With the Senate passing the HCR bill, the next step is to bat down the lies that the GOP continues to throw at liberals.

Lieberman’s lack of ethics is catching up to him… and John Stewart IS noticing!

What does a mid-midterm election mean for 2010 and 2012?

“You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. So it’s not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.” – Barack Obama

This Sunday morning (Aug.30, 2009), many of the political pundit shows discussed the loss of Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy.  One show, “This Week w/ George Stephanopolis”, discussed not on the the former Senators life, but also a recently released report by Attorney General Eric Holder.  The report can best be summed up by a New York Times overview of the CIA:
On Aug. 24, it was revealed that the Justice Department’s ethics office, the Office of Personal Responsibility, had  recommended reversing the Bush administration and reopening nearly a dozen prisoner-abuse cases, …

In the last few weeks, health care has become a HUGE hot-button issue.  The absolute and outright lies coming from demonstrators have grown immensely in numbers.
This has been followed up by violence and death threats to liberal politicians.  I spoke to a friend about a month ago about the protests when they started and I predicted the violence would follow.  Health care is shaping up to be a something that the Right is willing to become violent over.  The lack of education on the current health care situation and the …

The intent of TUP is to take a look at the national state of our nation.  The lack of systematic transparency in politics is a focal point of our mission and we earnestly look for and celebrate those who follow the same path as ours.
Keeping that in mind, we proudly congratulate our new friends at Transparent CCU.
Transparent CCU is a site with the intention of keeping a critical and theological eye on my alma mater, Colorado Christian University.  Like myself, the administrators of Transparent CCU are alumni and have taken …

For my first “article” I would like to write a bit about the unfortunate effects of meat consumption. It’s definitely not a new topic and one that has been discussed and written about rigorously, but I feel it’s a topic worth losing my Utopia Politico virginity to. While people generally know that there are some problems associated with eating meat there is a general lack of knowledge as to how large the problems truly are. Public health, world hunger, and climate change are all issues that could improve if humans …

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As the last few weeks have churned up new findings on water-boarding and its initiators, so very few have taken the time to actually analyze fallacies of it and the portrait it paints for the U.S. and the world.
On Friday, May 22, 2009, a conservative talk show host (self-proclaimed Libertarian) took the challenge and was water-boarded for 6 seconds.  Here’s the video:
The conclusion that Mr. Mancow comes to is one that the ENTIRE Republican party is/will be coming to:
“It is way worse than I thought it would be…I don’t want …