America is shocked and grieving after the horrors in Boston. But for some, the reaction is far more personal: Oh, yeah, some people got killed and I feel bad BUT DON’T YOU TAKE MY GUNS!
Over a year after his death, Trayvon Martin’s murder still has the ability to bring out the worst in people.
On Sunday, Marco Rubio outlined an audacious plan to exploit undocumented immigrants, keep them from ever becoming citizens and appeased his racist base, all in one masterful performance.
The RNC put up a brave front as it tried to break ties with the extremists of the religious right…and then it voted unanimously to continue with the open bigotry that is slowly killing it. Buncha pansies.
Without their hatred of homosexuals to thrive on, these con artists might have to actually start preaching Jesus’ message of love and understanding. Pure anathema to a social conservative!
What kind of idiot celebrates the worst human rights abuses in our history and then claims to ‘love’ America?
Rand Paul had a plan: Go to a black university and dazzle them with his intelligence and solid grasp of African American history! Then he started to talk…
In a blow to the NRA’s ambition to arm everyone in America, a deal has emerged from the historic gridlock in Congress to expand background checks to gun shows and online sales.
Just when I think faceless financial institutions can’t get any more callous, cruel or inhumane, they remind me that it’s impossible to overestimate their pathological disregard of human beings.
Was she good for the UK? Thatcher played essentially the same role as Reagan did in America with her focus on socially corrosive wedge issues and celebration of corporate greed.
How did we come to a point where anyone can even think that depriving children of food is a moral thing to do?
Regulating corporations that can destroy the lives of millions is ‘tyranny’ but regulating the private sex life of two consenting adults is ‘freedom?’
Tennessee Republicans try to use taxpayer money to teach religion in school. Turns out they got more than they bargained for.
Government funded technology used by a government agency to keep corporations from breaking government enforced laws against cheating/poisoning/deceiving the public? It’s a free market libertarians worst nightmare!
Take any conservative position on a social or economic issue and boil away all the rhetoric and what you are left with is ‘I got mine, screw you.’
The King of New York wants you to stop whining about his police state and just ‘get used to it.’
After retaking the New Hampshire State House, the Democratic Party is fighting back against Republican corruption.
How do you use the notoriety of the nastiest anti-gay people in America to advance your pro-gay message? Buy the house across the street and paint it the gay pride colors.
The GOP is going to try (and fail) to do the impossible: polish a turd and convince women, minorities and college age voters to swallow it.
While the judge left open the possibility for the two to remain in custody until they are 21, the fact that at least one of them could go free in time to attend his senior prom is deeply disturbing.
