Several states are considering Republican-sponsored legislation to force “welfare” recipients to undergo drug testing. They say they want to ensure taxpayer money isn’t being wasted. But they’re not really interested in that. If they were, they’d target those who need welfare the least but receive the most: Corporations. About $59...

Today’s show: What if you held a rally and virtually nobody showed up? Sad sack Mitt “Two Cadillacs” Romney did just that today in Detroit…plus, a first: Jordan Sekulow from the dreaded Pat Robertson-affiliated ACLJ was on the show to further the cause of freedom. Yes, really…but because we’re generally well-mannered, we wait...

Today’s show: Last day of pledge drive and we met our goal — thank you! We did not, however, quite get to the $3k we needed to prevent the show from becoming a right-wing religious broadcast, so look for me to deliver the Good News next week. We also talked about the very, very good week progressives had in pimp slapping conservatives on the...

Conservatives have focused their perpetual outrage on the Obama Administration’s requirement that employers include contraception in their health care plans. Though churches are exempt, they say that Catholic organizations shouldn’t be required to pay for services they oppose on theological grounds. If conservatives insist on creating a new standard...

The millions of breast exams performed by Planned Parenthood over the last five years have saved thousands of lives: Planned Parenthood health centers that received Komen program funding provided nearly 170,000 clinical breast exams out of the more than 4 million clinical breast exams performed nationwide at Planned Parenthood health centers; clinicians under...

Back in November, David Frum, the George W. Bush speechwriter who coined the phrase “axis of evil,” wrote in New York magazine that the Republican Party had given in to a kind of mass delusion. The detachment from reality, fed by Fox “News,” right-wing talk radio, think tanks, books, and the internet have created, he wrote, “a...