My Tuesday column contains a big announcement: Step aside, Louie Gohmert and Michele Bachmann. I...
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Romney, Like Many Republicans, Trusted His Heart Over Reality
My Monday column begins like so: Satirizing and embodying the dominant attitude of both right-wing...
The Daily Banter Mail Bag Asks ‘Why?’
This week’s questions. Answers here. 1) Alright, the sequester is here. What now and is there...
Supreme Court Set to Resurrect Jim Crow
My Thursday column: In early March of 1857, the Roger B. Taney Supreme Court handed down its...
The Sequestration Fight Is Based on Lies and Stupidity
My Tuesday column: As a political writer, being pissed off about certain issues and policies is...
And the Oscar Goes to The Daily Banter Mail Bag
This week’s questions. Answers here. 1) If nobody likes the sequester why was it ever...
Republicans Are Dominating State Politics, Destroying Science
My Thursday column: Many of us are enjoying our post-election schadenfreude, observing as the...
Republicans Literally Fire Back at Powerful Missouri Gun Control Bill
My Wednesday column and another example of how all politics is state and local: You’ve...
I Evidently Have to Scream ‘Baby Killer!’ or I’m an Obamabot
My Monday column begins like so: The harshest critics of my column, “No, President Obama Is...
Wayne LaPierre Is a Paranoid Maniac. Like a Fox.
Excerpt from my Thursday column: I’m becoming increasingly convinced that when the NRA was...
Ted Nugent’s State of the Union
My Tuesday column begins like so: Every time we travel by airplane, we have to endure a humiliating...
No, Obama Is Not ‘Worse Than Bush’ on National Security
My Monday column: Just when I thought it was safe to carry on a conversation on the left about...
The Daily Banter Mail Bag Is Angry About Drones
This week’s questions. Answers here. 1) It feels like the momentum gun control advocates had...
There’s Evidently No Room for Nuance on Drones
My Thursday column: They say if you move far enough to the left, you end up on the right. As such...
It’s Time to End the War or Regulate the Drones
My Wednesday column should generate some discussion, as I attempt to add — gasp! —...
Congress Lacks the Balls to Pass an Assault Weapons Ban
My Tuesday column: With each new report of a brutal firearm attack, our minds can’t help but...
The Daily Banter Mail Bag Is Rooting For…
This week's Mail Bag questions from our delightful readers. Answers here. 1) With Sarah Palin now...
Tennessee Bill Would Force Schools to ‘Out’ Gay Teens
My Thursday column begins like so: One of the more successful things about Mitt Romney's doomed...
Here Comes the Skeet Shooting Truthers
My Wednesday column: Way back in mid-August of 2006, President Bush was dealing with two ground...
A Gun Won’t Make Your Penis Larger
My Tuesday column: There's a brief scene in Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket in which the new...