Conservatives and religious extremists are displaying mind-numbing hatred and bigotry on social media in response to the Paris tragedy last week. Why are Americans so quick to judge an entire religion by the actions of an extremely small minority of extremists? Having grown up in what is now a red state, I have been appalled […]
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 […]
“Carly Fiorina by Gage Skidmore 2” by Gage Skidmore. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Commons. 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 (CMP). David Daleiden, the founder of CMP, […]
UPDATE, 25 September, 2015: Speaker of the House, John Boehner, announced that he will resign next month after serving for four years in the top post of the U.S. House of Representatives. Republican Speaker John Boehner can’t seem to win for losing with conservatives and liberals alike taunting him online and in person. Time and […]
hypocrite noun hyp·o·crite \ˈhi-pə-ˌkrit\: a person who claims or pretends to have certain beliefs about what is right but who behaves in a way that disagrees with those beliefs Republican presidential hopeful and Tea Party favorite Ted Cruz has decided to celebrate Constitution Day with a huge dose of hypocrisy on his Facebook page. As […]