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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...
A Norwegian pension fund is sending a strong message by pulling it's investment from the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). KLP, the second largest pension fund in Norway, recently announced plans to sell $68 million in...
McDonald's employee Pedro Viloria has been hailed as a hero for jumping out of the drive-thru window to save a woman's life. The 22-year-old employee was working the drive-thru when he noticed something strange -...
Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont is the Don Quixote of this generation. He insists on hope, and he insists on a better world. The progressive spokesman gave an interview with the Guardian on March 10. He...
Word of Faith Fellowship (image courtesy WSPA via WBTV)
For the better part of the last two decades, Word of Faith Fellowship in Spindale, North Carolina has been under fire for subjecting its members to cultish and horribly abusive practices. The fringe charismatic church...
The activism that has been ignited by the Trump administration has once again proven its value for our troubled democracy. This time it was a loud and persistent outcry in the state of Arizona that helped...
Photo art courtesy Emil Lendof, The Daily Beast
On paper, Breitbart News should be sitting pretty. After all, the rabidly alt-right fake news machine played a key role in propelling Donald Trump to the Republican nomination. Indeed, it was so fanatically loyal to...
Shepard Smith at the 2013 World Series (image courtesy Smith's Facebook)
For some time, Shepard Smith has been a rare voice of actual journalistic integrity on Fox News Channel. It hasn't won him many fans. You may recall that last week, Smith called out Donald Trump's press...
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...
Chris Wallace in 2010 (image courtesy Jim Greenhill, available under a Creative Commons-BY license)
It takes a lot for a Republican to do something so outrageously wingnutty that it even enrages a Fox News Channel personality. Well, it looks like Donald Trump reached that point when he declared that...
Late last week, veteran blogger Andrew Sullivan wondered--loudly--when the American press was finally going to get the guts to publicly call out Donald Trump for his blatant lying. Well, apparently the message was received by...
donald trump adviser kellyanne conway enjoys a told-you-so moment
In the three weeks since Donald Trump took office, a lot of us have wondered--what could it possibly take for the GOP to break out of lockstep with Trump? Well, it looks like we have...
Department of State headquarters (image courtesy Agnostic Preachers Kid, available under a Creative Commons BY-SA license)
Donald Trump's right hand has gotten quite the workout in the week-plus since he took office. He churned out a raft of executive orders, most of which were actually written by his chief strategist and...
Right across the street from the White House, St. John's Church broke its tradition of avoiding political topics and decided to denounce President Trump's executive action to ban people from seven Muslim-majority countries. The executive...
In an open letter to the American people, published Thursday, President Barack Obama expressed deep gratitude and made “one final thank you.” A Final Goodbye He mentioned that it has been a long-standing tradition for the sitting president...
Fake news merchant Cam Harris (image courtesy Gabriella Demczuk, The New York Times)
Donald Trump's upset victory has made a lot of people wonder if there are any standards left in politics. After all, despite engaging in behavior that, in a sane world, would have ended his campaign...
It is no secret that President-elect Donald Trump has had trouble locating people to perform at his inauguration celebration, even though he claims it is going to be an incredible affair. Broadway star Jennifer Holliday...
CNN's Atlanta headquarters (image courtesy Charles Atkeison, available under a Creative Commons BY-SA license)
Since his unexpected--and tainted--victory in the presidential election, Donald Trump has shown that he can strike fear into many a heart with just one tweet or Facebook post. But on Wednesday, CNN gave the world...
A Dairy Queen in Key West, Florida (image courtesy Florida Keys Public Library, available under a Creative Commons-BY license)
We've seen an alarming spike in hate crimes and hate-motivated incidents since Donald Trump's upset victory. It's naturally made a lot of people wonder--are we returning to the days when hate and bigotry could occur...
Streep
Hollywood legend Meryl Streep has given a poignant and beautiful speech at the 2017 Golden Globes. At first the star apologized for having lost her voice. Then began what was clearly a very emotional reaction to...