The Republican Party finally accomplished something! Sure, it may not have been the passing of a new jobs bill or funding for our nation’s crumbling infrastructure, but not every Republican-controlled House can say they shut down the government!
On August 21st, Syrian President Bashar Hafez al-Assad’s regime allegedly launched a chemical weapon attack in the suburbs of Damascus, resulting in the deaths of nearly 1,500 civilians according to U.S. Intelligence.
In the aftermath of the horrific shooting death of 22 year-old Christopher Lane, Fox News has seized the tragedy as a counter point to the mainstream media’s allegedly racially biased coverage of the Trayvon Martin case. However, their argument is missing one crucial thing… common fucking sense.
Pop quiz, hotshot! What’s more damaging but just as ineffective as voting to repeal Obamacare 40 times?
While media outlets were competing as to whom could publish the wittiest version of “Weiner must pull out,” Mother Nature brought the citizens of Earth their tab. The bill comes to $60 trillion.
“Halleljuah!” Is how conservative commentator Ann Coulter responded to the news of the verdict in the George Zimmerman trial this weekend. Unlike Coulter, I can’t find the news of a man who killed an unarmed teenager being allowed back on the streets as an excuse to stop by Party City and pick up a piñata.
Wednesday presented great cause to celebrate as the Supreme Court struck down DOMA and rejected California’s anti-gay marriage legislation, Proposition 8. However, just the day prior, the same Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act.
The nearly fifty-year old Act was originally passed to protect the voting rights of minorities. It took just two hours before the first state took advantage of its absence.
In the 2012 election, President Obama won the female vote by 11 points over his GOP challenger, Mitt Romney. That is a major deal, especially when you consider women comprised 53% of the voting population.
How does the Republican Party plan to gain those votes back? Legislation against the female body, of course!
Christmas came early this year for Alex Jones, Rush Limbaugh and Michele Bachmann when it was announced that the IRS had applied extra scrutiny on Tea Party and conservative organizations that requested non-profit status.
Earlier this month the NRA held their annual conference. With the defeat of new background check legislation in the rearview mirror, what new solutions did the NRA offer to the American people?
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