One thing Scott Walker doesn’t have to worry about: He will never be called the Education Governor. Walker’s latest budget proposal would slash $300 million over the next two years from the University of Wisconsin system of higher education, which has long been considered one of the crown jewels of the Badger State. That is […]
If we needed another reason to prove why South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham will never be President–or even respected–he provided us with one yesterday during the confirmation hearings for Attorney General nominee Loretta Lynch. Graham, using the keen intellect which no doubt has served him well for years, asked Lynch: “Same-sex marriage. This may go […]
Just after 7:30p.m. last night, the state of Georgia executed Warren Lee Hill, 54, by lethal injection. If that’s all there was to the story, it would probably be easy to overlook. But Warren Hill was declared “intellectually disabled” by every doctor who examined him, including by three expert witnesses who testified for the state […]
At a press conference in Salt Lake City earlier this morning, Mormon leaders announced, in a surprising reversal of church policy, that they will now support anti-discrimination laws which protect the LGBT community they have long fought in court and from their pulpits. Elder Dallin Oaks, speaking for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day […]
No doubt the propagandists at Fox News will be shaking in their boots when they read this: the State of Indiana, under the watchful eye of Governor Mike Pence, has announced that it will start a government-run news agency using taxpayer money. The website, which will be launched in February, will be called “Just IN” […]
Former Texas Governor and probable 2016 GOP Presidential candidate Rick Perry is peddling conspiracy theories again. His latest involves the unemployment rate, which currently stands at a nine-year low of 5.6 percent according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Speaking to the Republican Jewish Coalition in Iowa, Perry let loose with this line regarding the […]
Speaking at the Iowa Freedom Summit in Des Moines over the weekend, Dr. Ben Carson, a contender for the 2016 Republican nomination for President, said he vehemently opposes the Affordable Care Act–also known as Obamacare–telling a raucous crowd of Republicans who at times rose to their feet during his speech: “Even if it worked, I […]
Having just taken control of the Senate Intelligence Committee, the GOP is now seeking to reclassify the CIA report detailing the agencies’ torture of detainees in the War on Terror. The Republicans, led by committee chair Richard Burton, also want to “claw back” all copies of the report currently in circulation. Such a move would […]
You remember Jim Bakker, don’t you? Sure you do. He’s the faux Christian who started the PTL (Praise the Lord) club and TV show in the 1980s. Or perhaps you remember his late first wife, Tammy Faye Bakker, who looked as if she had applied her makeup with a trowel. Maybe you thought Jim Bakker […]
As you sit in your home right now and read this article, keep in mind that you could be under a type of surveillance you might have thought was only possible in science fiction. But the truth is all too real, and all too invasive. Some 50 law enforcement agencies across the United States, along […]