U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, engage in a tense exchange over DOJ documents that Gohmert had asked for in 2013. In what appears to be a thinly veiled threat, Gohmert mentioned that contempt was not a big deal to the Attorney General and Holder almost immediately fired back “you don’t […]
Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., comments on Rep. Darrell Issa’s, R-Calif., inquiries into the 2012 attack on a U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya. Issa and Cummings serve together on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and have used harsh words against each before, such as in March when they clashed at a hearing involving […]
Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., expresses her disappointment over Wednesday’s failure to move forward on the Paycheck Fairness Act. In a near volcanic eruption on the Senate floor, Mikulski said: “To simply get a vote on the Senate floor, we have to vote on a motion to proceed on whether we’re even going to take it […]
A man walks the streets of London shouting #FuckThePoor as part of a social experiment from poverty charity, The Pilion Trust, to see whether we really do care about those less fortunate. According to their website, The Pilion Trust “Advocate for Equality of Opportunity to Improve the lives of the most Vulnerable.” Asking people to […]
Speaking on the 40th anniversary of his record breaking home run, Baseball Hall of Famer Hank Aaron spoke to USA Today about race relations in America. Aaron told the paper that the country still has a long way to go when it comes to race relations and went on to compare critics of President Obama […]