Forty years ago today, women got legal access to safe abortions. Over the last four decades, Conservatives have argued against the Roe v. Wade ruling. For the most part it has stayed in the background, and the loudest voices in the fight to strip women of this freedom come from extremists—the ones who protest clinics […]
Published on Jan 17, 2013 According to atheist magician Penn Jillette, the most important thing is to feel about things you should feel about — and think about things you should think about. You should not feel about the speed of light or evolution and you should not think about love. You should feel “I […]
NRA head Wayne LaPierre invited the world to call him crazy on Meet the Press Sunday morning. “If it’s crazy to call for armed officers in our schools to protect our children, then call me crazy,” LaPierre told David Gregory. The conservative publication New York Post didn’t waste a minute, putting LaPierre on its cover […]
Cory Booker, the mayor of Newark, NJ, goes off about what he calls the “false debate” surrounding gun violence, saying it is a “convenient trick to divide our country.”
Has anyone stopped to consider the great irony to the NRA’s response today to the Newport shooting? Try this on for a second: One of the primary arguments floating around today among gun enthusiasts to justify the ever increasing number of firearms by private citizens is that they need to “bear arms “to fend off “governmental […]