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While the establishment continues to presume Hillary Clinton will receive the 2016 democratic nomination, if not the presidency, more and more people are stepping up to support Bernie Sanders. The latest bombshell to voice feeling...
Now that winter is swinging into full effect, one Buffalo, N.Y., church is making sure everyone in its community is staying warm by converting an old school bus into a clothing pantry, offering hats, gloves,...
Joel Tooley with his wife (image courtesy Tooley's Facebook)
As a left-leaning evangelical Christian, one of the most disheartening anecdotes of the election was the discovery that a whopping 81 percent of white evangelicals voted for Donald Trump. To most of them, Trump's outrageous...
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Tea party conservatives love to "talk the talk", when it comes to following the teachings of Jesus Christ. They memorize chapters of bible verses, most of which they don't understand the context of. They sing,...
Rodney Frelinghuysen touring a Superfund site (image courtesy Frelinghuysen's congressional office, part of public domain)
One of the most, if not the most, outrageous moves by a politician not named Donald Trump in recent memory came to light earlier this week. Congressman Rodney Frelinghuysen, the chairman of the House Appropriations...
A Fountain Green, Utah family is trying to make the most out of what they presume will be their last Christmas with their 6-year-old daughter, Addie. The family is asking for the help of others....
Kurt Bardella with Joy-Ann Reid (image courtesy Bardella's Twitter)
It's not news that Donald Trump has forced a number of sane Republicans out of the GOP--and in some cases, pushed them all the way into the arms of the Democrats. But it's not every...
John Brennan being sworn in as CIA director by Joe Biden (image courtesy David Lienemann, part of public domain)
As many of you know, one of the main reasons I believe that Donald Trump should have been pushed out of the race long ago is his blatant disregard for international law. Most notably, he...
Roy Cooper announcing his run for governor (image from Cooper's Facebook)
One of the few bright spots for the Democrats on Election Night came from my state of North Carolina. Specifically, the governor's race. Democratic state attorney general Roy Cooper nosed out Republican incumbent Pat McCrory, but...
Glen Berteau (image courtesy Berteau's Facebook)
Lately, whenever we see tragedy in this country, it's only a matter of time before one or more religious right personalities stick their feet in their mouths and jam them in deep. Last weekend's carnage in Charlottesville,...
This has been National Suicide Prevention Week (September 5 to September 11,) an initiative that aims to raise awareness, and offer support and solutions to those who feel they are at risk. According to a report...
Roger Goodell with U. S. Marines before the 2011 NFL Draft (image courtesy Marine Corps New York, part of public domain)
Donald Trump's attempt to bully NFL owners into unloading players who kneel during the national anthem is failing, and failing bigly. Sunday's games saw dozens of players kneel and link arms during the playing of...
Jeffrey Lord on Anderson Cooper 360 (screengrab courtesy CNN via Raw Story)
One of the loudest and most obnoxious on-air supporters of Donald Trump finally went too far. Hours after CNN commentator Jeffrey Lord got the bright idea to tweet a Nazi slogan at a liberal media...
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On Friday, Jerry Falwell, Jr. the president of Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, stood up in front of the weekly student convocation and decided to make a statement regarding the shootings in San Bernardino, California,...
Curt Schilling in 2011 (image from Schilling's Facebook)
Earlier today, we told you that Curt Schilling is catching well-deserved flak for passing on a particularly hateful meme attacking transgender people. Well, late Wednesday night, his bosses at ESPN responded in the most meaningful way...
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Perhaps it is President Donald Trump who should have heeded the warning, "Beware the Ides of March" from William Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar.” The anti-Trump group The Ides of Trump launched a mail protest on Wednesday...
In North Carolina this week, Officer Tim Purdy was dispatched to a high school. He was trying to find an autistic, possibly suicidal boy that had wandered away from his school. The boy also had...
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Christine Pellegrino became the first Democrat to win an Assembly seat in a previously Republican district on New York's Long Island. The 9th Assembly District of Albany represents 120, 000 people. Pellegrino won 52 percent to 48...
Robert Jeffress at the 2011 Values Voter Summit (image courtesy Gage Skidmore, available under a Creative Commons BY-SA license)
A lot of churches in the Bible Belt have taken to wrapping themselves in the American flag. It's a natural extension of the line that this country is supposedly a Christian nation. But June 25's...
Roger Ailes, soon-to-be former boss of Fox News (image courtesy Business Insider via Fox News)
The Roger Ailes era at Fox News Channel is now over. It had been obvious for a week that Ailes was about to be dumped from the network he largely created in the wake of a festering...