Brian Tashman Posts

Having had four people, including a baby, recently die at his jail didn’t stop the Trump administration from courting Clarke.

In an interview with The Economist published today, Donald Trump made a lot of erroneous claims, from stating that he coined the phrase “prime the pump” just “a couple of

Voter fraud, of course, is extremely rare, and in the few cases that do exist, voter ID requirements are unlikely to stop it.

Technically, Obama still has a few more hours to fulfill the far-right’s many doomsday prophecies about his presidency, but it appears much more likely that these conservative activists simply lied in order to fuel baseless fears about Obama.

Radio conspiracy theorist Alex Jones reacted to the death of Carrie Fisher exactly how you would expect him to.

Among other things, Gaffney thinks U2 lead singer Bono is a tool of Islamists and that Twitter is advancing Sharia law.

Donald Trump’s conspiracy-theory-ridden presidential campaign didn’t emerge from a vacuum.

As Dr. Evil would say, "Rrrrrrriiiiiigggggghhhhtttttt..."

Fresh from congratulating himself “for being right on radical Islamic terrorism,” Donald Trump made the rounds on the morning shows today, where he hinted that President Obama may actually be rooting for the terrorists.

While Donald Trump is trying to walk back his racist attacks on a federal judge by insisting that he never attacked Judge Gonzalo Curiel’s ethnicity or heritage when, in fact, he did several times (a familiar pattern with Trump), his GOP defenders are straining credulity to defend him.

Linda Sorenson, chair of the Delta County, Colorado, Republican Party, posted a racist Facebook meme last week depicting President Obama as a chimp.

“The national media takes it when I talk about this and acts like I’m crazy."

Before the GOP presidential frontrunner started winning the backing of Republican leaders, he assembled a team of ardent right-wing conspiracy theorists whose bigoted and bizarre beliefs once put them decidedly on the fringe of American politics.

Donald Trump, who once complained that wages are “too high,” told conservative radio host Joe Pags this weekend that he opposes a minimum wage increase because, under his tax plan, everyone will get job offers and America will no longer be “a Third World country.”

Donald Trump, who according to one analysis, averages “one misstatement every five minutes,” seems to be fond of pushing right-wing myths and refusing to back down after they’ve been debunked.

It didn’t take long for Republicans to admit that their purportedly principled vow to block anyone President Obama nominates to the Supreme Court to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia is all about politics.

While campaigning for Donald Trump yesterday in Tulsa, Sarah Palin addressed the news that her son has been arraigned “on charges of domestic violence assault, interfering with a report of domestic violence crime and possession of a firearm while intoxicated.”

While Kentucky clerk Kim Davis insists that her decision to break the law by ordering her office to deny marriage licenses to same-sex couples “has never been a gay or lesbian issue,” the right-wing legal group defending Davis, Liberty Counsel, has made no secret of their contempt for gays and lesbians.

Iowa Republican national committeewoman Tamara Scott also criticized efforts to remove the Confederate flag from state property, saying that the flag is a Benghazi-like “diversion” from the real things dividing America: the media, public schools and rappers.

In lieu of Friday's historic Supreme Court ruling, we’ve compiled a video of the Right’s most dire warnings about striking down gay marriage bans, including self-proclaimed “prophet” Cindy Jacobs' fear that gay marriage will lead to natural disasters.