One of our Special Ops members secured this secret GOP document that describes their plans for dealing with women if they win control of the White House and Congress this November.

If the GOP wants to cry about gas prices being high because of President Obama, they need to declare that they want the US government to nationalize the oil industry.

Here’s some fascinating and little known trivia about every President we’ve had in the United States. Give yourself that extra tidbit to spring on someone else who thinks they know history well by reading on…

As frustrating as it is to those of reason, that there must be some way to convince those in the Religious Right of reality and out of believing Republican falsehoods, you can lead a sheep to water but you can’t make him brush aside the wool that’s been pulled over his eyes so he can see the water and drink.

Republicans love to hate, in fact, for Valentine’s Day today, the GOP website will send a dozen hateful pejoratives in a gift box to that special Muslim or gay person on your enemies list.

Corporations may have designed this mousetrap of buying cheap products bringing down wages but as long as consumers keep going for the cheese the corporations set out, they will continue to be the victim of this trap.

I moved to Salt Lake City, UT for a job.  I was divorced with two young girls.  The job was great and within a year I was able to buy a twin home for the girls and me.  We were excited!  Only after we moved in did I learn that [...]

Single payer seems dead legislatively in California, not just as a bill but as an issue. It died not due to insurance industry opposition but due to the outrageous bullying tactics of its supporters. Nice job, BullyProgs.

“I’m pretty sure that I said, “Love thy neighbor as thyself”, not “Love only those with a median household income range between $35,000 and $75,000″.

The Emperor With No Clothes looks to be buying himself another transparent suit today. Mitt Romney is expected to win the Florida GOP Primary tonight but we will be live blogging throughout the day so please feel free to join us!

All the Talk of a Brokered Convention­….just talk, talk, talk…. The reality. There are no such things as real political “brokers” embedded in the parties any more…..t­herefore no brokered convention­. Pre-1976, when the primary/ca­ucus pattern now in place became the dominant one, powerful local officials—­­mostly governors, mayors, key figures in [...]

The Dickensian disdain for the poor resonates with some people today.

Just in time for the 2012 election PlanetPOV presents the new Periodic Table of Dangerous Elements. There are plenty of new infamous characters added but there are still some golden oldies on the table.  Some more notorious international figures were added as well but really you could make a whole [...]

For Mitt Romney whose “principles” are interchangeable Lego blocks, his response to the GOP base that wants him to say things that would be lies is, “No problem, I can do that!”

What would happen if I listen, really listen to the news 24 hours a day? What would I hear from the different channels? Would it make me angry, happy, sad, disgusted? I asked myself those questions and decided, what the hell, I m going to find out.

There were so many worthy nominees deserving this PlanetPOV award for The Biggest Political F#%! Up of 2011, let’s just say that there are no winners, only losers and bigger losers.

If the Dominionists succeed, most mainstream Christians, atheists, agnostics, some Catholics, Muslims, LGBT and many others in our society and the world will be affected by their policies.

Wonder what many of the political figures out there have on their wish list for Santa? Wonder no more!

  First off, I apologize to Kalima, Bito, KQ or Adlib for not asking permission to write this post but I thought I would do so prior to getting too busy, mea culpa in advance.  Yesterday I posted a recipe for a favorite cookie recipe that I relate to Christmas [...]

2011 has been a roller-coaster year from start to finish.Hop aboard for a ride back through some of the year’s top stories.

The fraud of the Norquist no-taxes pledge has been publicly exploded now and as long as Dems don’t overlook this opportunity, the entire raison d’etre for the Republican Party will be invalidated in the minds of most Americans.

Hello, planeteers! Although I haven’t posted here in a while due to an overflow of work, I’ve been lurking from time to time and am glad to see that the quality of commentary here has not declined in the slightest. Keep up the good work! In my travels through the [...]

Some say corporations are people. What if political parties were people? Could the GOP be clinically diagnosed as a sociopath?

Fewer and fewer of the folks who contributed to the success of our economy actually benefited from that success. Those at the very top grew wealthier from their incomes and their investments — wealthier than ever before. But everybody else struggled with costs that were growing and paychecks that weren’t — and too many families found themselves racking up more and more debt just to keep up.

The diversion of billions of taxpayer money from secular social services to sectarian religious outfits was probably the most under reported story of the Bush administration. Bush’s faith based initiative became a spoils system for evangelicals.