The correspondent was blunt: “Why don’t you atheists just go out and kill yourselves right now?” True, most Christians phrase it rather more delicately, but atheists are regularly informed by a certain kind of believer that our lives can have no value if we do …
Elizabeth Warren raised $5.7 million over the last three months of 2011 for her challenge to Republican Senator Scott Brown who currently sits in the seat once occupied by Ted Kennedy.
To hear the Religious Right tell it, men like George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison were 18th-century versions of Jerry Falwell in powdered wigs and stockings. Nothing could be further from the truth. Unlike many of today’s candidates, th …
Congressional approval ratings are on the rocks, hovering in or near single digits for the first time since pollsters started measuring them.
Ad Week has caught what could only be described as one of the weirdest anti-abortion campaigns ever -- a billboard declaring that Christmas toys are sad because there aren't enough children to play with them this year.
The bill, the National Defense Authorization Act, passed 86 to 13 and is expected to be signed quickly by President Obama, who withdrew a veto threat against the bill Wednesday.
On Thursday, the Department of Justice released the results of a three-year investigation in which authorities conclude that Arpaio and his deputies are the ones who have been breaking the law.
The young father stood in line at the Kmart layaway counter, wearing dirty clothes and worn-out boots. With him were three small children.
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Whether or not you believe in life outside of our solar system, the fact that we are all here means that the stuff we're made of must have come from somewhere.
Man, this whole War on Christmas is getting confusing. Right on cue, the right-wing media this month has been waging its annual battle to convince faithful followers that religious-hating liberals are at war with Christmas, and that once again Obama is leading the charge …
Mitt Romney’s campaign just can’t get it together. Actually, I don’t blame his campaign. The problems are purely Mittens’. I am beginning to believe that Romney lives in such an ivory tower, that he truly has no idea that not everyone is exactly like him.
Sen. Bernie Sanders proposed a constitutional amendment today that would overturn Citizens United and make it clear that corporations are not people. Sen. Sanders’ proposed Saving American Democracy amendment states, SECTION 1.
Although GOP presidential frontrunner Newt Gingrich previously took the view that “personhood begins at conception,” on Friday, Gingrich told ABC’s Jake Tapper that life begins at the “successful implantation” of a fertilized egg in a woman’s …
Republican lawmakers are struggling to shake off the view that they’re only out to help “the haves” over “the have-nots.” Today on Fox and Friends, Sen.
Rick Santorum got in a lengthy argument with a young voter in Iowa on some pretty heavy topics: Life, death, health care, and gay sex. Jason Kornelis, a 23-year-old recent college graduate, challenged Santorum on gay marriage, according to ABC News.
[Romney's] "net favorable rating" among women Republicans was 38 percent, slightly above his 35 percent rating among Republican men, according to a mid-November Gallup poll. Cain had the biggest gender gap in the survey, taken amid the harassment allegations, with a 32 percent …
Right now, Catholic bishops, charities, schools and universities are demanding exemptions from new rules requiring that insurance plans cover contraception for women, free of charge. And President Obama is listening, even as Congressional Democrats object. The demand for exem …
Word came out last week that George Michael, 48, was admitted to a Viennese hospital for severe pneumonia. (Though he has cancelled the remainder of the tour he was on, Mr.
As the Obama Administration debates whether to expand an exemption to a new health insurance requirement to cover all FDA-approved methods of contraception, there are some important facts to keep in mind: The average woman spends five years pregnant, postpartum, or trying to g …
As guest of honor at a 2010 fundraiser for the Beltway 8 Crisis Pregnancy Center in Houston, Texas Governor Rick Perry told the pastors and anti-choice activists that, “I feel like I am in the garrison of an army that has devoted itself to the defense …
Education is key to America’s economic success as technological change and global competition increase exponentially. Unfortunately, where once our nation was atop the world academically, today American students rank in the middle of the pack.
Norquist has every right to his opinions on the dangers of excessive government spending and taxation but he needs to come up with a better set of facts to make his case. His description of recent budgetary history bears little relation to the historical record.
I thought we would be interested in the Obama administration's achievements thus far. It is a very long list, so get into a comfortable chair.
On Sept. 8, six Democrats and six Republicans sat down to breakfast at the first meeting of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction.
Ms. Cheesehead and I were enjoying the nice weather on the day before Thanksgiving here in our small city in western Wisconsin, running some political errands.
The correspondent was blunt: “Why don’t you atheists just go out and kill yourselves right now?” True, most Christians phrase it rather more delicately, but atheists are regularly informed by a certain kind of believer that our lives can have no value if we do …
Elizabeth Warren raised $5.7 million over the last three months of 2011 for her challenge to Republican Senator Scott Brown who currently sits in the seat once occupied by Ted Kennedy.
Sarah Palin... "If I were a South Carolinian -- and each one of these primaries and caucuses are different, Sean -- I want to see this thing continue because iron sharpens iron. Steel sharpens steel. These guys are getting better in their debates. ...
To hear the Religious Right tell it, men like George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison were 18th-century versions of Jerry Falwell in powdered wigs and stockings. Nothing could be further from the truth. Unlike many of today’s candidates, th …
Why is Rick Santorum running for president? Because America is in trouble and he knows why. Faith and family are under attack.
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