“I do not believe in taking away the right of the citizen for sporting, for hunting and so forth, or for home defense. But I do believe that an AK-47, a machine gun, is not a sporting weapon or needed for defense of a home.” ~Ronald Reagan, at his birthday celebration in 1989. Having grown […]
When The Supreme Court decided that George W. Bush would be president in 2000, America as a whole didn’t realize what exactly was at stake. We’d been through many a Republican administration and remained a democratically run nation. That’s because old-school conservatives understood the meaning of compromise and weren’t trying to take over the country […]
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 […]
by Kimberley Johnson Anti-feminist Charlotte Allen of The National Review suggested that the Sandy Hook Newtown shooting occurred because, “There was not a single adult male on the school premises when the shooting occurred.” She goes on to say, “In this school of 450 students, a sizeable number of whom were undoubtedly 11- and 12-year-old boys (it […]
by samuel warde Americans are frustrated and frightened as well as saddened by the events of last week – the sixth such tragedy this year. Our problems are getting worse and there needs to be meaningful dialogue. A reform of gun laws is inevitable, like it or not – it will happen. I certainly do […]