Republicans
Loyalists Spent Friday Night Fighting Police in Belfast
Northern Ireland's loyalists are pissed off. On Friday night they injured more than 50 cops, who—after adopting slightly softer tactics earlier this year when policing the flag protests and the Belfast Twelfth—were out in force to monitor a republican...
Another Year of Booze and Bruises at the Belfast Twelfth
July 12 is probably the biggest date in Northern Ireland’s political calendar. Each year, hundreds of Orangemen and loyalist marching bands descend upon Belfast to parade around the city in commemoration of a Dutch Protestant defeating an English...
If Republicans Want Young Voters, Maybe They Should Just Stop Being Bigots
The difficulty the Republicans have, see, in attracting young people is that the GOP tends to hate gays and young people see that for the vile bigotry it is. It's not the GOP's phrasing, it's what it's saying that makes young voters so turned off.
Let's Just Allow the Tea Party to Take Over America
Nothing has worked so far to rid our country of this debilitating governmental virus. All attempts to work with them have failed, and bull-rushing them out of the way has proved futile as well. This has lead me to one last ditch effort. Let them have...
I Guess We Need to Say It Again: George W. Bush Was the Worst
The important things he did and didn’t do when he was the most powerful elected official in the world were all pretty much uniformly awful. He had a chance to change the world in a real way and he made in demonstrably worse. Fuck him and his library.
Republicans Don't Have a Ton of Empathy for Strangers
Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) changed his mind about gay marriage when he found out his son is gay. James Brady only came to support gun control after being shot. Are Republicans really incapable of caring about any issue without being directly affected?
Jewish Republicans Actually Exist in California
The California Jewish Republican, like a hairless cat, is a bizarre, but fascinating aberration. I decided to sit down with two staunchly conservative Jews (my parents) to figure out how the hell this could have happened in the most liberal state in...
What the Sequester Really Means: The Poor Will Suffer More
The sequester is a set of automatic budget cuts that reduces funding for all discretionary programs at an equal rate. The cuts aren’t meant to eliminate any programs but simply reduce funding across the board. Get ready for some potentially disastrous...
Rand Paul Is Wooing Conservatives on Immigration Reform
The Republican Party have reached a tipping point and appear to have started tepidly embracing immigration reform. The man who has played a big role in tipping the scale is Senator Rand Paul, the libertarian golden boy.
All Politicians Should Talk as Much as Rand Paul Just Did
Yesterday was one of those rare days when you could feel good about something that happened in Congress: Rand Paul stood up just before noon, started talking about drones, and didn’t stop for 13 hours. He spoke at length about something he cares about...
How Fronting a Band Made Me a Better Political Pundit
Did I start a band to escape the pain of being a Republican who defends his views regularly on the internet and TV? Maybe. But I learned that being in a band made me a better pundit, and not just because putting on eyeliner and a black-sequin jacket...
What Are Republicans For?
A right-wing pundit who nearly became "the bro version of Ann Coulter" before stopping himself has some advice for Republicans: Stop looking for your party's soul because it isn't there.