Political and social theorists are circling the wagons to say who is responsible for the bombing in Boston. We should care more about who motivated it. Fix the motivation and stop the problem. Who or what motivates and encourages an extremist to perform acts of terror...

Washington made great strides late in the week by deciding not to filibuster the (poor excuse of a) gun safety bill. On a 68 to 31 vote, the Senate managed to allow debate… We live in an odd and sad country when simply allowing debate...

Now that the incredibly weak “gun bill” has gotten out of committee (but likely won’t go any further than that this round), we’re pretty certain that there will be further runs on guns at the local gun shops of America. I won’t even get into...

If curiosity killed the cat, fear and paranoia kills the crazed, ideological gun lover… and those around him. I’ve been talking with a lot of people about crowd psychology in relation to the NRA and extreme right-wing, anti-government rhetoric lately. What strikes me is a...

So the anointed supreme leader of North Korea has authorized nuclear attacks against the United States… all normal when you live inside a bubble. North Korea… Republicanland… it’s basically the same: The longer you spend inside a bubble, the more you turn into a yapping...

Convinced the U.S. government is out to get them, the extreme right-wing culture in America has more in common with the average North Korean than they do the average American. They share the same sense of self-glory intertwined with imminent doom – but in Republicanland America...

“Some families pass on the tradition of treasure hunting. Some families pass down idealistic libertarianism. Found at the end of the path, though, they both stand – looking down – at a dead end where X marks the spot of their wasted effort.” When a...

The Republican Party has a tendency to throw its heroes under the bus (often without realizing it). It’s like the satirical tribe in a far off land who always throws its gods into the raging volcano. Theirs is the bus of lost hope. A volcano of  dreamed goals motivated...

Here we go again… To my esteemed political colleague somewhere in Georgia who took the time to sit and search on Google, “Democrats will ruin America” I highly recommend that you stop listening exclusively to Rush Limbaugh and Fox News. This is important: right-wing media hosts aways...

… believe it or not, that’s what we’re talking about when it comes to personhood laws like North Dakota and a smattering of other republican lead states: an embryo has the same human rights as a human being. Extreme republicans in North Dakota want to put a full...

Zombies do like their brains. So, too, will the political scientists and strategists of the next generation of national campaigns (because let’s face it, zombies are expensive and not many local campaigns can afford to hire them – the dental coverage alone is cost prohibitive)....

We were going to let Sarah Palin’s speech at CPAC 2013 slide by without much attention, but her performance was too… too… to not get at least a wee bit of attention from BlareShare. First, Sarah Palin’s CPAC speech was quite entertaining, and almost made...

When a threshold is crossed it cannot be uncrossed. When we have a life experience it cannot be unexerienced. We can’t unhappen 9/11. We can’t erase WWII from our cultures, and we can’t stop the world from offering us a progressive series of more tomorrows....

The honorable Senator from the great state of his father’s shadow has used this phrase before (his recent Senate filibuster, we think), but when it’s followed by the laughter of college-aged conservatives who have Ayn Rand covers on their three-ring binders at the 2013 CPAC...

We already know that factions within various Christian institutions, including the Catholic Church, have called the Paul Ryan budget immoral – but now we have something new to shed some enlightened light on the current policy and “moral” positions taken by the Republican Party of...

There’s a lot of interesting attempts at passing laws coupled with revealing formulations (literally) surrounding what is a very significant problem in the United States: we’re fat. America is a fat, lard-ass country. NYC mayor, Michael Bloomberg’s sugary drink ban (nanny state or not, you gotta...

The distinguished man from Wisconsin is stuck on a bad political gig as if he’s the opening act for a Vanilla Ice / Los Del Rios tour. Scratch that. Paul Ryan is on the side stage with his band called The Budget… yeah lets go with that...

The language gives away the attitude. “Ten thousand bucks” the search came from within one of the states still covered by Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. To whomever went to Google and typed the search phrase, “If democrats win house in 2024 it will...

“Republicans are chasing their own imagination. We think that in our dreams we create new and undiscovered worlds… but in truth it’s just an overlapping reality of things we’ve already experienced. Old experiences rehashed and mishmashed. That’s the operating method of republican policymaking and the...

WYNU5AVVJD5Z :: There are countless ways to mock the manner in which republicans in Congress have suddenly seemed to perk up at the chance to break bread with Obama. They appear giddy (in as much is possible for them to be so) that “Finally!” Finally, they...