The Progressive Perspective

It took a while, but I finally figured out what truly offends me about Sarah Palin. It's not her shameless greed , nor her stunning igno...

All summer, demagogues have been stoking the fires of religious bigotry against Muslims. Sometimes it's rank politicking, like when Repu...

Gene Cranick lives, or rather lived, in a house in Obion County, Tennessee. Last week, his house caught fire and he called 911. The fire dep...

At a White House iftar dinner (a tradition dating back to the days of Thomas Jefferson) President Obama finally pointed out the blindingly ...

When Judge Vaughn Walker overturned California's Proposition 8 last week, he pointed out that the ballot initiative banning same-sex ma...

The Anti-Defamation League's website says it "fights anti-Semitism and all forms of bigotry, defends democratic ideals and protect...

Cordoba House is a community center planned for an empty building in lower Manhattan, two blocks from the World Trade Center site. The cent...

Every time you think the right wing can't find anything more petty or ridiculous with which to attack President Obama, they outdo themse...

Fox News likes to claim that it's "fair and balanced," but anyone who spends any time watching it knows that it's about as...

There must be something in the water down in South Carolina for so many politicians to have gone off the deep end. First there was Governor ...

There is an old joke in which someone buys a very expensive object which he is told will keep away dragons. When someone else points out tha...

If cringing comedy is your thing, check out the latest offering from birther preacher James David Manning, who has a reputation even in birt...

Exactly one day after winning the GOP Senate primary in Kentucky, tea-party darling Rand Paul got into a lot of trouble. Going on NPR and MS...

Glenn Beck's long list of offensive and just plain bizarre antics, from calling President Obama a racist to fantasizing about poisoning...

Orly Taitz, Joseph Farah and other birthers like to claim that Barack Obama is not a natural-born citizen and so cannot be president. First ...

I thought the birther pretend trial in New York was comedy gold, but it actually got eclipsed today. Rep. Mark Souder (R-IN), a holier-than...

As the Catholic Church finally realizes that protecting child molesters while threatening their victims into silence might not have been suc...

If there's one thing teabaggers are very good at, it's getting offended. They can pour out personal abuse and name-calling by the bu...

"I think we should catch 'em [illegal immigrants], we should document 'em, make sure we know where they are and where they are ...

Back in 2008, some people who were hired by the community group ACORN to sign up new voters figured out they could pad their earnings by sub...

With Arizona's new anti-illegal-immigrant law SB 1070 making waves across the country and the world, state and local police now have bl...

It's a scene out of a seemingly infinite number of movies. Someone is walking down the street and minding his own business when a police...

To quote Sam Cooke, Sarah Palin don't know much about history , not to mention energy , religion , economics , government , science an...

Even with all the tales of greed and fraud coming out of Wall Street over the last two years, the allegations against investment bank Goldma...

Having failed to stop the nation's badly broken health-insurance system from being reformed, the Republicans now say they want to repeal...

For years now, the self-righteous wing of the Republican Party has insisted that allowing gays and lesbians to get married will cause all so...