Alternative folk singer Michelle Shocked is back, apparently, having showed up at her canceled concert at Moe’s Alley in Santa Cruz, California, wearing an odd costume that...
Tony Perkins is again attacking gays, screaming “religious liberty,” and slamming ENDA — this time cherry-picking polls to do so. But when it comes to gun...
A Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate sees a link between the increase of women in the workplace and the increase in mass shootings. Former state...
“My First Rifle,” a gun made by Crickett, has taken down their Facebook and Twitter pages, and, in fact, their entire website since news broke early...
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...
Ted Nugent says that Trayvon Martin “got justice.” George Zimmerman shot 17-year old Martin to death last year. Nugent is an ’80s rock star who has...
One of the witnesses who testified for the defense, Lauren McNamara, shares her thoughts on the least-discussed aspect of the Bradley Manning WikiLeaks trial: the need...
Paleoconservative Pat Buchanan is a racist. There’s no way out of that classification, and his latest screed makes that fact all the more clear. For those who...
Chivas Sandage wrote this poem and read it at last week’s Marriage Equality Rally in Hartford, Connecticut, which she helped organize. Â Â The clerk says...
GOP’s Actions Preventing Americans From Eating Speaker of the House John Boehner and his House Tea Party Republicans are enjoying their government shutdown, which follows in...
 Charlotte, a transwoman, is outed as a transgender soldier to her chain-of-command, but for the moment survives because a senior non-commissioned officer ignores the antiquated medical...
When it comes to outing politicians as gay, there is no one with a better track record that Mike Rogers. Rogers, who for years ran the...
The two-year old Kentucky girl who was accidentally shot by her five-year old brother with a Crickett brand “My First Rifle” survived for “more than an...
Bill Maher says it’s “ridiculous … for people to think that the Second Amendment protects them from tyranny,” a point the NRA, Tea Party, and Republican...
U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell, the Senate Minority Leader, thinks gun control and saving lives is funny business. Why else would he post to his Facebook page...