Today the Supreme Court heard testimony for and against Prop 8, the California law that keeps LGBT Americans from marrying the one that they love, and...
Image: Tammy Baldwin, an original ENDA co-sponsor, speaks on the Senate floor in support of the bill minutes before today’s historic vote In an historic vote, minutes ago the...
Yesterday, a minority of Senators successfully filibustered a bipartisan bill that would have expanded background checks to close the gun show loophole. Nine out of ten...
Today, President Barack Obama delivered a speech and signed the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) which the GOP had obstructed for months. The law will extend...
212, or forty percent of the 535 voting members of Congress — House and Senate — today signed onto an amicus brief asking the Supreme Court...
One 41-year old woman is dead, along with her 53-year old killer and co-worker, at a mass shooting that began at 9:03 AM ET at New...
One Million Moms, no paragon of efficiency, timeliness, organization, today via Facebook and Twitter began circling their wagons around their latest target: the $48 billion (“billion-with-a-b”)...
var addthis_config = {“data_track_addressbar”:true}; Yesterday The U.S. Senate was an embarrassment to America, and the world took notice. The Senate failed to ratify the Convention on...
The Tennessee Senate just days ago passed their alternative to the much lampooned “Don’t Say Gay” bill that would classify holding hands as a “gateway sexual...
An Evangelical Christian pastor and his wife advocate using a “switch” and rubber plumber’s tubing as whips, and withholding food from young children as biblically-approved discipline...
Scrubbing Atlas Shrugs? Pamela Geller, head of the certified hate group Stop Islamization of America, runs an anti-Islam Tea Party site called Atlas Shrugs. Apparently, Geller...
Presidential hopeful Rick Santorum Wednesday, in response to HLN’s Joy Behar’s statement that “Rick Santorum … seems like a big homophobe,” denied the claim and brushed...
A majority of Americans say they will never vote for Sarah Palin or Donald Trump for president, according to a new Quinnipiac poll. The divisive pair both...
UPDATE: 02.18.2011: Scott just updated this piece. Scroll down to the end for the update. Or, read t from the beginning again! Editor’s note: This guest...
CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference, every year holds a straw poll to determine who its members want as their next Republican presidential nominee. The actual...