As all of you, I too have been in total shock over what happened in Newtown, Connecticut yesterday. Hearing the horror of 26 people, including 20 children ages 5-10 being gunned down in cold blood is sickening. It makes it hard to be “proud” of our nation, especially considering how much this has happened. I […]
Remember during the last Presidential Election, when Barack Obama said that people in the small towns of Pennsylvania “cling to their guns”. You should. It has been making a comeback lately. Well now it looks like the President was correct and the effects are sad: Police say a costumed 9-year-old girl was accidentally shot outside […]
This Fall, the Supreme Court will be taking up a case that can really affect all of us. The case will determine if you actually have the right to sell a used product that was made or contains parts from overseas: At issue in Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons is the first-sale doctrine in […]
These guys really get around: Lindsay Lohan told police she was assaulted in her Manhattan hotel room early Sunday morning by a man she met at a night club, police sources said. According to law enforcement officials, Lohan told police she got into an argument with a 25-year-old man she brought to her room after […]
In a week where al Qaeda has been back on the tip of everyone’s tongue, comes news of bomb threats shutting down the University of Texas: The University of Texas has evacuated all campus building after receiving phoned-in threat that multiple bombs had been placed on campus. Officials say no bombs have been found. An […]
Here’s a person that Mitt Romney could get behind: The world’s most wealthy woman is warning that firms are in danger of having to abandon iron-ore mining in Australia if wages are not cut, pointing out that African miners are “willing to work for less than $2 per day.” In a video recently posted on […]
Hurricane Isaac is set to hit the Gulf late tonight, early Wednesday morning. With that we have the GOP at a category five stage of hot air, trying to blame President Obama for everything. First off we have the Republican leader and king of all conspiracy theories, Rush Limbaugh, suggesting that Obama had the Weather […]
Hurricane Isaac is on target to Florida starting tomorrow night. Currently the storm is off the coast of Cuba, but being over open, warm water means that Isaac has the fuel it needs to gain strength. As we know the Republican convention starts in Tampa this week. There has already been talk in the media […]
A lot of attention has been given to Floyd Corkins, a LGBT activist accused of shooing a security guard at the Family Research Council. The right is using this as a reason to paint the entire LGBT community as violent and possibly domestic terrorists. Fine, I’ll bite. If the actions of this one man means […]
Jason Alexander, or George Costanza to the Seinfeld fans out there, took to Twitter this weekend to urge action in the wake of the Batman killing spree in a Colorado theater: I’d like to preface this long tweet by saying that my passion comes from my deepest sympathy and shared sorrow with yesterday’s victims and […]