The literal embrace of death by the Tea Party Republicans works as follows. When supporters of the Republican Party howl that they “want to take their America back” they are signaling to an America that is dead and gone. Their halcyon Leave it to Beaver dreams of a country where whiteness was unchallenged and central [...]

Dana Milbank writes: At last, the president hasn’t conceded the race before the starter’s gun, hasn’t opened the bidding with his bottom line, hasn’t begun a game of strip poker in his boxer shorts. Whichever metaphor you choose, it was refreshing to see the president in the Rose Garden on Monday morning delivering a speech [...]

“Time magazine this week published ‘Beyond 9/11: Portraits of Resilience,’ a photo-rich commemorative edition dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. No identifiable African Americans are pictured in its 64 pages.” — TheRoot.Com This glaring omission feeds into the stereotype that African Americans aren’t patriotic. Blacks are as “red, white, [...]

It seems like ten seconds, not ten years, have passed since our nation was attacked on September, 11, 2001. The horrific images of that fateful day (the plane smashing into the iconic skyscraper, people jumping to their death from the towering inferno, the collapse of both towers) haven’t been dimmed by time, they remain sharp [...]

‘Weather Balloon‘ Rush Limbaugh: “The Heat Index is a Government[Obama's] Conspiracy”; Right-Wing Fringe Suggests Obama Admin. Caused Deaths Of SEALs In Afghanistan MMFA: On the August 9 edition of The Colbert Report, host Stephen Colbert mocked Rush Limbaugh for claiming that the heat index is a government[Obama's] conspiracy, joking, “The heat index is just more [...]