Last week, USA Today published an opinion editorial column attributed to Donald Trump titled "Democrats 'Medicare for All' plan will demolish promises to seniors."
Immediately, Washington Post fact-checkers got to work.
And what they found was nothing short of astounding.
It turns...
I'll admit that I'm a bit baffled by the ritualistic ceremony called "The Purity Ball." Why are young girls having a ritual to get their fathers involved with celebrating their virginity and proclaiming themselves her...
Several months ago, we re-branded LiberalAmerica.org to LiberalAmerica.life. We wanted to move away from inflammatory politics and more towards the liberal lifestyle and strong opinion pieces. The kind of pieces that Ted Millar writes now....
Do you have difficulty saying ?no?? Are you always trying to be nice to others at the expense of yourself?
Well, you're not alone. In the past, I was not good at saying ?no?, because I...
It’s hot.
Like, really hot.
Yes, it’s July, and you probably know at least one person who says something like, “Well, it’s July. What do you expect?”
It’s that kind of person who probably isn’t going to be reading this...
This article was first published at Patheos.
You are what you believe.
At the core of each of us is our belief system. It is around that belief system that a large part of our personal identity...
Out of the atrocities committed in Charleston, South Carolina this week has arisen a new dialogue about racism and the Confederate Battle Flag, which is often mislabeled as the Flag of the Confederated States of...
According to a recent article by Quiet Mike, "Republicans like to say they are all about responsibility." Then they turn around and support things like the SCOTUS decision in favor of Hobby Lobby, which takes personal responsibility away...
What if I were to tell you that the United States in 2016 is a dramatically different place than the United States in 1776? Well, yeah, you would probably say. Way to state the obvious,...
Kids living in poverty don't have a lot of money—or options. But poor kids are survivors, and the life lessons they learn are heartbreaking but often invaluable. To research for this article, I asked our...
There's just ONE little detail he got horribly wrong...
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla have donated Facebook shares valued at $992.2 million to the Silicon Valley Community Foundation in Mountain View, California. One of the groups supported by the...
“Arizona, Nevada, Tennessee, Montana, North Dakota, Missouri, Indiana, West Virginia and Florida. All of them too close to call and every one of them like a knife fight in an alley; I mean, just a...
Abortion is one of the single most divisive issues between friends and family members. Everyone has an opinion on it, and everyone thinks that their opinion is the right one. One of the unfortunate results of...
Many people abstain from voting in mid-term elections.
They see them as irrelevant.
Well, if you, or someone you know, is considering staying away from the polls until 2020, you might be interested in knowing that Monday,...
Controversial Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert raised eyebrows after posting a meme of a U.S. map that omitted two states and U.S. territories. "Sometimes a meme says it best," she wrote with the words in the...
Is the United States a Christian nation? Doesn't our money say "one nation under God" on it? The answer is complicated, but the short answer is that the United States was not founded on the...
For THE most entertaining stupid quotes of all time, there is NOTHING to beat stupid Republican quotes! Who would entertain us if we lost all of the GOP politicians? The things that so many of...
For years, the religious right has talked about building a "culture of life" in this country--one in which abortion is a thing of the past. We already know how far they're willing to go. By...
Jill Buckley once said this about Ann Richards, and I find that it is a very apt description.
"She's sort of the female good old boy."
From 1991 to 1995, Ann Richards was the Texas governor. She cut...
