July 26, 2012
VIDEO: Record heat? Derecho storms? “Welcome to the Rest of Our Lives”
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July 25, 2012
Lawrence O’Donnell: “Congressional Democrats are going to need courage” to go #OffTheCliff
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July 25, 2012
NASA: Unprecedented Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Melt
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July 24, 2012
Pennsylvania voter ID defendants admit they have no evidence of voter fraud
At the same time that the Department of Justice is investigating Pennsylvania’s voter ID law, defendants of the law are publicly saying they have no evidence of in-person voter fraud. They admit they have no reports of fraud and no proof that a voter ID would make fraud less likely to occur (if attempted).
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July 23, 2012
Mike Huckabee announces ‘Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day’ on August 1, 2012
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July 23, 2012
Philly Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey: “There needs to be reasonable gun control”
On “This Week”, Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey told George Stephanopoulos, “I have an issue with people being able to buy ammunition and weapons on the Internet…I don’t know why people need to have assault weapons…There needs to be reasonable gun control put in place. And we talk about this constantly, and absolutely nothing happens, because many of our legislators, unfortunately, at the federal level, lack the courage to do anything.”
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July 23, 2012
A conservative mom explains how she lost her “fear of Universal Health Care”
A conservative mother moves to Canada and discovers universal health care isn’t so evil after all.
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July 23, 2012
Bill Kristol says people don’t have “a right to semi-automatic, quasi-machine guns”
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July 22, 2012
Mitt Romney Tax Return Scrutiny Calls Attention To Progressive Taxation
It’s quite possible the real reason Mitt Romney does not want to release more years of tax returns is that he knows it will only serve to put a sharper focus on progressive taxation in the United States. In fact he and his wife Ann have all but said that. They haven’t spelled out the specifics but they have said they won’t release more returns because it will result in more criticism.
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July 21, 2012
Movie theater shooting: Why can’t we have tougher gun control laws?
No matter what the National Rifle Association (NRA) and it’s supporters say, it is not off limits to talk about tougher gun control laws. It’s not disrespectful to the victims to have an adult conversation about restricting the sales of assault weapons and extended clips, things that are not needed to protect yourself or your family.
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