Agreed. I've bitched about seeing right (or libertarian)-wing propaganda sites like mises.org here - same thing goes for motherjones - it's politics, and politics do not belong here.
It also has nothing to do with HN, as far as I can tell. And of course the "OMG, disaster could go on forever" is calculated to rile up their readers. I don't know, maybe I'm too skittish about off topic stuff, but I really like this site, and politics is an easy way to derail a community...