The White House Has A New Twitter Avatar — Equality
I woke up this morning to my daughter calling me to tell me that the Supreme Court of the United States chose equality and stuck down bans on same-sex marriage in all 50 states. Such good news! To...
View ArticleHurricanes And Holy War: A Recap Of What The Right Wing Predicted Would...
Now that marriage equality is the law of the land, it seems an opportune time to take a look at some of the predictions that have been issued by the gloom and doom crowd in the past few months....
View ArticlePresident Obama Declares “Victory For All Americans” After SCOTUS Marriage...
President Barack Obama reminded us today of the promise he made regarding same-sex marriage law in 2012: “Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else...
View ArticleTexas AG Says ‘It’s Wrong To Subject People Of Faith To Abuse From Same-Sex...
No sooner had the Supreme Court’s ruling on same-sex marriage been handed down yesterday than Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton began looking for a camera and microphone so he could blather on about...
View ArticleWhy Is Same Sex Marriage Legal? A Catholic Responds
I am a practicing Catholic. Same sex marriage will never be exactly welcomed by the Catholic Church. Can a Catholic hold the religious view that the Sacrament of marriage is what the Church says it is...
View ArticleDiner In Philadelphia Offers ‘Scalia Is A Douche’ Special–Sells Out In Record...
Sam’s Morning Glory Diner in Philadelphia has a routine for Fridays: That’s the day they come up with the name for the breakfast specials they’ll be offering during the coming week. This past Friday,...
View ArticleIndiana Woman Interrupts Housework To Post Religious Rant On Facebook...
A woman in Indiana stopped what she was doing around the house, fired up her video camera, and filmed an extended rant which she posted to her Facebook page. The video has quickly gone viral. Becky...
View ArticleFormer Congressman Tom DeLay: Secret DOJ Memo Would Legalize ’12 New...
You remember Tom DeLay, don’t you? Sure you do. He’s the enormous POS who was once a GOP Congressman from the state of Texas and also served as House Majority Leader before he was convicted of money...
View ArticleConservatives Call George Takei Worse Than The KKK For His Criticism Of...
Here’s something I’ve noticed a lot of here lately: When those on the right say something outrageous and progressives call them on it, conservatives complain that the left is engaging in “political...
View ArticleAlabama Chief Justice Claims Satan Made Supreme Court ‘Destroy The...
You might think the Chief Justice of a state Supreme Court would have enough decorum and good taste to keep his comments in check. But if you know anything at all about Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore,...
View ArticleReligious Right, GOP Guilty Of Murder If SCOTUS Restricts Abortion
More women die from childbirth than they do from having an abortion every single year. That’s a fact. Abortion is the single safest surgical procedure a woman can have. That is also a fact. Abortion...
View ArticleSCOTUS Rejects Anti-Abortion Group’s Case Against Planned Parenthood
The United States Supreme Court on Monday rejected an anti-choice group’s lawsuit which sought to force the federal government to reveal more information about a $1 million grant it made in 2011 to...
View ArticleBizarre Loophole Will Criminalize Abortions, IVF, And…
Rabidly right-wing presidential hopeful, Senator Raphael “Ted” Cruz (R-Texas), proved again that he doesn’t care about women, the Constitution, the U.S. Supreme Court, or their rulings. Sen. Cruz...
View ArticleCalifornia to SCOTUS: Immigrants Are Integral To Us
On Tuesday, March 8, California business, civic, educational, and religious leaders submitted an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) in the controversial case, United States v. Texas. In...
View ArticleOne Of These Three Men May Be Obama’s Selection As Supreme Court Justice
President Barack Obama may announce his selection for the vacant seat on the U.S. Supreme Court as early as this week. Since the death of Justice Antonin Scalia on February 13, there has been rampant...
View ArticleUpcoming SCOTUS Decisions Could Prove Disastrous Without Ninth Justice
The death of Justice Antonin Scalia has left a vacant seat on the Supreme Court, and for the GOP the timing could not be worse. It is the President’s Constitutional duty to appoint Supreme Court...
View ArticlePapa Cruz: One More Liberal SCOTUS Justice Would Allow Government To Turn...
Ted Cruz is, without question, a conservative extremist, but he comes by his extremism honestly, via his father, Rafael Cruz, who is just to the right of Atilla the Hun. And Papa Cruz is back in the...
View ArticleHow Senate Democrats Could Force A Vote On SCOTUS Nomination
The Senate Majority Leader, Republican Mitch McConnell, has said that Republican senators will not give hearings for, or vote on, President Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland for the Supreme Court....
View ArticleDeadlocked SCOTUS Tries A Compromise In Birth Control Case
In one of the more bizarre occurrences during an already unusual Supreme Court term, the justices have requested that both sides in the well-publicized birth control case Zubik v. Burwell file...
View Article#TrumpFails: Five Of The Donald’s Dumbest Blunders
Republican front runner Donald J. Trump has many shortcomings as a man and a candidate, but trying to choose among them is like selecting a favorite strain of herpes. It’s mostly subjective. Sometimes,...
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