Sticks and rulers confiscated from protesters at the Texas Capitol yesterday during the #MarchForOurLives. They were considered "weapons." Concealed carry of handguns was allowed. pic.twitter.com/m8bFL65oxv — Susan Schorn (@SusanSchorn) March 25, 2018
United and Delta cut ties with the NRA. …in abandoning the NRA, the airlines followed car rental giants Avis, Hertz and Enterprise, the Best Western hotel chain, the global insurance company MetLife, and more than a dozen other corporations that have severed affiliations with the gun group in the last two days. 15 brands have …
58% of Republicans think colleges and universities “have a negative effect on the country.” 57% of Republicans think home schooling is either excellent or good for kids. What kind of future does America have when more than half the members of one of its major political parties doesn’t believe in education for its children?
Texas’s politicians are all trying to prep for a gig in the Freedom Caucus in the US House. How else can this be explained? Texas adoption agencies could ban Jews, gays, Muslims This is not a joke. Parents seeking to adopt children in Texas could soon be rejected by state-funded or private agencies with religious …
It’d be a shame if anything happened to it. What am I talking about? Well, the House Republicans put a nasty little twist into the Rules package they enacted the other day. They revived an 1876 rule which allows any member of Congress to slash the pay of an individual federal worker all the way …
At an alt-right conference in Washington, D.C., Donald Trump’s victory was met with cheers and Nazi salutes. Source: ‘Hail Trump!’: Video of White Nationalists Cheering the President-Elect Listen to this three-minute clip. It’s got language you’d swear was spoken at a Nuremberg rally in 1935.
I assume you’ve all heard the short speech Brandon Dixon and the cast of Hamilton made to VP-elect Pence last night in New York. I also assume you’ve heard that President-elect Trump was not pleased with such effrontery. The Theater must always be a safe and special place.The cast of Hamilton was very rude last …
This man would lose his job if his church had any moral courage. Inciting his audience to attack other human beings, although he denies it, is criminal. “I’m not calling people to arms. And I’m not telling people they should go do this … What I’m saying is that if the government followed the laws …
Once again Republicans show their true colors, this time in Alabama. They decided to tinker with the eligibility rules for food stamps in their hellhole fine state. The legislation would cut eligibility for Temporary Aid for Needy Families (TANF) from five years to three. It would also require TANF recipients to sign a paper acknowledging …
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That’s becoming a meme in the right-wing media. I think this is the original op-ed suggesting that from the Washington Examiner: “Stand firm against Obama’s court packing, GOP” Nowhere in the column is it explained how adding a justice to bring the Court back up to its normal complement of nine means “packing.” Obama’s nomination …