There is an interesting post that has been circulating on the internet the last few days in the wake of the Oregon shooting which left 10 people dead including the shooter. The post has been covered by a variety of news portals such as Daily Kos, but there doesn’t seen to be any attribution available […]
Emotions range from anger to numbness in the wake of yet another mass shooting in the U.S. So far 2015 has seen 275 days with 294 mass shootings – incidents where 4 or more people are killed or injured by gunfire. The latest and worst mass shooting so far this year occurred yesterday at Oregon’s Umpqua […]
Amazing. On Thursday (October 1) former President Jimmy Carter turns 92. During the same week, the former U.S. President and former First Lady Rosalynn Carter announced they will be joining 1,500 volunteers in Nepal for Habitat Humanity‘s 32nd Carter Work Project. After being diagnosed with cancer and receiving several treatments, the President got the ‘okay’ […]
A tense battle to defund Planned Parenthood is being waged in Congress in the wake of the release of highly edited videos by the conservative pro-life group The Center for American Progress (CAP). The New England Journal Of Medicine thoroughly debunked those allegations by CAP as false earlier this month, and a congressional appointed investigation […]
Progressive icon Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) gave a speech on racial inequality that is exactly what Black Lives Matter activists have been wanting to hear. Warren delivered the remarks in Boston on Sunday at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate, as part of the Institute’s “Getting to the Point” speaker series. […]