dnc vice-chair
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...
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...
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,...
keanu
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,...
Cropped version of Original found on Pinterest - https://www.pinterest.com/pin/218213544418072939/
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,...
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,...
The Northwest Herald office (image courtesy Caitlin Swieca, Northwest Herald)
One of the most striking anecdotes of the 2016 presidential campaign was the large number of ancestrally Republican newspapers who refused to endorse Donald Trump. In many cases, they broke decades-long traditions to either endorse...
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...
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...
And Italian media company wanted to see what would happen if they asked a group of young boys to hit a young girl, so they conducted a social experiment to find out. The results were...
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...
Jerry Falwell, Jr. (screenshot courtesy WDBJ)
A lot of religious right leaders have remained loyal to Donald Trump in the face of the almost daily outrages from his administration. That includes perhaps the biggest outrage of all that isn't Russia-related--his equivocating stand...
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....
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...
John McCain shaking hands with then-Secretary of Defense Robert Gates in 2010 (image courtesy Chad McNeeley, part of public domain)
The Republicans' hopes of repealing the Affordable Care Act this year suffered a potentially fatal blow on Friday afternoon, when Senator John McCain announced he would oppose a last-ditch effort to ram a repeal measure...
One of the reasons I love the holiday season is hearing stories that restore my faith in humanity. I wish these types of stories were prevalent all year round, but during this time of year,...
Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski shaking hands with John Kerry in 2016 (image courtesy State Department, part of public domain)
Last week, Joe Scarborough dropped by "The Late Show" to announce that he was leaving the Republican Party to become an independent. He said that he'd been driven out by both Donald Trump and Republicans'...
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...
Joe Scarborough at a 2008 gala (image courtesy Rubenstein, available under a Creative Commons BY-NC license)
Add Joe Scarborough to the growing list of Republicans who have grown a pair and blasted Donald Trump. In the last 48 hours, Scarborough completed his transformation from Trump's BFF to a full-fledged member of the...
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...