As our nation debates the arming of personnel in schools, an accident in Arkansas back in January has gone unreported and could drastically change the debate.
Since the horrific murder of Christopher Lane, the right wing media has tried to seize on the opportunity to portray the African American population of our country has criminal racists.
New revelations bring the same old questions with the Snowden files.
The Washington Post is out with a new article today on the NSA internet snooping: A classified NSA slide obtained by The Washington Post and published here for the first time lists “Two Types of Collection.” One is PRISM, the NSA program that collects information from technology companies, which was first revealed in reports by […]
Why pay people for the work they do? Over a year after she dropped out, Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann has refused to pay five staffers from her failed presidential bid, according to a former top campaign official. Peter Waldron, her controversial former national field coordinator, told Salon the dispute started when former Iowa straw poll […]
PPP is out with a new poll that is very interesting: 49% of GOP voters nationally say they think that ACORN stole the election for President Obama. We found that 52% of Republicans thought that ACORN stole the 2008 election for Obama, so this is a modest decline, but perhaps smaller than might have been […]
Besides President Obama and the democrats, there was another big winner in this year’s election – democracy. Despite all the big money that went into the right to try and buy this election, democracy did prevail. And who was the big loser? In a case of absolute irony, it so happens the biggest loser was […]
Countless times I have stated that Mitt Romney wasn’t about country or party. Instead, Mitt Romney was only about…well…. Mitt Romney! Now it appears the Republicans are seeing the same thing: The Republican critics of Mitt Romney have had enough of their party’s failed presidential nominee. After Romney told donors his loss last week was […]
It’s one thing to be upset over Obama winning last week and immediately go into the “this country sucks” mode, but this lady took the whole thing to a new level: Upset over the result of last week’s presidential election, an Arizona woman ran over her husband with her car, believing him to be directly […]
Even though the Republicans held on to the House this week, it doesn’t appear that it is the will of the voters: While not all ballots have been counted, Democrats hold an edge over Republicans in overall votes. According to ThinkProgress, 53,952,240 votes were cast for Democratic candidates, while Republican candidates received 53,402,643. However, thanks […]