In what can only be described as one of the most egregious violations of the First Amendment, a high school senior in Kansas was disciplined for making a disparaging tweet about former Senator and now Governor, Sam Brownback: Emma Sullivan, a senior at Shawnee Mission East High School in Prairie Village, was in Topeka on […]

Penn State University’s Jerry Sandusky seemed to find a really appropriate attorney to represent him on his charges of sexual abuse of numerous children: The lawyer for accused child molester Jerry Sandusky apparently likes his women young. Defense attorney Joe Amendola, 63, representing Sandusky in the sexual molestation case roiling Penn State and Joe Paterno’s […]

My last post really got me thinking. The right constantly invokes “state sovereignty” when complaining about the “over-reach” of the federal government, yet their own actions prove that the right actually cares nothing about this issue. Let’s look at some of the recent issues in the news. My previous post was about the GOP telling […]

After a day of giving thanks, today should become a day for Americans to hold their heads in shame for what our country has become. Here’s some of the headlines coming out today about black Friday shopping: Woman pepper sprays other Black Friday shoppers Customers rampage over a $2 waffle maker (video) Two women injured, […]

Remember back in 2010 when Republicans won tons of races across the country and retook the House? They said up and down it was a sign that people wanted new direction on the economy and they were right in that. But since then we have seen all these Republican victories result in very little direction […]

Think Progress has released this video of Mitt Romney in his own words. This is in response to Romney releasing his first ad yesterday, which can be seen here. In the ad Romney sunk to new lows when it comes to deceit: Then, the Romney ad clips a section from the same Obama speech, in […]

Jennifer Fox, 19, was in attendance last week at an occupy rally in Seattle decided to respond very harshly. Fox was three months pregnant at the time. Here is her account of what happened: “I was standing in the middle of the crowd when the police started moving in,” she says. “I was screaming, ‘I […]

David Frum has a very lengthy piece in the New York Magazine in which he asks “When Did the GOP Lose Touch With Reality?”. One part that really stuck out at me was this: It was not so long ago that Texas governor Bush denounced attempts to cut the earned-income tax credit as “balancing the […]

Help cause the economy to collapse and then you think you are entitled to a bunch more money from the U.S. taxpayer: A company run by former American International Group Inc Chief Executive Maurice “Hank” Greenberg sued the U.S. government for $25 billion, calling the 2008 federal takeover of the insurer unconstitutional. The lawsuit marks […]

There’s an emerging new message coming from the GOP and that message is that the United States should give up and just become China. This is coming from the field of Republican Presidential contenders. Michele Bachmann seems to have started this, when she proclaimed our country should be more like China on social-economical issues. Now […]