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Witnesses tell TPM that Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) laughed when an elderly man at his town hall meeting this week asked "Who's gonna shoot Obama?" Mark Farmer of Winterville, Georgia went to the meetin

Chris Bosh shot 1-for-18 in Miami's 93-89 loss to Chicago on Thursday night, but he may have won an award for his acting performance in the second quarter. Bulls forward Carlos Boozer got the ball

So, do you remember that time that the House passed a symbolic repeal of the Affordable Care Act, that didn't go anywhere, because Harry Reid is still the Senate Majority Leader and Barack Obama is st

(CNN) -- Thousands of teachers, nurses, firefighters and other public sector workers have camped out at the Wisconsin Capitol, protesting Republican Gov. Scott Walker's efforts to reduce their take-ho

A federal judge on Tuesday upheld the health care reform law signed last year by President Barack Obama and found that Congress had the clear authority to regulate health insurance under the Commerce

The last time Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) went after public sector unions it had “disastrous results” for him and for taxpayers. As Milwaukee County Executive in 2009, Walker tried to get rid of t

It’s time for us to stop lying to ourselves about this country. America is great in many ways, but on a whole host of measures — some of which are shown in the accompanying chart — we have become t

WHERE: Laughlin Hall, CHURCH OF ST. LUKE IN THE FIELDS, 487 Hudson Street, NYC. WHEN: 7-9 PM, Friday, February 25, 2011 ON THE WINGS OF THE WIND (SynergEbooks 2010) by Richard Kigel tells the

In the half century since Wisconsin became the first state to give its public workers the right to bargain collectively, government employee unions have mushroomed in size and power — so much so that

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Wisconsin's new Republican governor has framed his assault on public worker's collective bargaining rights as a needed measure of fiscal austerity during tough times. The reality is radically diffe

Watch Rachel Maddow dissect the core of this issue and the reason it is so crucial for the 2012 election. The single greatest source of support for Democrats has been the Unions. If Republicans are

Could a lovable Muslim sit-com family change America's perception of Muslims? Perhaps, but probably not the one you're about to see. On Thursday night's "Daily Show," Aasif Mandvi followed Katie Co

Will it take the Republican Party as long to accept modern science as it took the Roman Catholic Church? The church waited 359 years to admit Galileo was right — the earth does move around the sun.

In Wisconsin, about 1,000 teachers called in sick Wednesday to protest Gov. Scott Walker’s attempt to strip their union bargaining rights. In Washington, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie recounted

Three weeks ago, Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) — the second-highest ranking Republican in the House of Representatives — repeatedly refused to call theories that President Obama was not born in America “cra

Bill O'Reilly clearly had so many questions for President Obama that there was another part to the interview that we haven't gotten to see until now. In this segment, Bill asks the president his

A Republican focus group is CONVINCED that President Obama is a Muslim. Why do they think this? 40% of Iowa focus group believe something that is false. Watch a clip of the focus group in action.

CNN. Feb. 8, 2011—When Dr. Lynne Holden was 8 years old, she didn't want a bicycle, a doll, or even a pony. She wanted a copy of the popular medical reference manual,Gray's Anatomy. "Well, I alwa

THE ONION, FEBRUARY 2, 2011. WASHINGTON—In a strong rebuke of President Obama and his domestic agenda, all 242 House Republicans voted Wednesday to repeal the Asteroid Destruction and America

Tomorrow will mark the 100th anniversary of President Reagan’s birth, and all week, conservatives have been trying to outdo each others’ remembrances of the great conservative icon. Senate Republicans

CAIRO—Inside Tahrir Square on Thursday, I met a carpenter named Mahmood whose left arm was in a sling, whose leg was in a cast and whose head was being bandaged in a small field hospital set up by the

Journalists attempting to cover unprecedented unrest in Egypt reported being beaten, arrested and harassed by security forces and police for a second day Thursday, leading to sharply limited televisio

Worldwide attention has turned to the Peru-Brazil border where uncontacted Indians live, and the South American countries are finally feeling the pressure to protect them. Survival International's