Now there are reports of shots being fired at the Murfreesboro Islamic Center in Tennessee (via The Political Carnival): Rutherford County Sheriff’s deputies are investigating a complaint about shots being fired this afternoon near the construction site of the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro on Veals Road off Bradyville Pike. The report came just hours after […]
Statistics like this in the richest nation on the planet are totally unacceptable: The number of Americans that have trouble putting food on the table shot up last year in an unprecedented spike to a record 17 million households, the government reported on Monday. The Department of Agriculture report, which has been released annually since […]
I have been bringing up the deafening silence on the campaign trail about the increased gun violence in our country. Obama addressed the problem this weekend by showing how close to home it hit for him: At a town hall last night, Obama revealed that one of his top volunteers in Iowa was gunned down […]
I just submitted the following to be asked at tomorrow night’s Democratic debate: We have an epidemic of school shootings plaguing our nation. Nine years ago, the Columbine shooting was all this nation could talk about. Now school shootings seem to have become such a common place that they are just a blurb on the […]