
Recent Gallup polls show 83-91% support for gun background checks. Yet, we somehow missed the boat on providing effective gun safety legislation once again.

Recent Gallup polls show 83-91% support for gun background checks. Yet, we somehow missed the boat on providing effective gun safety legislation once again.

This is a clear example of Republicans not caring what the majority of Americans – even the majority of Republicans – want.

Jon Stewart encapsulates the idiocy of the gun debate — not only as it applies to Americans but as it applies overseas — in just four minutes.

The main stream media couldn’t care less that the U.S. Senate unanimously rejected cuts to Social Security via the ‘chained CPI.’ But WE should care for the following five reasons …

Arkansas Republicans have pushed yet another anti-abortion bill through the state Senate.

A Republican lawmaker tried to amend the bill based on religious reasons, but Democrats were quick to reject that.

Republican attempts to nullify federal authority revive the issue of state’s rights, an issue that has been settled since the end of the Civil War.

In what would be an epic victory for women across the country, the House is preparing to bring the Senate version of the Violence Against Women Act to the floor for a full vote.

State Senators in Kentucky has passed a bill that they claim would nullify any future federal laws that ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.

In case you’ve ever wondered or suspected it, I can now confirm the truth – Senator John McCain (R-AZ) is an insensitive ass.

One has only to look at the havoc they’ve created in the House to know how bad it could be if it were boosted by another TP-er in the Senate. Yikes.

Fox News once again shows its hypocrisy in praising Senate Republicans for refusing to vote on Chuck Hagel’s confirmation.

Conservatives in North Dakota have successfully killed a bill that would have protected gays and lesbians from discrimination, LGBTQ Nation reports.

Why aren’t any bank CEOs in jail? Watch Elizabeth Warren rip into big banks and SEC non-regulators at her first Senate Banking Committee hearing! It’s better than reality TV!

Big Banking is preventing free market competition by surreptitiously acquiring government endorsement because of their size.

Maybe it was the tsunami effect of a dozen schools interrupted by mass murder in the past 15 years but the reaction was swift.

The GOP had no objections to John Kerry’s confirmation as Secretary of State, feeling smug that they could gain the seat he is vacating by running Scott Brown to replace him.

Senator Whitehouse realized that, although Ms. Trotter’s obviously a woman, she really doesn’t speak for women on the issue of gun control.