever I despair at the current state of the Republican Party, I remind myself that things aren’t much better across the aisle.
Fewer Americans are watching cable news networks, and that’s not surprising.
It’s a Republican meme that President Obama has “apologized” for America repeatedly. The one problem with the meme is that there aren’t any facts to support it.
The same people who were complaining a week ago that the media was obsessed with Sarah Paln are now complaining that a media figure has suggested she doesn’t deserve the coverage she gets.
Sarah Palin was “interviewed” by Sean Hannity last night. I doubt she helped herself.
The American media and Sarah Palin have developed an odd symbiotic relationship, and it’s unlikely to change anytime soon.
The political firestorm that has erupted in the wake of the shootings in Arizona is drifting, inevitably, into calls for more government control over the content of speech.
Internal memos reveal that Fox News spins the news in ways that favor conservative Republicans. Is that really news?
What will Republicans think of a candidate for President who admitted to smoking marijuana as recently as two years ago?
Former Republican Congressman Joe Scarborough wants the GOP to stop kowtowing to Sarah Palin and her acolytes. He’s right.
He’s the darkest of dark horses right now, but Gary Johnson stands as the heir apparent to Ron Paul’s surprisingly energetic 2008 run for the GOP nomination.
Politico runs this morning with the shocking revelation that Keith Olbermann is a Democrat.
Will a Republican-controlled Congress bring about the third Presidential Impeachment in American history? Jonathan Chait thinks it’s virtually certain that it will, I’m not so sure.
More than ever before in the past, Fox News Channel will be the exclusive medium through which many of the candidates for the 2012 Republican nomination communicate with the public. And that’s a problem.
Glenn Greenwald argues that the “Ground Zero Mosque” debate is about more than just a “mosque” near Ground Zero. He’s right, but that also means the debate is likely to get uglier.
America’s obsession over the fate of the Burlington Coat Factory in Lower Manhattan, and a general rise in anti-Islamic rhetoric, plays right into the hands of the people that are actually our enemies.
Why are people’s views about Islam so screwed up ? Mostly because the only things they know about it tend to be the worst possible aspects of all.
How did the future of this former Burlington Coat Factory turn into a national political issue ? Well, it’s a rather interesting story.
The GOP is playing a dangerous game with the anti-Islamic rhetoric that it seems to be courting these days.
Protests against mosques aren’t just limited to Manhattan. And that’s a problem.
Andrew Breitbart is still patting himself on the back for a job well done in the Shirley Sherrod affair. In reality, he failed miserably.
Journalism and the New Media combined in a feeding frenzy yesterday and a woman lost her job. She probably shouldn’t have.
If people feel the need to evoke Reagan, it would be nice if they would evoke the real one, rather than an alt reality version.
South Carolina’s Lindsey Graham sees the beginning of the end of the Tea Parties, and he’s probably right.