Headline: Georgia Passes Sweeping Expansion of Gun Carry Laws Upshot (heh!): If you have a license to carry a weapon in Georgia, you can take that gun virtually anywhere. Churches, because the clergyman might suddenly espouse evolution as the true way of the world. Schools, because you never know when some mouthy teacher might tell …
There’s a scofflaw rancher out in Nevada who’s concluded that the Feds have no jurisdiction over land in the state of Nevada (apparently Mr. Bundy has never heard of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended the US – Mexican War and included the ceding of ownership of California and a large area comprising New …
“Of course, only a gun nut would celebrate school stabbings.” But gun nuts do. It’s Bizarro World in America, you know?
Someone has finally attempted to explain to us non-residents of the 48th state just how and why it has shifted so far to the right politically that it has nearly shot itself in the foot economically several times over the past few years. In a weird way, it was good intentions that did it, says …
The media, as usual, is letting itself be manipulated by the right wing. It is now halfway persuaded that birth control is equal to abortion. That’s a lie. Here’s Dr. Lin-Fan Wang, a family doctor in NYC. The news coverage of the birth control benefit has been riddled with inaccurate statements, in particular, the allegations …
Bill Kristol has a yen for more blood; Iraq’s butcher’s bill wasn’t big enough for him. Charlie Pierce has some choice words for the miserable so-and-so. You fought the battle of the Green Rooms and the think tanks while other people’s sons and daughters died for your fantasy of how the world would work if …
Wednesday the Kansas State House approved a bill which would protect businesses and state and local government employees from lawsuits if they cited religious freedom as a reason to deny services to gay and lesbian citizens. Today the President of the Kansas State Senate said it wouldn’t make it through her part of the legislature …
This time in Columbia, Maryland. When police officers arrived, they found three people dead inside a skate shop on the upper level of the two-story center, the Mall in Columbia. Two of the victims were a young man and woman who worked at the store. The body of another man, who is suspected of being …
It pains me to say it, but I have to give credit to the haters in the anti-choice movement. They finally figured out that this face is more likely to persuade those on the fence in the abortion debate than this one. The picture at the top is of Eleanor McCullen, whom you may have …
The miserable overpaid political “leaders” of this country have failed the people that employ them once again. This time they have concluded that 1.3 million of their fellow Americans are not deserving of any financial help in staying afloat while they look for work. Specifically, they refused to extend unemployment benefits to those people beyond …