Progressive Politics Examiner

Is health care for women under attack?

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:17:20 -0700

Women pay approximately 48% more for health care than do men in the United States. Even after paying high health care premiums to health insurance companies, women are sometimes denied coverage of pregnancy and childbirth care because it is dee...

Gotcha, Fox News courtesy of The Daily Show

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:05:57 -0700

On Tuesday evening, November 10, 2009, Jon Stewart revealed that Sean Hannity used old footage when showing what was supposed to be of a crowd from Rep. Michele Bachmann's invitational rally in Washington but was actually footage from a September ra...

Senator Tom Coburn holding up Veterans benefits bill

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:36:58 -0700

Sen. Tom Coburn AP PhotoSenator Tom Coburn (R), Okahoma, the same Tom Coburn who advised Senator John Ensign to end the affair he was having by paying off the husband of his mistress, is the single senator in the US holding up a Veterans benefi...

Democratic candidate wins New York's 23rd for first time since Civil War

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:42:24 -0700

Thanks largely in part to the very conservative wing of the Republican party, Dick Armey, Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck, the Republican candidate for New York's 23rd district was forced to drop out of the race when she ran out of campaign funds. A...

Daily Show with Jon Stewart weighs in on the Fox news debate

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:47:05 -0700

The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cFor Fox Sake!www.thedailyshow.comDaily Show Full EpisodesPolitical HumorHealth Care CrisisSince the White House cut Fox news out of the circuit, implying that it is akin to talk radio, Fox entertain...

Rush Limbaugh spreads hoax about President Obama

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:15:48 -0700

On Friday, radio talk show host, Rush Limbaugh reported that he was reading from President Obama's college thesis, ten pages of which had been discovered by Michael Ledeen of the National Review Online. Ledeen discovered the ten pages of Obama'...

86 year-old WWII vet supports gay marriage 'What do you think I fought at Omaha Beach for?'

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:03:47 -0700

Philip Spooner, an 86 year old VFW chaplain who fought at Omaha Beach in World War II makes sense of the debate on equal rights for gay and lesbian marriage in the following video. Mr. Spooner spoke back in April in testimony given in favor of ...

Al Sharpton demands apology from Rush Limbaugh

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:45:04 -0700

Radio talk show host, Rush Limbaugh wrote an op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal on October 16, 2009, detailing his experience in trying to invest in an NFL team franchise in St. Louis. In the op-ed piece, Limbaugh wrote: "In 199...

President Obama's remarks on winning the Nobel Peace Prize (Video)

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:09:55 -0700

Here are President Obama's remarks on hearing the news that he is the 2009 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.

Desperation and Loathing in the Republican party

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:07:26 -0700

Remember how Republicans reacted to people who voiced their opinion that we shouldn't go to war in Iraq? Anyone who was against the war was anti-American and the only way you could be a good American was to blindly follow the Bush doctrine. Du...

Attack on America: Right wing fringe wants to overthrow government

Sat, 12 Sep 2009 10:19:52 -0700

Secessionist talk may have racist background/MSNBC photo Forget about the conservative compassion advocated by Republicans presidential advisor Doug Wead in 1979. Wead believed that policies of Republican conservatives should be motivated by c...

GOP rebuttal to President Obama's speech before Congress

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:11:46 -0700

After the first speech that President Obama made to the joint session of Congress, Louisiana Governor, Bobby Jindal was chosen to rebut the President's speech. Jindal's speech was a disaster for his career and for the Republican party. Th...

Another family values Republican caught in sex scandal

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:11:46 -0700

California Asemblyman Michael Duvall Conservative Republican Aseemblyman, Michael Duvall was caught on tape bragging about his sexual exploits. According to KCAL television station, Duvall, who is the father of two and a conservative Republican who ...

President Obama's speech to schools: Viewer comments

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:04:53 -0700

Yesterday, I uploaded a video of President Obama's speech to school children to Youtube. By the time I returned from a dinner party last night, I had 160 messages in my in box that were comments from people who viewed the speech on Youtube.&nbs...

Faces of the Astroturf Town Hall Meetings

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 16:21:12 -0700

Town Hall Meeting, Birmingham/Karen HarperThe town hall meetings that took place across the nation in the month of August in the United States were attended by thousands of people in the various venues. Ironically, the vast majority of people w...

Video humor of the day

Sat, 05 Sep 2009 14:21:14 -0700

Be sure to watch the entire video. It's quite funny.

Has Glenn Beck replaced Rush Limbaugh as titular head of the Republican party?

Sat, 05 Sep 2009 08:49:45 -0700

It would seem that Beck has stolen the crown from Limbaugh. Just a few short months ago, Limbaugh was widely known as the man behind the strings of elected officials in the Republican party but it seems that he has now been replaced by another ...

Karl Rove believes health care has no impact on the economy

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 03:25:59 -0700

Karl RoveIn a Wall Street Journal op-ed Thursday, 'turd blossom' as Rove was so lovingly called by President Bush, wrote:To start with, the president is focusing on health care when the economy and jobs are nearly everyone's top issue. Voters i...

Great White Hope Eric Cantor ignores facts, says stimulus isn't working

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:46:10 -0700

As one by one, every GOP hopeful that would go up against President Barack Obama in 2012 goes up in flames because of sexual scandal or some other scandal or failure, one has to wonder why the Republican party continues to put them out there for scru...

Sexually deviant photos of U.S. Embassy Guards in Afghanistan cause outrage

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:00:34 -0700

Gawker.com received disturbing photographs of 'security guards' who were hired under contract to protect the U.S. Embassy and its workers in Kabul, Afghanistan from the Project on Government Oversight or POGO. POGO sent a letter to Secretary o...