The "big scandal" last week was the renaming of an Alaskan mountain to its original name, which, the Right claimed, was an obvious...

Do you think memes are something new? In 1928, a cartoon by Carl Rose, which was captioned by E.B. White (of Stuart Little and Charlotte&#...

Wandering around the conservative end of the internet, every so often I'll slam up against the phrase "the Democrat Party is the mo...

The slavering ammosexuals have been making some headlines lately, with their "open carry" protests and mindless claims that "...

The 31st of January dawned cold but clear in Moscow in 1990. It had been two years since the Communist Party had given their permission to o...

So, on Face the Nation this weekend, Peggy Noonan called New York mayor Bill De Blasio a "Sandinista" – she tried to walk it bac...

There is a constant drumbeat from the right comparing Obama to Hitler. I mean, let's ignore the fact that Obama's signature legislat...

Were you aware that there is a movement to rename Columbus Day " Exploration Day "? It's true: a general celebration of explor...

I've been trying to figure out why the Republican party nominated Mitt Romney as their candidate for president. They spent 2004 castigat...

No politics today. It isn't always about politics. I was randomly hopping around the internet this morning, just following links as I at...

Maybe this is how we should teach history. (Do I need to warn you that there might be some bad language? Or have you figured that out about...

A very common attitude among the right-wing websites is a dismissive attitude about anyone who points out when the economy went to hell - &q...

You know, there are people out there who don't understand what it means to be an American! I mean, you know what we learned today? That ...

So, let me see if I've got this straight. 100 years ago today, in lower Manhattan, the Triangle Shirtwaist fire killed 146 people (a th...