Sarah Chadwick trolls Marco Rubio with her new clear backpack (image courtesy Chadwick's Twitter)
It's been a long two months for the kids at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. They watched 14 of their classmates and three of their teachers get gunned down on Valentine's Day. Most...
Donald Trump Jr. at a rally for his father in Iowa (image courtesy Max Goldberg, available under a Creative Commons-BY license)
One of the most inspirational moments of this relatively young year of 2018 has been how the survivors of a horrific mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida have seized the...
The cover photo for the "Never Again" Facebook page
Ever since the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, overwhelming support for common-sense reform of our gun laws has run into a seemingly immovable object--the National Rifle Association. Like clockwork, the NRA warns that...
Benjamin Petty (mugshot courtesy Oklahoma Department of Corrections via KFOR-TV)
Back in 2016, a Texas girl visiting a Christian youth camp in southern Oklahoma was violently raped and sodomized by one of the cooks. And yet, as it stands now, this monster will not serve...
Andrew Anglin (image courtesy Southern Poverty Law Center)
One of the most disturbing things about the recent spate of neo-Nazi and white supremacist demonstrations is how young the great majority of the participants are. A look at the Tiki torch rally that took...
The recent candidacy of Roy Moore in the Alabama Senate race returned the issue of pedophilia to the forefront of the national debate. Moore, you may recall, was accused of molesting a 14-year-old girl when...
Roy Moore on the campaign trail for Senate (image courtesy Moore's Facebook)
In the closing days of the race for Jeff Sessions' former Senate seat, we haven't heard much from Roy Moore. That's rather surprising, since he's facing a dogfight in a race that past history suggests...
You've probably never heard of John Turano. He's one of the many Trump-worshiping idiots who prowl the streets of this country and feel they have the right to scream whatever insult comes to mind, even...
Steve Schmidt on MSNBC (screengrab courtesy MSNBC via Raw Story)
When Roy Moore upended Luther Strange in the Republican primary for Jeff Sessions' former Senate seat, there were already a number of reasons to be unnerved about the former Alabama chief justice going to Washington....
Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) was confronted on the Senate floor by his colleague, Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), for not doing enough to save the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Hatch created the program with Senator Edward...
Heather Estes (screenshot courtesy WLEX-TV via Raw Story)
The religious right would like you to believe that Christians in this country are being persecuted. But in a large segment of this country, the non-Christians are the ones being persecuted. Two kids in eastern...
There was a time in the not-so-distant past when President Donald Trump's Chief of Staff John Kelly was considered the sane one in Trump's cabinet. That was until he defended Trump's attack on Rep. Frederica Wilson when...
Even if the rumors about Education Secretary Betsy DeVos' impending resignation are true, the attack upon America's teachers is just getting started. The Supreme Court announced in September it is going to hear early next year...
Expect the next resignation from President Donald Trump's administration to come fairly soon. But it's probably not going to be over Russian collusion, money laundering, or lying to the FBI. This resignation may occur over "lack of...
There is an all-out assault on climate science in America today. From state governments all the way up to the Energy Department and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the gears of censorship are running on all cylinders...
Ames Mayfield asking Vicki Marble about gun control and racist comments (screenshot courtesy Lori Mayfield via YouTube)
It's been said that kids can always sniff out someone trying to pull a fast one. One of the most beautiful examples of this in recent memory comes from Broomfield, Colorado; a suburb of Denver....
Cliffside Park High School (image courtesy Jim.henderson, part of public domain)
Last week, a high school class in Cliffside Park, New Jersey played host to one of the most staggeringly racist incidents in recent memory. When a teacher overheard some of her students speaking Spanish, she...
Atticus Finch and Tom Robinson in the 1962 film version of "To Kill A Mockingbird" (screenshot courtesy Universal Pictures, part of public domain)
For more than half a century, Harper Lee's "To Kill A Mockingbird" has been a staple of eighth and ninth-grade English classes around the country. It's also been a fixture on lists of banned and...
Gray's Creek High School in Hope Mills, North Carolina (screenshot courtesy WTVD)
By now, you know that on Friday night, Richard Spencer and several of his racist, neo-Nazi, and white supremacist friends returned to Charlottesville for another Tiki torch rally. But what you may not know is...
A protester praying at Love Life Charlotte's September 9 rally (image courtesy Love Life Charlotte's Facebook)
More than ten years ago, mainstream America got an introduction to just how fanatical the religious right can be with the release of "Jesus Camp," a documentary that showed how young kids are turned into...