We woke up this morning to the first government shutdown in four years.
The past few days, there has been little talk about anything else in the media, leaving many wondering what the effects of a...
2018 mid-term elections are weeks away.
Are you registered to vote?
Do you know where your polling place is?
Why don't you take a moment to check.
Ten years ago the Republican party was licking its wounds after the...
New research suggests that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's "rigged election" mantra may not be enticing as many people to come to the polls as he thinks.
A political experiment conducted by research scientists Adam Levine...
Imagine with me an all too common scenario faced by American citizens every day. You're driving down the street, listening to some crap on terrestrial radio and minding your own business. You just picked up...
In the spirit of attractions like Ken Ham’s Ark Encounter, the white elephant project celebrating scientific illiteracy, it might be useful to have at the ready some fact-based talking points should you find yourself in a...
Remember just before the new year when Donald Trump signed into law the Republican “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act?”
Basically, it was the tax bill that handed $1.5 trillion in permanent tax breaks to corporations and the wealthy like Trump and his...
The Russians are not coming.
They are already here.
Weeks ago, Director of National Intelligence, Dan Coats, warned that almost two decades since the September 11, 2001 attacks, “warning lights are blinking red again” for a devastating cyber assault on critical U.S....
While right-wing hate media--and even some so-called "left" outlets--are busy making the "Hunter Biden laptop scandal" "Hillary's emails" 2.0, there is a real scandal the media has decided to all but ignore.
Maybe that's because it...
After two days of a partial government shutdown, it appears as though the government will re-open after the Senate voted 81 to 18 to fund operations until February 8.
But the next time someone spouts to...
Senate Budget Committee Chair Bernie Sanders stated findings in a recent Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report indicate the Democratic party has a clear shot at bypassing Senate Republican obstruction in order to raise the federal...
Racism, some maintain, is all but history in America. They will even point to the fact that we have elected a black man as President of the United States and then reelected him. That, they...
The dust left from the disastrous Iowa Democratic presidential caucuses is all but settled with Vt. Sen. Bernie Sanders awarded equal pledged delegates as former South Bend, Indiana mayor Pete Buttigieg.
The controversy resulting from the...
One of the reasons (and there are several) Donald Trump won the White House was his promise not to cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
This made him very popular among his base, many of whom...
A friend shared an article on my Facebook timeline that explained "Why Liberals Are Smarter Than Conservatives" by Satoshi Kanazawa. The article was originally written for Scientific Fundamentalist.
Some of the highlights:
Liberals usually support such social...
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders refused to confirm if reports about Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's departure are true.
Instead, as if often the case, she couched her response in vagueries:
"We've said many times...
Happy Birthday, YouTube! Ten years ago ?you burst onto the scene and the world has never been the same.
Yes, Thursday marked the official 10th birthday of the cultural phenomena we now cannot seem to live...
A quick perusal of the 12-step recovery program of Alcoholics and Narcotics Anonymous reveals a sobering reality to the addict who doesn't have a Higher Power to speak of. The reality is that half of...
About a month ago, as I was walking out of church on Sunday and someone tapped me on the shoulder. When I turned, I saw an African-American gentleman I estimated to be in his early...
Now that “repeal and replace Obamacare” has moved from Republican mantra to near-inevitability, it’s becoming clear that repealing the landmark healthcare legislation will be disastrous on many levels.
The first issue at stake is the cost...
Confirmation hearings have not traditionally garnered glamorous attention outside the D.C. Beltway.
Unless they have a vested interest, most Americans would rather skip over news about cabinet nominees in favor of something more scintillating.
That has certainly changed...