On August 6, 2015, the Voting Rights Act turned 50. The day before the VRA anniversary, Texas voters had reason to celebrate – the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Texas’s 2011 photo ID law was unconstitutional, because it violated the rights of minority voters. Popular Democratic Senator Cory Booker (NJ) appeared on ABC’s […]
Before Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson was slamming Planned Parenthood’s facilitation of fetal tissue donations from aborted fetuses for research, a 1992 study reveals the retired neurosurgeon was performing his own research on fetal tissue from aborted fetuses. Dr. Jen Gunter published a blog post on Wednesday, pointing out Carson’s startling hypocrisy and said, “While […]
The Family Council Action Committee is planning to give the first annual Power of Courage Award to Republican Arkansas State Representative Justin Harris and his colleague Charlene Fite on August 12, 2015. The awards will be distrubuted at a Republican event headlined by presidential hopeful U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz. According to a press release from […]
New York State Senator Diane Savino posted a rant on Facebook blasting the media for focusing on Donald Trump’s thinly-veiled insult about Fox News host Megyn Kelly’s period, and she pointed out the other GOP candidates pose a much bigger threat to women’s rights. In her Facebook post, Savino referred to Trump’s behavior on the […]
Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump has been disinvited from an important conservative gathering on Saturday after making sexist remarks about Fox News host Megyn Kelly. Trump has ranted and raged about Fox News- and Megyn Kelly in particular – on Twitter and in interviews, claiming that their questions were targeted, unfair and “nasty.” Late Thursday, […]